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- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Sep 4, 2020
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- Summary: The reissued remaster of the 1973 release from the rock band features a new stereo mix of the album, rare tracks, outtakes and alternative mixes plus a complete recording of the October 1973 show at Forest National Arena in Brussels, Belgium.
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Sep 4, 2020Their creative studio peak might have (just) been behind them, but for a taste of the Stones at their down-and-dirtiest, Goats Head Soup will always be the dish of the day.
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Sep 4, 2020This fancy reissue presents a nicely remastered version of the original album, along with an album’s worth of rather forgettable outtakes, the requisite giant book and poster reproductions, and — best of all — an absolutely spectacular 1973 concert that has long been available on bootleg but here is remastered and re-whatever’ed so beautifully that it’s practically worth the price of the package on its own.
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Sep 4, 2020Goats Head Soup didn’t — and still doesn’t — sound like what one would have expected from the Stones after Exile. ... The alternate mixes of a few of its songs don’t add terribly much, but the same can’t be said of an instrumental jam on “Dancing with Mr. D,.” which lets you eavesdrop as the band locks into a groove and jams without Jagger. ... The Brussels Affair bristles.
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Sep 16, 2020If these Goats Heads Soup rarities betray the album’s indecisive, scatterbrained origins, the reissue’s third disc—an oft-bootlegged but greatly enhanced recording of a Brussels show from October ’73—finds the Stones still very much at the top of their game as a live act. ... Ultimately, Goats Head Soup remains fascinating for how it makes the Stones seem a little less mythical and a lot more real.
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Sep 25, 2020More rewarding re-evaluation than celebration for long-termers, it all provides a mightily attractive artefact for Stones diehards.
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Nov 4, 2020It is clearly a very good-to-great Stones album. But a lost classic, I’m not so sure. ... The real coup of the extras is the Brussels Affair live disc. Fifteen tracks of all older material, with the exception of four songs from Goats Head Soup in the middle of the set, the album is absolutely stunning.
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Sep 4, 2020The ten tracks, heavy on ballads that comprise a third of the selections, seemed if not languid, then at least lacking the band’s dangerous edge. A few of Soup’s tracks have become classics. ... “Scarlet” with Jimmy Page sitting in for Keith whips up a funky enough froth, “All the Rage” doesn’t generate a boil, and “Criss Cross” sounds like an adequate Stones cover band. The rest of the extras are hardly remarkable different mixes, demos and instrumental tracks, generally of interest to collectors.
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May 1, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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