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- <text id=94TT0949>
- <title>
- Jul. 18, 1994: Music:No Moss
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jul. 18, 1994 Attention Deficit Disorder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- ARTS & MEDIA/MUSIC, Page 56
- No Moss
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The Rolling Stones can still make a fine, rocking album
- </p>
- <p>By Guy Garcia
- </p>
- <p> If Satan could sing, he'd probably sound a lot like Mick Jagger.
- Jagger can be at once insolent, charming and slightly lewd.
- His is the voice of silky excess, the serenade of a jaded demon.
- On Love Is Strong, the first cut from the Rolling Stones' fine
- new album, Voodoo Lounge, Jagger is at his seductive, sneering
- best. The song, with its coiling harmonica and swaggering rhythm,
- sounds like a surefire smash, the kind of hit that will be blaring
- from radios all summer.
- </p>
- <p> With their latest effort, the Stones prove that even after recording
- together for 31 years, they can still produce exciting work.
- Five years have passed since Steel Wheels, an album that, for
- all its virtues, seemed more manufactured than genuinely inspired.
- In the interim, Jagger and Keith Richards concentrated on solo
- work, and bassist Bill Wyman quit, to be replaced by Darryl
- Jones. Jones is 32, but the average age of his new bandmates
- is, well, practically geriatric. Before the new album was released,
- it was reasonable to wonder how much desire and energy the Stones
- had left.
- </p>
- <p> Plenty of both, it turns out. On Voodoo Lounge, Jagger and company
- have recaptured the spontaneous verve of a great working band.
- You Got Me Rocking, a full-tilt stomp built on Charlie Watts'
- brick-solid drumming and Richards' saw-toothed guitar lines,
- has the frayed, unrehearsed ending of a live performance, as
- does Moon Is Up. Producer Don Was has avoided trying to update
- the band's sound with trendy hip-hop or techno touches. Instead,
- he helps serve up a classic collection of rockers and semisweet
- ballads.
- </p>
- <p> If Jagger's yowls and Richards' riffs are more than a tad familiar,
- the duo launch into their trademark grooves with such brio that
- the results are still scintillating. By showcasing what the
- Stones have always done best, Voodoo Lounge, while not breaking
- any new ground, secures their status as rock 'n' roll's reigning
- survivors.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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