![]() Mick Jagger sings in falsetto, someone who sounds like a bad Bob Dylan (my God, it’s Keith Richards!) takes a snuffling lead vocal and special guest Max Romeo does a bird chant. Still, the Stones’ sound is so identifiable that it’s hard to remember how carefully they’ve developed it: the just-shrillenough blend of harmonica and sax, the similarly gruff treble in their forced high harmonies. ![]() 1),” but there are plenty of rooms available at the current memory motel. I’d rather be reminded of Between the Buttons by the venal, high-speed whine of “She’s So Cold” than revisit “Miss You” outtakes by way of the interminable “Dance (Pt. There’s hardly a melody here you haven’t heard from the Stones before. As far as the music goes, familiar is an understatement. High-contrast patterns of familiar outlines and blackened patches where the heat has burned and gone, these photographs - like pictures of corpses from some holocaust - are practically unrecognizable. Like the thermographic photos of the Rolling Stones on the album cover, Emotional Rescue is a portfolio of burned-out cases and fire trails.
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