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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Umvd Labels
Salesrank: 20048
Released: July 14, 2009 |
| Our Price: $9.45 |
| Used Price: $5.32 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Bridges to Babylon Track Listing:
1. Flip the Switch
2. Anybody Seen My Baby?
3. Low Down
4. Already Over Me
5. Gunface
6. You Don't Have to Mean It
7. Out of Control
8. Saint of Me
9. Might as Well Get Juiced
10. Always Suffering
11. Too Tight
12. Thief in the Night
13. How Can I Stop
Editorial Review:
Originally issued in 1997, Bridges To Babylon made the Top 3 in the US and number 6 in the UK. The yearning and sinuous Anybody Seen My Baby? and the mean and moody Saint Of Me - both Top 30 hits in the UK - in particular, showed the band remained at the cutting edge. Energetic rockers Low Down and Too Tight repay further investigation as do the three tracks sung by Richards, in particular the closer How Can I Stop which features another jazz legend, Wayne Shorter, on saxophone.
Bridges to Babylon Reviews:
War-Horses Never Surrender 
2009-09-29 - Don't write this one off, folks. Give it a few listens & you just might find it to be the most solid album of the recent recordings of The Stones. It does not have the Chuck Berry/country flavor of Voodoo Lounge or the percussion crunch of A Bigger Bang; but it is a consistent & surprising rock album that leaves no one alive in its wake.
Charlie's cracking the drums with electricity & perfect timing. Keef chinks & chunks the notes at you like sneering smoke in your face. Ron's back there doing something - you don't know what it is, but it sure as hellfire works. Then there's the featherweight prize fighter Mick. He's not backing down or bluffing. Get out of his way. There's some other plays too - some jazz sax, some backing vocals, etc. It all comes together well with more hits than misses.
Just listen & enjoy.
Another Great Album by the Stones
2009-07-15 - I remember a few years ago when I pilfered this from my mother's cd collection, I was immediately drawn to how interesting and strange the album can be at times. The Dust Brothers seem like a really good fit for these guys, added odd bass loops and samples to the songs they helped with.
Seeing as how this album came out in 1997, you might wonder if a remaster is really all that necessary...well I've compared this 2009 remaster with my mother's original cd and I can say that it's a welcome addition to my collection.
From the smooth/roughness of the opening track to Might as Well Get Juiced, the remaster definitly brings some things to the forefront of the recording that weren't there before.
Overall, a great album and one that shows that if anything the Stones have only gotten stronger with age.
