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Funny that the much-touted "reunion/comeback" album Steel Wheels followed Dirty Work by just three years, while it took the Stones five years to turn out its sequel, Voodoo Lounge -- a time frame that seems much more appropriate for a "comeback." To pile on the irony, Voodoo Lounge feels more like a return to form than its predecessor, even if it's every bit as calculated and Bill Wyman has flown the coup. With Don Was, a neo-classic rock producer who always attempts to reclaim his artist's original claim to greatness, helming the boards with the Glimmer Twins, the Stones strip their sound back to its spare, hard-rocking basics. The Stones act in kind, turning out a set of songs that are pretty traditionalist. There are no new twists or turns in either the rockers or ballads (apart maybe from the quiet menace of "Thru and Thru," later used to great effect on The Sopranos), even if they revive some of the English folk and acoustic country-blues that was on Beggars Banquet. Still, this approach works because they are turning out songs that may not be classics but are first-rate examples of the value of craft. If this was released ten years, even five years earlier, this would be a near-triumph of classicist rock, but since Voodoo Lounge came out in the CD age, it's padded out to 15 tracks, five of which could have been chopped to make the album much stronger. Instead, it runs on for nearly an hour, an ironically bloated length for an album whose greatest strengths are its lean, concentrated classic sound and songcraft. Still, it makes for a stronger record than its predecessor.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Vocals, Harmonica, Maracas, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Vocals, Maracas, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Organ, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Frankie Gavin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - Luis Jardim, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Chuck Leavell, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Charlie Watts, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer - Frankie Gavin, Whistle, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
Benmont Tench, Accordion, AssociatedPerformer - BOBBY WOMACK, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Castanets, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Harmonium, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Benmont Tench, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Lenny Castro, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
Phil Jones, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
Lenny Castro, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - Luis Jardim, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Mark Isham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - David McMurray, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - Luis Jardim, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Flaco Jimenez, Accordion, AssociatedPerformer - Ronnie Wood, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Max Baca, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
Lenny Castro, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - Luis Jardim, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Mark Isham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Organ, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - David McMurray, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
Benmont Tench, Organ, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lenny Castro, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Piano, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Neville, Organ, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ivan Neville, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pierre de Beauport, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
KEITH RICHARDS, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Rolling Stones, MainArtist - The Glimmer Twins, Producer - Ronnie Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Leavell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Darryl Jones, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Promotone B.V.
Album review
Funny that the much-touted "reunion/comeback" album Steel Wheels followed Dirty Work by just three years, while it took the Stones five years to turn out its sequel, Voodoo Lounge -- a time frame that seems much more appropriate for a "comeback." To pile on the irony, Voodoo Lounge feels more like a return to form than its predecessor, even if it's every bit as calculated and Bill Wyman has flown the coup. With Don Was, a neo-classic rock producer who always attempts to reclaim his artist's original claim to greatness, helming the boards with the Glimmer Twins, the Stones strip their sound back to its spare, hard-rocking basics. The Stones act in kind, turning out a set of songs that are pretty traditionalist. There are no new twists or turns in either the rockers or ballads (apart maybe from the quiet menace of "Thru and Thru," later used to great effect on The Sopranos), even if they revive some of the English folk and acoustic country-blues that was on Beggars Banquet. Still, this approach works because they are turning out songs that may not be classics but are first-rate examples of the value of craft. If this was released ten years, even five years earlier, this would be a near-triumph of classicist rock, but since Voodoo Lounge came out in the CD age, it's padded out to 15 tracks, five of which could have been chopped to make the album much stronger. Instead, it runs on for nearly an hour, an ironically bloated length for an album whose greatest strengths are its lean, concentrated classic sound and songcraft. Still, it makes for a stronger record than its predecessor.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:47
- Main artists: The Rolling Stones
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Polydor Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2009 Promotone B.V. ℗ 2009 Promotone B.V.
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