A Rolling Stones Weekend, Part 3

In this final installment of me posting Rolling Stones songs (at least for now; in the future I probably will post a few more) I will bring up three songs that are quite different from each other, but all rule in their own unique ways.

The first tune is one that you would recognize if you have the Forty Licks CD, but on there, the song "Fool to Cry", a song seeped in the 1970's (which is part of the reason why I love it) is in an edited 4 minute form (i.e. the single version of the song you would have heard on the radio at the time) instead of the original 5 minutes album version off of "Black and Blue". I've heard mixed reviews on the album so I decided to buy it recently, and at 10 bucks it was a good deal, as while it may not be for some people due to how it was jam-centric and more reggae and funk/disco than blues-based rock (a departure from the usual, but as an infrequent thing it's fine), it's cool to me as a novelty. As it's impossible to find the full version of the song online, here it is for all of you who care about hearing full album versions of tunes (although in this case the full version and the single version of the song are in essence the same except for some things being cut down for time reasons), the unedited version of the biggest song off the album.

The Rolling Stones-"Fool To Cry" (6.99 MB, 192 Kbits/second)

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/9wmlU3v259128/The%20Rolling%20Stones-Fool%20To%20Cry.MP3.html

The second is another tune off of their 1981 "Tattoo You"* album. This one is called "Hang Fire" and is a quickie but fast-paced tune where they talk about the shitty times that the economy in Jolly Old England was experiencing at the time. I could talk about the controversial Margaret Thatcher and how she turned things around and how it wasn't without fret and people getting perturbed, but that's not something to talk about in a music blog, don't you agree? Just enjoy this song, which is "Doo Doo Doo" filled but should not be confused with "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)", a song from the previous decade.

• Speaking of that album, the tour for it that year featured the Stones performing in concert… in my birth town of Rockford, Illinois? Yes. The city, which currently only has 150,000 people, is certainly a spot that rarely hosts major acts such as that band, but the story, which I've heard before but can't confirm via an Internet link, was that there was a fan club of the Stones in the area and they campaigned hard to have them perform in the then new Rockford Metrocentre (an arena that's now a dump, but that's neither here nor there), and amazingly, they agreed to do it.

The Rolling Stones-"Hang Fire" (3.84 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/UQ2nK259125/The%20Rolling%20Stones%20-%20Hang%20Fire.MP3.html

The final song is actually a bootleg with an incredible story behind it. The song is titled… "Cocksucker Blues". Seriously, that's what it's called! As you can see from reading the Wikipedia link, the title was also used for an unreleased documentary on The Rolling Stones, which has never been released publicly and yet some BitTorrent files can be found of the movie, available for download (I've tried to download the movie, but haven't been able to; if you haven't used BitTorrent, the type of hard to find movies that I'm a fan of are often a pain to d/l as the number of people who are running the file and making it available for other people to use are often rare with the hard to find stuff, and if you have hardly anyone running the file for other people to use, then you're SOL in getting the file, which tend to be like around a gig or more; maybe one of these days I'll get it). As for the actual song, the link (and this one) also gives the great story of how this was the last song for their old record label before moving on to their own label, and they obviously had heat with their old label, as the last song turned out to be one patently designed to piss them off; that's the only reason why Mick would talk about being a homosexual (well, that and the alleged tryst with David Bowie). There are two versions of the song. The one I'm posting here is an almost 7 minute version done with the whole band (but not the original that they sent to the record label). Given the circumstances of it being a bootleg you can understand how it's low-fi and all that, and yet, if it wasn't for the ribald subject matter, it would make for a pretty damn good blues song. Honestly. Check it out for that and the obvious novelty factor of the tune.

The Rolling Stones-"Cocksucker Blues" (9.47 MB, 192 Kbits/second)

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/lkDjSma259131/The%20Rolling%20Stones%20-%20Cocksucker%20Blues.MP3.html

I will be busy in the upcoming week so it will be a few days before I do another update, where I will return to posting random songs.