Anita Pallenberg

Coming in the wake of the Rolling Stones album Exile of the most acclaimed On Main Street and an album of four consecutive victories, Goats Head Soup had the deck stacked against it from the beginning that the comments were less enthusiastic with some critics proclaiming the worst group album since 1967 of their request Satanic Majesties. First, Their Satanic Majesties request was not a bad album, and is neither goats Head Soup. In fact, the material, it is very good and on top of that, it shows Mick Jagger and Keith Richards goes in different directions, as Jagger is ascending to the celebrity A-list any more Richards slips into drug abuse.

There are moments that border on parody of rock n 'roll decadence that later It's Only Rock' n Roll would bring to the surface of the opening track, "Dancing With Mr. D." "Dancing" take the group (ie Jagger) image satanic extreme comic while the closing track "Star Star" (originally titled "Starf___er") celebrated their (and many other celebrities) decadent lifestyle in a more up-sexual explicit. Apart from these two roads there are nice songs: such as the haunting "100 Years Ago," the hit ballad "Angie", who wrote for Anita Pallenberg Jagger (who was married to Keith Richards at the time!), the majestic, drugged out tracks "Winter" (reminiscent of "Moonlight Mile" on Sticky Fingers) and the contribution vocal Keith "Coming Down Again" and the dark psychedelia of "Can You Hear The Music ". Of course, it is always good blues rock like" Silver Train "and" Hide Your Love "show better.

The highlight, perhaps with "Angie" is the socially conscious hard-rock funky "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" which deals with the grit and grime of the city of New York of the 1970s, namely shooting accident of a young boy by the police.

While goats Head Soup could be a notch below the exile, it is much more accessible, not to mention a great album.