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...strong, wild form in concert, but no one has ever disputed his status as rock's shrewdest showman. On Tattoo You, the Stones' new No. 1 album, Jagger's voice has the rough resilience of a scouring pad, and Keith Richards keeps on playing what is, in all senses, the meanest guitar around. The new record sounds like their best in years-many years-but a little attention to the lyrics shows that the Stones are still stuck in the same territory without a passport. The album is supposed to be a return to their strong, singed...
Under a sparkling sky in Washington, trumpets blared, drummers in red tunics beat a tattoo, and honor guards from the U.S. armed forces paraded smartly in salute to yet another visiting head of government. Amid the now familiar splendor of pageantry on the White House South Lawn, both the guest and his host, President Ronald Reagan, rose to the spirit of the emotion-tugging scene...
...there is straightforward celebration here too, perhaps some of the best rocking and rolling the Stones have done since the early Seventies. "Start Me Up" and "Hang Fire," for instance, open the first side of Tattoo You with a solid one-two kick in the pants. "Let's get it on and let's raise some hell for no good reason," Jagger saysin so many words, with suitable moaning, yelping and clapping from Richards and Co. The album is heavy on falsetto, and Jagger puts to rest rumors that his voice has deteriorated with a piercing performance on "Worried About...
Assuming, then, that anyone who ever liked "Satisfaction" will find this album entertaining (with the exception of a Latin-influenced dud on side two called "Heaven"), we return to the question of how the immoderate Stones fan justifies his excitement over Tattoo You. The answer is that even if the Stones usually turn to 12-bar blues in the clinch and even if some of their better riffs make multiple appearances from record to record, they have managed to hold onto the strange fusion of ironic distance and electrifying enthusiasm that first fascinated listeners in the Sixties...
...group, the Stones never put out more than you can use. On Tattoo You, the music is raw, the message is clear and simple. The result may not be as consistently good as it once was, but it's the best you can get: the slicing sound of a slightly out-of-tune Stratocaster dissecting a simple bass line, the snare drum snapping on 2 and 4, and Mick Jagger offering, "I'll take you places you've never, never seen before, yaaaaaah." To love the Rolling Stones is to love rock and roll, because both are just right...