Goats Head Soup by Rolling Stones (The) (CD, Jul-1994, Virgin Records USA)

A solid early 70's effort from the Stones. Three classic songs, Angie, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker), and Star Star, a blues chug tune, Hide Your Love, and a southern jam rambler Silver Train. No Keith lead vocal songs, but there is a Nawlins voodoo song, Dancing With Mr. D. Throw in a song with pipes, triangles, and flutes, Can You Hear The Music, and you have an album that shows the Stones diversity and experimentalism. A solid effort worth the listen.

There's alot of good stuff on this album, but there's also plenty of stuff that's forgetable. I don't know whether its because the music quality faded or the groups overall popularity began to wane. It's hard to see stars like Rod Stewart develop into a lounge singer or the Rolling Stones begin to look like prison camp detainees and still have much enthusism. In the eternal search for fresh material, their sucesses got further and further apart and the lines on their faces got deeper and deeper.

One of my favorite songs is Star Star. It is a real catchy tune, but the lyrics are way too XXX to play on the radio. This may have been a huge hit otherwise.

Must have been one of their worst CD's , I can see why eveyone is buying songs on line. All the songs on the Cd suck. I see why the sales of Cd's have dropped 15%. Maybe one song on this Cd is half decent .

I remember buying the album in 73 when it was released. I wanted to purchase it again for the song, Cold Winter, which has been a sentimental favorite of mine throughout the years. It has the classic Angie, and some other rockin tunes such as Silver Train and Star Star.
I really like this CD, although it is mostly for sentimental reasons, such as the hauntingly sad Cold Winter, that I wanted to have Goats Head Soup in my music collection.

I popped this album in and liked it immediately. 100 Years Ago and Heartbreaker hit me immediately as cool tunes that can't be missing from any die hard Stones fan. They rock pretty hard, especially the latter, and even casual fans will love them. Of course, Angie has been one of their classic ballads since the album was released, and for good reason. It's a nice well written heartfelt song. Silver Train is a nice tune played with an Allman Brother's cool Southern sound. Hide Your Love is a bluesy piano driven song, with a cool guitar solo. Winter is a nice ballad that shows that the Stones can write a ballad that isn't a love song. Can You Hear The Music is an eerie tune that keeps you listening. They end the album strong with Star Star, a Chuck Berry-like tune that rocks with it's bluesy guitar driven chorus.

Is this up there with their best albums? No. But it just shows a different side of the Stones that make them one of the best bands ever. If another band had come out with this, it'd probably be their best album. With the Stones, the bar is set so high that it can't compete with the likes of Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street. But who cares? It's still an excellent album with a good song selection. I've read reviews that cut this album down, saying that this foretells the Stones demise. What do they know? This just shows how a group grows and their songwriting changes. It's not bad, it's just different. They just go in a little different direction on this album, and they give you Goats Head Soup, which by the way has a lot of good songwriting and tasteful licks, Heartbreaker being a great example of this. Goats Head Soup is the soup that eats like a meal (Sorry for the corny theft from Chunky Soup, but it's fitting given the title of the album).

A really good Stones album recorded at the tail end of their zenith, why it didn't get better reviews I don't know. I'll admit it's not in same league as some of their classics, but not much else is. They have nothing to be ashamed of here.
It was recorded in the early 70's, but none of the songs sound dated, at least to me. I'm not crazy about the albums cover art-nitpicking? I mean who cares, once the c.d. is in a player and the case is in a drawer nobody looks at it anyway.