That Rolling Stone review of Flashpoint seemed to suggest the overdubs were the main detracting point on that one.
I used to work in a pub where the barmaid insisted on loading the multi-disc CD player with Stones album. I think out of six discs, at any given time, about three or four were Stones records, and Love You Live was one of them. She'd have the thing on random repeat, and whenever the openign track would come up, you'd get that stretch of Fanfare For The Common Man, crowd noise, and pyro, then it'd abruptly cut to something different.Love You Live is nothing special apart from the El Mocambo tracks on the 3rd side- again, too much post-production and it was a transitional period (Ron Wood's early days in the band).
I remember at one point trying to figure out if a decent double LP could have made up from the Tattoo You tour setlist. Going by what they used in the Let's Spend The Night Together film, there was probably at least another LP's worth of songs they could have chosen from, even if you left out the stuff that had been on either of the two previous live albums (keeping in mind that Love You Live repeats three songs-count em, THREE!-from Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out).I like what's on Still Live but it's very short.
.No Security is surprisingly enjoyable but 'only songs we've never released on a live album' is inevitably a 'fans only' thing..
And what's wrong with that?! I'm getting tired of everyone cow-towing to the...whatever you'd call those not included in the "fans only" edict. I'm fine with a live album that's for "fans only".
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