More of the Music of The Rolling Stones
Presenting a classic case of live and learn.
We would agree with very little of what we had to say about Goat’s Head Soup as a recording when we wrote about it back in 2011 — and for the previous 35+ years since I had first played a domestic original. (Turns out the imports are no good either.)
Having done a big shootout for the album in 2016, we now know that there most certainly are great sounding pressings to be found, because we found some. We broke through.
The data are in, and now we know just how wrong we were.
In our defense, let me just ask one question: Did anybody else know this record was well recorded? I can find no evidence to support anyone having ever taken such a contrarian position.
But we’re taking that position now.
All it takes is one great sounding copy to show you the error of your ways, and we had more than one.
Here’s what we had to say back in 2011. After having played dozens of copies and never hearing the record sound more than passable, can you blame us?