From: pjr@example.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-21, Will Dockery  wrote:   
      
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   > Peter J Ross  posted:   
   >> On 2025-12-21, Will Dockery  wrote:   
   >> > Peter J Ross  posted:   
   >> >> On 2025-12-20, Will Dockery  wrote:   
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   >> >> > And, as mentioned earlier, one of the greatest Rolling Stones   
   >> >> > albums, released in the Summer of 1975 at the height of my   
   >> >> > Stones fandom, was "Metamorphosis":   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_(Rolling_Stones_album)   
   >> >>   
   >> >> It's a pathetic jumble of feeble out-takes, released without the   
   >> >> band's approval in order to cash in on their fame.   
   >> >   
   >> > Still better than most rock and roll of the era.   
   >>   
   >> Still worse than any other album attributed to the Rolling Stones.   
   >   
   > Okay, I'll grant you that, PJR.   
   >   
   > But a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain in 1975.   
   >   
   >> >> "One must pity the artists for this minor humiliation..." -   
   >> >> /Rolling Stone/   
   >> >   
   >> > Rolling Stone Magazine often gets it wrong.   
   >>   
   >> Not this time.   
   >   
   > Okay, it was basically an official bootleg, but damn, it's the Rolling   
   > Stones, worth hearing in any form in my opinion.   
   >   
   >> >> > So I can see how the confusion comes in, with so many relatively   
   >> >> > recent works using that spelling for a title.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> with abysmal taste in music   
   >> >   
   >> > What?   
   >> >   
   >> > You're a Brit with no love for the Rolling Stones, PJR?   
   >>   
   >> I'm an admirer of the Rolling Stones. I'm not an admirer of trash   
   >> they discarded.   
   >   
   > There's still some really good tracks on that album, although it has   
   > that "Basement Tapes" vibe.   
   >   
   > Bill Wyman on a rare solo track.   
   >   
   > A great alternate take of "Memo From Turner."   
   >   
   > The Stevie Wonder cover they were recording (as of legend has it) the   
   > very night Brian Jones passed away in what the coroner called "Death   
   > by Misadventure."   
   >   
   > Not the best of the Rolling Stones but a treasure trove for the fans   
   > of summer 1975, and I was there.   
      
   I see you've been reading Wikipedia.   
      
      
      
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