![]() ![]() The album's lead single, " Angie", was an unpopular choice as lead single with Atlantic Records which, according to Chess, "wanted another ' Brown Sugar' rather than a ballad". Mick Taylor would later record longer versions of "Winter" with Carla Olson for her The Ring of Truth album and "Silver Train" for their Too Hot for Snakes album. The song is also the only song on the album that does not feature Richards as a performer, with the electric rhythm guitar being played by Jagger. ![]() The main theme of the lyrics of the song go back to a 1968 outtake "Blood Red Wine". The first track recorded at Dynamic was "Winter", which Mick Taylor said started with "just Mick (Jagger) strumming on a guitar in the studio, and everything falling together from there". Mikey Chung, the engineer at Dynamic, for example, was a Chinese man – you realise how much Jamaica is a multi-ethnic environment." The album title is believed to be a reference to the Jamaican dish Mannish water. It was interesting to be playing in this totally different atmosphere. There were not only Jamaicans involved, but also percussion players who came from places like Guyana, a travelling pool of guys who worked in the studios. On the sessions and influence of the island, Richards said, "The album itself didn't take that long, but we recorded an awful lot of tracks. Three months later it's all very different and we won't be writing the same kind of material as Goats Head Soup." And, similarly, all the writing was concentrated so that you get the feel of one particular period of time. Two weeks here, two weeks there – then another two weeks. Like the last album we did ( Exile on Main St.) was basically recorded in short concentrated periods. Jagger said of their approach to recording at the time, "Songwriting and playing is a mood. It amazed me, as an old-time record guy, that the Stones might not have played together for six or eight months, but within an hour of jamming, the synergy that is their strength would come into play and they would lock it together as one. Of the recording process, Marshall Chess, the president of Rolling Stones Records at the time, said in 2002, "We used to book studios for a month, 24 hours a day, so that the band could keep the same set-up and develop their songs in their free-form way, starting with a few lyrics and rhythms, jamming and rehearsing while we fixed the sound. Nine countries kicked me out, thank you very much, so it was a matter of how to keep this thing together. Keith Richards said in 2002: "Jamaica was one of the few places that would let us all in! By that time about the only country that I was allowed to exist in was Switzerland, which was damn boring for me, at least for the first year, because I didn't like to ski. ![]() In November 1972 the band relocated to Dynamic Sounds studio in Kingston, Jamaica. The re-issue returned the album to number one in the UK charts. It was remixed by Giles Martin for a 2020 reissue, including a deluxe edition with bonus tracks and unreleased outtakes. The album was remastered and released in 1994 and again in 2009 by Virgin Records and Universal Music respectively. The band supported the album on a tour of Europe following its release. However, it received mixed reviews from critics and audiences and is generally seen as the beginning of the band's decline after a string of critically acclaimed albums. Goats Head Soup achieved number one chart positions in the UK, US and several other world markets. Regular Rolling Stones collaborators, including saxophonist Bobby Keys, organist Billy Preston, and pianists Nicky Hopkins and Ian Stewart, also feature. Bass guitarist Bill Wyman only appears on three of the album's ten tracks, but the rest of the Rolling Stones-lead vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Mick Taylor, and drummer Charlie Watts-play on every track, with the exception of " Winter", which does not feature Richards. The album was the last to be produced by Jimmy Miller, who was a key architect of the Rolling Stones sound during their most acclaimed period which began with 1968's Beggars Banquet. The album contains 10 tracks, including the lead single " Angie" which went to number one as a single in the US and the top five in the UK. Goats Head Soup was recorded in Jamaica, the United States and the United Kingdom. ![]() Like its predecessor Exile on Main St., the band composed and recorded much of it outside of the United Kingdom due to their status as tax exiles. Goats Head Soup is the 11th British and 13th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 31 August 1973 by Rolling Stones Records.
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