Favorite Keith Richards vocal performance

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Favorite Keith Richards vocal performance

(Cue crickets)

[johnnie]

1. I like them all

Also:

Little T & A
All about you
Family

[Bossy Monkey]

3. I KNEW I was forgetting something!

Meaning "A Little T & A"

I'll probably put one or another of the other two on eventually, too.

[johnnie]

5. Ever hear Family?

It's on Metamorphosis. Hilarious lyrics.

Family
(Jagger/Richards)

Here's father, his heart screwed on
Yes, here he's got it I'm sure
'Cause he lost his life in an accident
Found his heart in the man next door
What exactly's gonna happen
When they do transplant the brain
Will my borrowed brain still compute the same
Or will my daughter suffer so much more

Here comes the girl, she's got her head screwed on
But it ain't screwed on right
Her ambition is to be a prostitute
But the breaks just weren't right
What exactly's gonna happen, tell me
When her father finds out
That his virgin daughter has bordello dreams
And that he's the one she wants to try out
Yeah

There's ma, she's living dangerously
It's a cinch she'll try it anything twice
She thinks she can run right to the whirlpool's edge
And stop herself just in time
What exactly's gonna happen
When she finally fizzles out
The lovers will just be sucked into
To see what the colours of death are all about

Here's the son, has his legs a-screwed on
Yeah, they're screwed on pretty tight
But his brain is loose and it ain't no use
He's already lost the fight
What exactly's gonna happen
When he's finally realized
That he can't play his guitar like E.G. Jim
Or write St. Augustine if he tried

That's what happens
When a family finds out
That they've been in orbit now for a thousand years
And need a thousand more to climb out

[Bossy Monkey]

6. I'll stick it up; it's not looking like I'm much going to need the Other

slot :)

[enigmatic]

2. Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home"

It's an outtake, but my favorite Richards vocal by far..

[Bossy Monkey]

4. There's room; it's up n/t

[mitchum]

7. That's mine also

"Happy" is second

[Montauk6]

8. WHAT??? NO "Thru and Thru"????

Not only a great song but icing on the cake for one of the most memorable episodes of The Sopranos.

[Bossy Monkey]

9. Considering the crush of voters, I definitely would have put it on in

place of one of mine had you mentioned it during the editing hour. Ah well, sorry that my Keef knowledge is so incomplete.:)

[Montauk6]

10. Well, I'm no Keef expert either

I just know Thru and Thru, the b-side of the Miss You 45 and that song the "Twin Peaks" theme ripped off.

[blue neen]

11. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"

Hear me prowlin'
Hear me growlin'
Hear me howlin'
Hear me knocking'

Vintage Keith.

[NashVegas]

12. Interesting Stones / Richards Factoid

I once read a bio (way back, late 1970s) that made the claim that Richards' was the only Stone to have a perfect-pitch singing voice.

[Jade Fox]

13. Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. n/t