Re: Sean’s mystification over the lack of adulation for the Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup: I had a similar response when I first got the record last year, especially over the glorious second track, “100 Years Ago.” Twelve months later, that song’s the only reason I keep the record around.

My theory: GHS is perfectly fine, but too many of its strengths are captured more powerfully on other Stones records. With a catalog as loaded as the Stones’s, “perfectly fine” records are tossed by the wayside. (Should one feel compelled to enhance the basic Beggars-thru-Exile” Stones canon, go backwards— Between The Buttons, Aftermath, and on…)