I Gave You The Diamonds, You Give Me Disease

After seemingly a dead serious promise to keep up with this blog, I've clearly let things bog me down to the point where I'm unable to string together a bunch of words and upload some serious records to share. Well, seeing as I'm an unreliable fuck at the best of times, this should be no surprise. But on the upside between April and now, I've accrued a lot of terrible albums to share. This was a recent gem I Give You Diamonds, You Give Me Disease: The Exile Outtakes. It's pretty much as nasty as one would expect it to be. What blew me away were the alternate takes of such signature tunes. The early 'Tumbling Dice' song 'Good Time Women' was pretty much the best thing I've heard all week. And the original is one of my all time favourite songs. The basic structure is there, that quality is present, but that relaxed heroiny groove is replaced by a more uptempo beat. If 'Hillside Blues' or 'Travellin' Man' doesn't make you want to commit war crimes, then there' just no pleasing you.