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The Rolling Stones: Goat's Head Soup

Nick Kent, NME, 8 September 1973

FIRST COMES the riff. It's like 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' 'cept it's slowed down so it sounds like it's being played on horse tranquilliser. Ominous and deadly, it never deviates throughout the song's duration.

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