Emotional Rescue

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At first blush, 1980’s <i>Emotional Rescue</i> felt like a quickie sequel to <i>Some Girls</i>: the tight sound, the disco tilt, the strutting mood. But on closer listen, the album has more in common with 1976’s <i>Black and Blue</i>: The sound may have been streamlined, but the feel was rangy and loose. Even in the bubble of megastardom you could hear the band absorbing the outside: “Emotional Rescue” and “Dance, Pt. 1” reflected the magpie fusions of disco and post-punk (and Latin music and soul and whatever else) unfolding in New York during the early 1980, while “Where the Boys Go”—the glammy lyric, Jagger’s faux-cockney inflection—was hard-rock cosplay for men no longer fighting middle age. “Indian Girl” presaged the pan-global roots rock the band explored in the 1990, while their grip on reggae had progressed to a point where they could use it as base stock instead of the soup itself (“Send It to Me”). .

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