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...depends whether your introduction to Mick Jagger??s new solo album, Goddess in The Doorway, was via the Lenny-Kravitz powered lead single, “God Gave Me Everything,” or the opening track off the album, “Visions of Paradise.” They’re both good old-fashioned rockers, and both preoccupied with religious imagery, neither of which should come as a surprise from the man who used to proclaim his “Sympathy For The Devil” on a nightly basis. And, indeed...
...well as Kravitz, Pete Townshend, Wyclef Jean and Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas make appearances, while Bono contributes all of about two lines to the euphoric “Joy,” an act of ego-compression worthy of applause in itself. Despite the collaborators, however, Jagger??s inimitable persona is emblazoned across the album, in every aspect, but most particularly his literally peerless voice. Though “Joy” definitely owes something to U2’s rediscovery of feel-good anthems, Jagger??s old-school inflection and nasal twang...
...invented rocker electro-gimmickry. “Dancing in The Starlight” sounds worryingly like Toploader’s cover of “Dancing in The Moonlight.” “Lucky Day” never really gets beyond its spaghetti western premise, despite Jagger??s idiosyncratic approach to vowels, which can turn a single syllable into an entire phrase. Then again, “Everybody Getting High” would probably be unbearable in anyone else’s hands, with its lyrically deficient chorus (“Everybody getting high-high-high...