Goats Head Soup
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 31 August 1973
- Tracks on this edition
- 10
- Running time
- 46:45
The cover
David Bailey photographed Mick Jagger through gauze for Goats Head Soup, with Keith Richards on the back. IORR’s cover history attributes the sleeve design to Ray Lawrence.
In a John Pasche recollection reproduced there, Pasche arranged the goat’s-head soup photograph and Phil Jude took the picture. That image became a poster insert.
Portrait photography: David Bailey (IORR archive account); Sleeve design: Ray Lawrence (IORR archive account); Goat’s-head poster arrangement: John Pasche (IORR archive account); Poster photograph: Phil Jude (IORR archive account)
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What critics said
Reviewing the 2020 deluxe edition for Pitchfork, Stuart Berman hears Goats Head Soup’s rockers losing some of Exile’s force. His praise centres on the ballads: “Angie”, “Coming Down Again” and especially “Winter”, whose drifting vocal and guitar make the album more distinctive than its weaker passages suggest.
Tracklist
UK edition · 31 August 1973
Select a song for details
- A1Dancing With Mr. D.4:51
- A2100 Years Ago3:57
- A3Coming Down Again5:54
- A4Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)3:26
- A5Angie4:32
- B1Silver Train4:27
- B2Hide Your Love4:12
- B3Winter5:30
- B4Can You Hear the Music5:31
- B5Star Star4:26
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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