Goddess in the Doorway

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Goddess in the Doorway
Goddessdoorway.jpg
Studio album by
Mick Jagger
Released19 November 2001
RecordedFebruary and May 2000, January–February and April–June 2001
Studio
  • Roxie (Miami)
  • Third Stone (Los Angeles)
  • Drive By (Los Angeles)
  • Rumbo (Los Angeles)
  • Chiswick (London)
  • Metropolis (London)
  • Norfolk Lodge (Richmond)
  • Mick Jagger's hotel room (Heidkamp)
  • Hit Factory (New York City)
Genre Rock
Length56:51
Label Virgin
Producer
Mick Jagger chronology
Wandering Spirit
(1993)		Goddess in the Doorway
(2001)		 Alfie
(2004)
Singles from Goddess in the Doorway
  1. "God Gave Me Everything"
    Released: November 2001
  2. "Visions of Paradise"
    Released: February 2002

Goddess in the Doorway is the fourth solo album by Mick Jagger, released in 2001. The most recent offering from Jagger as a solo artist, it marked his first release with Virgin Records, with whom he has been contracted as a member of the Rolling Stones since 1991.

Contents

Background

Following his 1993 album Wandering Spirit , and The Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge and Bridges to Babylon in 1994 and 1997, Jagger began to work on demo material in 2000, finally reaching the studio in the spring of 2001. Although Jagger would primarily work with Marti Frederiksen and Matt Clifford as producers, he also sanctioned the talents of Lenny Kravitz and Wyclef Jean to help create Goddess in the Doorway. And while the songs would largely be composed by Jagger, he endeavoured to work with other collaborators, namely, Kravitz and Rob Thomas, lead vocalist of Matchbox Twenty. The recording sessions of several of the album's tracks were featured in the documentary Being Mick . The Cover Photo was created by German fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Recording

While recording was underway, many of Jagger's musician friends, including Bono, Pete Townshend, Thomas, Kravitz, Jean and Joe Perry all made contributions. Townshend, in fact, was the initiating force behind the album. After having heard some of Jagger's demos, he told him that they didn't sound like Rolling Stones songs and that Jagger should record them on his own.

In the summer of 2001, Jagger had bumped into Missy Elliott and requested her to be part of the album. At his New York hotel, Jagger previewed his demo material to Elliott. [1] [2] Following their meeting, both Jagger's and Elliott's reps confirmed the two artists were slated to collaborate on the song, "Hide Away," however, due to scheduling conflicts their collaboration never saw the light of day. [2] [3] Jagger's collaborations with super-producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins would suffer the same fate. [2] By the end of the summer, Goddess in the Doorway was initially completed and the Kravitz-produced (and almost self-performed) "God Gave Me Everything" was put forward as the lead single that October. The song failed to become a significant hit.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 62/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]

Jann Wenner, chief editor for Rolling Stone magazine, bestowed a five-star instant classic rating upon the album, a score that The New Yorker noted as part of a general trend at the magazine, "an almost cynical way of preserving the critical legitimacy of classic-rock artists." [7] More than two decades later, Wenner defended the review in an interview with The New York Times, saying, "The editors themselves put it at four stars, and there was not a critical backlash to the thing. [...] It’s still quite a good album. So I personally intervened. Having sat there and listened to Mick make it, I was in love with it. I confess: I probably went too far. So what? I’m entitled." [8]

Writing for the New York Daily News , Jim Farber said: "From the musicianship to the production to the performance and the lyrics, everything sounds cold and corporate." Keith Richards regularly referred to the album as Dogshit in the Doorway. [9]

Goddess in the Doorway reached No. 44 in the UK and No. 39 in the US. [10] It has sold 80,778 copies in the UK [11] and 317,000 copies in the US. [12]

Following this, Jagger returned to work with the Rolling Stones on Forty Licks (2002) and A Bigger Bang (2005) and their associated world tours, the Licks Tour (2002-03) and the A Bigger Bang Tour (2005-07). Aside from his soundtrack work with David A. Stewart on Alfie in 2004, and the compilation The Very Best of Mick Jagger released in 2007, Goddess in the Doorway remains his last solo release to date.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mick Jagger, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Visions of Paradise"Jagger, Rob Thomas, Matt Clifford4:02
2."Joy" 4:41
3."Dancing in the Starlight"Jagger, Clifford4:06
4."God Gave Me Everything"Jagger, Lenny Kravitz 3:34
5."Hide Away"Jagger, Wyclef Jean 4:31
6."Don't Call Me Up"Jagger, Pamela Quinlan5:14
7."Goddess in the Doorway"Jagger, Clifford4:56
8."Lucky Day" 4:51
9."Everybody Getting High" 3:55
10."Gun"Jagger, Clifford4:39
11."Too Far Gone"Jagger, Pamela Quinlan4:34
12."Brand New Set of Rules" ("Brand New Set of Rules" only runs 3:36; it is followed by 2:56 silence and the hidden track "Goddess in the Doorway (Cocktail Version)" 1:07) 7:39
Total length:56:42
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."If Things Could Be Different" (If Things Could Be Different" was also the B-side to "Visions of Paradise" in Europe and "Blue"—a 5:40 Mick Jagger composition—was the B-side of the European single "God Gave Me Everything" and the British single "Visions of Paradise)4:49
Total length:61:31

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2001)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts) [13] 65
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [14] 29
UK Albums (OCC) [15] 44
US Billboard 200 [10] 39

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Germany (BVMI) [16] Gold150,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [17] Gold50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [18] Silver80,778 [11]
United States—317,000 [12]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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