"Hang Fire" also became one of the sharpest criticisms of their native England that the Rolling Stones ever committed to vinyl.
Even when they downshifted for Side 2, the tracks boasted a maturity that felt surprising and newfound. The Stones hadn't sounded this focused, so willing to jab hard and fast, in a vanishingly long time. The mix of hot riffs and doo wop-influenced backing vocals on "Hang Fire" stand in direct contrast to the dancy missteps found on 1980's Emotional Rescue, owing in part to this track's origins in the earlier, more rugged Some Girls sessions. That's where the issues of era and context come into play. The results were a revelation, but not necessarily because Tattoo You (or even "Hang Fire") was uniformly great.
"Hang Fire" was discerningly placed among a slate of other uptempo songs on Side 1, while some winning ballads completed Side 2. It's stupid to leave all that great stuff just for want of finishing it off and getting it together." "With a band that goes on for a long time," a newly convinced Keith Richards would later admit, "one way or another you end up with a backlog of really good stuff that, for one reason or another, you didn’t get the chance to finish or put out because it was the wrong tempo or too long - purely technical reasons.
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