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That's still not very reassuring. Much of today's music is compressed to death during mastering... They never did this to The Rolling Stones - UNTIL A Bigger Bang came along. I still think the crappy mastering contributed to me hating that album.Quote
Sway714
I meant sonically worse than other songs on the radio.
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WeLoveYou
I quite like the idea of the Stones using outtakes and then dressing them up for release. They could come up with a lot of 'new' material this way. Surely it doesn't matter if the outtakes are old...they created the material, what they do with it is up to them.
They could use 1960s outtakes and add new instrument / vocal parts....could be interesting, and we'd get a few good new albums this way.
I'd rather they didnt, for the simple reason that it just shows they're bereft of ideas. Especially songs recorded decades earlier. They were a different band then.
Personally, I'd far rather they released previously unavailable songs 'as is' IF they are finished or very close to it - but only on the understanding that they ARE presented and packaged as 'archive material'.
However, as I said before, with Exile its a bit different to other Stones albums. More songs were released on this album than on any other record they ever made. Instead of dropping songs to come out with a final 10 or 12 for a single LP they were probably throwing on whatever they had to fill up a double. It also came out at a time when they were prolific and were releasing a new record every year or so. So, to expect them to have a lot of finished songs left over from a DOUBLE album is ludicrous - especially considering with the way the band makes records - including this one - ie, the fact that most of the vocals were probably only completed AFTER they went to LA, as were the contributions of a lot of the external musicians on the record.
When you look at it from that perspective, whilst its IMO their greatest album, if you're going to pick an album to launch what will hopefully be the first of many reissues with bonus material, 'Exile' is really not a good choice because its probably one of their albums that has the fewest number of unreleased but finished songs. That said, a few more alternate versions of the released songs would have been nice.
So, in this case, adding some 'fairy dust' to a few songs is understandable, so long as its not too excessive.
i've got a headache. are we happy or not? i need simple statements.
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.....well that's as a rhetorical question.....
ok, well how about a rhetorical answer?
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WeLoveYou
I quite like the idea of the Stones using outtakes and then dressing them up for release. They could come up with a lot of 'new' material this way. Surely it doesn't matter if the outtakes are old...they created the material, what they do with it is up to them.
They could use 1960s outtakes and add new instrument / vocal parts....could be interesting, and we'd get a few good new albums this way.
I'd rather they didnt, for the simple reason that it just shows they're bereft of ideas. ...
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skipstone
What the Stones have considered to be sub-standard at the time has always left me aghast - because a number of songs on some albums that were more "current" were not and never have been as interesting or as good as...the left off sub-standard tunes.
At least the ones I've heard.
And that squarely lies on Mick Jagger's shoulders and ego.
Understood....but we don't either and love getting to hear them! WOW can't wait to get the full songs and in cd version! Really wish they had put the bonus tracks on LP vinyl alsoQuote
Gazza
You're welcome. Just to clarify, I didnt upload these and dont have the songs myself!
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Palace Revolution 2000
And "Dancing in the Light"..if this is the real DITL then what was the other one?
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Muddyw
Following The River sounds like Jagger on his Goddes album!
Same vocal (nasal) sound...
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Muddyw
Following The River sounds like Jagger on his Goddes album!
Same vocal (nasal) sound...