I like it better and better

for me it's better even better when the songs are listened to separately.

ABB is the only album where the songs I don't like...I consistently and completely skip over. Never once have I let a song I didn't like play out....

Strets of Love
Sweet Neocon
Biggest Mistake


I reach for the NEXT button the second they come on.

Aside from that, Rough Justice, stil kicks me in the face when I hear it.

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I like it better and better

Absence (of new material) makes the heart grow fonder.

I listened to it last week..I know what you mean.
The cd I burned to play in my car does not include Sweet Neo Con...
...not because of the political lyrics...because it would ruin
the rest of the listening experience for me....just doesn't seem to fit.

I always replay Driving TOo Fast.


IORR............but I like it!



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Overall its not a bad album, quite a few rockin tunes, I've even had Streets of love grow on me since seeing it played live. Like it a lot now.

I just feel its a bit overproduced, when I first heard Oh no not you again, and then Rough Justice, My juices were flowin for a balls out rockin album, was a little deflated when it weas released and forme there were too many over polished poppy songs (rain fall down for example)

Overall though, not a bad album, think I prefer Voodoo as an overall album, but its not a bad album,

Keep on rockin'!!!!

puh - rough justice is ok, this place is empty is great the rest in my opinion - crap. really disapointed

Personally, I like it with this track listing:

Rough Justice
It Won't Take Long
Streets Of Love
Back Of My Hand
She Saw Me Coming
This Place Is Empty
Oh No, Not You Again
Dangerous Beauty
Laugh, I Nearly Died
Look What The Cat Dragged In
Driving Too Fast
Infamy

I like this track listing, flows better for me and keeps the tempo up.

Keep on rockin!!!!

Songs I mostly skip are -

Rough Justice - A decent song, but I'm really fed up with it. They played it too much during the last tour.

Streets Of Love - Pretty awful on cd, although it was ok in concert.

Biggest Mistake - The title says it all.

Dangerous Beauty - The lyrics are funny, but i hate the song.

Infamy - Pure filler.

Best songs are Driving Too Fast and This Place Is Empty.

she saw me coming remains the lone redeemer on an album of instantly forgotten filler

Songs that I tend to skip:

Let Me Down Slow: find it isipid

Rain Fall Down: Too poppy for me, Mick seems to be trying to hard for my tastes to be cool

Biggest Mistake: Too many oohs and aahs for me

Sweet Neo Con: Christ, possibly big contender for worst track on the albumCan't complain, coulda been a lot worse. so turn it up a rock out man.

Other than these though,

Ugh...how can I forget "Rain Fall Down"??

Shutter.

My ABB :

Rough Justice
Back Of My Hand
This Place Is Empty
Oh No, Not You Again
Dangerous Beauty
Infamy

A very nice EP in fact ,-)

Under The Radar should've made the final cut.


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

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Under The Radar should've made the final cut.

i'll see your radar and i'll raise you a don't wanna go home

"Absence (of new material) makes the heart grow fonder"


Yeah, I'll guess that's the reason....

My Bigger Bang...all killer, no friller (at least for me)

Side A

Oh No, Not You Again
Let Me Down Slow
It Wont Take Long
Rain Fall Down
Streets of Love
She Saw Me Coming
Biggest Mistake

Side B

Rough Justice
Laugh, I Nearly Died
Under The Radar
Back of My Hand
Look What the Cat Dragged in
This Place is Empty
Dont Wanna Go Home


A/B side separation is just imaginative, I still think in old vinyl LP track successions. It helps to create something that really flows.

It doesnt say that I really love Streets Of Love, but the album needs a Jagger ballad as a counterppoint to Keiths TPIE, and SOL is all there is. After hearing it live I can live with it!



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I like ie all but Neo con and I'm not a fan of Infamy

I don't think the album is overproduced but some of the songs are. The worst ones are Sweet Neo Con, Streets Of Love, Rain Falls Down and Infamy. Biggest Mistake is filler. Just as with any other half way decent Stones album there are some clunkers and some cookers.

I forgot Streets of Love - One of my least favorite tracks ever!

You've inspried me to do the same.

"Rough Justice" – You Got Me Rocking II. So-so.
"Let Me Down Slow" – Really like this one.
"Rain Fall Down" – Love this song
"Streets of Love" – Hate it with a passion. Live. Studio. Garbage song.
"Back of My Hand" – Kind of overrated. They had better blues on their Voodoo b-sides.
"She Saw Me Coming" – I like this song. Rip off of Crackin' Up, but still fun.
"Biggest Mistake" – Yuck. Alfie outtake-sounding. Pass.
"This Place Is Empty" – Someone please slap Keith back into Rock 'n' Roll.
"Oh No, Not You Again" – Like Rough Justice, it feels like the 5th time they've written this in the last 10 years. Unconvincing, dumb lyrics.
"Dangerous Beauty" – Cool track.
"Laugh, I Nearly Died" – Another good one.
"Sweet Neo Con" – The only one I hate more that Streets of Love. Bloody retarded.
"Look What the Cat Dragged In" – I dig this.
"Driving Too Fast" – Forgettable. Phoned-in melody & lyrics. Musically boring.
"Infamy" – Forgettable half-song

Over all, I generally like most of the stuff here. Not bad, nothing to write home about. Better than Steel Wheels, not quite up to Voodoo Lounge though, I'm afraid. The pared-down production, without decent songwriting, makes it sound like mostly half-finished leftovers from those Forty Licks material sessions. None of it comes close to being as interesting as anything they'd done 20 years prior.

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I think it's always hard to evaluate a new stones album/disc when it comes out. It brought it with me on a road trip last week; first time I listened to it in awhile. My impressions:

Driving to fast- best song, really the only song that sounds new or "fresh"

Laugh, I nearly died- really nice ballad- reminds me of Worried About You. Drum sounds seem too "programed" or mechanic, though.

Under the Radar and Rain fell down, I still enyoy- for different reasons.

there's a lot of average stones filler on ABB, but that's nothing new. I can enjoy much of the album, but not on regular basis.

Rough Justice is ok but seems like it was made to prove the stones still had trademark sound and energy. Makes me think of ADTL.

Streets of Love- I know this is really touchy subject here. People either love it or hate it. Personally, I like it more now than on early listening. BUt It's definately better live than on Disc. Put it this way: the stones definately wanted a "sing along song" for the concerts. Would you rather have a lackluster YCAGWYW for the 565th time or SOL. So, I guess it's grown on me.

Side B from alimente...man for a while you think you were on one from the big days:
Rough Justice - Laugh I Nearly Died - Under The Radar - Back Of My Hand - Look At What The Cat Dragged In. That is great.
Everyone seems to loathe "neocon; me too. But the other ones I really don;t like are "Oh No Not You" and both of Keith's songs. Did not like ONNYA from the day they premiered it at the press conference.

Edit - I just heard ONNYA blasting in my car - I changed my mind; pretty good.



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I still dig very much She saw me, Laugh, Rough and Infamy
overall the weakest thing on it is a production with no dynamics, no room. It's like instruments are pasted one over the other. Worst example of this is the chorus of It wont take long (other wise a good tune)

With a few exceptions, e.g. Rough Justice and Rain Fall Down ( surprised that quite a few people don't like RFD ), this is an uninspired album. Rubbish like Look What the Cat Dragged In wouldn't have even been considered for inclusion in the good old days.I wonder what Stu would have had to say about A Bigger Bang had he lived. I remember reading that he thought the Stones were sounding like "bloody Status Quo" when they were recording Some Girls.
If ABB is a good album, then what's a bad Stones album?
As stated by a number of people on this board,they haven't made a completely acceptable album since Tattoo You. Have a nice day.

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she saw me coming remains the lone redeemer on an album of instantly forgotten filler

There are quite some people who like this song (including me)! Must be because you can feel the fun... Even if I detect more likable tracks on ABB than you I'd nevertheless wish they'd be as alive as this one.

She Saw Me Coming

It Won't Take Long

Back of My Hand

are the best tracks that they should have played on every show of the tour.

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she saw me coming remains the lone redeemer on an album of instantly forgotten filler

There are quite some people who like this song (including me)! Must be because you can feel the fun... Even if I detect more likable tracks on ABB than you I'd nevertheless wish they'd be as alive as this one.

this song is the only one that sounds like "it wrote itself," if you catch my drift. the best songs are the ones that don't sound contrived...which is true for all the other ABB songs and frankly most of what they've done the past 3 decades. that's what i mean when i say they've lost their muse. in their heyday, songs just flowed out of them, seemingly unwritten. since then you can almost feel the "work" that goes into them, as if they are trying to write "this kinda song" or "that kinda song." SSMC is a rare latter-era example of a song that just swings wildly and seems to come out of nowhere. mick's vocals aren't forced or contrived...they even sound like a first-take (although they probably aren't). he's not thinking...he's just reacting spontaneously (seemingly, anyway)...that's when he's at his best. an almost perfect song, done in classic stones style. almost shocking that it is found on ABB.

btw - i don't hear any resemblance to Crackin' Up, as someone mentioned earlier....i'll have to ponder that a little more....

Love - Laugh I Nearly Died, Dangerous Beauty, Biggest Mistake

Almost great - It Wont Be Long, Let Me Down Slow

Dreadful - NeoCon, Infamy, ONNYA (good riff but the worst lyrics on any Stones song ever - apart from Neocon), Streets of Love

Solid to Good - everything else.

Of the bonus tracks, 'Home' is decent, 'Under the radar' is almost a gem, only let down by a weak bridge.

Rough Justice" – Takes your ass and kicks it to the moon.
"Let Me Down Slow" – Should've been left off.
"Rain Fall Down" – Great one. Pity I didn't see it live.
"Streets of Love" – Love it.
"Back of My Hand" – Best blues song they ever made and did.
"She Saw Me Coming" – Don't see what people love about it. It's a filler. OK, but filler.
"Biggest Mistake" – OK pop song. Kindda boring though.
"This Place Is Empty" – Maybe the best Keef tune ever.
"Oh No, Not You Again" – Good riff and the band kicks ass. Lyrics could surely be better.
"Dangerous Beauty" – Cool.
"Laugh, I Nearly Died" – OK one. Could be better.
"Sweet Neo Con" – Granted the lyrics are God-awful. But the music is kindda good. People just don't wanna see this.
"Look What the Cat Dragged In" – Digging it..
"Driving Too Fast" – Buttkicker.
"Infamy" – Interesting reggae-like slow rocker. Like it.

JumpingKentFlash

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"Back of My Hand" – Best blues song they ever made and did.

Seriously? Better than Rooster, all those songs on Beggars, Love in Vain and Stop Breakin' Down?

Its a solid enough song and I was pleased to see a pure blues song on a Stones album again, but there were a couple of bluesy b-sides from the late 80s and early 90s that were IMO at least as good - Fancy Man Blues, The Storm etc.