We can't expect a masterpiece or another 'Exile'. Mick's voice is no longer what it used to, Keith riffs too. The last great album is 'Tatoo You' which has previously composed songs. The only hope is that they use some good songs from their archives (Some Girls sessions are one example).
Otherwise, i think we should be content with the result of ABB with other horrible Streets of Love

Otherwise, i think we should be content with the result of ABB with other horrible Streets of Love


hopefully not this one::

Frankly, I don't even expect another album. A tour - yes!

I could be happy with a new not-over-produced album with a bigger KR's involvement on musical leadership

Another Chuck Berry song would be terrific. Dear Dad? Maybe Eddie Cochran's My Way?







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I do not expect a new album, but using 35 yearold recordings for a "new" album would be sad. The Stones should be capable of recording a decent blus rock album, if they are not they ought to retire and enjoy themselves!

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I do not expect a new album, but using 35 yearold recordings for a "new" album would be sad. The Stones should be capable of recording a decent blus rock album, if they are not they ought to retire and enjoy themselves!

Oh, you know, they have always gone back a re-done a good R & B song now and then. The results are usually fantastic. I mean, they can re-do it the way the Stones master cover songs, slow it down, chunk it up, whatever, not a carbon copy, that's not what I meant.

To close the circle, just covers + a new rendition of Tell Me:

Killer Diller Blues (Memphis Minnie)
Cravin a Man Blues (Lillian Glinn)
Going to Dallas (Lightnin Hopkins)
You ain’t no big thing (John Lee Hooker)
Boogie in the Dark (Jimmy Reed)
Cotton Crop Blues (Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet)
Moanin’ at Midnight (Howlin’ Wolf)
Wee Wee Hours (Chick Berry)
Heavy Heart Blues (Champion Jack Dupree)
Alone and Forsaken (Hank Williams)
Denomination Blues Part 1 (Washington Phillips)
Don’t start crying now (Slim Harpo)

To ask the Stones to "do" another "Exile" is somewhat moronic. I love "Exile" and I alos enjoy "Bridges to Babylon" and "Bigger Bang" and just about everything in between. Maybe it is my age. As a 50+ year old, the few times I am exposed to "new" music is when the Stones roll out something (or Ray Davies, or Robert Plant, or Ian Hunter, etc) I have not listened to the radio for music in a long, long time. How wonderful, if the Stones can give us another gift of new tunes.... Go for it, guys!

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We can't expect a masterpiece or another 'Exile'. Mick's voice is no longer what it used to, Keith riffs too. The last great album is 'Tatoo You' which has previously composed songs. The only hope is that they use some good songs from their archives (Some Girls sessions are one example).
Otherwise, i think we should be content with the result of ABB with other horrible Streets of Love

Yeah, that'd be a great idea. Dig out 35 year old songs and work on them. That'll convince everyone that theyre not all washed up, wont it?

The songs on Tattoo You that were old were for the most part 2-3 years old. The oldest was about 8 years old. Hardly a like for like comparison

New album and new tour, NOW"

The Stones are usually pretty aware of being cutting edge. As far as time and 35 years and all that, if a song is theirs and they feel like doing it today and mixing it today, I guess that's OK. The old blues guys of 50 years ago, you can't change that. But it is timeless music. When I mentioned Chuck or Eddie, I just thought it has been awhile since they did one, didn't mean to start a civil war.

a good album with a with their first smash single since 81, get the boys back on the radio again with some new stuff instead of well you know the list, stones songs on the radio post 81 almost dont exist



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Steel Wheels was pretty damn good.

If they decide to tour my only wish is that it won't be a repetition of the 2002/03/06/07-tours. I wish they could spend some time on the arrangements of the songs, especially the warhorses. What's the point of making a new album these days? They don't really function as a band anymore; Micks voice is hoarse, Keith has arthritis and suffers from a braininjury, Ron has serious alcoholproblems.

with those problems how can they do any tour?

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Steel Wheels was pretty damn good.

Really? I think it's one of their worst right behind Dirty Work

You're right, melillo. Perhaps we are hoping for too much?

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We can't expect a masterpiece or another 'Exile'. Mick's voice is no longer what it used to, Keith riffs too. The last great album is 'Tatoo You' which has previously composed songs. The only hope is that they use some good songs from their archives (Some Girls sessions are one example).
Otherwise, i think we should be content with the result of ABB with other horrible Streets of Love

What an utter<><><><><>!!!! Mick's voice is great on a Bigger Bang, in fact that album proofs Mick can sing!!! And it's a fanastic album where they experiment with the newer British pop sound (Biggest Mistake for example). I would love to hear a brand new album. Yes Keef is a problem but not Mick and not Ronnie or Darryll. A last brand new album and tour without Keef would be the best obtion.

Not to forget: they don't have a real bassplayer anymore. They have a stand in for Bill who plays funk. Bob Dylan caracterized them as a funkband these days.

Keep it nice and simple. Take a leaf out of Dylan's book and make a rule of no more than 3 takes. No click track stadium drums please. More harmonica. Some country, reggae and blues please. And 12 tracks max - perhaps just 10. Less is more. You only need to listen to the new Neil Young to see how well that idea works.

a low down and dirty blues album.
i agree, only 11 songs. but songs that are good, not like abb.
the songs wont be new, just from the shelf.
THAT does not matter, just as long as they are good.

and than give us a stripped down tour!! ust the 5 guys, and please please
NO MOREMSTERDAM ARENA

One love jeroen

New Neil Young's work is just the same song with the same arrangements played along with some pauses with a heavy disrtorted les paul with a lot of reverb and delay........................
You need a lot of listenings to get into this work.............if you can stand those "lot of listenings"..........

I love Lanois, but this work is a very heavy snobism exercise for them and for the most sobism fans and reporters

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New Neil Young's work is just the same song with the same arrangements played along with some pauses with a heavy disrtorted les paul with a lot of reverb and delay........................
You need a lot of listenings to get into this work.............if you can stand those "lot of listenings"..........

I love Lanois, but this work is a very heavy snobism exercise for them and for the most sobism fans and reporters

I agree with you about Lanois. Musicians love to work with him, but his albums almost always sound like "Lanois albums" to me, rather than albums of the artists he is producing. I think Jagger would be the one in the way of them doing anything sparse or primitive. Even Stripped could have been much more adventurous, though there was some nice stuff on there.

Don't let Lanois anywhere near the Stones ....



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I like his work with Dylan and U2

What an utter<><><><><>!!!! Mick's voice is great on a Bigger Bang, in fact that album proofs Mick can sing!!! And it's a fanastic album where they experiment with the newer British pop sound (Biggest Mistake for example). I would love to hear a brand new album. Yes Keef is a problem but not Mick and not Ronnie or Darryll. A last brand new album and tour without Keef would be the best obtion.


Mick's voice is no longer the same for many years. It 's too clean and 'thin'. Maybe it's age, or maybe it's due to the vocal coach! His way of singing 'Following the river' is truly heartbreaking and it's hard to hear. Can we forget the masterpiece (!) called 'Goddess' or all those useless songs included in ABB (surplus of 'Goddess') as S.O.L.? I don't think ABB it's a fantastic album I find it rather dull and uninspired.

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We can't expect a masterpiece or another 'Exile'. Mick's voice is no longer what it used to, Keith riffs too. The last great album is 'Tatoo You' which has previously composed songs. The only hope is that they use some good songs from their archives (Some Girls sessions are one example).
Otherwise, i think we should be content with the result of ABB with other horrible Streets of Love

Yeah, that'd be a great idea. Dig out 35 year old songs and work on them. That'll convince everyone that theyre not all washed up, wont it?

The songs on Tattoo You that were old were for the most part 2-3 years old. The oldest was about 8 years old. Hardly a like for like comparison

As if A Bigger Bang didn't already tell us about their creative ability or rather lack of it.
KRiffhard is right. We can't expect a masterpiece or anything close if they release brand new material. A new Rolling Stones single of similar "quality" to Streets of Love - well,let's not even go there!

If digging up old material produced good results, I don't think it would matter how far back they went.

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Steel Wheels was pretty damn good.

Really? I think it's one of their worst right behind Dirty Work

When held up to comparison Steel Wheels is Exile/Beggars/Fingers/Bleed as Dirty Work is Their Satanic Majesties Request.

And when you take the comment that Steel Wheels was pretty damn good out of context, well, maybe, but when you have an album come out that actually has some songs on it compared to the previous (and mostly songless) album, there you go.

There is something funny about STEEL WHEELS being held up as Exhibit "A" that the Stones still "Got it" Steel Wheels is more than 20 years old. Nevertheless, I do think the Stones still 'got it.'