Well, instead of waiting another ten years before taking another listen, I broke down the other day and decided to give it another chance, this time completely alcohol free, (I never listen to music without sipping on a little red wine, or beer) and lo and behold, it's pretty damn good after all! For some reason it goes down a lot better with water than it does with wine! Someone explain this one to me? I am mystified!

Try a bucket of coffee ...two Viagra and some mid-00 terrorist footage playing in the background ....



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Try a bucket of coffee ...two Viagra and some mid-00 terrorist footage playing in the background ....

Not sure I want to go any further with this, I might just start to preach NO 50th anniversary tour!

Who knew we just needed to add water? I'll have to try that. Nothing else has worked.

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Who knew we just needed to add water? I'll have to try that. Nothing else has worked.

Dehydration maybe?



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Who knew we just needed to add water? I'll have to try that. Nothing else has worked.

Dehydration maybe?

Explains the kidney stones...

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Who knew we just needed to add water? I'll have to try that. Nothing else has worked.

I chuckled. Well, I still like 5 songs. For me it's an ep. The other 11 songs did not happen.

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Who knew we just needed to add water? I'll have to try that. Nothing else has worked.

I chuckled. Well, I still like 5 songs. For me it's an ep. The other 11 songs did not happen.

When I add Under The Radar it gets even better. It really is pretty damn good, just took some gettin used to I guess.

That's because it would have been better w/Radar. Hell, I'd have rather had "Don't Wanna Go Home" there in place of half the tracks that made the final cut.

ABB is the only post-Wyman Stones album that I thought was actually good. I liked it from the get-go. I was surprised by the generally negative view of it on this board but to each his/her own. Particularly like Rough Justice and She Saw Me Coming. When reviewed in the Globe & Mail (Canada) the headline was Mick, You Can Sing and I found that to be the case. Sure there's filler and I can understand why people don't think much of Sweet Neo Con but it is the only song I know that is totally blunt about its disagreement with U.S./Iraq situation. Keith's This Place Is Empty is poignant. Never listened to it wasted once too.

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That's because it would have been better w/Radar. Hell, I'd have rather had "Don't Wanna Go Home" there in place of half the tracks that made the final cut.

Actually when I break it down song by song it really is a fine piece of work.



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If you had to choose between Dirty Work, Steel Wheels and A Bigger Bang as your only album on a desert island...which would it be?

better lyrics for Streets Of Love.

......... Wish Iggy and Stooges would cut a full-rev version....
........... The Ig grindin' on Awful would be a screeeeeeeeem...



ROCKMAN

I like ABB, but perhaps for a completely different reason than most.

I didn't get to hear the disc until I returned home and powered up the CD player on the first day I was allowed back into New Orleans after Katrina.
I opened up all the doors & windows of my flat, and blasted that disc at full volume for the entire neighborhood to hear.
Nobody complained, but there weren't many residents back yet. Just a few neighbors and a lot of military police.

Actually, I got a lot of cheers from the military and other people in the street.
Not much entertainment to be found in New Orleans during those days.

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ABB is the only post-Wyman Stones album that I thought was actually good. I liked it from the get-go. I was surprised by the generally negative view of it on this board but to each his/her own. Particularly like Rough Justice and She Saw Me Coming. When reviewed in the Globe & Mail (Canada) the headline was Mick, You Can Sing and I found that to be the case. Sure there's filler and I can understand why people don't think much of Sweet Neo Con but it is the only song I know that is totally blunt about its disagreement with U.S./Iraq situation. Keith's This Place Is Empty is poignant. Never listened to it wasted once too.

I actually liked it in the very beginning but soured on it, now it is growing on me. The reversal began when I listened to Rain Fall Down from Rio on my Biggest Bang DVD.

It's The Stones in 2005, not in the 60's or 70's.

Guess some people will never like it because of when it came out.

Works for me.

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I like ABB, but perhaps for a completely different reason than most.

I didn't get to hear the disc until I returned home and powered up the CD player on the first day I was allowed back into New Orleans after Katrina.
I opened up all the doors & windows of my flat, and blasted that disc at full volume for the entire neighborhood to hear.
Nobody complained, but there weren't many residents back yet. Just a few neighbors and a lot of military police.

Actually, I got a lot of cheers from the military and other people in the street.
Not much entertainment to be found in New Orleans during those days.

Rock n Roll

I like this. That's what music is for, goddammit.

I always liked ABB, and never disliked it. It doesn't have a permanent parking space the way the big 4 does, but there are times when it really is blasting and sounding great. I think the weak part for me is a hint of too much solo Mick and not enough true collaboration.

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If you had to choose between Dirty Work, Steel Wheels and A Bigger Bang as your only album on a desert island...which would it be?

Steel Wheels.

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If you had to choose between Dirty Work, Steel Wheels and A Bigger Bang as your only album on a desert island...which would it be?

ABB -- I didn't even have to pause to think about it.

BANG .......



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I like ABB, but perhaps for a completely different reason than most.

I didn't get to hear the disc until I returned home and powered up the CD player on the first day I was allowed back into New Orleans after Katrina.
I opened up all the doors & windows of my flat, and blasted that disc at full volume for the entire neighborhood to hear.
Nobody complained, but there weren't many residents back yet. Just a few neighbors and a lot of military police.

Actually, I got a lot of cheers from the military and other people in the street.
Not much entertainment to be found in New Orleans during those days.

Rock n Roll

Beautiful story. I can just about picture the events you describe.

The lovely bride and I have attended the last five Jazzfests (along with other visits to friends in Carrollton and Algiers) and stayed in the Quarter during Jazzfest. Can't wait to get back there in the fall!

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I Have Changed My Mind About A Bigger Bang Album!

Change it back.

I listen to it sober all the time and it still have 3 gems:

Streets of Love
Back of my hand
Biggest mistake

and that's musically....if I need words I'll go back to Charles Bukowsky...

2 1 2 0

It would have been so much better if Mick would actually let someone produce it! And if they would have steered clear of the digital tools, and went more analog. Not a terrible disc and as a whole probably better than Steel Wheels and Voodoo, but I prefer Bridges over ABB....

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It would have been so much better if Mick would actually let someone produce it! And if they would have steered clear of the digital tools, and went more analog. Not a terrible disc and as a whole probably better than Steel Wheels and Voodoo, but I prefer Bridges over ABB....

As far as Keith's account goes in LIFE, Jagger would have really mixed and probably even re-recorded the whole record in a 'real' studio but it was Keith and Don Was who said that it was okay as it was by then. So it is Keith and Don Was to blame, not Mick, for its unfinished, demo-like nature. (But this is Keith-talk.)

My impression is that the guys were so bored with the non-inspired tracks and with each oher already that they just wanted to get hell out of there... It is probably their less energy-consumed record since their early 60's albums but without the natural vitality they had then.

- Doxa

And to continue a bit... even if it is "Keith-talk" and even true I assume Jagger - who is the boss in these matters in the end - calculated something like: "hmm.. it's bloody boring stuff in the first place, so why to bother - it is not any big thing in any case but just an excuse to get to road anyway... Let Keith has his will through and pretend he made a decision..."

Strange this is that once upon time a go it was Keith Richards who would spend endless hours in the studio in making mixes, over-dubbings, little perfections here and there that would drive Jagger mad...

- Doxa

The Stones released a fine (100% NEW) album,
they toured the world, they did what the do, they did great...
and what do the fkn cluckers do?....... they fkn cluck, of course.

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The Stones released a fine (100% NEW) album,

hmm... I don't know if a pastishe, cliche-full, Stones-by-numbers kind of album can be really called "100% NEW". I hope they have had even few great variations of old themes - great songs - but no.

- Doxa