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mtaylor
From the article:
This, frankly, is a little unfair. A devil’s advocate might contest that Richards’s inflexibility, and refusal to try different things, has held the Stones back in their comfort zone, and prevented them from moving with the times.
Exactly.
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proudmary
The Complaint: SuperHeavy Is Not the Rolling Stones
Of course it's not. But Mick Jagger's new "super group" begs the question: What ever happened to the biggest band in the world?
By Matt Sullivan
Out from under the Tiki-bar bullshit that is SuperHeavy's first single, "Miracle Worker" (listen at the 1:45:15 mark here), right after Damien Marley shouts Well that's your own opinion / You're entitled to it, emerges the growl that can wake up the world. It's Mick Jagger, of course, and he sounds about 67-going-on-35 — better than on his solo album a decade ago, maybe even better than why I saw him croon a medley of Damien's dad's stuff on the last Rolling Stones tour five years back. Which kind of makes you angry. Here we are, approaching the fiftieth anniversary of the Stones, and there is no anniversary tour in site, no summoning of energies for the kings of energy — just the band in exile, and Mick in something like a "super group," which, considering it includes Marley and a Eurythmic and the guy who wrote the music for Slumdog Millionaire, really isn't that super at all.
It says something when the head of the greatest group in the history of groups is struggling to assemble a super group.
Now you could blame everyone from Kurt Cobain and Sublime's Bradley Noel, who died and went to hell and left the door open for Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, to Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, who are to rock-and-roll bands what Bruce Lee was to a circle of ninjas in every direction. But would the biggest band in the world please stand up? Do the Kings of Leon have to suffice, really? Do the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with a record coming out next month that, without their drug-riddled guitar player, is bound to be as bland as the last? And so, we are stuck either with Coldplay or U2 or, (much) better still, with Radiohead — who would just as soon be the smallest band in the world, though they could do none of the things they do without, in fact, being the most influential. Unless, of course, Mick picks up the gang and wakes up the next great rock act — the Black Keys, or whomever — to be suddenly, and energetically, bigger than themselves, and thus anyone.
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hailtothestones
You can hear the single here. [www.bbc.co.uk]
Starts at 1:45:00
I enjoyed the teaser more than the song. Maybe it will grow on me.
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mtaylor
From the article:
This, frankly, is a little unfair. A devil’s advocate might contest that Richards’s inflexibility, and refusal to try different things, has held the Stones back in their comfort zone, and prevented them from moving with the times.
Exactly.
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James Kirk
surgeon of love?
Decent tune,but what's up with those lyrics?
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carlostones10
No no so bad how I thought.
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NickB
Frankly just some chart friendly overproduced claptrap with a reasonable hook trying to hard to be hip and cool. I'd be more impressed if Mick did something with Drive-By Truckers, a band who keep it real and would be a real poke in the eye for Keef.
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mtaylorBetter than the crap of Roberto Carlos.Quote
carlostones10
No no so bad how I thought.
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mtaylorBetter than the crap of Roberto Carlos.Quote
carlostones10
No no so bad how I thought.
hahahah... nothing is worst than Roberto Carlos.
The king is really the big crap.