Available here for download in CD quality : [www.qobuz.com]

you may or may not know that shepherd fairy, the obama hope portrait guy,
is the one that did the superheavy logo and band portraits. there's
now a facebook app to turn your own photo into a shepherd fairy portrait
in superheavy style, and perhaps have yours chosen to be featured at
superheavy dot com. personally we don't do facebook, but in this case,
wish we did. maybe if one of you could do it and post the result...

[www.superheavy.com]

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The next step, hopefully, will be touring. "I don't know how likely it is but I
think it is possible," Stone said. "I think people should get online and
start making a petition."

its really easy to make a petition at [www.change.org] but then you
have to know how to facebook it and tweet it to all the right lists and
we haven't a clue. if there's a bright young dave or joss or damian or
allah racka fan who is visiting this thread for info, perhaps you could get
the ball rolling on this.

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nocomment
there's now a facebook app to turn your own photo into a shepherd fairy portrait
in superheavy style. maybe if one of you could do it and post the result...

[www.superheavy.com]

apparently you can only do it to pictures you've already uploaded
to your facebook page. so we grabbed a few that people have already
done to show you. of course, as naturalust has explained, these are
not real people, just bots. but attractive bots, no?

Mick Jagger: there won’t be an autobiography
Paul Sexton
September 19 2011 12:01AM

The 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones is not the time to be going over the past, the band’s frontman says
A year is a long time in rock’n’roll. It’s been almost 12 months since The Times serialised Keith Richards’s autobiography Life, in which he described Mick Jagger, his friend and collaborator of 50 years as “unbearable”, scorned his decision to accept a knighthood and suggested that the singer’s manhood was on the modest side of manly.
As the slanging match extended to their respective friends and family, one of the greatest creative partnerships in the history of British rock music was reduced to a jibe about the dimensions of Sir Mick’s allegedly “tiny todger”.
Jagger’s former wife Jerry Hall put Richards’ dig down to sheer jealousy. Richards himself, talking to me at that time at his house in Connecticut, explained that he was writing not about their current relationship but the famous breach of the 1980s, when Jagger chose to make a solo record rather than tour with the Stones. Richards told me of his pride in overcoming their differences, it made them a “real band”, he insisted, but the damage was done. Still, Jagger, the gentleman rock star, would not be drawn. Those close to him disclosed that he was deeply upset by the book, but he kept his counsel, refused an offer from this paper to put across his side of the story, and continued working.
Today, in one of the more modest suites in the Dorchester Hotel in central London, he breaks his silence. Looking healthy and relaxed in a sharp, pink jacket and crisp shirt, he talks enthusiastically about SuperHeavy, his new “supergroup”, but also dissects his relationship with “’im indoors”, the one who calls Jagger “Brenda,” among other rather less affectionate names. Keef.
Have the events of the past year made Jagger consider restarting his own autobiography, which he abandoned with claims it was “too boring”? “No,” he says decisively. “I don’t particularly want to rummage through my past, it’s bad enough rummaging through Some Girls,” he laughs. “I think it’s a damaging psychological exercise, to be honest.
“It’s very long and involved, and I’d rather be living more in the present. You can’t really do both at the same time. I mean, I enjoy some people’s memoirs, I enjoyed Dirk Bogarde’s. I thought they were rather wonderful, and done with such a light touch, and rather literary. And,” he adds pointedly, “obviously written by himself without a ghost writer.” Richards co-wrote Life with the writer James Fox.
He continues. “But the celebrity bio thing is not a genre that particularly takes my interest. Some people have a talent for literature. I’m attracted to literature rather than scuttlebutt.” For those still unclear about Jagger’s thoughts on Richards’ publishing opus, “scuttlebutt” is slang for rumor or gossip. Sailors would chat and gossip around the scuttlebutt, a cask of water, much as you might nowadays around a water cooler. Job done, he moves on.
“When you do fresh things like this, it’s a lot easier,” he says of the SuperHeavy project, clearly happy to have shaken off the shackles of fronting the most famous band in the world. “People, outsiders, might say ‘Oh, I wish he’d go and do this!’, which is more or less a repetition of what you’ve done before. But for the artist, it’s always good to do something fresh.”
Jagger had arrived back in the UK three days earlier from the house in the Loire Valley where he spends most of his time living quietly with his girlfriend, the American fashion designer L’Wren Scott. The day before our meeting, all four Stones had been photographed leaving a London office, giving rise to a new round of enthusiastic scuttlebutt about reunions and rapprochements.
Is there a glimmer of reconciliation between the Glimmer Twins? “Well, I really don’t see much of him,” says Jagger of Richards. “The rest of us are all here [in London] quite a lot, and although he comes here occasionally in the summer, I don’t think any of us see him much. He lives in suburban Connecticut.”
The summit was inconclusive: “We were talking about the 50th anniversary. There’s lots of things to do on the anniversary. My worry is there’s going to be too much stuff.”
Plans are afoot to mark the band’s first gig as the Rolling Stones, on July 12, 1962. Can we expect a tour, or gigs, at least? “Well, we’re talking about it, but I don’t know if it’s going to happen,” Jagger says. “Listen, you could do anything you want if you put your mind to it. I don’t know what’s going to happen next year. We’ll see.”
He’s had no financial need to work for decades, but the father of seven has an enduring work ethic and races from one deadline to the next with an energy that would exhaust even his youngest child — 12-year-old Lucas. But he knows that forming a new, and probably temporary, band of fellow millionaires is a soft target for critics.
SuperHeavy vocalist Joss Stone knows it too, as do co-producer Dave Stewart, Jamaican Grammy-winner Damian Marley and the Indian composer and musician, A. R. Rahman.
Miracle Worker, the first track to be aired, may invite accusations of cod-reggaeness, but it’s a catchy tune, and Jagger’s and Stone’s voices work well together on this and Energy. The latter also sports one of the skilled harmonica solos that Richards is always encouraging Jagger to do more of.
Jagger seems sanguine about the responses to it because it was fun.
“It could have gone either way,” says Jagger. “You might have come to the end of ten days and gone, ‘Well, really, we’ve got two things, this is going to take forever.’ But then we had so much, you realised after five days it was going to work, and it was very exciting.
“There is something to be said against the weight of history, I think,” he muses, assessing the inevitable comparisons between SuperHeavy and the band he’s been with for 49 years.
One can appreciate Jagger’s refusal to be defined by the Stones, especially, considering he hasn’t recorded a new album with them for six years.
Having interviewed Jagger a dozen times, the patterns emerge: when the Stones’ touring juggernaut parks up after two years or so of touring, he tends to launch into solo projects — largely derided by critics. But this time, the chance to be in a new band was too alluring to miss — and he had someone there to share the burden of being out front. “Dave said that was going to be the case. I didn’t really think about it but it was, even though the production stuff was a lot of work, and the people management thing. But the actual performing part of it wasn’t as much work as doing a Stones record. It just wasn’t as much singing. So it was a good project for me, in that way.
“I feel very comfortable being around her [Joss], and about being around Dave. Then with [the] other people, it’s not quite so easy, everyone’s got to have their space in the studio. There’s some parts of this record that are everyone all together and some parts that are more solo corners, if you want.”
Stone has said that she would love SuperHeavy to become a touring band. “I know, but she would,” says Jagger. “She does want to do it, but I don’t know if I see it like that. I kind of never thought we would do any gigs, I always thought it was a record.
“It would be difficult to do a tour like that, with an album that no one knows. How would you fill out the set? I wouldn’t be averse to doing a gig, I really wouldn’t, but a long tour . . .”
At 68, Jagger is as much a part of our collective consciousness as he’s ever been. I ask how he feels about being namechecked on not one but two recent No 1 songs, The X-Factor Cher Lloyd’s Swagger Jagger and Maroon 5’s US chart-topper, Moves Like Jagger, featuring Christina Aguilera.
“Oh yes! It’s kind of odd. Moves Like Jagger is seriously catchy. I can sing it for you if you want, but I’ll spare you that. I knew all about it, it wasn’t like a surprise to me. I know the band, I know Christina, I know the video director, and they kept sending me the video cuts with me in it. There was far too much of me in it in the first one, I was going ‘What about the rest of the band!’ So I cut out a bit of it.
“Then Maroon 5 asked me to come and do this show with them! What am I going to do? Sing it?” He laughs. “I don’t think I’m going to be there.”
Whatever next year brings, Jagger certainly appears to address the Stones’ past with more enthusiasm than their future. Last year’s deluxe reissue of Exile On Main St, for which he excavated various unfinished tracks and added new vocals for others, took the classic 1972 album back to No 1 here, and he’s just repeated the process for the November dusting-down of another cherished Stones album, 1978’s Some Girls.
“There’s 12 unreleased ‘bits’ from that year,” he says. “Some were finished and some I put little bits on, like guitar and harmonica. Most of the rest of the band had done [their parts, at the time], it’s just that my things were not finished, or they were little ideas I’d had while the track was being run.
“So I wrote lyrics to those and sung them in the spirit of ’78.” Even he laughs at the idea of mimicking his former self. “It’s easy, really. I’m very fortunate because my voice sounds almost exactly the same.”
Around the time of the Stones’ last studio record in 2005, A Bigger Bang, Jagger told me of his concerns that the album as a start-to-finish art form might be on the way out, a perceptive notion that has gained much more ground with the growth of the digital music market. So it’s all the more interesting to note his enthusiasm for the SuperHeavy album, especially as it’s unlikely to be supported by a tour. “That probably is still true. The golden period of the album probably went ages ago, it’s almost a memory,” he says. “But nevertheless, this SuperHeavy project is interesting as an album.”
So is the quest for fresh challenges making him less keen on the idea of new Stones recordings? “Yeah ... yes . . .” he starts, then, after a slight pause: “Though, I have been writing a lot for the Stones.” He catches my eye. Cats. Bags. “I mean, when I write, I go ‘Yeah, that could be a good Stones tune’ or ‘That’s not really going to work for that.’ I did some sessions with Charlie quite recently where I just played some songs I’d written, and of course I wrote more when he was there. I’d start making them up, so that was good fun, so we had a really good time doing that.”
Celebrity of an almost unequalled magnitude obscures the fact that Mick Jagger is, first and foremost, a musician, one who still wants to create things and have a good time doing so. “Once you’re in the control room going ‘Yeah!’ and having a drink at the end of the session, that’s when the cameraderie comes very quickly, when you get a result,” he says. “And it can dissolve very quickly when you don’t.”

SuperHeavy is released by Universal on September 19. The Some Girls album will be reissued in November
Keith on Mick
On girlfriend Anita Pallenberg’s infidelity with Jagger
It wasn’t the first time we’d been in competition for a bird. Who’s Tarzan round here? It was like two alphas fighting. Still is, quite honestly.
On Jagger’s solo album Goddess in the Doorway
It’s like Mein Kampf — everyone had it, but no one read it.
On Jagger’s reaction to Richards’s book
You know, I love the man. I’ve know him since I was four years old, right. But the bit he wanted taken out was how he used a voice coach.
On Jagger’s manhood
[Marianne Faithfull] had no fun with [Mick’s] tiny todger. I know he’s got an enormous pair of balls — but it doesn’t quite fill the gap.
On time passing
Sometimes I think: ‘I miss my friend.’ I wonder: ‘Where did he go?’

[www.thetimes.co.uk]

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Can we expect a tour, or gigs, at least? “Well, we’re talking about it, but I don’t know if it’s going to happen,” Jagger says. “Listen, you could do anything you want if you put your mind to it. I don’t know what’s going to happen next year. We’ll see.”

The door is not closed, but it's far from being wide open.

See, I love when Jagger the musician is mentioned.

Excerpted for readability and newsworthiness:

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proudmary
Mick Jagger: there won’t be an autobiography

Have the events of the past year made Jagger consider restarting his own
autobiography, which he abandoned with claims it was “too boring”? “No,” he
says decisively. “I don’t particularly want to rummage through my past, it’s bad
enough rummaging through Some Girls,” he laughs. “I think it’s a damaging
psychological exercise, to be honest.

“It’s very long and involved, and I’d rather be living more in the present. You
can’t really do both at the same time. I mean, I enjoy some people’s memoirs, I
enjoyed Dirk Bogarde’s. I thought they were rather wonderful, and done with such
a light touch, and rather literary. And,” he adds pointedly, “obviously written
by himself without a ghost writer.” Richards co-wrote Life with the writer James Fox.

He continues. “But the celebrity bio thing is not a genre that particularly
takes my interest. Some people have a talent for literature. I’m attracted to
literature rather than scuttlebutt.” For those still unclear about Jagger’s
thoughts on Richards’ publishing opus, “scuttlebutt” is slang for rumor or
gossip. Sailors would chat and gossip around the scuttlebutt, a cask of water,
much as you might nowadays around a water cooler. Job done, he moves on.

“When you do fresh things like this, it’s a lot easier,” he says of the
SuperHeavy project, clearly happy to have shaken off the shackles of fronting
the most famous band in the world. “People, outsiders, might say ‘Oh, I wish
he’d go and do this!’, which is more or less a repetition of what you’ve done
before. But for the artist, it’s always good to do something fresh.”

Is there a glimmer of reconciliation between the Glimmer Twins? “Well, I really
don’t see much of him,” says Jagger of Richards. “The rest of us are all here
[in London] quite a lot, and although he comes here occasionally in the summer,
I don’t think any of us see him much. He lives in suburban Connecticut.”

The summit was inconclusive: “We were talking about the 50th anniversary.
There’s lots of things to do on the anniversary. My worry is there’s going to be
too much stuff.”

Plans are afoot to mark the band’s first gig as the Rolling Stones, on July 12,
1962. Can we expect a tour, or gigs, at least? “Well, we’re talking about it,
but I don’t know if it’s going to happen,” Jagger says. “Listen, you could do
anything you want if you put your mind to it."

(About SuperHeavy) “It could have gone either way,” says Jagger. “You might have
come to the end of ten days and gone, ‘Well, really, we’ve got two things, this
is going to take forever.’ But then we had so much, you realised after five days
it was going to work, and it was very exciting.

“There is something to be said against the weight of history, I think,” he
muses, assessing the inevitable comparisons between SuperHeavy and the band he’s
been with for 49 years.

“I feel very comfortable being around her [Joss], and about being around Dave.
Then with [the] other people, it’s not quite so easy, everyone’s got to have
their space in the studio. There’s some parts of this record that are everyone
all together and some parts that are more solo corners, if you want.”

Stone has said that she would love SuperHeavy to become a touring band. “I know,
but she would,” says Jagger. “She does want to do it, but I don’t know if I see
it like that. I kind of never thought we would do any gigs, I always thought it
was a record.

“It would be difficult to do a tour like that, with an album that no one knows.
How would you fill out the set? I wouldn’t be averse to doing a gig, I really
wouldn’t, but a long tour . . .”

At 68, Jagger is as much a part of our collective consciousness as he’s ever been.

“Oh yes! It’s kind of odd. Moves Like Jagger is seriously catchy. I can sing it
for you if you want, but I’ll spare you that. I knew all about it, it wasn’t
like a surprise to me. I know the band, I know Christina, I know the video
director, and they kept sending me the video cuts with me in it. There was far
too much of me in it in the first one, I was going ‘What about the rest of the
band!’ So I cut out a bit of it.

“Then Maroon 5 asked me to come and do this show with them! What am I going to
do? Sing it?” He laughs. “I don’t think I’m going to be there.”

Last year’s deluxe reissue of Exile On Main St, for which he excavated various
unfinished tracks and added new vocals for others, took the classic 1972 album
back to No 1 here, and he’s just repeated the process for the November
dusting-down of another cherished Stones album, 1978’s Some Girls.

“There’s 12 unreleased ‘bits’ from that year,” he says. “Some were finished and
some I put little bits on, like guitar and harmonica. Most of the rest of the
band had done [their parts, at the time], it’s just that my things were not
finished, or they were little ideas I’d had while the track was being run.

“So I wrote lyrics to those and sung them in the spirit of ’78.” Even he laughs
at the idea of mimicking his former self. “It’s easy, really. I’m very fortunate
because my voice sounds almost exactly the same.”

Around the time of the Stones’ last studio record in 2005, A Bigger Bang, Jagger
told me of his concerns that the album as a start-to-finish art form might be
on the way out, a perceptive notion that has gained much more ground with the
growth of the digital music market. So it’s all the more interesting to note his
enthusiasm for the SuperHeavy album, especially as it’s unlikely to be supported
by a tour. “That probably is still true. The golden period of the album
probably went ages ago, it’s almost a memory,” he says. “But nevertheless, this
SuperHeavy project is interesting as an album.”

So is the quest for fresh challenges making him less keen on the idea of new
Stones recordings? “Yeah ... yes . . .” he starts, then, after a slight pause:

“Though, I have been writing a lot for the Stones. I mean, when I write, I go
‘Yeah, that could be a good Stones tune’ or ‘That’s not really going to work for
that.’ I did some sessions with Charlie quite recently where I just played some
songs I’d written, and of course I wrote more when he was there. I’d start
making them up, so that was good fun, so we had a really good time doing that.”

Celebrity of an almost unequalled magnitude obscures the fact that Mick Jagger
is, first and foremost, a musician, one who still wants to create things and
have a good time doing so. “Once you’re in the control room going ‘Yeah!’ and
having a drink at the end of the session, that’s when the cameraderie comes very
quickly, when you get a result,” he says. “And it can dissolve very quickly when
you don’t.”

<“Though, I have been writing a lot for the Stones. I mean, when I write, I go
‘Yeah, that could be a good Stones tune’ or ‘That’s not really going to work for
that.’ I did some sessions with Charlie quite recently where I just played some
songs I’d written, and of course I wrote more when he was there. I’d start
making them up, so that was good fun, so we had a really good time doing that.”>

That's interesting. Didn't know that...

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Stone has said that she would love SuperHeavy to become a touring band. “I know,
but she would,” says Jagger. “She does want to do it, but I don’t know if I see
it like that. I kind of never thought we would do any gigs, I always thought it
was a record.

“It would be difficult to do a tour like that, with an album that no one knows.
How would you fill out the set?

jai ho, welcome to jamrock, wanted-things aint just the same, here comes the
rain again, sweet dreams are made of this, lets work, god gave me everything,
you had me, tell me what we're gonna do now, tribes at war, dispear,
miss you reggae version, can't always get reggae version, start me up
reggae version etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

happy birthday, she'll be coming round the mountain, a celine dion tune,
hellhound on my trail, i really don't give a fcuk just get out there
and play ya bastards



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Listening to the album now. IMO, they should have released a single or an EP. This is getting boring...

Thanks for printing the Times article. Paul Sexton always does a nice job.

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Congrats SuperHeavy on the 2,000,000th youtube view of "Miracle Worker"!

Even before the album is released! Not bad.

one other MAYBE interesting thing is that the video itself was not
released until today! to tv and the cable networks.

so maybe this will give things a little goose.

our deluxe edition hasn't arrived yet. we're told the standard edition
does not have lyrics. does the deluxe? we'd really like to take a break
from deciphering...

SuperHeavy – SuperHeavy
By Phil Udell on Monday, 19 September 2011

“What the @#$%& is going on?” So hollers Joss Stone towards the end of SuperHeavy‘s debut album and well she might. Few would have ever predicted that Stone, Mick Jagger, Damian Marley and Dave Stewart would be in the same room at the same time, never mind forming a band. Yet here they are, talking up the project in a manner reminiscent of David ‘I’m just the singer in a band’ Bowie and the ill-fated Tin Machine but really, how can such a combination of egos, musical backgrounds, ages and rock standing work in practice? Besides, the public are hardly flocking to buy new Rolling Stones records so they’re hardly likely to get excited about a Jagger side project.

The two issues are connected but maybe not that important. It is unlikely that SuperHeavy is going to do brisk business (what is these days?), with the first single ‘Miracle Worker’ reaching the heady heights of number 196. Yet it’s doubtful that any of those involved did this for the money and what’s important is that this is a pretty good record, at times even a great one. Yes that’s right, you heard. The success stems from the hands that appear to be guiding the project, with Marley’s reggae and dancehall background leading the way. His is the dominant first voice you hear on the record, introducing the title track with a battle cry of “we are SuperHeavy” and leading from the front throughout. He’s in fine form, delivering a succession of bonkers one liners (“don’t be a silly milly” is a particular gem, as is “no taxi budget!) and generally running the show. He’s backed by the group’s unsung, and largely unmentioned, member A.R. Rahman, with the Indian composer and musician filling the sound, certainly more than the largely anonymous Stewart. Even Joss Stone comes out of it with some credit, a far cry from the fake soul diva of past times.

And then there’s Mick Jagger. His first appearance in the ‘Miracle Worker’ video sees him shimmy into focus, resplendent in a gaudy pink suit and generally giving it large as only Jagger can – a fairly ludicrous mix of pouting, preening and yelping vocals. It’s an approach that he maintains for the entire record and, bizarrely, it works. It’s been years since the Stones frontman has sounded so alive on record, so inspired and the shift in musical climate obviously agrees with him. The acoustic ‘Never Gonna Change’ is his high point, the one moment when the spectre of his day job looms into view but a reminder that few can deliver a ballad with such style and panache.

Edited down from 35 hours worth of material, it’s unsurprising that what lets SuperHeavy down is its sheer weight. Of the 12 tracks only a third come in at under four minutes and the whole thing starts to creak in the final third. ‘Rock Me Gently’ is the record’s nadir, a six minute number that suggests the time has come for the listener to say thank you very much and make their excuses, a shame because the track that follows (the perky ‘Can’t Take It’) is a gem. Perhaps we can forgive SuperHeavy their faults, though. After all, it would have been a brave record company executive that would have told them to stop, and there is enough here to make this apparent folly a very worthwhile enterprise.

[www.state.ie]

No SH tour obviously based on this:

Stone has said that she would love SuperHeavy to become a touring band. “I know, but she would,” says Jagger. “She does want to do it, but I don’t know if I see it like that. I kind of never thought we would do any gigs, I always thought it was a record.
“It would be difficult to do a tour like that, with an album that no one knows. How would you fill out the set? I wouldn’t be averse to doing a gig, I really wouldn’t, but a long tour . . .”

SuperHeavy continues to release subtle variations on their logo...

In this latest version, from eurhytmics uk, there are several improvements,
and one big error...

1. the stripes around the eyes have been refined to more clearly reference
the eye of horus. big thumbs up.

2. the patterns in the center of the forehead have been refined to eliminate
the idiotic suggestion of a little alien figure. another big thumbs up.

3. stripes have been added to the whisker area, which lively-ups this
previously dead area.

4. the tongue has been retracted or minimized. boo. big boo. it is so
obvious that the tongue needs to be maximized, without being too obvious about it.



5. and just to complete our critique, the lower jaw needs to be SLIGHTLY
more closed, so just a bit more of the bottom two lotus leaves show.



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The tongue has been retracted? From this one to the orange one the tongue changed?

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The tongue has been retracted? From this one to the orange one the tongue changed?

in the previous version of the orange one we have, the tongue is colored in
and extends to the bottom teeth. all our comparisons are to the previous
orange one, which we think we got from superheavy dot com, but are not sure...



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[artists.universal-music.de]



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Keep On Rolling

speaking of something that needs changing, proudmary or bv, we uh
don't want to be too uh obsessive or domineering or shilly but uh dontcha
think, now that we're into like uh the fifth month or something of
SuperHeavy that uh maybe uh its time to change the title of this thread
to reflect the actual name of the band?

even the superheavy-sucks people got it right jeez.

we're not saying we uh can't live with this shameful oversight. but it is
starting to bug us to the extent that we might forget to take our meds and start
posting incessantly in broken english. and nobody wants to see that,
we can assure you...

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thank u highwireC!

Hasn't anyone noted the comparison to the Lion of Judah cover for BRIDGES TO BABYLON?

As NoComment might say, "We are not amused."

A true collectors item...

SuperHeavy hits India today
India Blooms News Service
Mumbai, Sept 19 (IBNS)

The ‘Satyameva Jayate’ famed album hit stores across India on Monday.

The album is released in two formats– a Standard Version and a Deluxe
Edition, both of which will include A R Rahman’s second composition for the
band, a beautiful mid-tempo track called “Mahiya”.

It also features the first single ‘Miracle Worker’ and the second single
‘Satyameva Jayate’ which are already creating a huge buzz all over.

Devraj Sanyal, Managing Director, Universal Music Group, SAARC said, “Finally
the day has come when we release the mother of all bands “SuperHeavy”."

"After the release of the singles 'Miracle Worker' & 'Satyameva Jayate' the rest
of the album has some incredible songs that are a combination of influences from
the world over. A must have album & a brilliant piece of musical history in the
making. We are super confident that you will super love the new SuperHeavy album."

Enlightening article from the Hindustan Times today, especially
since it gives details about our most favoritest track "superheavy":

'We know some Hindi phrases because of AR Rahman'
Collin Rodrigues, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, September 19, 2011

Stewart throws more light on Rahman’s influence on the group, saying, “We all
know some Hindi phrases, now because of Rahman. He and I were actually supposed
to work on a movie called Paani, directed by Shekhar Kapoor, and that was when I
first met him. The idea came about eight years ago, and the film is still in
pre-production. So if any other opportunity to sing in a Bollywood movie comes
my way, I’ll definitely give it a thought,” reveals Dave.

The band’s debut album also features a song, Superheavy… which has an Indian
feel and rhythm to it. “SuperHeavy takes a whole turn and starts going into
orchestration that’s almost Indian. It’s unbelievable how Damian got a good
rhythm to the song. Mick sings Shakespearian lyrics in the chorus. I brought in
reggae and core changes in the chorus, and it goes right down to a kind of
Indian poetry.”

Adds Stewart, “In the song, I have played the acoustic guitar and Rahman has
added this heavy duty drum beat. It’s turned out to be a strange amalgamation of
sounds, like a rock track with Jamaican-Indian beats underneath."

The album also features a bonus track titled, Mahiya which is an affectionate
Hindi term. “Mahiya… was Rahman’s idea, and Joss has come up with brilliant
complex harmonies in the song,” he says. “In the album, we have taken an element
of what each member was doing, played with it and re-modelled it. The best part
is we formed a band despite the difficulties of arranging meetings. At one time,
I remember tricking everybody to get onto a boat.”



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-09-19 19:01 by nocomment.

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nocomment
speaking of something that needs changing, proudmary or bv, we uh
don't want to be too uh obsessive or domineering or shilly but uh dontcha
think, now that we're into like uh the fifth month or something of
SuperHeavy that uh maybe uh its time to change the title of this thread
to reflect the actual name of the band?

even the superheavy-sucks people got it right jeez.

we're not saying we uh can't live with this shameful oversight. but it is
starting to bug us to the extent that we might forget to take our meds and start
posting incessantly in broken english. and nobody wants to see that,
we can assure you...

I edited it, thanks for pointing it out.
But...maybe you can give the opportunity and space to post to other people too? you REALLY post too often. I appreciate your contribution, but it's not your personal blog, you know what I mean?

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nocomment
A must have album & a brilliant piece of musical history in the
making. We are super confident that you will super love the new SuperHeavy album."

I am super confident it is going to sell like hell in India. ARRahman has quite a reputation when it comes to selling records...

Meanwhile, SuperHeavy entered the midweek charts on nr 1 position in the Netherlands. iTunes is likely to follow coming Friday.

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