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I think the production on Biger Bang is much better than Undercover, Dirty Work, or Steel Wheels - Bridges To Babylon was interesting side step as far as production goes, - but on Bigger Bang they were back on right track and I think it´s the best one of the later day albums. Cheers.
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I do not want to convince those who do not like this album or latter day Stones. It really says more about them than about the Stones.
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I do not want to convince those who do not like this album or latter day Stones. It really says more about them than about the Stones.
i've been spending a good part of the week trying to learn about myself. i don't like ABB...would you kindly please tell me what it tells me about me. Thanks!
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I've been a big fan of the Stones' albums when they release a new album. But a few years later they don't seem to hold up as well as some of their other 'not great' LPs like IORR and BAB. I thought Bridges was quite a vital effort and to this day it still sounds fresh, even with some of the trend crap on it, which I don't listen to so much (Juiced and Gunface for sure plus the two A ballads). Voodoo was more of a classic rock smear with some strange choices considering what they left off/didn't finish. Bang was the sound of a band focusing on itself with up and down results. At first listen pre-LP release I thought we were getting a return of the intensity of Some Girls when I heard via some footage of them recording Oh No Not You Again. After a few listens it's pedestrian at best.
Of the last three I've probably listened to Babylon more simply because of the amount of time it's been out when compared to its "follow up". But I sure did play the shit out of Bang when it came out. I managed to not listen to a few songs due to the fact that I thought they were just awful bad (Rain, Streets, Neo Con). Bang has punch, Briges is almost like a encylopedia of genres and Voodoo, well, it's still better than Dirty Work and Steel Wheels. None are as good as Undercover though. That album simply smokes all of their albums afterwords.
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I do not want to convince those who do not like this album or latter day Stones. It really says more about them than about the Stones.
i've been spending a good part of the week trying to learn about myself. i don't like ABB...would you kindly please tell me what it tells me about me. Thanks!
There´s those who spend their whole life pointing at things they hate and dislike..and then there are those who spend their lives searching for more things to love and dance to.
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I've been a big fan of the Stones' albums when they release a new album. But a few years later they don't seem to hold up as well as some of their other 'not great' LPs like IORR and BAB. I thought Bridges was quite a vital effort and to this day it still sounds fresh, even with some of the trend crap on it, which I don't listen to so much (Juiced and Gunface for sure plus the two A ballads). Voodoo was more of a classic rock smear with some strange choices considering what they left off/didn't finish. Bang was the sound of a band focusing on itself with up and down results. At first listen pre-LP release I thought we were getting a return of the intensity of Some Girls when I heard via some footage of them recording Oh No Not You Again. After a few listens it's pedestrian at best.
Of the last three I've probably listened to Babylon more simply because of the amount of time it's been out when compared to its "follow up". But I sure did play the shit out of Bang when it came out. I managed to not listen to a few songs due to the fact that I thought they were just awful bad (Rain, Streets, Neo Con). Bang has punch, Briges is almost like a encylopedia of genres and Voodoo, well, it's still better than Dirty Work and Steel Wheels. None are as good as Undercover though. That album simply smokes all of their albums afterwords.
Are you kidding me ? - I just tried to listen to "It Must Be Hell" from Undercover - you call that mickey mouse drum sound smokin`? HAH !- It´s thin as a matchbox. No balls whatsoever, none - You cant get more eighties radiofriendly than that. I guess I should ask - what happened to YOU when Undercover was released, - got married, got kids, got laid, won the lottery ?
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Mick Jagger
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of other people.
- Mick Jagger
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. .
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I do not want to convince those who do not like this album or latter day Stones. It really says more about them than about the Stones.
i've been spending a good part of the week trying to learn about myself. i don't like ABB...would you kindly please tell me what it tells me about me. Thanks!
There´s those who spend their whole life pointing at things they hate and dislike..and then there are those who spend their lives searching for more things to love and dance to.
and when those of us who don't think we have found things to love and dance to in latter-day Stones albums, or have foud them in other artists instead, then we are all middle-aged bores who have lost the spirit of rock n roll.
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I've been a big fan of the Stones' albums when they release a new album. But a few years later they don't seem to hold up as well as some of their other 'not great' LPs like IORR and BAB. I thought Bridges was quite a vital effort and to this day it still sounds fresh, even with some of the trend crap on it, which I don't listen to so much (Juiced and Gunface for sure plus the two A ballads). Voodoo was more of a classic rock smear with some strange choices considering what they left off/didn't finish. Bang was the sound of a band focusing on itself with up and down results. At first listen pre-LP release I thought we were getting a return of the intensity of Some Girls when I heard via some footage of them recording Oh No Not You Again. After a few listens it's pedestrian at best.
Of the last three I've probably listened to Babylon more simply because of the amount of time it's been out when compared to its "follow up". But I sure did play the shit out of Bang when it came out. I managed to not listen to a few songs due to the fact that I thought they were just awful bad (Rain, Streets, Neo Con). Bang has punch, Briges is almost like a encylopedia of genres and Voodoo, well, it's still better than Dirty Work and Steel Wheels. None are as good as Undercover though. That album simply smokes all of their albums afterwords.
Are you kidding me ? - I just tried to listen to "It Must Be Hell" from Undercover - you call that mickey mouse drum sound smokin`? HAH !- It´s thin as a matchbox. No balls whatsoever, none - You cant get more eighties radiofriendly than that. I guess I should ask - what happened to YOU when Undercover was released, - got married, got kids, got laid, won the lottery ?
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Mick Jagger
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of other people.
- Mick Jagger
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. .
Mick Jagger
I have no problem believing Mick Jagger is as much in denial about his group's more recent work as some people here. Obviously he doesn't want to go around believeing that his songwriting has declined. I am sure in his mind "Streets Of Love" is as good as "Wild Horses".
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I've been a big fan of the Stones' albums when they release a new album. But a few years later they don't seem to hold up as well as some of their other 'not great' LPs like IORR and BAB. I thought Bridges was quite a vital effort and to this day it still sounds fresh, even with some of the trend crap on it, which I don't listen to so much (Juiced and Gunface for sure plus the two A ballads). Voodoo was more of a classic rock smear with some strange choices considering what they left off/didn't finish. Bang was the sound of a band focusing on itself with up and down results. At first listen pre-LP release I thought we were getting a return of the intensity of Some Girls when I heard via some footage of them recording Oh No Not You Again. After a few listens it's pedestrian at best.
Of the last three I've probably listened to Babylon more simply because of the amount of time it's been out when compared to its "follow up". But I sure did play the shit out of Bang when it came out. I managed to not listen to a few songs due to the fact that I thought they were just awful bad (Rain, Streets, Neo Con). Bang has punch, Briges is almost like a encylopedia of genres and Voodoo, well, it's still better than Dirty Work and Steel Wheels. None are as good as Undercover though. That album simply smokes all of their albums afterwords.
Are you kidding me ? - I just tried to listen to "It Must Be Hell" from Undercover - you call that mickey mouse drum sound smokin`? HAH !- It´s thin as a matchbox. No balls whatsoever, none - You cant get more eighties radiofriendly than that. I guess I should ask - what happened to YOU when Undercover was released, - got married, got kids, got laid, won the lottery ?
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Mick Jagger
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of other people.
- Mick Jagger
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. .
Mick Jagger
I have no problem believing Mick Jagger is as much in denial about his group's more recent work as some people here. Obviously he doesn't want to go around believeing that his songwriting has declined. I am sure in his mind "Streets Of Love" is as good as "Wild Horses".
I'd say Plundered My Soul is as good as Wild Horses - and according to Mick Taylor Jagger wrote it from scratch - and It Won't Take Long or Laugh I Nearly Died are as good as any great Stones song - and Do You Think I Really Care has one of his best perfomances for years - so Jagger doesn't need to be in denial about anything,quite the contrary: he can be very proud of himself and his band recent work.
I wonder why do you think that "some people here" understand less than you do or have the taste worse than yours?
I 've read your enthusiastic posts about the latest album of Tom Waits and it's realy weak in comparison with his previous albums. You even said how great is that absolutely horrifying song about the last two leaves.Compared to this song "Streets Of Love" is a masterpiece.
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I've been a big fan of the Stones' albums when they release a new album. But a few years later they don't seem to hold up as well as some of their other 'not great' LPs like IORR and BAB. I thought Bridges was quite a vital effort and to this day it still sounds fresh, even with some of the trend crap on it, which I don't listen to so much (Juiced and Gunface for sure plus the two A ballads). Voodoo was more of a classic rock smear with some strange choices considering what they left off/didn't finish. Bang was the sound of a band focusing on itself with up and down results. At first listen pre-LP release I thought we were getting a return of the intensity of Some Girls when I heard via some footage of them recording Oh No Not You Again. After a few listens it's pedestrian at best.
Of the last three I've probably listened to Babylon more simply because of the amount of time it's been out when compared to its "follow up". But I sure did play the shit out of Bang when it came out. I managed to not listen to a few songs due to the fact that I thought they were just awful bad (Rain, Streets, Neo Con). Bang has punch, Briges is almost like a encylopedia of genres and Voodoo, well, it's still better than Dirty Work and Steel Wheels. None are as good as Undercover though. That album simply smokes all of their albums afterwords.
Are you kidding me ? - I just tried to listen to "It Must Be Hell" from Undercover - you call that mickey mouse drum sound smokin`? HAH !- It´s thin as a matchbox. No balls whatsoever, none - You cant get more eighties radiofriendly than that. I guess I should ask - what happened to YOU when Undercover was released, - got married, got kids, got laid, won the lottery ?
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Mick Jagger
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of other people.
- Mick Jagger
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. .
Mick Jagger
I have no problem believing Mick Jagger is as much in denial about his group's more recent work as some people here. Obviously he doesn't want to go around believeing that his songwriting has declined. I am sure in his mind "Streets Of Love" is as good as "Wild Horses".
I'd say Plundered My Soul is as good as Wild Horses - and according to Mick Taylor Jagger wrote it from scratch - and It Won't Take Long or Laugh I Nearly Died are as good as any great Stones song - and Do You Think I Really Care has one of his best perfomances for years - so Jagger doesn't need to be in denial about anything,quite the contrary: he can be very proud of himself and his band recent work.
I wonder why do you think that "some people here" understand less than you do or have the taste worse than yours?
I 've read your enthusiastic posts about the latest album of Tom Waits and it's realy weak in comparison with his previous albums. You even said how great is that absolutely horrifying song about the last two leaves.Compared to this song "Streets Of Love" is a masterpiece.
With due respect PM, PMS was written 40 + years ago. I agree with you though, and if it had been released 40 years ago, instead of now it would probably be held in much higher regard. Although I do like the songs you've pointed out as well, I think the stones generally haven't done themselves particularly proud in the post-Undercover period.
For instance, can there be 4 weaker tracks the 4 'new cuts' alongside the 36 classics in 40 Licks. That was a joke.
Bridges to Babylon had a couple of good songs, but not really more. Voodoo Lounge was bloated, Steel Wheels overproduced (but ok), Dirty Work was ridiculous.
ABB should have been cut to 10 or 11 songs...that is definitely the best of the bunch though IMHO. Better than ABB, has been Superheavy (I'm ducking the tomatoes already), Exile Deluxe and the startling Some Girls Deluxe songs.
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The set list
Start Me Up
Let's Spend The Night Together
Rough Justice
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Let It Bleed
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Midnight Rambler
I'll Go Crazy
Tumbling Dice
--- Introductions
You Got The Silver (Keith)
I Wanna Hold You (Keith)
Miss You (to B-stage)
It's Only Rock'n Roll (B-stage)
Satisfaction (B-stage)
Honky Tonk Women (to main stage)
Sympathy For The Devil
Paint It Black
Jumping Jack Flash
Brown Sugar (encore)
This is the setlist from Ullevi, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden 2007. A typical setlist from the tour. From a total of 19 songs 3 songs are post Tattoo You (1981). What does that tell us?
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I do not want to convince those who do not like this album or latter day Stones. It really says more about them than about the Stones.
i've been spending a good part of the week trying to learn about myself. i don't like ABB...would you kindly please tell me what it tells me about me. Thanks!
There´s those who spend their whole life pointing at things they hate and dislike..and then there are those who spend their lives searching for more things to love and dance to.
and when those of us who don't think we have found things to love and dance to in latter-day Stones albums, or have foud them in other artists instead, then we are all middle-aged bores who have lost the spirit of rock n roll.
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I do not want to convince those who do not like this album or latter day Stones. It really says more about them than about the Stones.
i've been spending a good part of the week trying to learn about myself. i don't like ABB...would you kindly please tell me what it tells me about me. Thanks!
There´s those who spend their whole life pointing at things they hate and dislike..and then there are those who spend their lives searching for more things to love and dance to.
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To answer my own question: Maybe it tells us that the Stones themselves doesn't value their work from the last three decades that high?
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I'm not quite sure I follow you there, Tod. I'm doing my best with empirics. But I guess such things doesn't count here...
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I do not want to convince those who do not like this album or latter day Stones. It really says more about them than about the Stones.
i've been spending a good part of the week trying to learn about myself. i don't like ABB...would you kindly please tell me what it tells me about me. Thanks!
There´s those who spend their whole life pointing at things they hate and dislike..and then there are those who spend their lives searching for more things to love and dance to.
and when those of us who don't think we have found things to love and dance to in latter-day Stones albums, or have foud them in other artists instead, then we are all middle-aged bores who have lost the spirit of rock n roll.
i think you're getting the hang of this
Ageist crap Let the youth decide.Speak up youth.
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i only call names at people who call names
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I've been a big fan of the Stones' albums when they release a new album. But a few years later they don't seem to hold up as well as some of their other 'not great' LPs like IORR and BAB. I thought Bridges was quite a vital effort and to this day it still sounds fresh, even with some of the trend crap on it, which I don't listen to so much (Juiced and Gunface for sure plus the two A ballads). Voodoo was more of a classic rock smear with some strange choices considering what they left off/didn't finish. Bang was the sound of a band focusing on itself with up and down results. At first listen pre-LP release I thought we were getting a return of the intensity of Some Girls when I heard via some footage of them recording Oh No Not You Again. After a few listens it's pedestrian at best.
Of the last three I've probably listened to Babylon more simply because of the amount of time it's been out when compared to its "follow up". But I sure did play the shit out of Bang when it came out. I managed to not listen to a few songs due to the fact that I thought they were just awful bad (Rain, Streets, Neo Con). Bang has punch, Briges is almost like a encylopedia of genres and Voodoo, well, it's still better than Dirty Work and Steel Wheels. None are as good as Undercover though. That album simply smokes all of their albums afterwords.
Are you kidding me ? - I just tried to listen to "It Must Be Hell" from Undercover - you call that mickey mouse drum sound smokin`? HAH !- It´s thin as a matchbox. No balls whatsoever, none - You cant get more eighties radiofriendly than that. I guess I should ask - what happened to YOU when Undercover was released, - got married, got kids, got laid, won the lottery ?
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Mick Jagger
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of other people.
- Mick Jagger
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. .
Mick Jagger
I have no problem believing Mick Jagger is as much in denial about his group's more recent work as some people here. Obviously he doesn't want to go around believeing that his songwriting has declined. I am sure in his mind "Streets Of Love" is as good as "Wild Horses".
I'd say Plundered My Soul is as good as Wild Horses - and according to Mick Taylor Jagger wrote it from scratch - and It Won't Take Long or Laugh I Nearly Died are as good as any great Stones song - and Do You Think I Really Care has one of his best perfomances for years - so Jagger doesn't need to be in denial about anything,quite the contrary: he can be very proud of himself and his band recent work.
I wonder why do you think that "some people here" understand less than you do or have the taste worse than yours?
I 've read your enthusiastic posts about the latest album of Tom Waits and it's realy weak in comparison with his previous albums. You even said how great is that absolutely horrifying song about the last two leaves.Compared to this song "Streets Of Love" is a masterpiece.
With due respect PM, PMS was written 40 + years ago. I agree with you though, and if it had been released 40 years ago, instead of now it would probably be held in much higher regard. Although I do like the songs you've pointed out as well, I think the stones generally haven't done themselves particularly proud in the post-Undercover period.
For instance, can there be 4 weaker tracks the 4 'new cuts' alongside the 36 classics in 40 Licks. That was a joke.
Bridges to Babylon had a couple of good songs, but not really more. Voodoo Lounge was bloated, Steel Wheels overproduced (but ok), Dirty Work was ridiculous.
ABB should have been cut to 10 or 11 songs...that is definitely the best of the bunch though IMHO. Better than ABB, has been Superheavy (I'm ducking the tomatoes already), Exile Deluxe and the startling Some Girls Deluxe songs.
Mick Taylor
“I saw Mick (Jagger) a couple of years ago when I did overdubs for a previously unreleased track on the remastered version of Exile On Main Street.
“It felt so comfortable. I just did it in a hour. It was just a backing track with no vocal until he wrote a song around a chord sequence and I added some guitar.”
[www.perthshireadvertiser.co.uk]
as for ABB - it doesn't matter how many so-so songs are there: 3 or 5. The fact that at least 10 strong songs are still there and 3-4 of them outstanding and not in nostalgic way - these songs are modern and vibrant.
I can not see the point in comparing their work in youth and now. No one compares the "Resurrection" of Leo Tolstoy with his first book. They are two different people who wrote them and the readers know it. It seems the fans of pop music are a little bit dull or infantile
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Words is words. You can pile on a heap of 'em, but they won't make ABB a great album. The Stones have not made a decent album since Bill left, and even the couple before that were pretty spotty.
Bridges produced three of the greatest Stones songs ever.
If you say so. I still think it sounds like an album made by a commitee, not a band.
Notice the three listed songs? Me either.
What the hell? How many friggen times do I have to list them? For the last time: Out Of Control, Saint Of Me, and "Thief"! You shouldn't have to be told! Three of the greatest songs ever! By those "in the know" that is.
Are you SURE it's The Last Time?
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Someone please point out the "Chuck Berry boogie" on A Bigger Bang.
Unless I missed it I didn't notice any excuse for Streets Of Love.
The ladies loved Streets Of Love.
Did you read what that is in context to? Doesn't look like it. Obviously.
How many different ways can you take shots at Streets Of Love? We get it.
It's about the articles in the original post, ding dong.
It's called karma. What goes around, comes around.
Once again, out of context and not relevant to the subject. You do have your way of doing that. It's admirable but not imitatible.
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Someone please point out the "Chuck Berry boogie" on A Bigger Bang.
Unless I missed it I didn't notice any excuse for Streets Of Love.
The ladies loved Streets Of Love.
Did you read what that is in context to? Doesn't look like it. Obviously.
How many different ways can you take shots at Streets Of Love? We get it.
It's about the articles in the original post, ding dong.
It's called karma. What goes around, comes around.
Once again, out of context and not relevant to the subject. You do have your way of doing that. It's admirable but not imitatible.
YOU are the master at ripping words from their context and putting your own spin to them. But that's OK. Just giving you a little taste of your own medicine.