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ThatsWhatISay
I've been really tensed over the last few days since I'm looking so much forward to the new studio album. What makes me anxious is that I'm not sure if our boys know the importance of this album since almost 8 years of creative absence. What we will witness in 2005 might be the last Stones studio album and the last Stones tour. The new album is one of the last great chances to attract the younger people and make them get into Stones music and thus show them the way to musical enlightenment :-)
That really is the right answer, despite many not wanting to hear it. Even though some of those albums have good songs, on a whole they are completely unnecessary and forgotten. Sadly, everything after Tattoo You is that way. Either thats all they had in them and they've literally been coasting since then, or its just very coincidental that the albums went very downhill after Tatto You. People may have their personal favorites. Hey, I think A Bigger Bang is a great album! But its long, as all of their post Dirty Work albums are, and as much as I like it, its realistically not memorable in the sense of their career. They've been old for awhile, but they've always needed an album in order to tour and stay out there. At 70, they really don't need to. I think it requires way too much diligence to make another album, and this tour is evidence that they can have great things on their side and still screw it up. This tour was great, but it could have been so much better, and I agree with the post I quoted in saying I'm just sick of them putting out mediocre products.Quote
sonomastone
I remember feeling that way before undercover came out... Then dirty work... Then steel wheels... Then voodoo lounge...the whole deal including requesting the songs from the radio stations. If I or probably others sound cynical sometimes about them going back to the studio it's probably because we've been disappointed so many times.