Hi;
Now or later, if this would be a project for the Stones,
which songs would you find themost favourable or necessary to reform?

Fill in with ideas! New arrangements, change instruments... Whatever! ?

I would like to see - or sooner hear - Sister Morphine with Ronnie on vocals, GS with Keefster. JJF would be interesting to hear today. As has been insinuated here in some threads, Midnight Rambler could use a remaking. Time Is On Our Side would be interesting to hear now. Salt Of The Earth might be fine. And maybe Mickster could blow new life in Love In Vain. Ruby Tuesday... Maybe?
I can´t think of any more song in this very moment; but I´m pretty sure I´ll return to this thread.
A few examples of songs that not ought to be touched is: Monkey Man (should sound silly), Shine A Light (hardly a random thing its rarely covered) 'vause it cant be made better and a neverending row of songs...

...Wonder if the lads ever read this; might get some ideas... !

Hey;

After nearly an hour... Mid-day in Europe.
Was it such a bad idea... ?
Now:

What songs do you want to see on a fresh studio album with Stones playing their hits?

I think it would be great, but as you said only on certain songs - like "Out of Time".

Aint that something old acts do when there skint....little richard, the big O, gene vincent etc. etc. Not really a stones thing and hey...whats the bloomin point!

Only songs that have 'time' on their title:

"Time Is On My Side"
"Good Times, Bad Times"
"The Last Time"
"Out of Time"
"Time Waits For No None"

Seriously, I hope they never ever fell into that sort of idea. Isn't that enough that they milking their past in their live shows, and that the results are quite exhaustively presented in their official products?

- Doxa

i think r.t., m.m. and love in vain are great the way they are... but...

they should redo.
1. silver train
2. luxury (great song)
3. out of time, replace with the metamorphis version.
4. indian girl, jagger sounds soooooo bad
5. down in the hole, jagger misses the mark. he sounds bad
6. hang fire, change words to high 5.... better meaning..WHAT THE HELL DOES HANG FIRE MEAN, ANYWAY..?
7. LOWDOWN, TURN DOWN JAGGERS VOCALS, little less jagger and more guitar(great song)
8. sweethearts together, jaggers wines too much
9. blinded by rainbows. try to hard to be soulful..
10, keith last song. losing my touch

Re-record songs only done recently...yeag right! Any
Suggestions for album title...Time aint on our side???

They sort of did this with Stripped. But it would have been cool if they included songs like Time Is On My Side or Mother's Little Helper. Many of their 60's songs seem almost forgotten.

Hound Dog, I agree with you that if they HAVE to cover themselves, it should be some awkward song from the 60's, like "That Girl Belongs To Yesterday", or why not "Tell Me" for very nostagic reasons.

But come on, just figure out they doing "Mother's Little Helper" now - it can only work as a joke! Sort of The Osbournes-stuff: making cheap fun of your past and legacy. "Listen how stupid and naive we once were..."

- Doxa

I think they should re-record their two worst ever albums - Dirty Work and Undercover (as I emntioned in a previous thread).

This is because both albums suffer from being stuck in the 80s, despite potentially good songs on both.

Undercovers better than B2B surely!!!

No, I personnaly like B2B. However, much of that album will date due to getting latest fad producers and computer technology involved.

But FTS, OOC, HCIS, TITN, SOM are all great. I even like Gunface (and seem to be in a minority on this).

But that's another thread...

I also like Gunface, don't see what's not to like about it.

I dunno. Usually when bands go this route
it's game over. Then the later recordings
get mixed up with the originals, and for
posterity's sake it's confusing to many
which is which, the latter often lacking
the original magic, future generations
wonder what the fuss was.

Of course if they want to try it live,
for fun, why not?

They should re-record the entire Bridges To Babylon album...no wait a minute...

They should trash the whole thing, then RE-WRITE all of the songs...and then re-record them...maybe two or three times at least to make sure there is something worthy enough to be re-released.

Ok, maybe not so good idea after all.
But an "EP"... ?
Like davido said; its often Game Over in this business.
...Still: With the right songs, not to many.
Hairballs word on rewriting first is thinkable.
Same with Rortys on "Time"-songs.
...Makin crap albums another time seems less productive.
Anyway, it was mostly for amusement I started this;
but as I said (and someone after me continued and took this reasoning on to live situations) - they might pick up an idea (??) and do it live, at least.
...Finally; If its not a Game Over-type group and period, I still believe that putting new strength and life in some good songs might, said might, be an interesting thing. Stones may be the only ones to cope with such...

NEVER. It would be the end. They did it on Stripped partly and that´s enough for ever.

Get the point, TT.
But you sould picture a project like that could work like an injection of punkish rawness, power, rock'n'roll & strength... ? ... ? A new producer, new invironment... Work like them old coke lines on Preston´s organ...

I'd like to hear new Reggae versions of all their old hits.

Time Is On My Side or Paint It Black with a reggae beat...?

Well, maybe not.

Maybe done in the style of a waltz or perhaps with a Samba beat?
That may be more realistic.

They should Never!! Never!! Never!! do that

I´m curious about how many times the word "never" can be seen in a thread... But ok; I´ll soon stop. - I´m often into Hairball´s ideas (same ancestry... ?). Still it would be a nice, cool thing to hear Start Me Up - which, as everybody here already knows - was born as a reggae type song... Fully developed in genuine back-beat... On an album that otherwise screams and stink of rock 'n' roll: This album?