Well, Substantial Damage and Amnesia together make Trouble sound (almost) like a song.
It seems the well is dry.

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Midnight Rambler, the middle part where where Mick sings "Don't do that".

yeah, ok. and ...Can't You Hear Me Knocking

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The jams (Cross Eyed Heart, Amnesia and Substantial Damage) are very strategically placed on the album.

That's interesting ... but who listens to albums as "albums" anymore? It's about songs, no? Individual tracks? I guess, though, that Keith at this stage is not trying to hook new listeners; he's more about selling to people who've already been sold on his solo career. And maybe those people still, by and large, still sit down and listen to entire albums in a particular order.

This is an old school album, and deserves to be listened to as one, imo. It's a nice journey - at least for me

Fair enough. Glad you dig the record, Dandie!

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The jams (Cross Eyed Heart, Amnesia and Substantial Damage) are very strategically placed on the album.

Of course you can talk about the ballads the running order of the record, etc. and I agree they will effect the overall listening experience. After a couple Keith ballads, I too would likely be craving something like this to mix it up. lol But you seem to come across as apologetic somewhat when you bring the ballads and running order into the conversation. We are after all talking about this tune as a stand alone piece, just as it was released, alone and naked without any beautifully constructed melodic ballads to soften the blow.

Perhaps it loses important context when evaluated that way and I tend to believe this is what you are hinting at and I'd likely agree with you. Keith probably still thinks in terms of records as one long interconnected musical statement, spends a lot time considering the running order and way the songs transition into each other, however much that has become an old school concept in today's download and streaming world.

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The jams (Cross Eyed Heart, Amnesia and Substantial Damage) are very strategically placed on the album.

That's interesting ... but who listens to albums as "albums" anymore? It's about songs, no? Individual tracks? I guess, though, that Keith at this stage is not trying to hook new listeners; he's more about selling to people who've already been sold on his solo career. And maybe those people still, by and large, still sit down and listen to entire albums in a particular order.

Count me in as one of those people who like to listen to an album from start to finish - it's like reading a book chapter by chapter rather than skipping around page to page.
You get a better picture of the entire story, rather than just a few 'highlights' out of context. I still detest the fast forward button on cassette players. lol
Whenever a new Dylan album comes out (or something I've been looking forward to), I make a point to drive up the coast highway to soak it all in from start to finish.
Granted, alot of artists these days could care less about the concept of an entire album as a whole, but that's part of what makes albums weak these days imo.

I haven't listened to any boots and/or snippets intentionally in order to get a full appreciation of the album in it's entirety, but so far these slow-released teasers are too tempting to resist. ><
When I finally get my hands on the official release, you can trust I will make that coast highway drive, and then have a late night listening party at my studio with the entire album on repeat.
As for what I've heard so far, I'd say the songs are 3 for 3 in the positive, and I look forward to next weeks gem - that is if they remember to put up a plaque...

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

so the song is based on the break down riff between If You can't rock me and Get offa my Cloud.


these tracks are like some sort of DUb rocker tracks rather than "proper" releases if I can put it that way....All Lee Perry-ed out or something.

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so the song is based on the break down riff between If You can't rock me and Get offa my Cloud.

Yeah, that's it!

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these tracks are like some sort of DUb rocker tracks rather than "proper" releases if I can put it that way....All Lee Perry-ed out or something.

Hmmm...perhaps this tune can be defined that way, but I don't hear that with the other two (Trouble & Amesia) which seem to be proper/cohesive tunes in the traditional r&r sense.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

I like it. Actually I have really enjoyed the 3 tracks released thus far. Is that Waddy on slide ? I almost think it's all keith

I love it. It's different. Go Keef!

Keith is all about feel, this track is very cool and this is his funk blues offering. It Means A Lot meets Big Enough meets Monkey Man a la RL Burnside!!! How can you not dig this track? Does it matter how it should begin or where it should begin? They just rip right into it. Listening with headphones is pure joy. There's a variety of traditional going on this album, quite the potpourri.

If Keith and Mick can blend their respective talents the next Stones album could be lots of fun.

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these tracks are like some sort of DUb rocker tracks rather than "proper" releases if I can put it that way....All Lee Perry-ed out or something.

I love your description!!

"I must be a masochist or something. I bring out the sadist in you"....lol

[thechronicleherald.ca]

I guess Keith will at least head to Toronto for his new documentary premiere.

It reminds me of Slave.

Hi friends
I haven't heard it.
Is there any chance to get it?

mbozzi77@yahoo.com.ar

Thank you in advance

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The jams (Cross Eyed Heart, Amnesia and Substantial Damage) are very strategically placed on the album.

Of course you can talk about the ballads the running order of the record, etc. and I agree they will effect the overall listening experience. After a couple Keith ballads, I too would likely be craving something like this to mix it up. lol But you seem to come across as apologetic somewhat when you bring the ballads and running order into the conversation. We are after all talking about this tune as a stand alone piece, just as it was released, alone and naked without any beautifully constructed melodic ballads to soften the blow.

Perhaps it loses important context when evaluated that way and I tend to believe this is what you are hinting at and I'd likely agree with you. Keith probably still thinks in terms of records as one long interconnected musical statement, spends a lot time considering the running order and way the songs transition into each other, however much that has become an old school concept in today's download and streaming world.

I am glad you agree

I am wondering this release strategy. Surely it is exciting that one is able to concentrate a song by song to to the album, but listening to many of the comments here I think it seems to cause people making judgments, which I think do not justice for the album.

First of all, I'm with DandelionPowderman that this is an 'old school album' that needs to be listen by one token. Then the music and individual tracks make sense. This is also to say that there aren't really that distinctive tracks which could stand by their own.

Secondly, these released tracks so far give a rather wrong signal of the nature of the album. Now it sounds like it 'just another Keith Richards solo album'. Probably those who love MAIN OFFENDER find that very pleasing. He sounds like continuing from where he left us there, with those endless, groovy-based riff song sketches. But he is not. CROSSEYED HEART is a mature man's album, very relaxed, even contemplative in pieces, rather heavy on ballads, and offers surprisingly much melodical side, including some musical surprises even. The 'riff-master' is more like a crooner meets a blues trobadour, who is not any longer a Rolling Stone, but an artist of his own, not far from recent other matured up, wise old men like Waits, Dylan, Cohen, Young..

Was it that they thought, like with the Stones, that 'give them what we think they want, because that's what they have liked before'? So people want be with their initial reactions so disappointed that there is not much of an old Keef the riffmaster, Rolling Stones rocker left actually in the album? I don't know, but to me this whole PR campaigne (that what it is, right?), releasing the album track by track, sounds very odd. They made an old school album, and now they try to 'sell' it by modern means (releasing individual tracks, interaction, a heavy use of net, etc.) which seems to kill the original concept. You can't have your cake and eat it too?

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Is Keith playing bass on Substantial Damage?

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Mission accomplished!

And for that we thank you

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Raucous, funky, jammin' brilliance - what's not to like?
Crank up the bass, loosen up, get in the groove, and turn it up!

Great song...you're right Hairball!

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Hi friends
I haven't heard it.
Is there any chance to get it?

Just go to [www.keithrichards.com]

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"CROSSEYED HEART is a mature man's album, very relaxed, even contemplative in pieces, rather heavy on ballads, and offers surprisingly much melodical side, including some musical surprises even. The 'riff-master' is more like a crooner meets a blues trobadour, who is not any longer a Rolling Stone, but an artist of his own, not far from recent other matured up, wise old men like Waits, Dylan, Cohen, Young.."

I completely agree Doxa.

Bobby is on Substantial Damage as well. I didn't spot him on the bootleg. Cool!

The riff is exactly the instrumental part before the solo on If You Can´t Rock Me.

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Mission accomplished!

And for that we thank you

Many thanks Mattleeuk!

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You can certainly tell Jordan was involved it the production, those drums are loud in the mix man!

It comes out of the gate at full speed, where ya gonna go from there? A very cool groove and I like it...but with the slide guitar the only real build in the tune it leaves me a bit hungry for more song structure.

Yeah it's fun, it's a funky jam, but a lazy attempt at songwriting. I can imagine this one if he would have started quieter and built it up to what it became, had a breakdown in there somewhere, more suspense and release...could have had everyone on board. As it is I like it, but my expectation of more of a song leave me slightly disappointed overall.

It sounds as if a longer jam has been trimmed at the beginning to give that explosive start. I was listening on headphones, and it really made me jump and reach hastily for the volume switch.

It's a bit of an animal, this one, and yes, it could be tidied up and made into a more structured song, but I think it would lose its vitality as a piece of music, and I like it in its untamed state. I love the way that wordless voices are part of the musical mix, as well as the spoken lyrics.

Naturalust and others are right - it isn't a song. But I don't think it has to be.

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Great groove. But what does the intro riff remind me of? Midnight Rambler?

IYCRM, minus one strum

That's what I hear too - the guitar "call & response" bit of If You Can't Rock Me

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The riff is exactly the instrumental part before the solo on If You Can´t Rock Me.

One note is different (the seventh one)

Matt Lee:How does it feel to release Substantial Damage on the entire world! Let us know the prize you have won!



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