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there is no dust to settle. the songs are very beautiful. it has nothing to do with the stones. that's a separate entity. apples and oranges. I don't know why people feel threatened by a songwriter making his own album. I guess a lot of people depend on the stones for their living and they are threatened by anything that might conceivably take away from that. that's the ball and chain for real. luckily apparently keith doesn't see the stones as a ball and chain but I wouldn't want to be in his shoes imprisoned by a very limiting genre.
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HMS
Solo-albums shouldnt be compared to Stones-albums anyway. When the dust once has settled it will be clear for anybody to see that Crosseyed Heart is a good solid album, nothing more, nothing less. You might say it is much better than expected but you cant say it is a masterpiece that stands alongside with the Stones´ best albums (LIB, BB, SF, Undercover, DW..).
More or less Keith stuck to his old formula adding nothing new and that is exactly what the Stones will do if they should indeed record a new album.
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matxil
Of course Keith's albums can be compared with Stones' albums. With who else should I compare him? Lady Gaga? Mick Jagger? Be serious.
And I still have no idea why it's such a crime to draw certain similarities between EOMS and CH.
They both have at least one musicion in common. They both are well played. They both are full of winks to blues, country, soul. Neither has any outstanding commercial hits, but they are full of very good songs. You can listen to both without having to skip filler or worse. They both have a lot of black and white on their cover sleeves, they are both made after the second world war.
When you compare two things, you are not saying they are the same. When I compare tea with coffee, I am not saying they are the same thing.
But for some weird reason, the idea has risen that when you compare EOMS with CH, then automatically you think CH is the best thing ever happened this side of the French revolution, hate everything Jagger does and eat Sheppards Pie every day. Twice.
Personally, if anybody would feel the need to compare Wandering Spirit to EOMS I would wish him all the luck in the world. They have at least the same singer.
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HMS
Solo-albums shouldnt be compared to Stones-albums anyway. When the dust once has settled it will be clear for anybody to see that Crosseyed Heart is a good solid album, nothing more, nothing less. You might say it is much better than expected but you cant say it is a masterpiece that stands alongside with the Stones´ best albums (LIB, BB, SF, Undercover, DW..).
More or less Keith stuck to his old formula adding nothing new and that is exactly what the Stones will do if they should indeed record a new album.
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matxil
Of course Keith's albums can be compared with Stones' albums. With who else should I compare him? Lady Gaga? Mick Jagger? Be serious.
And I still have no idea why it's such a crime to draw certain similarities between EOMS and CH.
They both have at least one musicion in common. They both are well played. They both are full of winks to blues, country, soul. Neither has any outstanding commercial hits, but they are full of very good songs. You can listen to both without having to skip filler or worse. They both have a lot of black and white on their cover sleeves, they are both made after the second world war.
When you compare two things, you are not saying they are the same. When I compare tea with coffee, I am not saying they are the same thing.
But for some weird reason, the idea has risen that when you compare EOMS with CH, then automatically you think CH is the best thing ever happened this side of the French revolution, hate everything Jagger does and eat Sheppards Pie every day. Twice.
Personally, if anybody would feel the need to compare Wandering Spirit to EOMS I would wish him all the luck in the world. They have at least the same singer.
Saying that CH is the same kind of album as EOMS (as it is in the ways maxtil has described) is not saying that it's of the same quality.
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HMS
Solo-albums shouldnt be compared to Stones-albums anyway. When the dust once has settled it will be clear for anybody to see that Crosseyed Heart is a good solid album, nothing more, nothing less. You might say it is much better than expected but you cant say it is a masterpiece that stands alongside with the Stones´ best albums (LIB, BB, SF, Undercover, DW..).
More or less Keith stuck to his old formula adding nothing new and that is exactly what the Stones will do if they should indeed record a new album.
Hahaha I had to do a double take when I read Undercover and DW.
Got to hand it to you HMS - you stick to your guns.
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JJHMick
It's 12 weeks since its release in Germany and it is still in the Top 100 sales list.
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Hairball
After posting the wiki link/ review stats the other day, I revisited the reviews listed in which some were familiar (Mojo, NME, Rolling Stone), but don't recall reading this 4 of 5 star from the Guardian.
Apologies if already posted, but I don't remember seeing this here (or in Rockmans thread). Might be a case of amnesia if it was, but better late than never.
Crosseyed Heart – everything a fan could hope for
The Rolling Stone’s first solo album in 23 years contains exactly what one might hope for. There are beautifully played old blues songs, storming Stonesy rockers (Heartstopper, the ferocious Blues in the Morning), a sublime Gregory Isaacs reggae cover (Love Overdue) and outlaw songs about evading the authorities (Trouble). There’s dry humour in a touching lament about, ahem, the theft of a “stash” (Robbed Blind, in which he cackles: “The cops, I can’t involve them”) and the jerkily funny Amnesia, about the 2006 incident in which he fell out of a tree (“Thought I met my mother / She said: ‘You don’t belong to me’”). Contrarily, there are also several beautiful, heartfelt ballads. Richards’ fag-soaked voice isn’t as conventionally strong as Mick Jagger’s, but it is rich with character and knowing. The gorgeous Nothing on Me – about surviving whatever life throws at him – is as great a song as the 71-year-old has put his name to in decades. A terrific album,class"hy of one of rock’s founding fathers.
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HMS
Solo-albums shouldnt be compared to Stones-albums anyway. When the dust once has settled it will be clear for anybody to see that Crosseyed Heart is a good solid album, nothing more, nothing less. You might say it is much better than expected but you cant say it is a masterpiece that stands alongside with the Stones´ best albums (LIB, BB, SF, Undercover, DW..).
More or less Keith stuck to his old formula adding nothing new and that is exactly what the Stones will do if they should indeed record a new album.
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HMS
Solo-albums shouldnt be compared to Stones-albums anyway. When the dust once has settled it will be clear for anybody to see that Crosseyed Heart is a good solid album, nothing more, nothing less. You might say it is much better than expected but you cant say it is a masterpiece that stands alongside with the Stones´ best albums (LIB, BB, SF, Undercover, DW..).
More or less Keith stuck to his old formula adding nothing new and that is exactly what the Stones will do if they should indeed record a new album.
So, are you saying that if I've bought "Talk Is Cheap" I can skip this one?
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HMS
Solo-albums shouldnt be compared to Stones-albums anyway. When the dust once has settled it will be clear for anybody to see that Crosseyed Heart is a good solid album, nothing more, nothing less. You might say it is much better than expected but you cant say it is a masterpiece that stands alongside with the Stones´ best albums (LIB, BB, SF, Undercover, DW..).
More or less Keith stuck to his old formula adding nothing new and that is exactly what the Stones will do if they should indeed record a new album.
So, are you saying that if I've bought "Talk Is Cheap" I can skip this one?
Not at all. You can drink orange juice every day, its rather a matter of thirst than taste. But dont expect any surprises. Keith has quenched our thirst and that of course felt good although orange juice tastes like orange juice even if you havent had a drink of orange juice for 23 years.
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HMS
Solo-albums shouldnt be compared to Stones-albums anyway. When the dust once has settled it will be clear for anybody to see that Crosseyed Heart is a good solid album, nothing more, nothing less. You might say it is much better than expected but you cant say it is a masterpiece that stands alongside with the Stones´ best albums (LIB, BB, SF, Undercover, DW..).
More or less Keith stuck to his old formula adding nothing new and that is exactly what the Stones will do if they should indeed record a new album.
So, are you saying that if I've bought "Talk Is Cheap" I can skip this one?
Not at all. You can drink orange juice every day, its rather a matter of thirst than taste. But dont expect any surprises. Keith has quenched our thirst and that of course felt good although orange juice tastes like orange juice even if you havent had a drink of orange juice for 23 years.
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Koen
Group hug!
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Hairball
it's nice to see it has done as well as it has (although you probably think it hasn't done as well as it could have)D
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Hairball
it's nice to see it has done as well as it has (although you probably think it hasn't done as well as it could have)D
The album has sold ok in Europe but very bad in the U.S, I mean 70k sold in the States is very poor for an album and artist with loads of media coverage there, front cover of Rolling Stone and Billboard, interviews on TV and radio and, most importantly, his first solo album on 23 years and no Stones album on 10 years.
Main Offender was a flop too but it was after only 3 years of the multi-platinum Steel Wheels, 1 year after Flashpoint and only 4 years after Talk Is Cheap.
CH is his best album IMO, it deserved at least twice of the total sales.