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Harlem ShufflerWell, just for the sake of a bit of balance, I genuinely think all four tracks are very good. If they replaced the four worst tracks on A Bigger Bang - a tough call as to what they may be - that album would have been improved immensely.Quote
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GasLightStreet
Those 4 new LICKS songs... Don't Stop is OK, at least it's got a beat to it, and Losing My Touch is nicely done. The other two stink the place up. They're 4th rate filler. There's ZERO about them that stand out (other than how bad they are). Keys To Your Love and Stealing My Heart sound like the Stones working really hard at not sounding like the Stones, which in the past worked great for the most part.
They're just a bunch of noise. They make most of A BIGGER BANG sound like EXILE.
A bit harsh, maybe, but as usual the proof is in the pudding - I never feel the desire to listen to these tracks. They're just so...pale in comparison to other Stones material. Don't Stop is, agreed, quite ok, and would have been enough for 40 Licks. I used to like it more back then, but it wore off so quickly.
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Harlem ShufflerWell, just for the sake of a bit of balance, I genuinely think all four tracks are very good. If they replaced the four worst tracks on A Bigger Bang - a tough call as to what they may be - that album would have been improved immensely.Quote
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GasLightStreet
Those 4 new LICKS songs... Don't Stop is OK, at least it's got a beat to it, and Losing My Touch is nicely done. The other two stink the place up. They're 4th rate filler. There's ZERO about them that stand out (other than how bad they are). Keys To Your Love and Stealing My Heart sound like the Stones working really hard at not sounding like the Stones, which in the past worked great for the most part.
They're just a bunch of noise. They make most of A BIGGER BANG sound like EXILE.
A bit harsh, maybe, but as usual the proof is in the pudding - I never feel the desire to listen to these tracks. They're just so...pale in comparison to other Stones material. Don't Stop is, agreed, quite ok, and would have been enough for 40 Licks. I used to like it more back then, but it wore off so quickly.
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Mick has said that Keith was somewhat obsessed with Please Please Me in the 60s
and apparently he still hadn't gotten over it - although these are more like snippets than covers.
I love his commentary on the Voodoo one: "Horrible Beatles bridge - I'm not gonna play it!" [then he plays it]
"I coulda written it better" :E
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I was trying to remember what you said. I sort of got it.
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Harlem ShufflerWell, just for the sake of a bit of balance, I genuinely think all four tracks are very good. If they replaced the four worst tracks on A Bigger Bang - a tough call as to what they may be - that album would have been improved immensely.Quote
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GasLightStreet
Those 4 new LICKS songs... Don't Stop is OK, at least it's got a beat to it, and Losing My Touch is nicely done. The other two stink the place up. They're 4th rate filler. There's ZERO about them that stand out (other than how bad they are). Keys To Your Love and Stealing My Heart sound like the Stones working really hard at not sounding like the Stones, which in the past worked great for the most part.
They're just a bunch of noise. They make most of A BIGGER BANG sound like EXILE.
A bit harsh, maybe, but as usual the proof is in the pudding - I never feel the desire to listen to these tracks. They're just so...pale in comparison to other Stones material. Don't Stop is, agreed, quite ok, and would have been enough for 40 Licks. I used to like it more back then, but it wore off so quickly.
i think that puts the 4 GRRR tracks in the right perspective.... yes, they are "good" in the sense that they are better than the 4 worst tracks on ABB. On the other hand, not one of the 4 is as good as the worst song on, say, Some Girls much less Let it Bleed or even Between the Buttons.
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GasLightStreet
Those 4 new LICKS songs... Don't Stop is OK, at least it's got a beat to it, and Losing My Touch is nicely done. The other two stink the place up. They're 4th rate filler. There's ZERO about them that stand out (other than how bad they are). Keys To Your Love and Stealing My Heart sound like the Stones working really hard at not sounding like the Stones, which in the past worked great for the most part.
They're just a bunch of noise. They make most of A BIGGER BANG sound like EXILE.
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GasLightStreet
Those 4 new LICKS songs... Don't Stop is OK, at least it's got a beat to it, and Losing My Touch is nicely done. The other two stink the place up. They're 4th rate filler. There's ZERO about them that stand out (other than how bad they are). Keys To Your Love and Stealing My Heart sound like the Stones working really hard at not sounding like the Stones, which in the past worked great for the most part.
They're just a bunch of noise. They make most of A BIGGER BANG sound like EXILE.
You are being too harsh. I like the SOLO on KEYS TO YOUR LOVE; it sound sunlike anything else in the Stones CATALOGUE.
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Turner68
we can play stones albums by numbers....
there's a pretty standard formula:
1 mick trying to sound contemporary track (emotional rescue, undercover, anybody seen my baby)
1 upbeat, rocking/heavy on the hooks number, written to be the single (trying to emulate brown sugar, tumbling dice, miss you, etc.)
1 harder rocking number for the rockers in the crowd (bitch, rip this joint, street fighting man, whip comes down)
1 harder rocking, hooky number, in hopes that there will be a second single (one hit to the body, rock and a hard place, etc.)
1 ballad (almost hear you sigh, wild horses, no expectations)
1-2 blues/blues rock (i got the blues/you gotta move; break the spell/hearts for sale; prodigal son/stray cat blues)
1 country (far away eyes, sweet virginia, dead flowers, blinded by love)
2 keith songs (one ballad, one medium tempo pop/rock: can't be seen/slipping away)
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we can play stones albums by numbers....
there's a pretty standard formula:
1 mick trying to sound contemporary track (emotional rescue, undercover, anybody seen my baby)
1 upbeat, rocking/heavy on the hooks number, written to be the single (trying to emulate brown sugar, tumbling dice, miss you, etc.)
1 harder rocking number for the rockers in the crowd (bitch, rip this joint, street fighting man, whip comes down)
1 harder rocking, hooky number, in hopes that there will be a second single (one hit to the body, rock and a hard place, etc.)
1 ballad (almost hear you sigh, wild horses, no expectations)
1-2 blues/blues rock (i got the blues/you gotta move; break the spell/hearts for sale; prodigal son/stray cat blues)
1 country (far away eyes, sweet virginia, dead flowers, blinded by love)
2 keith songs (one ballad, one medium tempo pop/rock: can't be seen/slipping away)
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I suspect this new record will be as good as Exile On Main Street.
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I suspect this new record will be as good as Exile On Main Street.
That would mean a good-very good but NOT great album. And it would also mean a too long album.
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I'm in...I've sent amazon an email indicating I'd like to be first in line for pre-ordering.
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I'm in...I've sent amazon an email indicating I'd like to be first in line for pre-ordering.
So, you are pre-queueing to the pre-ordering then Treacles? Sounds great. But I wonder what Gaslightstreet has to say about that?
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I'm in...I've sent amazon an email indicating I'd like to be first in line for pre-ordering.
So, you are pre-queueing to the pre-ordering then Treacles? Sounds great. But I wonder what Gaslightstreet has to say about that?
I've paid him to hold my place in line...I presume he's fine with it.
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I'm in...I've sent amazon an email indicating I'd like to be first in line for pre-ordering.
So, you are pre-queueing to the pre-ordering then Treacles? Sounds great. But I wonder what Gaslightstreet has to say about that?
I've paid him to hold my place in line...I presume he's fine with it.
I presume so. I guess he prefered to be pre-paid then...
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NoPanic
As "A Bigger Bang" to me was the weakest they've ever done I am not sure if I need another "new" one.Better check the vaults intensively and bring some real diamonds!
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As "A Bigger Bang" to me was the weakest they've ever done I am not sure if I need another "new" one.Better check the vaults intensively and bring some real diamonds!
Well, between that statement and HMS' DIRTY WORK being a great album and EXILE only being "good-very good but NOT great album" it's clear that both of you are in dire need of professional help since NOTHING is as bad as DIRTY WORK.
It could be said and now I will say it - a compilation of other songs could possibly match up to the abomination that is DIRTY WORK with tracks like
Oh No Not You Again
Already Suffering (oh wait... it's... Over Me - whatever)
Always Suffering
Rock And A Hard Place
Streets Of Love
Following The River
Might At Well Get Juiced
Gunface
You Got Me Rocking
Sparks Will Fly
Sweethearts Together
Blinded By Rainbows
Sweet Neo Con
Hold On To Your Hat
Sure, that's a longer album than DIRTY WORK is so it automatically wins. DIRTY WORK's saving abilities of not being worse than that only exist with Harlem Shuffle, Too Rude, Had It With You, maybe the title track and Sleep Tonight. TSMR is not very good but the songs on it that are are fantastic so doesn't qualify as easily as DW does.
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Already Suffering (oh wait... it's... Over Me - whatever)
Always Suffering
Rock And A Hard Place
Streets Of Love
Following The River
Sweethearts Together
Blinded By Rainbows
Sweet Neo Con