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Woz
A blues covers disc and another of new tunes is a great concept and pretty much sums up their career.

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Rocky Dijon
Interesting that you heard it was 3 new songs in December, mpj200. If I recall what you've said in the past correctly, that's 3 new songs written in the studio - not Mick's demos. Don Was mentioned again the great material left behind since he's been their producer. One wonders if some of that might be considered for this disc. I'm thinking of "Honest Man" and "You Got It Made" as well as tracks we've only heard about like "Ever Changing World" and "High or Low." Might be nice to see them polish those off and release them.

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Rocky Dijon
Interesting that you heard it was 3 new songs in December, mpj200. If I recall what you've said in the past correctly, that's 3 new songs written in the studio - not Mick's demos. Don Was mentioned again the great material left behind since he's been their producer. One wonders if some of that might be considered for this disc. I'm thinking of "Honest Man" and "You Got It Made" as well as tracks we've only heard about like "Ever Changing World" and "High or Low." Might be nice to see them polish those off and release them.

Interesting idea, I'd been wondering how they'd go about coming up with the two obligatory Keith tracks on the album as it's unlikely he has a lot in store after releasing CH last year that was a collection of songs from the past 10 years (actually 15 since Trouble is from 2002). That would fix it ;-)

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jlowe
I thought Keith had said many times in the past the Stones would never release an album of blues covers, because:
-cannot better the originals
-no publishing royalties for himself and Sir Mick

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HMS
They should give birth to Honest Man indeed, but You Got It Made is worthless, no use to revive this subpar track.

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RipThisBone
Hope you are wrong HMS.

Edit: Stones versus Stones... That's no competition. That's A Winner All Around!!!

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matxil
[www.theguardian.com]

Not a very interesting article in the Guardian, but one thing caught my attention:

"Earlier this year, Mick Jagger hinted that the Stones had new material for a potential album. “It would be very nice and I’ve got a lot of new songs and songs I’ve written over the last couple of years,” he said. “I’ve done really good demos for all of them, which I would love to record. So, let’s hope so.”"

And I think this is really the problem, and makes me rather pessimistic about their "new album". Whereas apparantly Keith wrote his new solo album in the studio in cooperation with Steve Jordan, apparantly with the Stones it will be - again - Mick having his songs, Keith having his songs, and the Stones just working as hired session-players.
Which is exactly the main reason why all of their post-Undercover albums (to say the least) lack the quality of their earlier work.

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Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, to be sure. As far as I'm concerned, The Rolling Stones catalogue in it's entirety makes life worth living and a new album will be welcomed by me with open arms and open ears and unlimited joy.

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wonderboy
He's been working for them for years. If you believe the legends that the Stones use people up, shouldn't he be carving swastikas on the console board by now?

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Socrates1
What if I thought up a name for the new album on this thread and they actually named it that? Now that would be cool.

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Rockman
He strips all the grime out of a record.

Gotta agree there ... my motto is.. "BRING BACK TENSION"... in the truck loads too ...