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What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

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I hope Turner gets enough air when he reads this.

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One Hit
Winning Ugly
Harlem Shuffle
DW
Had It With You
Sleep Tonight

I almost choked on my morning scrambled eggs when I read "winning ugly".

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You´ve been listening to DW the last time in 1986? You have to give it a try at least every month.

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I have listened to DW thousands of times over the years but never noticed that Sleep Tonight steals from Coming Down Again.

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Even if it´s true that DW is their most unknown/unheard album, there is still a chance that next generations will recognize it as the true gem that it is.

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I hope Turner gets enough air when he reads this.

And not having breakfast.

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What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

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gimmelittledrink
What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

Plundered was never a masterpiece in the first place - it was an unfinished leftover sketch nearly 40 years old. but your point is still valid. I don't know many (or any) artists* who take unfinished work that old and try to finish it. It's a thing of the past that doesn't reflect anything current or contemporary regarding the artists thoughts - be it style, medium, etc. It goes against the creative drive which is to come up with something new and original - basically to move forward. Sure it worked for Tattoo You, but those unfinished songs were less than 10 years old - still kind of 'fresh'.
Doctoring up Plundered can be seen as a desperate act from an artist who has 'writers block' or whose originality has completely dried up.

*The Beatles did it with Free as a Bird and Real Love only because the chief singer/songwriter was deceased.
The results were interesting, but a far cry from their best work.

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gimmelittledrink
What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

Plundered was never a masterpiece in the first place - it was an unfinished leftover sketch nearly 40 years old. but your point is still valid. I don't know many (or any) artists* who take unfinished work that old and try to finish it. It's a thing of the past that doesn't reflect anything current or contemporary regarding the artists thoughts - be it style, medium, etc. It goes against the creative drive which is to come up with something new and original - basically to move forward. Sure it worked for Tattoo You, but those unfinished songs were less than 10 years old - still kind of 'fresh'.
Doctoring up Plundered can be seen as a desperate act from an artist who has 'writers block' or whose originality has completely dried up.

*The Beatles did it with Free as a Bird and Real Love only because the chief singer/songwriter was deceased.
The results were interesting, but a far cry from their best work.

Half of them were only a year old, from the ER sessions.

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gimmelittledrink
What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

Plundered was never a masterpiece in the first place - it was an unfinished leftover sketch nearly 40 years old. but your point is still valid. I don't know many (or any) artists* who take unfinished work that old and try to finish it. It's a thing of the past that doesn't reflect anything current or contemporary regarding the artists thoughts - be it style, medium, etc. It goes against the creative drive which is to come up with something new and original - basically to move forward. Sure it worked for Tattoo You, but those unfinished songs were less than 10 years old - still kind of 'fresh'.
Doctoring up Plundered can be seen as a desperate act from an artist who has 'writers block' or whose originality has completely dried up.

*The Beatles did it with Free as a Bird and Real Love only because the chief singer/songwriter was deceased.
The results were interesting, but a far cry from their best work.

Half of them were only a year old, from the ER sessions.

Well yes - thanks, I was writing in haste to make the point which you made better for me.
I know it's been talked about recently, but what was the oldest outtake that was finished for Tattoo You...something from the GHS sessions? Was it Tops?

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gimmelittledrink
What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

Plundered was never a masterpiece in the first place - it was an unfinished leftover sketch nearly 40 years old. but your point is still valid. I don't know many (or any) artists* who take unfinished work that old and try to finish it. It's a thing of the past that doesn't reflect anything current or contemporary regarding the artists thoughts - be it style, medium, etc. It goes against the creative drive which is to come up with something new and original - basically to move forward. Sure it worked for Tattoo You, but those unfinished songs were less than 10 years old - still kind of 'fresh'.
Doctoring up Plundered can be seen as a desperate act from an artist who has 'writers block' or whose originality has completely dried up.

*The Beatles did it with Free as a Bird and Real Love only because the chief singer/songwriter was deceased.
The results were interesting, but a far cry from their best work.

Half of them were only a year old, from the ER sessions.

Well yes - thanks, I was writing in haste to make the point which you made better for me.
I know it's been talked about recently, but what was the oldest outtake that was finished for Tattoo You...something from the GHS sessions? Was it Tops?

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gimmelittledrink
What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

Plundered was never a masterpiece in the first place - it was an unfinished leftover sketch nearly 40 years old. but your point is still valid. I don't know many (or any) artists* who take unfinished work that old and try to finish it. It's a thing of the past that doesn't reflect anything current or contemporary regarding the artists thoughts - be it style, medium, etc. It goes against the creative drive which is to come up with something new and original - basically to move forward. Sure it worked for Tattoo You, but those unfinished songs were less than 10 years old - still kind of 'fresh'.
Doctoring up Plundered can be seen as a desperate act from an artist who has 'writers block' or whose originality has completely dried up.

*The Beatles did it with Free as a Bird and Real Love only because the chief singer/songwriter was deceased.
The results were interesting, but a far cry from their best work.

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gimmelittledrink
What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

Plundered was never a masterpiece in the first place - it was an unfinished leftover sketch nearly 40 years old. but your point is still valid. I don't know many (or any) artists* who take unfinished work that old and try to finish it. It's a thing of the past that doesn't reflect anything current or contemporary regarding the artists thoughts - be it style, medium, etc. It goes against the creative drive which is to come up with something new and original - basically to move forward. Sure it worked for Tattoo You, but those unfinished songs were less than 10 years old - still kind of 'fresh'.
Doctoring up Plundered can be seen as a desperate act from an artist who has 'writers block' or whose originality has completely dried up.

*The Beatles did it with Free as a Bird and Real Love only because the chief singer/songwriter was deceased.
The results were interesting, but a far cry from their best work.

Bruce Springsteen has done much the same thing with the outtakes from Darkness and the River. Part of the calculus, as with Jagger, must be that listeners will be more interested than in a brand new album.

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gimmelittledrink
What next, touch up the Mona Lisa, add a few figures to The Last Supper?

Plundered was never a masterpiece in the first place - it was an unfinished leftover sketch nearly 40 years old. but your point is still valid. I don't know many (or any) artists* who take unfinished work that old and try to finish it. It's a thing of the past that doesn't reflect anything current or contemporary regarding the artists thoughts - be it style, medium, etc. It goes against the creative drive which is to come up with something new and original - basically to move forward. Sure it worked for Tattoo You, but those unfinished songs were less than 10 years old - still kind of 'fresh'.
Doctoring up Plundered can be seen as a desperate act from an artist who has 'writers block' or whose originality has completely dried up.

*The Beatles did it with Free as a Bird and Real Love only because the chief singer/songwriter was deceased.
The results were interesting, but a far cry from their best work.

Bruce Springsteen has done much the same thing with the outtakes from Darkness and the River. Part of the calculus, as with Jagger, must be that listeners will be more interested than in a brand new album.

We might be over thinking the whole process really. My guess is that artists like Mick and Springsteen just like to work with what they consider the best material they have available at the time. Although production methods and tastes may have changed considerably over the years much of the basic tracks that make a good rock song are largely the same. If they had better ideas to work with at the time I suspect they would have. There might be a feeling involved of not wanting anything truly good that wasn't fully developed for whatever reason just slip away never to be heard again.