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Old acts, like the Rolling Stones, surely must have a high percentage of consumers actually buying the physical product (the album) as opposed to downloading it on net sites?

I think you've got a point there. I mostly listen to music on my phone these days, but even so, buying a download just doesn't feel "real" to me. I was thinking the other day that when this one is released, I will definitely buy it at a record store, and I may well buy the vinyl version just for old times' sake. The last time I bought a Stones LP in a shop was over a quarter century ago, when Steel Wheels came out.

I appreciate a physical piece of music much more than downloads. Maybe when I retire and have loads of time I will enjoy the hobby of organizing digital music but not now. (And yes I do purchase songs digitally)

I can't wait for "Blue & Lonesome." Christmas-themed posts will be fun that time of year, too.



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worst Rolling Stones album in history.

You´re always confusing Dirty Work with Between The Buttons, I guess.

You are calling "Buttons" their worst album? I am speechless. Buttons is one of their best.

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You are calling "Buttons" their worst album? I am speechless. Buttons is one of their best.

There isn´t one single outstanding song on Buttons. Nothing I´d call essential. Some nice ditties but nothing that could excite me. And most of the times they don´t even sound like the Stones. It sounds Kinks-like. Thank God this is the final chapter of their "pop-period". I only accept Between The Buttons as part of their evolution as a band and songwriting team, but it never did anything for me. TSMR is much more interesting and has true outstanding songs on it.

Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay (AAA)
Issue Date 11/12/2016

TW LW WKS Song Artist Peak
1 1 7 Waste a Moment - Kings of Leon 1
2 2 19 Cleopatra - The Lumineers 2
3 3 8 I Can't Stop Thinking About You - Sting 3
4 5 19 Good Grief - Bastille 4
5 4 21 All We Ever Knew - The Head and the Heart 1
6 8 10 When the Tequila Runs Out - Dawes 6
7 7 27 Wish I Knew You - The Revivalists 1
8 9 12 Carry On - Norah Jones 8
9 11 7 Holy Commotion - Pretenders 9
10 6 19 White Flag - Joseph 1
11 10 9 Move - Saint Motel 10
12 12 14 Somebody's Love - Passenger 12
13 14 11 Rita Mae Young - The Record Company 13
14 13 27 Trouble - Cage the Elephant 4
15 15 5 Go Robot - Red Hot Chili Peppers 15
16 18 6 New Song - Warpaint 16
17 17 4 A 1000 Times - Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam 17
18 16 16 American Money - BØRNS 14
19 20 6 Don't You Cry for Me - Cobi 19
20 21 4 Packed Powder - Blind Pilot 20
21 25 3 Sure and Certain - Jimmy Eat World 21
22 19 3 True Sadness - The Avett Brothers 19
23 24 4 Breath and Burning - Phish 23
24 26 6 Love Is a Burden - Jamestown Revival 23
25 23 7 After Dark - Eliot Sumner 22
26 22 6 Shut Up Kiss Me - Angel Olsen 22
27 30 2 Wasting Time - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 27
28 New 1 Just Your Fool - The Rolling Stones 28
29 New 1 Shine - Mondo Cozmo 29
30 New 1 Classic Masher - Pixies 30


Also:

Billboard Blues Digital Songs

#1 Hate To See You Go
#3 Just Your Fool

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You are calling "Buttons" their worst album? I am speechless. Buttons is one of their best.

There isn´t one single outstanding song on Buttons. Nothing I´d call essential. Some nice ditties but nothing that could excite me. And most of the times they don´t even sound like the Stones. It sounds Kinks-like. Thank God this is the final chapter of their "pop-period". I only accept Between The Buttons as part of their evolution as a band and songwriting team, but it never did anything for me. TSMR is much more interesting and has true outstanding songs on it.

Ruby Tuesday
Let's Spend The Night Together
Connection
Back Street Girl (UK version)
She Smiled Sweetly

are all great songs

Yesterday's Papers
Something Happened To Me Yesterday
Miss Amanda Jones

are also really good

All imho, of course. Calling RT, LSTNT and BG «ditties» is hilarious - especially as the two former tracks almost have warhorse-status. There might be a reason for that?

I am referring to the UK-version of BTB, which hasn´t Ruby & LSPTNT. Those two songs of course make the US-version the better choice, but overall it´s still weak, imo.

The nicest ones are (still referring to UK-version):
Backstreet Girl, She Smiled Sweetly.
Everything else seems mediocre to me, not-Stones-like and/or weak. Many many pop ditties - just not essential.

Listening to the mono box set BTB may be the weakest release of that decade IMO. Flowers is nice and picks up RT and LSTNT.......

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I am referring to the UK-version of BTB, which hasn´t Ruby & LSPTNT. Those two songs of course make the US-version the better choice, but overall it´s still weak, imo.

The nicest ones are (still referring to UK-version):
Backstreet Girl, She Smiled Sweetly.
Everything else seems mediocre to me, not-Stones-like and/or weak. Many many pop ditties - just not essential.

Miss Amanda Jones HAS to be Stonesy, surely? If not, I can't follow you

But I see we picked more or less the same good tracks off Buttons..

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Just listened to "Hate To See You Go" in full! This album looks definitely very promising.

There's definetly two guitars on Just Your Fool. Ronnie plays rhythm too and some lead licks with a very distorted sound which indeed sounds like a harmonica.
And then there's a harmonica overdub at the end of HTSYG. At the very end one harmonica stays on that high note and suddenly another harmonica plays on top of it.



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Those are great quotes from the band. I keep thinking about something Bob Dylan might have said. Can somebody look this stuff up for me? I'm pretty sure Bob Dylan said you can play Rock & Roll music if you have a blues and/or hillbilly influence. I'm not saying I disagree with Keith. But didn't Bob say something about a hillbilly influence, too? Can Christiano Radke confirm?



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Christiano, what kind of publication is that?

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I am referring to the UK-version of BTB, which hasn´t Ruby & LSPTNT. Those two songs of course make the US-version the better choice, but overall it´s still weak, imo.

The nicest ones are (still referring to UK-version):
Backstreet Girl, She Smiled Sweetly.
Everything else seems mediocre to me, not-Stones-like and/or weak. Many many pop ditties - just not essential.

Yes, I see the UK version of 'Buttons" as the proper album; the US versions went after hits. I don't get so much into outstanding or essential. I put the album on, and it rolls over me, so it is all essential in the moment. I don't see it as a Kinks album at all, but as the Stones on their path in '66. So in that it is great.
But keep posting; I dig your opinions.

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You are calling "Buttons" their worst album? I am speechless. Buttons is one of their best.

There isn´t one single outstanding song on Buttons. Nothing I´d call essential. Some nice ditties but nothing that could excite me. And most of the times they don´t even sound like the Stones. It sounds Kinks-like. Thank God this is the final chapter of their "pop-period". I only accept Between The Buttons as part of their evolution as a band and songwriting team, but it never did anything for me. TSMR is much more interesting and has true outstanding songs on it.

I agree with HMS here.
Whereas TSMR has 50% absolute cringeworthy nonsense, the other 50% is great.
And DW, awful as it is, does have One Hit, Harlem Shuffle and Sleep Tonight.
Buttons only has fake-ish popsongs, clearly trying to imitate the fashion of that day. Aftermath was pop too, but it has charm, wit and still clearly a blues and soul influence, clearly the band is enjoying themselves. Buttons is just lame pop and they sound clueless. It's the one album I never ever listen to.

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Christiano, what kind of publication is that?

It's from the 'Music Week':


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Old acts, like the Rolling Stones, surely must have a high percentage of consumers actually buying the physical product (the album) as opposed to downloading it on net sites?

I think you've got a point there. I mostly listen to music on my phone these days, but even so, buying a download just doesn't feel "real" to me. I was thinking the other day that when this one is released, I will definitely buy it at a record store, and I may well buy the vinyl version just for old times' sake. The last time I bought a Stones LP in a shop was over a quarter century ago, when Steel Wheels came out.

I appreciate a physical piece of music much more than downloads. Maybe when I retire and have loads of time I will enjoy the hobby of organizing digital music but not now. (And yes I do purchase songs digitally)

vinyl has made a slight comeback,things will never go back to the old days but it's become a bit of a hipster thing to do among alot younger music fans.
i like to think of it in term of a book,you can have a download on your ipad,kindle or whatever,you can have the paperback but the main thing is that hardcover.that vinyl is the source,the hardcover if you will.
that's why i complained so much about the generic cover,it's never too late to make something iconic.do you see that giant wall with the cover of some girls that was at desert trip? iconic-

having said that,i cannot freakin wait to hear this album.

It's beyond a hipster thing here..

Don't know if already talked, but there is "Ride-Em-On-Down" as limited maxi single coming.
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Thanks Eddie!

I heard it before but SOME PEOPLE on IORR maybe have not... Oi Oi !!!

The new singles are getting some airplay:


Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay (Triple A)
Week Ending Oct. 30

#28 NEW - Just Your Fool (202 spins)

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In the UK, Hate To See You Go went to Radio 2 B-Playlist (10-12 spins a week)
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Radio 2 will help to sell the album in the UK, at least during the first week.

still sounds fresh after a month. Good for them for releasing it..

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still sounds fresh after a month. Good for them for releasing it..

I've been careful, only listened to clips of each once. I like listening to the entire album together, before I wear myself out on any of the tracks. Back in the good old days, I can recall already have played Start Me Up about 1000 times before the Tattoo You album was out, and was already tired of it by then!

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In the UK, Hate To See You Go went to Radio 2 B-Playlist (10-12 spins a week)
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Radio 2 will help to sell the album in the UK, at least during the first week.

This is awful because it means that I have to come out of denial and admit that I am in the Radio 2 demographic. Have been trying to avoid that since the 70s.

Release one month from tomorrow!! There's one more single coming out. I also holding off listening until 12/2.

Hopefully lots of press and plans for 2017.....

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In the UK, Hate To See You Go went to Radio 2 B-Playlist (10-12 spins a week)
[www.bbc.co.uk]

Radio 2 will help to sell the album in the UK, at least during the first week.

This is awful because it means that I have to come out of denial and admit that I am in the Radio 2 demographic. Have been trying to avoid that since the 70s.

It's the biggest radio station in the UK with about 14 million audience, Radio 1 audience is 9-10 million.

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You are calling "Buttons" their worst album? I am speechless. Buttons is one of their best.

There isn´t one single outstanding song on Buttons. Nothing I´d call essential. Some nice ditties but nothing that could excite me. And most of the times they don´t even sound like the Stones. It sounds Kinks-like. Thank God this is the final chapter of their "pop-period". I only accept Between The Buttons as part of their evolution as a band and songwriting team, but it never did anything for me. TSMR is much more interesting and has true outstanding songs on it.

Any song from BUTTONS is better than anything from that 1986 vomit plug of an album, which has zero outstanding anything.

Yesterday's Papers is a heavy tune that's got a lot going on in it that requires a brain to understand. It makes sense that HMS can't understand it.
My Obsession kicks.
Back Street Girl is a timely ballad.
Connection is outstanding.
She Smiled Sweetly is a great leer.
Cool, Calm And Connected is outstanding.
All Sold Out is a hint of the future ala 2000 Man, Parachute Woman, Stray Cat etc and is outstanding but HMS wouldn't know that anyway.
Please Go Home is stellar rock'n'roll and probably the most outstanding track on the LP.
Who's Been Sleeping Here is hilariously Dylan yet rockin'.
Complicated is a good rocker.
Miss Amanda Jones - it's been used in movies because it ROCKS; outstanding.
Something Happened To Me Yesterday is another hilarious Dylan kick that's a good bit of the mentality of what was happening then.

Ronnie about the new album

Any thoughts does Keith play lead on any of these songs? Looks like Ronnie on Ride "em On Down plus Clapton on Good Thing and Can't Quit You.