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I hope it has some more mature lyrics. Not overly mature, but at least more than Yellow/Jello. I can’t remember which review it was. It was for ABB. They wrote that the album had a tad too many “she done me wrong” songs, and I agreed with that in hindsight. Of course those kinds of lyrics harkens back to the old blues songs, but I think we’ve heard quite a bit too many of Jagger’s poppy blues lyrics set to a countryesque up tempo pop ballad. You know the kind I’m talking about: The songs that always has a couture dress, a rendezvous or someone who’s becoming a grouch. That particular kind of Stones tune I’m REALLY sick of. I wanna have a bluesy ballad where Mick sings about his feelings of getting old and getting near the end of the line. Or a rocker where he’s lambasting the direction of the world. Or a soul tune where he’s professing his love for his children. Maybe even a song where he “talks” to the large amount of followers he and the band has had for the past 56 years, saying “We never knew you personally, but thanks for coming along for the ride. It was much more fun with all of you here”. Or maybe about the passing of his father. Something like that. I’ve always loved Fool To Cry for being so down to earth and it must’ve been strange for the fans in 1976 to suddenly hear Mr. D himself sing a lovely song about his daughter (even though he’s putting a social spin on it). They should do that again. And it wouldn’t only work for ballads only either. They could easily put the right lyric to a rocker. Bruce Springsteen does it all the time.

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I agree with much of what you say, I really do, but let them be whatthe are, or at least don’t want to FORCE them to be something they might not be inclined to be.
In ABB there is plenty of what you say you want, as there is in GODDESS, you just have to find it. You also have to work out the perspective, Jagger lyrically is famously ironic, and deserves mum praise for that line of songwriting.
I love It Won’t Take Long as an eloquent older rocker about the flash of life. Yet it’s very Stones! BOMH RFD LIND Sweet Neo Con which everyone hates but I love for its colours to the mast, calling everyone and everything as he sees it. DBeauty for its total expose of corruption of power. TPIEmpty a really beautiful ache of a song. In fact the album is awash with a mature look at the world, albeit dark, bitter, sharp, but it feels urgent, and all through the Stones prism, and then you have ONNYAgain a fantastic latter day rocker that gets under your skin and makes you tap. And of course I love SOL, its anthemic quality, its hook, then LaughIND which is properly epic, just wish it had been twice as long...

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Under the Radar - the best song on ABB that never was...relegated to some bonus disc that's long been forgotten.

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Under the Radar - the best song on ABB that never was...relegated to some bonus disc that's long been forgotten.

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I hope it has some more mature lyrics. Not overly mature, but at least more than Yellow/Jello. I can’t remember which review it was. It was for ABB. They wrote that the album had a tad too many “she done me wrong” songs, and I agreed with that in hindsight. Of course those kinds of lyrics harkens back to the old blues songs, but I think we’ve heard quite a bit too many of Jagger’s poppy blues lyrics set to a countryesque up tempo pop ballad. You know the kind I’m talking about: The songs that always has a couture dress, a rendezvous or someone who’s becoming a grouch. That particular kind of Stones tune I’m REALLY sick of. I wanna have a bluesy ballad where Mick sings about his feelings of getting old and getting near the end of the line. Or a rocker where he’s lambasting the direction of the world. Or a soul tune where he’s professing his love for his children. Maybe even a song where he “talks” to the large amount of followers he and the band has had for the past 56 years, saying “We never knew you personally, but thanks for coming along for the ride. It was much more fun with all of you here”. Or maybe about the passing of his father. Something like that. I’ve always loved Fool To Cry for being so down to earth and it must’ve been strange for the fans in 1976 to suddenly hear Mr. D himself sing a lovely song about his daughter (even though he’s putting a social spin on it). They should do that again. And it wouldn’t only work for ballads only either. They could easily put the right lyric to a rocker. Bruce Springsteen does it all the time.

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JumpingKentFlash
I hope it has some more mature lyrics. Not overly mature, but at least more than Yellow/Jello. I can’t remember which review it was. It was for ABB. They wrote that the album had a tad too many “she done me wrong” songs, and I agreed with that in hindsight. Of course those kinds of lyrics harkens back to the old blues songs, but I think we’ve heard quite a bit too many of Jagger’s poppy blues lyrics set to a countryesque up tempo pop ballad. You know the kind I’m talking about: The songs that always has a couture dress, a rendezvous or someone who’s becoming a grouch. That particular kind of Stones tune I’m REALLY sick of. I wanna have a bluesy ballad where Mick sings about his feelings of getting old and getting near the end of the line. Or a rocker where he’s lambasting the direction of the world. Or a soul tune where he’s professing his love for his children. Maybe even a song where he “talks” to the large amount of followers he and the band has had for the past 56 years, saying “We never knew you personally, but thanks for coming along for the ride. It was much more fun with all of you here”. Or maybe about the passing of his father. Something like that. I’ve always loved Fool To Cry for being so down to earth and it must’ve been strange for the fans in 1976 to suddenly hear Mr. D himself sing a lovely song about his daughter (even though he’s putting a social spin on it). They should do that again. And it wouldn’t only work for ballads only either. They could easily put the right lyric to a rocker. Bruce Springsteen does it all the time.

Sounds like you want something like Crosseyed Heart. That’s what I’m hoping for....

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I hope it has some more mature lyrics. Not overly mature, but at least more than Yellow/Jello. I can’t remember which review it was. It was for ABB. They wrote that the album had a tad too many “she done me wrong” songs, and I agreed with that in hindsight. Of course those kinds of lyrics harkens back to the old blues songs, but I think we’ve heard quite a bit too many of Jagger’s poppy blues lyrics set to a countryesque up tempo pop ballad. You know the kind I’m talking about: The songs that always has a couture dress, a rendezvous or someone who’s becoming a grouch. That particular kind of Stones tune I’m REALLY sick of. I wanna have a bluesy ballad where Mick sings about his feelings of getting old and getting near the end of the line. Or a rocker where he’s lambasting the direction of the world. Or a soul tune where he’s professing his love for his children. Maybe even a song where he “talks” to the large amount of followers he and the band has had for the past 56 years, saying “We never knew you personally, but thanks for coming along for the ride. It was much more fun with all of you here”. Or maybe about the passing of his father. Something like that. I’ve always loved Fool To Cry for being so down to earth and it must’ve been strange for the fans in 1976 to suddenly hear Mr. D himself sing a lovely song about his daughter (even though he’s putting a social spin on it). They should do that again. And it wouldn’t only work for ballads only either. They could easily put the right lyric to a rocker. Bruce Springsteen does it all the time.

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I watched some of Charlie Watts' interview with NME last night. Charlie doesn't like the new songs the Stones have been recording!!!



That's okay. We all know Charlie is a jazz guy and doesn't really dig a lot of rock music. The only ones that need to like the Stones' new stuff is Mick and Keith. As soon as they're happy with what they've got in the can, then there might be some progress in releasing it.

One thing that gives me hope is that currently it's fashionable to drop an album with little or no advance notice. The chances the Stones will do such a thing is almost zero, but I still dream of a sudden surprise album drop.

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I think it was a few months after Blue And Lonesome was released, so nothing new. Charlie said they had done so many sessions that he had no clue as to how the new album was really progressing.

I hope they're making good progress on it. Part of me wishes that Mick and Keith would let Ronnie into the songwriting process.

If they announce a tour with a new name and tour artwork, then I'll start to get excited. If the next tour is another leg of No Filter, I'll suspect that the new album is still a long way away.

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I’m baffled by their recent Instagram etc posts. Maybe the new album is closer than we think. Those could be older clips and photos they’re uploading now to get interest stirring IMHO not much being added on beggars,circus, and voodoo except for us hardcore folk and it would not interfere with sales of new music. With no added tracks how many copies will beggars sell? I have the vinyl, hybrid, the original 1986 release, sacd. Not buying it again for a jagger interview or a mono Sympathy. Oh yeah, I have the mono set beggars too!

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I’m baffled by their recent Instagram etc posts. Maybe the new album is closer than we think. Those could be older clips and photos they’re uploading now to get interest stirring IMHO not much being added on beggars,circus, and voodoo except for us hardcore folk and it would not interfere with sales of new music. With no added tracks how many copies will beggars sell? I have the vinyl, hybrid, the original 1986 release, sacd. Not buying it again for a jagger interview or a mono Sympathy. Oh yeah, I have the mono set beggars too!

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I agree with much of what you say, I really do, but let them be whatthe are, or at least don’t want to FORCE them to be something they might not be inclined to be.
In ABB there is plenty of what you say you want, as there is in GODDESS, you just have to find it. You also have to work out the perspective, Jagger lyrically is famously ironic, and deserves mum praise for that line of songwriting.
I love It Won’t Take Long as an eloquent older rocker about the flash of life. Yet it’s very Stones! BOMH RFD LIND Sweet Neo Con which everyone hates but I love for its colours to the mast, calling everyone and everything as he sees it. DBeauty for its total expose of corruption of power. TPIEmpty a really beautiful ache of a song. In fact the album is awash with a mature look at the world, albeit dark, bitter, sharp, but it feels urgent, and all through the Stones prism, and then you have ONNYAgain a fantastic latter day rocker that gets under your skin and makes you tap. And of course I love SOL, its anthemic quality, its hook, then LaughIND which is properly epic, just wish it had been twice as long...

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I think it was a few months after Blue And Lonesome was released, so nothing new. Charlie said they had done so many sessions that he had no clue as to how the new album was really progressing.

I hope they're making good progress on it. Part of me wishes that Mick and Keith would let Ronnie into the songwriting process.

If they announce a tour with a new name and tour artwork, then I'll start to get excited. If the next tour is another leg of No Filter, I'll suspect that the new album is still a long way away.

Are the Stones working on a new album?
“When we did the blues album ‘Blue and Lonesome’, that was in the middle of the second lot of sessions for the album. We’ve done another lot since then. So we’ve done three or four sets of sessions. But I don’t write the songs so I don’t have the final say. Once we’ve played them I’m not interested really [laughs]. But Mick has to live with them and put his voice on them. Keith will sit for hours listening. I don’t know where we are with them to be honest. Every time we go in to the studio I think, ‘well that was the one’. But it’s whether they’re happy with it and I don’t know if they are yet.”


[www.nme.com]

By the way - interesting CW quote about David Bowie

Speaking about Bowie’s death in 2016, Watts said that he was surprised by the outpouring of grief. “I thought people would have been very sad obviously, and he was a lovely guy and he wrote a couple of good songs,” Watts explained. “But for me, he wasn’t this musical genius.”

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I think it was a few months after Blue And Lonesome was released, so nothing new. Charlie said they had done so many sessions that he had no clue as to how the new album was really progressing.

I hope they're making good progress on it. Part of me wishes that Mick and Keith would let Ronnie into the songwriting process.

If they announce a tour with a new name and tour artwork, then I'll start to get excited. If the next tour is another leg of No Filter, I'll suspect that the new album is still a long way away.

Are the Stones working on a new album?
“When we did the blues album ‘Blue and Lonesome’, that was in the middle of the second lot of sessions for the album. We’ve done another lot since then. So we’ve done three or four sets of sessions. But I don’t write the songs so I don’t have the final say. Once we’ve played them I’m not interested really [laughs]. But Mick has to live with them and put his voice on them. Keith will sit for hours listening. I don’t know where we are with them to be honest. Every time we go in to the studio I think, ‘well that was the one’. But it’s whether they’re happy with it and I don’t know if they are yet.”


[www.nme.com]

By the way - interesting CW quote about David Bowie

Speaking about Bowie’s death in 2016, Watts said that he was surprised by the outpouring of grief. “I thought people would have been very sad obviously, and he was a lovely guy and he wrote a couple of good songs,” Watts explained. “But for me, he wasn’t this musical genius.”

He said the same thing about Brian Jones.

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I'd like to introduce your entire statement here into evidence and suggest that you WILL IN FACT buy it again for a jagger interview or otherwise.

it is in your DNA to do so.

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Chuck Leavell talks with Bob Harris of KFGO about working on the "new" album -
"A little over a year ago actually. It's been a while."

He also moves away from his previous prediction of a Spring 2019 release to a more nebulous "at some point."

[kfgo.com]

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I hope it has some more mature lyrics. Not overly mature, but at least more than Yellow/Jello. I can’t remember which review it was. It was for ABB. They wrote that the album had a tad too many “she done me wrong” songs, and I agreed with that in hindsight. Of course those kinds of lyrics harkens back to the old blues songs, but I think we’ve heard quite a bit too many of Jagger’s poppy blues lyrics set to a countryesque up tempo pop ballad. You know the kind I’m talking about: The songs that always has a couture dress, a rendezvous or someone who’s becoming a grouch. That particular kind of Stones tune I’m REALLY sick of. I wanna have a bluesy ballad where Mick sings about his feelings of getting old and getting near the end of the line. Or a rocker where he’s lambasting the direction of the world. Or a soul tune where he’s professing his love for his children. Maybe even a song where he “talks” to the large amount of followers he and the band has had for the past 56 years, saying “We never knew you personally, but thanks for coming along for the ride. It was much more fun with all of you here”. Or maybe about the passing of his father. Something like that. I’ve always loved Fool To Cry for being so down to earth and it must’ve been strange for the fans in 1976 to suddenly hear Mr. D himself sing a lovely song about his daughter (even though he’s putting a social spin on it). They should do that again. And it wouldn’t only work for ballads only either. They could easily put the right lyric to a rocker. Bruce Springsteen does it all the time.

Very well Put, indeed. thanks
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bye bye johnny
Chuck Leavell talks with Bob Harris of KFGO about working on the "new" album -
"A little over a year ago actually. It's been a while."

He also moves away from his previous prediction of a Spring 2019 release to a more nebulous "at some point."

[kfgo.com]

Honestly Mr. Leavell would not be my go to guy for status on a new Rolling Stones album. Even on Blue and Lonesome he wasn't live in the studio when the songs were laid down. Time for a George licks update.....><

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bye bye johnny
Chuck Leavell talks with Bob Harris of KFGO about working on the "new" album -
"A little over a year ago actually. It's been a while."

He also moves away from his previous prediction of a Spring 2019 release to a more nebulous "at some point."

[kfgo.com]

Honestly Mr. Leavell would not be my go to guy for status on a new Rolling Stones album. Even on Blue and Lonesome he wasn't live in the studio when the songs were laid down. Time for a George licks update.....><

Chuck knows less than Charlie, and Charlie knows next to nothing.