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Hairball
EP?
Hope that's a typo!!!
Who knows? If it were for Keith's three dynamite riffs, we'd maybe get only a maxi single?
Maybe EP because they decided to release only the good stuff and leave out the fillers?
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Or we can just judge the album as it is - today. Blue And Lonesome was awesome. They still have the chops, they still swing, they still play the blues and rock'n'roll convincingly. They still sound like the Stones.
We all know that.
A track like Hoodoo Blues is as dirty and filthy as Stones tunes can be. Even though they're old men now, they know how to make a brilliant racket.
And I trust they will on the new album.
For everyone that expects a new cultural revolution, scandals, riots and upheavals: Listen to their old records.
I'm gonna occupy the living room with studio headphones and be unreachable for a few days. Looking very much forward to that
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jlowe
3 Singles was rumoured some time ago.
Equals an EP perhaps.
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Hairball
Lol...there was a time when Keith could have fit three different dynamite riffs into one song!
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Hairball
Looking forward to whatever...anything and everything...good, bad, ugly...warts and all. But I have faith some of it will be good, some of it maybe questionable, and some of it possibly even great!
Whatever the case, part of the fun has been the thrill of the chase - it's the journey, not the destination. This thread has been great with all the speculation, the insider leaks, the so-called experts, the whiners,
the cheerleaders, the variety of opinions, the Keith lovers, the Jagger haters (lol), and the the rambling fools (including myself), etc., etc...it's really a microcosm of IORR in general!
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Hairball
But once I get my hands on a new Stones album (or EP?)- and I can almost smell it now - a new journey of digesting and absorbing will begin - destination unknown.
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DandelionPowderman
Or we can just judge the album as it is - today. Blue And Lonesome was awesome. They still have the chops, they still swing, they still play the blues and rock'n'roll convincingly. They still sound like the Stones.
We all know that.
A track like Hoodoo Blues is as dirty and filthy as Stones tunes can be. Even though they're old men now, they know how to make a brilliant racket.
And I trust they will on the new album.
For everyone that expects a new cultural revolution, scandals, riots and upheavals: Listen to their old records.
I'm gonna occupy the living room with studio headphones and be unreachable for a few days. Looking very much forward to that
So I say.
On this forum I read "nothing worthy in last 30 years" over and over again and I couldn'y disagree more.
Voodoo Lounge is really great, some tracks on Steel Wheels are great (the minority, ok, but those I love), A Bigger Bang is almost unlistenable but led to a very fun and sped up tour, Blue and Lonesome is superb, Crosseyed Heart is one of my all-time favourite albums, I must say.
And those albums were secondary. They all supported what's important: the Rolling Stones live.
No way anyone can compare BtB to Exile or Some Girls, ok. No Bill Wyman, ok. Way too much Leavells, Cliffords, Densons... ok.
But they managed to keep relevant over these 30 years, which none other could.
Wow! Something is coming... Amazing!!!
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jlowe
3 Singles was rumoured some time ago.
Equals an EP perhaps.
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3 Singles was rumoured some time ago.
Equals an EP perhaps.
One single (A & B sides) plus extended/remixed versions could also be considered an EP.
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NICOS
According to them it was difficult to get in the Rolling Stones mood as a band in 1986...........30 years later it must be a drag or maybe not....................let's wait and see
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I guess this is just the Spanish illustrator (whose page that is) promoting his upcoming Rolling Stones illustrations. He has done other Rolling Stones illustrations in the past. I do not think this is in any way "official".
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keithsman
Was there any truth to The Sun newspaper claiming they are making an EP ?
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Was there any truth to The Sun newspaper claiming they are making an EP ?
We would know, how?
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Hairball
Mick releasing Getta Grip while thumbing his nose at Keith
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Mick releasing Getta Grip while thumbing his nose at Keith
Where did we get that bit? Do we now believe Universal said, "Yes, Mr. Jagger, we'll hand you a sizable budget for music videos and extended mixes just so you can piss off Mr. Richards"?
Not very likely.
As for the EP, it's nothing. A bit of stupidity from The Sun - one of the worst tabloids around as far as journalistic integrity is concerned.
There's an album coming. Until Soldatti or B.V. tell us otherwise, why believe a disreputable rag? For that matter, there are several other connected regulars here. No one has suggested they've downgraded to an EP.
I know the EP fits the story of "they can't do it, they can't write, they can't sing, they can't play" that has such a hold on so many iorrians.
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Hairball
Looking forward to a new song or two, maybe three....hopefully more.
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Rocky Dijon
Respectfully, Don Was is their producer, including catalog reissues. He's not going anywhere.
Mick writes and arranges songs with Matt Clifford or Dave Stewart. They are Mick's preferred collaborators just as Steve Jordan is Keith's.
We can say all day that things would be better if the following people were far away from our heroes. In essence, you're wishing the past 25 or 30 years hadn't happened. Not paritcularly realistic.
The new album will likely have the same reaction as their albums always have. Ridiculously overrated at the outset and then unfairly criticized once it is no longer new. They can't help it that it's not the 1960s or 1970s any more just as they can't help it that most iorrians aren't young with their whole lives in front of them any longer.
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NICOS
According to them it was difficult to get in the Rolling Stones mood as a band in 1986...........30 years later it must be a drag or maybe not....................let's wait and see
[www.youtube.com]
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Blue and Lonesome is superb, Crosseyed Heart is one of my all-time favourite albums, I must say.
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Blue and Lonesome is superb, Crosseyed Heart is one of my all-time favourite albums, I must say.
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Blue and Lonesome is a collection of covers, most of which are not better than the originals (nor worse). Nice to listen to during a diner party, or while practicing some blues guitar, but hardly the best thing that ever happened to rock music. They have been able to play the blues ever since they started, the album might just has well come out in the 80s or 90s.
Crosseyed Heart is a very good album, but more than anything else it shows that if Keith would have chosen to really dedicate himself to a solo career, he might have grown out to achieve some artistical reputation on a par with Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen or Nick Cave.
Neither album means anything with relation to any upcoming Stones LP or EP. In the late 80's, Keith came out with Talk Is Cheap, which was also a very promising album but it didn't in any way whatsoever have a positive influence on the Stones output. Okay, maybe on the Keith songs on the Stones albums, giving him more confidence developing his own style, but overall the Stones albums since Talk Is Cheap have been just mediocre, with an occasional highlight on Bridges to Babylon.
Actually, if they bring out an EP, I would be more hopeful. Maybe 4 great songs they all really believe in is still possible. But I doubt it will connect to anything else going on the musical world, so the impact will be small. Never mind though, it's not completely impossible some of it might be enjoyable.
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Blue and Lonesome is superb, Crosseyed Heart is one of my all-time favourite albums, I must say.
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Blue and Lonesome is a collection of covers, most of which are not better than the originals (nor worse). Nice to listen to during a diner party, or while practicing some blues guitar, but hardly the best thing that ever happened to rock music. They have been able to play the blues ever since they started, the album might just has well come out in the 80s or 90s.
Crosseyed Heart is a very good album, but more than anything else it shows that if Keith would have chosen to really dedicate himself to a solo career, he might have grown out to achieve some artistical reputation on a par with Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen or Nick Cave.
Neither album means anything with relation to any upcoming Stones LP or EP. In the late 80's, Keith came out with Talk Is Cheap, which was also a very promising album but it didn't in any way whatsoever have a positive influence on the Stones output. Okay, maybe on the Keith songs on the Stones albums, giving him more confidence developing his own style, but overall the Stones albums since Talk Is Cheap have been just mediocre, with an occasional highlight on Bridges to Babylon.
Actually, if they bring out an EP, I would be more hopeful. Maybe 4 great songs they all really believe in is still possible. But I doubt it will connect to anything else going on the musical world, so the impact will be small. Never mind though, it's not completely impossible some of it might be enjoyable.
That's where our opinions differ. I like the sounds the Stones are making. It's the same songs, of course, but the Stones sound like... um, the Stones - hence the songs sound like the Stones, too. When I hear Mick sing, and the boys playing, there's something extra there. For me, B&L does NOT sound like some band going through the motions, cakewalking through numbers they can play in their sleep - far from it.
It sounds dirty and good, just the way I want it