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runrudolph
I am giving up on the new album. Yeah. Let Keef start doing some songs wuth Steve and release the bugger. New Stones album might take another 2 years.
Jeroen
Yep, a Keith Richards solo album is always a quick deal, Steve and Keef are so fast together. The last time it took just 23 years. That's nothing.
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Rockman
Yeah that's about right GasLight …
it's just page after page of nothing ….
But ya wonder what it'd be like ridin'
shotgun on the Nitroglycerin Wagon with
these panicky bunch of guys …… KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hairball
"So it's all in it's early stages..."
Now that I see/read it again - weren't the early stages already discussed a few pages back? Was that the same interview or a different one?
re: sigh:
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georgelicks
We have a long way to go until we see the album out, the band won't release it until they are 100% satisfied with the material, they were not happy with ABB at the end, so no matter how long it takes with the new one.
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georgelicks
We have a long way to go until we see the album out, the band won't release it until they are 100% satisfied with the material, they were not happy with ABB at the end, so no matter how long it takes with the new one.
What was it they were not happy about with ABB?
Yes, they should take their time. Ideally, the result is then better than what each of them could have produced alone.
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Doxa on December 30, 2015, 17:01 on page 44 of this thread
Funny thing to consider is if Keith's claim in LIFE holds true - that Mick would wanted to record the whole album (A BIGGER BANG) again in a proper studio, but Keith and Was vetoed (because they liked the 'raw feel' on it, or something) - what it would have turned to be like? Had it been polished too much and over-produced? Or could the band have found some new spark and angle to the songs, developed them further, and proper musicians playing the proper instruments, etc?
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Doxa on December 30, 2015, 17:01 on page 44 of this thread
Funny thing to consider is if Keith's claim in LIFE holds true - that Mick would wanted to record the whole album (A BIGGER BANG) again in a proper studio, but Keith and Was vetoed (because they liked the 'raw feel' on it, or something) - what it would have turned to be like? Had it been polished too much and over-produced? Or could the band have found some new spark and angle to the songs, developed them further, and proper musicians playing the proper instruments, etc?
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Hairball
There were a couple decent/average tracks on ABB, but for every one of those there were five or six turds to accompany them.
Funny how Keith was disappointed after the fact - I recall him raving about it prior to and upon it's release. Can't blame him fore being overly positive with a recent work, but hindsight is 20/20.
While I've always liked his This Place is Empty, Infamy might be his worst track ever. Streets of Love both studio and live was a lowpoint for the band though - perhaps the all time lowest of their entire catalogue - surprised they decided to release it as a single when it should have been buried in a dust bin. But no matter what the overall low quality of the album is, it was nice to see them have some new material to tour with.
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runrudolph
I dont know the song See what happens.
Jeroen
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matxil
... But the real problem with ABB is that it's pointless. That is (IMHO) also the problem with this thread: why indeed even hope for another album?. ... What is the last time any rock guitar-based album was really fresh, new, exciting, interesting, innovative? It must have been somewhere in the 70s. Punk gave rock music a deserved kick, but it was too shallow to be interesting for more than a year or so. All the rest (grunge, emo, indie, crossover, whatever) has been a repetition of what had already been done. An album of Captain Beefheart of the 70s is more experimental than anything that has been done over the past 30 years. ABB was just: plain, simple, obvious rock music, like so many artists have done. Sure, it has that Stones sound that we love: the Keith-Ronnie weaving, the Charlie Watts touch, Mick's prancing and swagger, but still: no surprise.
Apart from that there is the cultural aspect of what an albums actually means. It were the Beatles, halfway the 60s, which made albums an Important Thing and for about 10 - 15 years, albums were considered the most important way a musician or a band could express themselves. Those days are over. Not for us, because most of us are "old" and still remember the days we bought an album in a record shop and would come home all excited looking at the cover for hours and listening to the album 20 times in a row. But that's just us.
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liddas
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And when it comes to the stones, to use your own words "the Keith-Ronnie weaving, the Charlie Watts touch, Mick's prancing and swagger" is all that really matters, after all.
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Hairball
BUT...the bottom line is... it's THE ROLLING STONES for crying out loud, and that's why some of us hope for another album!!!
Or even an EP. Or even just a single tune! Or even the piece of crap Mick posted on twitter recently!!! lol