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MileHigh
Well, there's no more record stores to go to when it gets released. What's a poor boy supposed to do?
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jahisnotdead
I still remember going to Tower and buying Bridges To Babylon at midnight. Good times.
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Hairball
Someone mentioned there should be a book written about the saga of this album - well I had a dream....
Titled The Imaginary Album (A Never Ending Work in Progress):
The tale of an imaginary album supposedly being worked on by a band of legends who tell tall tales to the press and fans in attempt to deceive them to thinking the band is still creative and functional. While the band knows their bread and butter is made from live shows and their legendary catalogue from decades ago, the press and fans will have none of it and demand something new. Trapped in a corner under pressure, the band gather and concoct a conspiracy to fool everyone outside of their circle in to thinking they're actually working on a new album!
Join in the laughter while the story describes the band hitting an imaginary wall, including imaginary meetings at the studio, followed by an imaginary disagreement between the two head honchos over what songs to include, and also an imaginary statement from their record label calling their recent work "uneven". The hilarious ups and downs continue while the concocted stories become more and more surreal...(the lead singer has become a perfectionist who is holding everything up!). Eventually the guitar player hatches a plan and convinces the rest to release a single new tune after five years in an attempt to silence the press and the fans momentarily, but seemingly this backfires as the song is so good that the press and fans demand more! The period of peace and quiet surrounding the great new tune doesn't last long as the questions continue. "Where is the new album"? can be heard from every fan and reporter across the land!
- A Deluxe version of the book includes 100 blank pages provided to the reader to fill in the rest of the story. Nobody knows exactly where and when it will end, but it's all imaginary fun so it doesn't really matter!
- Super Deluxe edition included two blank cd's, two blank cassettes, and a double album featuring nothing but imaginary silence.
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jbwelda
Are you wondering whether CDs are worth buying, or are you wondering whether music is worth buying anymore? If its the physical artifact you are talking about, then I can see not wanting to bother with the physical product, downloading the music might be sufficient. Thats mostly what I do at Amazon, many music products are available for instant download (mp3 format) while you wait for the actual product to arrive. To me, it almost makes the actual product redundant, until I want to play it on a decent system anyway. The mp3 suffices for my computer and that is kind of increasingly what I listen to. Personally, I like the artifact but thats because I have had the collectors disease long time now.
But note you are still buying the music, unless what you are wondering about is whether you should bother to pay for music, or just, more or less, steal it. In that case I think it only right to support the artists by buying their music, not getting free downloads (unless they themselves are giving them away of course) out of some pirate site. I know a number of people who have a music "collection" almost exclusively made up of shady download source material, who are very proud of its completeness or something, but to me its just a memorial to a cheapskate who doesn't really support the music he says he loves so much.
And thats totally aside from the issue of physical product taking up space, weighing one down, etc.
I do think you agree with me and I am pretty certain you are talking the first case and not the second, just wanted to make the distinction.
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NilsHolgersson
I'm thinking they should release a double album in 2021: one side has their new stuff, and one side has some of their old songs but rerecorded with guests. Like Wild Horses with Taylor Swift, Miss You with Ed Sheeran, Satisfaction with Ariana Grande, etc. It would introduce them to a whole new audience. Kids are already wearing the Stones tongue t-shirts, they would love those duets and the Stones would trend on spotify.
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mariano
50 outtakes
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50 outtakes
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NilsHolgersson
I'm thinking they should release a double album in 2021: one side has their new stuff, and one side has some of their old songs but rerecorded with guests. Like Wild Horses with Taylor Swift, Miss You with Ed Sheeran, Satisfaction with Ariana Grande, etc. It would introduce them to a whole new audience. Kids are already wearing the Stones tongue t-shirts, they would love those duets and the Stones would trend on spotify.
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NilsHolgersson
I'm thinking they should release a double album in 2021: one side has their new stuff, and one side has some of their old songs but rerecorded with guests. Like Wild Horses with Taylor Swift, Miss You with Ed Sheeran, Satisfaction with Ariana Grande, etc. It would introduce them to a whole new audience. Kids are already wearing the Stones tongue t-shirts, they would love those duets and the Stones would trend on spotify.
Please no! The Stones should stick with their target audience
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NilsHolgersson
I'm thinking they should release a double album in 2021: one side has their new stuff, and one side has some of their old songs but rerecorded with guests. Like Wild Horses with Taylor Swift, Miss You with Ed Sheeran, Satisfaction with Ariana Grande, etc. It would introduce them to a whole new audience. Kids are already wearing the Stones tongue t-shirts, they would love those duets and the Stones would trend on spotify.
Please no! The Stones should stick with their target audience
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DiegoGlimmerStones
From a new Interview with Chuck:
Since The Stones have been working on a new studio album in spurts for a few years now, I ask Leavell about the nature of those tracks.
“You have to understand I haven’t been involved in all the recordings,” Leavell says, “so there’s a lot of things that I haven’t even heard that I know they’ve worked on. But what I have worked on I think is quite diverse. There’s stuff that’s rockin’ and hard-drivin’, and there’s stuff that’s ballad-like. And there’s some quirky fun ones – the Stones are always known for not being afraid to try things. My contributions have been 95 percent on the piano, which I really love doing.”
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NilsHolgersson
I'm thinking they should release a double album in 2021: one side has their new stuff, and one side has some of their old songs but rerecorded with guests. Like Wild Horses with Taylor Swift, Miss You with Ed Sheeran, Satisfaction with Ariana Grande, etc. It would introduce them to a whole new audience. Kids are already wearing the Stones tongue t-shirts, they would love those duets and the Stones would trend on spotify.
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NilsHolgersson
I'm thinking they should release a double album in 2021: one side has their new stuff, and one side has some of their old songs but rerecorded with guests. Like Wild Horses with Taylor Swift, Miss You with Ed Sheeran, Satisfaction with Ariana Grande, etc. It would introduce them to a whole new audience. Kids are already wearing the Stones tongue t-shirts, they would love those duets and the Stones would trend on spotify.
I think they had such a concept in mind during 50 And Counting tour when they had all these 'hot' guests duetting with them, and they did mostly different songs as well (Lady Gaga, Eddie Shearan, Taylor Swift, Kate Perry, etc.). I recall reading about it at the time, but was there some contractual issues standing in the way or something. Some of it was realized in HONK, though.
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retired_dog
Knowing how this business works I'm pretty sure that 'contractual issues' were the smallest problem (if any at all). Listening to the available audience recordings I think it's apparent that most of the performances themselves don't cut the mustard, a thing they may have realized themselves when listening to the actual tapes a bit closer.
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retired_dog
Knowing how this business works I'm pretty sure that 'contractual issues' were the smallest problem (if any at all). Listening to the available audience recordings I think it's apparent that most of the performances themselves don't cut the mustard, a thing they may have realized themselves when listening to the actual tapes a bit closer.
I agree. Probably one of those things that sounded good in a theory - 'let's give it a try' - but the outcome was nothing to praise about ('forget it..')
Bot what goes for those potential contractual issues it is interesting that in Spotify the duet with Eddie Sheeran in HONK ("Beast of Burden") is listed but not any streams is counted. I don't know if the song is there at all to listen to or not, but that's odd.
Most likely those stream numbers would be tremendous if counted....
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retired_dog
That's strange indeed, because it's on the physical release obviously, but not available on Spotify. It's shown in the tracklist, but is not playable.
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maumau
thank god at least we have been spared the duet record
up until now
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MileHigh
Well, there's no more record stores to go to when it gets released. What's a poor boy supposed to do?