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stargroover
This album is gonna be high on reggae.Maybe they can unearth some unheard collaborations with Peter Tosh circa 78,and some of Keef's stuff with the Upsetter.Let's do this thing right.
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stargroover
This album is gonna be high on reggae.Maybe they can unearth some unheard collaborations with Peter Tosh circa 78,and some of Keef's stuff with the Upsetter.Let's do this thing right.
Hopefully you're kidding.
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GerardHennessy
You make a very very good point indeed. That it may be too late now to add to what has gone before.
Behind all the frustrating hints and vague suggestions that 'we are working on stuff that we need to finalise..' are the facts and realities of the current situation. The band members are getting older. Their creative energy will not flow as quickly as it once did. There appears to be a difference of opinion between Keith and Mick about musical direction. The band are focusing on non-studio activities - specifically touring and live performance. Any time outside of performing is taken up with preparing material in the vaults for release. This might be old concert recordings or unreleased studio material used to embellish anniversary box sets. And of course Keith has been refreshing and upgrading some of his solo material such as the Main Offender re-release.
With all of that going on, and with Charlie's death still fresh in the mind of everyone, it is hardly surprising that a new album has slipped a long way down the list of priorities. And a further sad, but unavoidable, reality is that any new album will not sell in huge quantities. Certainly not enough to earn a long chart life, or in sufficient numbers to warrant a large investment in time and effort by a group of veteran musicians. It will sell fairly well in the first couple of weeks and then disappear without trace.
And that, if it happens, will be a real shame!
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bitusa2012
And yet chart success, sales, or lack of them, don’t stop Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young and other older acts from CREATING something and getting it out. It’s honestly embarrassing not that The Stones, the world Greatest Rock and Roll band for 60 years, can’t, and haven’t.
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HotStuff92
The Rolling Stones have two creative forces driving the band with Mick and Keith, and it's no secret they haven't seen eye-to-eye creatively for some time now.
It doesn't surprise me that they've apparently hit a wall, likely on multiple occasions, in creating a new album.
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GerardHennessy
So many good insightful comments by other contributors here. For me, I think it is a real shame that the band - basically Mick and Keith - cannot get it together for one last hurrah. One last new album to send us off into whatever time we, and the band, have now left. And if there are insurmountable creative differences between them, why not adopt a kind of Tattoo You approach? But instead of a fast side and a slow side, take a Mick side and a Keith side on the new album. It might even be fun.
Of course this entire discussion is totally pointless. The band will do whatever they choose to do, regardless of what anyone else thinks. Their thinking appears to be 'We are still a viable performing entity. We enjoy it. Many hundreds of thousands of fans enjoy it. We make good money. Why change a winning formula? And for those who want new product, we have various odds and ends in the vaults that we can tidy-up and release...'
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retired_dog
It may well be that in their mind, they regard Blue And Lonesome and at least the Exile, SG & TY bonus discs as "new albums":
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retired_dog
It may well be that in their mind, they regard Blue And Lonesome and at least the Exile, SG & TY bonus discs as "new albums":
Plus the GHS Bonus-Disc (with 3 "new" Tracks) in 2020 ....
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Hairball
From Don Was
"We probably have 40 (tracks), and depending on the 10 we choose to finish, the character of the album will be determined. Right now it can go any way.
There's some really good stuff in there, and there's a sense that making a good album is not good enough, it's got to be great".
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Hairball
From Don Was
"We probably have 40 (tracks), and depending on the 10 we choose to finish, the character of the album will be determined. Right now it can go any way.
There's some really good stuff in there, and there's a sense that making a good album is not good enough, it's got to be great".
What I like most about this is, reading between the lines, even though they say they have 40 tracks, they want to whittle it down to 10...TEN!
That seemingly means they realize they don't need to release a double album's worth of material.
This still may not happen, but if it does maybe it'll be a little tighter than the last 3 studio albums of non-covers.
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Hairball
From Don Was
"We probably have 40 (tracks), and depending on the 10 we choose to finish, the character of the album will be determined. Right now it can go any way.
There's some really good stuff in there, and there's a sense that making a good album is not good enough, it's got to be great".
What I like most about this is, reading between the lines, even though they say they have 40 tracks, they want to whittle it down to 10...TEN!
That seemingly means they realize they don't need to release a double album's worth of material.
This still may not happen, but if it does maybe it'll be a little tighter than the last 3 studio albums of non-covers.
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Big Al
520 pages of... nothing.
I have decided to boycott this thread until the day it becomes a ‘sticky’ and we therefore know that something is imminent: a new album. Will anyone join me?
So far, there’s literally no substance in these pages, whatsoever.
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Big Al
520 pages of... nothing.
I have decided to boycott this thread until the day it becomes a ‘sticky’ and we therefore know that something is imminent: a new album. Will anyone join me?
So far, there’s literally no substance in these pages, whatsoever.
Why just a boycott and not a hunger strike till the day it makes to a "sticky"?
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Big Al
520 pages of... nothing.
I have decided to boycott this thread until the day it becomes a ‘sticky’ and we therefore know that something is imminent: a new album. Will anyone join me?
So far, there’s literally no substance in these pages, whatsoever.
Why just a boycott and not a hunger strike till the day it makes it to a "sticky"?
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Big Al
520 pages of... nothing.
I have decided to boycott this thread until the day it becomes a ‘sticky’ and we therefore know that something is imminent: a new album. Will anyone join me?
So far, there’s literally no substance in these pages, whatsoever.
Why just a boycott and not a hunger strike till the day it makes it to a "sticky"?
I'm not boycotting because it isn't a 'sticky' I'm boycotting because it's 520 pages of emptiness! My point about it being a 'sticky', is that it'll be the moment we know a release is a definite reality. It'll mean genuine news; not 520 pages of wastage!
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GetYerAngie
I know, Big Al, I know.
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Big Al
520 pages of... nothing.
I have decided to boycott this thread until the day it becomes a ‘sticky’ and we therefore know that something is imminent: a new album. Will anyone join me?
So far, there’s literally no substance in these pages, whatsoever.
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Doxa
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Nothing? I could not disagree more. 520 pages full of speculation based on smallest hints, hopefulness, anger, frustration, OT discussion... IORR at its very best.
Soon it will be all over. Once the album is released, there will a couple dozen pages of first over-praisal and big fiesta, but all of that will be soon reduced to collective disappointment (only some Hairball will be happy to point out how low the sales are) . And after a month the whole thing will be forgotten (like any new album by old catalogue artists). After a year or so, some posts by biggest diehards are shared discussing how the album rates against A BIGGER BANG. The rest couldn't care less.
- Doxa