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Licks was 2002
Grrrrr was 2012
Too early to tour behind a greatest hits compilation. It's amazing they toured behind the Licks and Grrrr moniker as it is.........and got away with it easily

They've done it three times, toured behind a hits comp. 1975 was the first.

They didnt really. I know 'Made in the shade' came out just after the tour started but it was still only a few months after IORR had come out and that album featured heavily in the setlist of that tour.

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"The cover art provided by UMG is certain to raise eyebrows with its phallic cartoon giraffe leering at the viewer with a thinned-down version of the Stones' trademark lapping tongue hanging from its mouth.
"That's Gerry," Jagger said, quickly adding "...with a G. He's our mascot."

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Yeah .. what I meant is there was only 'talk'... as an option being discussed (as he noted) .. Nothing serious and that they will look into marketing the new album with a time frame as oppossed to getting together for a compilation.

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Stones 'Still Hard'
rollingstone.com March 12, 2018

2018 might finally be the year for the Rolling Stones' long-promised follow-up to 2005's A Bigger Bang. The new album titled Still Hard is "an eclectic mix of styles which is really something they've never done before," says Grammy-winning co-producer and pioneering hipster Don Was. "We're the guys who put out albums of old blues numbers, right? Nobody expects us to mix it up after all these years," quipped Keith Richards recently on the phone from his manager's New York office. When asked if he heard of the recent online meme suggesting he was separated from birth with The CryptKeeper from the old Tales From the Crypt TV series, the guitarist erupted with choking laughter before cackling, "I'll devour your soul, boy." Stones front man Mick Jagger was beaming and not just from the news he's expecting his ninth child in September. The veteran rocker said he was "very pleased" that longtime keyboard player, arranger, and houseboy Matt Clifford had eight co-writing credits among the fifteen tracks on the new album. The cover art provided by UMG is certain to raise eyebrows with its phallic cartoon giraffe leering at the viewer with a thinned-down version of the Stones' trademark lapping tongue hanging from its mouth. "That's Gerry," Jagger said, quickly adding "...with a G. He's our mascot." When asked about retailers' statement that if they still stocked CDs they wouldn't carry suggestive artwork, Jagger replied, "That's just people's dirty minds, I can't help that. We just see a classic, noble beast who stands out in a crowd." The fifteen tracks of electronica, reggae, funk, blues, rock, country, and jazz contained on Still Hard do just that. When asked if this will finally be the last time, Jagger replied, "No, I was writing songs for the next album just the other night."

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"The cover art provided by UMG is certain to raise eyebrows with its phallic cartoon giraffe leering at the viewer with a thinned-down version of the Stones' trademark lapping tongue hanging from its mouth.
"That's Gerry," Jagger said, quickly adding "...with a G. He's our mascot."

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Yeah .. what I meant is there was only 'talk'... as an option being discussed (as he noted) .. Nothing serious and that they will look into marketing the new album with a time frame as oppossed to getting together for a compilation.

Yes Ian that's a possibility, and nothing is etched in stone yet regarding a compilation.
But in order to look into marketing the new album with a time frame, don't they need to have finished a new album first?

To keep the hopes alive, this recent quote from Rocky Dijon should help calm fears:

"You'll get it in the same time frame as any creative work, when it's done. For now, keep your eye on December and wait and see".

December is not that far away, and if it's finished by then we'll be gifted with a new Stones album!

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Stones 'Still Hard'
rollingstone.com March 12, 2018

2018 might finally be the year for the Rolling Stones' long-promised follow-up to 2005's A Bigger Bang. The new album titled Still Hard is "an eclectic mix of styles which is really something they've never done before," says Grammy-winning co-producer and pioneering hipster Don Was. "We're the guys who put out albums of old blues numbers, right? Nobody expects us to mix it up after all these years," quipped Keith Richards recently on the phone from his manager's New York office. When asked if he heard of the recent online meme suggesting he was separated from birth with The CryptKeeper from the old Tales From the Crypt TV series, the guitarist erupted with choking laughter before cackling, "I'll devour your soul, boy." Stones front man Mick Jagger was beaming and not just from the news he's expecting his ninth child in September. The veteran rocker said he was "very pleased" that longtime keyboard player, arranger, and houseboy Matt Clifford had eight co-writing credits among the fifteen tracks on the new album. The cover art provided by UMG is certain to raise eyebrows with its phallic cartoon giraffe leering at the viewer with a thinned-down version of the Stones' trademark lapping tongue hanging from its mouth. "That's Gerry," Jagger said, quickly adding "...with a G. He's our mascot." When asked about retailers' statement that if they still stocked CDs they wouldn't carry suggestive artwork, Jagger replied, "That's just people's dirty minds, I can't help that. We just see a classic, noble beast who stands out in a crowd." The fifteen tracks of electronica, reggae, funk, blues, rock, country, and jazz contained on Still Hard do just that. When asked if this will finally be the last time, Jagger replied, "No, I was writing songs for the next album just the other night."

You did too good a job, people will believe this )

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Licks was 2002
Grrrrr was 2012
Too early to tour behind a greatest hits compilation. It's amazing they toured behind the Licks and Grrrr moniker as it is.........and got away with it easily

They've done it three times, toured behind a hits comp. 1975 was the first.

They didnt really. I know 'Made in the shade' came out just after the tour started but it was still only a few months after IORR had come out and that album featured heavily in the setlist of that tour.

Aside from a few months in 2005-06 just after ABB came out, the Stones have effectively toured behind a greatest hits show since 2002 (although in their defence, whilst Licks was a retrospective tour, they did vary things away from the warhorse-heavy format in the arena and theatre gigs)

Effectively, the days of touring behind an album are long gone. Their focus in the 21st century has been as a nostalgia/heritage act celebrating their past, not as a 'current' band. In the 80s and 90s they did try to see themselves as that kind of band, somewhat in defiance of a concert audience who were mainly there to hear older songs. Theyve just basically accepted that their average audience demographic is older and not that open to being musically adventurous anymore (although personally I think they're a bit more open than the Stones like to think)

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Would be funny to see this spark rumours and be published in other "newsworthy" sources.

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Stones 'Still Hard'
rollingstone.com March 12, 2018

You did too good a job, people will believe this )

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Licks was 2002
Grrrrr was 2012
Too early to tour behind a greatest hits compilation. It's amazing they toured behind the Licks and Grrrr moniker as it is.........and got away with it easily

They've done it three times, toured behind a hits comp. 1975 was the first.

They didnt really. I know 'Made in the shade' came out just after the tour started but it was still only a few months after IORR had come out and that album featured heavily in the setlist of that tour.

It was two things, really. The tour but also because of what ABKCO released. Probably more so because of ABKCO than the tour.

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Licks was 2002
Grrrrr was 2012
Too early to tour behind a greatest hits compilation. It's amazing they toured behind the Licks and Grrrr moniker as it is.........and got away with it easily

They've done it three times, toured behind a hits comp. 1975 was the first.

They didnt really. I know 'Made in the shade' came out just after the tour started but it was still only a few months after IORR had come out and that album featured heavily in the setlist of that tour.

Aside from a few months in 2005-06 just after ABB came out, the Stones have effectively toured behind a greatest hits show since 2002 (although in their defence, whilst Licks was a retrospective tour, they did vary things away from the warhorse-heavy format in the arena and theatre gigs)

Effectively, the days of touring behind an album are long gone. Their focus in the 21st century has been as a nostalgia/heritage act celebrating their past, not as a 'current' band. In the 80s and 90s they did try to see themselves as that kind of band, somewhat in defiance of a concert audience who were mainly there to hear older songs. Theyve just basically accepted that their average audience demographic is older and not that open to being musically adventurous anymore (although personally I think they're a bit more open than the Stones like to think)

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Yeah, like some people on this board i am pissed about the possible release of a compilation album. they better make it interesting for the die-hard fans.
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Yeah, like some people on this board i am pissed about the possible release of a compilation album. they better make it interesting for the die-hard fans.
Jeroen

I could think of interesting compilation albums. For instance: "all good/great songs on mediocre albums which I don't want to listen to in their entirety" :
- Citadel
- She's A Rainbow
- Winter
- Melody
- Tie You Up (Pain of Love)
- Feel On Baby
- One Hit
- Sleep Tonight
- Baby Break It Down
- Thief In The Night
- Laugh, I Nearly Died

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Yeah, like some people on this board i am pissed about the possible release of a compilation album. they better make it interesting for the die-hard fans.
Jeroen

I could think of interesting compilation albums. For instance: "all good/great songs on mediocre albums which I don't want to listen to in their entirety" :
- Citadel
- She's A Rainbow
- Winter
- Melody
- Tie You Up (Pain of Love)
- Feel On Baby
- One Hit
- Sleep Tonight
- Baby Break It Down
- Thief In The Night
- Laugh, I Nearly Died

I wish the Stones would play this songs live!

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Sure... I agree .. You agree... Most here would agree .. but here is the thing .. The Stones (especially Jagger) would agree or accept this tag / lable. They would say they are still at least one-half 'current' or attempting to be a current act still.. .. ... (and there is not much a basis for that to back up their opinion on that anymore).

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Sure... I agree .. You agree... Most here would agree .. but here is the thing .. The Stones (especially Jagger) would agree or accept this tag / lable. They would say they are still at least one-half 'current' or attempting to be a current act still.. .. ... (and there is not much a basis for that to back up their opinion on that anymore).

When was the last time they suggested that ? It certainly used to be the case that Jagger paid lip service (no pun intended) to that ethos but they certainly havent alluded to it at any time in the last decade that I can see.

Its quite obvious by now that with all the anniversary concerts, expanded reissues, 'themed' shows (like SF live), archive releases, career spanning retrospective books, autobiographies, exhibitions, bringing back ex-band members for guest slots and concerts that have more often than not seen an entire show consist of songs that are over a quarter of a century old that they've long ago accepted that they're on a victory lap now. And with those things proving to be very financially lucrative, they're clearly ok with it.

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Licks was 2002
Grrrrr was 2012
Too early to tour behind a greatest hits compilation. It's amazing they toured behind the Licks and Grrrr moniker as it is.........and got away with it easily

They've done it three times, toured behind a hits comp. 1975 was the first.