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bakersfield
BRIDGES TO BABYLON would be much better with fewer songs, which makes it typical of the band’s later work
Remove anybody seen my baby, always suffering and too tight, and you have a pretty solid album.
If only the band had taken the same approach a few years earlier, then some of the great songs that made it onto Wandering Spirit and main offender
could have graced a full band album.
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Topi
Yeah, like, what's your favorite ice cream?
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bakersfield
BRIDGES TO BABYLON would be much better with fewer songs, which makes it typical of the band’s later work
Remove anybody seen my baby, always suffering and too tight, and you have a pretty solid album.
If only the band had taken the same approach a few years earlier, then some of the great songs that made it onto Wandering Spirit and main offender
could have graced a full band album.
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bakersfield
BRIDGES TO BABYLON would be much better with fewer songs, which makes it typical of the band’s later work
Remove anybody seen my baby, always suffering and too tight, and you have a pretty solid album.
If only the band had taken the same approach a few years earlier, then some of the great songs that made it onto Wandering Spirit and main offender
could have graced a full band album.
I agree about less songs.
The band should have focused their strengths on a few rather than trying to 'supersize' it ultimately diluting the album with too many. Quality over quantity as the old saying goes.
I imagine/hope that the new album will be a bit more restrained with more focus on quality, rather than being a clogged up hodgepodge/mish mash consisting of too many half baked ideas.
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bakersfield
BRIDGES TO BABYLON would be much better with fewer songs, which makes it typical of the band’s later work
Remove anybody seen my baby, always suffering and too tight, and you have a pretty solid album.
If only the band had taken the same approach a few years earlier, then some of the great songs that made it onto Wandering Spirit and main offender
could have graced a full band album.
I agree about less songs.
The band should have focused their strengths on a few rather than trying to 'supersize' it ultimately diluting the album with too many. Quality over quantity as the old saying goes.
I imagine/hope that the new album will be a bit more restrained with more focus on quality, rather than being a clogged up hodgepodge/mish mash consisting of too many half baked ideas.
Very well! Will you then let me be the one to choose songs to be used? My taste is, of course, excellent!
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Wow. I come on here and BTB is being praised. It is an oddity. The production experiments are dated. It's not a very 'Stonesy' record. I never listen to it. To me Steel Wheels is the last real Stones album. Not an A album, but a good B Plus. No great single, but over all a great effort with the real band.
I've always found a cut or two on every Stones album Post Wyman. Plus the odd singles like Ghost Town and Doom and Gloom. None of them come up to the level of the Golden Age Stones (1963-1990). It would be interesting to only know the band by their Post Wyman output. My ears just aren't trained that way.
I’ve actually got high praise for that one as well, with its phenomenal Gered-shot cover and Ruby Tuesday, my all-time favorite Stones song and LSTNT, it’s a real classic album. Though I admit I prefer the UK version for My Obesession, Connection, Back Street Girl, and Yesterday’s Papers.
I meant Bridges To Babylon. (Unless you're pulling my leg).
Instead of pulling of legs, this concerns a correct identification of the abbreviations BTB and B2B, as that distinction has been introduced here.
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bakersfield
BRIDGES TO BABYLON would be much better with fewer songs, which makes it typical of the band’s later work
Remove anybody seen my baby, always suffering and too tight, and you have a pretty solid album.
If only the band had taken the same approach a few years earlier, then some of the great songs that made it onto Wandering Spirit and main offender
could have graced a full band album.
I agree about less songs.
The band should have focused their strengths on a few rather than trying to 'supersize' it ultimately diluting the album with too many. Quality over quantity as the old saying goes.
I imagine/hope that the new album will be a bit more restrained with more focus on quality, rather than being a clogged up hodgepodge/mish mash consisting of too many half baked ideas.
Very well! Will you then let me be the one to choose songs to be used? My taste is, of course, excellent!
I think Keith and Mick are more than qualified enough to do that if they would just work together more closely, rather than being in competition with each other which seemed to be the case with Bridges, ABB, etc.
That said, it would be interesting if they actually invited fans to give their input on the new album - like the song vote at concerts - but it would probably only add fuel to the fire of disagreements within the band.
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Bjorn
Personally, I don´t understand all these fights - "This song is better than that!" and so on. We are all different. We like different songs. Isn´t that cool, a good thing? If someone 2000 miles away - as a result of your opinion - finally ends up liking your songs - does it make YOU feel better? "Ah, at last...he got it...therefore I count!" Come on! We are all different.
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GasLightStreet
It might be a bit more simple than that - just wishing for new music as they enjoy making it, with the observant reality being that it seems that Keith enjoys it more than Mick.
When he does, anyway.
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bakersfield
BRIDGES TO BABYLON would be much better with fewer songs, which makes it typical of the band’s later work
Remove anybody seen my baby, always suffering and too tight, and you have a pretty solid album.
If only the band had taken the same approach a few years earlier, then some of the great songs that made it onto Wandering Spirit and main offender
could have graced a full band album.
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bakersfield
BRIDGES TO BABYLON would be much better with fewer songs, which makes it typical of the band’s later work
Remove anybody seen my baby, always suffering and too tight, and you have a pretty solid album.
If only the band had taken the same approach a few years earlier, then some of the great songs that made it onto Wandering Spirit and main offender
could have graced a full band album.
I'd cut 2 songs from B2B (Might As Well Get Juiced, Thief In The Night):
Flip The Switch
Anybody Seen My Baby?
Low Down
Already Over Me
Gunface
You Don't Have To Mean It
Out Of Control
Saint Of Me
Always Suffering
Too Tight
How Can I Stop
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I'd do the same for VL & ABB. Make them shorter. I'd love for the new album to be 12 songs, 45-50 minutes with 2-3 songs as bonus tracks for various releases.
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VoodooLounge13
I love Thief In The Night, and I also love how it flows right into How Can I Stop!!! I feel as if I'm in a Jazz club every time I hear that 1-2.
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Gunface is the only track I would have cut off the album. Horrible track.
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Gunface is the only track I would have cut off the album. Horrible track.
Great vocal performance, Mick really spits and snarls this one out, and the bridge is especially good:
I taught her everything
I taught her how to dream
I taught her everything
I'm going to teach her how to scream
I taught her all she knows
I taught her how to lie
I taught her everything
I'm going to teach her how to cry
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jigsaw69
Just said on Tour 23 thread.....
New Tour with a new single from a forthcoming new album would just be the best Stones news for years !!!!!!
BTW VoodooLounge13.....I love Thief in the Night too......
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I love Thief In The Night, and I also love how it flows right into How Can I Stop!!! I feel as if I'm in a Jazz club every time I hear that 1-2.
Same, the atmosphere and vibe of that segue is sublime.
I can't understand people saying they'd want to cull tracks off albums to "improve" them. For me, more Stones is always better. I hardly ever skip anything by them. For the new release, give me a quadruple album that crosses genres, styles and production techniques. Make it sprawling, massive, and challenging. I never want to hear less of my favourite band.
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Rocky Dijon
You guys don't get it. If the new album that we stream and purchase multiple CD and vinyl versions of only runs 30 minutes and has ten songs, then we can spend four times as much collecting all of the bonus tracks on various platforms and formats. After that, we can complain that some of the bonus tracks should have been on the album instead of the ten songs they picked. Meantime, a few people will point out they just burned a CD-R for their car with all of the extra songs and that their album has 18 tracks and runs 79 minutes.
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Jimmy C
Keith just posted on social media a belated Happy New Year to everyone and said new music is coming. And hopefully fingers crossed they will see everyone this year.