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Bashlets
For exile, jagger did Larry King live, and it was a week of stones stuff on Jimmy Fallon with both mick and Keith showing up separately. I don’t remember much push behind Some girls as far as interviews. They did a one night theater run of Some Girls in Texas and that was about it as far as I remember
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GasLightStreet
Doxa, I'm going to walk out on a limb that doesn't even need to be walked out on: just the GHS deluxe reissue in its entirety will have faded in its streaming numbers by mid October at the latest: it was a huge flavor of the week thing. Scarlet had a lot of press because it crossed thanks to Jimmy Page.
If All The Rage had been released first it probably would have close to equal numbers it has now. Just another unreleased Stones song.
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Doxa
I think the marketing and promoting effort for EXILE was extraordinary, even if we count actual new studio albums (which, of course, were most efficiently marketed by touring in the past). Not just the amount of interviews they did (especially Mick), but also ones in a rather high profile live shows (Fallon, US Today, Larry King). One important factor was STONES IN EXILE document, which they promoted pretty heavily, for example, by entering its premiere. Jagger held a press conference for it in Cannes. Not that it was actually seen initially by that many but it gathered quite a lot of attention in media. There were lots of stories about the 'myth' of EXILE in the press at the time.
The single and video of "Plundered My Soul" was released about a month before the album, getting some nice airplay, and thereby building up the expectations.
Altogether I think they did a good job and managed to build up a nice hype over EXILE.
But with SOME GIRLS it was different. Probably the idea of SOME GIRLS IN TEXAS was to act similarly as STONES IN EXILE did, but seemingly it didn't get that much media interest, and it really it wasn't promoted that much. Just released. Like the album itself. Yeah, Mick and Keith gave some interviews to music journals but nothing even close to EXILE promotion. The single "No Spare Parts" was released a couple of days after, and the video almost a month later.
Why was that?
Probably the timing - November 2011 - was not the best. Jagger had just two months earlier relaesed SuperHeavy album and had spend some time promoting that. Compare that to EXILE project in which Mick had spent about a half year and doing not much else. Keith was in the middle of making CROSSEYED HEART. Then they had different Stones ongoing and upcoming projects as well. They started to release 'bootleg series' with UMG/GoogleMusic - for which Mick and Keith filmed a series of interviews at about the same time, and the relaese of BRUSSELS AFFAIR clashed with SOME GIRLS project. And also at the same time probably both the band and UMG were busy planning the 50th Anniversary year, knowing that the 'big fish' is there. Lots of things were to come. Keith, for example, having just got his chops back, had probably in his mind the upcoming jam in London than going to tv shows to talk about some decades old album (by contrast, when promoting EXILE Keith was more a less a retired musician not having much else than a story to tell - like LIFE, released later in the yaer, literally showed).
It is a good remark by GasLightStreet that EXILE wasn't reissued in the 1971-2005 catalogue by Universal. They seemingly had the deluxe reissue of EXILE in mind alraedy then. That makes one quess that probably they initially considered EXILE project as an individual effort (no contract for other deluxe editions). Or like testing the waters. And then, as it turned out to be such a success, they quickly decided to follow its example. Like Charlie said:
"Oh, I loved it when they said, "You're No. 1". Mick and I thought it was going to be about ten 50-year-olds buying this thing. It's amazing, really, and the documentary was OK; I thought they did a very good job. Mick as well, he did a lot of work on that."
Anyway, as it turned out to be, SOME GIRLS was a pretty rushed project compared to EXILE. STICKY FINGERS years later was a different deal once again. But at that time they were a touring band again, so its promoting was handled differently (and, for example, Mick wasn't interest in finishing old demos any longer). With GOATS HEAD SOUP we are back more to EXILE kind of (heavy) promotion (and 'care-taking' altogether like it is a brandnew Stones studio album). Surely corona has some kind of role there too (although the project was planned, including the opening of the London shop, and seemingly mostly done before it).
So my guess is that SOME GIRLS Deluxe project was a kind of quick project just to follow the example of EXILE and hope for the best with not much extra effort
- Doxa
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retired_dog
I doubt that Some Girls Deluxe was just a quick project without much extra effort involved, though. The promotional tasks are one thing. The other thing, however is the time invested by the band and Jagger in particular to listen to the tracks, decide on which ones were to use, write lyrics for a number of them and record new vocals to replace the old guide vocals, so I guess for the band, the amount of work was more or less the same as for Exile.
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GasLightStreet
Doxa, I'm going to walk out on a limb that doesn't even need to be walked out on: just the GHS deluxe reissue in its entirety will have faded in its streaming numbers by mid October at the latest: it was a huge flavor of the week thing. Scarlet had a lot of press because it crossed thanks to Jimmy Page.
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Manofwealthandtaste
I have a question regarding the red vinyl limited edition......
How come Star Star does not appear on the track listing on the inner sleeve?
Or is this an error and I have the only copy like this, making it a very limited edition?!
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Captain Teague
I do not know if this has been discussed earlier but I feel the Glyn Johns remixes on Disc 2 are a complete waste of disc space. Maybe it is my equipment but I do not think they offer anything special or significantly different.
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Captain Teague
I do not know if this has been discussed earlier but I feel the Glyn Johns remixes on Disc 2 are a complete waste of disc space.
I like this Tracklist of Disc 2: [iorr.org] .
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Title5Take1
What took longer to shoot, the CRISS CROSS video or this BUTTON TO BUTTON video by the Albumen Streaks (otherwise known as the White Stripes: [m.youtube.com]
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jbwelda
Got the clear vinyl set from RS dot com today. I have to say they know how to ship records, I give them that much. Well protected inside purpose built packaging, bulletproof pretty much.
Now I am waiting on a new Shure M97xE cartridge to replace my 70s V15 type 4 Shure. I pulled that one out of retirement a couple years ago, its firing on all cylinders but the stylus is kind of questionable. Am expecting great things from this new cartridge, it is more or less the successor to the V15 line.
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treaclefingers
Couldn't find the clear vinyl any longer, appeared 'sold out' through RollingStones.com.