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Doom & Gloom
Gotta Get a Grip
Living In A Ghost Town .....

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HHHaaaaaaaaaa....


Errrr yeah but has mick been
warning us of something acomin over
some of those last songs Back Of Hand... Doom.. Grip...Ghost...
while Keith more worried about who robbed his stash ...hhhaaaaa

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When Mick used autotune with SuperHeavy, I wondered if he'd ever use it with the Stones, and now he has; but I think it's used discreetly and well, only really dominating it spots, and with a euphonious result.

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Only critique is the tongue image, c'mon a tongue covered by a mask is obvious or at least gray black/tone. I don't get the rehash of burnt orange. Maybe a tongue with a thermometer.

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When Mick used autotune with SuperHeavy, I wondered if he'd ever use it with the Stones, and now he has; but I think it's used discreetly and well, only really dominating it spots, and with a euphonious result.

What about Doom & Gloom? It doesn't matter anyway, yeah

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Krish Sharma.

Ahh yeah - I think I recall him working with Mick and/or the Stones a couple of years ago on something...

Krishna was an Assistant Engineer on VOODOO LOUNGE and Chief Recording Engineer on A BIGGER BANG, the re-done EXILE and SOME GIRLS overdubs, and the two new tracks on GRRR. He also recorded and mixed BLUE AND LONESOME (his first mixing credit with the band, I believe).

Interestingly, he was NOT involved with "Gotta Get a Grip" or "England Lost." I suspect that's because when Matt Clifford has a producing credit with the Stones (as he does here), it's because he produces the pre-production demo track which is then used to build the finished track on with overdubs. Krishna Sharma is Don Was' guy. Since Keith vetoed those two songs (despite Ronnie and Charlie's participation), Don and Krishna never touched them.

Just guesswork, but it seems logical to me.

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Where to begin..

I can't state enough how happy it makes me to hear a brandnew Stones Song, that is that good, catchy and relevant in 2020! Since I got the word on the upcoming release here, I'm in a state of happy excitement.

Really love the song, and have been listening to it constantly over the past 48 hours. I think it's sounds very contemporary, but Stonesy at the same time, yet not forced, something that has not always been the case. Obviously the lyrics are very fitting, especially after most recent changes and surely help the song to resonate so well all over the world.

I have to say, apart from the song itself, it fills me with quite some pride, that my favourite band, 58 years after their founding, is still there, still on it, still working and still producing relevant gems like this one.

This one will likely be the song Mick has always been wanting to end up with, when he looked for modern sounds for the Stones.

Well done, chaps! Long live the Rolling Stones!

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Where to begin..

I can't state enough how happy it makes me to hear a brandnew Stones Song, that is that good, catchy and relevant in 2020! Since I got the word on the upcoming release here, I'm in a state of happy excitement.

Really love the song, and have been listening to it constantly over the past 48 hours. I think it's sounds very contemporary, but Stonesy at the same time, yet not forced, something that has not always been the case. Obviously the lyrics are very fitting, especially after most recent changes and surely help the song to resonate so well all over the world.

I have to say, apart from the song itself, it fills me with quite some pride, that my favourite band, 58 years after their founding, is still there, still on it, still working and still producing relevant gems like this one.

This one will likely be the song Mick has always been wanting to end up with, when he looked for modern sounds for the Stones.

Well done, chaps! Long live the Rolling Stones!

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Guitar track 1 (Keith): Right channel: The one that starts the song, and plays throughout. Rhythm and licks.
Guitar track 2 (Keith): Far right channel: Adds reggae/dub-ish licks in just the right places - several times.
Guitar track 3 (Keith): Center/left channel: Marks chord changes (E/D, I believe) where Mick is just strumming one chord. Plays a few licks, too.
Guitar track 4 (Mick): Center/Left Channel (slightly left of Keith's): The muddy-sounding guitar that strums chords throughout the song.
Guitar track 5 (Ronnie): The clean Strat-sound, mostly playing bluesy licks.

And that's that.

And all of this is just guessing, of course.

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(please, before you read...don't shoot me! LOL )

Great news indeed. The Stones are working again!

BUT....

I really don't like this song at all. Why?

- Lyrics aren't that good.
- Jagger's voice is still good, but he sings un-naturally.
- Dull beat and overrated.
- Backing vocals are annoying and simple.
- I think Ronnie and Mick are the only ones who plays guitars on this track. And Keith just small short simple lick here and there.
- The whole song is going nowhere.

So, there you have it. Glad that the Stones are doing well, but I rather skip their new stuff. Sorry.

My money goes for the GOATS HEAD SOUP REISSUE later this year.

I disagree...except for "Keith just small short simple lick here and there". It seems a 'Jagger/Clifford' song that i really like but where's Keef?!!!

Guitar track 1 (Keith): Right channel: The one that starts the song, and plays throughout. Rhythm and licks.
Guitar track 2 (Keith): Far right channel: Adds reggae/dub-ish licks in just the right places - several times.
Guitar track 3 (Keith): Center/left channel: Marks chord changes (E/D, I believe) where Mick is just strumming one chord. Plays a few licks, too.
Guitar track 4 (Mick): Center/Left Channel (slightly left of Keith's): The muddy-sounding guitar that strums chords throughout the song.
Guitar track 5 (Ronnie): The clean Strat-sound, mostly playing bluesy licks.

And that's that.

Those reggae licks are almost entirely reminiscent of the reggae licks Ronnie plays on "Cherry Oh Baby."

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I always had a bad relationship with vocals in general. It’s a sort of mental block. I have some general knowledge of music, but don’t understand singing, not even the basics. I can normally say if an instrument is out of tune, playing the wrong note or has a bad timing, but vocals are Arab to me!. If I had to sing lead to save my life, I would be dead!

All this to say, can one be so kind to explain where the auto tune part starts, and how do you recognize it?

Thank you!

C

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I can imagine argentine crowd singing with Mick "Oooooh....oooooh" and no stopping it
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I think it sounds a bit like Mick's song Lucky Day.

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Hairball
There's similarities between the Stones' new 'Ghost' tune and Blur's 'Top Man' from 25 years ago - at least the beginning part of the tune - the chanting/background vocals, as well as similar tempo and drum beat.





And there's the similarties to the Specials' Ghost Town (as several have mentioned), along with the chanting soldiers at the Wicked Witch's castle in the Wizard of Oz ..."O-EEE-O-E-OOO-O"...lol... I hear it clear as day,
But none of that takes away from the coolness of the Stone tune as most great artists lift bits and pieces here and there and make it their own just as the Stones have done here, and have done many times in the past.
Still not liking that autotune part on Micks vocals, and it seems to annoy me more and more with each listen, but there's enough redeeming factors here that thankfully it doesn't destroy the tune as a whole.
This single tune has generated 24 pages already...imagine if there was a WHOLE new album to discover, dissect, and critique...10 songs or so...maybe some day there will be....