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Doxa
So this is a 'slow blues song'? I thought that category would refer to things like "Love In Vain", "CS Blues" or "Down In The Hole"... but if this is a 'slow blues song' I would say that things like "Hand of Fate", "Start Me Up" or "Gotta Get A Grip" are also...
Anyway, could it be that this might be the song that that hot current pop producer, was his name Falk or something, described as "not having played so many blues chords in his life" or something?
- Doxa
Listen to the beat and not the energy. It's 'Mannish Boy-slow'
Well, I wouldn't call Muddy's original "Mannish Boy" a 'slow blues song' either, or that would make about every blues song 'slow' - which in case wouldn't add anything descriptive to the term 'blues'... It is the energy and the groove in the Muddy original - and similar Chicago electric blues material - that the Stones have so brilliantly applied to their own originals, the ones we call 'rockers'. That is, the Stones many times manage to create an intense atmosphere, which hides pretty well how slow the tempo actually is....
Of course, if the criterion is speed metal or something....
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dmay
Haven't I heard this in some form before? It strikes me as nothing particularly new in sound. Maybe that's what people want.
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Hairball
Musically OK, lyrically average, vocally sounds like Mick's over-exaggeration is back in full force.
Overall sounds slightly familiar, but can't pin down from where (yet)...maybe we'll get to hear more.
Keep cool. It's just work-in-progress. It's obvious that Mick is singing live to a prepared backing track. In all fairness, if you want to slag it, wait for the finished product.
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bitusa2012
Sounds a bit dull to my ears. Mick again in his over-singing Mick parody style.
I wish he’d just sing, instead of s-a-i—n-n-n-g-h (best way I could write an over-exaggerated “sing”)...
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Ram
I agree with the over singing part. Just sing the vocals like you know how Mick.
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peoplewitheyes
So lonely, just Jags on his own (again).
The Stones used to be a gang.
Yeah, I know, they are isolating, but I'm not excited by this constant drip drip of photos of him alone playing some music.
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IanBillen
It is 2020 .. not 1968. People make records differently now ... much differently ...
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Doxa
So this is a 'slow blues song'? I thought that category would refer to things like "Love In Vain", "CS Blues" or "Down In The Hole"... but if this is a 'slow blues song' I would say that things like "Hand of Fate", "Start Me Up" or "Gotta Get A Grip" are also...
Anyway, could it be that this might be the song that that hot current pop producer, was his name Falk or something, described as "not having played so many blues chords in his life" or something?
- Doxa
Listen to the beat and not the energy. It's 'Mannish Boy-slow'
Well, I wouldn't call Muddy's original "Mannish Boy" a 'slow blues song' either, or that would make about every blues song 'slow' - which in case wouldn't add anything descriptive to the term 'blues'... It is the energy and the groove in the Muddy original - and similar Chicago electric blues material - that the Stones have so brilliantly applied to their own originals, the ones we call 'rockers'. That is, the Stones many times manage to create an intense atmosphere, which hides pretty well how slow the tempo actually is....
Of course, if the criterion is speed metal or something....
- Doxa
What would you call Confessing The Blues, then? Because that's the landscape we're in here.
I would guess 105/110 beats per minute (SMU is 122). I could be wrong, though - it's a muddy recording
The guitars sounded a tad rusty, and Mick could work on the melody. But at least it's a blues song - and that's great!
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trevormcmullin
Hot Rocks, Nobody cares what you think. No One.
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Hot Rocks, Nobody cares what you think. No One.
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trevormcmullin
Hot Rocks, Nobody cares what you think. No One.
Why not? I do. Speak for yourself.
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IanBillen
It is 2020 .. not 1968. People make records differently now ... much differently ...
Yeah, and some bands don't release any new albums of their own music at all these days - well, there's at least one band I can think of.
15 years and counting for the Stones...in the doldrums...without an album of originals...maybe another new single some day (?)...that's the best we could hope for at this point....
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trevormcmullin
If Mick/The Stones get political and throw shade at President Trump, I certainly won't be purchasing it.
Another one pretending to be a Stones fan. I guess you didn't purchase ABB either (Sweet Neocon ...). Get real ...
I didn’t but to me it’s about the art. I think he’s missing the target if the song is anti-Trump. He doesn’t have to be pro- or anti anything. Why not just write more abstract or introspective lyrics. Or maybe about some distant memory. How politics used to be black n white and about fiscal policies (Quoting Jagger) and now it’s more about culture revolutions vs western civilisation.