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MelBelli
There’s an interview with Mick on SiriusXM’s Classic Rewind. Next single is “Mess It Up,” Oct. 17.
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Rockman
don't take critics too seriously .....
A lot of 'em just cut/paste and
rearrange the sentence of the guy before 'em ....
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Rockman
don't take critics too seriously .....
A lot of 'em just cut/paste and
rearrange the sentence of the guy before 'em ....
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MelBelli
There’s an interview with Mick on SiriusXM’s Classic Rewind. Next single is “Mess It Up,” Oct. 17.
Yes, a dance track! With Charlie Watts counting
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doitywoik
Here's a review from Austria newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten
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doitywoik
Here's a review from Austria newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten
The Rolling Stones rocked once again
On the new album "Hackney Diamonds", the Rolling Stones reflect on their core competencies. That works surprisingly well.
BERNHARD FLIEHER · 6 OCTOBER 2023
61 years after the Rolling Stones were founded, a new album is ready: "Hackney Diamonds" will be released on 20 October. In the good moments of the twelve songs, the Stones - with Ron Wood and Keith Richards on guitars - reflect on their core competence: bluesy foundation with rocking forward momentum. Mick Jagger sings without larmoyance: "Too young for dying, too old to lose." There are reminiscences, contributions from colleagues like Lady Gaga or Paul McCartney and a "Rolling Stones Blues".
Old people are to be given the seats. But what if, like the Rolling Stones, they insist on driving the bus at 80? Then you make room. Out of politeness. And when they step on the gas, also out of amazement. Two weeks before the album "Hackney Diamonds" went on sale, you could hear what the Stones recorded in their very old days. Anyway, it was to be heard when you were emailed a link with an expiry date by the record company. So a night of pre-listening to the twelve Stones songs before they disappeared again for a fortnight. Conclusion: It rocks properly a few times, a few songs stray, a few, the best, are rooted in the dirty existentialism of the blues. Here and there something like a retrospective can be detected, a bit of malaise in the present, which comes through in the heavy rock in the song "Whole Wide World". The Stones have been quoting themselves since the mid-1970s anyway.
"Hackney Diamonds" is the first album with original songs since the terrible "Bigger Bang". If you want to go back to an album where the majority of the songs were good, you'll be lost until "Some Girls" from 1978. With Lady Gaga, representative of the modern age, and Stevie Wonder, dinosaur like the Stones themselves, they plunge into an opulent soul and gospel mass with "Sweet Sound of Heaven" that sprawls to almost ten minutes, a kind of prayer that is not muttered with folded hands but shot from Jagger's hip. "Teil Me Straight" shuffles along listlessly and sounds like a draft. But: it is sung by Keith Richards. "Dreamy Skies" is a gentle, folky fanfare featuring the great Hank Williams, a quasi declaration of love and world renunciation in one. Of course, you have already heard these songs somewhere similar on a Stones record. The band has been around for 61 years. And you haven't heard the Stones together with Paul McCartney on an album for just as long. He was the bass player in the other über-band of the 1960s. Oh yes, for all those who have trouble remembering: that was the Beatles. The song "Bite My Head Off" then sounds as if the old heroes have boyishly driven each other to fresh life.
Homage is also paid to the past life, because the late drummer Charlie Watts plays two more drums. One of the songs, "Mess it Up", unfortunately rattles along as if the sound of the drums came from beyond the Styx. In the good moments, the Stones remember their core competence on "Hackney Diamonds": bluesy foundation, enriched with rocking forward momentum, which puts Ron Wood and Keith Richards in position on the guitars. Always marvellous! Thematically, it's all about manageable topics: Woman gone, woman here, lust, loss, the world gone mad. "Angry", "Get Close" (with Elton John on piano) or "Driving Me Too Hard" tell about it. After at least two decades of boring, run-of-the-mill rocking, they had sharpened the core competence with which they roll off once again on the album "Blue & Lonesome". There they took up a few of the old blues songs on the basis of which they had once made a career. To close the new album, they put a song of their own in this tradition. "Rolling Stone Blues" is a mangy confession of existence as vagabonds. There, in sparseness, they follow the immortality of the blues with a line that Jagger sings earlier in the kitschy, yearning song "Depending an You" without any larmoyance: "Too young for dying, to old to lose".
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doitywoik
Here's a review from Austria newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten
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To close the new album, they put a song of their own in this tradition. "Rolling Stone Blues" ...
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doitywoik
What was the trick?
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HardRiffin
These comparisons with past albums that reviewers make have really pissed me off.
This 'Best album since Some Girls/Tatoo You' has become really cloying and ridiculous.
Every album has its own history and must be contextualised with internal and external dynamics and many factors.
Let's just enjoy this new album and i'm sure we won't be disappointed!
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rebelhipi
Next single with Charlie!
Those ''best album since Tattoo You'' mean nothing to me since i rank Bridges To Babylon higher than Tattoo You.
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MelBelli
There’s an interview with Mick on SiriusXM’s Classic Rewind. Next single is “Mess It Up,” Oct. 17.
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GerardHennessy
I really wonder how many journalists have done that!
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GerardHennessy
I really wonder how many journalists have done that!
As described by the newspaper 'Salzburger Nachrichten' above: "So a night of pre-listening to the twelve Stones songs before they disappeared again for a fortnight." Nowadays it's only a short listening session (to prevent leaks) - and then journalists have to write their reviews, although they could only spend a short time with the new album.
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gotdablouse
What was to prevent them from playing the tracks on a speakers and recording them?
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StonedRambler
Have I missed anything?
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StonedRambler
Some things that should not be missing from any cheap Stones review:
- best album since Some Girls/Exile / their playing is the best since [insert random year here]
- their combined age ("together they are 235 years old...")
- some standard puns using their song titles that have been used for 40+ years ("Stones fans will definetly get some Satisfaction" "Stones fans still get what they need" "It's only rock n roll but fans still love it")
- their last tour / album?
- some Beatles / Stones comparison
- calling them "rock n roll dinosaurs", "rock n roll grandpa's" or something similar
- that Jagger is still running 12 miles on stage
Have I missed anything?