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Bjorn
The album is fine. Keith live was not. Why doesn´t he help Ronnie? Where there should be power and attack, he just bend a string - if he even tries at all. Whole Wild World - please join the chorus! Dont just stand there! And so on. Makes me kinda sad. But I guess he will sort it out in time for the tour. Maybe it´s just me. I care too much. Always want to see the best in everyone. Want people to shine.
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Isn't this the first album including the voice of CW?
Where are you hearing him ?
Counting in to "Live by the Sword". It became obvious when I had the album in high quality headphones for the first time last night.
BTW "This Record Should Be Played Loud" also applies to HD
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Idorh
A delightful Stones album, it is enjoyable from start to finish. That we still get to experience this in 2023. They all have fun with it. I have played it many times. I can't get enough of it. The songs are also getting better and better. People enjoy it instead of putting the album under the microscope. We are living now and not in the past. So, I'm going to put it on again hahaha, life is beautiful.
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Okay, we have the long-awaited solo album of Mick Jagger. Amazingly, Ronnie and Keith were allowed to play on it. And Keith even has a solo song. It's also the best thing on this album along with Rolling Stones Blues. The remarkable thing is that Mick's other solo albums were much better. When I heard about the name dropping list I was already skeptical. Who needs Lady Gaga on a Rolling Stones album? Except the marketing people ... The mostly positive professional reviews are incomprehensible to me. Many journalists probably don't even know what this band can and could do. My hope is that now Keith and Ronnie will also make solo albums. They are certainly better ... And, guys, stand in a studio and record Blue & And Lonesome II.
Ok let's have a discussion about this album because although most love it something happened during the making of this album that no one seems brave enough to mention other than you Robert.
It's probably their last album and some of us are allowed to be disappointed with the outcome, the men who made Crosseyed Heart clearly didn't have much input on HD other than to play on it. The new Stones album is actually a Mick Jagger/ Andrew Watt solo album with Keith playing on it.
I understand that is great for most iorrians, but what happened to the album they shelved and why has Keith apparently just given up his half of being a Glimmer Twin other than to sprinkle some fairy dust ?
This is really an interesting question. Maybe there's an agreement for the future: "Okay, Mick, we'll support you in your thing, but then we'll do something else sensible that has musical value!" That's the optimistic reading. But maybe the psychodynamics in the band have shifted in such a way that only Mick has something to say. That is the pessimistic reading.
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Isn't this the first album including the voice of CW?
Where are you hearing him ?
Counting in to "Live by the Sword". It became obvious when I had the album in high quality headphones for the first time last night.
BTW "This Record Should Be Played Loud" also applies to HD
I also thought it might be Charlie there originally but I'm not recognizing his voice at all, I'll give it another try.
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Does "HD" a good chance to reach #1 in UK charts?Could it sells 2.5 millions worldwide in your opinion?
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@Georgelicks
Does "HD" a good chance to reach #1 in UK charts?Could it sells 2.5 millions worldwide in your opinion?
Wondering the same. Blink and Drake have higher streams. But how much of the UK chart is based on pure sales is the question?
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@Georgelicks
Does "HD" a good chance to reach #1 in UK charts?Could it sells 2.5 millions worldwide in your opinion?
Wondering the same. Blink and Drake have higher streams. But how much of the UK chart is based on pure sales is the question?
Stones are actually doing quite good on Apple music (streams, especially compared to blink) on an international level, and a bit better than blink on Spotify. But Blink are having more streams on the two large ones: US and UK.
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One thing that still confuses me was the Jagger quote about Mess it up being released as the third single before the album. Was that incorrect or did plan change? Remix coming maybe?
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One thing that still confuses me was the Jagger quote about Mess it up being released as the third single before the album. Was that incorrect or did plan change? Remix coming maybe?
I think they have bigger plans for the song, it didn't have a lyric video released last Friday and it's the only song on the album with the potential to reach a wider audience, maybe a video with someone famous or even a remix with someone hip from the moment that put them BIG in the streaming market.
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Idorh
A delightful Stones album, it is enjoyable from start to finish. That we still get to experience this in 2023. They all have fun with it. I have played it many times. I can't get enough of it. The songs are also getting better and better. People enjoy it instead of putting the album under the microscope. We are living now and not in the past. So, I'm going to put it on again hahaha, life is beautiful.
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RollingStoner
I think the Pitchfork review takes the crown for being the most out of touch, uninformed review. Here is a link to the garbage review from an overly pretentious publication:
Pitchfork HD Review
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Does "HD" a good chance to reach #1 in UK charts?Could it sells 2.5 millions worldwide in your opinion?
Wondering the same. Blink and Drake have higher streams. But how much of the UK chart is based on pure sales is the question?
Stones are actually doing quite good on Apple music (streams, especially compared to blink) on an international level, and a bit better than blink on Spotify. But Blink are having more streams on the two large ones: US and UK.
The album will hit #1 in the UK with huge sales, it sold over 10k during pre-sale on Amazon alone, we can expect at least 4-5 times that number in total, the streams aren't good but the sales are strong and that's enough.
We'll see it tomorrow during the week.
The problem is the US market, it is too much based on streaming and the Stones' streaming numbers are non-existent which shows that the fan base in the US is much older than anywhere else in the world, it is what it is, and we have to resign ourselves to the fact that the Stones will not be able to have that #1 that they have been looking for since 1981, but the album is also guaranteed the Top 4 which is not bad at all for an artist with 60 years of chart activity releasing new music, 90% of his contemporaries have been dead for a long time.
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I think the Pitchfork review takes the crown for being the most out of touch, uninformed review. Here is a link to the garbage review from an overly pretentious publication:
Pitchfork HD Review
The bit about Keith who used to be the accountant is rather crazy, and the rest is rather over the top, but I don't think it's completely out of touch either. He makes some valid points, if you tone down a bit the aggresion.