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StonedRambler
What's far more difficult IMHO is the question "Bridges to Babylon vs Hackney Diamonds".
I'd go for Hackney here at the moment, but surely some time needs to pass before you definitely can say how they compare
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StonedRambler
What's far more difficult IMHO is the question "Bridges to Babylon vs Hackney Diamonds".
I'd go for Hackney here at the moment, but surely some time needs to pass before you definitely can say how they compare
There's at least one point in favour of B2B: Keith's tunes on that versus Tell me straight. The latter is a sweet little song but nothing spectacular as the final 1-2 punch of Thief in the night and How can I stop, masterpieces.
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rollingrichard
I have never heard Jagger singing/saving "c'mon" so many times,on an album.
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RollingFreak
To me its unquestionably A Bigger Bang. Hackney sounds like a band trying to be "hip", and more accurately "Mick Jagger trying to be hip". Doesn't feel like a Stones album to me at all, it feels like a desperate attempt to grab the "it" producer of the day and have some new music just to have it. Whereas, truly, I felt like they were going for something with A Bigger Bang. Solid songs in Let Me Down Slow, Biggest Mistake, Back Of My Hand, Infamy. Back Of My Hand harkens back to You Gotta Move, Rough Justice harkens back to a classic Stones riff and actually trying to create something memorable. Its absolutely bloated, but overall it felt like a band, or at least Mick and Keith, that got into a room and tried to make a record, as opposed to this new one sounds like the backing band could be anyone.
If anything, my biggest sadness is I feel A Bigger Bang is the ONLY album of value since Tattoo You. 40 years (1983-2023) and one good album to show for it. Granted, the band made masterpiece after masterpiece in the 60s and 70s, so they owe us nothing, and thats one album in only a list of 7 so its not really THAT many records. But seriously, I can't cobble together as many good songs from all those albums as I can good ones that exist on A Bigger Bang alone.
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KeithNacho
Time will tell. Now, lets enjoy the thing
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bobo
A Bigger Bang is nowhere close to the new album. But then again, many on this forum seems to live in the past, mostly three to five decades backwards. Thankfully Rolling Stones adapts and evolve as time goes by.
Someone had to say it.
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Silver Dagger
Hackney Diamonds is like a long lost lover who you've pined over for many years but who suddenly walks through your door and returns to your life.
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Silver Dagger
Hackney Diamonds is like a long lost lover who you've pined over for many years but who suddenly walks through your door and returns to your life.
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Silver Dagger
Hackney Diamonds is like a long lost lover who you've pined over for many years but who suddenly walks through your door and returns to your life.
It was the exact opposite for me. I broke up with my gf of 3 years the day HD came out. It's already a heartbreaking, nostalgic album for me. The girl is caught in a cult and I just can't get her out. I gave up.
Either way works. It's a lot like Goats Head Soup in that regard.
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MonkeyMan2000
I think "quality" is just the wrong category for comparisons in music and especially in the Stones' catalogue. I would neeever say Emotional Rescue or Undercover are better than Let it Bleed, yet I listen to them more. There's a Stones album for every mood and that's the beautiful thing about this band. On many occasions the fun and lightness of albums like Undercover, where it doesn't seem like they take themselves that seriously, just hits a spot. While on other days an album like Let it Bleed fits my temper better. I'm sure Hackney Diamonds will find a place on the spectrum of moods and that alone is enough to make it worthwile.
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rollingrichard
I have never heard Jagger singing/saving "c'mon" so many times,on an album.
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MonkeyMan2000
I think "quality" is just the wrong category for comparisons in music and especially in the Stones' catalogue. I would neeever say Emotional Rescue or Undercover are better than Let it Bleed, yet I listen to them more. There's a Stones album for every mood and that's the beautiful thing about this band. On many occasions the fun and lightness of albums like Undercover, where it doesn't seem like they take themselves that seriously, just hits a spot. While on other days an album like Let it Bleed fits my temper better. I'm sure Hackney Diamonds will find a place on the spectrum of moods and that alone is enough to make it worthwile.
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rollingrichard
I have never heard Jagger singing/saving "c'mon" so many times,on an album.
Ha, I noticed that too
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Rockman
Jaggers just takin the micky
and needlin' us that its sixty years
since they dropped that first single on us .... Come On ....