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peeps are getting silly here....Hackney isnt better than Some Girls or Emotional Rescue for that matter...its pretty damn good though for 80 year olds.
So...people having "taste" that is different than yours is "silly"?
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I can vividly recall Emotional Rescue coming out, and getting it with the big thermal camera poster and everything, handling the execrable reviews from the British music press, and managing to like to brass arrangement on Indian Girl; it's been a long time since I gave it a spin, but I only really liked Dance and Let Me Go on side one, and the last three on side two.
Hackney Diamonds is several levels above ER in quality and sheer enjoyability for me. It's closer to the joy and excitement of Tattoo You.
HD is more evenly balanced. Everything is more or less of the same "enjoyable" level. Get Close is a low point but the rest is rather okay.
ER is more varied. There is rather weak stuff like Let Me Go, Where The Boys All Go, Summer Romance, Send It To Me and Dance. There is my personal guilty pleasure Indian Girl. All About You is cute. And then are absolute highlights like Down In The Hole, ER and She's So Cold. HD is lacking in absolute highlights.
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As a Gen Z Rolling Stones fan, I honestly really love this album. Lots of people my age have reacted very positively to it. It's energetic and full of youth, while still having that classic Stones bite. It's obviously not the 'big thing' that my generation is into, but those that know about it and listened to it really dig it
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Having listened through the album a couple of times I still wouldn't rank it higher than any album before 1983 (with an exception for TSMR).
But it's maybe the best post 1983 album. Still I'm happy that they finally released a new album after such a long wait.
So you've listened to it twice since it's release?
You must have a really busy schedule!
After a couple of times not higher than TSMR!!!
Stoneage has listened to TSMR once.
That's really something.
Okay, so which albums before 1983 do you experts rank lower than Hackney Diamonds then?
IORR, GHS, Emotional Rescue, Black & Blue possibly, TSMR, December's Children, 12x5...Some Girls possibly.
Anything pre-1968 (with exception to AFTERMATH and OUT OF OUR HEADS); 1973-1980.
Yes.
Better than SOME GIRLS.
Oh my.
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As a Gen Z Rolling Stones fan, I honestly really love this album. Lots of people my age have reacted very positively to it. It's energetic and full of youth, while still having that classic Stones bite. It's obviously not the 'big thing' that my generation is into, but those that know about it and listened to it really dig it
a gen z stones fan on iorr!
your like a unicorn
but seriously can you go into more detail about what you and those you know around your age dig about it and maybe the stones in general?
really curious
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Having listened through the album a couple of times I still wouldn't rank it higher than any album before 1983 (with an exception for TSMR).
But it's maybe the best post 1983 album. Still I'm happy that they finally released a new album after such a long wait.
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As a Gen Z Rolling Stones fan, I honestly really love this album. Lots of people my age have reacted very positively to it. It's energetic and full of youth, while still having that classic Stones bite. It's obviously not the 'big thing' that my generation is into, but those that know about it and listened to it really dig it
a gen z stones fan on iorr!
your like a unicorn
but seriously can you go into more detail about what you and those you know around your age dig about it and maybe the stones in general?
really curious
For me personally, I grew up listening to the Stones, they are the soundtrack of my life. So when I listen to a Stones record, not only am I listening to great music, I'm listening to something that has a nostalgic connection to me. There are too many things I love about this band to name. On a generational level however, the band has big cross-genre appeal. If people my age are into bands like The Who or Led Zeppelin it's probably because they are fans of classic rock to begin with, but you don't have to be a classic rock fan to enjoy the Stones. This comes from the diversity of their catalogue. Bands like The Beatles or Queen have a similar cross-genre appeal.
As for Hackney Diamonds, me and most of my friends agree that their ability to change with the times while also staying true to who they are is the most impressive aspect of the album. People on here may not realize this, but people my age may not have even known the band was even still active, so to hear an album that sounds this energetic and this lively, made by 80 year olds, genuinely shocked and impressed many people I knew.
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Having listened through the album a couple of times I still wouldn't rank it higher than any album before 1983 (with an exception for TSMR).
But it's maybe the best post 1983 album. Still I'm happy that they finally released a new album after such a long wait.
You made it sound like that it is nothing sort of achievement to release the best album for forty years, or like any of those albums since UNDERCOVER do not matter or are easy to top. Like they are so weak.
Well, in my book it is a helluva achievement that the dudes reaching 80 years old are being able to do better stuff than when they reached middle age (and none of those albums are really that bad - no Exiles for sure, but c'mon).
I don't like the idea of "best since this or that", but that the album actually feels like it being the best for about 40 years and can be almost compared to the achievements of their first twenty years, truely topped all my expectations. Almost a miracle.
And no, HACKNEY DIAMONDS is not better album than any of those albums from their first twenty years, including SATANIC MAJESTIES. That stuff cannot be topped - and I can't even understand what comparing it to, say, OUT OF OUR HEADS is really like. Their recorded history from those days when they made history is beyond comparison.
But if it needs to rated against their back catalogue, I think HACKNEY DIAMONDS serves a similar function as their first album, AFTERMATH, BEGGARS BANQUET, SOME GIRLS and, yeah, STEEL WHEELS did at the time: showing competence and relevance when that was most needed. A sort of career-defining moments (for different reasons).
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I actually find all the "Their best album since..." quotes really irritating.
Personally, I think Hackney Diamonds can stand proud next to any of their past albums. I will simply say "it's one of their best albums".
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I guess I truly am in the minority around here. Underwhelmed with HD, and there is not a single track that gets stuck in my head. Nothing that I point to and say Classic. It's been 3-4 weeks now since I even gave it a spin. I look forward to hearing the songs live, if only to get more unheard songs heard live. SSOH is a huge letdown and I don't really understand all the love it gets. It ended and then it rambles on aimlessly for another 2+ minutes, but at least when Mick says Play me something Stevie, or whatever he says, it's timed right. When he tells Paul to give him some bass, Paul's already like halfway thru his part, and I feel like it was thrown in later.
I prefer the demo version of Mess It Up seen on YT to the finished version. Wish they had left in that guitar part more - or at least made it more pronounced in the mix. However it is done, just prefer the beat on the demo version. LBTS and WWW are by far the best IMHO and TMS is good but not fully developed or flushed out.
I listened to ABB 24/7 for a solid SIX months straight. No breaks, nothing else. Repeat repeat repeat. For HD has come and went. I'll revisit it I'm sure from time to time and maybe over time it will grow on me, but Top 10?? No, never. For me it's down in the early 60's stuff. Far below IORR, ER, U - really anything DW forward save B&L.
But then we do all have our personal preferences for sure! Let Me Go is one of my personal favorite tracks of theirs, and GHS is easily my Top 3 albums. Have always loved it, and as I've gotten older, it's only risen higher, and with the Super Deluxe, Martin mix, and new cuts, I am even more a fan of it.
I am so glad that we are all fans of a band whose catalog is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO large and vast, that we can all agree to disagree on what we each think is great!!! We have truly been blessed for many, many decades, and one day the show will end, but for now, here's to the greatest RnR band that has ever lived!!!
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It IS their best since Some Girls. And more well rounded too. I'm still awed by the moments of pure beauty. It was pure genius to recognize the same old bass wasn't going to cut it and to have the you know whats to fix it. Jesus, Keith's guitar on Rolling Stone Blues is authentic as you can get.
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It IS their best since Some Girls. And more well rounded too. I'm still awed by the moments of pure beauty. It was pure genius to recognize the same old bass wasn't going to cut it and to have the you know whats to fix it. Jesus, Keith's guitar on Rolling Stone Blues is authentic as you can get.
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peeps are getting silly here....Hackney isnt better than Some Girls or Emotional Rescue for that matter...its pretty damn good though for 80 year olds.
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I can vividly recall Emotional Rescue coming out, and getting it with the big thermal camera poster and everything, handling the execrable reviews from the British music press, and managing to like to brass arrangement on Indian Girl; it's been a long time since I gave it a spin, but I only really liked Dance and Let Me Go on side one, and the last three on side two.
Hackney Diamonds is several levels above ER in quality and sheer enjoyability for me. It's closer to the joy and excitement of Tattoo You.
HD is more evenly balanced. Everything is more or less of the same "enjoyable" level. Get Close is a low point but the rest is rather okay.
ER is more varied. There is rather weak stuff like Let Me Go, Where The Boys All Go, Summer Romance, Send It To Me and Dance. There is my personal guilty pleasure Indian Girl. All About You is cute. And then are absolute highlights like Down In The Hole, ER and She's So Cold. HD is lacking in absolute highlights.
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silly is making subjective lists some kind of spoken truth
I have just read that Dance and Le me go are weak points on ER, and that Get Close is the low point of HD. what I should respond to that?
It's clear that in the massive catalogue of a most popular band each finds or miss what one wants