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VoodooLounge13
That's some Hackney Diamonds right there!!!
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shadooby
Smoke what?
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GasLightStreet
When I bought my first Rolling Stones album I was enamored with it, albeit Side A mostly. Then again, the big red cover and the name ROLLING STONES.
I had just turned 11 years old 10 days prior to its US release and not long after started 6th grade. Heard Start Me Up on an AM radio (from inside a teddy bear).
A girl in my class, the daughter of a local grocery store (where I bought the album, along with AC/DC's FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK - hey mom, look, an album with a canon on it, it's gotta be good; Ok... and Asia's AISA - a grocery store that sold albums - can you imagine going in to get some salad, whatever, some bananas, some kind of steak, whatever else, AND a Rolling Stones album?), asked me one day in that year, I can't recall exactly when, obviously late fall/early winter, upon seeing me scribble the tongue logo on a notebook, "Have you seen Mick in his UK/US flag cape?"
I was completely dumbfounded.
What?
"Oh it's really cool!" she said.
What are you talking about?
"Mick Jagger."
What about him.
"The Stones tour."
What?
To this day I have no idea what she was talking about in regard to what she was talking about: how she knew that. Maybe it was some magazine. Maybe it was MTV. Maybe it was the PPV.
She never said.
I eventually figured out what she was talking about a while later, as in, 1989.
A couple years later I saw the Undercover Of The Night video on MTV while at piano lessons. I heard Mick singing "Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo" etc on the school bus radio and thought, I've got to get that album.
Turns out the school bus song wasn't on the album but the MTV song was.
Finally figured it out via an older friend that is a Stones fan and magically for Christmas (this makes no sense but it's what happened) GOATS HEAD SOUP finally delivered the Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo song.
Then I got REWIND and started back tracking to the albums my dad had (BIG HITS, BEGGARS, BLEED, YA-YA'S and HOT ROCKS 1 and 2).
Not in order.
It makes no sense how I came to discover the post-1969 discog sans GHS pre-TY.
But I did.
EXILE was the last album I got into.
In the spring of 1982 a girlfriend got me SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES as a present, maybe Valentine's, I'm not really sure.
It was pretty funny: she heard me say, with no context at all, that I wish I could get that album with the tongue on it (not knowing what I was saying). Well, the cellophane wrapper had the tongue on it so... she got me that album!
She said something like, Here's what you asked for!
I had no idea. I recognized two songs on it and thought, I already have those (SOME GIRLS). But I accepted it and gleefully went home.
That may be the origin of why I think SITS is such a fantastic comp...
The enjoyment of HACKNEY DIAMONDS is different than me getting those albums back then yet it has the same wonderment: what is this?
For a kid not knowing the gap between TATTOO YOU and basically LET IT BLEED... it's no wonder TY and UNERCOVER have such weight (and why DIRTY WORK is so disappointing).
HD has the energy, creativity and attitude that is TY and SG and... is weirdly more of a Stones album than STEEL WHEELS or VOODOO LOUNGE, the last albums before the tinkering got involved.
HD is refreshing.
If it is their last album it's an excellent way to end. If not, fine, whatever.
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GasLightStreet
When I bought my first Rolling Stones album I was enamored with it, albeit Side A mostly. Then again, the big red cover and the name ROLLING STONES.
I had just turned 11 years old 10 days prior to its US release and not long after started 6th grade. Heard Start Me Up on an AM radio (from inside a teddy bear).
A girl in my class, the daughter of a local grocery store (where I bought the album, along with AC/DC's FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK - hey mom, look, an album with a canon on it, it's gotta be good; Ok... and Asia's AISA - a grocery store that sold albums - can you imagine going in to get some salad, whatever, some bananas, some kind of steak, whatever else, AND a Rolling Stones album?), asked me one day in that year, I can't recall exactly when, obviously late fall/early winter, upon seeing me scribble the tongue logo on a notebook, "Have you seen Mick in his UK/US flag cape?"
I was completely dumbfounded.
What?
"Oh it's really cool!" she said.
What are you talking about?
"Mick Jagger."
What about him.
"The Stones tour."
What?
To this day I have no idea what she was talking about in regard to what she was talking about: how she knew that. Maybe it was some magazine. Maybe it was MTV. Maybe it was the PPV.
She never said.
I eventually figured out what she was talking about a while later, as in, 1989.
A couple years later I saw the Undercover Of The Night video on MTV while at piano lessons. I heard Mick singing "Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo" etc on the school bus radio and thought, I've got to get that album.
Turns out the school bus song wasn't on the album but the MTV song was.
Finally figured it out via an older friend that is a Stones fan and magically for Christmas (this makes no sense but it's what happened) GOATS HEAD SOUP finally delivered the Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo song.
Then I got REWIND and started back tracking to the albums my dad had (BIG HITS, BEGGARS, BLEED, YA-YA'S and HOT ROCKS 1 and 2).
Not in order.
It makes no sense how I came to discover the post-1969 discog sans GHS pre-TY.
But I did.
EXILE was the last album I got into.
In the spring of 1982 a girlfriend got me SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES as a present, maybe Valentine's, I'm not really sure.
It was pretty funny: she heard me say, with no context at all, that I wish I could get that album with the tongue on it (not knowing what I was saying). Well, the cellophane wrapper had the tongue on it so... she got me that album!
She said something like, Here's what you asked for!
I had no idea. I recognized two songs on it and thought, I already have those (SOME GIRLS). But I accepted it and gleefully went home.
That may be the origin of why I think SITS is such a fantastic comp...
The enjoyment of HACKNEY DIAMONDS is different than me getting those albums back then yet it has the same wonderment: what is this?
For a kid not knowing the gap between TATTOO YOU and basically LET IT BLEED... it's no wonder TY and UNERCOVER have such weight (and why DIRTY WORK is so disappointing).
HD has the energy, creativity and attitude that is TY and SG and... is weirdly more of a Stones album than STEEL WHEELS or VOODOO LOUNGE, the last albums before the tinkering got involved.
HD is refreshing.
If it is their last album it's an excellent way to end. If not, fine, whatever.
Thanks for sharing that. A heart warming story to me. I could feel and share the emotions as I read it. Truly moving to me and a glimpse of the love many of us also share in our experiences with this band. Those same emotions that still drive us even after all these years.
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GasLightStreet
The enjoyment of HACKNEY DIAMONDS is different than me getting those albums back then yet it has the same wonderment: what is this?
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GasLightStreet
The enjoyment of HACKNEY DIAMONDS is different than me getting those albums back then yet it has the same wonderment: what is this?
Steel Wheels was my gateway drug to the Stones, so I had that same mad rush of slowly getting to discover their back catalogue. In my case, I remember record stores at the mall had big displays filled with cassettes that each had the Stones logo on them. The displays not only looked cool as hell, but to my surprise each album I bought was just as good as the last!
Hackney Diamonds is the first new Stones album that feels like it could've been part of that old display, and delivered the same high I felt upon playing Some Girls or Black and Blue for the first time. Honestly, if someone told me this album was basically another Tattoo You-style effort, with vintage tracks the band simply re-recorded, I would probably believe them.
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2120Joe
I don’t believe HD or the Stones were mentioned at the Grammys. Was the new music eligible?
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2120Joe
Thanks treaclefingers.
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bitusa2012
I’ve given the album a rest for the past two weeks. Listening to lots of other things like Free, Taylor Swift, Broderick Smith, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mark Knopfler, The Beatles, Cold Chisel, Peter Gabriel and Russell Morris. Enjoyed all that.
Today I took out the Carnaby Red version of Hackney Diamonds.
Wow, what a record. It is holding up better and better the more I play it. Definitely a stayer. At this stage of their career they’ve whipped out a beauty!!
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bitusa2012
I’ve given the album a rest for the past two weeks. Listening to lots of other things like Free, Taylor Swift, Broderick Smith, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mark Knopfler, The Beatles, Cold Chisel, Peter Gabriel and Russell Morris. Enjoyed all that.
Today I took out the Carnaby Red version of Hackney Diamonds.
Wow, what a record. It is holding up better and better the more I play it. Definitely a stayer. At this stage of their career they’ve whipped out a beauty!!
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bitusa2012
I’ve given the album a rest for the past two weeks. Listening to lots of other things like Free, Taylor Swift, Broderick Smith, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mark Knopfler, The Beatles, Cold Chisel, Peter Gabriel and Russell Morris. Enjoyed all that.
Today I took out the Carnaby Red version of Hackney Diamonds.
Wow, what a record. It is holding up better and better the more I play it. Definitely a stayer. At this stage of their career they’ve whipped out a beauty!!
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bakersfield
Absolutely agree.
Great songs. Great energy.
I’m fascinated to see where the next album takes them.
My only caveat is, I’d prefer it not to be so ‘brickwalled’ - but that’s a minor complaint
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bakersfield
Absolutely agree.
Great songs. Great energy.
I’m fascinated to see where the next album takes them.
My only caveat is, I’d prefer it not to be so ‘brickwalled’ - but that’s a minor complaint
Unfortunately that's the way it's been for quite some time. It takes someone in the - it seems like they'd've heard from someone already about how bad their releases have been mastered post-BRIDGES.
Keith is so about vinyl... Mick is so about technology: somewhere they found a great chasm of difference, which, pre-1986, they gave a damn about the quality of their releases.
Mick doesn't have the time? He's got as much time as anyone on the planet. If he doesn't want to be bothered at least allow someone to have some QUAULITY control instead of letting some buffoon just make everything as loud as possible because "that's what the label wants" - screw the label, THEY DON'T CARE.