Green indie vinyl and will stream

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For the moment in The House:

Rough & Twisted 12 Inch Single + A genuine heavy paper poster of The Cockroaches Sold Out. Dimensions: 50 x 70.5 centimeters.
In The Stars CD Single.
In The Stars 7 Inch Single
In The Stars 10 Inch Single

Waiting for:

Ordered at CD-Japan
In The Stars SHM-CD Single
Foreign Tongues SHM-CD + Bonus Poster.

Ordered At Platenzaak NL:
Foreign Tongues 2LP White Vinyl.

Ordered At FNAC France:
Foreign Tongues CD.
Foreign Tongues Blu-ray CD-Set.
Foreign Tongues Black Vinyl 2LP.
Foreign Tongues HMV & FNAC FR Blue Vinyl.
Foreign Tongues Vinyl Boxset.

Ordered At Amazon.DE:
Foreign Tongues CD Special Sleeve
Foreign Tongues (Ltd. Amazon exclusive alternative Cover Baby Pink 2LP)

Ordered At Platomania:
Foreign Tongues Green Vinyl 2LP.

Ordered At Bravado.de:
The Rolling Stones - Foreign Tongues Store Exclusive Panini Edition 2LP Clear - Vinyl

You couldn't figure out which edition you wanted so you took them all?

NilsHolgersson; Indeed.

Ordered Foreign Tongues (180g) (Silver Grey Vinyl) (Alternate Cover, weltweit exklusiv für jpc!)



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Racca1962
Hi All Stones-fans,

It strikes me that this question hasn't been raised by a single Stones fan yet. So I'll do it right now: Which version of the upcoming Stones album "Foreign Tongues" is going to be your favorite purchase?

I have just gone for the red CD and the white vinyl. That'll do for me.

Unless I find a jewel case CD anywhere at any point, in which case I will replace the digipack with that.

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That red CD is marketing pushed to its limit.

The Red CD could have been the Jewel Case edition with an alternate cover. With a transparent red CD-tray (or rear part of the Jewel Case). The front cover could perhaps be yellow, matching the colour of the CD surface and could be similarly designed to the RS website (or the Single) with the scribbled background and only the 'Foreign Tongues' lettering.


(Idea / Mockup, created by hand via graphics editor)



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That red CD is marketing pushed to its limit.

The Red CD could have been the Jewel Case edition with an alternate cover. With a transparent red CD-tray (or rear part of the Jewel Case). The front cover could basically be yellow, matching the colour of the CD surface and could be similarly designed to the RS website (or the Single) with the scribbled background and only the 'Foreign Tongues' lettering.

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That red CD is marketing pushed to its limit.

The Red CD could have been the Jewel Case edition with an alternate cover. With a transparent red CD-tray (or rear part of the Jewel Case). The front cover could basically be yellow, matching the colour of the CD surface and could be similarly designed to the RS website (or the Single) with the scribbled background and only the 'Foreign Tongues' lettering.

Agreed. There are (were) tons of options. Even a weird one, like for Japanese edition of Jagger's Primitive Cool [30DP-899].
- A clear jewel case with transparent tray and w/o back cover/inlay (so red play side is visible)
- A set of stickers the owner can use to decorate the spines of the jewel case
- Some unique booklet (like you said - an alternative yellow cover)
- An extra bait like big hype sticker or equivalent to Japanese OBI.
The options are there. But they simply choose to pack in a paper sleeve (hate that type of packaging) and only change the color of CD base.

Sure it will work for some collectors.



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The record company must love you guys!

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Hi All Stones-fans,

It strikes me that this question hasn't been raised by a single Stones fan yet. So I'll do it right now: Which version of the upcoming Stones album "Foreign Tongues" is going to be your favorite purchase?

I have just gone for the red CD and the white vinyl. That'll do for me.

Unless I find a jewel case CD anywhere at any point, in which case I will replace the digipack with that.

Hate to tell you - there is no digipak. As it looks from the images the package is paper sleeve.

Digipak implies a presence of a plastic tray for a CD. Like this


Here you will get a paper digisleeve with 16-page lyric booklet. A simple cardboard w/o a tray.

The Jewel Case is much more expensive than a simple paper sleeve these days.

Hi Guys!

Apparently, there's no Japanese special edition with bonus tracks?

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Racca1962
Hi All Stones-fans,

It strikes me that this question hasn't been raised by a single Stones fan yet. So I'll do it right now: Which version of the upcoming Stones album "Foreign Tongues" is going to be your favorite purchase?

I have just gone for the red CD and the white vinyl. That'll do for me.

Unless I find a jewel case CD anywhere at any point, in which case I will replace the digipack with that.

Hate to tell you - there is no digipak. As it looks from the images the package is paper sleeve.

Digipak implies a presence of a plastic tray for a CD. Like this


Here you will get a paper digisleeve with 16-page lyric booklet. A simple cardboard w/o a tray.

Ah ok, I used the wrong word - this is what I meant. I just can't stand cheap, flimsy card packs/sleeves - with or without a tray. Tacky.
I am hoping for an eventual jewel case.

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Hi Guys!

Apparently, there's no Japanese special edition with bonus tracks?

Nope. No bonus tracks this time. Only SHM. As if this material can cure brickwall mastering. Hint - it can not.

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The Jewel Case is much more expensive than a simple paper sleeve these days.

Not only are jewel cases more expensive, they are also considered environmentally unfriendly nowadays. In any case, modern jewel cases are nothing like the old ones. The classic early-generation cases felt solid and durable, while today’s versions are lightweight, flimsy, and brittle.

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The Jewel Case is much more expensive than a simple paper sleeve these days.

Not only are jewel cases more expensive, they are also considered environmentally unfriendly nowadays.

But the CD-Single (In The Stars / Rough and Twisted) comes in a Jewel Case. They could do the same with the Foreign Tongues album – so that it fits into older CD collections.



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Apparently, there's no Japanese special edition with bonus tracks?

No. Japanese releases: [iorr.org] .

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The Jewel Case is much more expensive than a simple paper sleeve these days.

Not only are jewel cases more expensive, they are also considered environmentally unfriendly nowadays.

But the CD-Single comes in a Jewel Case. They could do the same with the album – so that it fits into older CD collections.

El Mocambo 1977 did have a papersleeve only, no Jewel Case,

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El Mocambo 1977 did have a papersleeve only, no Jewel Case,

But I meant the 'In The Stars' / 'Rough And Twisted' CD-Single and the 'Foreign Tongues' album.

2023 'Hackney Diamonds' had Jewel Case editions. Too much plastics? Have a look in a 2026 supermarket – still an unnecessary amount of plastic packaging for food with only a short shelf life.



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Apparently, there's no Japanese special edition with bonus tracks?

No. Japanese releases: [iorr.org] .

Thank You for the information

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El Mocambo 1977 did have a papersleeve only, no Jewel Case,

But I meant the 'In The Stars' / 'Rough And Twisted' CD-Single and the 'Foreign Tongues' album.

2023 'Hackney Diamonds' had Jewel Case editions. Too much plastics? Have a look in a 2026 supermarket – still an unnecessary amount of plastic packaging for food with only a short shelf life.

A simple reason not to use plastic Jewel Cases is that they are made from crude oil.

The vast majority of plastic (more than 99%) is made from crude oil.
Crude oil is for te moment very expensive.

With a big thanks for Donald Trump and Iran.

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A simple reason not to use plastic Jewel Cases is that they are made from crude oil.

Same with the unnecessary amount of plastic packaging in the supermarket. Better a Jewel Cases for decades than plastic cups for just some days.

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UrbanSteel

Crude oil is for the moment very expensive.

But the 'In The Stars / Rough And Twisted' CD-Single comes in a Jewel Case.



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A simple reason not to use plastic Jewel Cases is that they are made from crude oil.

Same with the unnecessary amount of plastic packaging in the supermarket. Better a Jewel Cases for decades than plastic cups for just some days.

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Crude oil is for the moment very expensive.

But the 'In The Stars / Rough And Twisted' CD-Single comes in a Jewel Case.

You have a good point there.

I just ordered The Rolling Stones - Foreign Tongues Store Exclusive White Vinyl 2LP OS - Vinyl in Germany.At some locations this one is allready sold out.

Racca1962

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The record company must love you guys!

... No doubt! They count on the same people buying the same songs over & over, but at least it keeps the price of my cd down!

Spotify Picture Disc Version

[therollingstonesshop.com]

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Richard - In Another Land

From what I remember pic discs may have less audio quality. I’m old school. I like the black vinyl. I did buy one of the Amazon vinyls with the yellow cover background and will also buy the cd with the Blu-ray Being a double album sucks because you’re going to have to flip the side every 3 songs.

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Spotify Picture Disc Version

From what I have read anything less than black vinyl is lower quality.

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peoplewitheyes
The record company must love you guys!

guys buying fifteen copies of an LP they haven't even heard yet. incredible! Hope it isn't another 'Dirty Work' for y'all LOL!!

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From what I have read anything less than black vinyl is lower quality.

There's a bit about that where... well, black vinyl will always be best.

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Spotify Picture Disc Version

[therollingstonesshop.com]

May I ask an unorthodox question? Because the logic chain seems to be broken.

How a Spotify fan suppose to playback this vinyl record? Is there some kind of adapter that allows to connect a picture disc directly to a streaming device? I can not see any on the picture. If not, does it mean that a Spotify fan suppose to purchase a record player? This sounds weard



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The Wild Nine-Month Journey that Led to Nathaniel Mary Quinn Designing the Rolling Stones’ New Album Cover


Nathaniel Mary Quinn still sounds a little stunned by the whole affair: Last fall, the painter was in the kitchen of his Brooklyn brownstone when he got on a three-way call with Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Watt. By the end of it, he had agreed to make the cover art for Foreign Tongues, the Rolling Stones’ new album, due out July 10.

“I’m standing in my kitchen talking to Mick Jagger,” Quinn told me last week over the phone, “It was surreal.”

The resulting image, an unsettling but magnetic composite portrait that folds together the faces of Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood, now sits at the center of the Stones’ global rollout for the record. Quinn also redesigned the band’s famous tongue-and-lips logo for the campaign.
The story started after Quinn’s solo exhibition “Echoes from Copeland” at Gagosian in Chelsea last September. According to Quinn, Jagger visited the show twice. A few weeks later, Quinn’s wife and studio manager, Donna Augustine Quinn, received a text from music executive Jimmy Iovine saying the Stones were looking for someone to make the new album cover. Soon after, producer Andrew Watt, who worked on both Hackney Diamonds and the new album, Foreign Tongues, reached out as well. Then came the phone call with Jagger.

“My first vision was to create an amalgamation of all of your faces into one flesh,” Quinn said he told the singer. Jagger immediately replied: “That’s exactly what I was thinking.”

The band played Quinn three unreleased tracks from the album during that first conversation to help inspire the work. “They felt that if I could hear some of the music, maybe it could generate ideas,” Quinn said. “And it did.”

Over the next nine months, Quinn stayed in regular contact with Jagger and Richards, speaking with them roughly every two weeks while developing the image. He studied photographs of the band members closely for the composite painting, pulling from Richards’s trademark headband, Wood’s hair and nose, and, naturally, Jagger’s lips.

At one point, Richards invited Quinn to a private rehearsal session in Lower Manhattan. Quinn brought along a close friend, then spent the evening watching Richards jam with local musicians before sitting down with the guitarist between sets to hear stories about the Stones’ early years.
“He’s just a lovely, down-to-earth human being,” Quinn said of Richards. “It’s all about the music with him.”

A few weeks later, Quinn met Jagger for lunch at the Baccarat Hotel across from the Museum of Modern Art. Over coffee, the pair discussed family, London, race, and the Black American musicians who inspired the Stones.

“All of our music is influenced by Black American music,” Quinn recalled Jagger telling him. “We studied those musicians. We wanted to be like them.”
Not every part of the process was straightforward. Quinn said Jagger initially worried that the first painting looked “a little scary” and asked him to produce a second option which wound up featuring the three band members getting out of a vintage sports car. Quinn finished the second picture, but in the end the band unanimously chose the original composite portrait.

The artist still owns both paintings, and, more importantly, retains the copyright.

The whole arragement required months of negotiations between Quinn’s representatives and the Stones’ legal team over licensing and usage rights. Quinn credited his wife with making sure the artist retained ownership while allowing the band to use the image for the album campaign.
Things escalated quickly once the rollout began. Elton John, who already owned Quinn’s work, FaceTimed him after seeing the cover reveal. “You’ve made album covers cool again!” he said.

Then came the launch event in Williamsburg, where Conan O’Brien interviewed Jagger, Richards, and Wood onstage beneath Quinn’s artwork and redesigned tongue logo. Before the event started, Quinn said Leonardo DiCaprio walked up to him and jokingly claimed credit for the entire collaboration.

“Don’t believe anybody else,” Quinn recalled the actor saying. “I’m the guy who told Mick Jagger you should do the cover.”

During the event, O’Brien asked Quinn about the painting directly, prompting Jagger to publicly praise the artist from the stage. For Quinn, the moment still feels difficult to process. “Man,” he said, “Mick Jagger gave me a tribute in front of all those people. It was amazing.”


[www.artnews.com]