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thabo
This constant critiscism is such a nonsense. I'll tell you that when this album would have been released by a new band, it would have been a sensation and would have dominated the nr 1 positions for weeks or months all over the world. but because it is just from the Stones it is not good enough. I honestly fear that even if the Rolling Stones would today make their best album ever, it would be panned down and not recognised as such. Maybe it is the midlife crisis most Stones "fans" are suffering from and hence shouldn't be taken to serious.
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thabo
This constant critiscism is such a nonsense. I'll tell you that when this album would have been released by a new band, it would have been a sensation and would have dominated the nr 1 positions for weeks or months all over the world. but because it is just from the Stones it is not good enough. I honestly fear that even if the Rolling Stones would today make their best album ever, it would be panned down and not recognised as such. Maybe it is the midlife crisis most Stones "fans" are suffering from and hence shouldn't be taken to serious.
now, THAT'S some nonsense!
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thabo
This constant critiscism is such a nonsense. I'll tell you that when this album would have been released by a new band, it would have been a sensation and would have dominated the nr 1 positions for weeks or months all over the world. but because it is just from the Stones it is not good enough. I honestly fear that even if the Rolling Stones would today make their best album ever, it would be panned down and not recognised as such. Maybe it is the midlife crisis most Stones "fans" are suffering from and hence shouldn't be taken to serious.
now, THAT'S some nonsense!
No it's not. Listen a lot of guys here complain about "warhorses" yet if you ask them to make their own setlist, it contains exactly those warhorses again! Than they complain that the Stones are a nostalgia act. Yet all what those guys want to hear is those old early 1970's Stones songs themselves! Than they complain that Keith can't play in tune anymore, yet they swear that Keith IS the Rolling Stones. Well if that is not a hang to the past, and all was better 50 yrs ago, but not just that, also demand that past to be alive today, in other words a midlife crisis than what is?
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Bimmelzerbott
It's a shit album. Complete crap.
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LeonidP
i actually like the album a lot due to several songs, but i am very puzzled at how much some seem to like the songs that i think are so incredibly bad. for example, Rain Fall Down and Dangerous Beauty are non-listen-able (as is Look What the Cat..), yet so many speak like they are incredible songs. NO! They are really bad songs, up there with the Stones worst tracks. Horrible writing, horrible lyrics, etc. Good thing there is Rough Justice, Let Me Down, Laugh, Infamy, & Back of My Hand to offset these tracks.
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bassplayer617
If you add the two songs, "We Don't Wanna Go Home" and "Under the Radar", then, yeah, you've got one of the best Stones albums ever. An "Exile" for the 21st century.
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Doxa
There are good songs, but most of the fascination is based on having a deja vu -feeling.........But the truth is that the band has lost its muse long ago. The creative spark is gone. - Doxa
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71Tele
But the first time I heard Keith sang that line about "sit down and bare your breasts" I nearly threw the CD out of the car.
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71Tele
But the first time I heard Keith sang that line about "sit down and bare your breasts" I nearly threw the CD out of the car.
And how did I miss that?!
I've been a Stones fans since 1979 and know, like most of us here, most of everything there is to know about not only the band, but their women, their "friends", the time-line of their clothes, hairstyles, the kind of perfume Mick Jagger puts on his ass (some French shit) etc...
But for the life of me, I cannot produce a songlist from the last four albums.
What does that say?
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Bliss
I'm glad to hear that fans are enjoying the newest album, but I am not in that group. For me, along with GHS, it's the worst thing they have ever done. The dreadful lyrics are painful to hear and I wish they were in a language I didn't understand.
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Bimmelzerbott
It's a shit album. Complete crap.
you must be old
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Bimmelzerbott
It's a shit album. Complete crap.
you must be old
...or bored?!...
P.S.: you're taking that "midlife crisis" quote by Thabo (btw: welcome, dude! Even if it's just a new 'nick' you're using... Who knows?! )a bit personal aren't you, StonesTod?!
I think Thabo has a definite point - Though I might add that I think he didn't mean midlife crisis as such; more like midlife crisis in some's existance as a Stonesfan... (Feel free to add and/or correct if you think it's necessary, Thabo!)
And yes, I too (mostly) agree with him. And I might add to the (growing!) list of frustrations with these particular 'midlife' stonesfans: the almost dictatorial claim that the Rolling Stones stopped making "GOOD" music ever since the mid '70s (you know, "around when MT left..."?!), and the right they attribute themselves to dismiss of the current Stones as "the 'Vegas' edition" (sucking ALL the irony out of that catchphrase...) - it freezes my balls off. They have no right; they don't know everything - I grant them their (very, very personal!) sense of taste; but it is by no means representative for us ALL - and definitely not compatible with mine (in my mid 40's right now; enjoying a full-blast midlife crisis as we speak, by showing it MY BLADE...) - much as I love L&G, Exile, Brussels '73 etcetera.
Hooping for & looking forward to some sparkling, kick-ass, gasoline-fueled renditions of "Rough Justice" a.o. on stages worldwide in '11-'12!!
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Bimmelzerbott
It's a shit album. Complete crap.
you must be old