After 40 Licks and the four new tracks we got A Bigger Bang. I hope we get a new album next year. I know the general animosity against ABB here, but I think the best tracks by far surpased the contemporary work by other acts from their generation: Dylan, McCartney, Neil Young, Cohen, Reed (none of these have matched their best tracks from the 60's or 70's either). Yes it's uneven
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Sad that is only published in these expensive versions. I sure hope that cheaper boxsets will be published too. It is a shame that the cd'version isn't available to main fan, and the book about the '73-tour. That book covers a missing link - and isn't affordable. What a disappointment.
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Quote24FPS I was pissed when I thought they were slagging Angie, which is one of their all time top ten songs. It was certainly a massive world wide hit. But then the article got better and generally got things right. I agree - the list is generally o.k.(but I miss GYYYO too) I wouldn't rate "now" and Between the Buttons as high, but the remarks about Stray Cat Blues and Angie ar
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Quotetomcasagranda I love the entire album, and dearly wish it could be reissued as a deluxe double. +1
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QuoteWeLoveToPlayTheBlues QuoteGetYerAngieIt is no wonder that Angie was chosen as a single. IMO the tracks chosen are well chosen. Through the lonely nights is charming, but not significant, and criss-cross is phantastic, but too similar (and slightly infirior) to Heartbreaker. It's actually Silver Train, not Heartbreaker, that Criss Cross is similar to. And Criss Cross is the better of t
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QuoteMunichhilton Interesting writing, and you go into nice detail. I think I would use less 'opinion' and more unbiased ideas. This line is absolutely false: Not only the lowspot of Goats Head Soup, but one of the worst songs ever recorded by the Stones. I couldn't disagree more. I think your app-text is nicely written. But IMO the daring and interesting thing about GH
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Nice to see. There is a thread on the book already, though - it is called New book - The Rolling Stones 50
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QuoteLady Jayne Quote24FPS Quoteash This is a brilliant album (obviously) and though my favourite era is 1964 to 68 i don't think the band made a really truly great album until Beggars Banquet which remains my personal choice for best Stones album. I have 2 very big problems with Let It Bleed which i'm sure many here will disagree with. 1/ i don't like Merry Clayton's vox on
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Yes truly great! The influences from Dylan are clear. But Stones makes the field their own. Godard's movie shows for instance how Sympathy grew from being a Dylan-pastische into complete magnificence. The only weak spot is Salt of the earth. Stray Cat Blues, which MJ said is influence by Velvet Underground, is a classic too.
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Quote24FPS BTB and TSMR are the Stones Revolver and Pepper. Unfortunately the Stones could not fly as high during the BTB period, pop wise, as the Beatles. Exceptions being Have You Seen Your Mother, Ruby Tuesday, Back Street Girl, She Smiled Sweetly, and Let's Spend the Night Together. A song like Miss Amanda Jones sounds out of place and out of time, more like a B side from an earlier era.
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Impressive - congratulations! One must learn portuguese then
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Quotelatebloomer "I remember Keith getting very upset when we were signing with Atlantic Records after we left Decca. The contract said the Rolling Stones must always consist of Mick Jagger and four others. Didn't mention Keith and he was very put out". Well, I wouldn't want to see a group calling itself The Rolling Stones if it were just Mick and "four others." I
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Quote24FPS I think you are judging the post 89 output too harshly though. I think I would it be possible to make a convincing compilation (including solo work) from these years. More so than from latterday Dylan-, Cohen-, McCartney-, Reed-oeuvres. Don't include Dylan in that group. His star has been on the rise in the studio since the late 90s. You can pick out a few songs on the 3 Stones
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QuoteDoxa I suppose at the time - late 60's/early 70's when the deal was done - Mick's star was relatively speaking its brightest compared to "four others". The rest were relatively unknown - Brian's star (and finally) life had gone downhill, and Keith's star was just starting getting recognized, and it would take all the way through the seventies, and numerous
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QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman He is not really saying anything interesting about the book either, imo. I disagree. Even though his comment are not tha different than may of us have spelled here at IORR, I can't rememer any of the people close to him - or were there then - has said is so frankly that "in some ways it’s like reading about a completely different person, a mytholog
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QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteStoneage Let's face it: The 2 best Stones albums during the last 30 years are the Exile bonus-CD and the Some Girls bonus-CD. If you stopped buying Stones albums in 1981: Buy those 2 and you will cover everything essential during the last 30 years. Am I the only one who finds the Exile bonus-CD a bit boring? The Some Girls-bonus disc was great, t
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Quotekevinkamphuis Maybe we get some footage from this to see in the Rolling Stones 50 cinema movie later this year. Yeah, that would be great. This tour is a bit neglected. We've got nice books covering the '69 and '72 tours and even one covering the concerts in Earl's Court '76.
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Quotehbwriter I shot it here in California Nice shot, hbwriter. Saw it in Copenhagen too this morning (damn early).
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Quoteslew GetyerAngie - Love and Theft is possibly my favorite Dylan album ever it is shear musical brilliance. Modern Times is good but not great. His latter day output is a lot more intersting than what our hero Mick comes up with for lyrics. Check the lyrics of Oh No Not You Again and Rough Justice decent songs but really is that all Jagger can come with in his sixties??? I do not agree.
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Dylan's working ethics might be admirable, but sure not all his output. "Time out of mind" was a late masterpiece, but the albums since have been major disappointments (but have always won acclaim from the critics). Even his diletante paintings won some critical acclaim, when exposed in Copenhagen (at the esteemed National Gallery of Denmark ). And even the christmas-cd was hai
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QuoteDoxa QuotePalace Revolution 2000 Regardless of how we analyze each word and nuance, the gist is Womack doesn't have much love for Jagger, and I have a feeling this kind of quote stings Jagger more than the Keith barbs. I agree with your sentiments - no matter how cokeheaded Womack was at the time and surely enjoed with his babits being in "Keith's court" and with the &q
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QuoteDoxa Quotelem motlow i've been following the stones long enough to tell you exactly when all of this happened- -keith came into his own on the 75 tour. his reputation just built from there.i remember it perfectly because i was such a huge fan of his anyway and i was happy to see people begin to recognise how great he was instead of it always being"mick jagger and the rolling stone
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QuoteDoxa Hmm.. very intersting article and the discussion it has inspired here since I think it reflects - or is a symptom of - something important. Some old myths are finally going to be broke down like the Berlin wall, or Soviet Union. And I would claim we wil se the history and reality of the Stones more clearly as before. It might hurt, and kill some of our deepest romantical beliefs, but s
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Each to his or her own of course. But to my ears Saint of Me is among the undisputable highlights of latterday Stones. It's catchy, the lyrics good and Mick's vocal impressive.
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Martin Elliott releases an updated version of his "Rolling Stones Complete Recording Sessions" on july 12th too.
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Good news! A new album would be a treat. ABB lacked some coherence, but the peaks were very, very good.
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QuoteFather Ted Let's say that by some sheer and totally random act of good luck, you find yourself in the Stones archive. Lady luck is smiling on you - The Glimmer Genie will grant you one wish - you can select which of the bootleg live DVDs is the next official release. You must make an immediate decision - what's your choice? (You can assume that the archive contains any and all sh
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QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteDoxa Quotecrumbling_mice On reflection Tattoo You is a bloody good album. Hence the reason I went out and had it tattooed on my forearm all those years ago! Yes it is. It is funny album because it doesn't fit very well to anything. I mean, it is very difficult to write it as some kind of big or relevant or important album. It doesn't have any goo
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The first album (cassette) the young GetYerAngie bought - using the savings of several months - was Goats Head Soup. IORR was the second.
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From 1982-3 to 1989 I lost interest in Stones. I heard Still Life quite a lot but grew increasingly annoyed with it - and didn't buy Undercover, Dirty Work, She's the Boss or Primitive Cool the day they were in the stores. And I wasn't fascinated with the glimpses, the singles I heard at parties, on the radio, the videos etc. I was poor and had to limit my self to the most necsess
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