QuoteVoodooLounge13 A monumental pipe dream of a set list: One Hit Lowdown Let Me Go Hang Fire Silver Train She's A Rainbow Hand of Fate B-Stage Mothers Little Helper Blue Turns to Grey Out of Time - Crowd sing-along/extended version, I said - Baby, Baby, Baby (give the band time to get back to the main stage, Mick lingering on the cat walk, waving his arms back and forth as t
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Quotetimbernardis QuoteGerardHennessy Quotetioms Hallo, I'm a Stones fan from 1968. I saw them the first time in 1973, Belgium. I saw them the last time in Utrecht. I don't won't them to see anymore. I'm fed up with all that old songs. Well said. Me too! I have heard the same songs again and again more times than I care to remember. I love the band, I love their music. AL
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Quotetioms Hallo, I'm a Stones fan from 1968. I saw them the first time in 1973, Belgium. I saw them the last time in Utrecht. I don't won't them to see anymore. I'm fed up with all that old songs. Well said. Me too! I have heard the same songs again and again more times than I care to remember. I love the band, I love their music. ALL their music. Not just the 30 or so s
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Quotemailexile67 Over 2 millions and a half of people aren't "A couple of disillusioned die hard fans"...If the Stones have a problem with the processing of new tunes is a fact, but "A couple of disillusioned die hard fans" sorry, but I can't read it... How do you compute two and a half million fans? If there were that many real hard-line fans out there, surely Rol
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGerardHennessy There will be accountants, financial experts, business analysts, managers, strategists, and a whole army of other non-musical people all involved. They will be pointing out the potential costs likely to be incurred and recommending caution. That in itself won't stop a new album, but it is another obstacle to overcome for men in the twilight of their
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QuoteHopeYouGuessMyName How's this for a suggestion for a couple of new albums: ENGLAND'S OLDEST HIT MAKERS (first album re-recorded) The Rolling Stones, Now and Again! Yes indeed. Or what about The Rolling Stones - Then! Decembers Pensioners, and Everybody's Out of our Beds
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Nearly everyone who responded totally missed the point I was TRYING to make in my comment from a few days back seizing upon just one part of one sentence I wrote - viz. any new album will not sell in large quantities- and used it to to dismiss my overall argument. In fact I also went on to say about the inevitable critical mauling a new studio album would most likely get, AND, in addition, tha
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The band have earned - more than earned - what is effectively semi-retirement. I cannot see any point in them making a new, or reheated, studio album now. It will not sell in significant quantities. It will be torn apart by the critics who keep looking for another Let It Bleed or Exile. And it will require more time than they are able to give to it. Apart from Ronnie, everyone else is nearer to 8
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I don't give a monkey's when the decade actually starts - 2020 or 2021! All I care about is that the band remain fit, healthy, happy and fulfilled. I hope that IF they do play again, that they enjoy it. They have given me so many years of joy, and been the soundtrack to my life from the mid 60s until now. For me the priority is that they go on - or go out - in whatever way they want to
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Quotebabyblue QuoteGerardHennessy What's the betting we will be reading the same kinds of posts at Christmas 2020? Excited rumours about a new album 'early in 2021' Wild talk about Mick and Keith 'intending to get together before next summer' Press speculation that 'there are definite plans to have something out before the autumn tour' etc, etc, etc. Sadl
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What's the betting we will be reading the same kinds of posts at Christmas 2020? Excited rumours about a new album 'early in 2021' Wild talk about Mick and Keith 'intending to get together before next summer' Press speculation that 'there are definite plans to have something out before the autumn tour' etc, etc, etc. Sadly I'm not sure I care any lon
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Good to see so much debate about the advisability/likelihood - or otherwise - of a new Stones album. And some good suggestions too about what might be the best way to approach it, should it become impossible to bring the whole band together for new recording sessions. Good also to see so many participants reaffirming their love for the band, and their acceptance of whatever does, or does not, mat
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Quotemaumau Quotetumbled they deserve to do whatever the freak they want to at this point,. ,which is fine with me. agree, also I am surely not at short with good music to listen to I'm totally aligned with both of the above points. The Stones have earned their spurs by now and deserve to please themselves. The suggestion in a separate posting about opening themselves up to the media a
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I don't agree about the band being lazy. For me they are anything but. However they are old, tired and way past the time when their creative juices can function at anything like the level required to deliver an album of quality new material. I also suspect that the general health of the band is some way from being robust. Just because they keep their bright side out, and perform regularly, d
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As the days go by I find myself, increasingly, unsure about whether The Stones should do another studio album or not. It would be incredibly sad if something really substandard were to emerge. Occasionally I wonder to myself if, in fact, an album has already been made, but failed to reach the required quality threshold. Hence the endless delays, and confusions, that surround this issue. I
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteGerardHennessy In my opinion Sticky Fingers Live was more than just a nice try. For me it was fascinating to hear how they perform these iconic numbers today. I would love them to do exactly the same with their other major albums - Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Exile, Some Girls, Tattoo You et al. I cannot see why doing so would not be a good idea, as has been said by an
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In my opinion Sticky Fingers Live was more than just a nice try. For me it was fascinating to hear how they perform these iconic numbers today. I would love them to do exactly the same with their other major albums - Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Exile, Some Girls, Tattoo You et al. I cannot see why doing so would not be a good idea, as has been said by another contributor. Yes The Stones are a
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Almost everyone thinks I am crazy for buying the 50th Anniversary box set. But I don't care. I absolutely love it. It is as much a visual and emotional purchase for me as an auditory one. I remember like it was yesterday buying the album when it was released in 1969, then smuggling it up to my bedroom to avoid a face off with my dad, who hated The Stones and would have taken a very poor view
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I love your description of being hit by lightening because that is exactly what it was. Excellent choice of words. And, you're absolutely right when you say The Stones were not just another band. They excited all kinds of outrage at the time. Way beyond the criticism dished out to other bands. They simply did not care about the pettiness and conceits of day to day life at the time. Their att
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I love your description of being hit by lightening because that is exactly what it was. Excellent choice of words. And, you're absolutely right when you say The Stones were not just another band. They excited all kinds of outrage at the time. Way beyond the criticism dished out to other bands. They simply did not care about the pettiness and conceits of day to day life at the time. Their att
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I'm enjoying three items in particular 1.The new Hawkwind album - All Aboard The Skylark. Dave Brock is older than everyone in The Stones but still turns out a new studio album every year. This is a return to form after the somewhat underwhelming Road To Utopia album from last year, when the new arrangements of older material was overwhelmed by the orchestral settings directed by Mike Ba
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Hearing Its All Over Now for the first time in 1964. I was 12 years old and had never before heard such swagger in any kind of music. The fade-out in particular is extraordinary, as Keith Richards and Brian Jones engage in a dual guitar workout that oozes insolence, insouciance and impertinence. It is still my favourite ever Stones recording. And that is despite huge competition from several othe
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Very well said Ian and Spud. I agree totally. The later albums have been largely dismissed or ignored by the majority of critics. That is a pity. They are, at the very least, perfectly valid and decent recordings, and I have always found much to like and enjoy in them. I sometimes think that there is a kind of subconscious resentment, particularly in parts of the music press and the popular p
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No argument from me with any of the points you make. I'm merely setting out the many well-known reasons why the band probably won't bother to make another full new album. We may get some new tracks tacked on to more reissues. Or maybe not. If they do put out anything new I will of course buy it, as I have bought almost everything they have ever put out. Am I stupid for doing so? Probabl
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Would I love another new album? Yes of course I would. In an ideal world of course. But seriously, why should the band bother? Whatever they might put together will be criticised endlessly. Compared unfavourably to recordings from the great days. Damned with faint praise, condescended to, and castigated for being just another cash-generating exercise. We have heard it all before. And the band do
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Indeed! I completely agree. He makes it all look easy - which it is not of course. Unfortunately his very skill in this regard means the quality of his work is sometimes taken for granted, and he is accused of coasting or not moving forward. I've been a fan all my life and he still moves my soul as few others can.
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I marvel at the extraordinary phenomenon that is the Rolling Stones. At an age when most of their contemporaries are happy to stroll gently around their local shopping mall, play a round of golf, do some light gardening or take the dog for a walk, the Stones embark on a seemingly never-ending series of tours. The fact that here on IORR we can argue and discuss between ourselves where we thin
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I do think the band are in a no-win situation with setlists. Too many warhorses and those of us who are committed long-term fans, with an in-depth knowledge of the full 50 year catalogue, rarities and all, will feel a little bit frustrated. Not enough, and the less knowledgeable - though just as passionate - occasional fans, who like the big hits, will feel excluded and unloved. And let us not fo
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Delighted for you Sir Mick . A lovely event on what has been such a sad time for you recently. Blessings on your new great grandchild and the entire family
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