I agree w/ Gaslight. Undercover by a miiiile. Undercover is the last truly great album by The Rolling Stones, imho. This is the band at their most mature and intelligent as artists. I still love listening to this album, and I bought it the day it was released, when I was 11. SW, otoh, was an album written and recorded for the stadium. It’s not nearly as awful as Dirty Work, but it’s over-reve
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Sounds very rough, doesn’t sound like Charlie even? I think those horns may be synth horns as well. Just 7+ minutes of a riff with other ideas woven in. That’s my take.
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Devils and Dust was a great western themed album, as well as some of Ghost of Tom Joad and Nebraska. Bruce has had a fascination with the American west most of his life. The Western Stars album is influenced by “70’s California AM radio songs.” Let the man write what he wants, he’s earned it. I like the album and look forward to the E Street Band record whenever it comes our way.
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Interesting to see this is acknowledged by Keith. With very few exceptions, I have not enjoyed the live recordings from Steel Wheels on nearly as much as all those that came before. I never saw the Stones before then, I was too young. I loved witnessing every live show I’ve seen from ‘89 on, but yes, the massive production and bigger band indeed lost my interest musically. There has always bee
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I don't understand why the drums are so sparse and conservative. If it's Zak playing, he has every capability to turn it on much more than that, and I feel this song really starves for a richer, more vibrant beat, and less effect on the drum. It sounds like a Who song, EXCEPT for the drums. I like Zak's playing in the bits of live performances I've seen, but here the song j
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Yeah, BTZ is hideous. I was 14 when this record came out, so very desperate for the release of the album. I liked Harlem Shuffle enough, but there was over a month between that single and the album release. I just remember one song after another thinking, man, this is just not good. BTZ was embarrassingly bad. I couldn’t decide if it was worse than Hold Back or not, but it was painfully bad.
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MT played the jam portion of this on a solo tour in ‘99, and I stood right in front of him in a club and watched his fingers as he played the solo. Just a magical experience. I’ve enjoyed seeing it at Stones shows, including ‘13 with MT, but the studio version is just unmatched in terms of the performance of the whole song.
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Keep checking here for news of the next album... I agree with GLS that Undercover was the last truly great studio album. BtB is the best since, imho, but still not anything like 1983 and prior. Now does that mean they can't produce a great record in 2019 or thereafter? They are absolutely capable of putting out something great; they just need to acknowledge that they are a different band t
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I met Mick Taylor after a show with his band in Portland, Maine in 1999. Delightful.
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I think the ESB will keep going as long as Bruce wants.. They’ve already lost (and replaced) a few key guys in the band. I don’t see why that won’t keep happening as long as Bruce wants to keep touring with his band. I miss Clarence and Danny, but I’m still looking forward to the next tour, and any that may follow.
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Lambert has a very modern American pop vocal style, it just doesn’t compare, imho.
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There's also a tune called 'Stones'... I'm eager to hear what this record has to offer. Bruce's records over the last couple decades have been solid. The last two studio releases were less appealing to me, but they were advertised as more or less leftovers and revisits from other albums. The man still puts his heart and soul into his writing and playing.
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How about the craziness going on during Satisfaction?! I love the noise happening there, makes me wonder how psychedelic the Rolling Stones might have become had Brian Jones not left the band (and had he not drowned).
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Ah, I did not realize. Not sure if this ever made it to iTunes here in the states. There is so much to appreciate in the Paris performance.. I love it. Always heard about it, never actually heard it before.
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I’ve never heard this entire thing before now, I’m embarrassed to say. What a total joy. Boy oh boy do I hope there’s a reel of this somewhere that can be remastered and released... Anybody have any thoughts to share? Will/could this ever become a vault release?
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Singer sounds like young Robert Plant. Band cops early Zeppelin. That’s the phenomenon. There’s no great drummer, there’s no amazing guitar player, it’s just a loud band that cops early Zeppelin, and that is just not exciting to me.
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"Sticky Fingers" isn't a song, jerk-writer. And as stated above, Keith said no such thing about "Singing satisfaction when I'm 40." That was Mick (the guy who sings Satisfaction) and it said nothing about "killing himself." If you're going to write a piece dissing the Stones (and there are some valid reasons to diss the Stones), don't write cra
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Bonus tracks are great. Some really nice extended grooves on there, and some nice playing by... Mick Taylor. It is truly a stellar set of session material. Entirely worth purchasing the album (even on cd) again.
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Nordic skiing is the greatest sport on earth. Thanks for this most welcome interlude! Just yesterday I was skiing in Rumford, Maine and witnessed an NCAA (college) men’s 10k freestyle (skate) race. Skiers from Harvard, Dartmouth, UVT, UNH, Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, Williams, and other colleges competed on a stunning, sunny 0 degree (C) day in the western Maine mtns, where there are heaps of beauti
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I agree with the nothing after ‘89/90 notion. Most of the great footage has been mined, and the choreographed nature of each tour from that era onward leaves little variation in performance. There are subtleties, but with the releases thus far, we have great documentation of the energy of the post-Wyman era tours, and the SW/UJ tour. There are undoubtedly some special gems out there from ‘78,
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I was 14 when this record came out, a massive fan already, and was really disappointed with the album, how it sounded, the bad vocals, loud drums, sloppy guitars and idiotic lyrics. Still, I think this album could be saved with a major remix. Take out the drum reverb, bring down drums and vocals in the mix, etc. It might (?) be far more listenable, imho.
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Saw the Lindsey show last Saturday. Great time. He’s in fine form all around, and told us all there will be a new album next year. I look forward to it.
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Maindefender is right. They're in their mid-70's, and they've been around the world a thousand times. I don't suspect they've got a ton of exuberant creative energy these days. They'll likely have something to put out at some point from these odd studio sessions in recent years, but it looks like the days of going into the studio to crank out an album and promote
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I’ve had lengthy writer’s blocks before, but found if I just relax and stop worrying about the end product, I get stuff written down. I like to have a guitar in hand, but really, sometimes it’s just a poem. If it’s shit in the end, I put it in a folder labeled,”shit.” Then I’ve got all these songs in the ‘shit’folder I can raid for bits and pieces of ideas.
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Wow. I get that they’re old and not full of creative energy, but enough with the damn deception. What happened to the pre Blue+Lonesome studio work, and the album that Keith said was “almost done” or whatever it was? What is the point of another tour? Play one or two fewer songs than last time, add another minute to the end of JJF, Satisfaction, and Brown Sugar, add an extra $100 to the price
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I agree about the mix. It’s bizarrely bad. One should not have to adjust treble and bass, etc, for a $23 release, especially in 2018. There also appear to be some unfortunate edits. I’m disappointed with the release overall.
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Got mine and listened the other day. While there are a few tracks that stand out (I think it’s a stellar Before They Make Me Run especially), I have a hard time with some of the half-assed-ness of a number of tunes that stand out in this. Sympathy, for example, starts and ends so quickly it’s as if they’re just try8ng to get it out of the way— Also sounds like the guitar solos are not really pr
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteOpenG Why not play the song Dirty Work live - the guitars sound awesome, Keith should play Sleep Tonight live along with others coming down again - Just think of a stones live show without the war horses the possibilities are endless, they would of course have to up their game and take chances. Here's another way to look at it: think of all the GOOD and REALLY
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Well, that's generally why M+K do their solo albums, right? When they want to be their own boss, they do their own album. I play in a bunch of bands, and one of them is called 'The Moaning Sallys' (see "us" on Spotify or iTunes!! Shameless plug!!), but the Moaning Sallys is really just me. I love not having to run stuff by other band members. I AM the other band membe
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