QuoteIrix QuoteDoxa complaining - rightly IMO - about the brickwall is as useless It isn't. Listen to 'Hackney Diamonds' on CD, Digital or HiRes. Then listen again from Vinyl or Dolby Atmos. The latter are far better, sound-wise. Still I don't quite get how complaining about that would help anything? And isn't it good that there are formats released in which ther
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I guess complaining - rightly IMO - about the brickwall is as useless as is it wish for the Stones setlists consisting of obscure tunes instead of war horses, and probably them playing at your local pub instead of stadiums hundreds miles away. They are not an avantgarde, but a commercial act following the mainstream in business and that's how they click. That's why they still are here.
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QuoteTravelinMan Are you telling me Brown Sugar or Bitch or Dead Flowers are luminous masterpieces of the songwriting craft? I don't know what Dandie tells, but I tell that those three tunes are exactly luminous masterpieces of the songwriting craft. Even genius ones as far as rock and roll song-writing goes. If there is a basic course on rock song writing, those three could be used as exa
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Btw, I like the Stones's version of Leather Jacket. I think the 'original' Stones take of it shows a lot of promise, but unfortunately about anything of that is lost in transition as far as Taylor's finished song goes... the one I find pretty dull.. One of those times that a bit of Jagger/Richards magic would have probably needed in order to
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Mick singing You Don't Move Me would have been hilarious A funny idea indeed, but for Mick to sing it - or about any Keith solo track - would have meant that he would have re-written it, both lyrically and melodically. There simply is too few words and the melody is way too sketchy for him. This tune exactly reminds me of Mick describing TALK IS CHEAP as sound
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I have now given the album a rest for some time. But each time I happen give it a random listening, or some track of it suddenly appears, I hear the diamond there. The spell doesn't disappear, and it is like a good old friend now, the one I trust and never lets me down. It's there with some other great albums to pick up if one feels like hearing something great for sure. I like every
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QuoteSpud Micks's a very intelligent individual. he must know how trite and "cringey" some of these lyrics can appear...and he has to sing them ! I sometimes think he does it on purpose just to take the piss. Well, everytime when I listen this song, and pay attention to the lyrics, I can see Mick's huge grin... Maybe he is seriously warning us about the dangers of bein
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Same with You Gotta Move and Prodigal Son. The latter is so out of tune that they finish it early, if memory serves Haha, yeah. It is Keith who decides to stop it early, after some hopeless attempts to tune the guitar while playing (his last hit on strings is like 'fvck off'...)... Mick's reaction is priceless, as he was just about to continue to sing
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Never heard that live version before. Thanks, Dandie! Yeah, a pretty nice version. What a storm of acoustic guitars! And Mick's delivery is a spot on. Never been any of my biggest favourites, but damn, there is a nice song there. Some really nice features musically and melodically (forget the lyrics). Funnily, reminds me a bit of "Waitin' On A Friend" (thinking especiall
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Wow! That was highly interesting. To see how it was viewed back then as it was still fresh. Yeah, some cool unseen footage. Funny the differing comments of those farmers of how it all went down... Still 55 years later... what an event! Yeah, so much went wrong there, but those were crazy, wild times, man... And the Stones were like uncrowned kings of all that, the definition of coolness and re
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QuoteMathijs QuoteDoxa Poor Beatles - no slide guitar at all - what sort of rock band is that? - Doxa That's what the Beatles thought as well, so they did use a lap steel slide for 'Fo You Blue'. Mathijs That's not much, but at least something! - Doxa
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteMathijs QuoteDoxa QuoteMathijs To be honest, the Stones haven't done anything the Beatles haven't done before them. Mathijs Oh yeah, playing a slide guitar, using open tunings, experimenting with a fuzz box... The Beatles, who basically invented song-writing and making records, probably the instruments too, had it all on their their records before
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QuoteMathijs QuoteDoxa QuoteMathijs To be honest, the Stones haven't done anything the Beatles haven't done before them. Mathijs Oh yeah, playing a slide guitar, using open tunings, experimenting with a fuzz box... The Beatles, who basically invented song-writing and making records, probably the instruments too, had it all on their their records before those poor copy-cats..
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QuoteMathijs To be honest, the Stones haven't done anything the Beatles haven't done before them. Mathijs Oh yeah, playing a slide guitar, using open tunings, experimenting with a fuzz box... The Beatles, who basically invented song-writing and making records, probably the instruments too, had it all on their their records before those poor copy-cats.. Or probably those
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QuoteRockman Record Collector 551 --- December 2023 Well, it is great to hear Keith's deft bottleneck guitar on "Dreamy Skies" as is what Ronnie does on "Rolling Stone Blues". Great also to know that Darryl got a day off for the latter. He must've been so busy elsewhere on the album... Okay okay, splitting hairs here, but they don't call us hardcore Sto
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QuoteRobertJohnson It may now be an anachronism, but it would be a dream come true if Mick Taylor were to rejoin the band as a third guitarist. His performances in 2013/14 were the highlights of the tour. Unaffected by this is the fact that Ronnie Wood was and is an indispensable part of the band. A dream indeed, taken that the guitarist has retired years ago. But what goes for the three guitar
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Quotepaulywaul Quotededospegajosos Imagine you had to pick just one Rolling Stones Album to listen for the rest of your life...but you must choose between Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges, A Bigger Bang and Hackney Diamonds. Just one, all others will cease to exist, including pre Dirty work albums Go Absurd question ! The list includes most (if not all) of the absolute wea
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Oh yeah, when I was a small kid, Boney M was a household name and all their hits - Daddy Cool, Rasputin, Rivers of Babylon, etc. - were like a soundtrack for the times, played on the radio all the time. Probably even more than, say, Village People or even ABBA. This was the days of innocence for me, before I started to listen rock music and started taking the whole thing 'seriously'. ..
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Hmm.. the idea is to replace one new, unreleased track from the album with an old, already released tune? Well, if the shit hits "Driving Me Too Hard", well, in that case I would pick up "Tumbling Dice" to tell a slightly different story after the intro... Well, maybe one could do the same for the others. Let's replace "Angry" with "Start Me Up"
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QuoteFeelslikeaGhost How cool would it be to hear Keith sing 'Wild Horses', 'Ruby Tuesday' or 'Angie'. Nope. A terrible idea. His crooning would destroy those songs everybody knows. A Stones show shouldn't be some sort of joke. People would ask their money back. I would. - Doxa
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QuoteSomeTorontoGirl You ask if it might have been a nod to Charlie… I wondered the same about SSOH where Mick sings ‘Bless the Father, bless the Son, hear the sound of the drums as they echo through the valley and burst.’ I’ll always think of Charlie when I hear that. The same here. What a context! After blessing the Father and the Son the little Christian theologian in me starts to expect the
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Can we sleep now? - Doxa
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Austria's chart success is pretty impressive. 11 weeks top 2, five of them number one. - Doxa
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QuoteProfessorWolf well add it to the vault worth of footage to leak or use someday and i was really looking forward to this one why couldn't the stones just release it on there youtube channel or something for free if nobody's interested in buying it Or they could release it as an bonus DVD to go with one more special edition of the album. HACKNEY DIAMONDS would re-enter the c
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteslew 25 x 5 for my money is their best documentary. Crossfire was a little disappointing that it ended in 1982. It was almost like the band was admitting that they were great until 1982 and they aren't very proud of their latter day work. Just my take. Didn't it end with ADTL from 2006? I've seen it only once or twice, and it's been years sin
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Quotetreaclefingers It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine because there's a new album, another tour, and another new album 3/4s (or more by now) done. This sums it up. - Doxa
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Quotegeorgelicks Now the album is in free fall on the UK chart (6-25-62), the shoping season is over and with very few physical sales (almost everyone interested and those who bought it as a gift for the holidays already have it) there is not much audience left to sell the album and with almost 0 streaming the chances of surviving 1 or 2 more weeks are almost zero. Forty Licks is #73 this wee
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Still loving the album. It sounds better than 7th of July and the others, with the exception of Atlantic City. Regarding arranging the songs to sound like the originals, that is indeed true. However, it didn't take long before they (Keith in particular) started doing things that were far off from the studio albums. YCAGWYW from Live At The Max springs to mind
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QuoteTaylor1 This all presupposes that in a live experience trying to replicate exactly how the song sounded on record is better than doing it differently.Although I really like the 1989- 1990, the looser jamming earlier is just as good.I think the earlier extended playing on songs detracted from Mick being the focal point. There is advantages in both approaches. That of trying to replicate the
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Back in the late 70's, a junior Doxa was a proud owner of one pair of these: RIP der Kaiser. - Doxa
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