I don't think I like Zydeco very much. But I like the Stones contribution, mainly because it sounds less like Zydeco and more like the Stones. Mick sings it well and there are all these typical Keith like licks and phrases and small tempo delays and all that. It's got his fingerprints all over the piece.
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Quotetiffanyblu Honestly, I hope for a colab with a modern artist to get our boys back on the radar. But that is just dreams. I am just so glad that we are here in 2025 and new material seems to be on its way. Amazing. Maybe their best work came about when they were listening to artists who at that time were not just "modern" but also (slightly) controversial, underground or different
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 It's an interesting question bc it shows people loving the Stones for different reasons. Or loving different facets of the band. If someone answers Humble Pie, Free, Faces, Crowes, then you have a good idea of where they might be coming from musically. If someone likes 90's type alt bands, I'd think they might like the Voodoo Lounge album. Or I see ma
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QuoteSomeTorontoGirl Quotethecitadel (you may need to understand cricket) No one understands cricket!
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Skatalites Toots & The Maytals Tom Waits Leonard Cohen Nick Cave Virgin Prunes Captain Beefheart Muddy Waters Little Walter Chuck Berry John Lee Hooker Aretha Franklin Frank Black (& The Catholics) Aerosmith
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If we forget for a bit about what Stones-fans think of their old and new albums, a sterile debate that has filled many pages, we could think about what people who don't particularly like the Stones think. The last time the Stones really impressed people (like making a impression, either good of bad) was with Start Me Up and up to a point Undercover of the Night. Most of my friends don�
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Quotededospegajosos With the spirit of keeping things more positive, I suggest that all the people here who were dissapointed with HD,say something positive about the album.. This is honest, no sarcasm in any way... I´ll start: Micks vocals are fantastic! There is no "Back To Zero", "Sing This All Together etc...", "Sweet Neocon" or "Infamy" on it.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteBig Al What A Bigger Bang has over Hackney Diamonds is all in the sound: it sounds organic, real and alive. Hackney Diamonds, to my ears, is too polished; too 'pop' I'm articulating my point as well as I would like, I confess. That's true for some songs. However, Dreamy Skies and Live By The Sword don't sound as polished as, say, Rain Fall D
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QuoteGasLightStreet Stuck in the past Stones fans have extreme difficulty hearing or listening to anything new - going back to 1983's UNDERCOVER. "Oh they're not... (enter excuses here) anymore". HACKNEY DIAMONDS is a brilliant album. So sorry for your loss. Hackney Diamonds is not "anything new". Tattoo You sounds fresher and newer than Hackney Diamond
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I think Frank Black (Black Francis in the Pixies) is a very underrated song-writer. I like his solo work better than this work with the Pixies. "Dog in the Sand" is a fantastic album and so is "Pistolero". I could do without the quirky, weirdy, freaky punk songs, but he's written some very good songs, with original twists and catchy melodies. This one, for example:
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Thanks for posting. Very interesting, although I do admit some of the terms and definitions used are above my head. Next time I play in a band and someone accuses me of not being tight enough, I'll quote this scientific article.
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteBig Al QuoteMKjan Lydon, Simmons, and Nugent. 3 silly sods at the bottom of the Rock pile. Well, Lyndon was the Sex Pistols’ vocalist; so no. ‘Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols’ is one of the most incredible British albums of all time. So what. Doesn't change the fact that he's an archaic asshat. One album with a band. Woo fooking
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 He's a fearless artist. He is absolutely going to offend. But here's the real deal; 'Standing on a stage alone w/o a script..' 'if you are advocating the death of another human...you are my enemy' Hats off to him. Precisely that statement of his about being against advocating the death of another human being are the words of a
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Great performer, has done very good things with PIL en Sex Pistols, but also a huge self-absorbed attention seeker. The sort of person who thinks that a day without insults and provocations is a day not lived. His observations should be taken with a big grain of salt. Especially over the last decade he's made some inmensely stupid comments. Retiring anyway is nonsense. Nobody should reti
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Quotejp.M QuoteRollingFreak Every song on Aftermath is so damn good. ...except ” Take it or leave it ”... Nope. "Take it or leave it" is also damn good.
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Quotefrenki09 QuoteRollingFreak Every song on Aftermath is so damn good. Really? Goin' Home? Anyone? A song pretending to be a jam. Which it is not. What an utter bore. Imagine how they could have used this space for another 2-3 proper songs. This has got to be the worst song the Stones have ever recorded (Indian Girl and Send It To Me come close). You listen to the separated vocals once
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QuoteGerardHennessy The Stones ceased to be a band years ago and became Mick, Keith and whoever else was drafted in. Bill was replaced. Charlie was replaced. In time. no doubt, Ronnie would have been replaced also except the band has not lasted long enough for it to happen. In addition they have long ago ceased to be a group in the classic sense, becoming instead a vast on-stage ensemble with any
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Quotetreaclefingers I love the under-mentioned I Am Waiting. Unfathomably good. I like the entire album. The weakest songs are Going Home (as a blues opera it's the very weak sibling of Midnight Rambler) and Out Of Time (too long). I Am Waiting indeed is a fantastic song. But I find there's something very endearing about the last three songs, they almost sound like a unity of the
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Maybe this is a silly post, but it just occurred to me. I just listened to Aftermath, which from their (fortunately short) pop-period, is my favorite album (I can't stand BtB and TSMR is 50% great, 50% cringeworthy), and I noticed again, not for the first time, that the last 3 songs (Take It Or Leave It, Think and What To Do) are so enjoyable. None of them are great outstanding hits, but I
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QuoteThe Joker He's right but he's also completely wrong.
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It's true that the way we listen to the Stones is related to how we got to listen to them in their first place. I was a teenager in the 80s. I sort of liked punk and new-wave music but then I got tired of it. I liked the English wave of ska music but then I discovered that the original Jamaican ska music from the 60s was much more "groovy". Similarly, in the 80s I discovered ol
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QuoteDoxa The influence can derive from anywhere. You know, when I started to dig The Stones back in 1981/82 I get to know that their worst album and a total disaster is THEIR SATANIC MJESTIES. This was the impression I had based on, say, music papers, books, elder fans, etc. It was like a 'common truth'. Nowadays that's not the case. It is more like 'the album is so much be
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Yes and no, I'd say. Surely, none of us predicted the funky rap part with the reggae-ish guitars the first time we heard it The rest is (good) Stones by numbers. Ok, true, you're right. But that odd break doesn't really help to improve the song.
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QuoteSpud Not sure I could spare the energy to hate DW quite that much ! - One Hit: fantastic. And the last time they wrote a rocker that is both typically Stones and still new and different. - Fight: chaotic but not bad. - Harlem Shuffle: good - Don't Hold Back: terrible, terrible, terrible - Too Rude: doesn't work - Winning Ugly: great guitars, great bass lines but wrong bass
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QuoteSwayed1967 [...] Oh I understand the revulsion for DW – songs like ‘Back To Zero’ are so appallingly bad a barf bag should’ve been inserted in the album jacket. Most of the worst songs they’ve ever released are found on this album. So sure, I can’t really argue with anyone who puts it on the bottom. Still, there are five strong songs on DW that are better IMO than the best five songs of
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteMadMax QuoteSirCorto QuoteNankstone [...] ER 4th? Interesting. Can someone explain by which parameters ER is better than SW, BtB or VL? [...] The only two parameters needed are: Pathé Marconi and Chris Kimsey Parameter #3 and #4: The songwriting and the wonderful playing. #5 the glorious production and mix All of what the others said. There is a loo
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QuoteMadMax QuoteMore Hot Rocks I love seeing Dirty Work on the bottom. It’s the only Stones album loved by non Stones fans. That says something. DW is a hell of a album anyway Fight, Winning Ugly and the title track are Ten outta ten for me and Sleep Tonight along with Stu's Key To The Highway are just heart- breaking Brilliant DW is a bit like TSMR in a way. There's a lot
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Quotebv Barcelona is probably one of the most expensive cities in Europe, along with London and Rome. Many privare apartments are rented out through AirBnB, and the locals don't like tourists much, as they are everywhere, and drive up housing prices for the locals. A big issue in many cities swarmed by tourists.
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QuoteProfessorWolf [...] i didn't mean to imply that it's at the same level of quality as slave (it's not even close) or that that's a reason to like it i was just attempting to humorously point out how similar it is to slave someting incredibly obvious to me when i first heard it and i disagree with your assement it lacks "redeeming features" it's
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Quotekeefgotsoul QuoteSpud A bit too much "polish" is the one thing that perhaps affects the whole album a little. Compared to the 4 albums that preceded HD? It boggles my mind how anyone can come to this conclusion. Polish compared to Steel Wheels or Bridges or Bigger Bang???? Haha! Seriously??? I don't listen to those albums either. And why would I? I like a few songs on th
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