Quotegotdablouse QuoteMadMax Mess It Up is easily the best tune from HD IMHO And they finally nailed it live, the "really wanna tell the truth" parts are still too hard for Mick to sing though. He struggles even more on WWW, just can't bring it to life IMHO. You'd think the more recent songs would be easier for him to sing than the old ones but it's not the case, beacu
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Quoteharlem shuffle Stones could have had a much better guitarplayer than Ron Wood. "Better" is such a broad term when it comes to guitar playing. Is Yngwie Malmsteen a better guitar player than Ronnie Wood? In terms of technical wizardry and speed, yes he is. But when it comes to musicality, feel, rhythm playing, supporting the rest of the band, Ronnie is a much better player.
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Mick talking his way through Heartbreaker is not really a new thing. Last time he hit the right notes in the chorus must have been in 2003.
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QuoteSoulSurvivor1990 It's never been an every-nighter, and with a few exceptions (Licks, No Filter), it wasn't one you were absolutely guaranteed. It wasn't played at all on the Bigger Bang tour. They need room for the new songs this tour, but I think they could slot it in at the end between PIB and JJF. 69/70, 72/73, 75/76, 89/90, 94/95 are some other exceptions...
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Quoterlj1010 I’m not that fond of “Bite My Head Off”. It’s not a bad song, but it’s not really a good Stones song, if that makes sense. If Macca joins them, sure, I’d be thrilled to hear it. But otherwise, I’ll pass. True, it's like an inferior version of "Lies", which isn't a great song to begin with. But I think the setlist needs more new songs, so I will stil
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Or if they surprised us and opened with Brown Sugar. That would be cool...
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Quotegeorgemcdonnell314 I agree with this statement from earlier: they need to lock in tight together IMHO, the sound is all over the place, it feels like it's coming off the rails at every turn. Mick's becoming to hard to follow for Keith especially, backing singers following Mick are all over the place the audience can feel it, it's like the glue has gone since Charlie pass
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No Expectations - San Jose 2013.
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The riff is similar to Five Foot One:
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Bridges To Babylon A Bigger Bang Voodoo Lounge Steel Wheels Hackney Diamonds Dirty Work I liked Hackney Diamonds the first few weeks but the songs grew old pretty fast. With Bridges and Bigger Bang I still feel a lot of excitement everytime.
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Mick is superb on Wiltern Stray Cat Blues, but Keith kind of ruins it with his terrible playing. The Stockholm version was a bit of trainwreck. I guess the Olympia version is the best one from 2003.
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Overdubs or not, you can clearly hear the pitch correction on Mick's vocals. I think it makes this performance sound a lot better than the youtube vids.
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Dagens Nyheter (Swedish newspaper) : 2/5 No rock'n'rollator in the world can help the Rolling Stones groove forward "Hackney diamonds" could have been a last reminder of what once made The Rolling Stones the world's best band. Instead, producer Andrew Watt has gotten away with the cleaning agent and sterilized the entire soundscape, writes Mattias Dahlström.
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Mess It Up is awesome, so great to hear Charlie in fine form. Wish he was playing on all songs. Live By The Sword has that classic Charlie/Bill swing, would've fitted perfectly on Steel Wheels instead of Break The Spell. Whole Wide World is maybe a bit too radio friendly for my taste.
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A Bigger Bang is criminally underrated. I'm sure it will get a revival the next 30 years. As a younger fan who was 8 years old when it came out, I listened to it like a madman growing up and love almost every song. If Hackney Diamonds comes anywhere close I will be very happy.
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Quotepowerage78 As rightly pointed out here, the Stones' fan base is aging and hasn't really renewed itself. True, just compare the Rolling Stones and Beatles forums on Reddit, where a lot of younger fans hang out: The Beatles, 194.000 members. The Rolling Stones, 17.600 members.
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QuoteRip This I don't understand people using the term "posh" to subscribe some kind of negative element....they are RICH...very rich men of wealth and tatse...to the tune of $500 M so I'm really not sure what point your trying to make.... Posh when talking about songwriting, is more referring to musically complex or pretentious. It has nothing to do with how wealthy the per
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Quoteroller99 Exactly. I don’t consider Tattoo You to be an album of new material, a portion was leftovers from Some Girls. I can't get behind this way of thinking. All songwriters have unfinished songs in their backlog they are planning to use sometime in the future. Some Girls was released in 78 and Tattoo You in 81, with same logic if The Stones are using songs from 2020 sessions
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I like both songs better than Angry. Sounds like a mixture between later day Stones and Goddess In The Doorway. The verse of "Get Close" reminds me of the pre-chorus of "Too Far Gone". Will be interesting to see if the tracks written without Watt has a different feel to them.
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Angry is very reliant on Jagger's expressive vocal melody line. If you take away his vocals the music itself is a bit bland. Ghost Town has a nice sophisticated groove thanks to Charlie and Darryl, and a more interesting melody too. Would've loved to hear Charlie play Ghost Town live in concert!
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This was interesting to research, this is the top-10 least played I found with some quick research (not counting live versions, instrumentals or alternative versions). I probably have missed several songs. 1. Losin' My Touch (Forty Licks) 141,691 2. Keys To Your Love (Forty Licks) 154,164 3. Stealing My Heart (Forty Licks) 190,910 4. Fast Talking, Slow Walking (Tattoo You Deluxe) 228,
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It's nice to get a new single. Do I think this song would've made it onto A Bigger Bang? Probably not, would likely have been thrown in the dumpster. Just had to relisten to Rough Justice, can't get enough of the wonderful swing and groove of Charlie, what a great tight rock song.
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Poor version, not only because of Sheeran, everything just sounds so tame. Ronnie's solo is pretty decent, everyone else is much better on other latter day versions like Live Licks.
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QuoteThe Joker So I did try a sort of quizz for the Stones’ songs It seems the verses starting the beat 1 are quite rare , and belong to the first area of their songwriting. Here what I found (Surely, there are some others) ¬ Get Off My Cloud (on 1st) - Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow? (on 1st) - Sympathy For The Devil (on 1st) Have You Seen Your Mother Baby st
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Any solo where he doesn't resort to those Chuck Berry licks or the 3rd shape major pentatonic is a win for me!
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