QuoteGerardHennessy Quoteharlem shuffle Only Mick and Keith is irreplaceable,no one else You are welcome to your opinion. I completely disagree with it, but live and let live I say. I remember Charlie Watts being quoted as saying that, in Roy Carr's Illustrated Record book, so it has pedigree, as an opinion, from the heart of the band....
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Quotedrewmaster Quotekeefriffhards First off with only two original members left it's not a Stones album, the fact there are no killer riffs therefore Keith doesn't really give a damn for this album leaves us with Mick, so it's a Mick album ( other than a few Keith tracks ) with Ronnie on it as a session musician. Basically it's a Jagger/ Andrew Watts album with Keith and
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The sales numbers tracking, since the sales are so good for this day and age, is great, the fact that the album may be the UK's Christmas no 1 is fantastic, another frickin' miracle no one would have anticipated. In fact, I recall the absolute certainty with which a number of posters on here predicted that after a week in the charts it would drop into oblivion, and have no impact outs
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The live songs sound fab, even if they HAVE been well 'massaged'. Really excellent listen, especially WWW and Tumblin and Jumpin Jack!
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True re the NME, but 1976 was really before it was instructed by its publisher IPC to go punk and jettison the big hitters on its best of the year 1976 list - Led Zep, more Led Zep, Dylan, Rick Wakeman, even more Led Zep. Funny!
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I remember being at Gordon's Wine Bar on the Embankment in London - a famous and olde drinking spot - and fell into conversation with two consultants from the nearby hospital, who were adamant that the weekly units number (the older one, allowing more units) was essentially grabbed from the air and was in fact, made up bo$$ocks. Thwy were a bit pi$$ed, but I believed and understand them. E
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Quotematxil Quotefrankotero I'm trying not to chime in every time I hear someone complain about the girl in the Angry video. But seriously, what happened to "sex" drugs and rock and roll. I hope we don't start hearing about how the guitars or drums are too loud. Maybe Mick should tone down those offensive lyrics. So, every time you see an add in your local add for a cheap ca
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My daughter I guess is in Gen Z and loved seeing the Stones at Twickenham 2018, where she was employed to cater to a box of exec types, and was blown away by the b and - shortly after seeing Sabbath's last show in Brum. MAybe Gen Zee is more rawk, less judgmental that the millennials are often depicted as being.
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I can vividly recall Emotional Rescue coming out, and getting it with the big thermal camera poster and everything, handling the execrable reviews from the British music press, and managing to like to brass arrangement on Indian Girl; it's been a long time since I gave it a spin, but I only really liked Dance and Let Me Go on side one, and the last three on side two. Hackney Diamonds is
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I was going to buy the Keith cover interview Guitar Player, but it was a tenner in WH Smiths in UK. So I just flicked it at the rack instead. Specialist print mags still have a readership and a place, but I do wonder how long they will go on, mags like Uncut and Mojo. No new generation. is coming through to replace the merry go round of 60s-70s-80s (and 90s as a push) cover stars - and the numb
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"By the end when that groove gets locked in, wow--I'm singing it for hours afterwards. And bouncing." Totally this - after the Mick's second 'I'm gonna treat you good' and the main riff blows in, it's just amazingly amazing. Up there with the best Stones sounds on any record, for me; Bill and Charlie - you can just feel it - and the long fade-out is totall
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QuoteDan This song got really trite and stale even quicker than Rough Justice did all those years ago. Funny, can't agree but what the hell. Like the song says: "Why you angry?" It's such a great single, and once Keith's solo and the handclaps start, even after many many listens I'm all in.
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That is a fantastic information resource of how they melded together on this great, great record. I've been listening to it for a month now, via reviewer stream and then the. CD as soon a it was out, and like a lot of listeners on here, I find it gets better, stronger, deeper, tastier, with each serving. I was a bit down on Mess It Up at first, but there's not been a song that hasn�
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QuoteAquamarine This is by far my favorite song from the album, by the end when that groove gets locked in, wow--I'm singing it for hours afterwards. And bouncing. Same. I walked round Richmond Park today with that end bit bouncing around in my head. Excellent walking music. One of their best fade-outs too ...
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Dear viewers, As the press release incorrectly uses an apostrophe in 'how they feel about being the Grandpa’s of rock and roll" it's clearly going to be a load of old crock. Yours, The Apostrophe Police
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Quotebitusa2012 This has risen to the top of the pile for me. At any one time one of 8 differing tracks is my “favourite” off this record, but for the time being I just think this is astonishingly great. It belongs on ANY of their classic albums. Dang, this IS a great album. Easily in their top 10. And Rising with a Bullet.
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For quite a while I heard "now I'm just a story you tell" as "now I'm just a star in your tale" - I like mishearing lyrics in Stones songs again. To this day, I couldn't tell you half of what he's singing on Dice or Rocks Off. I love that slur, that vagueness. He's rediscovered that - those comments about needing to 'throw it away more' when
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Brilliant.
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QuoteSilver Dagger Couldn't agree more. Loved the rowdy ones best at first - Bite Your Head Off and Whole Wide World but the more I listen to the album the more I consider these among the best songs they've written for decades. The guitars on Driving Me Too Hard capture the definitive 70s Rolling Stones sound. Vintage stuff.
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At present, in an emergency and if I had to choose three tracks to listen to before the power fails, it would be Get Close, Depending on You, and Driving Me Too Hard. The rock ballads. The guitars on this just get better and better with more listens - the care and detail and the just right phrasing. To more or less dismiss them as 'Mick's band' - with the apporopriate rictus sneer
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The old, unhappy, hip-crackin' bores are really crashing through the woodwork today, souring the milk and making it all appear like a terrible, exhausting effort that no one should have bothered with. Still, that's probably all of you done now! And don't mistake being relentlessly negative with the spirit of honesty - you might regret it. On the plus side, Hackney Diamonds by the
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QuoteRollingFreak Quotejohnnythunders Finally I have found someone who put into words what I was feeling -step forward Tim Stegall An AI version of the Stones sums it up nicely and yes it would make a great EP Pretty accurate stuff. I would say less about Mess It Up and Live By The Sword, and more about Sweet Sounds of Heaven (my biggest issue with the review is no mention of that song
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I just picked up a copy of this book in a charity shop in Woodbridge, a small town in Suffolk, and it's been a fantastic read and a great charity shop find. Very funny, and a real good look at the Stones in 75, 77, 78, 79... I'm on the Concert for the blind chapter. Wonder if they would ever put that one out from the Vault? Maybe paired with the Nicaragua benefit, and the Sars one - Ch
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That live performance was indeed amazing, incredibly uplifting and moving, and in these insane times, just a joy to hear and see. Mick and Gaga are so good together, the energy and joy of the band is so good, it just all falls so perfect together it's enough to make you weep, it's like a frickin' miracle. I can't quite believe it.
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QuoteHardRiffin This is the right reaction.."Oh my Godness" She's great isnt she!?! I had a night of bingeing on those kinds of reaction videos, She was the best!
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Quotekeefriffhards Quotematxil QuoteMonkeyMan2000 Quotematxil Quotekeefgotsoul Are the bridges the weakest parts of this album? I like the whole album but it seems like the bridges in some songs take the steam out of them. Like Sweet Sounds. The song keeps building and gaining momentum, then the bridge happens and it seems like a wrong turn. In general, yes, they feel forced and unnecessary. Al
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Yes, it does, and lyrics and who plays what.
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Quotekeefriffhards QuoteRobertJohnson Okay, we have the long-awaited solo album of Mick Jagger. Amazingly, Ronnie and Keith were allowed to play on it. And Keith even has a solo song. It's also the best thing on this album along with Rolling Stones Blues. The remarkable thing is that Mick's other solo albums were much better. When I heard about the name dropping list I was already skept
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Quoteslewan what the hell did they do to Jagger's voice on that track?? sounds awful to me I read they recorded to tape for this one. Sounds like one of his great vocal to me, though!
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QuoteHardRiffin Quotepowerage78 Hackney Diamonds» des Rolling Stones : rock en toc. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood release a new album featuring a host of prestigious guests, causing quite a stir. There's plenty of noise. For the songs, we'll take a rain check. Blatantly biased and full of crap sort of review!!! No one does 'tosser' like a French critic. I
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