QuoteRollingFreak QuoteGasLightStreet Oh boy. You're way off in regard to Ronnie. He's all over SOME GIRLS, EMOTIONAL RESCUE and UNDERCOVER (not so much TATTOO YOU but still there - No Use In Crying, Neighbours, Hang Fire, Black Limo - the SG and ER session songs). Not sure why you'd say that. He 70/30 disappeared from STEEL WHEELS through BRIDGES. Its not meant as a dig at Ronnie
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Marvellous reading, GasLightStreet! One vital objection though. You are leaving out what went before. That is, their first period as R&B band. Thereafter, their phase as a progressive popband with three albums (one of which we know that you do dislike) and a string of defining "noisy" single A-sides with great B-sides as well.
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I abstain from looking at the videos. So how can I judge? But from the rather scarce concerts that I have attended over the decades, compared to many others here, (I have sought not to drown my earliest concert impressions from before 1990), I do not experience them during the concerts I have been to, as dead, far from it. All the same, I have felt them as a routine, highly competently delivered
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteWitness QuoteStoneage It's quite easy. I rank them in chronological order from 1969 and onwards. Because they were younger, because they were more relevant, because they released more albums, because they made more hits. The further you move away chronologically from 1969 the less you get of these things mentioned. In many ways I regard the 1981/82 tour as their la
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QuoteStoneage It's quite easy. I rank them in chronological order from 1969 and onwards. Because they were younger, because they were more relevant, because they released more albums, because they made more hits. The further you move away chronologically from 1969 the less you get of these things mentioned. In many ways I regard the 1981/82 tour as their last of their first era. When they
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteWitness QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteSoulSurvivor1990 ......... Fans old and new leave each show consistently happy aside from a few naysayers who will never be satisfied. They've had the same set list, in general, since 2012. 3-4 new songs, sure. It is the name of the album and tour. They should be... It's been over for awhile. It will continue. Now it
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteSoulSurvivor1990 ......... Fans old and new leave each show consistently happy aside from a few naysayers who will never be satisfied. They've had the same set list, in general, since 2012. 3-4 new songs, sure. It is the name of the album and tour. They should be... It's been over for awhile. It will continue. Now it's just about the money, whi
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QuoteTravellinMan For me, it's Down in the Hole. For me, probably this is the choice. I can't give link with this mobile. But apart from the Track talk for the song, there was once a thread called "Down In The Hole", started October 19, 2021. On page 2 of that thread, you may find a post from BitchKeepsBitchin. Well worth to search and read, I think, in relation to this
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Simply, shocking and sad to read.
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Quotegeorgie48 QuoteMathijs Quotegeorgemcdonnell314 I just have to say this. The one thing most folks do not understand. The Rolling Stones would never be what they are today without Brian Jones. It is a shame he is not recognized for his input to the band. Look at what we all want to hear as fans........ the music from his era. The Mick Taylor years were there peak but without Bri
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteWitness What do you mean, treacle? I showed you where you might find it. And I am not against revisiting that post. But usually I prefer not to provoke the feelings of other posters. Oh hey no worries...I didn't mean to offend. I was just teasing a bit for your "making" me look for it. I can take it down if you like, NP. Now that it is there, let it r
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What do you mean, treacle? I showed you where you might find it. And I am not against revisiting that post. But usually I prefer not to provoke the feelings of other posters.
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My impression is that the shoegazer scene at that time was far more important background for Blur to develop as band, although going in another direction.
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Quotetreaclefingers .......... I do have a question and this is not asking you to "justify" anything as we like what we like. It's more that you have Tattoo You and Dirty Work at the same level...I can personally understand the relative disdain for Dirty Work but wonder what it is about Tattoo You that turns you off? Just very curious. Thx Witness. treacle, look at thre
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Not now, treacle. I have written about TATTOO YOU before, but not so often (I prefer to do posts, where I can be positive). Whereas I have not yet, apart from this thread, given my views on HACKNEY DIAMONDS at all. (I have lately been in a period, when I do quite few posts.)
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5.0 UNDERCOVER "Undercover (of the Night)" 5.0 EMOTIONAL RESCUE "Down in the Hole"/ " She's So Cold"/ "All About You" 4.0 HACKNEY DIAMONDS "Dreamy Skies" / "Whole Wide World" 3.5 A BIGGER BANG " Laugh I Nearly Died"/"Biggest Mistake"/ "Rain Fall Down"/ Let Me Down Slow" 3.5 BRIDGES TO BABYLON
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QuoteVoodooLounge13 QuoteTumblinDice76 30th Anniversary of Voodoo. Not that they need an Anniversary year to release a special edition. BTB set could be interesting This was my exact thought. 30 years since this masterpiece landed and tons of leftovers!!!! Bring it on baby!!!! I would very much like to hear as extra material songs that Mick Jagger thought ought to have made this album. So,
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The band that I would suggest: Come. (Originally formed in Boston.)
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Certainly we have always understood that to create this site, was a major achievement, a feat. What we are more slowly learning in the recent weeks, as we have been brought to think more thoroughly through it than earlier, is that to have managed this site and especially its forum over the years, is a major achievement as well. I want to join all others in thanking you, bv, for that. Then I wo
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteWitness Quotetreaclefingers I guess another way of asking, what is their best album since Undercover? I think it's clearly Hackney Diamonds, I'd give Steel Wheels some props as well. Both albums feel like they were delivered with passion and purpose and great music, particularly HD. In fact, if HD had been the follow up to Tattoo You, or instead of Di
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Quotetreaclefingers I guess another way of asking, what is their best album since Undercover? I think it's clearly Hackney Diamonds, I'd give Steel Wheels some props as well. Both albums feel like they were delivered with passion and purpose and great music, particularly HD. In fact, if HD had been the follow up to Tattoo You, or instead of Dirty Work? I think it would hav
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Unable to give a link by my mobile: Noir Desir: "En Route pour la Joie".
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Probably some sense there, GasLightStreet. If they are able to do it, it should be a privilege for them once again to tour an album as much as possible, given the apparently positive reception over all to HACKNEY DIAMONDS.
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteWitness QuoteGasLightStreet 01. Angry 02. Get Close 03. Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love) 04. Tumbling Dice 05. Memory Motel 06. Depending On You 07. Have You Seen Your Mother... 08. Flight 505 09. 100 Years Ago 10. Tell Me Straight 11. Thief In The Night 12. Jigsaw Puzzle 13. Mess It Up 14. Shattered 15. Honky Tonk Women 16. Jumpin' Jack Flash 17. Street
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At the moment, none from outside HACKNEY DIAMONDS.
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QuoteGasLightStreet 01. Angry 02. Get Close 03. Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love) 04. Tumbling Dice 05. Memory Motel 06. Depending On You 07. Have You Seen Your Mother... 08. Flight 505 09. 100 Years Ago 10. Tell Me Straight 11. Thief In The Night 12. Jigsaw Puzzle 13. Mess It Up 14. Shattered 15. Honky Tonk Women 16. Jumpin' Jack Flash 17. Street Fighting Man 18. Start Me Up 1
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteWitness QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteGerardHennessy QuoteDandelionPowderman This time the tour is billed «Hackney Diamonds-tour». IMO, they're more confident with the material from HD than they've been with new songs for decades. My guess is that 4-5 HD-songs will be staples in the setlist. Well a big Amen to that Mr DP. Here's hoping! I'm more p
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteGerardHennessy QuoteDandelionPowderman This time the tour is billed «Hackney Diamonds-tour». IMO, they're more confident with the material from HD than they've been with new songs for decades. My guess is that 4-5 HD-songs will be staples in the setlist. Well a big Amen to that Mr DP. Here's hoping! I'm more pessimistic, but then maybe I'm j
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What would then have happened to Brian Jones early on? Could there have been a different Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, possibly also under another name? Might Brian have been able to recruit other band members therefrom? Could this have resulted in a blues band that never obtained a record contract? Instead played blues oriented concerts round London and disbanded after a couple of years?
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QuoteDoxa QuoteWitness QuoteDoxa QuoteMathijs The production always was a bit dated, but for the last couple of years it has aged quite well. The production of Hackney Diamonds is closer to Undercover than anything else. Mathijs I find this an interesting claim. But with respect, I need to disagree to an extent. As far as production goes, I think UNDERCOVER is not very cohesive albu
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