QuoteNikkei I am really rooting for them to have the balls (I know they have) to be asked about the anniversary by journalists and just reply "That's not really a thing to us anymore, we're here to promote the record we made" You touch on something that I have thinking recently. To me the 60 years really do not mean so much as such. What counts, is what they have contributed
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QuoteHairball QuoteWitness Ah, Hairball, now you forget Mick and friends' possible albums REJECTS VOL 1, REJECTS VOL 2 and REJECTS VOL 3! How I look forward to those as I have told you before! Reminds me of the recent Mick/Grohl tune Easy Sleazy - a terrible tune and a complete reject - so much so it wasn't even released properly. But that was an outside cooperation. These REJECT
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Ah, Hairball, now you forget Mick and friends' possible albums REJECTS VOL 1, REJECTS VOL 2 and REJECTS VOL 3! How I look forward to those as I have told you before!
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One other aspect though in addition to my post, hit making cannot be the only expression that quality tales.
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You gave structure to the discussion, Doxa, quite needed and valuable. Thinking about your post, my interpretation becomes that the given subjectmatter and the opening post did not fully correspond. Now I noticed that. The subjectmatter was wider, the opening post more narrow. I belong to those who found the wider issue much more interesting, all the more as I never have been so delighted in
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Quotenoughties -Just heard the Vanilla Fudge version. `t was great, and I have to admit; a bit better. -Talk of fitting it`s times! On the album, that song is followed by "Take Me for a Little While". Before, in between and after those two songs on the vinyl album's B-side, there are short transitions, by the name of "Illusions from My Childhood", parts 1, 2 and 3. The
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Quotenoughties QuoteWitnessVanilla Fudge with their debut album of the same title, featuring their marvellous version of "You Keep Me Hangin' on". Check it out if you have not heard it. Here`s a version by The Nice. The only one I`ve heard, and worth every second of it: Listened only to some moments of that. Read one of the comments under it, mentionning the Vanilla Fudge
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Quotetreaclefingers This is ridiculous! Why are we talking about the past? Why 50 classic albums from 1967? Why not 50 classic albums from 2021?!?! Oh. 5? But when we are on this site, we really are into music from the past up to the present. Such lists with somebody's views on a year's best released albums can remind us of careers that we may have half forgotten, which cou
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As to musical experiences, I like so many years. I dont know which year the best. However, I have a special fascination for 1967. That year gave two of approximately twelve great Rolling Stones albums, and two of their most different ones. Besides, releases of first albums of groups and bands that I love, decidedly like or only like. Think about Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, PIPER AT THE GATES OF
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Quotemaumau the live feedback sounds like the ultimate short circuit for a new rolling stones record. it may well be true for the seventies up until ty (record/live to promote it pattern) maybe not so much for their songwriting beginnings. Did they plan to play that many songs from aftermath live? it was another era, the hit singles era still. but now? in 2022 if we have to count on their need t
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QuoteDoxa I am not that firm that they believe on any illusion. I think their obvious non-interest or lack of inspiration derives from the knowledge that whatever the album will be like - masterpiece or pure crap - it will not have any relevance or impact (like Gazza described). Probably they have realized this ages ago. Another option is an old romantic notion that 'to be an artist one shou
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QuoteSighunt I'm going out on a limb here. But with the passing of Mike Nesmith this year, I've slowly evolved and come around to a thought that was previously unthinkable by me. I think that it is about time that the Monkees be considered for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some people may even argue its a debate not worth discussing (given that some believe) that the R
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteWitness QuoteGasLightStreet Quoteribbelchips They started playing old blues songs (which led to B&L) because they kind of had a writers-block, right? So I think the quality of the songs they wrote or recorded just don't meet their own standards. They are well aware of the fact that this album probably will be there last and with ABB being nearly 17 years old, so
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QuoteTaylor1 Is Mick rapping on Hot Stuff Maybe rather 'toasting' (of which I know almost nothing).
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QuoteGasLightStreet Quoteribbelchips They started playing old blues songs (which led to B&L) because they kind of had a writers-block, right? So I think the quality of the songs they wrote or recorded just don't meet their own standards. They are well aware of the fact that this album probably will be there last and with ABB being nearly 17 years old, so they likely will feel the pressur
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QuoteHairball QuoteTrulyMicks1 Some of their best songs are from the post 70’s and I think they could’ve done the last tour playing these songs only. Some of my friends I saw No Filter with were very disappointed because they played all old songs. They were hoping to hear some songs from Emotional Rescue, Voodoo, Undercover, Bridges, Bigger Bang, etc. Yes always a bit disappointing they don
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QuoteStoneage QuoteDoxa I wonder if any of the classic rock artists from the 60's has have any real 'hits' since the 80's. With that I mean not great songs hardcore fans might like but such tunes people are familiar with and recognize like their old classics. Dylan maybe (even talking about 'hits' with him is not very apt). It could be as much the artists running
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I don't like birthdays. But very well!
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QuoteBashlets IMHO I think a lot of the best stuff was used on solo projects since mid eighties. Some really good songs that if one or the other tweaked a bit would have been great. I think the creativity is still there but not the drive to spend weeks in the studio to collaborate. Yes, it is part of the big picture.
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Quotedcba Quotematxil Mick and Keith have gone too far apart with their tastes, they don't write together anymore. I don't think it's just a matter of work. During the golden 68-72 era some kind of creative magic happened to them, it fell on their head. If you ask Mick and Keith what happened during these blessed years they wouldn't be able to give a clear answer. The
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The only song that "Claudine", preferably the bootleg version (if there is only one), to me an ecstatically compelling song, could have substituted on the great EMOTIONAL RESCUE album, would be a song to some degree of the same type, liberally understood. That is, it "must" be "Let Me Go". To me even the most moderate among so many great or very good songs. ("Sh
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The Stones have been losing much of the incentives to create new music. It started maybe with the reception to UNDERCOVER. In the following, they almost disbanded. When they started anew, the thread of development from SOME GIRLS until UNDERCOVER, with DIRTY WORK as a kind of breakdown, that thread had been broken. Since then the Stones have from time to time recorded and released a few albums of
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QuoteJordyLicks96 QuoteWitness QuoteJordyLicks96 Quoteironbelly Technically, if you start with England's Newest Hitmakers, then you should put Introducing... The Beatles or Meet The Beatles! for comparison. Otherwise the pair should be The Rolling Stones vs. Please Please Me. I'm picking the US albums for the Stones and the UK albums for The Beatles as those are the most popular
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Quotelem motlow QuoteTaylor1 7 best Stones albums, The big 4, Tattoo You, and 2 others compare favorably in terms of song writing with the best 7 Beatles albums.The Beatles wrote lots of dreck .Half of the White Album is crap:BungalowBill, Glass Onion, Piggies, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Honey Pie, Revolution 9 Sexy Sadie,,Rocky Raccoon.Sgt Pepper has crap like Benefit of Mr Kite, Good Morning, Whe
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QuoteJordyLicks96 Quoteironbelly Technically, if you start with England's Newest Hitmakers, then you should put Introducing... The Beatles or Meet The Beatles! for comparison. Otherwise the pair should be The Rolling Stones vs. Please Please Me. I'm picking the US albums for the Stones and the UK albums for The Beatles as those are the most popular markets for them commercially.
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QuoteJordyLicks96 ............. Dandelion w/ We Love You always confused me. I always thought that was a Double A-Side but apparently Dandelion was promoted to the A-side in the US after charting at #14, whereas We Love You charted at #50. In case, in its time it was "We Love You" w/ "Dandelion" in that order as double A-side.
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Try their three first or the seventh, GET READY (2001).
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QuoteRisingStone ...... QuoteWitness ..... I prefer the first four New Order albums to their later ones, generally. That being said, their best ‘album’ is, IMHO, the 1987 Substance 2CD’s, the compilation of the (mostly) 12-inch singles up to that point. Maybe I belong to the old school among the NO fans, even though I’m okay with dance music in general.
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QuoteDoxa QuoteRisingStone Quote24FPS QuoteNikkei Quote24FPSy There's a remix of YGMR that is killer, from 1994. It was so long ago I have it on a cassette mixtape. Do you mean the "Perfecto Mix"? I enjoyed that one too, in a weird 90s techno retro way Yeah. I know a lot of the 'Disco Sucks' legions here would have hated it, but I like it, and would post it but I
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This thread gradually transformed into more or less a remembrance thread for Charlie. I do not think all posters were fully aware of that from the start, myself included. Then there were speculations that in other threads are quite normal, but may be seen by many readers as misplaced in a remembrance thread. Understandable frustration about that arose, but, surprisingly, also even instances of ja
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