As a fanboy I don't say that all Rolling Stones music is equally good, but it is always, almost always interesting. Even TATTOO YOU! And I don't agree to any "Las Vegas era"-theory of the latter years, because I hold a version of a multi peak perspective on the band's career. Even if some output would have been better if they have been better to cooperate during periods o
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Quotealimente QuoteWitness QuoteErik_Snow QuoteDandelionPowderman ... not ONE positive thing to say about your supposedly favourite band - THEN you're a whiner, and there are a few of them around, mind you Well yes, there might 2 or 3 of of them, but there's more folks here who are always praising the band - and you don't see them being "called out" for being "bli
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QuoteErik_Snow QuoteDandelionPowderman ... not ONE positive thing to say about your supposedly favourite band - THEN you're a whiner, and there are a few of them around, mind you Well yes, there might 2 or 3 of of them, but there's more folks here who are always praising the band - and you don't see them being "called out" for being "blind belivers"....or wha
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Quotestonesrule Witness, are you speaking of listening to the 1 MINUTE video clip? I am referring to the 8:41 minute long clip posted by TheBlockbuster,
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QuoteStonesTod QuoteWitness QuoteStonesTod QuoteWitness The band can probably at the moment be compared to a world class soccer team during pre-season friendlies. They are in the process of getting their act together. Possibly imperfect. Anyway, almost always to me the Rolling Stones have meant the perfection of the imperfect. More impressive at that than whatever group that is immediately pe
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QuoteStonesTod QuoteWitness The band can probably at the moment be compared to a world class soccer team during pre-season friendlies. They are in the process of getting their act together. Possibly imperfect. Anyway, almost always to me the Rolling Stones have meant the perfection of the imperfect. More impressive at that than whatever group that is immediately perfect on the surface. On
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The band can probably at the moment be compared to a world class soccer team during pre-season friendlies. They are in the process of getting their act together. Possibly imperfect. Anyway, almost always to me the Rolling Stones have meant the perfection of the imperfect. More impressive at that than whatever group that is immediately perfect on the surface. On repeated listenings, to me
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QuoteStonesTod the 1969 rolling stones had met the 2012 rolling stones? what would they think of them? what would 69 mick say to 2012 mick...."nice shoes?" talk amongst yourselves.... What is your own response to your post then? Provided irony is forbidden in your answer to your own questions, as much as these are your questions.
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Quotestonesnow QuoteWitness I wonder if they have arrived at a stage of life when chasing women or the booze will have lost some of its relative charms to them. Then, possibly and most hopefully, being musically creative together and individually, might continue to contain an act of passion for them. When available, we all want and seek passion. If they would notice a revived interest from the w
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QuoteDoxa on October 22, 2012, 10:43 Awesome post!!!
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His Majesty, in all due respect to the important subjective dimension, I do think though that it is of value to the listening to songs to have some mental picture of how one song performed in time. To have a sense of its place in a development and of what was contemporary to a set of songs.
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QuoteDoxa QuoteWitness My impression is that some or even many of those later become fans vastly surpass many of the elder fans in ability and interest of seeking information, facts and understanding of the Stones. And if it had not been for fans of various younger ages, the Stones would have been in danger of drying up as much more and earlier a nostalgia act than the fan base has compelled
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Quotesjs12 QuoteWitness If they had charged estimated "reasonable prices" to comparatively few tickets in the first place, who would have managed to buy the tickets and with which motives? How many tickets would have been resold to much higher prices - to whose advantage? Out of those that would have kept them, how many buyers would have been authentic fans? I don't know th
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My impression is that some or even many of those later become fans vastly surpass many of the elder fans in ability and interest of seeking information, facts and understanding of the Stones. And if it had not been for fans of various younger ages, the Stones would have been in danger of drying up as much more and earlier a nostalgia act than the fan base has compelled the band to be as it h
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If they had charged estimated "reasonable prices" to comparatively few tickets in the first place, who would have managed to buy the tickets and with which motives? How many tickets would have been resold to much higher prices - to whose advantage? Out of those that would have kept them, how many buyers would have been authentic fans? I don't know the answer to these questi
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Most of all, these four concerts mean that they achieve to stage live concerts in the very year that mark their existence as a band for 50 years, even if not a few of those later years have been in passivity. I find it probable that this was not a deliberate choice and plan of theirs in advance come 2012, but something that emerged as an inspiration to them and a resulting project when or if p
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I wonder if they have arrived at a stage of life when chasing women or the booze will have lost some of its relative charms to them. Then, possibly and most hopefully, being musically creative together and individually, might continue to contain an act of passion for them. When available, we all want and seek passion. If they would notice a revived interest from the world in new recorded songs o
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QuoteMathijs QuoteErik_Snow Mathijs comparision with restaurants make it sound like the reason for the ticketprices going up is because the quality has been rising as well.... BTW, I just tried searching for tickets on seetickets; funny to read the 130 "facebook comments" under the RS ticket search. Seems like the everybody there think the whole band can bugger off; it's not onl
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Quotetomcasagranda That's the question ? Doom & Gloom is good, but it would have been better heard on a new album as opposed to a tag-on to a compilation. How many others agree with me ? As release of new material considered, I think of "Doom And Gloom" quite simply as a maxi-single, consisting of two versions of the A-side and a B-side, that we don't know yet, but so
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QuoteTheDailyBuzzherd QuoteDoxa Now, listening the track for some days now, it it still growing on me ... Thank you, Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones. - Doxa Glad to read you're diggin' it, Doxa ... All these questions, debates, blah, blah, blah. Talk is cheap. Getting to the point, we ask ourselves: Is this entertaining? Check. Period. End o' story. Fun track to list
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I considered VOODOO LOUNGE as a felt need on their part to return to their own musical core as starting point and walk out from there in another direction, rather than, as you tend to see it, Doxa, to do a remake of old achievements. The alternative could have been into a partly lost core of theirs to absorb contemporary impulses in a larger degree, which would be possibly dangerous if it was c
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QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman I wish people would stop comparing D & G with Goddess - musically it's way off the mark. We may discuss quality and Mick's involvement, but that's only theorical speculations. In the real world, Mick has written so many classics, mostly by himself (BS +++). There is no material on Goddess with a sound like this, nor being as raw as this - the o
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Possibly lower standards, but then of what? Or, possibly, with rather fewer prefixed ideas of what a Rolling Stones record should be like? Quote71Tele QuoteGazza Quote71Tele OK, I listened to it some more and I like it better. Still sounds more like a solo Jagger track than a Stones song to me though. There are dozens of very good Stones songs which dont sound like 'Stones songs' o
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I can't know it, of course, how can anyone, unless in the negative, as it is a most farfetched thought: But I wonder, I wonder if it might possibly become that "Doom And Gloom" may acquire a signature Rolling Stones status of this moment in time and enter in the consciousness of the world popular music scene in a way that really only quite a few of their songs happened to do in the
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I don't want to make a comparison that complies with an axiom of transivity to jugdements all over Rolling Stones songs and releases. That is too demanding, not only to me, but to anyone, I think, given the time span of this band. That means: I will not rank this song with every song in the Stones catalogue. However, to me "Doom And Gloom" is to 2012 what "Street Fighting
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Quotepaulywaul Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGravityBoy In fact.. I think it's the best thing they released since Start Me Up. I prefer Undercover of the Night, Too Tough , Plundered My Soul, Most of the Some Girls Deluxe, and Under The Radar, Dangerous Beauty and She Saw Me Coming. Having said that, this a helluva good track! Yes, agree. Doom & Gloom is OK, but in my opinion, it simpl
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Written in too short time, my apology for grammatical errors in the hurry when I should have worked, but I have to comment on this, before going out with my collegues QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotelougio After reading many of the posts about this song it is obvious that the younger listners like it. As an old fan that has loved the Stones for more years than I care to remember, this is not what
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QuoteGravityBoy Quotesuperrevvy the Stones itunes version is WAY WAY better than the Taylor Swift-ish video version and that's coming from a these-days pretty hardcore pop radio fan and also somebody who very much likes the bulk of Stones re-mixes over the last twenty years this re-mix is stupid, adding absolutely nothing in the way of pop radio appeal, or disco dance appeal, an
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It really is a Rolling Stones vintage 2012 song. I can't keep my feet still, while listening to it through the PC speakers.
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Quote71Tele Quotetomk With the usual suspects involved (Chuck and Don Was), do you really think it's gonna be that good? They had a chance to do something really interesting (with Wyman and Taylor, a one-off, probably) but chose not to. I really hope it's not another open-G retread, but it probably will be. Good point. Why go with the ringers when the real players are available and wi
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