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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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. Well, I had in mind a song on the level of the best tracks of BRIDGES TO BABYLON, but fr
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I hope for vintage Stones songs! Vintage 2012! Not retro Stones!
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If it is with reference to my post: Not like the Beach Boys, really. In my understanding a penultimate pop group. And I did not say "frail", but (only) "more frail ...... than they were". Either, if they will perform live, as a band with some essentials intact of what entitled the Stones to presume to the epithet the best rock'n'roll band in the world. Or, a
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Quotecorriecas QuoteMax'sKansasCity They may not know exactly what they are going to do, but I am sure they have the best of intentions. I trust them. It seems they are checking it all out themselves, which I admire greatly. Good for them for being honest with themselves, versus forcing anything... and if they decide not to play, then I trust them... and if they decide to play..... well you
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There are more than only sweet love songs to the Beatles, especially John Lennon, of the comparatively early period. A more sinister side of oldfashioned male attitudes is to be found in the lyrics below the sweet surface made by the catchy melody. "Run for your life" Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl Than to be with another man You better keep your head, littl
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QuoteCome On ...and where would Charlie be without having joined the Stones back in the 60´s? On a sadder note, not bringing any old quotations, without there being a band by the name of Rolling Stones, what might have become of Brian Jones? On the other hand, as it is, musical and thereby personal honour that few blues (white blues, anyhow) and rock musicians attain.
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QuoteCome On .................................. The Beatles is the better of the 2 bands.... Having a boring Sunday in Stockholm? Or have you slightly changed your views and preferences of taste? Evidence: In a thread with, would you guess, the title, «Who is the better, The Stones or the Beatles??» QuoteCome On, Jan 12th, 2007 I bought Beatles-singles back there in 1964, but w
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Highly interesting, I think! It seems that I was not the only one, far from it, in fact, to take your supposed views on face value so to speak. My impression is that even esteemed posters did (or, maybe, they let you perform your part of a role play). At the end of it all, I end up perhaps being one that likes them even more than you say that you do. I have experienced a time when th
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In one of the recurring "Worst" threads, page 3 of that thread I received the following interesting answers in THIS context, when I was referring to posts in THIS thread QuoteWitness QuoteErik_Snow QuoteWitness QuoteErik_Snow Tops is terrific as well. Witness, you're fired You seem primarily to be a Beatles fan. Your verdict will backfire then! Don't believe every
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QuoteErik_Snow QuoteWitness QuoteErik_Snow Tops is terrific as well. Witness, you're fired You seem primarily to be a Beatles fan. Your verdict will backfire then! Don't believe everything you read I see. Not even your own words. All your posts on were not to be taken literally then. It seems that I need to learn the codes of irony.
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QuoteErik_Snow Quoteseitan QuoteWitness I am one of those who will not employ the term "ballad" to almost any slow song. And even, what is a slow song after all? Many favourites of mine are nominated in this thread as candidates of "worst" songs. To an extent that surprise me. I almost can't believe it. It makes me a little mad to read it. (I think within myself: Wh
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Quoteseitan QuoteWitness I am one of those who will not employ the term "ballad" to almost any slow song. And even, what is a slow song after all? Many favourites of mine are nominated in this thread as candidates of "worst" songs. To an extent that surprise me. I almost can't believe it. It makes me a little mad to read it. (I think within myself: What can I have i
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I am one of those who will not employ the term "ballad" to almost any slow song. And even, what is a slow song after all? Many favourites of mine are nominated in this thread as candidates of "worst" songs. To an extent that surprise me. I almost can't believe it. It makes me a little mad to read it. (I think within myself: What can I have in common with people with
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