What really surprises me of all the outtakes that leaked over the years, is how diverse the Stones could sound - both composition and playing - and how little of this diversity ended up in the albums released along the years. It always makes me wonder how many great songs have been discarded only because they were not the kind of song that a stones fan expects from the Stones. Maybe one day al
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QuoteVoodooLounge13 Tortured Poets sells 1.6MM copies and debuts at #1 - no surprise there. First album to sell a million copies since her own Taylor's Version of 1989 last year. And all 31 tracks of the new album were streamed over 240 million times!!!!! These are special, special times to watch what's happening in music, regarding Ms. Swift. Believe these are all Day 1 figures, bu
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At first couple of listens the new album is good. If you listen to Hackney and Dark Matter one after the other, I think that it is quite easy to identify how much Andrew Watt's influenced both sessions. C
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To me reviews can be useful to discover new music. If I already have the record and I like it, I don't bother reading them, unless they are informative at some level. It happens, at time, that a good review of a record I considered bad males me want to give it a second chance. It even happened that I changed my mind! The reverse never occurred and a bad review won't affect m
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Blur remains a very good band no matter what Albran thinks of the Stones. And Albran can think shit of the Stones, but I would still love the Stones. Words don't hurt me C
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Quotebakersfield It;s terrible -- and this is even worse; Marti Caine singing HTW For a decent stones cover I'd mention Tom Jones and New Model army doing Gimme Shelter, or Rod Stewart's Street fighting man. This is f...ng great!!! C
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Quotetreaclefingers It's funny how different opinions are. Funny but very understandable after all, given our different ages, provenances, musical background, tastes in contemporary music, if any etc. C
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Quoteslewan Quoteliddas Quiz show on the Italian TV. One of the questions was "who wrote Satisfaction?". The Queen was the answer!!! Before you start, consider that the competitor was in her twenties. I was twenty in 1988. At the time did I know who wrote Night and Day or Stormy Weather? I hardly knew who the Beatles were only because my mum was a fan! C I always thought is
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THank you! C
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Shows how tightly the Stones music is soaked in soul and R&B music, just let the horns play the guitar riffs and there you go! C
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Quiz show on the Italian TV. One of the questions was "who wrote Satisfaction?". The Queen was the answer!!! Before you start, consider that the competitor was in her twenties. I was twenty in 1988. At the time did I know who wrote Night and Day or Stormy Weather? I hardly knew who the Beatles were only because my mum was a fan! C
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I have a strange relationship with HD. Every single Stones album I bough in my life remained on heavy rotation for at least one month. I can say how much I really like an album by counting how many times I go back to it after that first month of repeated listens and how many songs make me want to pick up the guitar and try to figure out how to play them. I might have listened to HD not more
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The photo of Ronnie at the Bains-Douches, Paris, 1983, grabbed my attention for two reasons. The first, I visited Paris on a school trip the following year, and one night I slipped out of the hotel to go to the Bains-Douches disco: who could have known at the time that the Stones had been there? Second, you can see a Marshall amp, like the one you see in the following photo titled "K
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Thank You! C
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QuoteDoxa QuoteSpud Wonder if anyone ever suggested to Bill that he take a bass solo ? ...I suspect his reaction may have been ... Well, "Miss You" sort of have one. But I recall him once complaining that when Keith plays the bass it is more upfront in the mix, but his stuff is always buried down there somewhere... - Doxa Bill playing the victim as usual! Can't think
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Agree with DP on this one. It may not be one of their greatest, but a very good album for sure. In any case, the big news, to me, is that it IS a BC album despite not having Gorman on board. Brothers might be right when they claim THEY are the BC. Besides, I truly love Griffin's drummin, somehow lighter than Gorman, but fits. The change 3 minutes into Bedside manners, well that is a 100%
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Quotehockenheim95 QuoteLondonLee Blu Ray never took off in the UK so if you're based there always best to order in advance as DVDs are far more popular and they'll make a lot more of those. I never understood why people like to watch a 720x567 resolution DVD on their 4k resolution screens. It just doesn't make sense to me. But of course with many vault shows we get only SD qualit
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QuoteStonedRambler Honestly - for IORR I actually think the 2009 Universal master is the best. Yes it's a bit on Viagra and has less dynamics but doesn't sound as dull and lifeless as other releases. It's probably the only album in the Stones catalogue that I prefer the Universal master. Give it a thy. I share your view on the 2009 IORR. In general, i think that the genera
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QuoteDandelionPowderman IMO, only three ABB-tracks are good enough to be included on HD (RJ, LMDS and LIND). Here I have to disagree! For fun I made a playlist of ABB songs trying to replicate the HD scheme to better compare the two albums. Not necessarily my favs off ABB, I followed HD's track list and tried to find a counterpart in ABB. This is what I came up with Rough Justice
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JumpingKentFlash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's true that Marty has made better movies than > The Departed. Goodfellas, Casino and The Aviator > are all better. The Departed is in the category > right under along with Gangs Of New York, Raging > Bull and Mean Streets. I never liked Taxi Driver. > I thought it was boring and I�
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OK, someone had to be the first, so here you go: I find Scorsese 'slighly' overrated. But I havn't seen departed yet. Casino is maybe his only movie that I truly liked from a to z (but probably this has much to do with the fact that a fantastic sharon stone was starring and it had a 'good' soundtrack ...). Goodfellas was good too, but nothing new in the "mafia&
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Was able to listen up to No Expectations. Both guitarists are fine and focused so far, save a couple of ouch moments on Hand of Faith (Keith missed the first change, but readily recovered). I agree that the mix is wrong, bass way too low. C
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To be fair, I saw five concerts in 2003, and in general, the guitars were tight and delivered. I have all the boots of the concerts I saw to prove it. The only concert that was slightly flat was Copenhagen. Milano remains one of the best Stones concerts I've ever seen. The premiere in Munich, like all openings, had some very good performances and a couple of disasters. Zurich and Marseill
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Thank you! C
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Grace Jones - Compass Point Sessions Love it! C
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St Vincent Just great! C
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteliddas Other examples of great Taylor rhythm work can be found on Stray Cat Blues from ya yas and Shelter from Brusselles Affaire. The line he plays when Stray Cat goes to the A chord just before the chorus, the tension that builds up and then explodes in the solo, killer stuff!! And on shelter, that greasy licks he plays to seal Jagger's verses, again great
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QuoteVoodooLounge13 Quotegotdablouse New Single : Not enjoying this one as much as the other 2, but still looking forward to this release! I find it the best of the lot so far! C
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Other examples of great Taylor rhythm work can be found on Stray Cat Blues from ya yas and Shelter from Brusselles Affaire. The line he plays when Stray Cat goes to the A chord just before the chorus, the tension that builds up and then explodes in the solo, killer stuff!! And on shelter, that greasy licks he plays to seal Jagger's verses, again great tension that prepares the field for
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I am afraid I cannot provide any interesting contribution to your point, Doxa, because the words you use to praise HD are my thoughts on just about any album that followed the "golden era" ... There are times when I play the producer game, I try to change things and see what happens. Be it the running order of an album, the inclusion of an outtake, a re-mix (when the single tracks of
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