Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGasLightStreet I thought Driving Me Too Hard would be a logical 4th single but I'm starting to think Get Close would be just as good, if not, a better choice - it offers a little bit more. Get Close is a standout. I also think WWW woulda/shoulda been a consideration and Depending on You is gorgeous; your lyrical observations notwithstanding I think could also hav
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Quotededospegajosos QuoteVoodooLounge13 QuoteMKjan VL13 It is tiring to see your dreary repetitive comments on HD. Can’t you have some sense and understand how boring and forgetable your endless ranting is. Consider this a favor, to spare you further embarassment of more quibbles. I come on this thread to read about the great album the Stones have given us, not to witness your troubled
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Quotetreaclefingers Quoteretired_dog Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGasLightStreet Quoteliddas 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 th
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGasLightStreet Quoteliddas 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
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QuoteGazza QuoteVoodooLounge13 I don't really understand the need to add current vocals to ancient tracks. I find it disjointed at best. Not sure why they didn't go The Beatles route and just release some collections of outtakes. Those were great at the time they were released. The Beatles, Neil Young, and Dylan have really been doing great things with their vaults for decades - wel
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QuoteVoodooLounge13 I don't really understand the need to add current vocals to ancient tracks. I find it disjointed at best. Not sure why they didn't go The Beatles route and just release some collections of outtakes. Those were great at the time they were released. The Beatles, Neil Young, and Dylan have really been doing great things with their vaults for decades - well maybe not
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QuoteDoxa Quotetreaclefingers QuoteRockman Classic Rock album of 2023 .... Thanks Rockman. Certainly a "fair and objective" review. - Doxa Absolutely! Proves that I was wrong and that "fair and objective reviews" do indeed exist... My apologies to dedospegajosos and his gang...
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QuoteRocky Dijon Supposedly it's 1990s material with a couple tracks from the CBS years. We'll see if that's true. If it's back to the classic 1970s era, this is truly unexpected. Interesting, because in the early stages of the "new album" that became HD, I was told that the Stones also considered some "recent outtakes, some dating back to Steel Wheels" f
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Quotematxil Quotededospegajosos An objective review I think.. Yes, a fair review. Ha ha, these are good ones! "Objective" and "fair". Fair because of what exactly? Because it supports your opinions? That's not what "fair" actually means, that's just... useful, useful for you. Even more idiotic is the term "objective review". Simply beca
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QuoteSilver Dagger One of the greatest compilations of rare Stones material. Many thanks ...but not without a grain of salt here and there, like "Down The Road Apiece Short take Jun 1964" and "Around And Around Without piano Jun 11, 1964" allegedly being from Chess, but actually are BBC takes or "How Many More Years" - Howlin' Wolf without any Stones participa
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QuoteDoxa QuoteStonedRambler QuoteDan Quotehockenheim95 QuoteLien Bernard & Pino Palladino This looks like the Stones rehearsal room to me. I think it's strange that someone like Pino would visit the site with a plugged in bass in his hand when they have limited time for rehearsals for a major tour. What does this mean? Pino is rehearsing there too? It's Darryl's
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QuoteSpud QuoteDoxa ... Maybe it is a new low - if we forget for the sake of the argument the old GOT LIVE tracks - but I think it is more a case of semantics at this stage. Like Dylan put it, "I used to care, but things have changed"... - Doxa You were the right the first time . .. "..laziness or pragmatic reasoning." I suspect the decision to release the Racket show
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QuoteStoneage ...It was the Steel Wheels press conference... Ps Keith defends his band no matter what. So I wouldn't draw any conclusions from that other than that he is very protective about the band. Ds I think he "defended" the band's business decisions here more than anything else, and the band's business decisions are also his business decisions. He could have b
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QuoteDoxa Quoteretired_dog QuoteDoxa Quotedoitywoik Quotematxil I am happy about Keith's version of Waiting For The Man, though. Maybe it's time for another solo-album? Judging from what one hears, they are already (or still) working on the next Stones album, then there's the upcoming tour(s). I don't see much of a time window for Keith to seriously work on another solo albu
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Quotematxil QuoteDoxa Well, just for fun and for art's sake... [...] Keith taking care of the interest of the hardcore fan base, while Mick takes care of the casual fan interest [...] But probably that's why I am so fascinated by them. - Doxa Interesting text. However, I sometimes wonder whether the Stones might get more general success outside their hardcore fanbase
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Quotewiredallnight Disc 1 seems to be a copy of the official Vintage Winos CD. Disc 2 see It's the incomplete Boston 1993 concert. Conclusion: Bullshit par excellence! I really wonder how they legally can get away with this one...
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Quotegeorgelicks Quotetreaclefingers I find it interesting that with the start of the tour now less than 2 months out, that there's no album promotion or likely singles still to emerge. Was that badly timed? I mean there's nothing quite like a new album and a single on the charts while the band is touring it. It's still on the charts (though falling) in places like Germany but
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Quotekeefriffhards QuoteMadMetaphoricalMax People get in to different songs and albums in a variety of ways, which can be interesting to hear about and identify with, if you are a fan of the band. But when people hate an album, what they have to say about gets boring and repetitive REAL quick. And I've had a lifetime of haters in print or in person telling everyone how much they hate the Rol
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Quotekeefriffhards Quoteretired_dog Quotekeefriffhards Quotematxil Quotededospegajosos QuoteVoodooLounge13 ...Don't think I've listened to it for 2 months now....... Same here.. can’t stand those lifeless drums.. The drums are fine, but I haven't listened to HD the past months either. If I'd want to listen to pop music, I'd listen to the Beatles or ABBA. I am happ
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QuoteDoxa Quotedoitywoik Quotematxil I am happy about Keith's version of Waiting For The Man, though. Maybe it's time for another solo-album? Judging from what one hears, they are already (or still) working on the next Stones album, then there's the upcoming tour(s). I don't see much of a time window for Keith to seriously work on another solo album in anytime soon. Also,
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Quotekeefriffhards Quotematxil Quotededospegajosos QuoteVoodooLounge13 ...Don't think I've listened to it for 2 months now....... Same here.. can’t stand those lifeless drums.. The drums are fine, but I haven't listened to HD the past months either. If I'd want to listen to pop music, I'd listen to the Beatles or ABBA. I am happy about Keith's version of Wait
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Quotekeefriffhards It's telling that we got 83 pages of conversation on this Stones album whereas Crosseyed Heart got over 200 pages of mostly positive conversation from a solo Stone. Says it all really. Simply shows that true greatness does not need many words and endless "try to talk you into it"-rants!
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Quotematxil QuoteBarkerboy2 QuoteSwayed1967 My review of HD. Let me preface it by saying I haven’t listened to it in months. [...] Well that's all just silly isn't it. Just say you're not keen - you don't need to try to convince everyone else by writing 'funny' little captions. Especially when you're on your own :'D He's not on his own. And an
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QuoteVoodooLounge13 Quoteretired_dog QuoteVoodooLounge13 Quotetumblingdice QuoteVoodooLounge13 Could it be the lack of Charlie?? For me, it just doesn't SOUND like a Stones record. Specifically, it doesn't SOUND like the Stones. I hear Mick singing loud and clear, and it's the best he's sounded since B2B IMHO, but the album lacks the distinctive Stones sound.... I am hap
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QuoteVoodooLounge13 Quotetumblingdice QuoteVoodooLounge13 Could it be the lack of Charlie?? For me, it just doesn't SOUND like a Stones record. Specifically, it doesn't SOUND like the Stones. I hear Mick singing loud and clear, and it's the best he's sounded since B2B IMHO, but the album lacks the distinctive Stones sound.... I am happy it's doing so well in the cha
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Quoteharlem shuffle Voodoo Lounge is not a very good album,it,s some good songs on it,but after a while is a bit boring Well, what I observed back then when it was released at numerous parties was that people put the CD in the player 'cause "it's the new Stones!" and stopped playing it after a few songs... It mainly disappeared from the focus of, let's call them, "
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QuoteGerardHennessy QuoteIdorh I still enjoy HD daily. Nice and simple and spontaneous and full of energy. Incredible that I can still experience this new material now at 76. In 1973 I asked in a disco for a Stones song. They started laughing, and said these are old men, and their music is out of date. And then 50 years later on their 80th birthday, this record comes out. It's like a dream.
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Quoteslewan Quoteretired_dog Quoteslewan Quoteds1984 Quoteslewan Quoteds1984 Quoteslewan Quoteds1984 You mean an UNlawful fixation can become lawful? of course not. but once the copyright has expired the question of lawfully recorded or not has become irrelevant. The logic behind this is: Once the copyright has expired, you can no longer infringe it I would say if such a case happened, do
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