After many months and repeated plays I still enjoy the whole record. My favourite part now is the middle, from Whole Wide World to Driving Me Too Hard. If I were to make the record perfect, I would kick out Bite My Head Off and Rolling Stone Blues, start with Living In A Ghost Town and add Eazy Sleazy before SSOH.
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Talk Is Cheap was great. Main Offender was uneven but had a few great songs (999,Wicked As It Seems,Hate It When You Leave). Crosseyed Heart was OK but uneven and does not contain any truly great songs. HD on the other hand is great from start to finish.
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I think it's wonderful that Keith has become a symbol of longevity. Remember, this is not a rock'n'roll publication, but the leading Norwegian newspaper. Quite flattering, from my point of view.
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Quoteemotionalbarbecue Thanks for the reference. In matters of taste, opinions vary widely. However, some may think that image it portrays of Keith is not exactly seductive or attractive. Quite the opposite, in fact. Looks pretty good for a 119 year old!
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Sorry you can't get behind the paywall. There is a much larger version of the drawing there. The article is about research trying to stop the process of aging and mentions the possibilkity of a 100 year celebration tour in 2062!
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Right now: Driving Me Too Hard Tell Me Straight Sweet Sounds Of Heaven But historically: Sway Wild Horses Can't You Hear Me Knocking For us vinyl fans your suggestion is not a three-song sequence since one has to flip the record!
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Quotenoughties QuoteDandelionPowderman Interesting, as most see it as the strong point. The song, that is I´m struggling a bit with the song as previously stated, but I`m not the only one. Here`s a link to the Aftenposten review of the album. -Mainly positive, but that song is called "poor man´s rock" and "terrible". There´s a paywall, but you can hear the review, admittedl
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How can it be the 66th annual awards when they started 64 years ago, in 1959, which means the 2024 award show would be the 64th annual (yet alone it wasn't concurrent in years - the first year there were two! - and 1960 was skipped! It hasn't truly been annual since 1962!)? Because people don't understand what "inaugural" and "annual" means. So dumb. I
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I don't know why some people are so negative here. Maybe they have a too fixed idea of what the Stones should sound like. But in their prime they kept changing the music style constantly, from the early R&B to the pop period (65-67) to the big 4 period (68-72) and the funk/disco period (73-78). Although there is a lot of great music on their records from ER onwards, I think they are too
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Do you really really really really wanna hear the truth ? This record is great. I have played it 10 times now and it just gets better and better. A late career classic. I hope they stick with Watt as producer, he did a fantastic job.
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I am very happy with the new album. I think it leans somewhat in the direction of "pop music",as opposed to blues and roots type of music. But I don't have a problem with that, since the songs are so good. The only song I haven't quite warmed to yet is Bite My Head Off. I don't have particular favourites among the remaining 10 originals (except maybe SSOH) since they are
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1.Sticky Fingers 2.Beggars Banquet 3.Let It Bleed 4.Exile On Main Street 5.Goats Head Soup 1.Gimme Shelter 2.Sympathy For The Devil 3.Sister Morphine 4.Rocks Off 5.Stray Cat Blues 6.Jumping Jack Flash 7.Out Of Time 8.Sway 9.Hand Of Fate 10.Monkey Man 11.Time Waits For No One 12.Moonlight Mile 13.Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) 14.Paint it, black 15.We Love You 16.100 Year
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I saw them in Oslo last year. A great concert, Blunstone's voice is still in great shape. Their latest LP (Different Game) is absolutely worthwhile.
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Quotewalkingthedog QuoteTaylor1 Didn’t he make a record with Bill Wyman The incredible Shades Of Orange by The End is a Wyman/Gosling composition, but I don't think Gosling was in the band. But he was in Moon's Train, whose single was produced by Bill. And I see now it's not the same Gosling. This was Peter Gosling, not John.
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QuoteTaylor1 Didn’t he make a record with Bill Wyman The incredible Shades Of Orange by The End is a Wyman/Gosling composition, but I don't think Gosling was in the band. But he was in Moon's Train, whose single was produced by Bill.
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QuoteHairball 650 pages and counting........ And it's been 6,463 days since A Bigger Bang was released...6,463 days and counting.... In dog years that's a whopping 126 years...126 years and counting.... My dog is not happy about this.
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Different Game, Zombies
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QuoteRockman Interesting. But it seems from the book that Hipgnosis were much closer to completion.
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I am reading Mark Blakes book on the Hipgnosis LP cover designer group. Hipgnosis made many famous album covers, for instance for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The book tells a story about Marshall Chess contacting Hipgnosis for the cover design of Goats Head Soup. They came up with the idea of presenting the Stones as mythical centaurs and satyrs in a woodland glade. Photos were taken of the Ston
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Everyone knows Say You Don't Mind, so here's another nice one from his Deram period :
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60s (or later) bands all of whose members are dead ? Could only think of Left Banke.
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This is the classic book on the Stones :
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Tin Soldier - All Or Nothing - I'm Only Dreaming - Afterglow Of Your Love, all fantastic songs.
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QuoteDoxa In regard to SGT. PEPPER vs. SATANIC MAJESTIES issue, it is funny how history has treated those albums. There was a time when PEPPER was seen as the best album ever done, always making number one on whatever 'best albums ever' list. It was like a non-disputed fact of rock history. But nowadays the album, despite its historical significance recognized, is not seen even the b
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Quotetreaclefingers Alright settle down with the insults, we're all just having a bit of fun. You can prefer TSMR to anything you want, and I personally love the little psychedelic side trip the band took. However broadly speaking there is no comparison with which is the better, musically and more culturally and historically significant album. And I for one don't even 'pre
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QuoteBig Al That’s really good. Steve Marriott was such a ferocious talent, and, in my opinion, criminally overlooked. He had everything: the image, songwriting, guitar-playing prowess, and, a voice like no other. I’m not overly familiar with Humble Pie, but the Small Faces were superb. Agree (again!). I do have all the Humble Pie records too, but his songwriting was never quite as good after h
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QuoteGasLightStreet Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGasLightStreet Quotewalkingthedog QuoteGasLightStreet You make fun of Number 9 - have you listened to THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST? A complete joke of an album. A wanna be album with 4 of the 10 songs being worthy of release. Still better than DIRTY WORK. But just as bad: embarrassments of the catalogue. You are being very unreasonable here. Rev
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QuoteGasLightStreet You make fun of Number 9 - have you listened to THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST? A complete joke of an album. A wanna be album with 4 of the 10 songs being worthy of release. Still better than DIRTY WORK. But just as bad: embarrassments of the catalogue. You are being very unreasonable here. Revolution 9 is a mess of a sound collage - devoid of any musical ideas. SATANIC i
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QuoteBig Al QuoteHis Majesty Fascinating stats re their debut LP. A lovely wee album so it is. Oh, it's fantastic. I love the cover-shot, too. No words necessary. Super cool cover. And probably the first LP to not feature the name of the artist on the cover front. This gamble paid off!
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QuoteBig Al Am I alone in finding The Rolling Stones No.2 to be a little inferior to the U.K. debut? No, I agree. No.2 is very good but has its weak points. No. 1 is perfect from start to finish, with no dud tracks as you say. It is also the Stones' biggest success chartwise.
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