Nice Guardian interview out today with Mick...
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Sounds fantastic, a raw Stones club show with new songs. Mick's voice sounds good, the guitar twins are on, Keith's solo and the hand claps ... yeah. Sweet Sounds - wow. OK, v distorted, but if we ever get the official shoot, so good. And such a lean version of the ban! Plus Gaga. How a few people can then step up on here and start moaning as if it's their default positio
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Quotebitusa2012 After 4 spins all the way through it’s a great record with one jarring awful dud. I’m sorry, but Mess it Up IS a shocking mess. What were they thinking? The rest is universally great. I felt the same and said as such in the Arts Desk review,though I have found myself singing the chorus in my head since then, so maybe it is a slow grower.But to have just the one song you may
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Quotepowerage78 Quotekeefriffhards Quotepowerage78 How would you assess the contribution of modern technology to mick's voice ? Not sure what you are asking, all I can say is Mick on Exile was a good combination of Mick singing into the songs as opossed to singing over them. From what Andrew Watt said Mick sang over all Keith's playing after Keith finished his music, so are we to he
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"Certainly, at least there's no need to cry out in horror when a very rare mixed or even negative review comes along !" Oh I agree, totally. But in this instance I do think that it is getting really good reviews because it is .. really good. Here's The Guardian's estimation, out today, not without some criticisms, but a solid four-star review too. I do agree with Pet
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Quotepowerage78 QuoteBashlets spin has never liked the stones A very rare exception in the midst of a press on its knees in front of the Stones (the latest album being better than the previous one, and in any case the best since TY or SG). The Stones have nothing to complain about from the media; their longevity is a treasure trove of indulgence. And what's more, they're fashionable.
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I've had the stream, no physical copy, but it is pretty LOUD across the spectrum, but I don't know enough about all that to give a steer ....
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QuoteJumpingKentFlash Give it time lads. There was always going to be high praise from the beginning. I reckon they bought some reviewers out. The album is what it is, and from what I’ve heard, it’s the best album we could expect this late in the game. You need to give it time. Lots of time… No one would ever bother to 'buy out' a reviewer! If they put money anywhere, it should
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That sullen Swede needs his ears seen to! I'd guess he was instructed to demolish the album, but the closing summation, after the basic idiocy of the rest of it, is a farrago of nonsense! HOWEVER 'The wooden goat' is such a good phrase though, even if i am not sure what it means!
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QuoteTopi Quoteslewan QuoteTopi It appears some German fans already "cast the die" and went to NYC... not me. I'm not crazy and the Stones aren't Bob Dylan. The times, they aren't a-changing! IS that 'Bill German' fans?! IS he still somewhere in the Stones universe? HE should deffo be at this club gig if it happens, as the author of one of the greatest of
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Yes, although quite a few writers on the major publications must have had them well before, as reviews were already out before I had had a chance to hear anything. I've played it loads, on my old but good Sony cans.
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Angry - 8 Get Close To You - 9 Depending On You - 9 Bite My Head Off - 9 Whole Wide World - 8 Dreamy Skies - 9 Mess it up - 6 Live By The Sword - 7 Driving Me Too Hard - 9 Tell Me Straight - 9 Sweet sounds of heaven - 9 Rolling Stone Blues - 10 These are impressions after having the stream for a week.It's a brilliant album, and brilliant on its own terms, it's no throwbac
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QuoteWild Slivovitz QuoteMadMetaphoricalMax DIAMOND MINDS II (with working link!?!) My Arts Desk review of Hackney Diamonds went up in the middle of the night - here's the link; includes a track by track run-down, too. Brilliant album. It's just like itself, really, but it's also a peak Stones record I reckon! Great and very well written review! Thanks for sharing! I agree
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Imagine they DO play a little club set of new ones tonight in New York. Though the London part of me demands these Hackney Diamonds spill across the stage of a London venue, not NYC - it's a Laaahndon album innit mate!!
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DIAMOND MINDS II (with working link!?!) My Arts Desk review of Hackney Diamonds went up in the middle of the night - here's the link; includes a track by track run-down, too. Brilliant album. It's just like itself, really, but it's also a peak Stones record I reckon!
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DIAMOND MINDS My Arts Desk review of Hackney Diamonds went up in the middle of the night - here's the link; includes a track by track run-down, too. Brilliant album. It's just like itself, really, but it's also a peak Stones record I reckon!
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QuoteMelBelli QuoteIrelandCalling4 From the Independent, the over praising of current album, negating basically everything said about previous. Be an interesting read at least. Behind the paywall; some kind soul will hopefully post the text here at some point Critics criticizing critics — the worst genre of all! It is indeed a pathetic waste of space of an article, but hey, at least it
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Good piece, Mick giving away little bits, while sweeping off the dust of the past from what's happening now. Depending on You isn't anything like Wild Horses, it's like itself- the album, which I am writing up a review this weekend for MOnday's The Arts Desk, has a sound and feel all of its own and not art all like any of the old ones or the recentish ones - fully cohesive,
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Fair enough - my knowledge of Howard Stern is just about zero so I came to him fairly cold! Still moved me though!
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It's around 1 hr 23 in, when Howard starts talking about how Let It Loose always makes him cry, and then he opens up a little about his childhood and how important that song and the Stones were to him. “When I hear this I cry," he says. "I’m not @#$%& with you. I want to say this to you without breaking down. I didn’t love my childhood. But this song, the songs you wrote, that
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That's a much better cover! I misread it as a Patti Smith / Stones collaboration at first - which would be amazing...
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Nice review in London's Evening Standard. "It’s absurd to talk about this first studio album since 2005’s A Bigger Bang as a return to form, or indulge in all that ‘the best album since Exile…’ stuff. This is basically another record of them doing what they have always done, it’s simply that this is a particularly excellent set of songs which have a certain down and dirty rage that f
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It's an excellent conversation.
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Both very good reviews.
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I watched it for the first time the other day, not knowing it had been on Netflix for a while. A charming and lovely film, and as I feel that Crosseyed Heart was the best thing from the Stones universe for a very long time (then Blue & Lonesome) I'm hopeful that I can compare them positively, and that I will love Diamonds as much as I do do Heart!
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It's had some very positive reviews - for eg, in today's Telegraph, in the UK. I've not been a fan of his musical ranting since Animals, really (I loathed A Final Cut) and the exposure of his serious anti-jewish racism as witnessed directly by band members and producers over many decades, is a line way to far for me. As his his conspiracising about it all, but none of that is for
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Doxa, you're right - UK music hacks crucified them here at home. I still remember, with rage, the dismissive review from a hack named Tony Parsons (British people especially will be unfortunate enough to recall his name) of Emotional Rescue, and especially his sneering contempt for All About You. 44 years have gone by, and I still want to smack him in the mouth - with Mike Tyson's fis
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QuoteDoxa More critic criticism. Not many spotted the brilliance or even recognized the masterpiece there. Probably back then it was cool for a serious 'critic' to say something not so totally flattering about them (isn't that the way to make a name and credibility for a critic by bashing one of the most popular bands on earth?). Since, say, UNDERCOVER, it has been the other wa
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Fewer than half a million views on either of the YouTube 'videos' - I'm flummoxed as to why they didnt put out a studio-based video in full rather than that little snippet we got. We just get that dull hand and raindrops. I love it but its impact has not been broad. `maybe it's deep...
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QuoteUrbanSteel Quotenonfilter Ladies and Gentlemen. The Rolling Stones. This is a very special moment in time. Don’t miss it by focusing on or arguing about tiny details that you think could have been done in a slightly different way to improve things minimally. This is our favorite band delivering greatness. Hallelujah, or hosanna, Whichever is highest, to this post. I was out on Friday nig
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