I like what I've heard so far and have no problem with the artwork. I am glad these guys are still with us never mind performing. What a bunch of amazing guys!
I found it to be shockingly good. I had low expectations, but I think it's their best since Voodoo Lounge. At times Mick sounds like he did back in the 60s.
"Fantastic"? Aren't you exaggerating, just a little? The Stones haven't made a 'fantastic' album since 'Exile on Main Street'. They've managed 'quite good' a few times, but 'fantastic'? Come on now.
After a solid week playing this on vinyl (best), CD and streaming on Apple Music to my buds as I work or in the car, I am just so genuinely thrilled with this release. You know, I was going to say “At their age” or “At this stage of their career”, but truth be told, I would have been so happy with this album 50,40,30,20,10 or 5 years ago. It’s just a bloody, BLOODY good album. Full stop. Apart from Mess it Up. Still don’t get that! I can’t say I like it just because Charlie’s on it, or because Mick sings it all so well (he does) or because it’s harks back to Miss You/Dance/Emotional Rescue. It’s still just a bad song. Fantastic album !!!
As someone who hasn’t listened past Goats Head Soup, this album was such a revelation. I was hesitant towards an album without Watts but it was so enjoyable. Great sound, dirty guitars and quality songwriting. So glad it’s good.
Very pleased with this release. Note that Mick claimed they have about another albums worth of material recorded as well - so we may get a sister companion in a year or two! Ironic that one of the best releases this year is from 70+ year old veterans! Love this band!
I think it's a pretty solid album. It's a Stones album. Kudos to them for still having the passion and drive to stay in the music world (given it's so far from where it was when they started their career.)
Can you imagine if in 1964, when these guys released their debut. That someone would have said that in just shy of 60 YEARS TIME, they would release one of the best albums of the year......it would have blown people's minds!
Mick has said in interviews that the next album is 3/4 done, so I expect to hear more new material a couple of years down the road. Twenty-one songs were finished during the session so that means their are nine tracks waiting in the queue. Looking forward to the arrival of my copy. If the two tracks released already I suspect this album will be one of my favourites this year.
@@tdunph4250 True. It'll be must smarter if they made this their last record and call it a day. I was just predicting by usual business practices and music industry standards not by personally.
Looking forward to buying this, an excellent review as always sir, i love the comic asides.......face like a chewed toffee made me laugh out loud.Keep up the good work Barry.
Really enjoying it a couple of days in. The 'modern' production approach works - bit of a surprise given Stones have always seemed to have a more organic / rougher studio sound. Mick sounds great, guitars are terrific - all good overall! Cover art a bit of a missed opportunity but no big deal.
Thanks Barry. Beautiful picture of Charlie at the end. Will have to get this if only to hear him for the last time. Have to think that this will be it now so it's nice to hear you being so positive about it.
I would sy the album is good. It has its peaks and valleys. It starts up very well with the first 3 songs then kind of dips the next 3. But the last few make up for the languish period. On the whole I like the album. Standout tracks are Get Close, Depending On You, Mess It Up, Driving Me Too Hard, Tell Me Straight and Sweet Sounds Of Heaven.
This sense of urgency that has popped up regarding this album is probably because they realized that the couple of tacks they had done with Charlie were sitting around and he had passed and i am sure the rest of the band figured we had better get an album out because anyone of us could go next. Besides, with the frequency of their studio albums, this will be the last album. It's only common sense. It goes without saying, another great review Barry.👍
I won't go as far to say this is a great album. It's a good solid album that rocks. Is also a very clean sounding album. I don't know, maybe too clean. But, overall it's a solid release by The Stones.
Thanks for this well spoken and thoughtful review. Btw, I can’t blame Jagger - who doesn’t dream of Emmylou Harris! My copy will be delivered Monday, with the Amazon exclusive cover.
@@tdunph4250 I will. I have listened to this more than 20 times now. I have listened and ranked every album and song by the band, too. I did this for fun just to be able to rank the albums ‘cause I was having a lot of trouble doing it. It doesn’t have higher peaks that some of the albums below it, but it is very consistent and cohesive.
I think they missed a trick not replacing Charlie with Peter Hitchens. He has that same world weary morose utterly unimpressed with anything thst life was to offer vibe that counterbalanced Mick's eternal youthful optimism.
@@malcolmmitchell4709brilliant comment. The thought of Peter Hitchens taking a bow with the others at the end of a gig brings more than a smirk to my face. 😂
The uniqueness and greatness of the Rolling Stones lies in the amazing first 15-18 years of soo much great albums and music!! I don't thin any other band has ever had that long period of greatness. But they also have a record of bad album covers especially in the later years. (Bridges to Babylon, Voodoo Lounge, Flashpoint, The other live album in the 90's, The blues album, Bigger Bang, they all has pretty bad covers), Last year they released possible their greatest live album of all time: El Macombo 1977 (if I spelled it correctly) but the albumcover was so boring!! I would have expected some live shots from the concert....
The faces of the three Stones are in the diamonds. Mick on the right facing center with classic howling mouth and also pressed close lips (a double-image as it were). Keith is on the left face-to-face with Jagger or looking down at his guitar, another double-image. Ronnie is below, smaller, extending from the red-gloved thumb.
I listened to it earlier. It's not great, it's not bad. Considering their ages it's remarkable. I have to wonder how much studio trickery has gone on, and how much Keith really plays on this.
I absolutely agree. Mick's voice sounds too smooth.. The title should be "Hey You, Get Off of my Lawn." I just don't care for the production. I don't dislike it. I just don't really like it.
Don't come on here and make comments like that if yer just some homer lackey working at a label or in the music industry ,..it doesn't impress anyone,.. this album clearly sucks is the general consensus
Pendants Corner here..tecnically any album they released would be best thing they've done in years. Which interestingly makes it also the worst thing they've done in years.
My post was a tad vague I suppose. What I mean is owing to the fact that for me, anything after Exile On Main St is pretty dire then this new album is a great improvement. IMO.@@MIB_63
Americans aren't gonna get this title. They might as well call it Pram Pushers. Keith said they've already planned on a new album "if they're STILL STANDING"! NOW THAT'S A GREAT TITLE! Who cares about the broken relationships of some 80 year old coots? NOT ME I'M ONLY 74
As a 60's-something fan since the beginning - im just relishing being able to say, "so have you heard the new Stones album?" Might not ever get to say that again
Hah... I'm glad you enjoyed this. I saw it in the press and was very curious about what is (probably) The Stones' farewell album... first album in 18 years is something special, with lots of cool guest appearances. For whatever reason I'm not even a big Rolling Stones fan (not because I don't like them, just one of those things... never dove deep.) But I'm glad to hear they made a cracking record for the fans. Aging bands have a hard time pulling that off! (I'm looking at you Yes, and... Yes #2, or... whatever.)
I listened to a few of the tracks, and yep... despite not even knowing that much about the Stones, that's them alright... sounding very fresh. It's amazing.
It is far from their first album in 18 years -- it is their first studio album of original material in 18 years. "Blue & Lonesome" in 2016 was a studio album of covers. They have released a live album nearly every year, some of them with original material, some of it recorded in a studio... They even released a greatest hits album, toured it, and released a live album from the tour!
@@johnbriggs3916 I meant first new studio album of original material in 18 years. I don't really even count re-issues/live albums/etc. Surely you understand that's what I meant and you're just taking the opportunity to dazzle us with your encyclopedic knowledge? I'm a 46 year old man, I'm aware they haven't been "doing nothing" for 18 years. Wouldn't you say the first album of original material in 18 years is quite an event for any band?
As a stones fan since i heard black and blue, sticky fingers coming out of my sisters room when i was 7,9 who knows i am 64 and still a stones fan i thought it was really good lady GA GA sounds great she can sing with anyone well worth the money
Terrific review in my opinion. The record is solid; perhaps the equivalent of a first year University student doing well enough to just limp into second year. But I expect the designer of THAT font never got to first year.
It's a fucking Great album. There's too many people out there that are nit-picking. They're all 100 years old and still kicking ass, and people have got to stop bitching about auto-tune. Buy it, don't buy it but stop bitching about it.
Pre Orederd (Amazon) CD arriving Monday but I had to cheat and listen online today. First impression "I Like It" cant wait until Monday to give it some welly. 🤣🤣
I thought that title was good, kind of a play on diamonds in the rough. It sounds like they put a serious effort into it, inviting Paul made me think the survivors of the British Invasion should get together and make a album. And that Next Wave in the 70's with Elton (Bowie's Gone Unfortunately) and Prog.
I like how they split wood and Richards into the left and right speakers. But when the band gets playing the drums, bass, and guitars sound like a muddy mess. When the songs slow down, you can pick out the bass from the drums from the guitars. When the speed picks up, seems to blurred together. I think they needed to make a double album out of this so they could put some space between the instruments. May be a little bit too much compression.
I agree with the Pitchfork review, which described it as "a marketing team’s dream": "Hackney Diamonds feels like an advertisement for advertising placements, songs meant to be sold to sell something else." To my ears, it sounds like pop rock by numbers, created with a bloodless, mainstream Hollywood movie soundtrack in mind. And the album cover? It looks like an 80s hair metal cast-off. I put 'Exile' on soon after, in order to wash the rubbish from my ears.
every time i try to listen to this album, i hate that first song so much it just pisses me off and i end up hating the whole album and now its making me hate other stones albums now
As 68-year old, I don't want musicians my age or older rehashing old hits and attitudes. As Pete Townshend quoted an early fan about 'Substitute': it expressed what the fan felt but couldn't express for himself. I want old people to express what the old me feels. Tom Jones (who I hadn't followed) did it with his gospel albums. This manages it and, being an Americana roots mature music based group, it was reasonable to hope that they might get there, if they had a mind to do so.
Yes, let's talk some more about that cover art - someone's just discovered clipart methinks, and is working against a five minute deadline to 'come up with something'. Pity, the advert in the local rag that announced the album was clever and there to be repurposed.
I doff my cap to them. Yes, they've had finer hours but for a trio of nigh on 80 year olds its pretty fucking good. They're even talking about touring it. Let's be honest, all the rest of us can expect at that age is being fed with a spoon and having our arse wiped.
No Charlie no Stones. I left and did a track run thru of the album. I really like nearly all of the songs which I haven’t said about a Stones album since Emotional. It’s a guitar forward album and Ronnie rips some really great solos over Keith’s solid gringy rhythms. But as I said before giving it a listen the drums just drag towards the end of the songs which is where Charlie was at his best, he knew how to build a song to a frenzy at the end. I wish Jaggers vocals were mixed a little more subtly and just didn’t ride on top so much. His voice can really compliment Keiths guitar sound if it’s mixed correctly and I really wish Keith could still do the backing vocals because they always sounded so great together. Overall a complete surprise that it’s an album that I will take several tracks from to add to a party playlist
Well, I think Steve Jordan did an admirable job. A few cuts I think he actually played better than Charlie would have (Sweet Sounds of Heaven for one). Keith does sing background vocals on many of the tracks. Ron and Keith weaving guitars again. Nice Keith leads on Angry and Driving Me Too Hard (I always favor his minimalist leads that make each note count). All in all, a more than solid album. Definitely better than 98% of what's being produced by others today.
Just listened to the whole album. On first listen I’m gonna say that I like it. Not too hip on the auto tuning I hear on Angry. I’m also not sure that I like Lady Gaga on there either. I quite like the Keith song on there. I think I like this just a little more than A Bigger Bang. Time will tell.
Thanks, Barry! Remember that the Mars bar story was a police and press invention! Marianne was wrapped in a rug because they'd all been to the beach, got wet, and hadn't brought any clothes with them!
Why? The Stones have drained every ounce of cred. Theres not one song on here that makes me smile. Just wish they would stop. Blues blues blues blues,, blah blah blah. Finally, ive outgrown all of this. Thmx for making me realize how frivolous all this crap is
Very 1980s sounding in places which is disappointing but I have heard them do much worse & it's great to have Charlie's last couple of drum tracks & Bill Wyman on another.... 6/10
Post-Chalie Watts... I have the entire discography, so I will be listing to this soon. A final statement. The stones 'Abbey Road'. 'Front loading albums' with the best tracks? I think that started with he CD era. Flipping the vinyl over to Side 2 created a 'physical break' on the record (which was tested on the double albums). So did the 'loss of quality' as the side played past 20 minutes into the tighter grooves. On CD, you just had to place the best stuff on the first 3 tracks, and allow for the listener to drift off after that. That's part of why CDs don't work for me. Macca on bass? They should have put Ringo on drums. Maybe it's not the Stones by then... but it could be good Rock n Roll for the 'kids'. Cover could've used a zipper on it, or any other sign of 'intelligence' or imagination. Too bad.
Not bad if nothing special Barry & just basically 1980s sing-along-a-Mick with the same updated riffs from 1971 !! Fans will love it obviously but for me their last covers album Blue & Lonesome was much better....
Y’all just want to like it. They’re trying too hard and that’s not how good music evolves. More bland trite and you all know it. They had their time, be happy with that.
I like what I've heard so far and have no problem with the artwork. I am glad these guys are still with us never mind performing. What a bunch of amazing guys!
Agree. Far better than expected. A good rollicking listen. Not burdened with filler like many of the later albums.
‘Face like a chewed toffee’…. You’ve excelled yourself my man.
Im always reminded of a walnut thats been pickled in the juice of packet of werther's originals
Fantastic album from a band who can still show the young whipper snappes how its done
Ha!
I found it to be shockingly good. I had low expectations, but I think it's their best since Voodoo Lounge. At times Mick sounds like he did back in the 60s.
"Fantastic"? Aren't you exaggerating, just a little? The Stones haven't made a 'fantastic' album since 'Exile on Main Street'. They've managed 'quite good' a few times, but 'fantastic'? Come on now.
After a solid week playing this on vinyl (best), CD and streaming on Apple Music to my buds as I work or in the car, I am just so genuinely thrilled with this release.
You know, I was going to say “At their age” or “At this stage of their career”, but truth be told, I would have been so happy with this album 50,40,30,20,10 or 5 years ago. It’s just a bloody, BLOODY good album. Full stop.
Apart from Mess it Up. Still don’t get that! I can’t say I like it just because Charlie’s on it, or because Mick sings it all so well (he does) or because it’s harks back to Miss You/Dance/Emotional Rescue. It’s still just a bad song.
Fantastic album !!!
It’s interesting you dislike mess it up - i find that one especially groovy
As someone who hasn’t listened past Goats Head Soup, this album was such a revelation. I was hesitant towards an album without Watts but it was so enjoyable. Great sound, dirty guitars and quality songwriting. So glad it’s good.
Very pleased with this release. Note that Mick claimed they have about another albums worth of material recorded as well - so we may get a sister companion in a year or two! Ironic that one of the best releases this year is from 70+ year old veterans! Love this band!
A very well presented album - 12 songs new and unique fits well with the RS catalog. I'm liking Live by the Sword...
Yeah me too, it has the campiness and silliness of Undercover and in a very good way! I do love that album though...
I think it's a pretty solid album. It's a Stones album. Kudos to them for still having the passion and drive to stay in the music world (given it's so far from where it was when they started their career.)
Bought this album pre release weeks ago, well worth the Wait enjoyed every track. keep on rolling 😎👍
Can you imagine if in 1964, when these guys released their debut. That someone would have said that in just shy of 60 YEARS TIME, they would release one of the best albums of the year......it would have blown people's minds!
Mick has said in interviews that the next album is 3/4 done, so I expect to hear more new material a couple of years down the road. Twenty-one songs were finished during the session so that means their are nine tracks waiting in the queue. Looking forward to the arrival of my copy. If the two tracks released already I suspect this album will be one of my favourites this year.
I got a feeling they'll milk that remaining session and add more tracks several years down the road into a final album, you watch.
@@capt.animosiac5093several years?? How much do you think Father Time has left in store for these guys?
@@tdunph4250 True. It'll be must smarter if they made this their last record and call it a day. I was just predicting by usual business practices and music industry standards not by personally.
The Stones are like vintage wine better and better with age
I'm thrilled with all the excitement that this release has created, making music fun again, hell the Stones are acting like 50 year olds.😊
IMMORTAL LEGENDS 🖤
Looking forward to buying this, an excellent review as always sir, i love the comic asides.......face like a chewed toffee made me laugh out loud.Keep up the good work Barry.
I think it"s a great record. Kudos too to the fantastic solid drumming from Steve Jordan.
The Sun
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The Stones 😎🇨🇦
Really enjoying it a couple of days in. The 'modern' production approach works - bit of a surprise given Stones have always seemed to have a more organic / rougher studio sound. Mick sounds great, guitars are terrific - all good overall! Cover art a bit of a missed opportunity but no big deal.
Great album, classic Stones, brilliant!
Thanks Barry. Beautiful picture of Charlie at the end. Will have to get this if only to hear him for the last time. Have to think that this will be it now so it's nice to hear you being so positive about it.
You're very welcome
I would sy the album is good. It has its peaks and valleys. It starts up very well with the first 3 songs then kind of dips the next 3. But the last few make up for the languish period. On the whole I like the album. Standout tracks are Get Close, Depending On You, Mess It Up, Driving Me Too Hard, Tell Me Straight and Sweet Sounds Of Heaven.
I think I'm the only one who thinks Live by the Sword is a great song. What a driving beat!
You're not the only one. I quite like it, too.
It's tempting to feel positive about it because Charlie plays on it, but as a song, I don't think it is that great
It’s outstanding
You are correct!
This sense of urgency that has popped up regarding this album is probably because they realized that the couple of tacks they had done with Charlie were sitting around and he had passed and i am sure the rest of the band figured we had better get an album out because anyone of us could go next. Besides, with the frequency of their studio albums, this will be the last album. It's only common sense. It goes without saying, another great review Barry.👍
It’s truly outstanding.
You can hear a bit of every album from exile to tattoo you on here. It’s tremendous.
Great great album - one of their best. The track with Lady Gaga particularly strong!
I won't go as far to say this is a great album. It's a good solid album that rocks. Is also a very clean sounding album. I don't know, maybe too clean. But, overall it's a solid release by The Stones.
I've bought it and I like it.
It is a stunning album. No argument.
Thanks for this well spoken and thoughtful review. Btw, I can’t blame Jagger - who doesn’t dream of Emmylou Harris! My copy will be delivered Monday, with the Amazon exclusive cover.
thank you for the info. Haven’t heard the album yet, but now I want to, especially for the sweet sounds of heaven track
Eighteen years,where did the time go?Last album I bought was 1983's Undercover.
I had Hackney Diamonds on loop all day … yeah it’s good.
I hope there will be a version without pitch correction on Mick's voice.
Yes, I would like to hear a sleezy more organic sounding album
Nice touch with Charlie in the end!
The Stones Are..Back? Wow!
great review - it has propelled me to the download - an array of who's who on this - mouth watering
An instant classic. Solidly in my top ten of Stones records.
That's quite the statement. Keep Listening and come back in 6 months and see if you still feel that way.
I can think of quite a few latter day Stones LPs that I liked on first listen that quickly wore out their welcome.@@tdunph4250
@@tdunph4250 I will. I have listened to this more than 20 times now. I have listened and ranked every album and song by the band, too. I did this for fun just to be able to rank the albums ‘cause I was having a lot of trouble doing it.
It doesn’t have higher peaks that some of the albums below it, but it is very consistent and cohesive.
It dropped today so looking forward to playing it love the review! Will play it later today! Grumpy old men who've escaped from the old folks home!!
I think they missed a trick not replacing Charlie with Peter Hitchens. He has that same world weary morose utterly unimpressed with anything thst life was to offer vibe that counterbalanced Mick's eternal youthful optimism.
@@malcolmmitchell4709brilliant comment. The thought of Peter Hitchens taking a bow with the others at the end of a gig brings more than a smirk to my face. 😂
Went to the record store to buy this today and it was sold out !
Freaking awesome
🤠👍
thinking it’s awesome you found a record store!!
@@orno8906 Silver Platters Seattle 👍👍👍
Ordered it today on the day of release, and I haven’t done that with a Stones album for many a year. Ruddy Great 👍
I did the same thing! Mess it up should have been the first single I love that
The uniqueness and greatness of the Rolling Stones lies in the amazing first 15-18 years of soo much great albums and music!!
I don't thin any other band has ever had that long period of greatness.
But they also have a record of bad album covers especially in the later years. (Bridges to Babylon, Voodoo Lounge, Flashpoint, The other live album in the 90's, The blues album, Bigger Bang, they all has pretty bad covers),
Last year they released possible their greatest live album of all time: El Macombo 1977 (if I spelled it correctly) but the albumcover was so boring!! I would have expected some live shots from the concert....
i love the album , plain and simple .
The faces of the three Stones are in the diamonds. Mick on the right facing center with classic howling mouth and also pressed close lips (a double-image as it were). Keith is on the left face-to-face with Jagger or looking down at his guitar, another double-image. Ronnie is below, smaller, extending from the red-gloved thumb.
I listened to it earlier. It's not great, it's not bad. Considering their ages it's remarkable. I have to wonder how much studio trickery has gone on, and how much Keith really plays on this.
Everybody has a right to her or his own opinion, even though the opinion might be sheer crap.
I wondered the same thing. Truth is, I don't care about those concerns. I think it's the best Stones album I've heard in a long time.
You a r e a lone groover.
You summed it up, lonegroover -- it's not great, it's not bad. it's pretty much the most anyone has a right to expect at this late point in the game.
I absolutely agree. Mick's voice sounds too smooth.. The title should be "Hey You, Get Off of my Lawn." I just don't care for the production. I don't dislike it. I just don't really like it.
I just listened to this album and was thoroughly impressed. Easily their best album since Tattoo You.
Don't come on here and make comments like that if yer just some homer lackey working at a label or in the music industry ,..it doesn't impress anyone,.. this album clearly sucks is the general consensus
@@fenderguitars6050 get out of here with that I'm a record label mole crap... this is a good album.
Best thing they have done in years.
Pendants Corner here..tecnically any album they released would be best thing they've done in years. Which interestingly makes it also the worst thing they've done in years.
Well they haven't released anything for years but I get what you mean 😉
My post was a tad vague I suppose. What I mean is owing to the fact that for me, anything after Exile On Main St is pretty dire then this new album is a great improvement. IMO.@@MIB_63
I love it, and I'm not a big Stones fan.
Tha cool ---
Americans aren't gonna get this title. They might as well call it Pram Pushers. Keith said they've already planned on a new album "if they're STILL STANDING"! NOW THAT'S A GREAT TITLE! Who cares about the broken relationships of some 80 year old coots? NOT ME I'M ONLY 74
As a 60's-something fan since the beginning - im just relishing being able to say, "so have you heard the new Stones album?" Might not ever get to say that again
I've heard only two songs. Just got home with the album.
See how it stacks up shortly.
Can’t wait to go to concert ❤😊
Great review! I have to check it out. I feel hesitant to get it, but it seems to be getting decent reviews.
IMHO it's their best album since 1978. No fillers and Jagger sings usually well, especially for his age.
I'm still really enjoying this album immensely.
Hah... I'm glad you enjoyed this. I saw it in the press and was very curious about what is (probably) The Stones' farewell album... first album in 18 years is something special, with lots of cool guest appearances. For whatever reason I'm not even a big Rolling Stones fan (not because I don't like them, just one of those things... never dove deep.) But I'm glad to hear they made a cracking record for the fans. Aging bands have a hard time pulling that off! (I'm looking at you Yes, and... Yes #2, or... whatever.)
I listened to a few of the tracks, and yep... despite not even knowing that much about the Stones, that's them alright... sounding very fresh. It's amazing.
It is far from their first album in 18 years -- it is their first studio album of original material in 18 years. "Blue & Lonesome" in 2016 was a studio album of covers. They have released a live album nearly every year, some of them with original material, some of it recorded in a studio... They even released a greatest hits album, toured it, and released a live album from the tour!
@@johnbriggs3916 I meant first new studio album of original material in 18 years. I don't really even count re-issues/live albums/etc. Surely you understand that's what I meant and you're just taking the opportunity to dazzle us with your encyclopedic knowledge? I'm a 46 year old man, I'm aware they haven't been "doing nothing" for 18 years. Wouldn't you say the first album of original material in 18 years is quite an event for any band?
As a stones fan since i heard black and blue, sticky fingers coming out of my sisters room when i was 7,9 who knows i am 64 and still a stones fan i thought it was really good lady GA GA sounds great she can sing with anyone well worth the money
It’s fucking brilliant
Terrific review in my opinion. The record is solid; perhaps the equivalent of a first year University student doing well enough to just limp into second year. But I expect the designer of THAT font never got to first year.
The cover 'sucks' doesn't it?
I like the title and i like the album art , sounds like some dont 😊 Most importantly i love this album.
yeah i really like a bigger bang as well. it's about 2-3 cuts too long but nevertheless it contains a lot of strong stuff.
Agreed
Thanks for the great video as always
First take it sounds more like a Jagger solo but it may change ---
Thanks Barry for this review (unlike Roger Waters Redux album) this is one album I do intend to buy at this moment 👍
Hope you enjoy it!
Good review Barry. I’m halfway through writing mine at the moment. It’s a decent album in all fairness
looking forward to your review
Great review. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Bite my head off wouldn't have been out of place on the Sex Pistol's 'Never Mind The Bollocks' album.
yes it has great punk energy.
Toataly Awesome..
"Awesome"
It's a fucking Great album. There's too many people out there that are nit-picking. They're all 100 years old and still kicking ass, and people have got to stop bitching about auto-tune. Buy it, don't buy it but stop bitching about it.
Cheers 🍻
........jez fa that gonna start bitchin now bro !
@@grantross2609 ???
100 years old? Not cool to accuse someone of nitpicking while you're being disrespectful
Thank you!
I kind of like the artwork and title. Its definitively the stones.
Pre Orederd (Amazon) CD arriving Monday but I had to cheat and listen online today. First impression "I Like It" cant wait until Monday to give it some welly. 🤣🤣
Bite my head off reminded me of easy sleazy with dave grohl during lockdown
All Killer
Zero Filler
5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
I love it
I thought that title was good, kind of a play on diamonds in the rough. It sounds like they put a serious effort into it, inviting Paul made me think the survivors of the British Invasion should get together and make a album. And that Next Wave in the 70's with Elton (Bowie's Gone Unfortunately) and Prog.
Probably the best album that saw the light of day on the last 10 years.
80 year old Stones - "Hey (hey), You (you), get offa my lawn!"
I like how they split wood and Richards into the left and right speakers. But when the band gets playing the drums, bass, and guitars sound like a muddy mess. When the songs slow down, you can pick out the bass from the drums from the guitars. When the speed picks up, seems to blurred together. I think they needed to make a double album out of this so they could put some space between the instruments. May be a little bit too much compression.
I agree with the Pitchfork review, which described it as "a marketing team’s dream": "Hackney Diamonds feels like an advertisement for advertising placements, songs meant to be sold to sell something else." To my ears, it sounds like pop rock by numbers, created with a bloodless, mainstream Hollywood movie soundtrack in mind.
And the album cover? It looks like an 80s hair metal cast-off. I put 'Exile' on soon after, in order to wash the rubbish from my ears.
Copy and paste.
Well, yeh, one sentence was. But thanks - brilliant response. I'm sold! 😁@@christianmay3959
every time i try to listen to this album, i hate that first song so much it just pisses me off and i end up hating the whole album and now its making me hate other stones albums now
As 68-year old, I don't want musicians my age or older rehashing old hits and attitudes. As Pete Townshend quoted an early fan about 'Substitute': it expressed what the fan felt but couldn't express for himself. I want old people to express what the old me feels. Tom Jones (who I hadn't followed) did it with his gospel albums. This manages it and, being an Americana roots mature music based group, it was reasonable to hope that they might get there, if they had a mind to do so.
Yes it's very good, they have no right to be making an album that good in 2023.
Weren't the Rolling Stones one of those great 1960s and 70s bands?
yeah, and 80s and 90s and 00s and 10s and 20s...next question...
Yes, which makes this album even more remarkable. Well spotted.
Yes, let's talk some more about that cover art - someone's just discovered clipart methinks, and is working against a five minute deadline to 'come up with something'. Pity, the advert in the local rag that announced the album was clever and there to be repurposed.
I doff my cap to them. Yes, they've had finer hours but for a trio of nigh on 80 year olds its pretty fucking good.
They're even talking about touring it.
Let's be honest, all the rest of us can expect at that age is being fed with a spoon and having our arse wiped.
A Molly Hatchet cover gone wrong! 😂😂😂
No Charlie no Stones. I left and did a track run thru of the album. I really like nearly all of the songs which I haven’t said about a Stones album since Emotional. It’s a guitar forward album and Ronnie rips some really great solos over Keith’s solid gringy rhythms. But as I said before giving it a listen the drums just drag towards the end of the songs which is where Charlie was at his best, he knew how to build a song to a frenzy at the end. I wish Jaggers vocals were mixed a little more subtly and just didn’t ride on top so much. His voice can really compliment Keiths guitar sound if it’s mixed correctly and I really wish Keith could still do the backing vocals because they always sounded so great together. Overall a complete surprise that it’s an album that I will take several tracks from to add to a party playlist
I agree, it really lacked Charlie's swing
Charlie personally asked they to go on with Steve. "The Stones haven't been the Stones since Brian Jones died". Give me a break.
Well, I think Steve Jordan did an admirable job. A few cuts I think he actually played better than Charlie would have (Sweet Sounds of Heaven for one). Keith does sing background vocals on many of the tracks. Ron and Keith weaving guitars again. Nice Keith leads on Angry and Driving Me Too Hard (I always favor his minimalist leads that make each note count). All in all, a more than solid album. Definitely better than 98% of what's being produced by others today.
Just listened to the whole album.
On first listen I’m gonna say that I like it.
Not too hip on the auto tuning I hear on Angry.
I’m also not sure that I like Lady Gaga on there either.
I quite like the Keith song on there.
I think I like this just a little more than A Bigger Bang.
Time will tell.
Thanks, Barry! Remember that the Mars bar story was a police and press invention! Marianne was wrapped in a rug because they'd all been to the beach, got wet, and hadn't brought any clothes with them!
I know, but it gave a whole new spin on slogan 'a mars a day'
Why? The Stones have drained every ounce of cred. Theres not one song on here that makes me smile. Just wish they would stop.
Blues blues blues blues,, blah blah blah.
Finally, ive outgrown all of this.
Thmx for making me realize how frivolous all this crap is
Do you devote your life to religion now and repent your sins?
Very 1980s sounding in places which is disappointing but I have heard them do much worse & it's great to have Charlie's last couple of drum tracks & Bill Wyman on another.... 6/10
7th best Stones album!
Better than Bigger Band. Solid 8/10. Fantastic album. Marvellous drumming.
Most songs are just great.
Thought on 1st listen maybe some ai going on already 🤔 like it tho 😊
Minor gripe: after 18 years, to NOT feature a "tongue" illustration on the cover seems a crime just short of a sin.
Look mate when you get to my age a protruding tongue doesn't signify cunilingus any more. It just means you've dozed off again.
There is an alternative limited edition cover that consists of multiple tongues.
Post-Chalie Watts... I have the entire discography, so I will be listing to this soon. A final statement. The stones 'Abbey Road'. 'Front loading albums' with the best tracks? I think that started with he CD era. Flipping the vinyl over to Side 2 created a 'physical break' on the record (which was tested on the double albums). So did the 'loss of quality' as the side played past 20 minutes into the tighter grooves. On CD, you just had to place the best stuff on the first 3 tracks, and allow for the listener to drift off after that. That's part of why CDs don't work for me. Macca on bass? They should have put Ringo on drums. Maybe it's not the Stones by then... but it could be good Rock n Roll for the 'kids'.
Cover could've used a zipper on it, or any other sign of 'intelligence' or imagination. Too bad.
Does it not sound like an Andew Watt/Ozzy Ozbourne album?
Best most solid album since exile on main st
Not bad if nothing special Barry & just basically 1980s sing-along-a-Mick with the same updated riffs from 1971 !! Fans will love it obviously but for me their last covers album Blue & Lonesome was much better....
Y’all just want to like it. They’re trying too hard and that’s not how good music evolves. More bland trite and you all know it. They had their time, be happy with that.
Your statement is very cryptic.