i think id like gimme shelter if it didnt have the female backup vocals. though this might be just cos i generally hate any rock+gospel songs.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
That's one of the few non corny instances of gospel backing vocals in rock songs.
― redmond, Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
her solo version is good as well. think she did some of the tracks on the 'performance' OST as well
― vain_bowers, Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
does a version without those vocals exist? im guessing only live.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
without merry's vocals you mean? yeah im sure ive got an mp3 from the let it bleed sessions without her vocals and keith singing pretty high in the mix
― vain_bowers, Thursday, 22 January 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i found one version without the backing vocals (just some ooohs on the intro). its much better. much rawer. suits the song.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 23 January 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
psh! Well, each to their own, I guess.
― Mark G, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2010/07/wfmus-rock-n-soul-ichiban-play-that-funky-kazoo-white-boy.html
― Cunga, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty great 1966 Ready Steady Go! performance just popped up on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iml2VUGhgdY&feature=player_embedded#!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyAGi7J1GQM&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iib5xP5HkwM&feature=related
― Darin, Monday, 6 December 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw em from nose bleed seats @ the Washington DC Area football stadium Wednesday night . My wife had never seen em before so we went. I had last seen em in 81 I think. They did Don Covay’s “Mercy Mercy” for the first time live since 1969 in London. Some of Mick’s dancing is a parody of himself at this point but he and the band and their guest musicians sounded good. Keith dyed his hair brown.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 July 2019 06:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7211005/Rolling-Stones-star-Brian-Jones-death-examined-new-TV-documentary.html
― stan by me (morrisp), Thursday, 4 July 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
how was the ‘81 show? that m/l where I get off the bus with their studio output. I saw them in ‘99 and it was surprisingly good, despite my conviction that they were nearly 20 years past their sell-by date then. crazy realizing that the intervening time frame has more than doubled since :/
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 4 July 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
Hyde Park Concert 50 years ago today. The ‘Stones in the Park’ film is worth a glance, even simply as a time-capsule of how a brief era looked.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 5 July 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
i've probably said this before here, but in the late 70s i was flipping through my parents' records and asked my mom who these Rolling Stones were and she was like "oh they're a really OLD band, they've been a band for a LONG TIME"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 July 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
Chris Richards review in Washington Post of the show the other night suggested that Mick's heart surgery caused the band to subsequently become tighter and better in 2019 live than they have been in years because they now somehow realize they could die soon. I feel like they have always been able to play proficiently onstage, the issue is just that their songwriting ability disappeared after Some Girls.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 July 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
I don't no, I keep hearing similar things. The two times I saw them before, one show was definitely better than the other, but both shows, the band seemed pretty bored.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 July 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
know
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 July 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
There's like 14-16 common songs (out of 20-21) between every show they do now. Ron Wood has talked about finding flexibility within the war horses, but still...
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 July 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
Everything about this band is just horrible now. Their live sound is a total mess, Jagger is awful, 90% of the setlist consists of some of the worst music ever recorded - You Got me Rocking? Start me Up? It's just pure dogshit. Even the albums that have been canonised (the post Jones albums) are dreary, pasty, country blues wankathons with endlessly tedious guitars and embarrassing lyrics. Hot Rocks is all you need.
― Fried Egg Sandwich, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
tracer's mom otm (again)
― j., Saturday, 6 July 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
i haven't looked into it much really but every time i watch some live stones footage, even very famous well-regarded dates from long ago, jagger seems like an utter embarrassment, and i'm baffled how he ever sustained any kind of reputation as a sex symbol or performer of music
― j., Saturday, 6 July 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
Haha otm
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 7 July 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
I like a lot of the records but watching jagger perform - in any era - is usually embarrasing
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 7 July 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
Eheh that reminds me the MJs story about M. Jackson’s being amazed at how bad a singer M. Jagger was during their recording sessions together and wondering how he managed to have such a career !
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:44 (five years ago) link
gotta work twice as hard etc.
― j., Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
Hum I’m not sure Jagger worked twice as hard as Jackson during his career!
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
...
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
The “joke” is that the average black person has to work twice as hard for half as much as the average white person
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
AIXTC, it's a reference to the proverbial notion according to which black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half of what white Americans have.
Not everyone is familiar with this line outside the US tbf.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
(xp)
I’ve never heard that MJ quote, but kinda nonsensical IMO to compare Jagger to Jackson.
― stan by me (morrisp), Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
Oh ok, sorry, yeah didn't get that !as for that MJ story regarding his session with MJ, I've read it somewhere... will try to find it.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 8 July 2019 08:32 (five years ago) link
https://theboombox.com/jacksons-jagger-state-of-shock/
"Jackson reportedly later complained that Jagger sang off key, asking "how did he ever get to be a star?" according to Christopher Andersen's 'Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger."
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 8 July 2019 08:36 (five years ago) link
It's a lousy song, anyway...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3UIj0gUxtc
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Supposed to behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Equy7Y0m-iA
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
the chorus of “Anybody Seen My Baby” seems like a pretty clear rip-off of “Constant Craving”??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 January 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
i think they ended up giving kd lang a cowriter credit
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think Mick's kid told him, he listened to it, and agreed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
I was close:
During the album's mastering, the projected lead single "Anybody Seen My Baby?" was found to resemble k.d. lang's 1992 hit "Constant Craving" in its chorus, a discovery brought to Richards' attention by his daughter Angela. Seeking to avoid possible future legal entanglements, lang and her co-writer Ben Mink were credited along with Jagger and Richards on the new song.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I remember that being a big thing back when it came out.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link
“Act Together” is so good…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir7e-NsCEoA
― calstars, Sunday, 11 July 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
Charlie Watts, RIP.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
NOOOOOO! Just saw the BBC report. Crushed.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
I didn't know video of this existed - I think Greg Kot may have said it was the best Stones gig he ever had to report on for the Tribune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZAxBiDcpY
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
so fucking bummed out by thisbut feeling all these old singleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7d_lGaBbVQ
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 06:04 (three years ago) link
The bonus disc of nine newly-finished cuts on the new Tattoo You is actually all right. Plays like a decent Stones album.
The remaster is just a louder remaster even more squashed than ever before, and the live show is for collectors - the official Hampton show release is a better show from the same tour. But this bonus disc is nice, glad to have it. Nice that you don't have to buy the box set to get it too.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
:O
Deniz Tek10h ·When the Rolling Stones toured Australia in 1973 I quit my job and hitchhiked around the country to see most of the shows. For the first Sydney show I rented a Suoer-8 mm movie camera and filmed the first few songs in the set from just in front of the stage, while getting knocked around by the enthusiastic crowd. Now, after almost 50 years, I've got some of the film fixed up and viewable, with the help of Ben Dyment who very kindly synched it to audio from the same concert, and did the editing. Here's a link to "Happy", published on my YouTube channel today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaHRgimChI
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Monday, 24 January 2022 08:00 (two years ago) link
wow!https://www.deniztek.com/1958-national-baron
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 24 January 2022 08:27 (two years ago) link
First time I've browsed ilx and found my name in a post - I'm the one who did the audio sync, haha. Deniz was kind enough to let me post the full film on my channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJCCSlvH80
― whitehallunity, Monday, 24 January 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
nice work! it looked like there were some dropouts so that couldn't have been easy.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 24 January 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
yeah it's a great watch, well done... what's that amazing ominous drone at the beginning - was that played over the PA? sounded like something from Satanic Majesties
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 24 January 2022 23:07 (two years ago) link
Nice work!
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 24 January 2022 23:39 (two years ago) link
the who? never cared for them either!
― xzanfar, Monday, 24 January 2022 23:40 (two years ago) link
yeah it's a great watch, well done... what's that amazing ominous drone at the beginning - was that played over the PA? sounded like something from Satanic Majesties― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, January 24, 2022 6:07 PM
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, January 24, 2022 6:07 PM
You are correct, it's the opening from '2000 Light Years', they used it as walk on music for the 72 and Winter 73 tours.
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
Great video!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
thanks, wow had no idea - it's super effective looped like that
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
I have come to the conclusion that “memo from turner” is their best song
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
The version on Metamorphosis isn't even the best version of that song!
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Ooh I didn’t know there were other versions! Where can find the others?
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
The "official" version is on the Performance soundtrack, and probably elsewhere, credited to Jagger, but there's some debate about how many Stones actually appear on that recording.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
"Memo From Turner" is very Dylan-esque!
― Gimme little drink / From your Dunkin cup (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
On the subject of Metamorphosis, it occurred to me that "Family" has a lot in common with the Pasolini film Teorema: the four characters of the father, daughter, mother and son are very close, even in details like the daughter's attraction to the father and the son's impotent attempts to express himself as an artist...But! The song was finished in June of 1968 and the film didn't premiere at the Venice Film Festival until September, so that would seem to indicate the film had no influence on the song...But! Also in June of '68, the Stones filmed One Plus One with Jean-Luc Godard, whose wife Anne Wiazemsky would have just finished acting in Teorema itself at about that same time. Is it outlandish to propose that Jagger might have seen a summary or discussed the plot of the Pasolini film with either Godard or Wiazemsky herself, who appears in One Plus One (though not on-screen with the Stones)?
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 29 January 2022 04:28 (two years ago) link
this is pretty sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKVQNtkdzw
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
xp @Halfway There, fascinating theory. I saw Teorema for the first time a few months ago, can definitely see the parallels with "Family." Someone needs to ask Jagger about this while he's still around...
― J. Sam, Thursday, 7 April 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
I'm going to read Wiazemsky's memoir of her time with Godard so I can at least get the timelines of the filming straight.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 7 April 2022 11:28 (two years ago) link
apparently a new album being officially announced in September, to be released in October
Hackney Diamonds
Apparently a print ad in some UK rags:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4EQ727XMAAsYe7?format=jpg&name=medium
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 August 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
Original Title: GASMS
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 August 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
Read the title as “Horny Diamonds”
― calstars, Monday, 21 August 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
shadoobie, gasms, gasms
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mEC54eTuGw
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
Genuinely surprised that in this deep fake world it's still impossible to cobble together a video from old footage that looks like the young guys really are singing/playing the somewhat ropey new song.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
is it autotuned?
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
i think id like gimme shelter if it didnt have the female backup vocals.
Good lord lol
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
I never listened to the Stones much but listened to a few episodes of this 'Stones Touring Party' podcast about their big 1972 US tour. The first few about recording Exile + tax and money issues + planning and preparing for the tour are pretty interesting, might bail once it gets into the actual debauchery of the road.
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
I'd heard enough of that new song at minute one. I assume there is a bridge or something dropped in there later on.
Anyway, if anyone wondered what the Stones would sound like without Charlie, there you go. I love Steve Jordan, but his session precision gives that track more groove than it needs (and certainly more than the Stones know what to do with at this point).
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
the song sounds like the video looks - a simulacrum of what the rolling stones should sound and look like, assembled by a guy at a computer
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
I really like the verses & riff, but the chorus feels overly "songwritten" / grafted on from a different song.
― Midi, Maxi & Efti stan account (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
("I'm still taking the pills / And I'm off to Brazil" is a good Mick Jagger couplet)
― Midi, Maxi & Efti stan account (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
First thought he was singing "I'm still taking the piss" and thought it was his most honest lyric since he was trying to get laid in a quarantine.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
They've been working on this album for eons (the blues covers album Blue & Lonesome was recorded when they were warming up to start these sessions, and that came out in 2016) so I wonder how many Charlie performances are on it.
Agree, more or less. The riff and verses are OK if somewhat stock/by-the-numbers. The chorus suuuuucks.
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
xp I did too! I had to look it up on Genius.com
― Midi, Maxi & Efti stan account (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
According to the credits on Wikipedia right now, Charlie is on two tracks.xxpost Might still be honest, wasn't it his affair with a Brazilian model that led to his divorce from Jerry Hall? I'd like to think it's a reference to him taking Viagra so he can further his already a substantial bloodline.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
Hackney Diamonds World Tour, Brought To You By hims
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
Not a fan but will give the album a chance when it's out. I've actually come around to their last few albums as being potentially solid and decent works had they been capped at nine or ten songs (they're all essentially double LP's and go on too long). They just don't have it in them to cut a really good single, not in decades, but they could still be able to string together nine or ten commendable tracks.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
at this point I don't know why you'd begrudge them another albumthis will all be over very soon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 22:36 (one year ago) link
The chorus has grown on me. I like this song. It’s easy to pick apart, but if you’re just open to that Stones vibe I think it’s v effective.
― Sir Mick explained: (morrisp), Thursday, 7 September 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link
The Bluesky hivemind sez it suxx, no doubt taking cues from Sir Albini
― Sir Mick explained: (morrisp), Thursday, 7 September 2023 01:34 (one year ago) link
Gotta love how even though it's still updated on the reg, Keno's Rolling Stones fanpage (a great resource still, BTW) is peak-1995 internet. A thing of true beauty.
http://www.keno.org/Home.html
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
Ditto Time Is On Our Side! https://www.timeisonourside.com/ (though it appears the visitor counter no longer works, sadly).
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link