I thought the release of the new album deserved a new thread.

It comes out this Friday but some people have heard it already as some copies have leaked ahead of the release date.

Let's hear your opinions on it here when you're done listening to it. 

I want to hear it.

I, as well, want to hear it...

Gazza...will you review it as part of your 11000th post?

After one listening of the whole album, I say it is great but  there's something missing from the blues feeling of the covers of the late 60s and the 70s like No Expectations, Love in Vain, Shake your hips, Stop Breaking Down, You gotta move, Mannish Boy, etc or the covers of the 60s in later versions like Little Red Rooster, I Just wanna make love to you all you B&B, etc etc

Wanna listen again, but will wait for my Vinyl and Super Deluxe CD

Can I go the old-fashioned route and buy this at my local record store?  :nooslajaleisk

I've only heard 2 songs so far and they seem good enough, but wait to listen to the whole album before making an official statement, lol.

I like it. A real return to their roots. There are some great song choices and the production is cool. Gritty and dirty with a subtle distortion over everything, which is how blues should be IMO. I hate slickly produced blues.

As a close Irish friend told me it is FUCKIN' Brilliant!:)

"I hope they don't think we're a rock 'n' roll outfit."






http://www.republicofyoublog.com/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_m7224yJ5fW1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

Not to go backsliding here, but the auld formula of six covers and four originals would mean proof of life among the fanbase.

The difficulty perhaps would be in getting the style and substance of the covers and originals to match.  That was easier and more natural when the music world was closer to its roots.

Just got it from a very nice person.
only listened to a few songs on my work pc,
but so far me likes

After a first listen "Just your Fool",  "Blue and Lonesome", "Everybody knows about my good thing", and "I can't quit you baby" sound good to me immediate. Not a bad score for a first listening. Is it me or is the sound quality not really that great?

Tumbling Dijs wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 2:47pm:

After a first listen "Just your Fool",  "Blue and Lonesome", "Everybody knows about my good thing", and "I can't quit you baby" sound good to me immediate. Not a bad score for a first listening. Is it me or is the sound quality not really that great?

You'll have to wait until next year when its re-mastered!

gimmekeef wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 3:13pm:

Tumbling Dijs wrote on Nov 29th, 2016 at 2:47pm: After a first listen "Just your Fool",  "Blue and Lonesome", "Everybody knows about my good thing", and "I can't quit you baby" sound good to me immediate. Not a bad score for a first listening. Is it me or is the sound quality not really that great? You'll have to wait until next year when its re-mastered!

LOL or wait many years for the super deluxe edition in 5.1, 7.1 and MONO!!

About the original question I read somewhere that intentionally they used old equipment to record and give the album the sound of the 50s

gimmekeef wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 3:13pm:

Tumbling Dijs wrote on Nov 29th, 2016 at 2:47pm: After a first listen "Just your Fool",  "Blue and Lonesome", "Everybody knows about my good thing", and "I can't quit you baby" sound good to me immediate. Not a bad score for a first listening. Is it me or is the sound quality not really that great? You'll have to wait until next year when its re-mastered!

LOL

Edith Grove wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 7:22am:

"I hope they don't think we're a rock 'n' roll outfit." http://www.republicofyoublog.com/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_m7224yJ5fW1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

...are you sure you're not rockman in disguise???
:blankfriggingstare1

Bluzdude wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 3:39pm:

Edith Grove wrote on Nov 29th, 2016 at 7:22am: "I hope they don't think we're a rock 'n' roll outfit." http://www.republicofyoublog.com/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_m7224yJ5fW1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg ...are you sure you're not rockman in disguise??? :blankfriggingstare1

No, Rockman would have voted for Hillary.  :wow :nooslajaleisk :warhorse :willya

why the fuck haven't I heard it yet?

I have mixed emotions with B&L

First is, that I'm very happy to get a 'new' studio album. New material is always good. But when I first listened to it yesterday, I haven't had the same great feeling that I had when I first listened to songs from their last albums like 'laugh I nearly died, anybody seen my baby, love is strong', it feels to me a bit like the red devil session part 2. There are some great songs on B&L, especially the slower ones, blue and lonesome is my favorite at the moment, but for my feeling, it's not really a new record. IMO they should have released it like jamming with Edward, don't make such a 'sensation' out of it. But ok...

What I recognized, too, is that Keith playing is so much in the background like on no other record. The difficult parts are played by Ronnie or Clapton, from the first listening I only count one Keith solo, but I could be wrong.

Production wise I don't like the sound very much. It's not polished, that's great, but sometimes so heavy distorted, that it sound more worse than the worst stones blues songs from the early sixties. And I mean some of the greatest blues records have superb sound and not sounding polished, like muddy waters 'folk singer' or junior wells 'hoodoo man blues' or the ' American folk & blues festival '65. Sometimes it's hard to tell who plays what on B&L.

Thanks to Gazza's Spotify playlist i must say that the original versions of B&L are so great, that the stones doesn't top them, which they imo mostly did on their previous covers. But being par with them is a great Effort, too.

I will of course have many more listening to it die I hope that it grows on me.

Excuse my bad English

Bluzdude wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 3:39pm:

...are you sure you're not rockman in disguise???

I can't even approach his posting talent, dude.  :scary

The record is good on the first listen .. better on the second and now very good now on the third complete listen.. and it has a promise of getting better and better.

It is old school in sound and song selection ... and dark .. meaning a dark .. rawer ... crude production style yet simplistic and quite stripped down. A very 'live' sounding record and Jaggers vocal effort here is perhaps better than anything he's ever made a concentrated strong effort to or at least every bit as good. His voicals are dark .. huge.. and from the gut.

It is a homage and what purists have always wanted. Nothing is really generic in song selection (mostly all obscure songs) or in tone. There is a black (no pun) .. rough edged ..darker feel all the way around on the record
.

I hear The Rolling Stones in a larger room playing the blues best they can and from the heart with multiple mics in and around them to capture it. That is what I hear .. that is what it was .. and that is what it sounds like. It is not a new studio album of originals but a tide-over .. special 'treat' now (and to spin once in a while to once in a blue moon down the road). Again .. it will be played in the future as their tribute to The blues done raw.. and stripped down but also done well.

It will age well and it will grow on folks more and more. It is quality .. yet quite junky in style at the same time.. with a classic 1940's - 1960's blues record over tone.


Ian

Heard the .mp3, like the slower numbers better than the faster - partly because of the sound quality complained about above.  This may improve in the lossless.  But on first listen, the musicianship seems more impressive on the slower songs.  Liked it immediately more when the less frenetic title track came around.

Overall, an all-blues album seems without any relief from...the blues.  On an early Stones record, even the first EPs or LP, there'd be a mix of R&B and blues, which seems smarter and more entertaining.  Surely there's also forgotten R&B numbers they've never covered.

See Keith's Crosseyed Heart for an album that offers both blues and relief from the medium.

I think if, say, Led Zep had made an all-blues album, I'd feel the same way.  I remember getting Aerosmith's all-blues album and not playing it much - not in years. 

Maybe I'll like the whole Blue and Lonesome better in lossless.  But, when you play a whole Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters album, why don't you feel you need a break from that sound?

LINK ?

<   ----- BEST STONES YET !!!!!!!



Wait Until you hear this music .  These cats are in their PRIME !!!!!!!!!!!


Bigger than ALL of us   ----- " STONES !!!!   "


" Unbelievable Stones Ronnie !!!!   "



JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ . Fly ! ®

BILL PERKS wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 9:38pm:

LINK ?

Check your e-mail

Much to ponder.
Is it Jogger reborn, or escaping, or calling the shots, or mourning events of a couple of years ago, or 'papering over the cracks', filling in for KR with harmonica, re-iiving Edith Grove in groove rather than in a exhibiti-mock-up, paying dues? Isn't it odd to think they could invent a new musical style and thrust based on blues and then revert to it? Is the idea that it wouldn't matter that they wouldn't sell as many copies as a new fully Stoonz album would perhaps to expected to sell? Is this all about they being able to sit down and play/sing in future more? How much time did they spend on perfecting some of the distorty outros? Did they dub it up enough?  Isn't it funny that RW says that "we're a blues band"? How will the album and tracks unfold during repeated plays over the wintry winter? Is Bill a fan? When Don Was said that Jogger "wasn't feeling it" when recording original material last year, has he got over this? Will they go into a Euro tour promoting Blue & Lo' or will they unfold new & original delights?

Lovely Happy-ish days!

It'll make a great stocking stuffer.

My vinyl copy is due to arrive on Friday. I can't wait!

Sounds great, thank you so much.

Stu approves.

first off- exileonmainstreet@****.com sent me a link to album on my email. Bless you and may The Good Lord shine a light on you.
second- can I trust the link.

Some Guy wrote on Nov 30^th, 2016 at 3:39pm:

first off- exileonmainstreet@****.com sent me a link to album on my email. Bless you and may The Good Lord shine a light on you. second- can I trust the link.

:Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey

Gazza wrote on Nov 30^th, 2016 at 4:26pm:

Some Guy wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 3:39pm: first off- exileonmainstreet@****.com sent me a link to album on my email. Bless you and may The Good Lord shine a light on you. second- can I trust the link. :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey

they sound great! Wow!

gonna be some serious white mans overbite with this one.

Who's credited as producer(s) on B&L, anyway?

The vocalist on "I Gotta Go" is a man who obviously remembers everything he ever learned young.  But where are the guitarists?  This is one of a few problems with the mix on the fast numbers, which is too hard-charging "raw" for the general good of the public.  Maybe next time just sling two mics over a rafter, or go back to Toshiba Studios. 

Are they better than they've been lately on record?  Yes.  But lately was 2005.  They sounded antiseptic and anodyne then, but the production on "Just Your Fool," "Commit a Crime," "I Gotta Go" and "Ride 'em on Down" is not an improvement, and speaks ill of Mark Knopfler's room.  They got it right on all the other ones, though - so the majority wins the decision.

The Guardian: 'And they do record on tape, Richards says. “This is not digital crap.” '  The trouble is, it's mixed so hot for the sake of "authenticity" that the fast numbers sound like what they were trying to avoid.    

Lossless rip now available on D****oid - so my earlier complaints are now updated.

P.S. - Mick, the B-stage is the place for a set of three of these songs, not the main stage where "Ride 'em on Down" was a wasted balls-up.  ("Here birdie!  Nice birdie!  Oh, well - on to the next...")

I'm fixin' to listen to it again.

Some Guy wrote on Nov 30^th, 2016 at 4:38pm:

Gazza wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 4:26pm: Some Guy wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 3:39pm: first off- exileonmainstreet@****.com sent me a link to album on my email. Bless you and may The Good Lord shine a light on you. second- can I trust the link. :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey they sound great! Wow!

I didn't get an Email.  :spooky

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 2:43pm:

Some Guy wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 4:38pm: Gazza wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 4:26pm: Some Guy wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 3:39pm: first off- exileonmainstreet@****.com sent me a link to album on my email. Bless you and may The Good Lord shine a light on you. second- can I trust the link. :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey they sound great! Wow! I didn't get an Email.  :spooky

you'll get nothing and like it.

Some Guy wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 2:44pm:

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 2:43pm: Some Guy wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 4:38pm: Gazza wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 4:26pm: Some Guy wrote on Nov 30th, 2016 at 3:39pm: first off- exileonmainstreet@****.com sent me a link to album on my email. Bless you and may The Good Lord shine a light on you. second- can I trust the link. :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey they sound great! Wow! I didn't get an Email.  :spooky you'll get nothing and like it.

I already did when Trump was elected.

Really proud of this one. I will find a Best Buy during my travels today and buy it.

sounds pretty sweet so far on pc speakers...going to burn and light up the big stereo speakers for more in depth listening later

What's everyone listening to the new tunes on? Boombox? PC? Phone? Dedicated audio system?

andrews27 wrote on Nov 30^th, 2016 at 9:28pm:

Who's credited as producer(s) on B&L, anyway? The vocalist on "I Gotta Go" is a man who obviously remembers everything he ever learned young.  But where are the guitarists?  This is one of a few problems with the mix on the fast numbers, which is too hard-charging "raw" for the general good of the public.  Maybe next time just sling two mics over a rafter, or go back to Toshiba Studios.  Are they better than they've been lately on record?  Yes.  But lately was 2005.  They sounded antiseptic and anodyne then, but the production on "Just Your Fool," "Commit a Crime," "I Gotta Go" and "Ride 'em on Down" is not an improvement, and speaks ill of Mark Knopfler's room.  They got it right on all the other ones, though - so the majority wins the decision. The Guardian: 'And they do record on tape, Richards says. “This is not digital crap.” '  The trouble is, it's mixed so hot for the sake of "authenticity" that the fast numbers sound like what they were trying to avoid.     Lossless rip now available on D****oid - so my earlier complaints are now updated. P.S. - Mick, the B-stage is the place for a set of three of these songs, not the main stage where "Ride 'em on Down" was a wasted balls-up.  ("Here birdie!  Nice birdie!  Oh, well - on to the next...")

__________________________________


Mark Knopflers studio / British Grove Studio's (and rooms) are of the best in the entire world. It was built from the ground up .. even with filtered power coming in from the street to present the very best in new, more cutting edge equipment and just as as well obtaining and still using the old gear. He purposefully has fully restored vintage consoles and new and old gear all in the same control room .. Some of the vintage gear is the only fully restored in England (I watched a show on the making of the studio).

The reason it sounds sort of loud and distorted without as much texture or depth on certain tracks is two fold.

The trade off is they wanted something sounded over driven and saturated such as the old blues albums often had. Second .. having it textured and with all the dynamics is great ... but for a blues album .. IT would get a little slow .. a little long .. a tad drawn out.

Having it loud and upfront on four tracks and on certain numbers keeps it from getting too drawn out (for the sake of any younger folks .. who may buy it?). Sure..there won't be many .. but it is what they are going for here.

Having it loud and distorted keeps it from getting too drawn out and slow .. It keeps it exciting where needed and also added that old school sound. This is why they chose that on certain tracks.

Remember.. it is still a product.. and I must say .. they did a fine job in satisfying the purists ... (as well as hoping to obtain a few curious newbies).

The song selection ... sound .. and vibe and everything about the album is a winner IMO .. (as well .. Jagger truly shines .. he not only shines .. he leads it).

- Ian

Some Guy wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 6:05am:

Really proud of this one. I will find a Best Buy during my travels today and buy it.

Me too!  :keithpunky :willya

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The trade off is they wanted something sounded over driven and saturated such as the old blues albums often had. Second .. having it textured and with all the dynamics is great ... but for a blues album .. IT would get a little slow .. a little long .. a tad drawn out.

Yes, but:

First, though recorded on tape in a great room, the mix and digital conversion make it sound exactly like what young people have been listening to since the 1990s - strained-sounding, brickwalled, over-loud noise.  The sound is passable on the slow songs, because there's more studio air between the instruments.  But the fast songs are more headache-y than anything Butch Vig ever invented for post-Punk torture purposes.  The sound they got on Some Girls would have sufficed.

Second, I agree that one wouldn't want a blues cover album to sound too precious (and I'm grateful that the dubbed sound of a phono stylus running out its groove isn't heard).  However, you can find tons of great blues albums - made on the cheap in the 1950s and 1960s by engineers and producers with no care for the artists or product - that sound less fatiguing and more inviting.

And, as I pointed out in my first point, the fact that the sound is fatiguing makes the 12 songs - one over five minutes long, and too much covered in Rock - seem "drawn out," even at under 43 minutes' total time.

Last, the vocals-and-harmonica-on-top mix is overdone and deleterious on "I Gotta Go" - allegedly featuring Eric Clapton, but who knows, because the guitars are so subdued in the mix that Jagger might as well be backed by only bass and percussion.  Compare this to any Muddy Waters or early Stones blues - the competing versions of "I Just Want to Make Love to You" will do - and you can see that aiming for the dynamics of a cheapie blues record is to aim lower than Muddy, and to make the guitars vanish as they never did on a Chess album, or on any Stones record.  Don Was is nuts for letting them put this mix out.  Were the engineers smarter at Regent Sound Studios, 1964?

Speaking of white boys, and white producers, the first two J. Geils Band records were recorded better, without any noticable overthinking, and they still came off like records in the blues tradition.  In the case of this "one-take" Blue and Lonesome, all the overthinking went into attempting analog authenticity within the digital aesthetic.

Is Blue and Lonesome a good record?  Yes.

Is it painful to listen to?  Yes.

Jagger to the LA Times: “That’s the essence of some of those Chess songs,” he added. “You can make counter-arguments — that Hubert Sumlin jumps out of some of those Howlin’ Wolf records. But on a lot of them you can’t discern who’s playing what or what kind of instrument it is until you really listen.

“My thinking on the mixing of it was to re-create some of those things,” he said. “You’re hearing the sound of a band; sometimes you can’t figure out if it’s Keith or Ron who’s playing the solo, or who’s playing the rhythm part. It’s not a wide stereo — it’s a very narrow stereo, and with the amount of distortion it sounds like this one ball of fire.”

Maybe a bit too much of a good thing.  See illustration below:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/08/24/world/europe/24christ-span/24christ-span-jumbo.jpg


"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." -- Revelation 22:19

andrews27 wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2016 at 7:28am:

The trade off is they wanted something sounded over driven and saturated such as the old blues albums often had. Second .. having it textured and with all the dynamics is great ... but for a blues album .. IT would get a little slow .. a little long .. a tad drawn out. Yes, but: First, though recorded on tape in a great room, the mix and digital conversion make it sound exactly like what young people have been listening to since the 1990s - strained-sounding, brickwalled, over-loud noise.  The sound is passable on the slow songs, because there's more studio air between the instruments.  But the fast songs are more headache-y than anything Butch Vig ever invented for post-Punk torture purposes.  The sound they got on Some Girls would have sufficed. Second, I agree that one wouldn't want a blues cover album to sound too precious (and I'm grateful that the dubbed sound of a phono stylus running out its groove isn't heard).  However, you can find tons of great blues albums - made on the cheap in the 1950s and 1960s by engineers and producers with no care for the artists or product - that sound less fatiguing and more inviting. And, as I pointed out in my first point, the fact that the sound is fatiguing makes the 12 songs - one over five minutes long, and too much covered in Rock - seem "drawn out," even at under 43 minutes' total time. Last, the vocals-and-harmonica-on-top mix is overdone and deleterious on "I Gotta Go" - allegedly featuring Eric Clapton, but who knows, because the guitars are so subdued in the mix that Jagger might as well be backed by only bass and percussion.  Compare this to any Muddy Waters or early Stones blues - the competing versions of "I Just Want to Make Love to You" will do - and you can see that aiming for the dynamics of a cheapie blues record is to aim lower than Muddy, and to make the guitars vanish as they never did on a Chess album, or on any Stones record.  Don Was is nuts for letting them put this mix out.  Were the engineers smarter at Regent Sound Studios, 1964? Speaking of white boys, and white producers, the first two J. Geils Band records were recorded better, without any noticable overthinking, and they still came off like records in the blues tradition.  In the case of this "one-take" Blue and Lonesome, all the overthinking went into attempting analog authenticity within the digital aesthetic. Is Blue and Lonesome a good record?  Yes. Is it painful to listen to?  Yes. Jagger to the LA Times: “That’s the essence of some of those Chess songs,” he added. “You can make counter-arguments — that Hubert Sumlin jumps out of some of those Howlin’ Wolf records. But on a lot of them you can’t discern who’s playing what or what kind of instrument it is until you really listen. “My thinking on the mixing of it was to re-create some of those things,” he said. “You’re hearing the sound of a band; sometimes you can’t figure out if it’s Keith or Ron who’s playing the solo, or who’s playing the rhythm part. It’s not a wide stereo — it’s a very narrow stereo, and with the amount of distortion it sounds like this one ball of fire.” Maybe a bit too much of a good thing.  See illustration below: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/08/24/world/europe/24christ-span/24christ-span-jumbo.jpg "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." -- Revelation 22:19

Totally agree. The song selection is good, Mick Jagger is fucking awesone on every track, but the album as a whole is not a pleasant listening experience.

It sounds too loud, too distorted and lacks dynamics. Also, IMO Mick's vocals have too much reverb on it. Never really liked reverb in excess.

This could've been much better with the right production.

Anyway, I'm glad we got a new album, even though it's a cover record.

Hundreds of fans on queue yesterday in London to get the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ao4qrvNt_0

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ITS FUCKIN PHENOMENAL.

So far, I've played it straight through once and listened to select songs a couple of times. I think it's a solid record. It's worth a few more listens, for sure.

My verdict? Guilty................Of being hot and smoking!  :keithpunky :booze :willya :wtf1

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 3:50pm:

The Rolling Stones' new blues album is an amplified death wheeze. And it rules http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-rolling-stones-blue-and-lonesome-review-20161202-story.html

" On guitars, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood deconstruct familiar riffs, breaking them down into jagged shards, as in a snarling rendition of “All of Your Love,” originally recorded by Magic Sam, and Lightnin’ Slim’s “Hoo Doo Blues,” in which one of them slashes at a single note for most of the song.

This isn’t a guitar-hero record with complicated, athletic soloing meant to showcase hard-won technique. Which isn’t to say the playing is unimpressive; it’s often amazing.  "




" Stones is Stones Baby !!!!!!   ...... Bigger than ALL of us !!!!  "




" Best Stones YET , Ronnie !!!!!  "


'kins ® ™ ©

Heard it after much anticipation tuesday night; found it streaming and played it twice fully through with selected tracks on a thurd go round. Loved it; reading reviews and comments on iorr - first night with a new Stones album, memorable and magic.

Am on a 7th or 8th listen and I feel it simply gets better. I have to say  Ronnie is amazing, Keith gets in some great licks but it seems to be Ronnie laying down the sweetest of blues riffs and licks. Jagger is wonderful as so many reviews have testified to; vocals and harmonica utterly terrific.

It is the slower tunes on which the real Stones magic seems to shine the brightest - Let it Rain, Hoodoo Blues,  All my Love and the fantastic title track are superb.

Mick and Keith on CBS This Morning talking about Blue And Lonesome.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/rolling-stones-return-to-their-roots/

Massive UK sales after only 3 days (Friday/Sunday)

1 Rolling Stones - Blue and Lonesome (65.6k)
2 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Together (27.1k)
3 Elvis Presley - The Wonder of You (23.5k)
4 Little Mix - Glory Days (22.3k)
5 Olly Murs - 24 Hrs (16k)

Their 11 UK #1 album will be in the bag next Friday

Mine FINALLY came in the mail. I'm on my 3rd listen. It keeps getting better and better.

As a guy who loves the blues BECAUSE of the Stones, it's a dream come true.



VERKLEMPT! 



Best Stones EVER?

This album has echoes of so many other great Stones periods...can't help thinking about Now! and Exile and 12x5. And Brian Jones.


Clapton's great on it too.

One thing that struck me today.

Including all their studio, live and compilation albums (but excluding the archive live releases like Leeds '82) this is only the third Stones album that was completely recorded in their home country.

The others were their debut album (both the UK and US versions) and 'Satanic Majesties'.

Even the 'Got live if you want it' live album from the '66 UK tour had some studio material recorded in the US.

Their greatest albums tend not to give you the initial, but fleeting, rush that goes away after a few listens. A Bigger Bang is the best example of the fleeting rush that then goes away and holds little interest for me today. Their best ones take a few listens to start seeping through your skin. This album is growing with each listen just like their best stuff. You discover something new every time you listen to it. I know that in 6 months or 1 year or 10 years, I will still say that this is their best album since Tattoo You. The showcasing of Mick is my favorite part of this album. All this crap about Keith being the soul of the Stones and Mick being the business mind is a load of crap but Mick supports that canard with his failure to fully embrace the fact that of all the Stones, he is the truest bluesman of all. People forget that most of the Stones blues tunes were written by Mick. It is a truly magical album but the way that albums continue to live and breathe is by being given live run outs and the chances of that happening are close to zero. The only tiny criticism I have is that as much as I love Darryl Jones, of all their albums since Voodoo Lounge, I wish Bill Wyman was on this one.


Gazza wrote on Dec 5^th, 2016 at 4:48pm:

One thing that struck me today. Including all their studio, live and compilation albums (but excluding the archive live releases like Leeds '82) this is only the third Stones album that was completely recorded in their home country. The others were their debut album (both the UK and US versions) and 'Satanic Majesties'. Even the 'Got live if you want it' live album from the '66 UK tour had some studio material recorded in the US.

I was about to mention something about how the fact that this was recorded in England gives the album some added magic Gazza. I have always said that one of the biggest stumbling blocks in Mick and Keith's writing relationship - if not the biggest - is that they have lived in different countries for over 30 years. From a selfish point of view, I wish Keith would move back for his twilight years.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Nov 28^th, 2016 at 7:12pm:

After one listening of the whole album, I say it is great but  there's something missing from the blues feeling of the covers of the late 60s and the 70s like No Expectations, Love in Vain, Shake your hips, Stop Breaking Down, You gotta move, Mannish Boy, etc or the covers of the 60s in later versions like Little Red Rooster, I Just wanna make love to you all you B&B, etc etc Wanna listen again, but will wait for my Vinyl and Super Deluxe CD

After listening to it several times, first the singles, then the files of the whole album, then the album streaming on Spotify, finally I’m gonna listen the album as intended... my babies are here!!!

http://www.rocksoff.org/headers2016/i6-blueandlonesome2.jpg

Quote:

....finally I’m gonna listen the album as intended... Voodoo Child in Wonderland

Listened twice , intended soon {wink}

Gonna give it an honest listening to this weekend..I have been traveling and working
too hard this week...

This Android will report later on...

This album needs to be listened to in its entirety.  It's been awhile since they've put out an album with no weak tracks. Nothing you have to make excuses for. Zero cringes.

One or two blues covers wouldn't have had the same impact.  This album makes me stalk around my study, throwing punches at the air and swearing.

It's very good. I especially like Blue & Lonesome, Hoo Doo Blues and Little Rain.

Good job, guys!

I've been wondering about this. I can't get it right now, obviously but I probably will in the future.

Guys, I'm here to tell ya it's gotta couple of instant classics on it.

87,000 copies sold in the UK during the first 5 days with 2 more days to go, an impressive #1 debut next Friday.
It will get the second best debut sales of year after Bowie's Blackstar.

FPM wrote on Dec 6^th, 2016 at 9:03pm:

This album makes me stalk around my study, throwing punches at the air and swearing.

It's got me hitting the bench press and putting extra gel in my hair.

This is my loose opinion. MICK's harp and voice is the solid highlight for me throughout. I love Charlie's drumming style and it sounds like he is using brushes instead of sticks which is different, and I love his song endings, ba-boom!  I like Ronnie's playing pretty good but KEEF's sound is kind of  hard to hear, it is in the background and I wish it was louder and stronger. Maybe more takes or remixes would of been better. The sound of the album is not too crisp but that is probably intentional.  I'm more of a rock chick than a blues chick but I love MICK so I'm happy overall but I cant see myself playing it when I want to party. Its the type of record you listen to when you are alone, so Blue & Lonesome is a very appropriate title. When I'm blue and low, I'll get some comfort from listening to it.  Otherwise I'll stick to the rock songs like Bitch & Rocks Off! Sorry guys but its a bit of a let down for me, but I'm glad they did it and I'm glad it is selling so well.

my copy still has not arrived!! bastards!!

I've already played this more times than ABB....Grows on you like the best Stones albums tend to. Little Rain is sublime.

The Rolling Stones' Blue & Lonesome claims UK's Number 1 on this week's Official Albums Chart with massive opening week sales

Congratulations to The Rolling Stones, who claim this week’s Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with their latest album Blue & Lonesome – their first new studio album to hit the top spot in more than 20 years.

The iconic band’s first studio record in more than a decade shifted a massive 106,000 combined sales to claim the top spot – the second-highest opening sales week for an album this year, behind David Bowie’s Blackstar, which logged 146,000 sales in its first week back in January.

The Rolling Stones commented: “We are absolutely delighted with the success of Blue & Lonesome in the UK and around the world.”

99% of Blue & Lonesome's sales were either physical purchases or downloads, with 1% attributed to streams. In terms of digital vs. physical sales, physical accounted for 95,000 of it's overall total.

The record, which is also certified gold today by the BPI, is The Rolling Stones’ 12th Official UK Number 1 album. Their last new studio collection to reach the summit was Voodoo Lounge in 1994, though a re-release of their 1972 album Exile On Main St also reached Number 1 in 2010.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-rolling-stones-blue-lonesome-claims-number-1-on-this-weeks-official-albums-chart-with-massive-opening-week-sales__17442/

Truly there is hope for civilisation yet when a bunch of septuagenarians get to number 1 in the UK with an album of songs that are as old as they are

Up yours, Simon Cowell!

"Ride 'em on down" tops the UK vinyl singles chart, too

http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/vinyl-singles-chart/

What fucking year is this? 1964??

Gazza wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 2:06pm:

"Ride 'em on down" tops the UK vinyl singles chart, too http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/vinyl-singles-chart/ What fucking year is this? 1964??

https://youtu.be/MgTSfJEf_jM

Ah, but that was a ROCK version of a blues song (and a classic version too)

But THIS remains the only ever blues single to top the UK charts - in fact, probably ANY singles chart anywhere in the world....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfJVeHKVcE8

Blue and Lonesome is out of this world. I'm listening to it daily, multiple times.

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 7:49pm:

Blue and Lonesome is out of this world. I'm listening to it daily, multiple times.

yes, it is fun.

Commit A Crime is on a endless loop in my head.

The record is epic.

You would think anyone with the success of the album on the charts would take advantage of it, push it, and play some gigs that no one would expect. Throw in a few shows at the Albert Hall with 1-2 special guests, another trip back to the Paradiso, something at Buddy Guy's, have Jerry Portnoy or Charlie Musslewhite join them, the possibilities are endless . . . the chances are zero.

Just be happy there's a new album. And it's not like Mick doesn't have a newborn or anything.

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 10^th, 2016 at 8:02am:

Just be happy there's a new album. And it's not like Mick doesn't have a newborn or anything.

That's my point. They really should take advantage of the momentum but they have a recent track record of not doing so. If you don't give new songs live run outs, the momentum ceases and the momentum dies.

Good point on the baby though.

Japanese SHM CD available today on D****oid in lossless Flac.  Hopefully a sonic improvement.  That's not impossible, given the state of western CD mastering.  On the basis of other SHM discs, recommended to buyers.

UPDATE: Japanese SHM CD is not brickwalled.

Andrews, what kind of audio system do you have?

The vinyl and CD sound great on my mainly analog rig.

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 10^th, 2016 at 6:39pm:

Andrews, what kind of audio system do you have? The vinyl and CD sound great on my mainly analog rig.

Since you ask, I own the top of the line Adcom analog pre-amp, power amp, and tuner from c. 1997 (555 series), which have held up very well and have good, colorless sound, unless I choose to use the tone controls, like on bootlegs.  I have the top Music Hall CD player from about five years ago.  I use a VPI Scout turntable with an Audio-Technica LC-155 moving magnet cartridge, vintage 1989 but still a 20 to 20khz contender, with all the money I invested in buying up new-old-stock styli.  (I will never go to moving coil in cartridges.)  All patched together with Audioquest Diamondback cable, plus Audioquest speaker cable that I don't feel like checking the name of tonight.  My speakers are DeVore Fidelity 0/93 Orangutans, my most recent and most expensive investment.

I am not completely up to date, and I don't want to be.  But compared to most, I am the hoochie-coochie man, so don't you mess with me.  I got seven hundred dollahs!

When I say that Blue & Lonesome sounds like shit on the brickwalled US CD, and sounds less constrained and more listenable on the non-brickwalled Japanese SHM CD, made of superior polycarbonate, and mastered by engineers who have proved on past re-releases (Bowie, post-ABKCO Stones, Elton John, especially Stevie Wonder compared to those trash Motown CDs) to produce a superior transfer than western models, you bes' nevah doubt!

I'm here ta school y'alls - buy it on SHM CD.  Buy everything you can on SHM CD.  Download some and hear the difference.  Go to D****oid and grab that SHM Blue & Lonesome for comparison.  I hope I live long enough to hear the ABKCO Stones catalog upgraded to SHM CD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_High_Material_CD

Not a bad audio system.

CD Japan has been on my radar for some time now for the SHM CD versions of things but I haven't pulled the trigger for one reason or another. Crosseyed Heart is available as well as Blue and Lonesome on that format, so I may have to do it.

Seriously - go get the Blue & Lonesome SHM that's on D****oid, burn it to CD-R, and A-B it with the US CD.  When I load both rips into Winamp on my computer, I can see on the display meter that the SHM is not brickwalled, while the US is brickwalled and loud to the max, which is bad medicine for this record.

I can't afford everything.  All my SHM's are rips posted on the internet - and I'm thankful to get stuff of superior quality however I can.  Though I have Emotional Rescue on the original 1980s vinyl, I ran across the Virgin CD remaster at a public library, and checked it out to play in my car.  It played well at home, so I burned a copy to CD-R and enjoyed it a few times, congratulating Virgin on getting one Stones CD right.  Then a couple of months later I saw the SHM disc on the net and grabbed it.  It was obvious even on the computer speakers that this was the superior version, and on the "big stereo" rig I could hear distortion on the brickwalled Virgin CD that hadn't bothered me until I heard the SHM.  (Like I said, this was one of the better Virgin CDs, so slack was cut at the time.)

It isn't just that the SHM CDs are made of better material.  In Japan, they've built up an audiophile culture since the 1970s that goes from top to bottom of the buying chain, and Japanese engineers aren't preoccupied with only delivering volume.  They remix and master to CD more faithfully to the sound of the original vinyl recording.  I think it's because the Japanese actually care about their work, care about fidelity to the originals, and maybe despise the sound of western CD mastering.  I don't blame them. 

If you own it all (or almost all) on vinyl, it's great to have digital remasters that sound like the analog originals and don't suck.  SHMs are more bankable than expensive Mobile Fidelity remasters on "gold" CDs, because Mo-Fi's trademark is to up the bass and treble while suppressing the midrange, which is just a more tasteful American infidelity. 

I have no idea why western record companies disrespect their customers so - it's now gone beyond the need to cater to younger listeners discovering the back catalog, and into a darker sort of cynicism.  To boot, they created that whole culture of noise by pushing brickwalled CDs and lossy .mp3 sound on the masses, selling AM radio-quality sound to a new generation, through tiny, portable radio-quality earphones.  And if you want an upgrade, you can buy a pair of Beats (the Mo-Fi of headphones) and go deaf listening to bad mastering.

I've downloaded a lot, and all the bad CDs I paid for is the reason for it.  I think that's the rationale for a lot of people: why pay for shit product when you can get it - or something better - for free?  Wait, somebody's at the door....

P.S. - Crosseyed Heart is actually mastered acceptably on US CD, though I could always be surprised by an SHM upgrade.  If Blue & Lonesome sounded as good, we'd have been blessed.  The poster on this thread who said we should just wait a year for the remaster really nailed the culture.

P.P.S. - Google up the Analog Planet website.  It'll give you a history of the misdeeds of digital mastering, mostly on vinyl but with many references to CD mastering and remastering.

andrews27 wrote on Dec 11^th, 2016 at 11:00am:

Seriously - go get the Blue & Lonesome SHM that's on D****oid, burn it to CD-R, and A-B it with the US CD.  When I load both rips into Winamp on my computer, I can see on the display meter that the SHM is not brickwalled, while the US is brickwalled and loud to the max, which is bad medicine for this record. I can't afford everything.  All my SHM's are rips posted on the internet - and I'm thankful to get stuff of superior quality however I can.  Though I have Emotional Rescue on the original 1980s vinyl, I ran across the Virgin CD remaster at a public library, and checked it out to play in my car.  It played well at home, so I burned a copy to CD-R and enjoyed it a few times, congratulating Virgin on getting one Stones CD right.  Then a couple of months later I saw the SHM disc on the net and grabbed it.  It was obvious even on the computer speakers that this was the superior version, and on the "big stereo" rig I could hear distortion on the brickwalled Virgin CD that hadn't bothered me until I heard the SHM.  (Like I said, this was one of the better Virgin CDs, so slack was cut at the time.) It isn't just that the SHM CDs are made of better material.  In Japan, they've built up an audiophile culture since the 1970s that goes from top to bottom of the buying chain, and Japanese engineers aren't preoccupied with only delivering volume.  They remix and master to CD more faithfully to the sound of the original vinyl recording.  I think it's because the Japanese actually care about their work, care about fidelity to the originals, and maybe despise the sound of western CD mastering.  I don't blame them.  If you own it all (or almost all) on vinyl, it's great to have digital remasters that sound like the analog originals and don't suck.  SHMs are more bankable than expensive Mobile Fidelity remasters on "gold" CDs, because Mo-Fi's trademark is to up the bass and treble while suppressing the midrange, which is just a more tasteful American infidelity.  I have no idea why western record companies disrespect their customers so - it's now gone beyond the need to cater to younger listeners discovering the back catalog, and into a darker sort of cynicism.  To boot, they created that whole culture of noise by pushing brickwalled CDs and lossy .mp3 sound on the masses, selling AM radio-quality sound to a new generation, through tiny, portable radio-quality earphones.  And if you want an upgrade, you can buy a pair of Beats (the Mo-Fi of headphones) and go deaf listening to bad mastering. I've downloaded a lot, and all the bad CDs I paid for is the reason for it.  I think that's the rationale for a lot of people: why pay for shit product when you can get it - or something better - for free?  Wait, somebody's at the door.... P.S. - Crosseyed Heart is actually mastered acceptably on US CD, though I could always be surprised by an SHM upgrade.  If Blue & Lonesome sounded as good, we'd have been blessed.  The poster on this thread who said we should just wait a year for the remaster really nailed the culture. P.P.S. - Google up the Analog Planet website.  It'll give you a history of the misdeeds of digital mastering, mostly on vinyl but with many references to CD mastering and remastering.

Has anyone heard the high resolution download from hd tracks or Qobuz & compared it to the normal cd?

Tom wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 3:27pm:

About the original question I read somewhere that intentionally they used old equipment to record and give the album the sound of the 50s

I didnt read that...but I am not sure that is true...from everything I read, all this came up rather suddenly...

They all just got into a groove and finished it in 3 days....Clapton just happened to be there...there may have been some older equipment from Knoflers stuff ( it was his studio, right?) but I do not think they went the route of getting old mics and amps, and guitar and strings, etc...It sounds like an impromptu jam session (that lasted 3 days, LOL)

Over all, I like the album...to be honest...I am not the biggest blues fan ( which surprises me, since I managed and tended bar in a DC blues club for over 10 years, but I was in it for the chics)...I love when the band plays 1 or 2 blues songs in a show or on an album, but to listen to an entire album ( by anyone) is hard for me.

As I listen to all the songs ( 2 or 3 at a time) I enjoy them...some more than others...
I think this is a really great piece of musicianship on everyone's part. I wish the album cover was better though...would loved to have seen the band dressed up like old blues musicians or assume some sort of old timey characters, like on BB

If they retired from recording tomorrow, it would be a great swan song....almost a full circle. So glad Bigger Bang was not the last album released...

Billboard:

"The Rolling Stones rock at No. 4 with its new blues covers album, Blue & Lonesome, which debuts with 123,000 units (120,000 in traditional album sales). The set -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s record-extending 37th top 10 effort. (No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart.) It’s the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)"

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7617662/the-hamilton-mixtape-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart

The Rolling Stones Earn Record-Extending 37th Top 10 Album on Billboard 200 Chart

The Rolling Stones notch their record-extending 37th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the band’s new set, Blue & Lonesome, debuts at No. 4.

The blues covers effort starts with 123,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 120,000 were traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 24-dated chart (where Blue & Lonesome bows at No. 4) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

Blue & Lonesome -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s 37th top 10 effort. No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart. In second place on the all-time tally is Barbra Streisand, with 34.

Blue & Lonesome is the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)

Blue & Lonesome’s first-week launch of 123,000 is particularly robust for a few reasons. First, it’s a covers set, which sometimes draw less fanfare than albums of wholly new material. Plus, it comes over a decade after A Bigger Bang, so it proves there is still an audience for new music by the Stones. Further, as album sales in the U.S. fell 61 percent between 2005 and 2015, it makes the Stones’ start even more solid -- Blue & Lonesome’s sales bow is just 6,000 copies fewer than the launch of A Bigger Bang over 10 years ago.

Of course, it’s not as if the Stones have been off the radar for the past decade on vacation. The band has reissued a number of albums in expansive deluxe sets (including Exile on Main St., Some Girls and Sticky Fingers), toured the world a few times, and released live albums and greatest hits compilations.

First debuts so far:

#1
UK (106,000)
Germany (+100,000)
Sweden
Netherlands (+50,000)
Belgium (Flanders)
Belgium (Wallonia)
Norway
Australia (18,370)
Argentina

#2
France (52,000)
New Zealand

#3
Japan (22,427)

#4
USA (123,000)
Italy
Ireland

I have been out of town till late last night and today I am giving it its first solid listens; it is Fucking Awesome!  At several points Mick's singing had my arm hair standing straight up (sorry, not my Hog Joey!)

Road trip today for business!! Gonna play it proud and loud!

I spent some quality time with this cd today. It is what the boys and girls on the plains of Nebraska with bats and balls call doing your best Jagger!

Some Guy wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 3:40pm:

It is what the boys and girls on the plains of Nebraska with bats and balls call doing your best Jagger!

https://youtu.be/Up8siWU92yI

Gazza wrote on Dec 5^th, 2016 at 4:48pm:

One thing that struck me today. Including all their studio, live and compilation albums (but excluding the archive live releases like Leeds '82) this is only the third Stones album that was completely recorded in their home country. The others were their debut album (both the UK and US versions) and 'Satanic Majesties'. Even the 'Got live if you want it' live album from the '66 UK tour had some studio material recorded in the US.

__________________________

Their parts were recorded in London but Chuck Levells parts were recorded in New Orleans in April.

Now about the record .. I am grateful to great friends for giving me a sneak peak.

On one final note.. you seem actually most satisfied... even surprisingly satisfied ... quite enthused with the new album ..

>> If you are satisfied.. now so am I! Rock On, Gazz!!

Best Stones record since Dirty Work, in Perks opinion

BILL PERKS wrote on Dec 14^th, 2016 at 9:34pm:

Best Stones record since Dirty Work, in Perks opinion

LIGHTEN UP PERKS.

Santa promised me I was getting Blue & Lonesome under the tree!
I can't wait, it's like 1963 all over again.
I Love this place!

B&L is down to #2 in the UK with 69,911 copies sold, with 175,741 copies total after 2 weeks is already Top 30 on the Year To Date.
This must be their fastest selling studio album ever there, I can't think in any studio album selling so fast in Britain.

It blows doors where there are none.

finally got a copy of this delivered and spun it. wow. this record is the one we have been waiting forever for. the boys deliver.pour another round!!

Perks even approves of Chuck Leavell's piano.

The end of this cracking interview led back to the blues...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0gEK9Gk-Ss

But I'm up for a lovely Stoonz ballad at the mo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwCJl4rJb90

The album is in daily rotation here...multiple times a day.

I'm starting to feel that they went into the studio and their focus was this album and NOT a batch of originals.

I can't get over how good they sound, Stonesey to the max. All of your love is just too cool.

Just got notification that my copy was mailed Friday from Milwaukee.

Guess I might see it sometime after the new year.  :nooslajaleisk

Guys, we have no idea what we truly have here yet.

I like it but, I thought I would hate it. Jagger's harp playing is fucking quality, the fucking business. I was blown away. I thought; Oh! no this will suck as I picked my copy up. But I get home and WOW! It blew me away. I'm not a Stones sychophant, so I don't usually rave about anything since Undercover, this really is quality.

I put it on the boom box while shooting baskets with my African American friends. One of them commented dem niggas good.

Some Guy wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2016 at 4:58pm:

I put it on the boom box while shooting baskets with my African American friends. One of them commented dem niggas good.

Some Guy ?

http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/us-blues/Content?oid=3067650

Some Guy wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2016 at 4:58pm:

I put it on the boom box while shooting baskets with my African American friends. One of them commented dem niggas good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgJ2CaTfaxU

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2016 at 5:05pm:

Some Guy wrote on Dec 22nd, 2016 at 4:58pm: I put it on the boom box while shooting baskets with my African American friends. One of them commented dem niggas good. Some Guy ? http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/us-blues/Content?oid=3067650

I do a serious white man's overbite on air guitar with this disc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivL3ZZDlkWY

gypsymofo60 wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 5:00pm:

I like it but, I thought I would hate it. Jagger's harp playing is fucking quality, the fucking business. I was blown away. I thought; Oh! no this will suck as I picked my copy up. But I get home and WOW! It blew me away. I'm not a Stones sychophant, so I don't usually rave about anything since Undercover, this really is quality.

Oh, now I've got to get that soon. I love Mick's harp playing! I only wish he played in more songs.

Blue & Lonesome is #4 in the UK this week, selling 57,483 copies.
In only 3 weeks, the album has sold 233,224 copies in Britain and ranks #17 on the year to date chart, with 9 more days of sales to go in 2016, an impressive performance.

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2016 at 8:59am:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivL3ZZDlkWY

SW, I loved this !Thanks for bringin it back !

play, rinse, repeat.

Gang, I fear this album is so good they won't dare release an album of new material.

1,2 million copies sold worldwide after 3 weeks according to Universal.

Gazza wrote on Dec 5^th, 2016 at 4:48pm:

One thing that struck me today. Including all their studio, live and compilation albums (but excluding the archive live releases like Leeds '82) this is only the third Stones album that was completely recorded in their home country. The others were their debut album (both the UK and US versions) and 'Satanic Majesties'. Even the 'Got live if you want it' live album from the '66 UK tour had some studio material recorded in the US.

Wasn't 'Beggars Banquet' completely recorded at Olympic?

More importantly, G - what do you think of the new album?

I just got it yesterday, played it about five times, I'm loving it. I've got a couple questions for you if you see this post, mate...

Soldatti wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:47pm:

1,2 million copies sold worldwide after 3 weeks according to Universal.

does jb know about this?

I prefer this version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKslAfxVR4U

I'm digging the Stones doing it. Robert Plant sometimes gets on my nerves, whereas Mick never does.

Listening to Everybody Knows About My Good Thing. Those guitars. Oh those guitars. Hard to believe that's Ronnie and Keith. But , wow.  :keithpunky :keithpunky :willya :willya

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jan 4^th, 2017 at 8:00pm:

Listening to Everybody Knows About My Good Thing. Those guitars. Oh those guitars. Hard to believe that's Ronnie and Keith. But , wow.  :keithpunky :keithpunky :willya :willya

with a bit of help from Clapton..

gimmekeef wrote on Jan 6^th, 2017 at 11:43pm:

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jan 4th, 2017 at 8:00pm: Listening to Everybody Knows About My Good Thing. Those guitars. Oh those guitars. Hard to believe that's Ronnie and Keith. But , wow.  :keithpunky :keithpunky :willya :willya with a bit of help from Clapton..

Ahh, didn't know he was on that one. That explains a lot. :wtf1 :keithpunky :willya

Best album for traffic ever!

All Yo' Lo' is / remains especially lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fSp6D9NFRw

After 2 months the album has sold close to 1.7 million copies worldwide, about 300.000 in the US, over 200.000 in Germany, 180.000 in France and TODAY it was certified PLATINUM in the UK for sales over 300.000 (it has sold 302,000 copies so far there and it's #14 this week)

https://twitter.com/bpi_music/status/827541156494004226

Played it today in the car. Doesn't everyone?

I listen to it daily, and most days at least twice.

played it for a group of friends during a get together beer etc. By song 12 one of the dudes was doing his best Jagger.

I Like it Too

Spun it on vinyl and cd this weekend. Can't get enough of it.

Road Trip!!! 8-)

Is anyone playing it this weekend? Thoughts? Impressions?

Steel Wheels wrote on Mar 4^th, 2017 at 6:51pm:

Is anyone playing it this weekend? Thoughts? Impressions?

Brickwalled CD version still sucks and blows compared to dynamic Japanese SHM-CD.  Technology aside, a great record.  But what listener can triumph over technology?

Since you asked, I'm going to interrupt reggae night and play it RIGHT NOW.

Update: One of the problems of this recording on a high-fidelity system is that I can't play it as loud as I'd like to, for fear of tweeter blow-out.  Even the SHM version.  They made this for the "portable pic-nic players" of A Clockwork Orange.  Uncanny Bastrads!  Finance my hi-fi if you want kudos.





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something always happens when i put on this record. lights flicker, ice cubes......developing

mojoman wrote on Mar 4^th, 2017 at 10:02pm:

something always happens when i put on this record. lights flicker, ice cubes......developing

The most troublesome great record ever.  Outstrips the period complaints about Exile by miles and eons.  One needs Indiana Jones to obtain satisfaction in the artefact here - and he just landed on the wrong runway and has no time for contemporary recherche pleasures.  If it wasn't so good, we could hang all this controversy.

I spun it on vinyl today...first record on my turntable since the mono amps got recapped. Mick sounds like a black blues singer. The harmonica steals the show whenever he plays it. Darryl's bass lines are heavy on the groove...very enjoyable.

Still smokin'

I've been listening to it quite a bit since I bought mine. Commit A Crime, Blue And Lonesome, Hoo Doo Blues, and Little Rain are my favorites but I truly like all of them. I have very, very seldom said that about any album. The singing, the musicianship, the overall performance of the songs, all are absolutely excellent. And something else rarely said about modern blues albums -- truly authentic.

That Blue and Lonesome has hit so big proves something I've been saying for years: people love blues! They just don't know the blues. No matter what type of music is ruling the charts at the moment, you get people together, play blues and they will love it. I wonder how many people rocking to this album realize that these songs are old even to the Stones themselves?

The best song on the album. Trust me I have been putting the time in seclusion with this disc. This song is really fucking good.

https://youtu.be/Rqyb_pceUsY

;DJust Like I Treat You is positively epic. Sounds like it's from 1964. Cant play this track enough. Not a bad song on the record.

A great way to end their recording career.
I have little hope for a good new studio recording.

andrews27 wrote on Mar 4^th, 2017 at 9:37pm:

Steel Wheels wrote on Mar 4th, 2017 at 6:51pm: Is anyone playing it this weekend? Thoughts? Impressions? Brickwalled CD version still sucks and blows compared to dynamic Japanese SHM-CD.  Technology aside, a great record.  But what listener can triumph over technology? Since you asked, I'm going to interrupt reggae night and play it RIGHT NOW. Update: One of the problems of this recording on a high-fidelity system is that I can't play it as loud as I'd like to, for fear of tweeter blow-out.  Even the SHM version.  They made this for the "portable pic-nic players" of A Clockwork Orange.  Uncanny Bastrads!  Finance my hi-fi if you want kudos. '

I just ordered the Japanese SHM....Hoping it is far superior to the Amazon download I have......

gimmekeef wrote on Mar 19^th, 2017 at 1:15pm:

andrews27 wrote on Mar 4th, 2017 at 9:37pm: Steel Wheels wrote on Mar 4th, 2017 at 6:51pm: Is anyone playing it this weekend? Thoughts? Impressions? Brickwalled CD version still sucks and blows compared to dynamic Japanese SHM-CD.  Technology aside, a great record.  But what listener can triumph over technology? Since you asked, I'm going to interrupt reggae night and play it RIGHT NOW. Update: One of the problems of this recording on a high-fidelity system is that I can't play it as loud as I'd like to, for fear of tweeter blow-out.  Even the SHM version.  They made this for the "portable pic-nic players" of A Clockwork Orange.  Uncanny Bastrads!  Finance my hi-fi if you want kudos. ' I just ordered the Japanese SHM....Hoping it is far superior to the Amazon download I have......

please post when you hear it

I'm fixin' to start a Little Rain appreciation thread up in here.

Some Guy wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2017 at 3:18pm:

I'm fixin' to start a Little Rain appreciation thread up in here.

I'm all in..my fave!....my Japanese CD has shipped and should arrive next week....looking forward to hearing a great upgrade (fingers crossed)

mojoman wrote on Mar 19^th, 2017 at 5:19pm:

gimmekeef wrote on Mar 19th, 2017 at 1:15pm: andrews27 wrote on Mar 4th, 2017 at 9:37pm: Steel Wheels wrote on Mar 4th, 2017 at 6:51pm: Is anyone playing it this weekend? Thoughts? Impressions? Brickwalled CD version still sucks and blows compared to dynamic Japanese SHM-CD.  Technology aside, a great record.  But what listener can triumph over technology? Since you asked, I'm going to interrupt reggae night and play it RIGHT NOW. Update: One of the problems of this recording on a high-fidelity system is that I can't play it as loud as I'd like to, for fear of tweeter blow-out.  Even the SHM version.  They made this for the "portable pic-nic players" of A Clockwork Orange.  Uncanny Bastrads!  Finance my hi-fi if you want kudos. ' I just ordered the Japanese SHM....Hoping it is far superior to the Amazon download I have...... please post when you hear it

Very nice upgrade with much fuller sound ...highly recommend the extra $$ for this Japanese hi-fidelity version

pm me an addy.

Some Guy wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 2:56pm:

pm me an addy.

just pm me your address I will mail you a copy......I'm going to rip it tomorrow and highest flac level I can....I'm interested to see how large each song file is verus mp3 etc and even flac

gimmekeef wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 1:41pm:

mojoman wrote on Mar 19th, 2017 at 5:19pm: gimmekeef wrote on Mar 19th, 2017 at 1:15pm: andrews27 wrote on Mar 4th, 2017 at 9:37pm: Steel Wheels wrote on Mar 4th, 2017 at 6:51pm: Is anyone playing it this weekend? Thoughts? Impressions? Brickwalled CD version still sucks and blows compared to dynamic Japanese SHM-CD.  Technology aside, a great record.  But what listener can triumph over technology? Since you asked, I'm going to interrupt reggae night and play it RIGHT NOW. Update: One of the problems of this recording on a high-fidelity system is that I can't play it as loud as I'd like to, for fear of tweeter blow-out.  Even the SHM version.  They made this for the "portable pic-nic players" of A Clockwork Orange.  Uncanny Bastrads!  Finance my hi-fi if you want kudos. ' I just ordered the Japanese SHM....Hoping it is far superior to the Amazon download I have...... please post when you hear it Very nice upgrade with much fuller sound ...highly recommend the extra $$ for this Japanese hi-fidelity version

thanks Gk
i hear the sake callin

gimmekeef wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 3:52pm:

Some Guy wrote on Mar 31st, 2017 at 2:56pm: pm me an addy. just pm me your address I will mail you a copy......I'm going to rip it tomorrow and highest flac level I can....I'm interested to see how large each song file is verus mp3 etc and even flac

gk you have pm with a quickness.

Ok, I just ripped the files from the Japanese version. Last track is I Can't Quit You. The MP3 version I got from Amazon is 9.5 MB....Regular CD is 29.34 (I think?)..and the uncompressed WAV file on the Japanese CD is 52.66 MB. Quite a lot of compression on the MP3 as usual.

Playing this album again got me thinking...we've had our blues cd..how about a country covers album?

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 5^th, 2017 at 12:15pm:

Playing this album again got me thinking...we've had our blues cd..how about a country covers album?

[smiley=huh.gif] :nooslajaleisk :nomames :charlieperv

Not a bad idea after all

How about  Stones cover band...oh...NVM...LOL

Heading to the post office today.

Some Guy wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 6:20am:

Heading to the post office today.

Hang on..package on my desk..line at post office here yesterday was out the door...retry today

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 6:47am:

Some Guy wrote on Apr 7th, 2017 at 6:20am: Heading to the post office today. Hang on..package on my desk..line at post office here yesterday was out the door...retry today

packages mailed today

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 2:54pm:

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 7th, 2017 at 6:47am: Some Guy wrote on Apr 7th, 2017 at 6:20am: Heading to the post office today. Hang on..package on my desk..line at post office here yesterday was out the door...retry today packages mailed today

Fuck yes! Thank you!  :D

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 2:54pm:

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 7th, 2017 at 6:47am: Some Guy wrote on Apr 7th, 2017 at 6:20am: Heading to the post office today. Hang on..package on my desk..line at post office here yesterday was out the door...retry today packages mailed today

We love you, GK.

Gonna go by PO today with fingers crossed.

how do I track my package?

Some Guy wrote on Apr 10^th, 2017 at 6:13pm:

how do I track my package?

I knew you were like that.  :smilemick

Some Guy wrote on Apr 10^th, 2017 at 6:13pm:

how do I track my package?

That weird...2 pkgs mailed same time..one arrives a few states away..yours cross town doesn't?

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 11^th, 2017 at 11:31am:

Some Guy wrote on Apr 10th, 2017 at 6:13pm: how do I track my package? That weird...2 pkgs mailed same time..one arrives a few states away..yours cross town doesn't?

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

I hope Some Guy doesn't live in West End.

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 11^th, 2017 at 11:31am:

Some Guy wrote on Apr 10th, 2017 at 6:13pm: how do I track my package? That weird...2 pkgs mailed same time..one arrives a few states away..yours cross town doesn't?

Let me guess. He lives on the other side of the burned out freeway..........Should have it by Christmas.

The Eagle has landed.

Neighbors!!

OK time for a new album I have worn this one slap out.

Blared in traffic today 105 degrees! Why is this on page 2??
Do Stones fans still post here?

Best BBQ album ever.

Some Guy wrote on May 27^th, 2017 at 8:42am:

Best BBQ album ever.

Just got a new car that plays DVD Audio discs. Ordered Exile in that version and it arrives today for my road trip to Canada!......Loving Cup will sound so sweeeeeet

gimmekeef wrote on May 27^th, 2017 at 9:56am:

Some Guy wrote on May 27th, 2017 at 8:42am: Best BBQ album ever. Just got a new car that plays DVD Audio discs. Ordered Exile in that version and it arrives today for my road trip to Canada!......Loving Cup will sound so sweeeeeet

Gimmie 'lil drink.....Sounds like a hell of a trip GK.  :booze :keithpunky :willya

Album of The Summer.

When driving in traffic, digging through the glove box looking for it- FYI it's the blue one.

Some Guy wrote on Jul 27^th, 2017 at 10:58am:

When driving in traffic, digging through the glove box looking for it- FYI it's the blue one.

That's what map pockets are for, and who still uses maps anyway ?


http://images2.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED45/5273b78bc151f.jpeg

Article from the website Analog Planet on the new Artisan Studio vinyl remaster of Exile (vs. the 2010 digital remaster) includes reader comments on the poor mastering of the Blue and Lonesome digital versions. (Note: Artisan in LA is where Exile was originally mastered to vinyl.)

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/dont-try-cd-1-first-series

Yes!!! Finally
Submitted by Martin on Thu, 2017-10-26 04:09

This is great, someone demonstrating how good the original is pointing out how bad the reissue is.
.
The guy who remastered Exile is Stephen Marcussen of Marcussen mastering. He butchered it. No that's too kind, he barbarized one of the all time greatest rock records ever made.
Average Dynamic range of original Artisan vinyl: 13
Average Dynamic range of Marcussen remaster: 6

In addition to the dynamic compression, the Marcussen 2010 Exile remaster clips all the way through. This is a highly unpleasant effect in digital when the top and bottom of the sound wave bang up against the head and ceiling of the mastering range. Bad!

Stephen Marcussen has done this to every reissue I have heard he has done.
The Stones "Blue and Lonesome". He did the digital versions. Ron McMaster at Capitol did the vinyl.
Dynamic range of the digital versions - Marcussen: 6
Dynamic range of the vinyl version - McMaster: 9

Additionally, the Marcussen digital versions of Blue and Lonesome clip the whole way through. All of them.
 
Correction
Submitted by Martin on Thu, 2017-10-26 04:15

the average DR value of the vinyl of Blue and Lonesome is a 10.
the average DR value of the digital versions of Blue and Lonesome is 7
By which it must be said, that one track, "I gotta Go", if I remember correctly has a DR of 5.
that track, played through on Audacity, has more red (clipping) than blue (within head and ceiling room)

Read more at https://www.analogplanet.com/content/dont-try-cd-1-first-series#R4997GmZ9eVbvl1s.99

Road trip yesterday and got a chance to study it. This album is incredible! I was really shocked at it's greatness yesterday. We have no idea how good we got it.

see below-

https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.NWyi0Dm1Wp1-3Q3cQkfyjAHaFj&pid=Api

It's a GREAT record, one of the greatest party records since Love You Live.  My only complaint is that you have to get the Japanese SHM-CD mastering to hear it clearly and painlessly - and that's no small complaint when pleasure's involved.

A great car CD also, as you and I both found out.  Wish I could share your tech specs tonight, ah-hah-hah-hah.

I have my eye on the Japanese disc. I just need to hit the "buy" button.

Steel Wheels wrote on Mar 25^th, 2018 at 5:52am:

I have my eye on the Japanese disc. I just need to hit the "buy" button.

don't be a pussy.

Thanks pal!