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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Mar 28^th, 2022 at 11:47am Mick doing soundtrack work for "slow horses" TV show Mick via Twitter (with pic) "I’ve been working on a fun project with the composer Daniel Pemberton… look out for it coming soon! (april 1st on apple TV)
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: Mick doing soundtrack for "slow horses" TV show Reply #1 - Mar 28^th, 2022 at 12:45pm Someone in the music media asked me if one of the Stones members is doing some recordings with J. Balvin... is this true?
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andrews27 Rocks Off Regular Online Wake up Bowie or we all through!! Posts: 1,644 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Gender:	Re: Mick doing soundtrack for "slow horses" TV show Reply #2 - Mar 28^th, 2022 at 2:34pm Where was he all through Peaky Blinders?
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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Re: Mick doing soundtrack for "slow horses" TV show Reply #3 - Mar 28^th, 2022 at 4:08pm sample of pemberton's work: so mick has relevant experience: here's the trailer. might be partly mick's work
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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Re: Mick doing soundtrack for "slow horses" TV show Reply #4 - Mar 28^th, 2022 at 7:15pm Daily Mail re Slow Horses: "the superb opening credits song, written by Mick Jagger and Daniel Pemberton" (but that's not what we hear in the trailer. the trailer music is by Brent Daniels. it seems the opening credits music has not been released yet)
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Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show)
Reply #5 - Mar 29^th, 2022 at 7:37am

much ado from Variety about Mick's new single "Strange Game"

https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/mick-jagger-slow-horses-rolling-stones-12...

Excerpts:

Mick Jagger Talks His Theme for
Apple TV Plus Series ‘Slow Horses’

“It’s a quite popular series of books, so I knew what it was about,”
the legendary Rolling Stones singer tells Variety. “I knew the vibe
really well, so as soon as [composer Daniel Pemberton] sent the
track to me, I just dashed off a few pages of notes of what I thought
it was about. It came very, very quickly, which is always a good sign.”

Jagger’s lyrics convey something of the dilemma faced by the principals:
“Surrounded by losers, misfits and boozers / hanging by your fingernails/
you made one mistake, you got burned at the stake / you’re finished,
you’re foolish, you’ve failed…”

"...the Gary Oldman character is irreverent,” Jagger explains. “It’s also
slightly eerie, so it combines those two things. You don’t want to make it
too serious.” He didn’t see any of the series until after he’d finished the
song, which included a three-and-a-half minute version slated for release
Friday via Polydor Records / Universal Music.

Parts of the song are heard in the body of the show. And Jagger’s
signature harmonica occasionally features in Pemberton’s underscore.

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Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show)
Reply #6 - Mar 29^th, 2022 at 10:13am

rolling stone mag also is giving the single a decent push

a bit more from mick, including how the stones are supposedly not
going to do too much beyond the tour name to hype their 60th

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mick-jagger-strange-games-roll...

NME and probably others have the same story. Its kind of interesting
that all of them are using this same publicity photo, so i assume its
recent, which is technologically amazing, since its been made to
look Goddess-era (not that he's not in great shape)

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moy Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,270 Mars Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #7 - Mar 29^th, 2022 at 5:41pm Three articles using the same picture, here's another Mick Jagger on acting: ‘Jack Nicholson told me to start with a character’s sex life’ By Ryan Gilbey March 29, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/29/mick-jagger-acting-jack-nicholson-...
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Sailor Rocks Off Regular Offline You nicked my phone Posts: 371 Buenos Aires Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #8 - Mar 29^th, 2022 at 6:27pm Really looking forward to this
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andrews27 Rocks Off Regular Online Wake up Bowie or we all through!! Posts: 1,644 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #9 - Mar 29^th, 2022 at 8:23pm "You want to be adventurous — and you can be adventurous for a minute — but you can’t be adventurous for too long, because they get bored.” -- MJ Adventurous here means playing Living in a Ghost Town and Trouble's a-Coming back to back.
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Some Guy Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 16,085 Atlanta Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #10 - Mar 30^th, 2022 at 7:11am We predict it's gonna blow.
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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #11 - Mar 30^th, 2022 at 4:35pm got 13 seconds if you want it... (a bit tom-waits-ish, which for me is a good thing) https://twitter.com/mickjagger/status/1509261174159904768?s=21&t=9SMZoZfLGOFPH1T...
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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #12 - Mar 31^st, 2022 at 6:20am portrait of the artist as an old man (with heart disease right?) and america's leading health expert (whose medical advice everyone here is following right?) 13 years younger than mick,
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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #13 - Mar 31^st, 2022 at 7:39am one minute 14 seconds of it first impression: i think its very good, but i also think his voice on the verses is mixed too loud. the oooh-ooohs are mixed just right, spooky and atmospheric https://music.apple.com/nz/album/strange-game-from-the-atv-original-series-slow-...
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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #14 - Mar 31^st, 2022 at 8:05am thankfully the official mix is way better than the preview here it is (hope it plays in your time zone, just turned midnite here)
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Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show)
Reply #15 - Mar 31^st, 2022 at 9:02am

its great. musically just the right amount of different

and its not just a TV theme, he's incorporated social commentary

surrounded by losers, misfits and boozers
hanging by your fingernails
you made one mistake, you got burned at the stake
youre finished, youre foolish, you failed

there's always a hope on the slippery slope
somewhere a ghost of a chance
to get back in the game and burn up your shame
and dance with the big boys again

ooooh ooooh ooooh

its a strange strange game
such a shame shame shame
you got to carry the flame
youre out on limb and youre trying to get in
its a strange game

you piled up the coccyx(?*), exhausted your sources
living right under a cloud
the odds are against you, the gods havent blessed you
you better get back on the rails

drill down on the data, keep pushing the papers
the (deaths debts depths ?) dripping down on the walls
its a million to one there's a place in the sun
to dance with the big boys again

oooh oooh oooh
you dont even know my real name
its a strange game

*very unsure of this word, but "piles" and
lower back pain are often concurrent stress symptoms, the
hemorrhoids causing the muscles around the coccyx to put
the disks under pressure. At least thats what the internet tells me.
(i am going to be so wrong about this word. it is going to be
something much less convoluted. i'm embarrassed already)

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andrews27 Rocks Off Regular Online Wake up Bowie or we all through!! Posts: 1,644 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #16 - Mar 31^st, 2022 at 9:13am Reminiscent of David Bowie selling the not-yet-released track Blackstar as the opening number for a British series called The Last Panthers a few years ago. Not a bad show, either.
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Rev 20 Redlights Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,004	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #17 - Apr 1^st, 2022 at 3:14am Yep, its "corpses". kinda obvious and its "damp's" dripping down the wall. also obvious. good lyric vid
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #18 - Apr 1^st, 2022 at 7:52am
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Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show)
Reply #19 - Apr 1^st, 2022 at 12:52pm

I don't know why but it's been a long time since Mick's vocals have had mystery to them in terms of the mix and how they are recorded. It's just so clear and digital sounding that it takes good songs and makes them average. This is sort of the same. The mixes of his vocals used to be so interesting and left room to imagine.

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Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show)
Reply #20 - Apr 1^st, 2022 at 12:54pm

I watched the first half hour. I can't imagine how bored I would
have to be to watch any more. One nice 15-second snippet of
Mick's harmonica is not adequate compensation for being
suffocated by tedious cliched nonsense.

Mick said he didnt watch any of the show before doing the song.
And i bet he hasnt watched any of it since either.

Here's the storyline: Jagger got paid to make an advertisement for a
crap TV show and, ever the pro, he did an outstanding job on the jingle.
The End.

(Anyone else suddenly crave some Rice Krispies?)

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Some Guy Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 16,085 Atlanta Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #21 - Apr 1^st, 2022 at 2:20pm Haunting.... like a late night taco bell run.
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andrews27 Rocks Off Regular Online Wake up Bowie or we all through!! Posts: 1,644 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Gender:	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #22 - Apr 1^st, 2022 at 11:36pm Some Guy wrote on Apr 1^st, 2022 at 2:20pm: .... like a late night taco bell run. Oh, ick! Not enough Kush in the world for that.
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The Wick Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 1,066	Re: Mick single "Strange Game" April 1st (from "Slow Horses" TV show) Reply #24 - Apr 3^rd, 2022 at 11:21pm No Stones talk on here, but a short interview with Mick about the new song:
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