Ian Billen wrote on Oct 16
th, 2023 at 10:30pm:
ronnie-woody wrote on Oct 16
th, 2023 at 1:24am:
Ian Billen wrote on Oct 15
th, 2023 at 8:18pm:
Gazza wrote on Oct 15
th, 2023 at 6:20pm:
Must be a Tuesday release. Its now Monday in the UK and its not on spotify yet
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It is early .. but why did they ruin a good song with such a light and silly chorus.
Bless...I hate the chorus, the lyrics in general tbh, it's such stupid pop-radio crap, I wish Keith would have gotten his will and they had picked another song instead, this is literally the only song I just cannot get myself to listen to cause it annoys me so much that I know I will skip it...sad...could have been an album on which every song was great but then they had to bring on that one
but I guess you can't always get ehat you want and all the other songs are really so amazing, I cried and had goosebumps while listening and it all made me so emotional I couldn't sleep...
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I hear ya mate. They could have did better than that you'd think. It got a sweet verse .. yet The Chorus is just so weak / stupid .. especially since it has The Rolling Stones name on it. I am surprised Keith gave in to that one. He is getting soft in his age against Mick's wishes I've noticed and this is another prime example.
Perhaps he simply went with the program because Mick was into really making an album and concentrating on The Stones at that point. He still should have drawn the line or tried to ask for a different Chorus and a bit different production .. Perhaps we will grow to at least 'accept it' as just a not so great Stones track .. versus something that just doesn't belong and is stupid. I mean .. like I say .. the verse is real good. The Chorus and that break / Middle eight is .. just bad as far as who the Stones are / represent... It is Two steps too far.
Well .. perhaps we need a clunker .. or 'semi-clunker' to appreciate the rest? Excellent records by various artists have had one or two sub-par songs through the years .. I guess we will have to look at it that way.
Yes, tbh I give you right with all you said above...I think I'm just a bit upset about the Stones being associated with what essentially is a modern day club track BUT when re-listening to that Planet Radio show yesterday I found out why this is, as I also pointed out in the other thread...Mick literally said he wrote this for and with some big DJ and wanted to give it to him to record but then Don Was told Mick to keep it for the Stones, so if anyone, Don Was is to blame, thank god they got Andy Watt instead lol xD
anyway, it's certainly not the worst song they ever recorded, tbh I can stand some songs on some other of their records less than that one, my main problem is the stupid disco sound of the chorus and break BUT if they choose to play this live, on stage they won't have those stupid studio mix effects and stuff, just their instruments, ao actually I think live this song could be pretty good! They could play it instead of Miss You, since frankly, after getting to listen to Miss You 6 times on tour last year, I'm kinda sick of it, it's overplayed, if they didn't drag it out so long it would be better, they're waating time that they could use to play 2-3 other songs instead
Also about Keith getting softer...I think Mick and Keith both did get softer with age, maybe that's natural, I don't know, but maybe they're also just done and tired with arguing too much, they clearly love each other, Keith said this multiple times alone in the past few interviews, and it's so obvious from the way they are behaving around each other on stage and during that CBS interview, there is a lot of love and respect between them...Ronnie also mentioned that Mick and Keith were very diplomatic about the song choices on the album, going like "okay if you get this one, I get that one" hahaha...so I guess that explains a lot^^