I know nobody gives a fuck, but anyway... I'm going to be the guest on the radio program I've been the last 18 years, presenting Hackney Diamonds on the second part of the 2-hour program, my opening act will be The Who celebrating 50 years of Quadrophenia



It's tomorrow at 10:00 AM local time, 12:00 AM EST (US), 18:00 Spain

90.9 FM or on-line at https://ibero909.fm/playlist-9091

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Oct 26^th, 2023 at 5:23pm:


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Awesome news and nobody else but you should. Go get it, Voodoo - !!!!


Ian

Ian Billen wrote on Oct 26^th, 2023 at 11:01pm:


I watched your review on YouTube, are you going to share it with us? It's great!

it's your birthday soon

ThomasOliver wrote on Oct 25^th, 2023 at 11:41am:


According to the liner notes (only) the drums on it were produced by Don Was, so it seems his part was recorded quite a while ago...?

ThomasOliver wrote on Oct 27^th, 2023 at 11:52am:



So this makes me wonder....cause that pic with this no. 1 award was taken last Thursday before the show they played in NYC, alas the day BEFORE the album even came out, I mean they just gave them the award for no. 1 album already before the album even was released???

ThomasOliver wrote on Oct 27^th, 2023 at 1:05pm:


That's also what I was thinking about at first but the other picture from last week with that other award for the most streams or whatever looks different...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CytbcW_LVal/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRl...

From Music Week:

"They’re only rock n’ roll (but we like them): Nearly 60 years after they first topped the album chart with their eponymous April 1964 debut album, and seven years after their last studio effort, Blue & Lonesome, reached the summit, the Rolling Stones return in triumph with 24th studio album, Hackney Diamonds, making a convincing debut in top spot.

With first week consumption of 72,204 units – the third highest of 2023, behind Lewis Capaldi’s Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (95,882 sales) and Ed Sheeran’s Subtract (76,263), 22 and 24 weeks ago, respectively – Hackney Diamonds’ introductory tally included 36,179 CDs, 27,371 vinyl albums, 995 blu-ray, 61 cassettes, 4,373 digital downloads and 3,225 sales-equivalent streams. The Rolling Stones were last No.1 in September 2020, when the reissued and expanded 1973 album Goats Head Soup topped on sales of 13,107. Their last album of new recording, covers set Blue & Lonesome, sold 105,830 copies as it topped the chart in December 2016, and has to-date sales of 359,142 copies.

Their 12th No.1 album (14 if chart-topping reissues of Exile On Main Street and Goat’s Head Soup are included alongside their similarly high-achieving originals), Hackney Diamonds comprises 11 new songs penned by band members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (three with producer Andrew Watt) and a cover of 1950 Muddy Waters song, Rolling Stone Blues.

Amazingly for a band with 55 hit singles, none of The Rolling Stones’ No.1 albums is a compilation, their tally comprising 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! and 11 studio albums. However, their 2002 compilation Forty Licks – which rebounds 86-75 (2,000 sales) this week for the Stones to complete the rare feat of topping and tailing the Top 75 simultaneously – is their biggest-selling Kantar era album, with to-date consumption of 1,161,019 units.

With Hackney Diamonds’ coronation, the Rolling Stones move into a four-way tie for most No.1 studio albums by an act, alongside The Beatles, Robbie Williams and Bruce Springsteen. Expect that fact to change rather Swift-ly (sic).

The only group to have new No.1 albums in six different decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, 2020s), the Rolling Stones currently comprise the aforementioned Jagger (80), Richards (79) and Ronnie Wood (76), although two tracks on the album feature drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021 aged 80, and one features the band’s original bass guitarist Bill Wyman (87), 34 years after his last contribution to the group’s oeuvre. Thus a trio with an average age of 78, they are the oldest group ever to top the chart, winning back a record they previously held from ABBA, who averaged 74 when they reached No.1 with Voyage in November 2021. The Stones already hold the record for the singles chart, established in September when Angry, the first single from Hackney Diamonds, reached No.34. It re-enters the chart this week at No.73 (5,377 sales).

Hackney Diamonds is also expected to be a big success overseas – it has already debuted at No.1 in Australia, Ireland and Germany, where it is their 11th No.1 and has higher (undisclosed) sales than any album in a week since local heroes Rammstein’s Time launched a year and a half ago."

01 72,204 The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds (36,179 CDs, 27,371 vinyl albums, 995 blu-ray, 61 cassettes, 4,373 downloads, 3,225 streaming units)
02 22,675 blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME...
03 12,588 Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day
04 9,018 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
05 7,999 Drake - For All the Dogs
06 6,554 The Weeknd - The Highlights
07 6,423 Taylor Swift - Midnights
08 5,975 Taylor Swift - 1989
09 5,859 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop
10 5,706 Taylor Swift - Folklore

12 5,093 Barry Can't Swim - When Will We Land?
15 4,757 Richard Hawley - Now Then: The Very Best of Richard Hawley
21 4,194 Sampha - Lahai
25 3,652 Pet Shop Boys - Relentless
28 3,513 NSG - AREA BOYZ
32 3,351 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
35 3,290 Ren - Sick Boi
42 2,843 Cher - Christmas
44 2,607 Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other
48 2,548 Rival Sons - LIGHTBRINGER
64 2,143 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
68 2,058 Apollo Junction - Here We Are
69 2,056 Within Temptation - Bleed Out
75 2,000 The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks

It seems like the Stones stole a LOT of the thunder from next week's release of The Last Beatle Song.

The Stones doing a kick ass new LP is way more miraculous.

Dandy video (and shirt). One brief moment where IB repeats himself, just a smidgeon, in fine Billen style, but this could be a favourite lecturer. Worth it alone for the way IB says "eclectick".