The rumors that Keith isn't playing much are false. He's laying down the rhythm all over this thing. I'm ready to hear Some of Us live.

Steel Wheels wrote on Jul 11^th, 2026 at 2:48pm:


Ignore the IORR fanatics.

Keith's signature is all over this album.

BiggestMistake wrote on Jul 11^th, 2026 at 9:13am:

BiggestMistake wrote on Jul 11^th, 2026 at 10:04am:

Is it only me or are so many earworm bangers that get stuck in your head on this new album? I mean especially the chorus of loads of the songs, I couldn't fall asleep last night cause my brain was alternating between multiple songs 🤣

I mean:
In the Stars, killer riff and sing-along chorus
Jealous Lover, also great sing-along chorus
Mr. Charm, hilarious lyrics and sing-along chorus
Divine Intervention, amazing guitar parts and earworm chorus
Never Wanna Lose you, catchy af melody that makes you wanna dance
Covered in You, beautiful alao catchy melody in the chorus
Side Effect, great rocky riff+chorus combination

That's literally half of the album, I'm especially amazed how many songs seem to be perfect to be played live as well (apart from those mentioned above, also Ringing Hollow and Some of Us and maybe Rough and Twisted and Hit Me in the Head) so it's not surprising at all that Mick wants to desperately tour, tbh they could tour this entire album like they did in Some Girls times... that's why it's actually the best since Some Girls imo

I think foreign tongues sounds a lot better than hackney diamonds

Also speaking of the lyrics, I just shared my interpretation of some songs on Shidoobee...curious what y'all think and if you maybe have other interpretations or thoughts

Covered in You: I thought the lyrics were pretty sad because it seems to be about a very toxic and abusive relationship in which the woman is beating the guy (that's why taboo seeing how domestic abuse this way round always seems to be a bit ridiculed altho it's just as bad as a guy hitting his woman, or anyone abusing their partner really no matter what gender) but then I realised that maybe actually it's about gutter press papers spreading bs all day long (born on my doorstep, because that's where you find your paper, and covered in you as in news coverage) and the utterly ridiculous stuff they sometimes write especially about celebs could be classified as verbal abuse...

Hit me in the Head: another one where it seems it's about a toxic and abusive relationship at first, this made me wonder why Mick would write two songs about this topic on the same record and who hurt him so bad, but then I noticed that maybe it's about working a job you hate in this current shitty economics (wake up in the morning and you wanna make me puke, you take a little chunk of my heart), like maybe someone who has a job they hate and who'd rather do something else they actually love but it wouldn't make them enough money to survive, so they say they'd rather be killed quickly by a blow to the head than die slowly working in a shitty job that's killing them slowly...

Side Effects: almost everyone I've seen talking about it says it's about drugs, and sure, looking back at the Stones' history, especially in the 70s, it seems obvious...but actually I think it's about an all-consuming love that makes you feel like a junkie because that person you fell for is all you can think about 24/7 even tho a love like that of course isn't that healthy when it doesn't let you breathe and still exist as your own person (I got a heart to protect, I hate to be hooked)

I think those people who are annoyed by the fresh sound listen too much to old records from the 60s and 70s because as someone who listens to loads of younger rock/indie bands from the 2010s and 2020s and their obviously modern day productions, I don't hear anything at all wrong with FT production-wise, it's just like everything else I know, maybe those people should open their minds and broaden their musical horizon

I'm gonna make a personal ranking of how mamy songs per album I love/regularly listen to, so that means it will become obvious from that where FT will be placed for me 🤭

Btw addition to the lyrics interpretation: personally I don't believe that Back in Your Life is about some random woman who ghosted Mick ages ago, but I think it's about Mick and Keith in the 80s when they were pissed at each other for various reasons but still loved each other and Mick was probably afraid to lose Keith as his oldest friend and also musical partner over all the crap...so I'm glad that nowadays, ever since approx. 2019 it seems (it already started a few years earlier maybe but since then they only said nice things about each other in interviews), they are totally fine again and are closer than ever and, personally, I'm wondering whether this coincides with Keith stopping to drink heavy liquor and be drunk 24/7 around that same time because I oftentimes had the impression that while boozed in the 80s all the way throigh early 2010s, Keith said really dumb shit in interviews that obviously hurt Mick which he probably wouldn't have said sober

So I did a really fun thing 🤭 there's this app called Moises and you can upload a song and then extract the vocals and instrumentals and then mix it the way you want, e.g. set the voice to 0 to just hear the instrumental version, or turn the vocals to 100 and the instruments down in order to better enjoy the vocals...and I did this for Some of Us, Bad Luck Hideaway, Beautiful Delilah, Ringing Hollow and Side Effects and it sounds sooo good, I'm crying omg

Anyway, here's a link if you wanna check it out:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bt6HJayE2F-bqziTUc91j8tTLGOCSQBy

ThomasOliver wrote on Jul 12^th, 2026 at 9:24am:


Yeah, I saw this Ronnie setlist on IORR the other day:



They used Charlie's drumming from back in 2015 but recorded the rest new last year

Also how fun is it that Ronnie does setlists for recording sessions as well, I love this...man I really wish they'd finally give us some making of DVD/Netflix docu, I'd pay such good money to be able to see more studio footage of them

Who knows if this is indeed gonna be a trilogy of albums they might release it some years from now giving us insights into how this final album trilogy was produced

Last evening I tried to create a proper ranking based on how many songs per album I love/listen to regularly...I'm starting at Beggar's Banquet because I basically never listen to the albums before that and only like 2-3 songs on them...

Beggars Banquet: 6/10
Let it Bleed: 9/9, forever my #1
Sticky Fingers: 10/10, my #3
Exile: 18/18, my #2
Goats Head Soup: 10/10
It's only Rock'n' Roll: 4/10
Black and Blue: 7/8
Some Girls: 9/10
Emotional Rescue: 8/10
Tattoo You: 5/10
Undercover: 4/10
Dirty Work: 8/10
Steel Wheels: 8/12
Voodoo Lounge: 10/15
Bridges to Babylon: 7/13
A Bigger Bang: 7/16
Hackney Diamonds: 10/12
Foreign Tongues: 15/15 (I included BLH because they should have included it too)


Totally need to adjust my ranking from a few pages before I realised, so based on songs I like/listen to often and also overall vibes of each album and what it makes me feel and what I connect with it, my new ranking is:
 
Let it Bleed
Exile
Sticky Fingers
Goats Head Soup
Some Girls
Foreign Tongues
Black and Blue
Steel Wheels
Dirty Work
Hackney Diamonds
Emotional Rescue
Voodoo Lounge
Tattoo You

So FT #6 of all time for me but solely based on % of songs I like, even better than Some Girls, so even #5 for me and therefore best since Goats Head Soup!

https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,3135113

ProfessorWolf on IORR (one of the best and most sane posters over there tbh) shared this compilation of interview and release-related links, what a great post, this must have taken so much effort

Anyway I noticed here that they all did loads of interviews, Mick the most naturally, but that was to be expected...anyway I hope this will shut up those idiots who claim Keith isn't interested in promoting the album 🙄 just cause Ronnie took his sppt on Jimmy Fallon (since Ronnie had to go back to London for the RAH Prince's trust show and couldn't come on the day he was supposed to come on) doesn't mean Keith isn't interested in promoting the album, probably he just cannot be bothered with Jimmy Fallon's bs...that guy acts like he's on crack 24/7 maybe Keith is just annoyed by him, I know I'd be tbh...(I mean Mick even said in that great NYT interview that he doesn't appreciate how Jimmy always acts like "Mick Jagger on stage" totally exaggerated and that Mick himself of course doesn't act like that...Jimmy just creates a charicature of him...)

Roll Me wrote on Jul 13^th, 2026 at 5:58am:


If you have the chance, watch it! I first read it cause I didn't realise there was a video, but of course the text doesn't compare to Mick's actual answers, I thought it was so very interesting to watch him come up with his replies... not only his answers, his whole manner is much more candid by now than it ever has been, but I actually also felt like that in comparison to 10 or 20 years ago he also wasn't wearing that aloof and unapproachable Mick Jagger mask anymore all of the time (i.e. play that specific role, since they talked about all the roles he's taking on) and I alwsys had the feeling in older interviews (say 90s-early 2010s) that he put up these walls and wouldn't even bother to give the world a glimpse behind them...now he did basically almost tear down those walls, but I feel he already started doing ao ever since Charlie died... ever since then, we got to see the human Mick more and more, not "Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Stones and best frontman in the world"