1) for me, only two tracks on
Hackney are top shelf,
Angry and
WWW.
So I'm very hopeful about
Foreign Tongues since I've already got both the
new ones ranked that high...
2) but its also already clear this is not gonna be the Soul-heavy
Cockroaches album I've been wishing for. Earlier in this thread I was speculating that
Diamond
Dust aka
HD2 would be what we were gonna get next, in other words,
a harder more Stonesy
HD. And that is indeed what we seem to be getting,
tracks made out of real stones and not just smashed glass...
3) Both of these lead
FT tracks are from the
HD sessions (ask yourself
why they saved them for now -- i say its because
HD was mostly musical
satire, and these two new ones are more sincere). So the silly cover art is harsh this
time, rather than girly, but still silly for sure. And the Fallon contribution is surreal
"monty python" this time instead of pretty-vacant "tonight show" last time, but still
Fallon for sure (no sit-down interview this time on purpose, in keeping with Mick's
current
marketing chaos strategy).
4) They recorded 10 tracks in London 2025. I've read that only a few of the tracks
on "FT" are gonna be from those sessions. And it should be easy to tell which ones,
because Darryl will be on them. I'm gonna bet that those tracks are the most
revealing about where they're headed on their next album (hopefully arriving in
time for christmas this year !)
5) regarding the cover art, I've looked at at least 200 of Nathaniel Quinn's paintings
and this
FT painting is without a doubt atypical, in fact the worst thing this
great artist has ever done. So it has to be, in my opinion, something of an intentional
joke on the part of the artist and the Stones. Whereas the cover of
HD was
intentionally a joke only on the part of the Stones, the artist honestly thought
they liked her very light-weight stuff...
6)
Today's Wild Guess: Ronnie Wood's band for his May 11 Royal Albert Hall
appearance will be none other than The Cockroaches !
via iorr-Rockman, Nathaniel Mary Quinn...
