Rock Review – The Rolling Stones – “Hackney Diamonds”
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Since the Kennedy Administration and for going on seven decades since, Mick, Keith, Charlie, Bill, and later Ronnie have been defining what rock and roll music is at its kernel root. For the vast majority of the people living on planet Earth, The Rolling Stones have always been there. We don’t know a world without The Rolling Stones in it. The band is to rock and roll what Willie Nelson is to country. Even more improbable is that the kernel of the band itself is still around, and rockin’.
Why is a country music outlet even talking about The Rolling Stones? If you don’t think albums like Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St., and songs like “Dead Flowers” and “Sway” haven’t been as significantly influential on country artists as almost anything from the country canon itself, you don’t know music. The Gram Parsons-influenced era of The Rolling Stones back in the early 70s was a gateway for so many rock fans to country. It was also a gateway for many country fans to rock.
The most important observation about the band’s first album of original material in 18 years is that it’s a Rolling Stones album. Hackney Diamonds doesn’t mess with the formula, because why would it? It’s a formula that The Rolling Stones created from whole cloth. You take an American blues foundation, and add a little horny British attitude, and that’s rock and roll, baby. Mick Jagger might be the big eight oh now, but he’s still out there strutting across the stage and singing about trying to get laid.
There’s no growing old with your music in rock and roll. The Rolling Stones are the reason for that rule. It’s better to die on stage of a heart attack or pull a hammy trying to throw a scissor kick than slow everything down and act your age. The lead single and first song on the new album called “Angry” set the stage that this wouldn’t be a record of a bunch of old men sitting around a condenser mic with acoustic guitars telling stories. The Rolling Stones are here to kick your ass.
Most 55-plus-year-olds would blow their back out trying to perform a song like “Bite My Head Off.” It sounds like a song to get a blow job to in the back of a Trans-Am. One of the things that’s cool about The Rolling Stones is they made music you just couldn’t make in this uptight and touchy era. It’s too dangerous. There’s a song on the new album called “Whole Wide World.” One interpretation of it would be that it’s a pick-me-up to the deplatformed.
It’s the sweat, spit, blood, and grit that has always separated The Rolling Stones from the posers, and that’s all over this record. You can hear this most emblematically in the verses of “Get Close,” even if the chorus feels a little too saccharine for these boys. “Mess It Up” gives you almost a disco vibe, like their trying to garner pop radio play. And do we really need to hear an 80-year-old Mick Jagger reaching for the falsetto? But overall, it’s hard to hate on what you get from Hackney Diamonds.
Where they really get the mix right is for the song “Depending On You.” This is where they inject that little bit of roots influence that makes the sound of The Rolling Stones just right. Though it would be a stretch to call it “country,” the song “Dreamy Skies” that name checks Hank Williams is the closest you get to the Sticky Fingers era on the new album. And even with Keith Richards suffering from arthritis, he and Ronnie Wood still help illustrate why taste and tone always trump technique when it comes to guitar playing.
The best moment from the new album might come during the second half of the 7-minute epic song “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” featuring Lady Gaga singing lead and backup, and Stevie Wonder on piano. It gives you the same chills we all felt when the London Bach Choir kicked in at the end of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Overall, it’s hard to not be spellbound by what The Rolling Stones accomplish with this album.
What’s also cool about Hackney Diamonds is it’s the closest thing we’ll have to the original Rolling Stones on a record henceforth. Long time drummer Charlie Watts passed away in 2021, but not before he made his way onto the songs “Mess It Up” and “Live By The Sword.” Bass player Bill Wyman who left the band in the early ’90s also plays bass on “Live By The Sword,” making this song a de facto reunification of the original lineup.
He’s no Rolling Stone, but the fact that Paul McCartney also appears on the album gives it additional historical significance. You add the fact that the album concludes with the band’s first ever recorded version of the Muddy Waters classic “Rolling Stone Blues” that seeded the band’s name, and if all The Rolling Stones croak tomorrow (knock on wood), this album would be like the perfect epitaph of a paramount and unprecedented career.
Lucky for Rolling Stones fans though, they apparently have another dozen or so songs from the sessions that will comprise a second record at some point in the future. But still, Hackney Diamonds feels like a great bookend, even if only a good, not great, album overall.
7.9/10
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October 23, 2023 @ 8:03 am
Great review, just a minor correction – it’s Stevie Wonder on piano on Sweet Sounds Of Heaven, Elton John is on a couple of other tracks.
October 23, 2023 @ 8:42 am
Finally some new music that doesn’t suck . I can’t believe these guys in their 80’s made one of the best albums I’ve heard in years .
October 23, 2023 @ 8:43 am
Great review Trigger. If I’ve read over a dozen reviews of this album, I am most certain this is the only one that mentions a BJ so that, and not saying it’s their best work since “Tattoo You” put this review in a class by itself. “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” has managed to land in my Top 10 favorite Stones songs right behind “Shine a Light.” For me, that’s the gift on this record, but the rest are rock solid.
If you haven’t seen Keith on Fallon last Friday you need to definitely check it out. When he comes out too early and walks around the set grinning as if he owns the place and pointing at “The Roots” it made me laugh so hard I almost fell off the couch. There will never be another character like Keith, which is probably a good thing because the world could not handle that.
October 23, 2023 @ 1:59 pm
I saw the Stones in 2015 at the Milwaukee Summerfest. Mick left the stage mid show while Keith did a few solos – during which he went into a full squat and then effortlessly rose from the squat while playing the guitar. Those guys are fit.
October 23, 2023 @ 9:15 am
I was surprised to see this review here, but welcome it whole heartedly! The Stones are one of my all time favorites, no doubt due to the Bleed>Fingers>Exile run, but i really enjoyed this album a lot, and the blues cover album from a few years ago. RIP Charlie Watts!
October 23, 2023 @ 9:21 am
I listened to this album yesterday and couldn’t believe I was listening to a bunch of “gramps” cranking out great track after great track! This is definitely one of The Stones best albums. I’ve been a fan since the mid-seventies and this is the first album in decades that they’ve released that I absolutely love. I guess sometimes you do get what you want.
October 24, 2023 @ 1:55 am
…and what you need~!
October 23, 2023 @ 9:34 am
Sorry, but I’ve never been able to force myself to like the Stones. First, their early stuff leaned far too much on “rhythm & blues,” which I strongly dislike, but, even more than that, I can’t stand to witness Mickieboy prancing around on stage like a flaming Frisco fa . . . , well, you know. If you’re a true country or Americana fan, all that it will take to banish the Stones from your playlist forever is to listen (it’s online, somewhere) to them attempt to perform Waylon’s “Bob Wills Is Still the King,” in concert in Austin. Just don’t eat anything before you listen to it, or you’ll be hurling for hours.
October 23, 2023 @ 10:35 am
I think someone needs a El Diablo sammitch and a Dr. Pepper make it fast because they’re in a…great big hurry. (Don’t know what Trigger’s rules on using God’s last name on the website are so I had to use the TV quote)
October 24, 2023 @ 6:59 am
Thank you nice lady.
October 23, 2023 @ 11:53 am
I can’t make you like the Stones, but to my ears they synthesized the full spectrum of American music better than any actual American (or other) bands of the same era and somehow reflected it back in a way that highly influenced subsequent American artists in a weird feedback loop. IMO the more or less uninterrupted quality and quantity of their run from Aftermath to Tattoo You is (IMO) unmatched by any artist in any genre except for maybe Dylan’s first 15 years or Miles Davis from ’58-’73. And their influence on country music is legit even if they weren’t making ‘pure’ country (their cover of BWISTK is fine). Can you think of any other rock bands that would even go there? For real, “Torn and Frayed,” “Wild Horses,” “Dead Flowers,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Far Away Eyes,” “No Spare Parts,” “We Had It All,” “The Worst,” all those Keith Richards country covers in the 70s – they understood/understand the emotional core that makes country music country.
October 23, 2023 @ 5:32 pm
Ben I agree with most of what you say here, but not the plural “they” in the last line. Keith understands country (and thanks to Trigger for noting Gram Parsons’ influence on that front) but (IMO) Mick doesn’t. Jagger’s vocals on the Stones’ country songs suck. He’s a great, great singer of rock and blues, but with country, to me, he consistently sounds like he’s trying hard to sound down home, and not succeeding.
October 23, 2023 @ 2:48 pm
you know that word you self-edited out? well, he does much better with the ladies than you ever could or would.
October 24, 2023 @ 7:28 am
So, you like guys who prance. Duly noted.
October 24, 2023 @ 7:55 am
whether or not someone prances does not impact my opinion of them. prance away bigtex daddy.
October 23, 2023 @ 4:18 pm
I am zero percent a Stones fan. I just never got into the lack of hard melody and open chord with slight distortion (Patterson Hood is cringeworthy for me), but the Stones guitar player ripping out true country steel guitar during that performance – I am in! And they wrote Dead Flowers. Ryan Adams, Keith Richards, Hank III covered that so wonderfully. There is an undeniable country connection there.
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October 23, 2023 @ 5:36 pm
Townes Van Zant did a great cover of Dead Flowers, featured in the Cohen brothers’ Dead Lebowski.
October 23, 2023 @ 7:16 pm
The Rolling Stones are about as “country” as Michael Jackson or Boy George. Facts are facts.
October 23, 2023 @ 10:31 pm
You’re entitled to your opinion, but when you call your opinion fact, I’ll call it dumb. Rolling Stones songs can be country and country artists love ’em. They’ve done whole album tributes including “Stone Cold Country” this year, with Brooks & Dunn, Eric Church, Ashley McBride et al,; and “Stone Country” some 26 years ago with Travis Tritt, Tracy Lawrence, Nanci Griffith, oh and a guy named George Jones. And back in the ’60s, there was Charlie Walker doing a killer cover of “Honky Tonk Women.”
I haven’t heard country artists doing much Michael Jackson or Boy George…save for that thing that Moe and Joe did in the ’80s that the Boy sued them for.
October 26, 2023 @ 7:51 pm
Don’t you dare disrespect Patterson Hood.
Seriously, to each his/her own but IMHO the DBTs are the greatest American rock ‘n roll band of the past 25 years. And it’s not even close.
October 24, 2023 @ 7:55 am
Trigger,
Have you considered banning people who make racist or homophobic slurs in the comment section? I know there are all types of people who are commenting…but it is cringeworthy to see bigoted comments left up in so many of the articles you post. Seeing hate posted on here time and time again (and supported through likes etc) really detracts from the enjoyment of this website. The hate is coming from a vocal few – so why not ban them? I think you’d find a lot of casual readers who don’t comment on every article (or comment ever like myself) would appreciate it.
October 24, 2023 @ 8:26 am
Some commenters have been banned, while other commenters are immediately sent to moderation, and I will delete or edit comments if I feel it is necessary. That said, this is an open forum, and I don’t endorse any comment posted here. I get my say so in the articles, and the public gets their say so here. Deleting comments doesn’t make the idea behind those comments go away, it just hides it from our view. They best thing to do is to do like The Gentile did, and challenge those comments.
bigtex is supposed to be sent to moderation. For some reason he wasn’t in this case and I’ll look into that. But it appeared he censored himself, and others came to challenge what he said so I decided to leave it up.
If you want to read more about how I approach the comments section, you can read here:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/a-note-on-the-saving-country-music-comments-section/
October 25, 2023 @ 9:44 am
Ooooooooh! “Junior Varsity” is “triggered” by the truth! HILARIOUS!
October 24, 2023 @ 8:42 am
So my comment speaking out against hateful comments/bigotry gets blocked but the slur stays up? Wtf…
October 24, 2023 @ 8:47 am
Sorry – see you responded below. Apologies
October 23, 2023 @ 10:19 am
I had very low expectations, and this album vastly exceeded them. It has some quality Stones tracks. I like how Driving Me Too Hard quotes Tumbling Dice for a second.
October 23, 2023 @ 12:21 pm
Loved them in ‘72 at RFK Stadium (Stevie Wonder opened!), love them now and love this review. They are to be admired for ignoring ageism and continuing to do what they do best.
October 23, 2023 @ 1:20 pm
Apart from a lot of americana or country, I still think alot of the older musicians like Dylan, The Stones, Neil Young, Van Morrison etc are still well worth listening too compared to a lot of modern music apart from music that has its roots in the past or isnt mainstream.
Saw the Stones just before covid and it was a great night granted it was before this release and their set did rely on nostalgia , I thought Mick Jagger was a phenomenal performer I was surprised by how good they were live and I am surprised at the quality of this album compared to the Bigger Bang which was their last original album , it wasnt rubbish as far as i was concerned but this knocks it out the park.
October 23, 2023 @ 1:26 pm
We had no right to expect that these guys would make a record even remotely enjoyable as they are turning 80 but here it is. Is it the best since Tattoo You? Maybe. Doesn’t matter to me if it is or not…this is just a really good rock record for those of us of a certain age. Loving it.
On a side note, my introduction to more country based music in the 70’s came from bands like The Stones, The Dead and most definitely The Band. I really enjoy some country and Americana but I am still grounded in the music from the 60’s and 70’s. This album fits the bill! I never would have thought in my teens that I would still be enjoying the same artists in my 60’s but I am and am damn happy to be able too.
Genres and labels are a waste of time as far as I’m concerned. If it’s good I listen and this is good.
October 23, 2023 @ 2:33 pm
That’s just it: it’s a really good rock record. I think it’s as good as “Lucifer on the Sofa” from a couple years ago. I’d love to see Spoon pull more of these sounds into their next project because Britt Daniel could totally pull it off.
October 23, 2023 @ 1:36 pm
Mick Jagger is just the epitome of cool. The fact that he can pull that off at 80, and that his voice still sounds so good, is proof that he made a deal with the devil. Which again, makes him the epitome of cool. The record is fun. It’s not the best Stones ever, but it’s the best Stones in a long while.
October 23, 2023 @ 1:54 pm
The beginning of Depending On You sounds like the beginning of LoriMcKenna/Faith Hill Stealing Kisses.
October 23, 2023 @ 2:21 pm
I would pay good money to hear a Keith Richards country album. Here’s what I mean:
“Say It’s Not You” with George Jones from The Bradley Barn Sessions,
“The Worst” from Voodoo Lounge,
“This Place is Empty” from A Bigger Bang,
“Robbed Blind” from Crosseyed Heart.
Also, I really dig this album.
October 24, 2023 @ 11:36 am
Check out the Hank Williams tribute album Timeless. Keith covers You Win Again quite ably.
There are several other choice cuts on that album, most notably Lucinda Williams covering Cold Cold Heart.
October 23, 2023 @ 4:43 pm
Not a big stones fan but I liked your review. Since it has original new material I may check it out. Though personally I did see a video of the stones performing live and while jaggar is still hip and healthy, he looks almost like a skeleton strutting around. But I guess some are just forever young.
October 23, 2023 @ 5:04 pm
Pathetic review. Rock is music written by young people, for young people, and played in places where only young people congregate. Hackneyed Diamonds ticks none of these boxes. I first saw the Stones in Detroit in ’69. They were exciting, dangerous, and young. Saw them again in ’72, ’75, ’81, ’89, and a few times after that. By ’89 Jagger was like Michael Jordan in his declining years–couldn’t play above the ruin any longer but could still dominate. Anybody who says the Stones are anything but their own creaking tribute band nowadays is suffering from brain lock because his dad jeans have gotten too tight. Y’all should stick to reviewing country music. You won’t sound so hopelessly out of your depth. As for the Stones, Morgan Wallen they ain’t.
October 23, 2023 @ 5:57 pm
yawn… Dude you’re trying way too hard to be clever. Should have just passed this one up
October 23, 2023 @ 6:42 pm
Trigger what are your thoughts on Steve Jordan’s drumming?
October 23, 2023 @ 6:56 pm
I think it is good. He doesn’t have an enviable job trying to fill the shoes of Charlie, and like any drummer except in metal or prog rock, the key is to not overplay. Charlie knew that, and so does Steve.
October 24, 2023 @ 10:06 am
Where does Charlie Woods fit in the pantheon of drummers? My own personal sense is that he doesn’t get derided like Ringo did with The Beatles, but that he’s certainly several notches below someone like a Jason Bonham or Neil Peart. Steve Jordan is freakin’ awesome, but the little bit I listened to here, he’s definitely not playing a feature role.
October 24, 2023 @ 11:14 am
I wouldn’t put Charlie Watts in my Top 10, but he would definitely be in my Top 20.
I wrote in-depth about my feelings about him when he died, and I’m not sure I could say it better than I did here:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/on-the-death-of-rolling-stones-drummer-charlie-watts/
October 25, 2023 @ 1:31 am
trig, i forgot to mention- i don’t know one dude who wants to get a blow job during a song called “bite my head off”.
just sayin’…ouch.
October 24, 2023 @ 10:09 am
Sorry, Watts, not Woods…
October 25, 2023 @ 1:25 am
jordan is a legend, no doubt. that version of the letterman band was the best.
it just seems to me that steve ferrone should have that gig. but jordan got it from the winos gig, i guess.
and as far as charlie watts goes, (i’m gonna get killed here), in my opinion, he sucked. really bad. ..as a drummer. not as the stones’ drummer. for that, he was perfect. of course, “the best drummer/fill-in-the-musician/singer” is arbitrary.
buddy rich thought karen carpenter was an incredible drummer. and he was, IMO, correct. not too hard to google that. if you have the time…
your mileage may vary.
October 26, 2023 @ 8:32 am
Steve Ferrone while great with Tom Petty, sucked with John Mayer (Jordan’s old gig). John even replaced him mid tour. Steve Jordan is much better, listen JM trio Try to get a sense. What makes you say the Charlie sucked? Are you not a fan of how he wouldn’t hit the hi hat and the snare at the same time?
October 23, 2023 @ 6:43 pm
Girl With Far Away Eyes is a great country song.
October 23, 2023 @ 9:25 pm
Ive listened thru a few times and then individual tunes on sirius underground garage special – nothing is sinking in – its just superficial . Im not hearing things the 2nd and 3rd time through that i didnt hear the first time.
Are there any memorable lyrics? Definately no find, fuck, and flee from the exile era.
As a kid listening to a stones record u had the hit or hits, and then there is all this other stuff to explore over multi listenings. And it was murky guitars, cool grooves, with undecipherable lyrics.
This is just processed music – maybe even AI generated – what we are told the stones are supposed to sound like in 2023. Elton, Stevie, McCartney are just there for the bean count – Nicky Hopkins they are not – And i dont ever want to hear a lady gaga again in my lifetime….
October 24, 2023 @ 12:25 am
I’m not a die-hard Stones fan,. I danced to a lot of their songs in the 60s, and can still sing some of them.
But! I respect the heck outta anyone who still puts that much physical energy into live performances❣️
Quite a few of my friends went to see them Live this year, and they All enjoyed them as much as they did when they saw them 50 years ago❣️
{I’m a lifelong Folkie, and, while the performing may not take as much energy as R&R, I saw Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary last year❣️ He’s 80+, just a little and witty as when I saw them live in the 70s❣️👍🏽👏🏾❣️ Traveling is probably the most draining part of touring (ask Willie Nelson) and performing the most exhilarating part of it)
October 24, 2023 @ 1:48 am
Talking of Nicky Hopkins, the world premiere of his documentary, The Session Man, is on Thursday! http://www.thesessionmanfilm.com
October 24, 2023 @ 5:42 am
Any fan of stones “country” should take listen to Mick solo singing “Evening Gown” – great song!
October 24, 2023 @ 7:31 am
Jay Dee Maness on pedal steel.
October 24, 2023 @ 6:23 am
In my opinion The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock band of all time, and it’s nice to see this review here, and all the feedback. There are only a few bands from my youth that have been constant listens throughout my life. Skynyrd, Zeppelin, Sabbath, ZZ Top, and probably more than any other, The Stones, are among bands I still get that urge to listen to.
That said, my Stones playlist doesn’t have anything in it from albums past the mid 70s, probably Some Girls being the last Stones album in their era of top form. So I was honestly surprised when I gave this album a curious listen and found that while not all the songs are Rolling Stones type classics, there are several here that bring back that sound from their golden era. Sweet Sounds of Heaven mentioned here sounds like it could have been recorded back in the 60s prime of the band, though Gaga’s background vocals are a little overdone. Likewise Dreamy Skies, and songs like Angry and Driving Me Too Hard reach back to the Ronny Woods 70s.
I doubt The Stones will ever recapture that magic from the mid 60s early 70s. I doubt anyone else ever will either. But Hackney Diamonds is a nice little reminder of what The Rolling Stones once were. Their best album since Some Girls.
October 24, 2023 @ 11:10 am
I always enjoy your comments Scott as I find them insightful and your musical past seems to very much parallel my own. I second your opinion that the Stones are indeed the greatest rock band of all time and likewise with the ebbs and flows in my musical tastes over time they have remained a constant. There are a handful of post 70’s nuggets that may fit in well to freshen up your playlist – Saint of Me, Love is Strong, and Out of Tears are all late era gems. Others have said Gaga may have overdone it on Sweet Sounds. I like to think she was just really feeling it. I saw where Mick said she was in the studio next door recording and she came in and laid on the floor in front of the band making some sort of noises as the music moved her. Mick then told her to get behind a mic and let it rip. Seems like it was completely unplanned.
October 25, 2023 @ 5:12 am
Thanks for the complement Rich. I sometimes wonder if my comments run too long lol.
Gaga definitely must of been feeling it. It’s not bad in the beginning, but she lays it on a bit thick as the song goes on. Still the most classic Rolling Stones sounding song on the album though. It’s been a long while since the Stones have released an album that matched up to their own quality of output. It’s a nice surprise to see they had one left in them.
October 24, 2023 @ 7:02 am
Not to be nitpicky (warning: nitpicking coming up), but the lineup of Jagger/Richards/Wyman/Watts/Wood isn’t the original lineup. Ronnie is the 3rd 2nd guitar..the original lineup was Jagger/Richards/Wyman/Watts/Jones.
But the one you’re referring to is the “classic” one that most fans associate with, I suspect.
October 24, 2023 @ 9:13 am
I would venture to say that Jagger/Richards/Watts/Wyman/Taylor might be conisdered the classic Stones lineup along with the original. Ronnie Wood didn’t join until Black and Blue in 75.
October 25, 2023 @ 5:24 am
The Mick Taylor years are definitely the bands prime years. It’s when they departed from the British pop era, and out from the shadow of The Beatles. Ronnie Wood was a great guitarist in his own right, helping The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces create some classic music of their own. But the Wood era Stones couldn’t live up to the Taylor years.
October 24, 2023 @ 9:58 am
Don’t be persuaded by the hagiographic review, ye, the hapless reader. The new “Stones” album sucks to high heavens and back. Rhythm machines galore (poor Charlie got replaced by the cheapshit sound card algorithm), stale and rancid ’80s MTV-styled production (Don Was’ last decent production was three decades ago), artificially abrupt fades (or no fades at all) to make it all sound spontaneous and “faux-live”; generic and very, very, loud recording level (bordering on unbearable) to compensate for the lack of real passion; zero to subzero songwriting skills and graphic artwork that could have been done by a 15-year old debutante on the latest Atari model. It all smacks of “let’s muddle thru this dayum thing and then go have a gigantic cocaine party on the Riviera”. Yikes. Compared to this swill, Justin Bieber is Dostoevsky.
Minus five stars and 25 lashes on a bare butt. And even that is too charitable.
PS: I am not even convinced that it is actually Mick Jagger’s voice. It sounds AI-generated to me.
October 24, 2023 @ 7:21 pm
“Sway”? That’s as far from a country song as you are from any knowledge of the Stones back catalogue, it would appear.
October 24, 2023 @ 7:43 pm
Nobody said it was a country song. It was a song that influenced country artists. If you don’t believe me, ask Ray Wylie Hubbard.
October 24, 2023 @ 8:22 pm
I guarantee George Strait could do a stellar, convincing read of sway that would scan country to every single listener. It is written like a country song.
October 25, 2023 @ 12:56 am
What kills me , you are giving this a very “Good Review”, and people on this forum , many times state you are “too-hard” in your reviews…lol
October 25, 2023 @ 4:17 am
The Rolling Stones started as a cover band and ended up as a parody of a rock band.
October 25, 2023 @ 5:42 pm
Deep.
October 25, 2023 @ 7:51 pm
I wasn’t expecting a review of a Rolling Stones album on this site, but that is not a complaint by any stretch.
Neither am I a dyed-in-the-wool Stones fan, but they are such a phenomenon that reading reviews (and the subsequent anti/pro arguments) is a fun way to spend a little time.
Thanks Trigger.
October 26, 2023 @ 3:32 pm
I generally don’t like to go see my favorite old bands now that they are in their 70″s, I like to keep them in my memory from their prime. I’m a casual Stones fan, loves some of their hits but never really dove deep into the collection. With that said you can’t argue against their success, Currently 142 ranked on Spotify, 29 million listeners monthly on Spotify, 1 “billion” downloads of Paint it Black and they are 80 years old. If they want to put out one more album, even if it is just so-so I say they have earned the right. For those that don’t like it well it’s not radio so just don’t listen to it.
October 26, 2023 @ 3:43 pm
Listening to the album right now, as an “always been a Stones fan.” Great RocknRoll is what it is, and most modern “musicians” would kill to have the chops/licks/lyrics/hooks that these old geezers STILL have.
November 9, 2023 @ 6:24 am
WTF is This? I thought this was Saving Country Music not Rolling Stone Magazine… I have yet to see a review on anything from Creed Fisher or anything on the new Cody Jinks single Outlaws and Mustangs but here we are looking at a review of a Band Well past their expertration date.
November 9, 2023 @ 7:31 am
“Outlaws and Mustangs” is literally the #1 song on Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Playlist at the moment. And yes, it was featured with a write up when it was first added.
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/newest-adds-to-saving-country-musics-top-25-current-playlist-130/
There are plenty of reviews for country albums you passed over to get to this review. There were a ton of requests to review the new Rolling Stones album, so I reviewed it. As I said in the review, The Rolling Stones have been wildly influential in country. Let’s not be so uptight that we can’t take the time once or twice a year to talk about music outside the genre. It’s healthy.
November 9, 2023 @ 9:09 am
Fair point I can respect that. It’s not that I’m uptight about Rock music i really enjoy Skynyrd. I just can make the connection to country with the stones like I can with Skynyrd. Thank you for your time.