2023-09-07 12:14:32
Opinion “Angry”
Waiting forever for a new Stones single – and then something like this happens!
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“Mick and Keith are like an old married couple – they’re going through a very good phase right now”
The Rolling Stones have unveiled the first single from their new album, ‘Angry’, in London. Hackney Diamonds is their first original studio album in 18 years. WELT author Alan Posener speaks in the WELT studio about the secret of the legendary rock’n’roll band’s success.
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The last album with new songs by the Roling Stones was released 18 years ago. Now comes Hackney Diamonds. The single “Angry” is released as a foretaste. More than a sign of life from three legends around 80? Our author, a long-time Stones fan, expresses doubts.
Oh, what a shame. Here comes a new single from the people who gave us “I Wanna Be Your Man”, “Little Red Rooster”, “Satisfaction”, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, “2000 Light Years From Home”, ” Miss You”, “Start Me Up”, “Under Cover Of The Night”, “Harlem Shuffle”, “Fool To Cry”, “Living In A Ghost Town” and umpteen other great hits and then it’s this tired ready-made product .
Sure, the song has all the ingredients a Stones single should have: Great riff by Keef reminiscent of “Start Me Up” or “Brown Sugar”; catchy refrain; not too many chords. The new drummer beats the song through nicely, and the fact that Steve Jordan can’t swing like Charlie is a gift.
Jagger sings like Jagger sings, and at 80 that’s saying something. OK, Don Was and Andrew Watt’s production is too LA and not enough London, too licked and smooth, harmonies too tight, bodes ill for the Hackney Diamonds album, but please, it doesn’t have to be always be “Exile On Main Street” or “Blue And Lonesome”.
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But what do the Glimmer Twins want to tell us with the new song? That they’re still the best Stones cover band in the universe? gift. In addition to the catchiness that a hit always has to have, good Stones singles always had something ambiguous at the same time: With “Satisfaction” the criticism of the advertising industry, which always arouses needs that cannot be satisfied; in “2000 Light Years” the junkie’s existential loneliness, which anticipates and counteracts Bowie’s Major Tom; in “Under Cover” the nightmare scenario of proxy and secret wars, torture centers and brothels from South America to Central Africa; in “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” the no less nightmarish of Swinging London, the alternation between elegant receptions with sadistic party girls – “in the glass a bleeding man” – and the line of pill-addicted celebrities in front of the pharmacy in Chelsea and and and.
Sometimes it’s just a beautiful line: “You make a dead man come…”: lovely; sometimes, like “Miss You,” it’s setting up a scene: a call from a friend who wants to come over with a case of wine and “some Puerto Rican girls who really want to meet you,” all for nothing because of the singer prefers to sneak through Central Park at night and indulge in solitude; sometimes it’s just the sheer gall of punk-style deconstructing a song the Beatles graciously wrote for them: “I Wanna Be Your Man”; or the gall to take a classic black country blues like “Little Red Rooster” and show what a white boy can do with it, like Elvis did with “That’s All Right Mama.” Sometimes… ah.
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None of that here. Well done, but neither musically nor lyrically anything sticks with you longer than the riff: “Why are you mad at me? I didn’t do anything to you.” My goodness, Jagger has written enough love-death songs like that, not just “Miss You,” but the bitter “Wild Horses,” the deeply sad “Fool To Cry,” and the gorgeously self-deprecating “Already Over Me “: Why is he so banal here? Rain against the window panes, a tune in my head, God, yes.
And the video? Pretty girl with blond hair and leather outfit drives through LA in a convertible, and on every billboard you can see the young, beautiful Stones, which you – man – don’t look at because Sydney Sweeney stretches so beautifully and this and that in holding the camera. If you want, you could understand this advertising as self-mockery. As Friedrich Hölderlin writes: “He who looks into the world understands high youth / And the wise / Often tend towards the beautiful in the end.” But so do dirty old men, and the transition is fluid.
You wanted a new Stones single, and here it is! Salawih.
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