12th album rumors and speculation

[guitar_davey]

and would posit that spritzy punkers include a snappy, uninspired snare

Yeah, the spritzy punk PJ tunes tend to have really basic drums. Again, Supersonic is one of the worst offenders. Sorry, Matt.

[Tj]

Ask yourselves this . Does Earthling have post Binaural squirting punker. I say no. Rose is Close as is Try but the are something else.. Do you believe Ed left to his own devices would create a album full of spritz punters I believe he would. Maybe Andrew fixed spritz by decarbonating the fizz a bit. Oddly Mike best moments are on squiters. How in the hell did the Ramones sell so many shirts .? They wrote only spritz punkers. Do you see where I am taking you ? This all circles back to the PRAMG..I Funko poops are spritz action figures so are Mr potato heads.

[tragabigzanda]

The worst part about the spritzy songs is Matt’s hi hat. Wrong tone and he doesn’t know how to finesse it like Jack. White noise.

[Fattie_Vedder]

Ask yourselves this . Does Earthling have post Binaural squirting punker. I say no. Rose is Close as is Try but the are something else.. Do you believe Ed left to his own devices would create a album full of spritz punters I believe he would. Maybe Andrew fixed spritz by decarbonating the fizz a bit. Oddly Mike best moments are on squiters. How in the hell did the Ramones sell so many shirts .? They wrote only spritz punkers. Do you see where I am taking you ? This all circles back to the PRAMG..I Funko poops are spritz action figures so are Mr potato heads.

You bring up a good point. We shouldn’t conflate spritzy with punker. They are often correlated but separate. Non-punkers can have spritzy qualities too.

Exhibit A: Let The Records Play

[Jaeti]

Big Wave? I say nay.

[Fattie_Vedder]

Big Wave? I say nay.

Maybe it fits into the occasional leakage category? It’s not a punker; definitely hard rock. Ed reaches 70-80% of squawk threshold. Waves and surfing: squirt alert. Featured in the underrated animated film, Surf’s Up: kinda cool actually.

As much as I enjoy the outro of that song, I find the rest of it grating.

[Tj]

Then there is of course spritz folkers Swallowed Hole and I'll Be Waitng maybe Setting Forth has a little squirt to it

[Ms Harmless]

and would posit that spritzy punkers include a snappy, uninspired snare

Yeah, the spritzy punk PJ tunes tend to have really basic drums. Again, Supersonic is one of the worst offenders. Sorry, Matt.

that song may have begun as Matt's song but it ended as Ed's

[Happy Trees]

Big Wave? I say nay.

Too many time signature shifts to be spritzy.

I was surprised that Jeff wrote it because I was sure it had something to do with Matt.

[Lounge Lizard]

Is Why Can't You See the new single title?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Is Why Can't You See the new single title?

Sure is!

[dad]

the font choice is my favorite.

[E.H. Ruddock]

the font choice is my favorite.

Ed must've picked it

[Lounge Lizard]

the font choice is my favorite.

Ed must've picked it

More proof Jeff hasn't yet heard anything about the new album

[epilogue]

Is Why Can't You See the new single title?

Sure is!

Is this the Ruddo accounts best post ever? It might be. And I say, we're all better for it.

[Monkey_Driven]

I just like to picture him adjusting his little dolls to stage the perfect picture.

[tragabigzanda]

From pitchfork’s review of Hackney Diamonds:

This is the first Stones album Watt has produced—not bad, since it’s only the fifth they’ve released since his birth. Still, he’s been here before. Apart from albums by Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber, Watt has helmed sessions by Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, and Elton John (a frequent guest on Hackney Diamonds). In this realm, Watt is the antithesis of Rick Rubin. Rather than lean into the age and experience of his elders, he drags them toward the present, goading them to sound like their younger selves within ill-fitting contemporary settings. For the Stones, Watt favors the molds of circa-millennium alternative rock, from Collective Soul to Franz Ferdinand, then buffs the results until they gleam like sickly wax figures. Jagger, terrifyingly, has never sounded so youthful. Keith Richards has rarely sounded so normal, his solos all exercises in convention and efficiency. Imagine upgrading a classic muscle car, say the MG Midget or a 1967 Shelby Cobra, with cheap but shiny plastic parts. Posed, patched, and polished until the actual character has all but disappeared, that’s how Hackney Diamonds sounds.

[wease]

From pitchfork’s review of Hackney Diamonds:

This is the first Stones album Watt has produced—not bad, since it’s only the fifth they’ve released since his birth. Still, he’s been here before. Apart from albums by Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber, Watt has helmed sessions by Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, and Elton John (a frequent guest on Hackney Diamonds). In this realm, Watt is the antithesis of Rick Rubin. Rather than lean into the age and experience of his elders, he drags them toward the present, goading them to sound like their younger selves within ill-fitting contemporary settings. For the Stones, Watt favors the molds of circa-millennium alternative rock, from Collective Soul to Franz Ferdinand, then buffs the results until they gleam like sickly wax figures. Jagger, terrifyingly, has never sounded so youthful. Keith Richards has rarely sounded so normal, his solos all exercises in convention and efficiency. Imagine upgrading a classic muscle car, say the MG Midget or a 1967 Shelby Cobra, with cheap but shiny plastic parts. Posed, patched, and polished until the actual character has all but disappeared, that’s how Hackney Diamonds sounds.

That didn’t read to me all that favorably.

[oasisfan35]

From pitchfork’s review of Hackney Diamonds:

This is the first Stones album Watt has produced—not bad, since it’s only the fifth they’ve released since his birth. Still, he’s been here before. Apart from albums by Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber, Watt has helmed sessions by Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, and Elton John (a frequent guest on Hackney Diamonds). In this realm, Watt is the antithesis of Rick Rubin. Rather than lean into the age and experience of his elders, he drags them toward the present, goading them to sound like their younger selves within ill-fitting contemporary settings. For the Stones, Watt favors the molds of circa-millennium alternative rock, from Collective Soul to Franz Ferdinand, then buffs the results until they gleam like sickly wax figures. Jagger, terrifyingly, has never sounded so youthful. Keith Richards has rarely sounded so normal, his solos all exercises in convention and efficiency. Imagine upgrading a classic muscle car, say the MG Midget or a 1967 Shelby Cobra, with cheap but shiny plastic parts. Posed, patched, and polished until the actual character has all but disappeared, that’s how Hackney Diamonds sounds.

That didn’t read to me all that favorably.

No, not positive at all.

[96583UP]

when Watt approached Ed about using an Ed impersonator on the album to sound younger he was fine with it to spare him the studio time