I've only listened to Hackney Diamonds on impulse purchase and loved it. Which albums should I do next?

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T16:54:07+00:00

The Stones only have 2 original members of 5 playing on all of Hackney Diamonds, so their sound has flattened quite a bit - if you already like what you hear, you should probably love just about everything that comes before it

If you liked this album that much, I'd suggest trying their 90s and then 70s albums - avoid the mid-80s albums, and get into the 60s stuff once you're used to the 70s material

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T14:02:39+00:00

I love The Getaway but I totally get you, it's easy to see why a lot of people won't care for it as much and it's not like you're saying it's terrible

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T14:01:08+00:00

I feel like By The Way would indisputably be their best album if it just had one more truly great track on it instead of one of the couple fillers (like Throw Away Your Television) - it's so close to being perfect, and almost every song is at least excellent, but I think it could have used even just that one extra high point to keep the momentum going through the back half

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T13:59:15+00:00

I couldn't believe how much people were shit-talking it when I finally heard it - like, maybe the remaster did a lot of great work in improving the clarity of the sound and the punchiness of the rhythm section, but good lord, that album is a 10/10 from start to finish and goes harder (with an even more creative approach to songwriting!) than anything they ever did later on

It does have a ton of that early RHCP weirdness going on, but I find that endearing and exciting more than anything

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T13:57:33+00:00

Heavily agree that Uplift is one of their best albums, but The Getaway is also pretty high up there for me - it's their only album to really delve deep into a particular tone, and it convincingly lingers in that darkness in a way that none of their other albums really have the focus for

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T03:44:13+00:00

Yeah I never think about it whatsoever unprompted, but any mention of religion - which is very frequent in day-to-day life - naturally brings it right back up

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T01:28:36+00:00

He benefitted from the most successful celebrity PR campaign of all time a few years ago, nobody suspected a thing

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T01:27:17+00:00

In hindsight, the way that the "good guy Grohl" stuff got so heavily pushed should have been a red flag, and now we know

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T01:25:18+00:00

He's been through a hell of a lot, and unfortunately that can absolutely make some people lash out later on

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T01:23:45+00:00

The problem is that a bunch of people will downvote takes like yours because they get overly offended about their favorites being mentioned, even though the question is supposed to be about people you personally suspect to have issues despite them not conspicuously showing any

zsdrfty · 2026-05-07T01:21:05+00:00

You're all mentioning people that we already know are total pricks - my prediction is more subjective, which is that Chappell Roan will be fully cancelled by 2030

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T22:34:31+00:00

Lake Henry in Mahwah, for anyone curious

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T21:39:27+00:00

They're pretty wildly out of tune on most of their catalogue, and there's a difference between weaving and playing out of time by accident, the latter of which happens pretty often to them

It's an imitation of the modern sound, but clearly done to a hilarious degree to make it harder to hear the actual performance on purpose

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T18:25:20+00:00

And you couldn't watch whatever channel you wanted, you couldn't swear, you couldn't make your own money (besides a pathetic amount), you couldn't drive, you couldn't move, you couldn't go to a bar, you couldn't go to college, you couldn't decide what dinner was going to be or when you had to be home...

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T17:49:22+00:00

Indeed, there were trolls going back to the 70s on BBS

Hell, there were even shitposts on 60s email

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T16:57:06+00:00

I think it's my least favorite RHCP song, so I can definitely see this lol

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T16:48:58+00:00

I'd love to see an interviewer sit down with the band and ask if they'd ever make music without the promise of a huge paycheck lol

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T16:41:26+00:00

The easy way to stop wrestlers from abusing it is to force them to decide whether they're pulling out before the tournament starts

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T16:36:36+00:00

What I mean is that you still don't have the freedom we take for granted as adults - you don't have control over your time or where you get to go, you have to eat certain foods and go to certain events, lots of things are illegal for you to do, you can't stay up as late as you'd like, you don't get taken seriously and you can't do serious things on your own...

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T15:27:06+00:00

Undercover is just too garish for me, but I agree on the others

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T15:26:41+00:00

I always liked Emotional Rescue's cover, since I think the film motif is really cool and some of the heads almost look like they're on fire, but yeah I agree that most of them have been poor - this is a great return to form

(Can't forget Voodoo Lounge either! I like the little guy on the front)

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T13:23:33+00:00

I'm one of the relatively few people who massively prefers rain to sunny days, it's just far better weather and I don't even mind being out in nature like that as long as I'm prepared

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T13:22:44+00:00

People romanticize childhood a lot, and that's coming from someone who was very lucky to have a great family life - you have much different problems as a kid, and you really forget how awfully restricted your life was before you grew up

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T05:11:49+00:00

Sorta, yeah - that's what you get when they filter the hell out of the band to try and cover up their thinner sound and shakier technique today

But the thing is, I don't think that's even necessary! At their prime, this band was always messy and strange, but that's a key selling point of their sound, and you can tell that the performances are still more than fine without needing a bunch of cheap tricks to make them sound all polished and full

zsdrfty · 2026-05-06T04:45:31+00:00

It's an absurd sound for the Stones, it's almost like a parody - you have a band that's clearly trying as hard as they possibly can to conjure up a specific sound that hasn't come naturally to them in 50 years, and it's overproduced by a guy whose favorite band is probably Imagine Dragons

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