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  2. As I mentioned on the recently revived and hugely underrated Mick Jagger thread, it sounds like a 70’s B-list punk band and I like it. Sounds nothing at all like the Stones to me. The lyrics too I find very unStonesian. And quite accurate and witty. I’ll probably never listen to it again, mind.

    “Trying to write a tune / You better hook me up to Zoom / See my poncey books / Teach myself to cook / Way too much TV / It’s lobotomising me / Think I’ve put on on weight / I’ll have another drink / Then I’ll clean the kitchen sink.”

  3. Clearly his mind is relishing the exercise after ditching his autobiography…..
    Funny how, just cos it’s Mick, it’ll get lauded. I saw that Vanbert Morrison got 8/10 in Unshod for his latest.

      • @Sewer Robot

        Assume you mean the blessed Van.

        As this triple is his seventh album in a little over four and a half years, it kind of justifies many of the brickbats being hurled Van’s way on the thread about his latest magnum opus.

        • Yes, Van.
          I’m quoting from Uc**t, @Jaygee. I have not listened and don’t expect I will.
          (Just pointing out that 8 is almost universal, 7 just about competent and you’ve got to drop a real turd to only get a 6 if you’re “someone”..)

          • I know what you mean, SR. Pretty much every record reviewed on the first 4 pages of the mag’s website gets four stars.

            Most…xxxxxxxxxxxx….alnum in years is almost as bad as that hoary old chestnut “return to form”

    • Yes I saw that too @retropath2 – I also heard a song from new Van album. Very good it was too.Maybe all the doomsayers on here with their crystal balls were talking balls.
      Uncut review reckons it is visceral – his righteous anger might be misplaced but if it allows him to make good music I am in.

  4. Mick’s singing with that London accent he adopts when he is trying to put some distance from the lyric or the situation: its no “Let’s Work”, tbf.

  5. I’d like to know how much negotiation was there for that “with”.

    “No Dave, we can’t give you an ‘and’, but we accept that you are unhappy with ‘featuring’. We propose to meet you in the middle with ‘with'”.

  7. I find it hard to imagine the MickMan cleaning his kitchen sink, or doing any other household chores.

    He’s obviously Googled ‘what rhymes with easy?’

  8. Good noise, lyrics from a Book Of Rhymes, but unlikely to seek it out again. One hearing is probably enough.
    Unless there’s a YouTube thread about duets or bad rhymes sometime in the near future

  11. Really awful, am glad Keef (probably) wanted nothing to do with it. I loved Living in a Ghost Town. Solo Mick never seems to work very well.

  15. I don’t see what the problem is, folks.
    It’s a bit un-Stonesy but not completely and utterly. Lyrics are not as bad as some here seem to think. It’s not my kind of thing anyway and I won’t need to play it again but I won’t be covering my ears and running away if by chance I hear it again.
    It’s good to see Mick really giving it some. He looked like he was having fun.

  18. I haven’t listened to it yet, but judging by the title of the latest Word In Your Ear podcast, “On Jagger’s Ropey New Single …” it seems Messrs Hepworth and Ellen are not fully behind ol’ Micks latest release.
    Of course these days Mick is usually in for a slagging, whatever he does, whereas anything Keef does is gonna be at least indulged if not praised.

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