Ideas: super-celebs, NFT bored monkey, Banksy. Image search about five minutes, fooling around with filters, fonts - maybe fifteen, tops. Not over-thinking is a key Stones attribute. These wouldn't have flown as real designs, due to copyright/legal problems I'm not bothered by. I don't think that any of them is great, but they don't hurt the eyes as much as the original. The Stones have form in eye-wincing "bad taste" - Get Your Ya-Yas Out? Some Girls? Voodoo Lounge? Hackney Diamonds? Yikes and thrice yikes!
THIS JUST IN!
Famed Dutch fine artiste Koen got his crayons out, too!
OBOY!
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ReplyDeleteOn pins and noodles.
ReplyDeleteWaiting with bated breath...being from South Pouisiana, should that be baited breath?
ReplyDeleteI'm just waiting with bad breath. -Muzak McM.
ReplyDeleteImma waitin' !!
ReplyDeleteWill this be paper or digital or fake news?
ReplyDeleteExcitement, anticipation, 32 degs+ and 84 years of age . . . can I last long enough to find it out before I croak?
ReplyDeleteWell, realistically, my guess would be ... nope.
DeleteSome kind of literary Viagra
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NEWS # TRUTH
ReplyDelete"Stop the presses! Stop the presses!"
ReplyDeleteAs it took three hours to set up and calibrate the color plates, this had better be good....
I think I read about this in National Geographic last month.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone picked up the movie rights to "selfies"?
ReplyDelete*laughs harshly, throws back tumbler of cheap rum, falls off stool*
DeleteDude, I’m crosseyed and painless over here, and I'm still waiting
ReplyDeleteI-I-I'm still waiting
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America Is Waiting
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~ Jon
Coming soon
ReplyDeleteComing VERY soon
Won't be long now
Almost Here
And here it is!!
Just coming...
Coming, Mother!! (courtesy of Firesign Theater)
ReplyDeleteIsn't that bridge finished yet?
DeleteANON RF: "Oh Porgy! Mao mao mao!!!
DeleteI was about to sing my procrastination blues. maybe now is not the right moment
ReplyDeleteNo news is good news. Does that mean the absence of news - "no news" -is good news in itself? That the absence of bad news is good? Or does it mean that all news is bad news? Anyway. I've been narrowing my exposure to online news (the only place I see it), because there's that hideous face, every day. Is that news? Do I need to see his horrible head on that staggering, rotting sack of a body every day? To read the drivel he's been spouting - contradictory, foul, or just plain wrong - every day? What happened to news that didn't somehow involve this grotesque bloat?
ReplyDeleteIf there's no exciting news coming, something to make us happy, to make us look forward to getting out of bed tomorrow, I say the hell with news.
Maybe it's the Rainy Season, and I'm a simple weather resonator, but gee whiz, for now I'm grabbing all the no-news I can, and treating it as good. Mug of instant in my hand. No-news is good news. Dumb dog Faro (pit bull/lab cross - can lick you to death) pulled up another plant in the night. No-news, good. Sun is up there somewhere, hidden behind a cloud. No-news, good. Satisfactory bowel movement, thank the nameless god responsible for that one. Jeans at the clothes market, forty baht.. Rice with crispy pork, watch this little bit of the world go by. Four girls on a scooter, hatless and laughing. Go for it. Breathing happening. Jungle growing.
Who needs exciting, anyway?
But there's a new Stones album coming. The net sez its good, so...
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ReplyDelete... and here's the album in flac:
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That's still a fantastic album, Farq!
DeleteAin't it, though? First time I heard it, the bass and drums sounded so strong I was convinced they were well-seasoned (and probably black) session musicians - turns out it's Jeff Tweedy and his son?
DeleteReporting in as Surbiton Steve (for a few weeks only!!) .. just to let ya' all know the Sun nrose again this morning!! .. rather early, too!!
ReplyDeleteFor our American readers, Surbiton is a very rough area of Glasgow, the highest murder rate per capita in the UK. They wear face tatts, shaved heads, and wifebeater t-shirts all year round (and that's just the women).
DeleteAnd, its where I met Ms Pmac
DeleteWe just had Oakland named most dangerous in California. On the other hand, the weather is FABULOUS in Oakland. Fog in the morning; we'll hit a high of 67F today (that's 19C to the civilized world). Also, the most dangerous really means what it means in most places: you go to buy drugs in the bad neighborhoods after midnight, you're likely to run into trouble.
Delete..'n I feel right at 'ome 'ere, dun'I !!!
DeleteNow gather 'round, this is quite great rolling overall, and over 60 minutes :
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Thank you! Your link also "hidden" in exclusive new sleeve design feat. Naomi n' Mike!
DeleteWell, I ever, how sweet 'n' clever!
DeleteBonustrack, iTunes exclusive (well, officially speaking) - 15. Bad Luck Hideaway, dropped by someone at https://plopcave.blogspot.com/ :
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It's m4a @256 , so be it
Can't one merely purchase this? Or am I just an old fud-dud?
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone's actually preventing one from buying the physical media, Snorkers. You go right ahead.
DeleteIf I do, it's when you design a better cover that THAT THING!
DeleteYou made me do it.
DeleteBetter
DeleteYou were gonna do these ALL ALONG! Admit it, you hate the
Deleteoriginal art, same as me!
No, I wasn't. The original didn't bother me that much. I can imagine the band getting a bi' of a larf out of it,
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ReplyDeleteThanks Farq, listening now to that acoustic Berry cover, Beautiful Delilah, excellent!
DeleteBut that album cover, Jesus, that's seriously ugly...
To be fair, so are they. It makes a change from seeing images of elderly pop stars slopped 'n shopped back to their youth. I love them for it!
DeleteAn eminently worth cover which, as with all great art, truly reflects the modern world . . . ugliness abounding amidst the 98 per cent of low intellects in positions of power. As to the “music”, the least said the better.
ReplyDeleteYou're already over quota.
DeleteI see someone is gathering no moss then? Ta muchly and ta-ta coz I'm orfft to Amazon....
ReplyDeleteHow did the voice of Mr. Jagger somehow, miraculously, get better and stronger than than ever before after eighty-some years of hard living? That'd be a neat trick, but I'm afraid this thing has the inhuman, poreless sheen of AI all over it.
ReplyDeleteThe snowflake ears over at the hoffman forum aren't detecting AI in his vocals, and they'd be all over it. They sound natural to me, which is good enough. He still moves on stage better than I could have at forty, and his voice sounds the same in interviews. Sometimes you have to accept the extraordinary, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you.
DeleteI mean, Keef is still alive, and not a hologram, for fuck's sake!
DeleteNot true, Farq! Keef died years ago, but was too stoned to realize that... Since then he has been happily zombie-ing along through life without anyone noticing anything strange.
DeleteI saw elsewhere another two alternative cover artworks for RS Foreign Tongues that for some reason featured the 2026 FIFA World Cup branding logo, now I don’t want to start any rumours, but a Rolling Stones gig before of after the Cup Final would make commercial sense, probably. The boss of FIFA will do anything for money.
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