Oct 11 2012
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If you say the song is bad, people accuse you of not listening closely to what is obviously skilled work by skilled musicians, of holding them hostage to their own impossibly high past standards. If you say the song is good, people accuse you of being a Stones apologist, of practicing a kind of self-deception in which you pretend that the band is still relevant.
Ben Greenman reviews the Rolling Stones’ new song, “Doom and Gloom”: http://nyr.kr/STAyv5
I wouldn’t necessarily call this song bad. I’d just say Mick and Keith couldn’t manage to write a new songs and decided to write “Gimme Shelter” again instead, with a weaker hook. Whatever, I’d still see them live.
(Source: newyorker.com)
