At Least I Gotta Hand it to Them

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If you've been paying attention to music news, you know that there will be a new release soon by legendary rock band, The Rolling Stones, which will be a 14-track LP featuring some drum parts from Charlie Watts, added post-mortem of course, and will feature guest musicians like Paul McCartney, the Cure's Robert Smith, RHCP's Chad Smith and Steve Winwood. 2023 was their last release with Hackney Diamonds. Whenever these legendary bands put out new stuff, they do well, but the music never even remotely comes close to what made them legends to begin with. None of the songs will likely become iconic in the way the ones that will live on forever and made them famous will. But still, you have to hand it to them for still doing what they love and giving their fans something new to at least admire. I listened to two early releases, In the Stars, and Rough and Twisted, and the only impression I'd have of them are this; if these songs were released and performed by anyone else, no one would listen to them at all, and likely no one would even know they existed. That's not to say they aren't good songs. But it is to say they are not of the legendary fare we became used to. In other words, anyone could have written these songs. They are written and performed by The Rolling Stones, but they are not Rolling Stones songs, if you know what I mean.