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The Rolling Stones - Biggest Mistake (Virgin)

UK release date: 21 August 2006
The Rolling Stones - Biggest Mistake

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Last year's album A Bigger Bang saw the Stones return after an eight-year gap if not with a bang then certainly with much more than a whimper. It showed the sexagenarian rockers could still hack it with excellent songs such as Sweet Neo Con and Laugh, I Nearly Died, so why they chose to release the filler Biggest Mistake as their third single is a mystery.

It's not that it's bad, but it's so mediocre. It chugs along not unpleasantly in mid-tempo without really going anywhere. The only real interest is guessing how much autobiographical content there is in Mick's lyrics about regretting leaving his partner: "I was drinking in love/But after a while I stopped to rebel/I'm back in the past and I'm raising up hell". Maybe Jerry Hall would know - or maybe not.

Of course, we expect the Stones to grow old disgracefully but the blandness of this track suggests self-satisfied apathy rather than guilty heartache. That's a shame because the band definitely still has a lot to offer after more than four decades, and their influence remains strong. Ask Primal Scream.


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