I can't believe I'm typing this...

...but I'm sitting here listening to the new Rolling Stones disc and it isn't terrible. In fact it's pretty durn decent for a bunch of living fossils. It's not all sheeny and shiny and overproduced like, oh, everything from the last twenty years or so of their recorded output. It's certainly no masterpiece and it's overly long but it does sound way more like their later '70s output than I thought they had the power to muster up anymore.

Who'da thunk it?