Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: August-September &
November-December 2004, March-April & June 2005
Recording locations: La
Fourchette, Posé sur Cisse, France & Ocean Way Recording Studios,
Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don
Was & The Glimmer Twins
Chief
engineer: Krish
Sharma
Mixer: Krish
Sharma Performed
onstage: 2005-06
Line-up:
Drums:
Charlie
Watts
Bass: Darryl
Jones
Acoustic
guitar:
Keith Richards
Electric
guitars:
Keith Richards, Mick Jagger &
Ron Wood
Keyboards: Mick
Jagger & Matt Clifford
Lead
vocals: Mick
Jagger
Backing
vocals: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Vibes: Mick Jagger
& Matt
Clifford
Programming: Matt
Clifford
TrackTalk
(T)here are other songs, more concentrated stuff like Rain Fall Down and Laugh, I Nearly Died, that are more created sounds of the studio.
I laid down drum
loops on the demos and certain
grooves, and I ended up working with Charlie and working up those
specific
grooves, like on Rain Fall Down. In the old days when you did
demos,
you couldn't really carry them over into recording. But now I just took
certain elements, and I've kept elements, so it saves you time. And
also
you can get a cetain kind of feel sometimes when you inititially do it,
too.
...London's gotten
even scarier. Rain Fall
Down is a song about London. It has a line, Feel like we're
living
in a battleground / Everyone's jazzed. That was in my head already.
There weer so many armed police in the streets. Walking around, seeing
machine guns, is not how you imagine London to be. If we keep going
down
this track, we're not going to get back.
(I)t's very
tongue-in-cheek. But yeah it's
saying, We all live here, why do we think it's so great? I
wasn't
thinking about the girl selling my story exactly, more the tawdriness
of
it all. I was thinking of someone like Jude Law and the nanny. He's
like
the new Hugh Grant.
I like eggs at the
right moment. It's really
nice at the right moment. Not the wrong moment. In the morning. (After
sex, y)eah, but in the morning!