It’s been half a century since the Rolling Stones first formed, but judging by their latest single, “Doom and Gloom,” they still have a bit of the grit that’s made their brand of blues-rock so enduring.
One of two new songs that will be included on their upcoming greatest hits compilation GRRR!, and their first single in six years, “Doom and Gloom” is a hard-hitting, Exile on Main Street-esque railing against all the, well, doom and gloom in the world.
For the most part, Mick Jagger yells over aggressive guitar riffs from Keith Richards and Ron Wood, drawing out each and every vowel and ranting about an overseas war, water shortages, poverty and, oddly enough, zombies (“crash landed in a Louisiana swamp, shot up a horde of zombies, but I come out on top”).
But don’t get too caught up in the random and at times confusing lyrics, because as Jagger warns, “there’s some food for thought, kinda makes your head explo-o-o-o-de.”
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