Rolling Stones discussion thread

[King Postwhore]

I like both.  But I'm picky making playlists with them.

[TAC]

I like both.  But I'm picky making playlists with them.

Same.

[jammindude]

Some of this is said in good fun.

As I hinted at before, I think their Brian Jones period is second only to the Beatles as far as relevance goes (I would put Pink Floyd and The Moodies slightly above the Stones for personal tastes of that period).   The Hot Rocks double album is a must, but I don't know if there's much need to go beyond that.

[Cool Chris]

Hot Rocks got as much play on my first CD player as any CDs I owned for years. I don't believe I ever owned a Stones studio album. I doubt I could even name all their albums or which songs are on what album.

[El Barto]

New single:

https://lotsofmuzik.com/the-rolling-stones-reveal-new-single-angry-and-album-hackney-diamonds-release-date/



These guy's are absolutely the best thing that ever happened to music. The fact they are still writing and recording is so amazing. Thank you so much guys the world wouldn't be the same with out you.

That was a great video (and not just because of the girl). It was a good idea and very well done. Nothing remarkable about the song, though. Sounds like the Stones.

[MinistroRaven]

New single:

https://lotsofmuzik.com/the-rolling-stones-reveal-new-single-angry-and-album-hackney-diamonds-release-date/



These guy's are absolutely the best thing that ever happened to music. The fact they are still writing and recording is so amazing. Thank you so much guys the world wouldn't be the same with out you.

That was a great video (and not just because of the girl). It was a good idea and very well done. Nothing remarkable about the song, though. Sounds like the Stones.

I'm impressed by how seamlessly the images of the band blend into the billboard. It looks so natural, like something out of Harry Potter, but even better.

[Stadler]

You don't like them?
I think my dad introduced me to them ages ago, and it was so fun to watch Mike movements were hilarious to me.
Growing up I got to like them more and more, and the drummer was a beast on his own.

I love the early stuff before Brian died. But I just feel like it gets so spotty after that.  I pretty much view them is an over rated bar band. The only reason they're considered legends is because of their longevity, which I will tip my cap to.

Respect, but this isn't accurate at all.    It really isn't.   The Stones were peers of the fucking Beatles for gosh sakes.  Lesser peers, I give you, but peers nonetheless.  They were a very prominent counter to the Beatles, and had as much a presence in the London music scene from that '65 to '69-'70 era as any band.   Their run from Beggar's Banquet through Exile On Main St. is as seminal to that period of rock and roll as any four albums not named "Revolver through Abbey Road".   

Charlie Watts is considered one of the greatest rock drummers of all time.  He gets beaten up more than Jimmy Page for being sloppy, but Keith Richards has created some of the most memorable riffs of all time; you hear "Satisfaction" or "Honky Tonk Women" and you know EXACTLY who it is, immediately.   Mick Jagger is over whelmed by the cliches (the lips, whatever) but he's an ICONIC front man, and you have an almost entire genre of music inspired by him (I'm thinking of bands like The Killers, The Strokes... even Harry Styles has paid significant homage to Jagger).  He's also one of the very few guy - along with, funny enough, McCartney - who has had few if any vocal problems over the years.

I'm a huge Stones fan, all eras.  I think they are far more than just "longevity".  I think their early years are a prime example of the incorporation of blues (including American blues) into British rock.   I think the early mid-period is a prime example of the way music interfaced with culture.   Altamont; the Redlands arrests, the tax exile in the early '70s.   The late '70s, early '80s was a study in how to navigate roots while still maintaining relevancy.   And frankly, I think the latter period is about as vital as any other act still operating into their fifth or sixth decades (I wonder if he was being honest, if Bono wouldn't be jealous of that work when compared to the last two or three U2 albums).

Too much of the Stones is caricature, IMO.   Jagger, the preening, egomaniacal front man (when in reality, he is an incredibly smart, incredibly astute businessman who has shepherded the Stones since the mid-70s as manager, and according to Charlie Watts "Mick Jagger is the least egotistical person; he'll do what's right for the band."  He certainly put aside any feud with Richards in order to keep the Stones as a functioning entity.

[Stadler]

New single:

https://lotsofmuzik.com/the-rolling-stones-reveal-new-single-angry-and-album-hackney-diamonds-release-date/



These guy's are absolutely the best thing that ever happened to music. The fact they are still writing and recording is so amazing. Thank you so much guys the world wouldn't be the same with out you.

That was a great video (and not just because of the girl). It was a good idea and very well done. Nothing remarkable about the song, though. Sounds like the Stones.

I dug the song, but that video was something else.  I loved how the street signs moved in front of the billboards, seemlessly. I also liked how each of the billboards capture (perfectly, IMO) a discrete era of the band.  The one for "Emotional Rescue" (one of my favorite Stones albums) was especially cool.