Are the rolling stones sh*t?

[Bahnhof Strasse]

he's still full of pills

Yeah, just not the fun ones though.

 

[rubbershoes]

Not shit

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Saw them at Wembley Stadium donks ago, was OK, nothing special.

I do like the way they play at Twickenham though, Jagger still has a big house in Richmond, think some of the others do too, I like to imagine them walking home after a gig, or maybe taking the 281.

My dad claims to have seen them at Eel Pie back in the day. He did live in Hounslow so it is close enough to walk, but his claims of canoes over the Thames to save thruppence sound a bit whiffy to me.

 

[rubbershoes]

Also not shit

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I never got on with 'Exile on Main St.' and that is supposed to be their best so I never really explored their other material. As Favelado says Gimme Shelter is a great end of decade moment.
Jumpin Jack Flash, just re-listening now, it's like the blue print for a million songs that came afterwards.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I was never a fan but always thought they were ok and better than the Beatles but I just didn't listen to their music at the time.
Now I occasionally hear something I like, ask who it is and it's often the Stones.

Saul Goodman I thought that commenting unfavourably on someone's looks was just a thing that awful 1970s comedians did.

And me, apparently.

 

[Pickman's model]

I was never a fan but always thought they were ok and better than the Beatles but I just didn't listen to their music at the time.
Now I occasionally hear something I like, ask who it is and it's often the Stones.

Saul Goodman I thought that commenting unfavourably on someone's looks was just a thing that awful 1970s comedians did.

And tabloid journos

 

[seeformiles]

I never got on with 'Exile on Main St.' and that is supposed to be their best so I never really explored their other material. As Favelado says Gimme Shelter is a great end of decade moment.
Jumpin Jack Flash, just re-listening now, it's like the blue print for a million songs that came afterwards.

Exile is well overrated - Goat’s Head Soup is much better. Let it Bleed is their best by a country mile

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I never got on with 'Exile on Main St.' and that is supposed to be their best so I never really explored their other material. As Favelado says Gimme Shelter is a great end of decade moment.

Let It Bleed is their best studio album, but it's also worth acquiring any of the million compilations of their 60s/70s singles

 

[8115]

Of course they are.

 

[andysays]

Not only are they very much "not shit", they also predicted our current situation...

 

[Knotted]

They were a pretty damn good singles band in their day but SF Sorrow is two and half times better than Let It Bleed.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Exile is the only album I can ever be bothered to listen to the whole of. Even Let It Bleed is 50% dreck.

 

[Raheem]

in case anyone is in any doubt

I guess the point must be either that this clip shows them being unarguably ace or else unarguably shit. But which?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

stoopid fucking question

 

[Humberto]

stoopid fucking question

Good London bands of their era:

The kinks, the who, the small faces, the faces

 

[D'wards]

Stones at the height of their powers. Anyone who says they are shit is trying to be all hard and street and cool

 

[Humberto]

I'm not being funny but that is an ugly profile. Man Alive

 

[D'wards]

They were all kind of ugly beautiful as the french say, apart from dear Stu who was merely ugly ugly.
He was demoted to van driver and tour manager occasionally playing live behind the stacks or somewhere he couldn't be seen, due to the fact he looked like the back end of a bus.
He took it quite well, poor sod

 

[Humberto]

Abandon thrEAD?

 

[Humberto]

Anyway, nice chatting to yous guys. I have in my sack Satan's Parsnips.

 

[Humberto]

Parspins? Obviouslly.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Good London bands of their era:

The kinks, the who, the small faces, the faces

All great at one point or another.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

They were all kind of ugly beautiful as the french say, apart from dear Stu who was merely ugly ugly.
He was demoted to van driver and tour manager occasionally playing live behind the stacks or somewhere he couldn't be seen, due to the fact he looked like the back end of a bus.
He took it quite well, poor sod

I think he did alright for himself.

 

[D'wards]

I think he did alright for himself.

He did boogie with Led Zeppelin

 

[Nanker Phelge]

He did boogie with Led Zeppelin

Not too fussed by them

 

[Orang Utan]

I like their dancey stuff like Miss You and Undercover Of The Night and like Paint It Black and a couple of others but they’re not a very interesting band. Those guitar riffs sound so played out now

 

[D'wards]

Not too fussed by them

They wrote a song for Stu you see

 

[Kaka Tim]

hugely important and influential band who patented the whole "rock band as rebels" template. Between 1965 and 1971 they produced a shit load of fantastic songs from the brilliant spiralling riff of the last time to the exhilarating dark energy of Paint it Black and Gimme Shelter through to the heartbreaking honesty of Wild Horses (though i do scratch my head as to how someone so seemingly self centered and narcissistic as jagger could have written something so painfully candid) . They should get credit to for paying their dues to their blues heroes - insisting that they appeared on the bill with them when they toured the US (where segregation was still very much alive and kicking). I don't think they are "shit" by any metric you care to use. Check out this clip of them live from 1965 and imagine how exciting it must have been to be young and in that audience back then.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I guess the point must be either that this clip shows them being unarguably ace or else unarguably shit. But which?

that song - inarguably meh compared to their best stuff