Are the rolling stones sh*t?

[killer b]

Stones LPs - no matter of what era - always have something to recommend them. Been listening to “Undercover” recently and apart from the great title track there’s “Too Much Blood”, “Feel on Baby” and “She Was Hot”. Even the filler is pretty OK.

Undercover is a great album, I've had it on recently and was also pleasantly surprised how solid it was

 

[Sasaferrato]

Here for a start - but if you want some CDs of similar treasures I’m sure I can sort something out for you

Shades of Country Honk there.

 

[seeformiles]

Shades of Country Honk there.

Here’s another cracker - with E.Clapton :

 

[MickiQ]

Never been a great Stones fan but a band that has been around as long as they have is bound to have produced at least some decent tunes by sheer chance. The only Stones Album I have is 40 Licks which has got most of their best work on it.

 

[killer b]

Mick Jagger has just released this new Covid related song with Dave Grohl - the music is the standard filler blues-rock boogie woogie all the new stones stuff has been for years, but the lyrics are something else...



That’s a pretty mask
But never take a chance tik tok stupid dance
Took a samba class i landed on my ass
Trying to write a tune you better hook me up to zoom
See my poncey books teach myself to cook
Way too much tv its lobotomising me
Think ive put on weight
Ill have another drink then ill clean the kitchen sink

and there's more! These are satirical I think:

Shooting the vaccine bill gates is in my bloodstream
Its mind control
The earth is flat and cold its never warming up
The arctics turned to slush
The second comings late
There’s aliens in the deep state

 

[rekil]

Runnin' out of servants
Googlin' what to do
Three died this month
Another half dozen in the ICU

 

[rekil]

Chateau walls clooousin' in

It's like kurt dying all over again.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Love the stones. Grew up with my dad playing them loads and his enthusiasm for them was infectious. Can picture him dancing to them aww. I'm sure the 20 or so albums they've made since then are probably shite, but who cares, they made some fucking ace rock n roll in their heyday.

 

[sideboob]

 

[Hollis]

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

Never listened to Goat's Head Soup 'cause its always been slated.. .its actually pretty damn good.. okay the songs aren't as strong as Let it Bleed, Beggar's Banquet, Sticky Fingers... but it has a nice feel to it... lots of Mick Taylor guitar..

 

[Dystopiary]

They're not the worst covers band, but the nonce former member makes me not want to listen to any of their stuff. Not heard any of their post-nonce songs.

 

[Hollis]

I used to think they were a singles band, but I just listened to their singles the other day and a fair number of them are pretty dull too. There is a particular loose-tight sound they had in the late 60s/early 70s that is a classic rock sound. But the Faces did it better.

Err - 'Truth' Jeff Beck - the missing link?

On a seperate note gave most of 'Beyond the Buttons' from 1967 a listen the other night - god.. it is shit!

 

[hash tag]

"a mediocre pub band"

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I think I only know their singles or the obvious ones, which I like.
Tried listening to the psychedelic one once and it was pretty awful. They’re no Beatles.

 

[BassJunkie]

Never mind a singles band, from Beggars Banquest, through Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street to Goat's Head Soup they knocked out a series of fucking great albums.

Who's better - the Beatles or the Stones? Well, the Stones didn't have McCartney. So that makes the Stones better.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

"a mediocre pub band"
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The irony. And I don't think any of the Stones are Brexit voting gammons.

 

[skyscraper101]

I could condense what I like of the Stones into a cracking best of but the vast majority of their massive catalogue is quite tiresome listening to me.

 

[Sweet FA]

Has Rog got 'product' out or something, the tiresome old fucker?

 

[hitmouse]

Are the Stones the band that spawned the most good cover versions? They've got to be right the way up there. Although I suppose they might also score highly for "band that spawned the most shit cover versions".

 

[Raheem]

The Who were a great band ruined by having a shit singer.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Who's better - the Beatles or the Stones? Well, the Stones didn't have McCartney. So that makes the Stones better.

McCartney is cheesy and a wanker. But he's more musically accomplished than any of the Stones ever were. They couldn't write Eleanor Rigby. Penny Lane. And numerous others.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

McCartney is cheesy and a wanker. But he's more musically accomplished than any of the Stones ever were. They couldn't write Eleanor Rigby. Penny Lane. And numerous others.

But then I watch this, Jesus fuck.

 

[Raheem]

Jesus fuck in a good way?

 

[krtek a houby]

The Stones aren't shit. But they do have more shit songs in their oeuvre because they didn't call it a day after Tattoo You.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Jesus fuck in a good way?

Yeah.

 

[Kaka Tim]

The irony. And I don't think any of the Stones are Brexit voting gammons.

the who are about as from being a "mediocre pub band" as its possible to be and still be a rock band. All 3 are highly idiosyncratic in their playing - and very hard to replicate. Its much easier to do stones covers and they pretty much stuck to their particular style from the 70s onwards - so the "pub band" slight does have an element of truth in it.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Dreadful stuff

 

[krtek a houby]

Dreadful stuff

Not got that one

 

[Sasaferrato]

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

Yep, Let it Bleed is superb. My first copy of that was mono.

 

[Pickman's model]

McCartney is cheesy and a wanker. But he's more musically accomplished than any of the Stones ever were. They couldn't write Eleanor Rigby. Penny Lane. And numerous others.

the frog chorus for example