hy guys, what about put in order our favorites stones albums/tours from the seventies,(only official studio album, not live or compilation or bootlegs)and rate them?
i know i'm asking so much, fo a fan it's always hard to make a list (i did mine in 30 minutes!) but it's just for fun!
if you haven't something better to do, do something like this:
this is my list

EXILE ON MAIN STREET album 10 tour 10
STICKY FINGERS album 9.5 tour 8
SOME GIRLS album 9 tour 8.5
IT'S ONLY ROCK'N'ROLL album 8 tour 7.5
BLACK AND BLUE album 7.5 tour 8
GOAT'S HEAD SOUP album 7 tour 8.5

Obviusly tomorrow i'll have changed idea 50 times!
At the end we can see wich are our favorites!

1968 BEGGARS BANQUET (10)
1969 LET IT BLEED (8)
1969 US tour (10)
1970 GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! (10)
1970 European tour (10)
1971 UK tour (8)
1971 STICKY FINGERS (7)
1972 EXILE ON MAIN ST (9)
1972 US tour (8)
1973 Winter tour (9)
1973 GOATS HEAD SOUP (7)
1973 European tour (10)
1974 IT'S ONLY ROCK'N ROLL (6)
1975 US tour (9)
1976 BLACK AND BLUE (7)
1976 European tour (8)
1978 SOME GIRLS (7)
1978 US tour (9)
1979 EMOTIONAL RESCUE (8)
1981 TATTOO YOU (10)
1981 US tour (10)
1982 European tour (8)
1983 UNDERCOVER (8)
1986 DIRTY WORK (6)

F.U.C. the Captain Wrote:
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> 1968 BEGGARS BANQUET (10)
> 1969 LET IT BLEED (8)
> 1969 US tour (10)
> 1970 GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! (10)
> 1970 European tour (10)
> 1971 UK tour (8)
> 1971 STICKY FINGERS (7)
> 1972 EXILE ON MAIN ST (9)
> 1972 US tour (8)
> 1973 Winter tour (9)
> 1973 GOATS HEAD SOUP (7)
> 1973 European tour (10)
> 1974 IT'S ONLY ROCK'N ROLL (6)
> 1975 US tour (9)
> 1976 BLACK AND BLUE (7)
> 1976 European tour (8)
> 1978 SOME GIRLS (7)
> 1978 US tour (9)
> 1979 EMOTIONAL RESCUE (8)
> 1981 TATTOO YOU (10)
> 1981 US tour (10)
> 1982 European tour (8)
> 1983 UNDERCOVER (8)
> 1986 DIRTY WORK (6)


you really think EMOTIONAL RESCUE and UNDERCOVER are better then STICKY FINGERS and SOME GIRLS? WOW!

Albums;
Sticky Fingers - 10
Exile - 10
Goat's Head - 9
IORR - 8
Black and Blue - 9
Some Girls - 10
Emotional - 7

Tours:
71 - 9
72 - 10
75 - 8
78 - 10
81 - 8 (the last real rocktour though)

sticky fingers- 9 tour 9 [including europian tour 70]
exile- 9 tour 10
soup -7 tour 8
iorr- 7
black and blue -6
some girls-7 tour-7
emotional resque-6

Sticky Fingers: album 10 - tour 7
Exile On Main Street: album 10 - tour 10
Goat's Head Soup: album 8 - tour 9
IORR: album 8 - "tour" 1975 8
Black And Blue: album 7 - tour 8
Some Girls: album 10 - tour 10

for those of you judging the tours and giving them '10' - are you basing on it all the shows or just the most essential bootleg(s) from that tour

"Handsome Girls", for example, might be a brilliant collection of great performances but there are several shows on that '78 tour that are bloody awful and sound like a band who have just met each other for the first time earlier that day, rather than one that had been together for over 15 years

Gazza Wrote:
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> for those of you judging the tours and giving them
> '10' - are you basing on it all the shows or just
> the most essential bootleg(s) from that tour
>
> "Handsome Girls", for example, might be a
> brilliant collection of great performances but
> there are several shows on that '78 tour that are
> bloody awful and sound like a band who have just
> met each other for the first time earlier that
> day, rather than one that had been together for
> over 15 years


Gazza

i gave 10 the 72' tour based on most of the audience recordings.. unfortunately all the soundboards from that tour lack some magic[they recorded all the shows where the band was a bit tired]
the HANDSOME GIRLS is the most overrated bootleg and while i try to listen and thinking why the fans go crazy over this and compare with some audience shows from the same tour i still stand by my opinion!

i know that gazza, i did mine just thinkin of the shows i listened on cds, saw on dvds, the pics i saw, the books, the articles i read.

I gave the 78 tour a 10. The first show from that tour I was at was in Philly. That is considered one of the worst shows of the tour. To me it was magic. I was close into that tour. I gave it a 10 because it was everything a US Stonestour should be. Exciting, xciting, exciting! best year of my life. I do believe a diehard fan knows how to evaluate these tours by now. From audio, video, press, word of mouth, photo, books all that stuff.
I was not around for the 76 tour e.g but have a very good idea what went good and what went badly. So I do feel pretty qulified to give it a score.

> you really think EMOTIONAL RESCUE and UNDERCOVER
> are better then STICKY FINGERS and SOME GIRLS?
> WOW!

I know it's an unpopular opinion within the Stones aficionados but STICKY FINGERS and SOME GIRLS just don't move me. I wasn't young when they came out. The music on them doesn't urge me to listen to it. I don't listen to these two albums very often. In my opinion both albums are overestimated and do contain songs I really dislike ("Bitch" and "Miss you", sure skippers).

All of the mentioned albums won't get a 9 or even a 10 however.

Sticky Fingers 10/10
Exile On Main St 10/10
Goat's Head Soup 8/10
It's Only Rock 'N Roll 7/10
Black And Blue 6/10
Some Girls 9/10


Anyway, just for fun. Here are my 80's ratings.

Emotional Rescue 6/10
Undercover 7/10
Tattoo You 8/10
Dirty Work 5/10
Steel Wheels 7/10


Last, but not least, here are my 90's and beyond ratings.

Voodoo Lounge 7/10
Bridges To Babylon 8/10
A Bigger Bang 8/10



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2005-10-28 21:10 by Big Al.

and here are mine:

emotional rescue 7
tattoo you 6.5 tour81-82 7.5
undercover 5.5
dirty work 5
steel wheels 5.5 tour89-90 6.5

i think tattoo you is generally a bit overrated (exept for start me up oblviusly), while it's only r'n'r and emotional rescue are better than most of the people says!

Sticky Fingers - album 10 - tour 9
Exile On Main Street - alnum 10 - tour 10 (I wanna have the opening nite sbd!!!!)
Goats Head Soup - album 9 - tour 10
It's Only Rock'n'Roll - album 10 - tour 9
Black'n'Blue - album 7 - tour 7
Some Girls - album 10 - tour 9
Emotional Rescue 8 or 9
Tattoo You - album 10 - tour 7 or 8 (just look at Mick's or Charlie's clothes!), but Hampton 10+++++

ChelseaDrugstore Wrote:
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> I gave the 78 tour a 10. The first show from that
> tour I was at was in Philly. That is considered
> one of the worst shows of the tour. To me it was
> magic. I was close into that tour. I gave it a 10
> because it was everything a US Stonestour should
> be. Exciting, xciting, exciting! best year of my
> life. I do believe a diehard fan knows how to
> evaluate these tours by now. From audio, video,
> press, word of mouth, photo, books all that stuff.
>
> I was not around for the 76 tour e.g but have a
> very good idea what went good and what went badly.
> So I do feel pretty qulified to give it a score.


you speaketh the truth!

To compare with today:

I would rate A Bigger Bang 7 and Bridges To Babylon and Voodoo Lounge 8