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He's a Betales / Robbie Willaims kind of guy - likes easygoing pop music - at least in his reviews, where he gives them 5 / 4 stars.Quote
squando
Man that was hard to wade thru. The guy likes going on. He clearly dislikes the Stones so why review them?
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Ringo
I sent an e-mail to the music editor of The Guardian:
Why does Alexis Petridis write about "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!" or The Rolling Stones? He obviously doesn't understand much of it. The version of "Sympathy for the Devil" is my favourite version of it. There are better versions of "Stray Cat Blues" and "Midnight Rambler", but this is brilliant music, not "a bloated disaster" (SC, or "plods on and on as if the murderer despatched his victims by boring them to death" (MR).
"Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!" is a fantastic album, the best non-bootleg rock live album I've heard, and one of the best rock albums, and perhaps the best non-bootleg live album!
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Ringo
I think the studio version is better than the Ya-Ya's version (which still is brilliant), but here's my favourite version - Leeds 1971
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Doxa
I wrote my thoughts about this 'review' in the long Ya-Yas's thread (where it is as well as some other idiot review) but I copypaste my point here as well:
What bugs me is that when a new Stones album is released it is praised to hell no matter how mediocre it is. That's been the rule since I remember. From UNDERCOVER on. I think it also shows a lot of idiocy from a paper to let people who obviously are anti-Stones to review an album that without ANY reasonable doubt is a part of modern cultural history. The same would be if the re-issues of the Beatles catalog would be given to be reviewed by a person who does not appreciate the band at all.
There are things that go beyond the average capacity of 'critic' to an effect that an opinion of a random person does not mean a shit any longer. If one does not 'get it' why something is appreciated as much at it is, and as important as it is, I think a decent person with a minimal judgment will look at a mirror or at least understands to be shut up. Or a decent media would have a dignity enough to not release such a crap.
- Doxa
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Ringo
I sent an e-mail to the music editor of The Guardian:
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shortfatfanny
Picture included in this guardian article concerning a live album originally released
1970 from shows of 1969...
"Mick Jagger struts across the stage at a Rolling Stones concert, around 1972. Photograph: Neal Preston/Corbis"
Hope they are going to tell when and where this "Rolling Stones concert,around 1972" took place...
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studiorambo
Should stick to writing about faggy-looking mens shirts, and leave Ya-Ya's to Lester fuking Bangs.