They are fantastic any time,of course,from Brian Jones-main look youngsters till
Veteran union-oldsters,but which period(albums,looks,etc) is especially dear to you?
My golden stone age(and favourite albums) is during:
1)Miss you
2)Emotional resque
3)Tattoo you
How to outtop these?Then there were not-easy 80s.

1963-2007

Studio wise it's '68 to '78 for me. Also it's '89 to today. These are the two best periods. Live it's different. That's more like '94 to today and also '69 to '78.

JumpingKentFlash

Live & Studio - '69-'73.

The 1st 15 years studio wise.

Since 89 live.

IMHO.

For me, the most interesting era is that one, after I had entered the planet, so from Steel Wheels on.
Steel Wheels is a fine album, with very strong rock-tunes like Sad Sad Sad.
Voodoo Lounge is a rough mixture of a lot of great ideas, unfortunately too smoothed. Though You Got Me Rocking, I Go Wild, Mean Disposition, Love Is Strong etc. are grat songs.
Bridges To Babylon is one of my favourites, actually just great songs: beginning with Flip The Switch, Low Down (the Start Me Up of 1997), Gunface, Saint Of Me....
Three of the four new songs of 40Licks are really good (Loosing My Touch doesn't beling to these) and A Bigger Bang is probably the best mixed rock-album ever. Rock'n Roll, typical Stones-rock, Funk, Pop, Blues, Reagge....waaaaaaahhhhhm!

All that doesn't mean that I don't like Let It Bleed or Sticky Fingers, it's just that I am nearer to their late works. I guess this is a sign, that they didn't loos the connection to the Zeitgeist, even not in their 60ies.

1963 - 1969, The Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll...

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RollingStonesFan Wrote:
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> (Loosing My Touch doesn't beling to these)


In my opinion Losing My Touch is one of the best new ones on Forty Licks. Certainly better than Keys To Your Love (The Stones' Christmas song) and Stealing My Heart.

JumpingKentFlash

Rolling Stones golden period IMHO:

Albums: From Aftermath to EOMS (1966-1972)
Compilations: 1964 (Around And Around) and 1972 (Hot Rocks)
Singles: From Little Red Rooster to IORR (1964-1974)
Live: 1969 US tour

Of course they have released a lot of good stuff outside of the golden period(s), the years 1978 -1983 is IMO their "silver age" when it comes to albums (Some Girls - Undercover). Love Is Strong is a great single from 1994, Stripped is a good album from 1995 and Back Of My Hand is a great album-track from 2005.



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Hmm. That's a tough one. The first tour I remember was Tattoo You but I was too young to go. My older brothers went and I guess that was what made me first get into the Stones. The first cassette I bought was Dirty Work and I loved it. Finally got to see them live on the Steel Wheels tour. Haven't missed a tour since. I've caught 13 shows on the Bigger Bang tour from Hollywood to London. I guess my golden period is whatever show I'm seeing at the time. To me there is nothing more golden than a live Stones shows. If I had to go studio wise I would say either Sticky Fingers, Exile, or Goat's Head Soup. Those three CD's always make me happy in different way. But then again, I appreciate anything they do from the very beginning to right now. This may be an impossible question to answer. I may not be able to pinpoint my golden age but the day they stop will definitely be the beginning of my dark age.

I like 1966 - 1969 the most.

1968 - 1978
The albums, the tours, the image.

OOOOOOOWWWWW Baby it's all golden.....



ROCKMAN

1965
1973
1990

On record 1966 to 1973 and 1977. Live 1972 and 1978 to 1982.

Mathijs

Mathijs Wrote:
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> On record 1966 to 1973 and 1977. Live 1972 and
> 1978 to 1982.
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> Mathijs


Not 1973 live? I thought that was your favourite...

JumpingKentFlash

'63-2007++

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> '63-2007++


Gold rings on ya'....

JumpingKentFlash

I am crazy for anything, all the ups and downs included, from 1962 to 1983; there are nice three sections: Brian era, Taylor era and Ronnie era, and all of them are brialliant in their own terms. Maybe albums like Their Satanic Majesties (brian's last real contribution), IORR (taylor's last) and Undercover (Ron's last real contribution) are not among their very best ones, but still they excite me more than anything they have released from mid 80's on (since they stopped being a living and breathing band and turned out to be a pastishe museum act). The same goes for live performances: give me anything from 1963 to 1982 and I love it - even the invalid and unpro shows from hysteric Stonesmania years or the sleazy and sloppy 1976 shows turns me anytime on. Anything they did all along those years (62-83) somehow added and contributed to the story of band - and it's bloody exciting story, full of incredible chapters.

- Doxa

*Insert spiky comment*

JumpingKentFlash

The good thing is that they have several peaks:

1965/66 (hits and Aftermath)

1968 to 1972 (tours and records)

1977/1978/1979 (all those sessions and songs rec. in the Bahamas, Paris, LA)

1981/82 touring with grabbing new/young audience

1989 to 1998 (making records and tour behind them ca$hing in $$$$$$$$$$$$$)

2002/2003 the Licks Trilogy concept

2005 ABB (the record)

Not bad!

And even the lower valleys are interesting for me and provide some very good stuff!



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They are golden whenever their tour rolls through my city.


IORR............but I like it!

1963-1986 when they were a real band, the real Rolling Stones.

The Goldent Decade, of course is 1962-1972.

Nothing else really compares....Top of the world.

JR



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Of all the various incarnations of the Rolling Stones, and as wonderful as some of the later ones are, it's still "Brian's band" that I love the best. (Soundtrack to my youth and all that, I expect, but I can't be objective about it.)

Studio
1967 - 1972 (probably because I started in 1967)
1963 - 1966
1973 - 2005

Live
1969 - 1973

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The first album - 63
Then 66-78
Then 83
Then 97

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

The Brian Jones period is my favorite,

Marv Peck

Y'all remember that rubber legged boy

1963- 2007

All periods are golden