Tell Me :
Talk
uh...what?
It was Courbets erotic masterpiece you douche...don't you get it?
What were we talking about again?
Oh yeah, I think Sticky Fingers is the best. Worst has to be Bridges to Babylon...what the hell does that even mean, or have any relation to the music on the album?
Hmmm, relationship to the music on the album? well, the album had a lot to
do with self-defeating behavior. And a primary example of that, in mick's view,
was the push for war in iraq (babylon). it was a way of calling bullshit on clinton's
slogan "bridge to the 21st century". no, mick was saying, more like a bridge
to babylon, in the rasta sense too.
so its also one of a number of stones titles that are also retorts. "satanic
majesties" name and cover art are a retort to "sgt pepper's". "let it bleed"
a retort to "let it be" (yes, "bleed" was released before "be" but "be" was
already well known and well heard by mick).
although "a bigger bang" struck everybody as corny sounding, in the end it
has quite a few things going for it. because the term was coined by the US
Defense secretary in 1954 to refer to nuclear weapons, it is a retort to
"how to dismantle an atomic bomb". it also served to raise the ticket-selling
issue "have they chosen to go out with a bang?". plus it was self-referential
to a different title of theirs that also came out at the start of a difficult
period in political history...
Beggar Banks/A Bigger Banquet
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 13:46 by nocomment.
everybody understandably loves that word Exile, but at least when it came out,
still probably, there's been less love towards the Main Street part. nodody
calls the album Main Street that's for sure. yeah, know about the location of
the LA studios on main street, but "main street" the phrase has strong connotations
of its own, most of them quite in contradiction to what the stones symbolized at
that time. "main street" is pretty much the opposite of the word "exile"
actually.
a good question then is why "main street" and not desolation row or something like that?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 13:57 by nocomment.
and the answer is that Mick was setting up the meme that the Stones were
not diabolical any longer, but simply main street entertainment. and it was
successful marketing. with his mostly white elvis jumpsuits, mick was saying,
nothing to be scared of, we're just hardworking vegas-type entertainers.
and the press bought it, both mainstream and alternative, the latter screaming
that the stones had sold out. which they had. they'd intentionally gone vegas
to put 1969 and altamont behind them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 17:29 by nocomment.
This contradiction is exactly what makes the titel so magnificent. The connotations are wider - and the meanings multiple.
well, lay it on us.
Talk about your favorite band.
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Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Send It To me
()
Date: October 26, 2011 07:28
best to worst:
Exile On Main Street
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Voodoo Lounge
Tattoo You
Sticky Fingers
No Security
Bridges to Babylon
Flashpoint
Some Girls
December's Children (and Everyone's)
Aftermath
Its Only Rock and Roll
Get Your Ya Ya's Out
Undercover
Goats Head Soup
Dirty Work
Black and Blue
Love You Live
Steel Wheels
Got Live If You Want It
Between the Buttons
Satanic Majesties
40 Licks
Still Life
12 X 5
Shine A Light
Stripped
Now
Flowers
Emotional Rescue
Bigger Bang
Out of Our Heads
Live Licks
England's Newest Hitmakers
Exile On Main Street
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Voodoo Lounge
Tattoo You
Sticky Fingers
No Security
Bridges to Babylon
Flashpoint
Some Girls
December's Children (and Everyone's)
Aftermath
Its Only Rock and Roll
Get Your Ya Ya's Out
Undercover
Goats Head Soup
Dirty Work
Black and Blue
Love You Live
Steel Wheels
Got Live If You Want It
Between the Buttons
Satanic Majesties
40 Licks
Still Life
12 X 5
Shine A Light
Stripped
Now
Flowers
Emotional Rescue
Bigger Bang
Out of Our Heads
Live Licks
England's Newest Hitmakers
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Handova
()
Date: October 26, 2011 15:58
^ I never took the "England's Newest Hitmakers" as "true" album title ... more something like Decca came up with after the album was fully assembled. That album is simply titled "The Rolling Stones" in my book.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Ket
()
Date: October 26, 2011 16:08
Exile is the best and December's Children (and Everyone's) is by far the worst
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
GetYerAngie
()
Date: October 26, 2011 16:30
I think the Best titles are:
Exile on main street
Beggars banquet
A bigger bang
Some girls
Sticky fingers
Let it bleed
Goats head soup
Get yer ya yas out
Bridges to Babylon
Voodoo lounge
Black and blue
The Rolling Stones
and
Made in the Shade
and
Could you walk on water?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-26 16:51 by GetYerAngie.
Exile on main street
Beggars banquet
A bigger bang
Some girls
Sticky fingers
Let it bleed
Goats head soup
Get yer ya yas out
Bridges to Babylon
Voodoo lounge
Black and blue
The Rolling Stones
and
Made in the Shade
and
Could you walk on water?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-26 16:51 by GetYerAngie.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Elmo Lewis
()
Date: October 26, 2011 16:45
Worst: Sucking In The 70's
Best: Sticky Fingers or Emotional Rescue
Best: Sticky Fingers or Emotional Rescue
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: October 26, 2011 16:50
The Rolling Stones
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
More Hot Rocks
()
Date: October 26, 2011 16:56
Best It's Only Rock and Roll and A Bigger Bang
Worst Emotional Rescue
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-26 16:58 by More Hot Rocks.
Worst Emotional Rescue
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-26 16:58 by More Hot Rocks.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
GetYerAngie
()
Date: October 26, 2011 18:44
I'm not sure I think "A Bigger Bang" is their best titel, but it is one of them. It is both moddest (the "a" ) and shamelessly bragging, refined and vulgar - making The Big Bang human (and one of many). Of course it is just a guuss, but the titel could be inspired by Courbet's Origin of the world, which was covered by a both hinting and hiding painting. As one can experience on the Lacan-homepage (Jacques Lacan - psychoanalyst and previous owner of Courbets erotic masterpiece).
[www.lacan.com]
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-26 20:17 by GetYerAngie.
[www.lacan.com]
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-26 20:17 by GetYerAngie.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
StonesTod
()
Date: October 26, 2011 18:50
Quote
GetYerAngie
I'm not sure I think "A Bigger Bang" is their best titel, but it is one of them. It is both moddest (the "a" ) and shamelessly bragging, refined and vulgar - making The Big Bang human. Maybe inspired by Courbet's Origin of the world, which was covered by an alluding and hiding painting. As one can experience on the Lacan-homepage (psychoanalyst and previous owner of Courbets erotic masterpiece).
uh...what?
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
DragonSky
()
Date: October 26, 2011 19:03
Tattoo You
Sticky Fingers
Voodoo Lounge
Goats Head Soup
Undercover
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
Beggars Banquet
Aftermath
Love You Live
Exile On Main Street
Sticky Fingers
Voodoo Lounge
Goats Head Soup
Undercover
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
Beggars Banquet
Aftermath
Love You Live
Exile On Main Street
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Pete66
()
Date: October 26, 2011 20:45
Crushed Pearl would have been a great one.
Pete.
Pete.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
originalstones
()
Date: October 27, 2011 00:24
Quote
GetYerAngie
I'm not sure I think "A Bigger Bang" is their best titel, but it is one of them. It is both moddest (the "a" ) and shamelessly bragging, refined and vulgar - making The Big Bang human (and one of many). Of course it is just a guuss, but the titel could be inspired by Courbet's Origin of the world, which was covered by a both hinting and hiding painting. As one can experience on the Lacan-homepage (Jacques Lacan - psychoanalyst and previous owner of Courbets erotic masterpiece).
Who wrote this, Andrew Loog Oldham? LOL
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
proudmary
()
Date: October 27, 2011 00:27
Some Girls
Sticky Fingers
Out of Our Heads
Sticky Fingers
Out of Our Heads
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: October 27, 2011 00:29
...... Greatest Hits... It must be good ...every artist uses it
ROCKMAN
ROCKMAN
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
NICOS
()
Date: October 27, 2011 00:30
Get Yer Penis Out!
Double click on the blank
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Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Max'sKansasCity
()
Date: October 27, 2011 02:25
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 03:20 by Max'sKansasCity.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 03:20 by Max'sKansasCity.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
treaclefingers
()
Date: October 27, 2011 04:10
Quote
StonesTodQuote
GetYerAngie
I'm not sure I think "A Bigger Bang" is their best titel, but it is one of them. It is both moddest (the "a" ) and shamelessly bragging, refined and vulgar - making The Big Bang human. Maybe inspired by Courbet's Origin of the world, which was covered by an alluding and hiding painting. As one can experience on the Lacan-homepage (psychoanalyst and previous owner of Courbets erotic masterpiece).
uh...what?
It was Courbets erotic masterpiece you douche...don't you get it?
What were we talking about again?
Oh yeah, I think Sticky Fingers is the best. Worst has to be Bridges to Babylon...what the hell does that even mean, or have any relation to the music on the album?
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
nocomment
()
Date: October 27, 2011 06:08
Quote
treaclefingers
Worst has to be Bridges to Babylon...what the hell does that even mean, or have any relation to the music on the album?
Hmmm, relationship to the music on the album? well, the album had a lot to
do with self-defeating behavior. And a primary example of that, in mick's view,
was the push for war in iraq (babylon). it was a way of calling bullshit on clinton's
slogan "bridge to the 21st century". no, mick was saying, more like a bridge
to babylon, in the rasta sense too.
so its also one of a number of stones titles that are also retorts. "satanic
majesties" name and cover art are a retort to "sgt pepper's". "let it bleed"
a retort to "let it be" (yes, "bleed" was released before "be" but "be" was
already well known and well heard by mick).
although "a bigger bang" struck everybody as corny sounding, in the end it
has quite a few things going for it. because the term was coined by the US
Defense secretary in 1954 to refer to nuclear weapons, it is a retort to
"how to dismantle an atomic bomb". it also served to raise the ticket-selling
issue "have they chosen to go out with a bang?". plus it was self-referential
to a different title of theirs that also came out at the start of a difficult
period in political history...
Beggar Banks/A Bigger Banquet
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 13:46 by nocomment.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Silver Dagger
()
Date: October 27, 2011 11:36
Crack, smack and a bottle of Jack.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Palace Revolution 2000
()
Date: October 27, 2011 11:55
Flowers is an odd choice for a Stones album, even back then.
I do not like Voodoo Lounge, and Steel Wheels. They smack too much of corporate brainstorming session; "we need a two word title that sounds cool, and that we can name and model a tour after".
I love all the older titles like "Now!" and "Out of our Heads" , "Hitmakers" - love them.
Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers, Exile, Goats Head Soup - all brilliant. As I scroll through them in my head I realize that the Stones have had GREAT titles; it's the artwork that is sketchy.
I do not like Voodoo Lounge, and Steel Wheels. They smack too much of corporate brainstorming session; "we need a two word title that sounds cool, and that we can name and model a tour after".
I love all the older titles like "Now!" and "Out of our Heads" , "Hitmakers" - love them.
Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers, Exile, Goats Head Soup - all brilliant. As I scroll through them in my head I realize that the Stones have had GREAT titles; it's the artwork that is sketchy.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
nocomment
()
Date: October 27, 2011 13:53
Quote
Palace Revolution 2000
Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers, Exile, Goats Head Soup - all brilliant. As I scroll through them in my head I realize that the Stones have had GREAT titles; it's the artwork that is sketchy.
everybody understandably loves that word Exile, but at least when it came out,
still probably, there's been less love towards the Main Street part. nodody
calls the album Main Street that's for sure. yeah, know about the location of
the LA studios on main street, but "main street" the phrase has strong connotations
of its own, most of them quite in contradiction to what the stones symbolized at
that time. "main street" is pretty much the opposite of the word "exile"
actually.
a good question then is why "main street" and not desolation row or something like that?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 13:57 by nocomment.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
nocomment
()
Date: October 27, 2011 14:27
Quote
nocomment
a good question then is why "main street" and not desolation row or something like that?
and the answer is that Mick was setting up the meme that the Stones were
not diabolical any longer, but simply main street entertainment. and it was
successful marketing. with his mostly white elvis jumpsuits, mick was saying,
nothing to be scared of, we're just hardworking vegas-type entertainers.
and the press bought it, both mainstream and alternative, the latter screaming
that the stones had sold out. which they had. they'd intentionally gone vegas
to put 1969 and altamont behind them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-10-27 17:29 by nocomment.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
GetYerAngie
()
Date: October 27, 2011 14:29
Quote
nocommentQuote
Palace Revolution 2000
Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers, Exile, Goats Head Soup - all brilliant. As I scroll through them in my head I realize that the Stones have had GREAT titles; it's the artwork that is sketchy.
everybody understandably loves that word Exile, but at least when it came out,
still probably, there's been less love towards the Main Street part. nodody
calls the album Main Street that's for sure. yeah, know about the location of
the LA studios on main street, but "main street" the phrase has strong connotations
of its own, most of them quite in contradiction to what the stones symbolized at
that time. "main street" is pretty much the opposite of the word "exile"
actually.
a good question then is why "main street" and not desolation row or something like that?
This contradiction is exactly what makes the titel so magnificent. The connotations are wider - and the meanings multiple.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
nocomment
()
Date: October 27, 2011 14:32
Quote
GetYerAngie
This contradiction is exactly what makes the titel so magnificent. The connotations are wider - and the meanings multiple.
well, lay it on us.
Re: Best album TITLES
Posted by:
Come On
()
Date: October 27, 2011 19:15
Get your ya ya's out and Tinseltown Rebellion is pretty good albumtitles...
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