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The Rolling Stones are simply far too big for any era of the band to really be considered as some kind of small cult. Their Facebook page alone currently sits at 14,470,583 likes, all ages, so many posts about all albums, all members and era's.
What is hardly anyone out of numbers like that?
Thousands of blogs and the like dedicated to the stones and it's members.
The albums always being reissued in some form.
They are still very relevant to a lot of people.
Still try that poll and let me know.
Back in the Brian-days, albums weren't really that important.
Try a poll for most popular song, and you'll quickly find that 4 or 5 of the 10 most popular tunes are with Brian - something the setlist on this tour proved.
no need to poll.
itunes lists the most popular stones songs.
1 Paint It Black
2 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3 Wild Horses
4 Gimme Shelter
5 Beast of Burden
6 Sympathy for the Devil
7 Honky Tonk Women
8 You Can't Always Get What You Want
9 Start Me Up
10 Miss You
4-5 wasn't that badly guessed, then
EDIT: However, I refuse to belive that JJF is not on that list...
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The Rolling Stones are simply far too big for any era of the band to really be considered as some kind of small cult. Their Facebook page alone currently sits at 14,470,583 likes, all ages, so many posts about all albums, all members and era's.
What is hardly anyone out of numbers like that?
Thousands of blogs and the like dedicated to the stones and it's members.
The albums always being reissued in some form.
They are still very relevant to a lot of people.
Still try that poll and let me know.
Back in the Brian-days, albums weren't really that important.
Try a poll for most popular song, and you'll quickly find that 4 or 5 of the 10 most popular tunes are with Brian - something the setlist on this tour proved.
no need to poll.
itunes lists the most popular stones songs.
1 Paint It Black
2 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3 Wild Horses
4 Gimme Shelter
5 Beast of Burden
6 Sympathy for the Devil
7 Honky Tonk Women
8 You Can't Always Get What You Want
9 Start Me Up
10 Miss You
4-5 wasn't that badly guessed, then
EDIT: However, I refuse to belive that JJF is not on that list...
the order is indeed correct, with one caveat - the list is a little funky in that each edition of the song (album it appears on) is counted separately, so it's possible to "split the vote" between two albums (e.g. let it bleed and hot rocks for YCAGWYW). you'll see what i mean if you check out the link;
[itunes.apple.com]
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What baffles me is that Paint It Black is topping the list...
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What baffles me is that Paint It Black is topping the list...
Actually I'm not that surprised. For a reason or other, that song has been aged damn well in the sense that it works well especially to the people who are not that fond of the Stones generally. Something to do with it extraordinary melody line I guess. Among younger people the song still seem to have a suitable "angst" to have eternal appeality... This is my own observation by being eyes open and also making my little pools... Sometime ago someone mentioned around the time of waiting for Glastonbury gog, that they should play it and "Gimme Shelter" there, since those two have a special popularity among young people.
Anyways, may I comment here Kleermaker's claim that fifteensomethings don't know anything of sixties albums. Surely that is true but give us a few years and that age range will not now what the hell an "album" is... but I think the Stones actually do not have a big problem, because, in the end, they are a "hits band" - known mostly for some striking singular songs, and the songs will live forever. Even if those are not played in main radio stations, they will be heard in tv commercials, movie soundtracks, grannie's records, etc. Somehow they just get through, as the history has shown. Too deep in our culture to die off.
But I am with you Dandie that the best indication to see what are the most popular songs is just to check their setlists - they play what people want to hear - to keep the costumers, those we call "casual fans", satisfied. Funnily, "Paint It Black" was ignored by the band for a long time. It took not until the "nostalgic turn" in 1989 to find its place to the setlist, and nowadays it is a "war horse". In France the song has topped the single list twice - in 1966 and 1990 (the last due to some tv series, but that is an early example of how the songs get through these days). In Hyde Park I wittnessed, the response in crowds was without a doubt among the biggest - lots of sing-a-longing and when the song finished people were still singing that melody line. If we leave the obvious "Satisfaction" out, I think only "Sympathy For The Devil" had something similar effect. From the base of footage, The Glastonbury gig, with a really virgin crowd, seemed to go along similar lines.
The sixties will be THE source of the most memorable and time-lasting Stones songs, with just a few additions later. "Satisfaction", "Paint It Black", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Sympathy For The Devil", "Honky Tonk Women", "Gimme Shelter", and I guess songs like "The Last Time","Ruby Tuesday", "Let's Spend The Night Together", "Street Fighting Man" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" don't lurk far...
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For me, it was as simple as this: Nobody sounded like Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman or Charlie Watts when I discovered the band and TY in 1981.
A few days after hearing TY for the first time, I got Milestones, and discovered a new world with songs like UMT, She's A Rainbow and Satisfaction - songs that showed me even more greatness than the unbeliavably great TY did
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I do think that people also want to see Ron play, that's 80% of his game. Many Rolling Stones fans are very sensitive for the visual part of the act, I am not. Wood looks and behaves like a genuine rocker, just like Keith, who looked and played like a 100% rocker though. I'm not discussing Wood's an Richards' drug messing up here btw. I'm just of the opinion that a unique band like the Rolling Stones deserved a more talented / musical replacement 2 player -he even affected their overall musical creativity or at least made them sound two dimensional imo, but the Stones certainly didn't need a more technical player. Woods technique was adequate for the job when awake. Anyway, to me replacement 2 made the Rolling Stones a less interesting band to listen to, actually it made me stop listening entirely, although for most Stones fans Ron was the perfect man, so that's just me.
Hmm, I can't recall you or kleerie praising the Jones era as a live band which is where a band really shows how it is right? So I wonder how high you actually rate them as a band during that time.
Their live performances were dog rough cos they were quite amateurish as live musicians. This is part of the charm of the original band of course, very engaing and exciting for me. Going by the availale live recordings from 1963 - 1967 many of the things present in their live performances are mostly things you two, especially kleerie, criticise the Wood era for having.
There's very little actual melody in the guitar department during 1963 - 1967, there are breaks from the onslaught via Lady Jane and in 1967 Ruby Tuesday, but even then it's shakey.
The boy Taylor made a musical man out of the live band perhaps, certainly he enabled them to be able to stand tall with the more guitar wizard orientated bands of that time, but given that the majority of their career has been something very different to that, how authentic does that make the Taylor era?
His talent and influence is undeniable, but his era is more of an anomaly than a definite reading of The Rolling Stones feel and sound. A change in band name really would have been quite fitting.
Comparing Rock & Roll Circus Rolling Stones with Apple rooftop Beatles, they are quite similar in their shaky, slightly amateur sound and feel, both distinctive features of their sound... Someone like Taylor joining either band drastically changes that and IMO makes them in to a different band.
By the time Ronnie joined the song writing had unfortunately took a dive, IMO of course, and he sometimes mistakenly tried to play like replacement 1, but generally speaking the band did return closer to the more amateur feel and sound of the original band.
It still isn't the real thing though.
Jagger and Richards wrote great songs and they came up with a live sound that was never heard before. There were almost no bands at the time that put down a similar groove. I liked it very much, simple as that. They sounded quite amateurish, but like you stated, that was part of their charm. The circumstances they had to function in were more primitive than the Wood era, we have to count that in.
Regarding Brian Jones, he was a founding member, his musical spirit was a part of the Rolling Stones dna, he added something very essential, just like Taylor became a part of the Stones dna and added something essential. I think Jones was a great slide and harp player, the guy digged rhythm and blues, he definitely was a very talented and creative member, but he limited himself. He could have grown as a musician, just a pity he got wasted at a very young age, a victim of his own succes.
I disagree that the band with Taylor was just an anomaly. Mick played with the Stones for only 5 years, but the Taylor era spirit still lives on in the hearts of most Stones fans, count me in. It's just that he isn't a member anymore. Wait a minute.... the recent tour proved his influence again.
So Jones and replacement 1 added something fundamental while replacement 2... No doubt he joined with the best intentions. I posted about him this morning. The show must go on after '74. Let's leave it at that..
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I agree with you, His Majesty - and as a fan I also come from the times when the Stones actually weren't the "latest thing", even though still at the time have a certain aura and atractive mysticism around them, and somehow they looked damn "cool", and it was not just me (1981). But I think those terms like "obscurity", "success", or "popularity" are rather relative notons - compared to what or to whom, and in which context. But with the Stones anything needs to be "greatest", "biggest", etc. so I think we should to keep that in mind. Their albums sales do not quite justify those kind of claims. But many other things will.
I thnk for a time and place defying cultural phenomenon as the Stones, the whole idea of "calculating" success is a mission possible. There are so many factors.
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When Mick Taylor plays guitar, the sound of The Rolling Stones comes out of it...
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What baffles me is that Paint It Black is topping the list...
Actually I'm not that surprised. For a reason or other, that song has been aged damn well in the sense that it works well especially to the people who are not that fond of the Stones generally. Something to do with it extraordinary melody line I guess. Among younger people the song still seem to have a suitable "angst" to have eternal appeality... This is my own observation by being eyes open and also making my little pools... Sometime ago someone mentioned around the time of waiting for Glastonbury gog, that they should play it and "Gimme Shelter" there, since those two have a special popularity among young people.
Anyways, may I comment here Kleermaker's claim that fifteensomethings don't know anything of sixties albums. Surely that is true but give us a few years and that age range will not now what the hell an "album" is... but I think the Stones actually do not have a big problem, because, in the end, they are a "hits band" - known mostly for some striking singular songs, and the songs will live forever. Even if those are not played in main radio stations, they will be heard in tv commercials, movie soundtracks, grannie's records, etc. Somehow they just get through, as the history has shown. Too deep in our culture to die off.
But I am with you Dandie that the best indication to see what are the most popular songs is just to check their setlists - they play what people want to hear - to keep the costumers, those we call "casual fans", satisfied. Funnily, "Paint It Black" was ignored by the band for a long time. It took not until the "nostalgic turn" in 1989 to find its place to the setlist, and nowadays it is a "war horse". In France the song has topped the single list twice - in 1966 and 1990 (the last due to some tv series, but that is an early example of how the songs get through these days). In Hyde Park I wittnessed, the response in crowds was without a doubt among the biggest - lots of sing-a-longing and when the song finished people were still singing that melody line. If we leave the obvious "Satisfaction" out, I think only "Sympathy For The Devil" had something similar effect. From the base of footage, The Glastonbury gig, with a really virgin crowd, seemed to go along similar lines.
The sixties will be THE source of the most memorable and time-lasting Stones songs, with just a few additions later. "Satisfaction", "Paint It Black", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Sympathy For The Devil", "Honky Tonk Women", "Gimme Shelter", and I guess songs like "The Last Time","Ruby Tuesday", "Let's Spend The Night Together", "Street Fighting Man" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" don't lurk far...
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I think there's been a nostalgic feeling amongst consumers since the early 1970s. This is true with both the Beatles and the Stones (but also LZ, Pink Floyd, Peter Noone, etc.).
Though initially released as a 'best of' collection, the ABCKO produced 'Hot Rocks' turned out to be your classic 'nostalgia' release for the Stones.
I'm sure many who see a Stones concert today the 'nostalgia' factor is even greater, so that for a Stones tour to be truly successful is to perform only the classic singles (with a few favorite album cuts thrown in as we've seen on this last tour).
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it's mainly live songs from the Taylor-era of course, but that makes no difference
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it's mainly live songs from the Taylor-era of course, but that makes no difference
Of course it makes a difference.
All Taylor and all bootlegs.
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it's mainly live songs from the Taylor-era of course, but that makes no difference
Of course it makes a difference.
All Taylor and all bootlegs.
I knew you would say that, but many replies are from non-Taylorians, and many of those songs are just (not true) Rolling Stones songs. Anyway, if it is for Taylor only then so many views is just remarkable. But I bet it's the same with all other Stones-relates YT-channel statistics.
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Also, going by your numbers and the many blogs, facebook pages etc, Jones seems to attract a larger adult and teenage female audience than Taylor.
Quite odd given his history with women, but not so odd given his more pop star image etc.
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it's mainly live songs from the Taylor-era of course, but that makes no difference
Of course it makes a difference.
All Taylor and all bootlegs.
I knew you would say that, but many replies are from non-Taylorians, and many of those songs are just (not true) Rolling Stones songs. Anyway, if it is for Taylor only then so many views is just remarkable. But I bet it's the same with all other Stones-relates YT-channel statistics.
I have my own jones focused channel(all bootleg material) but it's more of an uploading source for the facebook page, both of which are still quite new.
A mere 4,133 views. Currently sits at 25.9 % female views.
Also, going by your numbers and the many blogs, facebook pages etc, Jones seems to attract a larger adult and teenage female audience than Taylor.
Quite odd given his history with women, but not so odd given his more pop star image etc.
14 million plus likes on stones own facebook page is something to be reckoned with though. That's 14 million potential people who are aware and like all era's of the stones and there's quite a number of young people posting on it.
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But about hundred years later it's only the Beatles I guess who will be remembered as a symbol of the famous sixties of the 20th century. And maybe, maybe, the Stones will be mentioned as the eternal number two band. But who cares, we love their music, and even we differ very much in what we like and dislike.
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My YT-channel is in the first place a Rolling Stones-channel and not a Taylor-channel. So you can't compare it to your specific B. Jones-channel in that way at all. I bet the percentage of men viewers will rise, even though the percentage of about 75% male is also quite high. But like you said Jones was in the first place a popstar to the (female) public. His history with women doesn't say other women anything. But maybe that's something you'll find out when when you grow older yourself .
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My YT-channel is in the first place a Rolling Stones-channel and not a Taylor-channel. So you can't compare it to your specific B. Jones-channel in that way at all. I bet the percentage of men viewers will rise, even though the percentage of about 75% male is also quite high. But like you said Jones was in the first place a popstar to the (female) public. His history with women doesn't say other women anything. But maybe that's something you'll find out when when you grow older yourself .
For a self titled, supposedly intelligent person you don't half post a lot of stupid things.
They are much the same, a mostly Rolling Stones music channel focusing on for me Jones and for you Taylor. To say otherwise is to talk bollocks.
These females very much appreciate the music as well, or is appreciating music mostly the domain of aging, receding hairline men with pretensions about superior intellegence and taste?
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"The Brian Jones experience", seems to focus on Brian Jones in the first place. Which of course is allowed.