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slewan
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Doxa
It depends on the meaning of 'great'... If that is the highest category or not. If songs like "Gimme Shelter", "Honky Tonk Women", "Satisfaction", "Paint It Black", "Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses", "Sympathy For The Devil" etc. are 'great', then there are not many songs from the early 70's on, that cannot be called as 'great', unless we seriously start underrating the value of the songs of that caliber... But if we loosen up a bit, I guess "Miss You", "Beast of Burden" and "Start Me Up" are there lurking up, and not even far... The next category might include songs like "How Can I Stop" or "Out of Control" but then the league of the first mentioned songs is damn far by then...
The 'problem' is that the Stones made so incredibly great songs in their peak days that the criterion of 'great' is so damn high...
- Doxa
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muffie
Start Me Up (1981) came after BOB (1978). That was their last great classic.
On the record, sure, but do you think there are live versions that are great in the way that there are great (I mean really great) versions of BOB?
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reiziger99
Good question and lot of answers .
May be a more important question would be if they still got it in them and if so, how to get it out.
I got the feeling that after a certain point their songwriting became more separated whereas in the early years they really worked on eachothers ideas.
I wonder what would happen if they would really spend some time in eachothers company (and by that I don't mean separate dressing rooms on tour) playing the old roots records, talking about music and start writing again.
What would happen if you put e.g. Rick Rubin in this cocktail? And please forget about these 60/70 minute albums.
8 to 10 great songs approx. 45/50 minutes would be enough.
What if....