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Old man Jagger dragging the much younger Grohl along to hopefully give it some credibility for much younger rock fans...hmmm...it's terrible...
Dude. We have enough negative energy on this planet. We all know about your opinions. Just take it down a notch on - at least on this forum. Thanks.
Like many, I agree. But you're wasting your time appealing to him. There’s nothing as self-satisfied as a Hairball post which means he's not about to change. Other people mean nothing to him. He’s truly a cancer on this forum.
The "cancer on this forum" is the escalating personal attacks and insults against members whose opinions don't align lock step with the mob here. Hairball can fight his own battles but he shouldn't have to. He doesn't agree with you and states his opinion, so that makes him a "cancer". No surprise as I've been told to kill myself by another know-it-all who disagreed with me in another thread. This forum pretty much reeks now. And I agree with Hairball. I don't care for this song or the video. Deal with it.
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Hairball
Old man Jagger dragging the much younger Grohl along to hopefully give it some credibility for much younger rock fans...hmmm...it's terrible...
Dude. We have enough negative energy on this planet. We all know about your opinions. Just take it down a notch on - at least on this forum. Thanks.
Like many, I agree. But you're wasting your time appealing to him. There’s nothing as self-satisfied as a Hairball post which means he's not about to change. Other people mean nothing to him. He’s truly a cancer on this forum.
The "cancer on this forum" is the escalating personal attacks and insults against members whose opinions don't align lock step with the mob here. Hairball can fight his own battles but he shouldn't have to. He doesn't agree with you and states his opinion, so that makes him a "cancer". No surprise as I've been told to kill myself by another know-it-all who disagreed with me in another thread. This forum pretty much reeks now. And I agree with Hairball. I don't care for this song or the video. Deal with it.
Just my opinion you understand but I’m afraid you’re a fool…Please don’t dumb it down to the point where well-intentioned but misguided people start to excuse his behavior with the old ‘Everyone is entitled to their own opinion’ fallacy. But just for the record I love all kinds of opinions - I even sprinkle them on my hamburgers. And I certainly don’t have to ‘deal’ with yours because I share it. I hate this song as I stated rather unequivocally on the preceding page. I guess you missed it but that’s perfectly understandable since I didn’t repost it 30 times like your pal Hairball. Do you see what I’m saying? Nobody denies his right to state his opinions (even though it’s obvious that he’s trolling half the time) - it’s that he floods threads with them. And sometimes (like now) I give in to my less noble instincts and react to the flood instead of the topic at hand. Call it human nature. I know I should ignore him – I usually do since the troll wins if I don’t - but sometimes I really want him to STFU…but after thousands and thousands of posts I know he won’t and it pisses me off. So from time to time it makes me feel better to let him know what a POS I think he is. Alright then, carry on.
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NilsHolgersson
Isn't Living in a Ghost Town a bigger hit than Bruce Springsteen has had in the last 20 years or so?
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Stoneage
This might be politically incorrect on a fan site and I do admit I'm probably bonkers even having a wild idea like this one. But why haven't the Stones been able to crank out a single
in the vicinity of Start Me Up for four decades? Don't mind the album - just a single with real hit potentiality. AC/DC and Springsteen recently put out singles with hit potentiality
(at least you hear them often on the radio). I'm talking about "Shot in The Dark" and "Ghosts". Maybe not their best songs ever but in the vicinity of it.
Why aren't the Stones able to do anything like that? Just one song. I'm not just talking about now (I realize the difficult situation right now) but the latest decades or so.
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DandelionPowderman
And by the old "hit-criteria", Harlem Shuffle was their last big hit, not Start Me Up
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DandelionPowderman
Well put, Doxa.
And by the old "hit-criteria", Harlem Shuffle was their last big hit, not Start Me Up
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Well put, Doxa.
And by the old "hit-criteria", Harlem Shuffle was their last big hit, not Start Me Up
Well, Start Me Up was their last global hit, surely? They've had numerous top-ten placing's in select nations, including the U.S., where I suspect their last 'hit' was Mixed Emotions.
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Well put, Doxa.
And by the old "hit-criteria", Harlem Shuffle was their last big hit, not Start Me Up
Well, Start Me Up was their last global hit, surely? They've had numerous top-ten placing's in select nations, including the U.S., where I suspect their last 'hit' was Mixed Emotions.
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And by the old "hit-criteria", Harlem Shuffle was their last big hit, not Start Me Up
Oh yes! Still warm recollections of the girls at my school who couldn't care less about the Stones were dancing to it on a dance floor, and saying it was a cool song.
It was a classical hit song: a flavor of the month kind of thing - made just for the people back at then to enjoy and with no intention to write rock history or figure out how it will stand the test of time. Most of the songs on charts are like that - and of course, we serious rock fans would despise that - we think every new record should be an artistic statement to be judged among Platonic ideas... It is a part of our sub culture in popular music to be that artistically-oriented and serious...
I guess for a 'serious' rock journalism "Harlem Shuffle" was a good choice as well - I mean, we are here talking about not a Michael Jackson or Grandmaster Flash cover but a bit forgotten gem from from the supposed golden age of black music (you know, before they started discoing and rapping too much), a kind of move the Stones have history with. Wasn't it even Keith's idea (an ultimate authority in credibility)? Surely, some of them were quick to point out that are the Stones washed up that they cannot even write A-sides of their singles any longer...
But to me "Harlem Shuffle" basically still means looking at the girls moving their sweet asses to it... (not the politically most correct expression, but pardon me here).
- Doxa
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NilsHolgersson
It is basically the end of them as a relevant band, after that they became a nostalgia act
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Stoneage
Heard it on the radio last night. A new Stones or Jagger single is always a novelty these days. Radio stations would be stupid not to play it. Sounded good. Which is a good sign.
The other debate about hit songs: I think SMU is genre Stones music. Instantly recognizable. In the same way as "Shot In The Dark" and "Ghosts" are genre AC/DC and Springsteen.
AC/DC and Bruce have never bothered with trends. They have stayed with the same recipe. It may seem cynical but that what most fans expect from them.
To me it's a bit strange that the Stones have never been able to, sort of, clone SMU into another hit or semi-hit. Although one may argue that "Don't Stop" is close to that.
It (Don't Stop) never really took off though.