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SFTD and Brown Sugar and Miss You were written by Mick.
What are they?
Great songs by The Rolling Stones.
Someone has to come up with something. Start Me Up and Shattered and She's A Rainbow are Keith, musically. All great songs by The Rolling Stones.
However, sure, the gist of some albums are one individual's push and some aspects are obvious (Dirty Work vs Undercover). Just because BLACK AND BLUE has two ballads on it doesn't mean it's a Mick album. Regardless of who wrote what the albums are 50-50 from AFTERMATH through TATTOO YOU, a couple that weren't, and then STEEL WHEELS - HACKNEY DIAMONDS.
Do you ever get the feeling that the people that start these sort of conversations are passive-aggressive Keithists that are trying to subtly elicit a response that would validate their contention that Mick contributes virtually nothing musically?
I find it annoying but mostly I find it boring.
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SFTD and Brown Sugar and Miss You were written by Mick.
What are they?
Great songs by The Rolling Stones.
Someone has to come up with something. Start Me Up and Shattered and She's A Rainbow are Keith, musically. All great songs by The Rolling Stones.
However, sure, the gist of some albums are one individual's push and some aspects are obvious (Dirty Work vs Undercover). Just because BLACK AND BLUE has two ballads on it doesn't mean it's a Mick album. Regardless of who wrote what the albums are 50-50 from AFTERMATH through TATTOO YOU, a couple that weren't, and then STEEL WHEELS - HACKNEY DIAMONDS.
Do you ever get the feeling that the people that start these sort of conversations are passive-aggressive Keithists that are trying to subtly elicit a response that would validate their contention that Mick contributes virtually nothing musically?
I find it annoying but mostly I find it boring.
Has it occurred to you that you might be annoying and boring?
You seem to be continuously telling people what subjects they shouldn't discuss.
Year in year out, saying the same things to the same people on repeat. , who cares, let people have their say even if you don't care for that topic.
At least Doxa comes up with some interesting theories and insights.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
Sure, we can speculate about that. But it is a fact that Jagger, unofficially, left the band to pursue a solo career in the mid 80s. The band didn't tour for seven years. That is what we really know.
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I can't think of the Stones without thinking of their golden age of the 60s.
I really struggle to see them as a band that started with JJF, it means ignoring a significant part of their existing, in addition to the fact that Brian J. was not a supporting actor.
As far as I see it, the Stones have always been good at keeping up with the times, sometimes they did it well, other times not so well, but there is not a bad album in the Stones' discography.
Don't touch ER, because even if it won't be considered a masterpiece of the Stones, it will remain an excellent, fun album for those who like the genre.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
That could be a description of 1971 as well, so I don't think that was the main reason.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
Sure, we can speculate about that. But it is a fact that Jagger, unofficially, left the band to pursue a solo career in the mid 80s. The band didn't tour for seven years. That is what we really know.
Yes, I know. Question is what made Mick think that an unproven solo career was a worthwhile option compared to the already massively money making Stones. Sure he has a massive ego, but if that was all it was then he could have gone solo long ago.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
Sure, we can speculate about that. But it is a fact that Jagger, unofficially, left the band to pursue a solo career in the mid 80s. The band didn't tour for seven years. That is what we really know.
Yes, I know. Question is what made Mick think that an unproven solo career was a worthwhile option compared to the already massively money making Stones. Sure he has a massive ego, but if that was all it was then he could have gone solo long ago.
Literally the CBS Records Head, whose name escaped me put that in his head, pointing to Michael Jackson and Bowie as memory serves as examples of what he could do with a Mick solo career. So he appealed to Mick's ego for sure and Mick probably thought of it as a "can't lose" in some respects, given what he was constantly "putting up with" in terms of band relations.
He did put out some nice solo stuff (Let's Work notwithstanding) but mercifully it didn't sell in the numbers required to justify striking out alone.
I think the only thing that is regretful is that the two principals didn't get along well enough for much of the time, to release more material since then, as some of their contemporaries have.
Saying that, since 2010 there's been a fair amount if you factor in the expanded reissues, and certainly Hackney and hopefully the soon-to-follow, follow-up album makes up for this a bit.
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Literally the CBS Records Head, whose name escaped me put that in his head, pointing to Michael Jackson and Bowie as memory serves as examples of what he could do with a Mick solo career. So he appealed to Mick's ego for sure and Mick probably thought of it as a "can't lose" in some respects, given what he was constantly "putting up with" in terms of band relations.
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Literally the CBS Records Head, whose name escaped me put that in his head, pointing to Michael Jackson and Bowie as memory serves as examples of what he could do with a Mick solo career. So he appealed to Mick's ego for sure and Mick probably thought of it as a "can't lose" in some respects, given what he was constantly "putting up with" in terms of band relations.
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Literally the CBS Records Head, whose name escaped me put that in his head, pointing to Michael Jackson and Bowie as memory serves as examples of what he could do with a Mick solo career. So he appealed to Mick's ego for sure and Mick probably thought of it as a "can't lose" in some respects, given what he was constantly "putting up with" in terms of band relations.
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Dat's him! I think they paid the band quite a lot of money for that package of new albums...they must have recouped it. Steel Wheels did really well.
So for a 4 album deal, what were RS releases? Dirty Work, Steel Wheels and Flashpoint were 3, what was the the 4th? By Voodoo Lounge they'd moved to Virgin.
I don't think Mick's solo albums were ever specifically a part of that 4 album deal, were they?
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Literally the CBS Records Head, whose name escaped me put that in his head, pointing to Michael Jackson and Bowie as memory serves as examples of what he could do with a Mick solo career. So he appealed to Mick's ego for sure and Mick probably thought of it as a "can't lose" in some respects, given what he was constantly "putting up with" in terms of band relations.
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Dat's him! I think they paid the band quite a lot of money for that package of new albums...they must have recouped it. Steel Wheels did really well.
So for a 4 album deal, what were RS releases? Dirty Work, Steel Wheels and Flashpoint were 3, what was the the 4th? By Voodoo Lounge they'd moved to Virgin.
I don't think Mick's solo albums were ever specifically a part of that 4 album deal, were they?
No. The CBS deal, with Columbia distributing, was strictly for four Rolling Stones studio albums, valued at $6 million per album with a 25% royalty rate! I did read that it was for "the right to" four studio albums so the Stones only got $ for each album they worked on, not a lump sum (why anyone would do that makes no sense).
Reading the language of "for the right to four studio albums" that means the Stones didn't have to give them four studio albums. Haven't been able to find any information in regard to FLASHPOINT counting as part of the deal or if there was something else in the deal about live releases, which was never said in anything I've ever seen. Perhaps + COLLECTIBLES counted as the fourth "studio" album. Maybe Sony/CBS didn't care because they got to reissue the 1971-1984 catalog (I would love to get a copy of the Atlantic Records REWIND on CD).
Mick's solo deal was different even though it was through Rolling Stones Records. He could've had a deal just with Columbia and no Stones logo but for some reason it was via RSR.
Which Keith could've done with MAIN OFFENDER since the Stones were signed with Virgin at that point even though RSR was now defunct.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
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Personally I think one thing that probably contributed to tensions in the 80s between Mick and Keith is that Mick was hanging out with a lot of other people, and Keith probably missed him to some extent which made him pissed. It's pretty well attested that both Mick and Keith don't like it when other people get between their duo.
Keith was un reliable junkie through the 70s, so Mick J. had to take charge. When Keith kicked the habit (more or less around Some Girls), the music input got better but it also meant Keith wanted to be in on the decision taking. I can imagine Mick J. being a bit annoyed by that. All these years he had managed on his own and now Keith, who in many ways is not very realistic, wanted to have a say too. In a solo career, Mick could do whatever he wanted. However, it turned out that what he wanted wasn't very succesful.
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...I think what you see in the 1989 detent, was Mick giving it another go but under the proviso that the show be modernized and made professional - we get what amounts to "Vegas Stones", which I know has been derided but I would argue was necessary to have the band function this long and into old age.
The previous shambolic stage show, though loveable had to be a thing of the past because it wasn't going to be sustainable as they got older.
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...I think what you see in the 1989 detent, was Mick giving it another go but under the proviso that the show be modernized and made professional - we get what amounts to "Vegas Stones", which I know has been derided but I would argue was necessary to have the band function this long and into old age.
The previous shambolic stage show, though loveable had to be a thing of the past because it wasn't going to be sustainable as they got older.In so far as we can ever really know what goes on...
I think Treacle probably nails it here.