casinoboogie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > two words: Gimme Shelter! i only had to hear the > opening for me to say 'who in God's name makes > music like THIS?!'
i was 9 or 10 and i listened to a best of lp of my dad. tell me, heart of stone, satisfaction and let's spend the night together, where the ones i loved the most! would be interesting to know wich was the first stones song i ever heard....no idea!
I'd already heard a couple of their early lp's, but I was 17, had a summer long kidney infection and missed my high school graduation ceremony so Satisfaction really fit the bill for me at that time and has stuck as my favorite.
It must have been Mother´s Little Helper. I thought it sounded very cool and somehow strange - I was only five - when I first heard it on the radio. I still think it´s a very good song.
Not one single song - more the whole of "GHS", played over and over by a friend of mine who was a little more sophisticated in his tastes than me at the time (we were both around the 11/12 mark). Mind you, he was also into Alice Cooper, whom I liked but never really got....
Then "IOOR" - the album - came out and washed every lingering doubt (read Sweet and Slade) out of my head - I can still remember hearing the song "IOOR" for the very first time - coming out of a small radio in our kitchen. After that I was totally hooked!
Did not have any money so the first Stones on vinyl was the "Fool to Cry/Crazy Mama" single. I never did like "Fool To Cry" (until' I heard the alternative bootleg version) - but "Crazy Mama" - WOW!
My first albums were "Rolled Gold" and "No Stone Unturned"
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It's hard to say when I went from fan to fanatic. It wasn't long after I learned of their existence..around the Some Girls/Tattoo You era. Beast of Burden is definitely one song that had a huge impact on me at the time..and still does.
Spring of 1964, nine years old, riding in the car with my dad, and the DJ said, "The Rolling Stones!" I had heard of them, but hadn't heard any of their stuff yet,
Then "It's All Over Now" came on, and I was hooked for life.
Went out and bought that 45 as well as the single of "Tell Me."
Most all of my friends didn't really discover the Stones until a year later when "Satisfaction" came out, and by then I was rather smug ..."Oh, yeah, the Rolling Stones, been listening to them for over a year now, where have YOU been?"
I was a closet Stones fan in my punk days. Then a friend, who is a major Stones fan and owned a record store, said one day way back when,"You've got to get these two Stones cd's." They were the first pressings of the German versions of Hot Rocks. Hearing the true stereo versions were an eye opener. Satisfaction just blew me away. After that, it was all down hill. It's been Stones, Stones, Stones ever since.