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FrankM
If a lack of mainstream hits hurts a legacy then everyone from Dylan to Macca to The Stones would have their legacy damaged. Their legacy is intact.
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FrankM
If a lack of mainstream hits hurts a legacy then everyone from Dylan to Macca to The Stones would have their legacy damaged. Their legacy is intact.
Dylan's last 3 albums were critical success, the last one reached #1 in U.S and every album sold better than the previous one. Also he won several Grammy's including album of the year in 1998.
Macca had a big comeback with the last 2 albums, since Driving Rain every album sold better than the previous one.
Every new album from the Stones has sold worse than the previous one since Steel Wheels, onwards.
The legacy of Dylan and Macca is more intact.
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FrankM
The legacy of The Stones is intact whether or not the great Georgelicks believes it.
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FrankM
The legacy of The Stones is intact whether or not the great Georgelicks believes it.
Sorry Frank, but the legacy of Macca, Dylan, Bruce is more intact than the Stones. The Stones whored themselves with 20 years of Vegas Tours and irrelevant albums, in 1988-89 they were much more an influence for kids and young rock bands than today, and I don't write with any fact here, only common sense and my personal view of the band in the general people. You can say, "they sell a lot of tickets" but it's like going to a living museum, many people go there to see the dinosaur before it disappear.
Go to the street and ask people what they think of Bruce or Dylan, then ask the same for the Stones, you don't want to know the answers that I get.
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iamthedj
I understand Jagger when he says things like he wants to look forward rather than haul through their past. However with eight year gaps between albums I suspect that he is the least forward looking artist in pop history.
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Bingo
Funny how you stumble(meaning me, not you) on a website at the right time. This guy has an opinion on The Stones.
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skipstone
Hey, Georgelicks thinks She Saw Me Coming sucks and puts Streets Of Shit above it even! What does he know? I guess Streets Of Love is more RELEVANT and has a legacy that is intact amongst the history of the album's (decline) in sales and rankings among the Stones' best albums.
What a weird way to look at things. Less of an impact than the Steel Wheels era? Not that setting a new record for a tour equates to being more or less relevant to anyone else but....didn't more people go see the Stones on A Bigger Bang than any previous Stones tour (or a tour by, I dunno, any other band or maybe even solo artist)? I think that means something there.
Dinosaurs in a museum? Are you nuts?
Go away.
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Erik_Snow
I do like She Saw Me Coming tho'
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iamthedj
I understand Jagger when he says things like he wants to look forward rather than haul through their past. However with eight year gaps between albums I suspect that he is the least forward looking artist in pop history.
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Gazza
The paradox is however that as much as Jagger trumpets this philosophy (one which is in many ways admirable) when it comes to choosing what songs to perform in concert he's the most nostalgia-driven artist imaginable.