You can't go back to the past, it's as simple as that. Taylor hasn't played with the Stones for decades. Things have changed, the band has changed, the music has changed, the way they write songs has changed, for better or worse. As Bill once said in an interview: it's like going back to an ex-girlfriend, it won't work. It's not anybody's fault: Not Mick's
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Without the embarassing "Sing Together" and "On With The Show", the rest of the album has songs that vary from good ( "Citadel", "2000 lightyears", "Rainbow" ) to okayish ( "Lantern", "In Another Land" ), to ridiculously silly ( "Gomper" ) plus some additional filler. So yeah, not a complete failure. But the same ca
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"The old maid is rouging up, applying final touches touch she's already late for the dance, I tell you tonight she's really gonna have a ball She gonna really tie me up"
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QuoteLongBeachArena72 Quote2120Wolf Musically the Stones are great...but this prancing around has always been a joke...he makes the Stones look like a fag band... What, pray tell, is an example of "a fag band"? I assume, a band in which the members keep on lighting up another cigarette. So yeah, a very apt description for the Stones. As for being on-topic, come on, that's
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I agree completely with Doxa about the guitar qualities of Ron and Keith of the latter 20 years, and about the lack of any kind of excitement (musically) in what they do. I also agree that bringing back Mick Taylor last year brought back some - musical - adventure, at least to Midnight Rambler (I didn't see the point in him playing Satisfaction on accoustic, as I am sure nobody did). Still
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QuoteSilver Dagger That charm, openness, honest and even naïvety reverberates right through Aftermath which for me is the standout Stones’ album of the pre-rock years.
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The album Aftermath was and still is their best go at a pop-album. I like all songs on it (maybe that Going Home is going on for a bit too long), and it's even hard to judge the songs separately. There's something very special about that album, probably because they were changing and learning so much at that time, and still hadn't gone too far into "Beatles territory", a
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To me, "Back to Roots", should not be a style thing. I don't care what style any new songs would be, blues, soul, reggae, disco, rock n roll, whatever. What's missing is not a particular style and it certainly it wouldn't do them any good just blindly repeating something they did before ("another Exile" ). What's missing is to really love what they do, be c
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I Am Waiting Slave Winter Tie You Up (Pain Of Love) Ventilator Blues
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The best albums, ever, which I can listen to every day, at any time and still marvel: Exile On Main St. Let It Bleed Sticky Fingers Beggars Banquet Tattoo You Some Girls Very good albums, which I don't listen to a lot, but when I do, I enjoy them: Goats Head Soup Aftermath England's Newest Hit Makers Out Of Our Heads Emotional Rescue Ok albums, with some good to gre
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It's alright. One of the better moments on Voodoo Lounge, but that says more about the album than about the song. But I like it.
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At that time, I was deeply disappointed by it. I think most fans who had been fans already long enough to know their best work were disappointed too. However, over the years, considering what came next, the album is not so bad, although certainly not on the same level as their top work. I'd say is more or less of the same quality as Emotional Rescue. Not really good, but not entirely bad and
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Absolutely perfect.
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I am actually a bit surprised that so many people here disagree with Keith on this. I know that a lot of people think Bowie is a genius, although I never understood why, but really, there also must be people who don't like him, right? Where are they? As a matter of fact, I tried googling "people who don't like Bowie" and hardly anything comes up. I really must be missing some
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Well, I have to agree with Keith Richards on this one. I like Bowie's later work better than his early years, stuff like "Ashes to Ashes" or "Absolute Beginners", for the catchy kitsch of it, but it's empty music to me. Like Queen. I'm sure it's musically all very clever and all, but I don't feel a thing, and it all sounds like a gimmick to me. I nev
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Terrible, terrible, terrible. In the list of Really Embarrassing Stuff the Stones did, this one is very high up. I don't know if it's worse than "Back To Zero" or "On With The Show" but it's a tough call. Nothing about it is right: the "music", the "melody", the ... nothing is right. And even though I agree with the contents of the lyrics
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteStoneage No one. The studio version is it. They have never come close to it live. All the live versions sounds about the same to me. Doesn't matter which tour. I have to agree. Interesting how some studio cuts come to life onstage, Midnight Rambler being the obvious one, while other songs just can't compare to their studio versions, IORR and Satisfaction being
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QuoteMunichhilton I guess my favorite version these days is done by The Folksmen. Now that had punch. Fantastic!
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Quotestonehearted <<the Smiths who are so loved in England are nothing at all, and I mean at all in America.>> Except to those who sought out "alternative" music at the time.... WFNX Top 101 of the Decade (1989) 1. The Smiths - How Soon is Now? 2. The Cure - Just Like Heaven 3. Modern English - I Melt With You 4. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary 5. U2 - Su
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Is Mick's vocals on MR from Brussels really among his best vocal performances ever? It's very cool indeed, but I would omit "vocal" in "vocal performances". It's hoarse barking, out of breath-rock'n'roll, but not a very good vocal performance, imo. From the same show, I would rather suggest Angie, but that's me..
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You Got Me Rocking Love Is Strong Like A Thief In The Night Laugh, I Nearly Died Saint Of Me
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That's How Strong My Love Is I Don't Know Why I Love You Who's Driving Your Plane Jig Saw Puzzle Monkey Man Midnight Rambler Live (Brussels bootleg) Winter Melody Ain't No Use For Crying
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QuoteSilver Dagger The music for Star Star is the beginning of a Stones by numbers blueprint. A prototype Chuck Berry rocker which would be revisited on Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You and which would eventually give way to the stadium rock four to the floor sound from Steel Wheels onwards. I don't recall them doing that on any album from Aftermath to Exile. "It's Not Ea
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I am sorry, but I don't like Siouxy&the Banshees very much. Nor The Clash, nor the Ramones, and certainly not any punk band that ever came after that. I am also not very fond of post-punk/new-wave, I find most of it rather tedious, monotonous, self-absorbed whining. I make an exception for PIL and Joy Division (the latter of which of course were more or less the "Kings of the Morose
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Dead Boys had a few interesting songs with basic good riffs, for instance: (They also did a not-so-good cover of good old Stones' "Tell Me" ) And I still like "Anarchy in the UK" and "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols. But most of punk was pretty useless.
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The earlier posted link to the live version didn't work for me, but I found this one: The original album version never worked for me. The live version starts out sort of interesting, but then, after the second verse loses it, but at least it hints at the possibility that if they would have worked the song a bit more (say, another 4 or 5 years or so), it might have become better. The basi
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Quote1969Fan QuoteDoxa I didn't expect this track to come, but a nice surprise! I have always taken the decision to include Berry numbers to their set list in 1978 as a some kind of signal to punk direction of the very idea what rock and roll initially and originally and really is if people really are going back to essentials, as many punk acts thought they were doing. But at the same tim
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Quotestonehearted ... This tells us that, despite Lennon's "odd looking little head", the general public favors Beatles over Stones. Always has, always will. ... Well, I think most people, here or anywhere, already know that. That's hardly the point. The way to judge the Stones is not about how many #1 records they have had. I am sure Madonna had more #1 records than Ca
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QuoteKoen That's not going to happen, Jimmy Miller died 20 years ago. Ah...
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