QuoteDandelionPowderman The thing with Melody is that it is so similar to this one: Wow! Yes, you are right. Then again, this one doesn't have Mick Jagger on it, so it still can't hold a candle to Melody.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman First and foremost HN is a rock track, but with a funky rhythm, and also with a caribbean twist. With that kind of punch (listen to the drums and the hard-rocking groove!). I agree that Hand Of Fate might seem a little Stones-by-numbers. However, a different lead guitarist, fantastic vocals AND the bridge makes the song more than that, imo. I am listening to HN right
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QuoteDandelionPowderman "Hey Negrita" -> Another average attempt at funk/disco" This is incorrect musically Oh well, anything dance-able I tend to call funk/disco, which I admit is probably not completely correct. "Another average attempt at a 'dance-track'", does that sound better to you? QuoteDandelionPowderman "Hand of Fate" -> A si
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"Hot Stuff" -> An average attempt at funk/disco. A bit tedious. "Hand of Fate" -> A simple auto-paradoy of a rocker, with the standard Keith open tuning riff. Still, nice to hear. "Cherry Oh Baby" -> A terrible, terrible, terrible attempt at reggae. As a matter of fact, one genre the Stones consistently don't do very well is reggae. "Memory Mo
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Muddy Waters - Let's Spend the Night Together
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The Rolling Stones is dance music, it's rock and roll with a groove, it's sexual and dirty and at their best, they sound like they just made it up while they're going. Led Zeppelin are only technically superior musicians but with no groove at all. Besides, I never liked songs about wizards and elves.
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Personally I don't have anything against the Beatles. They were innovators in lots of ways, and one of the best pop bands ever. But this glorification of Lennon has always mistified me. He was talented, but the real big talent was clearly McCartney (Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let it Be). That's okay as is, but clearly Lennon was jealous of that and felt the need to put McCartney down. Same as
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Quotefleabitmonkey Matxil didn't mean to offend you, this is just a piece from a radio comedy show. For you to spin this into I condone hitting women is Laughable. I also find it funny that you consider Yoko's screeching singing. I didn't mean to offend you either. Only the guy on that show. I didn't think it was funny. But then a sense of humour is a personal thing, right?
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Quote fleabitmonkey [] Yeah, that's really funny, say "@#$%&" repeatedly, pretending he is Al Pacino from Scarface or something. So this guy doesn't like Yoko Ono singing and apparantly that is good enough reason for wanting John to hit her? My my, women hitting is so cool indeed. The only thing I find funny is the idea of John Lennon playing the guitar next to Chuck
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QuoteMax'sKansasCity As I scratch my head, again, and wonder why people who feel The Stones have done nothing worth while musically for over 30 years still bother to post 1000s and 1000s of words basically whining about how they feel The Stones have done nothing worthwhile musically in over 30 years. If/when I like a band..... and they go south (in my opinion), and many have, I am done wi
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People who think Doom and Gloom is on the same level as anything from Beggers Banquet up to Exile..., well, they are lucky I guess, because they can expect a lot more where that came from. They don't need even have to wait for the next Stones album. Just tune a guitar in open G, hit all strings and after each alternating beat but a finger on the second string and hit again, repeat this proce
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Quotetreaclefingers The Last Time After that, they were just sort of on autopilot. I think they already sold out after they changed their name from Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys to the Rolling Stones.
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Exile On Main Street.
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I would say the last outstanding, great song of the Stones is Start Me Up. It certainly is not my favourite and it never really works live, but it's the last time they really made a song that is both typical Stones and - somehow - rises above the obvious. Any of their songs after SMU could have been done by bands like Black Crows, Aerosmithm, etc..., but SMU is both basic rock n roll but wit
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A band that sounds very much like the Stones are Los Ratos Paranoicos. I think they are from Argentina or Chile. The biggest difference is that the songs are in Spanish, and so the vocals sound very different, but the guitars are clearly based on the Rolling Stones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3684MUIipE <embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="4
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I understand all the criticisms of the song (the 80's production, the drums), but I love One Hit. I love the intro, I love the break, the acoustic guitar, the smashing electric guitars, Jagger's voice, the lyrics, I even love the drums. The version on the album is better than the single version: the break (with only the acoustic guitar) and the re-intro after that are longer and have m
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Dirty Work is a terrible album. It is actually the first album since Her Satanic that contains songs that are genuinely embarrassing ("Don't Hold Back" and "Back To Zero" ). I don't know what they were thinking when they made those. Probably they were not thinking at all. However, even on their worst albums they often manage to have a few good songs: "One Hit&qu
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Quotesjs12 In defence of Keith, I've done exactly the same thing at a gig before. I remember plaing an intro in G to what should have been in A and then looking around the rest of the band and thinking WTF, why are they all playing in the wrong key! I then realised it was me and quickly adjusted. We all had a laugh about it afterwards and I had to take a few good humoured jibes afterwar
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Ha, that reminds me, I used to play in a band where I was the only one with a tuning device. For a particular song, we all tuned our instruments one note down and the bass player asked me to do it for him too. However, I somehow forgot to tune the 3th string along with the rest. It's a pity that our style wasn't avant-garde enough to mask the mistake.
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Wow, and that's all? I am disappointed, I was expecting something a bit more dramatic. It probably was his scarf, and he fixed it in a few seconds. Not a big deal at all, even when watching it at home. My favourite Stones f-up of all time is still "She's So Cold, 1982" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQEbL1IAx8). After all, the only way to see how a watch works is by takin
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I didn't know who Taylor Swift was, but the video uploaded here I found much better than I would have expected after reading the negative comments. I think most Stones fans (including myself) like the Stones especially for their hard, bluesy, rock sound and maybe tend to forget that actually for a few years in the early sixties they made some decent pop songs too. "As Tears Goes By"
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