Mr. Chimp wrote:Goth Rock! You would not exist!

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And this would definitely be an improvement to the sorry state of affairs we're currently in.

connor wrote:Fuckers, the Stones did it all. I kind of burned out on them a few years ago but am slowly reacquainting myself.

You might snag a used copy of Voodoo Lounge if you see one. It's not a great record, but there are definitely some worthwhile songs on there--and it sounds way better than their other recent records. Todd Brashear played five songs off of it on a jukebox when we were shooting pool once, and I was amazed that there were five good Stones songs that I was unfamiliar with.

I thought "One Hit (To the Body)" off of Dirty Work was a damn good single, too.

Kerble, Steve et al . . . 49,999 friends and I missed you at Churchill Downs last night. The highlight for me was Keith singing (and not playing) "You Got the Silver," as well as , given the venue, the obligatory "Dead Flowers." Opening act Alice Cooper even busted out "You Drive Me Nervous," and his young, angry band was in full twin-lead glory. Despite the rain, it was worth every penny--all 25,000 of 'em!

Since I inexplicably never really gave the Stones the time of day - hearing them on the radio was enough, really, and I only own a few of their records, I have been spending some Quality Time listening to their "good albums"* and the "companion tracks" of the demos to those albums, when available.

I can't call them crap, but they are not as mindblowing as I wish they would be.

I like how these particular albums have marginally filthy lyrics about drug use and sex sex sex. As a kid, I was only dimly aware of this stuff, and as an adult I am tickled that this stuff got as much airplay as it did.




*good, as deemed so by an informal poll of four forum members.

i sat through their first seven or eight albums once.

at the same time i sat through 7 or 8 of their best songs.

Not crap. I you don't like the Rolling Stones, you don't like rock music.

i hate them coz they won't go away and Mick Jagger is a better cricketer than me

I hate everything they did from the late 60s on.
But I really like some of their early songs (Brian Jones era). I like their attitude compared to The Beatles´.
I like Jagger´s voice on "Have you seen your mother, baby", "Paint it black" etc.

not crap.

The Stones rule.

I don't particularly feel like defending this, since it should be common fucking knowledge.

SecondEdition wrote:
I don't particularly feel like defending this, since it should be common fucking knowledge.

+1