the rolling stones
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Are you saying that sales are proportional to an artists worth? You must work in the industry (or at least drank the kool-ade). Objective worth (as opposed to the mind garden variety).
+ Between The Buttons and this
maybe i'm fucked up for being under 50 and liking this record,
but the tune with Bootsy and Bernie is
Are you saying that sales are proportional to an artists worth? You must work in the industry (or at least drank the kool-ade).
You must not be familiar with MEL's work. How much better are the Beatles than Garth Brooks, though? Objectively speaking, THE BEATLES, at 168.5 mil sold, are 63.5 milllion albums better than Garth Brooks (at 105.0 mil sold).
I saw a bootleg copy in college. Not a good look. Art film about Rockstars. Sound sucks. Can't understand a thing.
'Charlie is My Darling' is much more entertaining, mainly because instead of footage of the Stones' entourage and roadie's groupies, you actually have close up shots of Mick and Brian stoned out of their minds, babbling on and on about things like the 'film' Brian is working on. Baked. Completely and totally BAKED. But funny if you are baked too, or are a big Stones nut, or both.
Castillo,
London pressing LPs are prone to being trashed easy. Satanic Majesties LPs that have looked real nice for me have played
I think it's the most fun thread I have seen all day.
Probably because I don't have much of an opinion on Paul Wall or mixers.
i just think if you think the stones are "over-rated" you clearly don't have any real opinions about rock music.
i guess, but that was how the whole thread started...dude(who I assume is older than 16) had no real knowledge of the Stones period, which, coming from MY context, simply blows my mind! In my neighborhood, the Beatles/Stones/Zep/Floyd/Kiss was all just the local basics. If you didn't have a working knowledge(love/hate/whatever) you didn't have much to talk about music-wise. Shit, I used to get into HEATED arguments about who's better Paul or John!? I mean, this forum did not create music nerds!
Beggar's Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Mainstreet
I also dig:
Some Girls
Tatoo You
Some of:
It's Only Rock n' Roll
Goat's Head Soup
and lots of their early stuff. They do one of the best covers of Not Fade Away and It's All Over Now is nice. Many people think their mid 60s work is really interesting and their most original work. Wes Anderson films celebrate this period thoroughly.
I agree with both of the above posts, but to elaborate a little further: all of the Rolling Stones' studio albums from their debut through Exile on Main St. are worth owning, with the possible exception of Satanic Majesties' Request. (The two live records from that era just aren't as great.) Myself, I prefer the latter end of the spectrum (i.e., Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile). The earlier stuff is good too, but the LPs move me less-- they were doing a lot of covers and I find it just a little too derivative of American R&B.
After Exile on Main St. they recorded a number of very good albums (Black and Blue, Some Girls, Tattoo You), but nothing as essential as their earlier stuff.
If I had to pick 6, it would be Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile, but you'd still be missing out on plenty of great songs (e.g., "Satisfaction," "Mother's Little Helper," "Emotional Rescue," "Time Is on My Side" etc. etc.).
Sticky Fingers - Just a great great record.
12x5 - These guys could really play rock and roll.
Beggars Banquette - This is the country one right? Or is Let It Bleed the country one?
Decembers Children - Get Off My Cloud, AS tears Go By
Big Hits High Tide And Green Grass - 19th Nervous Breakdown and some of the hits you've missed.
Some Girls - They sounded good in the 80s too.
You might want to pick up Hot Rocks to get some of the hits you missed with this list.
Don't you think if he wanted to know if he should get Stones or Beatles he would have asked that?
Dan
12x5 - These guys could really play rock and roll.
Beggars Banquette - This is the country one right? Or is Let It Bleed the country one?
Decembers Children - Get Off My Cloud, AS tears Go By
Big Hits High Tide And Green Grass - 19th Nervous Breakdown and some of the hits you've missed.
Some Girls - They sounded good in the 80s too.
You might want to pick up Hot Rocks to get some of the hits you missed with this list.
Don't you think if he wanted to know if he should get Stones or Beatles he would have asked that?
Dan
The record critics critiquing the critics that are criticizing the critics who were so critical they became musicians. I've never seen so much poop on a thread.
To the original poster, I'd reccomend borrowing the albums from someone you know or from someone on the internet. The ones you like you should buy.
To Agent45. I reccomend getting a bit of tea, and calming down. I can feel your hot air from here.
- spidey
To the original poster, I'd reccomend borrowing the albums from someone you know or from someone on the internet. The ones you like you should buy.
To Agent45. I reccomend getting a bit of tea, and calming down. I can feel your hot air from here.
- spidey
I have - not worthy of the hype. You'll never find a copy that isn't absolute shit (It's a super 8 handheld film anyway, so it was shitty BEFORE it went through 231 generations of VHS transfers), and it's only worth seeing if you want to see Mick Jagger jonsing so hard for cocaine he just acts like an ass to everyone in sight and only cares about his fix, and the Stones' roadies molesting groupies who were hoping to get molested by the Stones themselves. There's a couple of cool live performances, but the sound is so bad it just doesn't matter.
As for buying Stones records, I have never spent more than 3 or 4 bucks on any Stones LP, and I have mono copies of almost all the first LP's that were "as is" yet play completely fine. Buy trashed mono OG's for $3 and save the money you would waste on sanitized remixed CD's, which sound pretty ass compared to those vinyls.
Oh, and hating on "Satanic Majesties" is a strange look for this board - file under "If I put that record in a homemade sleeve and called it a 'private press psych LP' you guys would fight each other to pay $500 for it!"
We might, but if someone on a budget asked me to recommend six essential psych LPs I sure as shit wouldn't be recommending a $500 2-tracker, even on reissue.
"Satanic Majesties" has its moments, it's just not as good throughout as the others mentioned.
Almost another Apples & Oranges situation, though. It's such a departure from their usual shit. I'll say this - anyone interested can definitely save their money and just buy the 45 of "She's a Rainbow/2,000 Light Years from Home" and be all set - although then no kooky 3-D cover.
And, no, I would never place it in a top 5...shit, top 10 of their records.
Even though it's a bastard US hack job LP, I really love "Flowers" just for the stuff on it..."Ride On Baby" and "Out of Time" are to me prime era RS.
One more thing, I can't even look at them now - the thought of going to one of those shows is beyond my comprehension.
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