"The Rolling Stones" Thread

[Jahuli]

Who else loves "the greatest rock n roll band in the world"?

Prefer their earlier stuf myself,

just bought Exile on Main Street.

Discuss them.....

[Jahuli]

I also love Sympathy for the devil!!!!!!!!!!

[Wawazat]

Mick Taylor Aera

they had about 5 crappy songs within all those years

Good Times

[Jérôme Frenchise]

I've got ALL their albums, plus boots and boots... It's a little harder than having all CVH records, unfortunately.
I have a preference for the Mick Taylor period.
I have too many fave songs, but I'll mention the following, which aren't part of the same old ones they will play at every concert:

- Jivin' sister Fanny;
- Memo from Turner;
- Stray Cat Blues (they played it again during their 2002 tour) (Beggars Banquet, maybe the last great B. Jones/K. Richards - amazing - guitar duet);
- You got the silver;
- Monkey Man (1994-95 tour, but they played it a in a disappointingly slow way) (Let It Bleed);
- Can't you hear me knocking (2002 tour, Jagger was not really good on that one, he should give up harp);
- Bitch (Sticky Fingers);
- All down the line;
- Star star;
- Silver train (Goat's Head Soup);
- Dance little sister;
- If you can't rock me (a pretty good version on the last tour) (It's Only R & R);
- I'm going down;
With Ronnnie Wood:
- Crazy Mama (see link) (Black & Blue);
- Before they make me run;
- Some girls (the song);
- When the whip comes down (Some Girls);
- Where the boys go (Emotional Rescue);
- Little T & S ;
- Slave (Tattoo You);
- Undercover of the night (Undercover is very underrated IMO);
- She was hot (why the fuck don't they ever play that gem live?!) (Undercover);
- Had it with you;
- Too rude (Dirty Work);
- Slippin' away;
- Sad sad sad (very well exploited on stage back then and on the last tour, though; I saw them in Paris in 1990) (Steel Wheels);
- Mean disposition;
- Sparks will fly (Voodoo Lounge);
- Rough Justice, on their new album really makes it. The whole record is very good IMO.

I didn't mention songs from their pre-1968 period because even if many tunes were great as far as composition, I can hardly bear any song by anybody before made 68 because of how they sound and the kind of naive tone of (mainly background) vocals.

There are a few exceptions:

- Who's driving your plane?;
- Family;
- 2000 light years from home (outstanding);
- Who's been sleeping here (which sounds 100% sixties, but it's one of my faves);

The single "Highwire" (1991) was great, both the music and the lyrics rocked (first war in the Gulf, I guess at least everybody in the US remembers the song: I'll post the lyrics sooner).

Just for fun, here is a link to a video a guy made for "Crazy Mama" and posted in the Iggy Pop forum:

http://www.exile.com.au/stones/

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Here they are:

Recorded January, 1991. That was an anti-oil, anti-war song. It was released in the UK as a single on March 11, '91 and the first verse was banned and edited out by the BBC. Also released on the album Flashpoint, in April '91.
Lead Vocals: Mick Jagger Guitars: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger Bass: Bill Wyman Drums: Charlie Watts Backing Vocals: Bernard Fowler.

Great riff, great sound, a very stonian tune.

"Highwire"
(Jagger/Richards)

We sell 'em missiles, We sell 'em tanks
We give 'em credit, You can call the bank
It's just a business, You can pay us in crude
You love these toys, just go play out your feuds
Got no pride, don't know whose boots to lick
We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick

So get up, stand up, out of my way
I want to talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay
I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
Hoping they don't catch the hell fire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
And tell 'em to hotbed the sunshine
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Our lives are threatened, our jobs at risk
Sometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist

Another Munich we just can't afford
We're gonna send in the eighty-second airborne

Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay
I wanna talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, outta my way
I wanna talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
And hoping they don't catch the shellfire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
Catching the bite on primetime
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Get up! Stand up!
Dealer! Stealer!
Hey!

We walk the highwire
We send all our men into the front lines
We're hoping that we backed the right side
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
We send all the men up to the front lines
And hoping they don't catch the hellfire
With hot guns and cold cold, cold, cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
We walk the highwire
With hot guns and cold, cold, cold nights

With hot guns and cold, cold nights...

That was the last thing good ole Bill Wyman recorded with the Stones...

[Last_Child]

Exile on Main Street is the only album I've heard.

Doesn't exist one bad track on that album!
It's just soo fucking graate!

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Last_Child
Exile on Main Street is the only album I've heard.

Doesn't exist one bad track on that album!
It's just soo fucking graate!

Damn right! It's their best record, not only because there were two, but for the reason you gave: there isn't a single song to throw away from it.

[Terry]

Highwire was kinda rubbish to me. Take Hony-Tonk Woman, speed it up, then mix in Brown Sugar and Must Be Hell. Think Mick should leave the poli-sci warblings to Bono.

Stones were great. Even when I finally saw 'em in 1989, long after I had any use for their studio work. Fantastic show, 2hr+45min of one great song after another. Stones have such a backlog of great tunes pre-1983 that they can easily do 2hr+ live and have no dead spots.

Nowadays, they're a bit past it. Obviously am just speaking for myself, but after finally getting to see them on the Steel Wheels tour, am convinced they should have just packed it in then. Suppose as long as people still go to see them and enjoy it that's fine. But there's no element of surprise or danger to the band now. Pretty much like, "Oh, the Stones are back on the road again, proving they've still got it," yawn. Kinda boring.

The Mick Taylor years were the apex of the band, agreed.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Terry
Highwire was kinda rubbish to me. Take Hony-Tonk Woman, speed it up, then mix in Brown Sugar and Must Be Hell. Think Mick should leave the poli-sci warblings to Bono.

Stones were great. Even when I finally saw 'em in 1989, long after I had any use for their studio work. Fantastic show, 2hr+45min of one great song after another. Stones have such a backlog of great tunes pre-1983 that they can easily do 2hr+ live and have no dead spots.

Nowadays, they're a bit past it. Obviously am just speaking for myself, but after finally getting to see them on the Steel Wheels tour, am convinced they should have just packed it in then. Suppose as long as people still go to see them and enjoy it that's fine. But there's no element of surprise or danger to the band now. Pretty much like, "Oh, the Stones are back on the road again, proving they've still got it," yawn. Kinda boring.

The Mick Taylor years were the apex of the band, agreed.

There's much truth in your post.

What about Keith's songs (I mean those he sings)? I personally dig almost all of them, especially:

Salt of the earth
I got the silver
Happy (though it's got harder for him to sing it in tune these days)
Before they make me run
Too rude
Slippin' away
You don't have to mean it (the only track I dig on Bridges to Babylon, it sounds so fresh and even very genuine)
The one he sings on the last album (I don't remember the title and there are so few indications on the inside sleeve...)

The guy Keith is such a human phenomenon... Ha! Ha! I have a lot of respect and sympathy for them all, whatever they may say about them (old farts, blah, richer than Ali Baba, blah, blah, should have stopped since blah, blah, blah, etc). Keith has that incredible energy, so does Mick Jagger, and they both have a great sense of humour. The pair of them are such a huge composing duet... Charlie hits his kit like nobody else, that beat of his, man, so unique... And Ronnie seems to have stopped getting stoned so that he has quit wasting their live music. He sounds great now with the Stones, at last.

The folks who suggest they should have retired would complain if they had left the circus, today.

[Jahuli]

Anyone know where i can get the video of Sympathy for the devil from rock n roll circus on the internet?????????????????

[rustoffa]

There was some funny stuff when Mick and Keef were fighting like two little spoiled bitches during the mid-to-late eighties. Mick could never recover from Keef's one-liners.

Remember the one where Keef went, "he should really do something about those jowls...first the lips, now the jowls?"

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by rustoffa
There was some funny stuff when Mick and Keef were fighting like two little spoiled bitches during the mid-to-late eighties. Mick could never recover from Keef's one-liners.

Remember the one where Keef went, "he should really do something about those jowls...first the lips, now the jowls?"

Yeah, at least it was all very funny, anyway. But I still wonder how far those fights actually were from concerted publicity...

[Dirty Duck]

Great thread! When i was younger all I heard about was the Beatles. When I finally started listening to Rock n Roll and I was turned on to the Stones..there was no looking back. Satisfaction was the first song I heard and from Keith's opening guitar riffs I was hooked! I'm happy the band is just as popular as ever. I think they are worth any ticket price and God bless Mick and the boys for giving us some stellar music over the years. Let's spend the night together is one of my favorite rock songs of all times. Exile On Main Street is one hell of a album...classic. That's funny it was mentioned cause I was just listening to that last night. They just have so many great songs. After the 80's I really didnt listen as much...but as the years go on and on I always come back to THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD! Hey...It' It's only rock n roll but I like it!!!

[Alex Mogilny]

The Stones were a great band.

I particulary dig the Let it Bleed to Exile on Main St. period.
They were flawless during that period.

If your really really dig the Stones...I suggest you pick up a couple of bootlegs:

1. Leed Guitars and TV Stars Leeds University 1971. Here the Stones debut some of the songs from Sticky Fingers. The band is raw and right on target!

2. brussells Affair. Brussells Belgium 1973. The band is on fire. Mick Taylor's solo on Midnight Rambler is the best I have ever heard.

A couple of official releases from that period that alot of people discount are:

1. Get yer ya yas out. This is a fantastic concert taken from the Madison Square Garden in 1969. The band is in great raw form. I love to listen to the "stripped down" Stones. I have about 300 Stones bootlegs and the majority of the Stones material is "big Production" horn sections and a plethora of back up singers. Not here. This is the Stones RAW!

2. Rock and Roll Circus. This is one of the last if not last live recording with Brian Jones done in 1968. This recording is so fucking raw it sounds like they are playing in your local bar. No back up singers, no saxophones, no Keys...just 5 guys playing pure raunch and roll.

Also with the Rock N Roll Circus there is a fantastic performance of The Who's..a quick one....If you are a fan of The 'oo and have not heard this, you should be ashamed. Their performance is mindblowing!

There is also a great performance of Lennon, Clapton, Richards, and Mitchell doing 'yer blues'...fucking great stuff

There is some filler on there as well...marianne faithful, jethro dull, taj mahal...I just made my own CD of The Stones, Lennon, and The Who.


If you have the means or the wherewithal, I highly recommend picking up all of these releases/bootlegs.

I am sure fellow Stones lover and aficiando FORD will back me up on this!

[Big Fat Sammy]

Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise

Just for fun, here is a link to a video a guy made for "Crazy Mama" and posted in the Iggy Pop forum:

http://www.exile.com.au/stones/

ROTFLMAO

That guy has talent!


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I second getting the Brussels Affair boot. I posted it here somewhere.