Early Rolling Stones Masterpieces

[Woebot]

[checks NO ROLLING STONES THREADS]

we're talking as early as possible. definitely before beggars banquet. none of that lp counts. the earlier the better.

music critics struggle to talk about the stones.

structurally they are white rnb from london. or later embrassing pseudo-american blues rock bores.

BUT it's all about the emotion. don't get hung up on the noise - it's the signal that matters.

jagger *is* joseph neumann's centrovert - the hermaphrodite of alchemy. like the t-shirt he wore at altamont he is, not the alpha, but the omega male.

ENERGY GOD. 76 and still dancing like his bad self.

here are some personal favourites from early on.

congratulations.

 

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off the hook

 

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little red rooster

 

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Under My Thumb.

 

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not fade away

 

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Under My Thumb.

yes. that's early enough. you can come in.

 

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one more from me

BACK STREET GIRL

 

[muser]

pretty obvious ones..



my parents were vehemently anti-beatles and pro-stones so they're always a bit nostalgic for me.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Woebot]

@muser

beatles-vs-stones is a serious thing.

the stones were arguably the first ROCK group. in an important sense more countercultural than the beatles ever were.

germaine greer said that "satisfaction" was the first intelligent and adult bit of popular music she ever heard. it was those sentiments.

 

[Corpsey]

Looking at their hair there - a messed up variation on the Beatles' mop tops - occurs to me that The Beatles came from working class backgrounds (aside, ironically, from Lennon) and The Stones were quite posh -

In the context of the way they presented themselves at first, makes me think of that classic tendency of working class musicians (e.g. rappers) to dress up to the nines and middle class musicians to dress deliberately scruffily.

 

[Trillhouse]

not sure you could call The Stones "posh" when their fathers were things like 'bargees', factory workers & lorry drivers, apart from Mick whose parents were teachers.

 

[craner]

I don't think there's a lot of hidden gold here, but I could be wrong.

My two, very obvious, very big, not very early:

 

[craner]

The thing about the Stones is to me they are a comforting presence rather than Rock & Roll legends. This is because my mum and my aunts and uncles were all obsessed with the Stones when I was small, so it's like they are part of the family. (My Dad was too much a hipster for the Stones, he'd sniff at them and put Attica Blues on instead.)

 

[woops]

i like this one myself

 

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especially when done like this


quite unpleasant, mean lyrics!

 

[woops]

better voice with more exciting adlibs, bigger better production, better drumming, but i've never really completely got the appeal of the rolling stones

 

[woops]

jagger can't really shout can he. keith is competent that's it. charlie watts never goes for it. who were the others?

 

[Corpsey]

not sure you could call The Stones "posh" when their fathers were things like 'bargees', factory workers & lorry drivers, apart from Mick whose parents were teachers.

Oh you're quite right! I always thought they were public school boys for some reason.

I used to love 'Sticky Fingers'. Somewhere along the line I got it into my head that it was terribly affected and went off it. But I'd like to be into it again.

 

[craner]

Brian Jones, he could play anything pretty well and all the girls wanted to shag him, but he was a fucking psychopath.