Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud

listening to exile

this band is an unabashed dud 4eva

Lol

I looked at photos of young Mick Jagger this morning. Then I read a chapter of "Life". And then things got weird on ILM

Life was a fun read

that junkie zombie was such a friggin' genius. jeezus how is it possible that i often forget that he wrote the music to all those songs? its a credit to the fact that i think of them as a BAND. a complete whole. and i don't think of individual accomplishments. but for real that scarecrow bastard is one of the great songwriters of the 20th century! i'll try not to forget.

The Rolling Stones. To me they are no more than just overrated jerks who write melodically dead emotionally dry music. The most overrated band I know of, actually. The Rolling Stones receive way too much praise and credit for everything from influence to the quality of their hooks. I'd give them a one at best. That said, there are a bunch of Stones songs that I do like (even a couple that I love) and I can easily say Beggar's Banquet is a really good album, but for the most part they really leave me cold. Sorry, this is just how I feel.

sorry to anyone i offended with my awesome last comment btw

oh, i forgot - Classic.

i always passed over "Emotional Rescue" but lately i've found it kind of hypnotic and amazing.

i love that song. i have a friend far away who sings that every time i end up karaoke-ing with him. i think his version may be better, but i don't know.

jeezus how is it possible that i often forget that he wrote the music to all those songs?

Ha, probably because he didn't. Mick Taylor and Billy Preston have both claimed to have co-written a bunch of stuff not credited to them, and Wyman came up with the riff for "Jumpin' Jack Flash."

Saw Cocksucker Blues for the first time last night. Does anyone know who the guy who does the hotel-room monologue near the end about the brotherhood of junkies? It's a fairly polished comedy monologue.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, November 16, 2012 10:40 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think maybe it's Danny Seymour? He was Frank's right hand man, shot alot of CS Blues--is he the guy who shoots up the girl in the hotel room? if so, that's him. think he od'd shortly after the film was made (maybe i'm wrong)

mick taylor and billy preston and bill wyman didn't write shit. i'm sure lots of people came up with ideas or riffs though.

mick & keith wrote amazing songs for decades and those dudes were definitely not in the room the whole time.

i ponied up -- $150 for "limited view" seats, angled side/back but pretty close all things considered. and then there's mick taylor up there and they're playing midnight rambler. i was a tail-end boomer; '72 stones was just out of reach for me. so forgive me for getting all misty-eyed 'mbv-reunion' on you guys. it was dreamy.

i think bill wyman wrote ONE song on a stones album. "in another land". i like it though. i also like that when they put it out as a single they credited it to bill alone and not the stones. ha! no respect...

i saw that "charlie is my darling" movie and it sure looked like mick/keith/charlie were the ones in the room when songwriting was happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_nKdvOSg4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9p2q2T5ug

i never even knew that there was any kind of question about who wrote most of the music for the stones??!!

i just forget cuz i see that pirate skeletor dude everywhere and then i play the stones and i go jeeeeez he wasn't always some sort of punchline he co-wrote some the greatest rock music i've ever heard!

qlassic

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2010/11/please_allow_me_to_correct_a_few_things.single.html

bill wyman's whole reputation is built on leading people to think he did things he couldn't possibly do

keef is awesome, skott otm

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Keith didn't write the overwhelming majority of stuff that's credited to him. But there's a few credible claims from others to authorship on some tunes. And if M&K couldn't be bothered to correctly credit "Love In Vain" ("Woody Payne"??), I can't imagine they'd be too much more conscientious with session players and new-guys.

(almost wrote "too much more conscious," and that's probably more accurate)

And I yield to no one in my love for Keith -- I still think Talk Is Cheap is the only great Stones album after Some Girls.

mick & keith wrote amazing songs for decades and those dudes were definitely not in the room the whole time.

― scott seward,

12-15 years tops...

yeah that's probably about right. still! what they did in that time...

i don't really care who they stole/took from. bill wyman owes them every ounce of gold in his gold vault.

The recent doc (Crossfire Hurricane) had some interesting stuff on their earliest songwriting attempts. Their chief goal was just to come up with something they could confidently bring back to the rest of the band. But they were pretty panicked: "You want us to write a what? You want us to what a song?"

and they almost immediately started writing hits! it was fate.

that whole thing about Loog Oldham locking them in a room together was pretty amazing. hard to think of it not coming naturally to them from the start

Jagger's written plenty of songs himself (Yesterday's Papers, Brown Sugar, Miss You and most of Some Girls).

i've been listening to tons of tom petty and reading a book of conversations with petty - which is really repetitive and poorly edited and completely addictive - over the last couple of weeks and what some people might not know is that mike campbell wrote a TON of the music for tom petty songs - all the way back to when they were in mudcrutch together - including big hits, but i would still call tom petty a great songwriter and not mike campbell. which is weird. mike was integral to the songs and the sounds and he co-wrote lots of stuff but they wouldn't have been the songs they are without tom. plus, tom wrote all the words. but with the stones it was really the combo that made it work. though they did write songs separately a la lennonmccartney.

man, i love mike campbell. did you know the solo at the end of "runnin' down a dream" was ONE take in his tiny home studio? tom and jeff lynne couldn't believe their ears. like, for real, the first and only take. one of my favorite guitar solos ever.

Mick doing Brown Sugar in the outback, on his own, is kind of amazing to me. If you can do that you can do anything, you know? Yet he didn't get up the nerve to put out a solo album 'til a decade-and-a-half later.

campbell's a god. totally

i want mick to play harmonica at my funeral. he's such a beautiful harp player. and I'm p sure I'll die before he does

That Petty book is awesome enough to make me listen to those mid eighties records

totally!

and now i want every petty album i don't own. and the boxed set.

i love tom petty so much. and the rolling stones.

i love when stevie wigs out at the end of this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9OHDssYSE

Saw him on the Southern Accents tour. Blinding show all around, but Stan Lynch was a fucking monster. The shit he did on "Don't Come Around Here No More" wasn't human.

i think i might actually go to the cd store and buy a copy of wildflowers cuz that stuff sounds so good to me on youtube. plus, its tom's favorite album.

wildflowers is gorgeous.

the live box set is great, 78 - 07. playback is awesome also, split six ways into "the big jangle," "spoiled & mistreated," "good booty," "the other sides," and "nobody's children"

i think the band he has now is amazing. steve ferrone. scott thurston. mike. benmont. i think that's still his band. one of the best rock bands i can think of.

yeah the live set killed me! i mean all incarnations of heartbreakers were just so good.

i would love to see them live. i never go to big shows though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Rwqn9YTBs

I forgot, I also saw TP&H with Dylan in 1986, but I was so far away from the stage that I barely remember anything about it.

I polled Wildflowers a couple years ago and got a tepid response. It's long but he was in a songwriting peak

fuck yeah at tom snyder "woman in love"