Defend the Indefensible: Mick Jagger, "Ruthless People"

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I saw the video on Classic VH-1 the other day. Holy shit!! What an awful song! Is this why Jagger insisted on a solo career?

I checked the writing credits; did Dave Stewart and DARYL HALL contribute to this aerobicized nonsense?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember how this song goes, only that it sucks. But it reminds me of the VH-1 show "The List" a few years ago. Alexandra Wentworth was on, and she put Mick on her list of coolest frontmen. And then they showed a clip of mick prancing around (maybe Shattered?) .. and she immediately withdrew her nomination after seeing as she called it, "workout with Kathy Lee."

So I thought that was funny, and that's all I can remeber except for movie clips that were kinda funny but had nothing to do with Mick.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

it's better than "let's work."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

it's better than "let's work."

So OTM!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

it's better than "let's work."

I think that song is the pinnacle of Mick's "Hi! I'm completely out of ideas!" phase.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Actually, he did sneer out a couple of good solo bits. I quite like "Throwaway" and "Just Another Night," both of which showed he could come up with fun generic, er, throwaways solo. And "Wandering Spirit" is an excellent Stones simulation.

But, geez, "Ruthless People"...

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

What was the track he did with the Jacksons? That was a real keeper too.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

"State of Shock"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

...which he sang with Tina Turner at Live Aid.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I saw the video again!! It's crap!!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 21 August 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

eighteen years pass...

Happy birthday, Mick!

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2024 18:11 (ten months ago)

Very mid-80s downtown NYC squiggly animation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGggdgZM22U

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Friday, 26 July 2024 18:14 (ten months ago)

I guess making Walter Yetnikoff a Executive Producer explains how they landed prime CBS real estate like Jagger doing the title track, a previously uncollected Springsteen outtake/b-side, and a single from Billy Joel's then-new album for the film.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 July 2024 18:55 (ten months ago)

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