Probably dumb question - What sounds like the Stones' classic four?

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What albums sound similar the classic four Rolling Stones albums (Beggars Banquet-Exile on Main Street, of course), without getting into mid-70s redneck bullshit? I'm looking for that blend of country, blues, and uptempo rock.

― ace of spades (Lee is Free), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

~~Primal Scream~~

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Redneck bullshit?!" You've probably just ruined more music for me.

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

Drive By Truckers

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

J. Geils Band

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Redneck bullshit?!" You've probably just ruined all music for me.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously though, I would check out Don Covay's House of Blue Lights.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

compulsive gamblers - crystal gazing luck amazing

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

the faces

― phil turnbull (philT), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i second the faces! in some ways i actually like them more than "sticky fingers" era stones - they're just more fun.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

How about The Counting Crows?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. The Black Crowes I mean.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Another vote for the Faces. "Pool Hall Richard" sounds like it's straight from Sticky Fingers.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

"Teenage Head"- Flamin' Groovies

The first Little Feat

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Black Keys

2nd for Drive-By Truckers

Early Wilco, especially Being There

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Deadstring Brothers. Catch 'em live, too, if you get the chance.

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have a little list in my head of "best Stones songs not by the Stones". But I don't remember much of it.

John Mellencamp's Uh-Huh probably counts. "Crumbling Down" is a pretty good Stones song, and I could definitely imagine Mick doing "Pink Houses".

Small Faces is almost too obvious, given the close ties between the bands. Also, it's impossible to disagree with Black Crowes, DBT, and early Wilco (but more AM than Being There), all of whom are/were Stones imitators. Also, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

Farther afield: Nu southern garage bands: Verbena and Kings of Leon. Lucinda Williams and Ryan Adams when they do rock. Ike and Tina Turner in the "Proud Mary" period.

― Vornado (Vornado), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

first 3-4 zz top records

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

and the ny dolls records always kinda struck me as bizarro world stones records

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Deadly Snakes have made a career out of it.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the Flamin' Groovies recommendation! I just checked them out - that's definitely what I wanted.

― ace of spades (Lee is Free), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, the flaming groovies have some nice cuts.

also seconding...
the deadly Snakes
the reigning sound (or pretty much anything by Greg Cartwright)

the black keys are good, but they have a more classic blues style of rock

you can also go back...
The Animals (highly recommended)
the pretty things
the yardbirds
chuck berry
bo diddley
muddy waters

― marbles (marbles), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Various moments in Nikki Sudden's career.
Royal Trux "Thank You".

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Clap - Have You Reached Yet

It is to Beggar's Banquet era Stones what the Chocolate Watchband were to '65-'66 era Stones.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

lol mid-70s redneck bullshit

John Mellencamp's Uh-Huh probably counts. "Crumbling Down" is a pretty good Stones song, and I could definitely imagine Mick doing "Pink Houses"

I agree with the first sentence (and Scarecrow andWhenever We Wanted are even Stones-ier), but not the second. Try to imagine Mick singing those lyrics w/out laughing.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Humble Pie

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 8 June 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band-Safe As Milk

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

some taj mahal + ry cooder of the era would probably make you happy too

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I hesitate/feel stupid tooting my own horn here, but we got a lot of 70s Stones comparisons with our last album...

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― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Why (and since when) is it obvious (see: ace of spades's "of course") that these albums are the Stones' "classic four? (also, especially since lynyrd skynyrd are probably the greatest stones-inspired band ever, what is the logic for discounting "mid '70s redneck bullshit"? except that there is nothing bullshitty about skynyrd, i guess.) (and it's also kind of bizarre that nobody has mentioned aerosmith.) (but here's an obscure one for you: find both EPs by DFX2. They sound a hell of a lot more like the Stones than Lucinda Williams or Kings of Leon or Primal Scream ever will. Heck, so does "Emotional" off the second Loverboy album.) (Though okay, maybe that's the LATE '70s Stones. Who cares, it's still great.)

― Charles Joseph Tarcisius Eddy (xheddy), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

chuck otm about the first couple Aerosmith albums, that's for sure.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's true... they even looked alike... & they also did the satyr singer/junkie-genius guitar god combo a la jagger/richards & johanson/thunders (& plant/page for that matter, though led zep's genius is probably how un-stonesy they sound even when ripping off the same source material).

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

xp: I do totally agree with J. Geils and John Cougar, though.

― oops I meant xhuxk (xheddy), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Also, for mid '00s redneck bullshit, Brooks & Dunn's *Red Dirt Road* (probably the best Stones album of this decade, though possibly not the best Brooks & Dunn album, which might be *Steers and Stripes.*)

On the one Deadly Snakes album I love, *Ode to Joy,* I hear more mid '60s Dylan (or even, uh, Mouse and the Traps) than turn of the '70s Stones, but that doesn't mean the latter's not there. Is their earlier stuff more Stones-like? (Their most recent one was more Nick-Cave-like, and therefore a real letdown, to my ears.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

replacements circa pleased to meet me ("little mascara" being a particularly good example. georgia satellites circal in the land of salvation and sin.

i wish more bands tried to sound like the stones circa between the buttons.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 8 June 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I never hear these guys mentioned much around here, but they'd be my choice.

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― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 8 June 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Damn!

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― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 8 June 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've mentioned the Inmates on ILM before! That's a real good album. Their cover of "Dirty Water" by the Standells was a big AOR hit in Detroit in 1979 or '80; I think they re-recorded versions in lots of U.S. cities, changing "River Charles" to whatever river was local, so the Detroit one said "Detroit River...aww, Detroit your my home." Though their were Londoners, apparently, and I think the version on their album says "River Thames. (And fuck, I just checked my album shelf and I don't have a copy! I USED to. Why'd I get rid of it??)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Friday, 9 June 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was just listening to Doc At The Radar Station the other day. That has nothing to do with anything, though, does it?

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 9 June 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

How good is Uh-Huh? Is it worth $2.99 for a used copy on CD?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

They also have Scarecrow for $5.99 - should I get that one instead?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

and the ny dolls records always kinda struck me as bizarro world stones records

...yes, but more the Stones '65 ("Last Time" et al.) and sped up and tunesified and girl-grouped, rather than the classic four bores* from '68-'72.

But anyway, to answer your question, the Heartbreakers L.A.M.F. is what Exile wished it had been.

(*hyperbole on my part, I'll grant you)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

People already mentioned many of the following but go for it:

Little Feat's debut:
what Wilco and the whole roots rock thang wants to be

first two Humble Pie records

Faces:
Somebody said it's too close but man 'o' man, didn't the Stones
kinda rip the Faces off?

Royal Trux Thank You:
just, just, just perfect

Cinderella Long Cold Winter:
I know it's corny, but they did a club tour for this one. I was young, and it blew my mind. They were a really fuckin' good live band.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Gipsy Road" is possibly the best Stones song of the past 20 years, so QuantumNoise's Cinderella vote OTM

>How good is Uh-Huh? Is it worth $2.99 for a used copy on CD?
They also have Scarecrow for $5.99 - should I get that one instead?<

Buy both; they're both great. Uh-Huh for $2.99 a way better buy than Scarecrow for $5.99, but the pair for $8.98 is more than worth it. (Uh-Huh may well be the better of the two albums, to be honest. Cougar's best album was American Fool, which came before Uh-Huh.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ronnie Lane's solo albums have that lived-in, open, musicianly warmth to them. They won't rock your pants off, but they're charmers, and they reflect the Stones through a certain lens.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

'the classic four Rolling Stones albums (Beggars Banquet-Exile on Main Street, of course' What about the classic 8 or so prior albums?

'find both EPs by DFX2. They sound a hell of a lot more like the Stones...'

I have 'Emotion' but have never heard this (which I presume is the other EP you're referring to):

DFX2 - WHERE ARE THE NOW (EP)
1. Octane
2. Real Thing
3. Where Are They Now
4. Downtown

Apparently there's a putter by Callaway (from the same county as the DFX2 rock band) called 'DFX 2'.

It was probably mostly due to the song but for some reason I dug the Gypsy Road video too. Cinderella "heartbreak station' is Stonesy. It even has a song called 'Shelter Me' which I recall some talk about it must be some kind of tribute/joke reference to Gimme Shelter. But they have such a Brian Johnson AC/DC vocal influence I'm not sure they're the perfect Stones soundalike. Seems like there are plenty of examples which sound something like the stones musically. What's harder is who sounds like Jagger?

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Saturday, 10 June 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

i just made a mix of this sorta stuff for some kids. it had cuts from: Don Covay's House of Blue Lights, first Little Feat rec, the F'ing Groovies' Teenage Head, Delaney and Bonnie, Marianne Faithfull's original "Sister Morphine" and Link Wray's chicken shack record. i guess that Jim Dickinson record and the first Crazy Horse coulda worked as well.

― imbidimts (imbidimts), Saturday, 10 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

now that you mention jim dickinson, i'm thinking about alex chilton's "like flies on sherbert" maybe? another album that has something of the "what exile wishes it was" character that f. kogan describes... or maybe chilton's "1970" album with those fucking great stax-metal versions of jumpin' jack flash + sugar suger

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 10 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Which Stones albums did Dr. Feelgood (the pub-rock band) sound like?

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 10 June 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Don Covay's House of Blue Lights

Holy shit. This is something I didn't even know existed, and I just read a review of it -- sounds like it's amazing. I'm going to Amoeba today.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

it is.

― imbidimts (imbidimts), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I could definitely imagine Mick doing "Pink Houses".

kind of a "gimme shelter" rip off, no? minus the blues, but with the gospel singers and a looser rhythm section.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Saturday, 10 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

"warmer place to sleep" also nicely fits the thread request. (honestly though, chuck, how do you slot uh-huh behind american fool. listening to em back to back now...side one of uh-huh (crumblin down, authority song, pink houses, warmer place to sleep) is way better, more convincing, more rockin etc. etc. than almost all of american fool (jack & diane and thundering hearts definitely up to snuff). plus play guitar!)

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Saturday, 10 June 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

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