Rolling Stones

Spaceman, you get off EStreet's log-on this instant!

 

The time I flew cross country with Chas West of Bonham and he predicted Led Zepplin getting back together and also told me about porno karaoke.

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Although it was a hodge-podge of songs, I like 1) everything on December's Children and 2) Angie.

 

Anybody who seriously thinks the Stones are/were better than the Beatles needs to consider that it was never Jagger and Richards who wrote a single for the other band.

 

Ding ding ding.

Supposedly the Beatles came to watch the Stones playing a club gig and Jagger and Richards were fawning over them, "you're the greatest, etc etc" "how do you write all those great songs," and Lennon and McCartney said, "Like this," grabbed a spare guitar, a sheet of scrap paper and a pen, and five minutes later handed them "I Wanna Be Your Man."

At which point Mick said to Keith, "Maybe we ought to take a shot at this songwriting stuff."

 

I'm as big a Stones mark as you'll find in these parts but without the Beatles there is no Stones, no Who, no Floyd, no Zeppelin, no British Invasion of any sort.

As for Emotional Rescue, not an album I have much use for even if songs like "Where The Boys Go" and "Let Me Go" are among my fave Stones guilty pleasures.

 

Here's a question: What record do you consider the Rolling Stones' last great album?

Voodoo Lounge? Tattoo You? Some Girls? Something like It's Only Rock 'n' Roll that hit before the disco explosion?

Personally, I'll go with Tattoo You. "Worried About You" is the lone clunker IMO; "Start Me Up" and Waiting On A Friend" are stone cold classics; and "Hang Fire" and "Little T&A" are among the band's more underrated post-1980 rockers.

 

The Beatles also performed songs written by other people. That's a specious argument.

As for last great Stones album, it's definitely 'Tatto You.'
I like a few songs on 'Undercover.' I have about zero use for all subsequent material.

 

The first side (that's LP talk for you kiddies out there) of Tattoo You is great. I have always dug "Slave" and "Black Limousine" is a great blues rocker. "Start Me Up" is unquestionably the last great Stones single.

 

Tattoo You is undoubtedly the last good Stones album. I'll cop an admission to liking Undercover Of The Night, which is their most recent good single I can name. There were a few in the 90s I didn't mind, but I'll be damned if I can name them.

 

Mine as well.

 

On 'Undercover,' 'Under cover of the night,' 'She was hot' and Tie you up' have my seal of approval.