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- Thread starter Toadroller
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,OK , I forgot Happy.. The others don't make the cut for good RS songs imho. The Mick Taylor-era is still the Stones' best work, but Exile bores me to tears. I share Kiz' post-SG Stones being pretty much worthless. At that point they were too rich, too fucked up and had no more cutting-edginess that made them cool.. That was the Phil Collins years for the band and it continues with no improvement other than possibly Keith's 1989 solo lp.
How true is that -- I kept that one in my back pocket back in the day for that reason. You can shut down the cacophony at any guitar store on a Saturday afternoon with it. I'd quietly pull a tele off the wall (or some other hardtail) and tune it up -- then let CYHMK fly. Instant head turning silence from the masses --- noodle around for 50 seconds letting that open G tuning ring - then quickly tune back up to std and put the guitar back on the wall.... then start counting to see how long it takes for someone else to grab that guitar and try to play it -- bonus points if a guy tries to play it in std tuning right after and falls apart.... good times. But what a riff -- what a great guitar song. Still makes me smile like a kid with fresh ears when I hear it.
I'm with you serial in that Exile is an acquired taste --- but I'm happy to say I've acquired the taste. There are the obvious songs that sonic mentioned, but the deeper stuff is more of a meditation in form -- to me it feels like The Band -- you gotta get inside those tracks and get tangled by the tapestries they weave rhythmically and guitar wise. There are definitely familiar and even derrivative things there, but there's something else too - something greater than the sum of the parts that is there in those tracks. For years I struggled to get into the album but if you drill in and let it wash all over you and take root you'll get it.
I do like the Richards solo stuff I've heard.
Aside from that, we'll have to agree to disagree.
Purely a serendipitous occurrence.
Perhaps it was kismet. Or Kizmet, if you will, so to speak, as it were.
Never got into the Beetles, but love the Stones. Especially Some Girls, Sticky Fingers, Tattoo You, Black and Blue... Wore out Hot Rocks, and Forty Licks should be required in any record collection, even if you don't particularly care for the Stones. Saw them on the Tattoo You, Steel Wheels and Bridges to Babylon tours, and they always sounded great.
To me the Beetles were pop, and the Stones were rock.
To me the Beetles were pop, and the Stones were rock.
"NOS music" sums it up well. Some of it we missed. Some of it we should have missed. It is nice to have the opportunity to shop for it again.