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Posted: October 01 2016 at 08:01
micky wrote:
TeleStrat wrote:
I stopped buying their albums after Sticky Fingers but I really like everything up to that point.
you didn't dig Exile??? Adore that album..it was sort of an encapsulation of the group. A English American roots rock band
Exactly, superb album. Everything from 1968 through 1972 (Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main Street) is almost required listening as far as rock music goes. And then they went to hell.
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Posted: October 01 2016 at 10:36
My father had a lot of their records in his collection, but I never felt the urge to hear these ones: I stuck to his Pat Metheny records... Oh, and he also has BÖC's first LP.
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Posted: October 02 2016 at 09:39
I love Let it Bleed, Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers.
To a lesser extent Exile on Main Street, Between the Buttons, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Aftermath and Flowers. That era from the Stones, right before the classic one is very underrated. They were more poppy than bluesy, sounding a lot like The Beatles at times. They could write some amazing melodies.
Not one of my top favorite bands, but not too far away either.
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I have tried, but apart from the odd gem eg Gimmie Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, Paint it Black, I can't into them. Should I feel ashamed of myself? I've always felt that one should be honest with others and themselves about what music they like and don't like.
Don't feel ashamed. The songs you mention belong to the better part and there is little need to descend from a stellar level to the realm of raw rock 'n roll .
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Posted: October 02 2016 at 18:09
Blacksword wrote:
I think most of their music is completely unremarkable and their sound is really annoying. Not for me. Never were.
+1
There is nothing in their catalog that ever got me mildly interested.....My wife bought me Exile at a garage sale for $2, told her she paid too much should have been free. I traded it at the record store for a $5 credit, can't complain I guess the Stones made me $3
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Posted: October 02 2016 at 20:38
All this talk of Exile reminds me that, while I'm a massive fan of every last note of '60's Stones, I prefer Pussy Galore's full album cover of Exile to the original. Course, Stones get credit for giving PG something to work with.
Also, while I'm here, why doesn't "Monkey Man" get any airplay? Probably the best cut on Bleed.
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Posted: October 03 2016 at 05:55
Catcher10 wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
I think most of their music is completely unremarkable and their sound is really annoying. Not for me. Never were.
+1
There is nothing in their catalog that ever got me mildly interested.....My wife bought me Exile at a garage sale for $2, told her she paid too much should have been free. I traded it at the record store for a $5 credit, can't complain I guess the Stones made me $3
Not a fan. never been a fan. Sure, there are songs I like but I'll never buy a Stones record. Can't understand how they became as big as they are/were.
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Posted: October 03 2016 at 07:50
Like other folks here, liked their earlier stuff, up to and including Goats Head Soup. Maybe a song or two here and there since. You gotta love their perseverance though, keep doing it as long as you can or want to...
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Posted: October 03 2016 at 08:25
The thing that puzzles me is not that someone cannot get in the Strolling Bones or when in their interminable career they were ever get-in-able or why anyone would even try or why they'd be concerned that they'd find them un-get-in-able or whether this is either a desirable or lamentable state of affairs or why we'd be interested or find it something to discuss at any length or opine upon or which particular album was more get-in-able than any other or whether this is contagious or something anyone should or could be bothered about but sorry, what was the question?
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Posted: October 05 2016 at 03:06
LearsFool wrote:
All this talk of Exile reminds me that, while I'm a massive fan of every last note of '60's Stones, I prefer Pussy Galore's full album cover of Exile to the original. Course, Stones get credit for giving PG something to work with.
Also, while I'm here, why doesn't "Monkey Man" get any airplay? Probably the best cut on Bleed.
Great song... best? So many greats on that album which is ..well why it is probably one of the 10 best rock albums ever made. Could never put even that one over Gimme Shelter... both though are classic.. top 10'rs all time in rock for their intro's. INSTANTLY recognizable...
that said.. my favorite 'gem' on the album is this one...
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Posted: October 05 2016 at 06:12
Dean wrote:
The thing that puzzles me is not that someone cannot get in the Strolling Bones or when in their interminable career they were ever get-in-able or why anyone would even try or why they'd be concerned that they'd find them un-get-in-able or whether this is either a desirable or lamentable state of affairs or why we'd be interested or find it something to discuss at any length or opine upon or which particular album was more get-in-able than any other or whether this is contagious or something anyone should or could be bothered about but sorry, what was the question?
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micky wrote:
but what a trip they had...there were still nuggets to be had after Exile. .but that was IMO their last great album start to finish.
Are you me?
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