DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
I like the Mick Taylor years 69to74) the best then the discoey years say 78 through 83 finally the BJ years. I just never really got into Jones era stuff much. Anything post Undercover though I’m not interested in
Listen to this - New Stones!
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Machinegunner
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Mick Taylor was great w/ the Stones, but decidedly more bluesy obviously. I used to like the Some Girls/Tattoo You stuff when I was younger, but I just don’t care about it nowadays. The Stones were a much more exciting/psych/experimental/adventurous band w/ Brian Jones, but Mick and Keith wanted to move away from that and play more blues rock stuff…which they did. Not that I dislike that stuff, I just like the Brian Jones era Stones a lot more. I also think Mick and Keith didn’t like the attention that Brian got, there was def. some resentment there. At the same time, it was inevitable that Brian had to go w/ the drugs and unreliability etc.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
I do Dig the Brian Jonestown Massacre though
Machinegunner
fancy sound-measuring doodad
The look on Mick’s face says it all! And Brian Jonestown Massacre knows
These are pretty good:
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
The look on Mick’s face says it all! And Brian Jonestown Massacre knows
These are pretty good:
and the look on Brians face says MUNCHIES....totally focused on the food he is about to stuff his face with!
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
The Brian Jones era is my favorite too, for the same reasons you mention. I feel their music had much more variety. Take 'Lady Jane', 'Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadows', and 'We Love You', for examples.
Post-Brian Jones their music became locked into a particular 'Stonesy' formula (rootsy, swaggering, open G etc.). I have to say there's nothing wrong with having a formula either, if I listen to The Ramones, AC/DC, Chuck Berry or whoever I know what to expect, and I want it to be like that. The post-Jones Stones formula is a good one and some of their best songs were done to that formula. But I think I like the variety better.
Machinegunner
fancy sound-measuring doodad
Yes, a lot more variety and no particular formula w/ Brian…they were willing to take more chances musically and songwriting wise (the big shift came after Their Satanic Majesties Request). The earlier songs are just a lot more unique and stylistically interesting to me, especially for the time. Spot on w/ the rootsy swagger that came later on…someone mentioned somewhere that w/ Brian they were The Rolling Stones, without him they became The Stones. I think that’s an apt way to differentiate the eras. I def. still enjoy the Mick Taylor era stuff a lot (and the Ron Wood era albums a lot less), I just prefer the Brian Jones Rolling Stones a lot more.
GusChiggins
Worried about coyotes
But still that was three decades ago
Their very first album was 30 years before Voodoo Lounge, so that is basically the middle right now.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
There’s basically been 4 or 5 Rolling Stoneses and they have all done at least some good work.
There’s the blues/beat combo Stones that kicked things off and Aftermath is probably the best record of that band.
Then you have the pop single hit machine stones or the Brian Jones Resplendent version of the band that is amazing.
Then you have Peak Stones when they swapped out Jones for Taylor and put out their four perfect albums Beggars/Bleed/Fingers/Exile as louche shock rocking decadent aristocrats.
Then you have the Sucking in the Seventies stones up until around Tattoo you who put out some good albums, but more hit and miss with Some Girls probably being the best.
And lastly there’s the Stones Since the 80s which was marked by the Jagger/Richards Cold War. Voodoo Lounge is the best album of this latter period and is a good-to-great LP.
There’s the blues/beat combo Stones that kicked things off and Aftermath is probably the best record of that band.
Then you have the pop single hit machine stones or the Brian Jones Resplendent version of the band that is amazing.
Then you have Peak Stones when they swapped out Jones for Taylor and put out their four perfect albums Beggars/Bleed/Fingers/Exile as louche shock rocking decadent aristocrats.
Then you have the Sucking in the Seventies stones up until around Tattoo you who put out some good albums, but more hit and miss with Some Girls probably being the best.
And lastly there’s the Stones Since the 80s which was marked by the Jagger/Richards Cold War. Voodoo Lounge is the best album of this latter period and is a good-to-great LP.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
here's my breakdown....
we are in the year 2023
voodoo lounge was released in 1992
the first RS album came out in 1964
2023-1964=59 (years)
59 years equals 5 decades but might as well say 6 decades because obviously they were together well before the first release
2023-1992=31 years....so three decades. technically yes that is right in the middle but when the middle is more than 1/3 of the current USofA life expectancy that is ALOT (lefe expectancy is 76.1 years)
No matter how you look at it that is
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Good summation.
Something else that's just popped into my head: remember there was a thread a while back about people not liking compilation albums, and some of us spoke in support of comps? The Rolling Stones had a fuck-ton of hits that were only available as singles, until they were collected on High Tide and Green Grass and Through the Past Darkly.
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
I believe that was me. I didn't think real fans of a band bought their compilation albums.
I did list Cat Steven's greatest hits on my favorite albums list last week though.
pmc100
Faux Guitarist
That third iteration is simply the best rock band of all time.
I've always had a soft spot for Steel Wheels from the later stuff.
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
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Machinegunner
fancy sound-measuring doodad
I had not seen that, pretty cool and happy to see Brian in it. What a classic tune, the only problem w/ RS psych material is that there isn’t enough of it!
cuffdc
chicken n waffles
I'm about the opposite. I think their entire psychedelic "era" sounds forced. Like they think they're supposed to be doing it because that's what all the cool kids are doing, but they aren't really into it.