Been an awfully long time since I posted anything as I’ve been busy and haven’t felt the need for the outlet…but here we are…
I recently took advantage of lovely Spotify and said…I’m going to go through the Rolling Stones entire catalog and see if there is anything I’m missing.
I wasn’t missing much. Sure, I was born in the 70’s and had heard enough of the whole Beatles vs. Stones arguments and oldheads saying how great they were and just how “dangerous” they were by reputation.
Turns out its all rot. All of it. There is very little there that isn’t just aping other peers or progenitors like Presley, Beatles, Beach Boys, Robert Johnson, and later Bowie and their better (for a period) offspring like Aerosmith. Their music is generally boring, simple, repetitive and filled with Jagger’s constant moaning and mumbling and juvenile lyrics. Their supposed “greatest” album “Exile on Main Street” is a colossal bore and of which you will not see any songs in the following list which is the comprehensive list of all Stones that don’t suck. If I had a Spotify Premium account I’d make a playlist with such a title…but I’m a cheap bastard and I don’t…So here it is in no particular order other than “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin” being the first as its by far and away the best thing they every did. If they could have created more sound like the lengthy guitar outro with no Jagger vocals that concludes that effort…they might have had something…instead? There is maybe one song on every other album worth listening to.
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Sticky Fingers)
Bitch (Sticky Fingers)
Gimme Shelter (Let It Bleed)
Heartbreaker (Goats Head Soup)
Paint It Black (Aftermath)
Play With Fire (Out of Our Heads)
Sympathy For The Devil (Beggars Banquet)
Street Fighting Man (Beggars Banquet)
Time Waits For No One (It’s Only Rock N Roll)
Mother’s Little Helper (Aftermath)
Under My Thumb (Aftermath)
Wild Horses (Sticky Fingers)