Favorite Stones album?
 

They really only existed from 1968 to 1972. Which studio album is your favorite?

they really existed from 1965-1978, and THEN they started sucking.

Sure, technically speaking. But for me, they were only really the Stones I knew and loved when Mick Taylor was working for them.

mick taylor can kiss my ass. he was fantastic as a musician but he doesn't exist to me as a person. he wasn't even with the band during Beggar's Banquet.

I really can't decide. One thing I can aver is that Exile on Main Street is the weakest of those four.

Sticky Fingers was a reinvention in a way & their first studio album that was really solid in many years.

Let it Bleed & Beggar's Banquet are probably my favorite two, but I also like Goat's Head Soup, Her Satanic Majesty's Request, Between the Buttons, & the early 12 x 5 a whole lot.

he was certainly in the shadow of mick and keith, but his contribution was tremendous.

i picked beggar's banquet for the fuck of it because i love prodigal son and parachute woman and sympathy for the devil (and i figured no one else would pick it), but all of those albums are unspeakably great.

i don't like the stones at all, what do you think of that, dear?

that's fine. i hate merzbow.

total agreement

Taylor, Mick

rocks

Brian Jones was the soul of the band to me.
After that, I am really uninterested.
Not a huge fan in any case, but the Jones period is the only one I really have any honest liking for.

People like to say that about Brian.
Brian is the person that was the nucleus of the early band, yes, but it was mainly because Brian had a record collection, whereas the others were much poorer & did not.

I don't listen to The Rolling Stones as much as I used to at all, but I'm not about to dump on them for spurious reasons because of that.
They did a lot of fantastic work.

Lee likes to warm-up with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" quite a bit. According to the recent Jonesy's Jukebox interview, Thurston likes to warm-up before a show by playing some Sex Pistols sometimes. He referenced an older pre-Bullocks Sex Pistols song that I forget the name of right now & told Steve Jones this using the words, "to this day, before a show I still like to warm-up with, etc."

The Stones' "Just Another Night" plays over the P.A. as Sonic Youth takes the stage in Amsterdam in '85. I used it as the first track of the last live picks cd.

In the 1980 Jann Wenner Rolling Stone interview of John Lennon he remarks that he was always close to the Stones because they came over to America when The Beatles did, but he considered The Beatles "more intellectual" & thought that Mick cheapened the Stones with his showiness. He also went on to say that The Beatles (which he also cuts down a great deal in the interview) were "in a whole other class than the Stones." I agree with him on that point. I agree with him on just about anything & everything.

I'm not really a fan of the Stones. But I do really like the song 2000 Man. So which ever album that is from. Is it Her Satanic Majesty's Request?

That's the one. The video for that was glam before glam rock & one of the first conceptual music videos ever made.

I did not know that. I'll look up the video. Thanks.

Beggar's Banquet, no question.

I need to listen to Sticky Fingers more closely. My copy is all scratched up and sounds like shit.

i see i'm going to have to thoroughly condition you in the ways of good taste.

shame on you cantankarous!!!!:D

not a stones fan at all, probably let it bleed out of those choices

i'm sure the pistols song was one of the following:
roadrunner
satellite
no lip
i wanna be me


as for brian jones, i hear he was a real asshole (he beat anita) but he was a great musician.

Sticky Fingers is my fave by far (in my opinion it's their best record in terms of songwriting and guitar playing, and it's also their only one of which I like all the tracks, I find the other ones uneven).

I've never bought a Rolling Stones album in my entire life.I like possibly two or three songs of theirs.They haven't enriched my life in any shape or form.

ditto. i will say sticky fingersd though, just because andy warhol did the art (i haven't put a vote though)

fuck andy warhol. he can kiss my fucking ass.

My all time favorite of theirs is Between the Buttons because I grew up listening to my parents copy of it along with all their Stones 45s......Yesterdays Papers....oh yeah.


Even though it's not an album, The London Years is my favorite Stones cd/collection or whatever. It was the first cd I ever got in 5th or 6th grade.



Out of these I'll break the tie and vote for Beggars even though I love them all.

wow, baggars is kickin ass. I contributed to it's kickability.

I kinda like aftermath though... but only about half of it really. It has under my thumb which is fuckin a i say

i'm siding with the critics on this one.

exile, can't beat the swamped up production, my favorite country album...i can't see why people don't like it, it sounds more like what gram parsons would come up instead of the stones, i love how out of step it's from their discography.

i love exile. mick did not do a very good job mixing it, though.

part of the charm, in my opinion.

i like difficult albums i guess, albums that have some fucked there.

i like a rough mix, but it's not a very good rough mix.
beggar's banquet has some great rough mixing.

that's the point, it's not just rough, it's badly done, the levels are all wrong and some of the takes used don't have the best sounds they got to tape. but it does capture that sense of isolation and being fucked up or in the brink of crapping out, but not in the typical way, just in the mix because the songs are both ace and a departure for the band. a combination of everything seems to be what makes it special.

it's very fucking atypical.

you are just too intense.

i guess all i'm trying to say is that it's a great album with tunes you'd never think the stones would do (or take a sound as far as they did) in a very fucked up way which makes sense after listening to it.

for me at least.

don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite albums of all time. from an exclusively technical standpoint (which i am not concerned with to be honest with you, but just for the sake of mentioning it, there you have it) it's subpar, but in the big picture, i suppose it does make it all that much better. it wouldn't be the same album if it had been mixed differently.

hey look, i guess we agree.

yeah, that's what i'm saying.

badly recorded/mixed/mastered albums can turn out to be great pieces of music.

i love badly recorded, really low-fi stuff. depending on the music it can either add to or detract from it, though.

exactly, most punk and black metal sound awesome with little fidelity or production values, but other stuff, like when there's a lot going on, it's just fucked.

Dear Doctor is an awesome song, Keith's background vocals(which are hilleriously high pitched) like on many of the stones' songs really make the song.

things like devendra banhart as well, though i don't really know what you call that.

fuck yeah, i hate when it's acoustic guitar shit and it's super produced with lots of overdubs and gating and compression, it kills the directness of it.

i mean, listen to six organs of admittance.

probably one of the reasons i got so tired of devendra's cripple crow.

i haven't got cripple crow, i only have the black babies.