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).