Mick
Keith
Charlie
Ron

If you came here to post Brian Jones then you can fuck off.

Bill Wyman is out of the running.

7/29/2013 12:11:35 PM

I love it when threads come pre-built with a vinylbandit option.

7/29/2013 12:20:20 PM

Brian


WINNA!

7/29/2013 12:27:02 PM

I really dig a lot of Brian Jonestown Massacre' music.

And if Brian Jones lived 'til today, he'd be like Brian Wilson.

7/29/2013 12:40:38 PM

Keef will never die.

7/29/2013 1:32:49 PM

gotta be Charlie

7/29/2013 3:12:56 PM

Bono

7/29/2013 3:28:39 PM

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

7/29/2013 7:01:13 PM

Charlie.

7/30/2013 9:40:31 AM

Apparently Mick wrote "Shine a Light" about Brian.

Sometimes I worry that I'm about the age as Keef when Exile came out and that my next big thing will be my last big thing. I'm scared of putting out Goats Head Soup. Even more scared of Black and Blue.

8/7/2013 8:08:09 AM

their music

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

8/7/2013 10:37:55 AM

Who cares. It's not like any of us are going to live long enough to see it.

8/7/2013 10:55:41 AM

THE MAGAZINE

8/7/2013 7:20:14 PM

^

Please, think of all the moss which hasn't been gathered.

8/7/2013 7:20:56 PM

print media is dead

and who is going to pay to READ the internet?

8/7/2013 7:22:21 PM

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"I'm scared of putting out Goats Head Soup."

Hey, what the hell? Goats Head Soup is one of my favorites.

I mean, it's no Sticky Fingers or Exile On Main Street, but it's way towards the top of best Stones albums, in my book.

8/7/2013 8:50:02 PM

I would gladly trade Keith Richards and (whoever the drummer is) to have John Lennon and George Harrison back :3


and wait

why is Bill Wyman out of the running?

he was pretty much the best one

8/7/2013 8:51:31 PM

Off the top of my head, I'd say Keith Richards...that cat is crazy. I mean, he snorted his father's ashes in a line of cocaine (at the age of like 65, too.)

However, the very fact that he's still alive sort of suggests that he's invulnerable to the ill effects of the drugs and general lunacy he's been indulging for the past 50 years.

It'll probably be Charlie Watts...that would be a nice boring resolution to this question.

8/7/2013 10:23:51 PM

Goats Head Soup is middle of the pack at best. It's not bad, but there are at least eight Stones records that are better.

[Edited on August 7, 2013 at 10:30 PM. Reason : 3]

8/7/2013 10:30:10 PM

GSH came after Exile. It's the album where people started to think that maybe they were doing just a little too much heroin and it marks the beginning of their decline.

That being said, it had handful of quality songs.

Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile were them at the top of their game.

8/7/2013 11:44:16 PM

their best album by far was Forty Licks

8/7/2013 11:47:00 PM

I think it'll be Mick

in either a freak accident, or he'll be violently killed


(jk it'll probably be like cancer or something weird)


anyway

are you going to explain the Bill Wyman thing




P.S. the Rolling Stones' albums pretty much all sucked overall

they were nothing even close to The Beatles, and it's pitiful that anyone anywhere ever compared the two bands like the Stones were even in the same league :3

8/7/2013 11:48:34 PM

^^^ OK, I'll buy that. GSH is still a kickass rock album, though.


It's kinda like Metallica's self-titled ("Black") album--in the grand scheme of things, it's a really good album...but people hate on it because it marked the beginning of the end. It is the foreshadowing of Load and ReLoad, and the subsequent travesties that have been endured.

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"P.S. the Rolling Stones' albums pretty much all sucked overall they were nothing even close to The Beatles, and it's pitiful that anyone anywhere ever compared the two bands like the Stones were even in the same league :3 "

You have got to be fucking high.

I mean, maybe not comparable in that they were totally different bands, at least once they diverged from their common britpop roots, but as a big fan of both, I have to say that I'd rather get stranded on an island with my top couple dozen Stones songs than top couple dozen Beatles songs.

[Edited on August 7, 2013 at 11:52 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on August 7, 2013 at 11:52 PM. Reason : ]

8/7/2013 11:50:03 PM

if we're talking non-compilations, I'd go Exile -> Some Girls -> Beggars Banquet -> Between The Buttons

but, GHS is freaking great as well

[Edited on August 7, 2013 at 11:53 PM. Reason : d]

8/7/2013 11:53:10 PM

Forty Licks is missing the best Stones song of all time, "Monkey Man."

8/7/2013 11:54:06 PM

Let It Bleed is pretty damn good

8/7/2013 11:57:19 PM

I think Sticky Fingers would have to be my #1.

8/7/2013 11:58:44 PM

I don't know if I'm retarded or what, but I've had Exile for like 10 years and have never really gotten into it. I've always found it pretty mediocre. To me it just sounds like the Rolling Stones fucking around in the studio, so coked-up that they think they're making brilliant music.

Let It Bleed, though, is the shizniggity.

8/8/2013 12:00:01 AM

best song on Sticky Fingers is "Sister Morphine" right?

8/8/2013 12:01:53 AM

For all its brilliance, Exile is, like most doubles, too long.

I forgot I even owned a copy of Some Girls until I just looked on the shelf. I was never huge on it but got a NM first cover version for the absurd price of $5. I think I'll listen to it.

8/8/2013 12:03:23 AM

ha I just put mine on the turntable, too

8/8/2013 12:04:14 AM

Bill Wyman was 10 years older than everybody else and was only brought on because they didn't know nobody else with a bass amp.

Metallica's black album was awesome, just not Ride the Lightning awesome. People crap on it because of its commercial success. Load was alright. Reload wasn't. Then they put out a cover album. Then they put out a cover album of their own songs.

The worst Mick Taylor album was better than the best Ron Wood album.

John Lennon was a great Beatle, but people like to forget about the pure shit pop songs that he was putting out for the half decade before he found out that happiness actually wasn't a warm gun.

Fun fact: if you have a spare guitar laying around tune it to Keef's signature tuning. Rumor has it that he came up with that so that even when he was fucked up he could play the guitar and sound good. It works. Everything sounds like a well written Stones song from 1973.

[Edited on August 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM. Reason : Fun facts ]

8/8/2013 12:05:03 AM

I, too, will throw my vinyl copy of Some Girls on the turntable, for Stones-solidarity.

[Edited on August 8, 2013 at 12:11 AM. Reason : ^ great post....and I've thought about buying yet another guitar just to keep in open tuning...or I might do that with my old Gretsch Corvette once I get it fixed up. It has a Burns tremolo bridge with a broken part that I'm having fabricated.


[Edited on August 8, 2013 at 12:13 AM. Reason : i do declare, damn near a couple thousand watts into some MartinLogans makes a Stones record sing.]

[Edited on August 8, 2013 at 12:14 AM. Reason : ]

8/8/2013 12:10:53 AM

all the Stones did was

early on, attempt to emulate the Beatles

later on, blues-rock album, blues-rock album, blues-rock album

they got to a point where they didn't ever mix it up :3

also

one singer

if anyone anywhere is annoyed by his voice, the Stones are already out

the Beatles had 4 very capable singers

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"John Lennon was a great Beatle, but people like to forget about the pure shit pop songs that he was putting out for the half decade before he found out that happiness actually wasn't a warm gun."

wow, really?

that's funny, I seem to remember a mass amount of bullshit early poppy Stones songs

and bullshit late Richard Simmons-esque pop songs

I don't remember John Lennon dancing around the stage like a fucking exercise instructor

I remember Lennon actually contributing meaningful musical material

and way better song lyrics with some actual sophisticated references

not just trite bullshit that the Stones have always written about

not to mention a lot of their shit is ridiculously repetitive

almost to the point of making someone want to shoot themselves in the nuts

it pissed me off when someone said "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" (or whatever the hell it's called) was the "best" rock and roll song of all time

oh, ok

let's repeat the same guitar line

100 times

and have an annoying voice

that's totally the best fucking rock song of all time :|

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"Bill Wyman was 10 years older than everybody else and was only brought on because they didn't know nobody else with a bass amp."

10 years older....

really though?

what does that have to do with anything

he was by far the most talented one musically

his bass lines were really the only interesting thing about the Stones

remind me to never listen to any of your stupid opinions about any music anywhere ever

8/8/2013 12:14:11 AM

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"I've thought about buying yet another guitar just to keep in open tuning"

The thing is, the cheaper and shittier a guitar is (to a point, of course), the better it'll sound strummed around in open tuning.

I'm partial to any weird Teisco-made thing from the '60s, provided you pay no more than $100 for it.

8/8/2013 12:14:18 AM

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"trite bullshit that the Stones have always written about"

Oh, without a doubt, I prefer [good] Stones lyrics to the Beatles'. Satisfaction is, of course, abysmal...but they have plenty of others that are good.

[Edited on August 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM. Reason : yeah, I'll either keep the old Gretsch tuned like that, or maybe a Danelectro or some shit.]

8/8/2013 12:16:34 AM

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"all the Stones did was early on, attempt to emulate the Beatles Chuck Berry"

FTFY.

Quote :

"also one singer"

Keith has plenty of lead vocals.

8/8/2013 12:18:56 AM

I am not huge on lyrics so mostly I'm judging from the musical talent standpoint

but I can't think of any good Stones lyrics

I can think of a few decent song themes...debatably

but really the only ones I can think of involved women

which is a good subject, of course - but eventually you have to get off of that subject =3

8/8/2013 12:20:01 AM

I mean they were all trying to imitate Chuck Berry and early American rock-and-rollers

that's pretty much a given

but there's plenty of documentation that proves that they were consciously trying to emulate the Beatles at several points in their career

you'd think you'd know that since you're a music expert

or whatever you want to call yourself :3

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"Keith has plenty of lead vocals."

and none of them are good

so ya

essentially one (talented) singer

8/8/2013 12:21:13 AM

that was one hell of a long post

8/8/2013 12:22:26 AM

beatles cover single is predated by berry cover single

LIKE I'M SAYIN

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"and none of them are good"

bullshit

the keith-only "gimme shelter" is BETTER than the mick version, for starters

[Edited on August 8, 2013 at 12:24 AM. Reason : 33]

8/8/2013 12:24:08 AM

why would a predated single matter

they were both doing the exact same shit separately before they learned of each other

the difference is that every single Beatle was 1000 times (most likely literally, since talent is totally literally measured) more talented than any Rolling Stones member could ever dream to be

and they actually developed a way more distinct, non-repetitive style, whereas the Stones just hung on to the same stupid blues rock emulating Chuck Berry blah blah crap music

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"the keith-only "gimme shelter" is BETTER than the mick version, for starters"

who the fuck has ever heard that

I mean seriously

like 100 people ever?

is that some C-side to one of their terrible albums that you feel like you're a badass for knowing about?

8/8/2013 12:25:47 AM

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"I remember Lennon actually contributing meaningful musical material and way better song lyrics with some actual sophisticated references"

No. Lyrics are the one department in which Mick Jagger definitely dominates John Lennon. A few examples of his phenomenal lyric-writing gifts:

Sympathy for the Devil
Gimme Shelter
Under My Thumb
Paint It Black

As far as I can remember (and I'm acquainted with every Beatles record) John Lennon never wrote a song with lyrics as good as any of these. Hell, in the latter stages of the Beatles John Lennon just sang nonsense, and got away with it because the music was superb and because he was John Lennon.

8/8/2013 12:26:18 AM

ha

jeffreyBSG

after that comment you made the other day I'm gonna just skim over your posts cause I know for a damn fact that you're retarded

8/8/2013 12:26:56 AM

Ringo was a sub par drummer, at best

8/8/2013 12:27:10 AM

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"Ringo was a sub par drummer, at best"

patently false

dude is a machine

8/8/2013 12:28:11 AM

^^^
what comment

and when did you become so assertive, BubbleBobble

[Edited on August 8, 2013 at 12:28 AM. Reason : ^]

8/8/2013 12:28:13 AM

I'm just trolling

8/8/2013 12:28:37 AM

also, ringo is the ultimate team player

biggest band in the history of the world, and he has ONE drum solo, and it's the very last song in the catalog

what a badass

8/8/2013 12:30:05 AM

well ok fine

I'll bite

but just because you are wrong

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"and got away with it because the music was superb and because he was John Lennon."

oh ok

I didn't realize I was listening to a fucking album of poetry, and not an album of music

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"John Lennon never wrote a song with lyrics as good as any of these."

*sigh*

already regretting having bitten, there

this pretty much 100% confirms that you are a complete dumbass

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"Ringo was a sub par drummer, at best"

who cares?

his drumming was more than sufficient

it's never noticeably bad to the point of needing to comment on it (though you apparently felt the need)

they had Paul to do drums if necessary as well

he had a distinctive voice and a distinctive personality

the drumming on "Rain" is fucking amazing and pretty unlike any of the other drumming of the day, and he got progressively better on the White Album and Abbey Road

including the drumming of the --- oh, I'm sorry - never heard of the Rolling Stones drummer cause he's a god damn nobody

8/8/2013 12:30:49 AM