I hated the last album.

it took many years before I figured out what I liked best about the Stones: Mick Taylor

Certainly Rod was wonderful with the Faces and on his first solo records, but I still think Mick's the greatest white blues singer ever. The measurement I use in my head is this: would Rod have sounded good singing No Expectations, the greatest acoustic blues song the stones did by my reasoning, with the same arrangement? I think the answer is no, but I'm not the final authority on this, of course.

No way! In the last 20 years, Jagger, with his relentless interest in new music and desire to stay contemporary, kept the band relatively fresh. If it were up to Keith Richards, The Stones would've turned into Status Quo thirty years ago. Richards was the "brains" behind Dirty Work and you know how THAT turned out.

As for Ron Wood "ruining the Stones". I'd say no. According to Glyn Johns, he was the worst thing that happened to the Stones and they to him. He brought them nothing they didn't already have (a Keith Richards-style guitar player), and they stifled his development as a guitarist. The band hired him because he got on with everyone and made everyone laugh. In short, Ronnie was their court jester. With Ron Wood they've made one great album (Some Girls), a very good one (Tattoo You), some good to average ones (Undercover, Steel Wheels, Emotional Rescue) and some average to poor ones - the rest. All that in thirty years.

Mick Taylor was a virtuoso who pushed the band to great heights. In his six years in the band, they made Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Goat's Head Soup and It's Only Rock'n'Roll. The latter is patchy, but has some sublime moments (Time Waits For No One, Fingerprint File). There are NO sublime musical moments on the Ron Wood albums, just great tunes. [/b]

I hated the last album.

I thought it was just me.
Well didn't really hate it. More disappointed by it.

I've been a fan since...



...12 X 5 (maybe the first album I purchased by anybody)


A fan of everything in the Brian Jones era (even the very end)...



...these probably top the list.


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Now that you mention it, I first got into the Stones when I was a kid with the Hot Rocks compilation which was their early Brian Jones stuff.

I got into them with Miss You in 1978 - the first record I ever bought. Some Girls was the first album. Then I went back and discovered all the others. At the time I thought Exile was "the next best after Some Girls". Oddly enough, I still do.
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"Tattoo You" is all songs that were in the vault. They put it out reluctantly, not realizing that all the outtakes were classic Stones songs. Theres no credit given for the songs, but Mick Taylor is playing on alot of them. Not even sure what Ron played on for sure, because they dont give musician credit. I believe this was done to avoid paying musicians such as Mick Taylor.

I do like Ron, I think when Bill Wyman left the band changed for the worse. Listen to Bill's bass lines, they add a lot, and Darryl Jones or whoever plays them now like Ron sometimes, cant come up with the cool lines that bill played. He added a lot just like Charlie does.

Great choices. Satanic Majesties, in particular. A lot of fans don't rate that one, but I think much of it is superb. Brian Jones's influence is all over the album - even if he was against "copying the Beatles".

"A Bigger Bang" was lame. What do you think happens at Stones' writing sessions these days? Most of "A Bad Album" sound like it was written by a semi-talented Stones tribute band ticking off a list. I think they constructed the album as opposed to wrote it - as in, let's write something we can play two songs from live, everyone goes for beer and a piss-break during the new songs anyway.

Thanks.

2000 Light Years From Home
She's A Rainbow
Citadel

I love that album
And yes I agree that you hear BJ's influence all over it.

On A Bigger Bang, I kept waiting for that big Killer-Keef riff (which to my ears) never came.


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My "Satanic" favourites too. I like Sing This All Together and 2000 Man as well. She's A Rainbow is absolutely sublime isn't it?

Keith hasn't been Keef in years. He's been on cruise control since 1989. The only things I liked on A Bigger Bang were Oh No Not You Again (which should've been the first single), Streets of Love and the remix of Rain Fall Down. That's two more songs than I liked on Bridges to Baywatch (easily their worst album).
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