Posted on 07/03/2023 1:48:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I’m a man of wealth and taste...
Show me anyone with thinks they are saints, or even to be emulated.
Dear Aimee Ferrier. I married Brown Sugar. You got a problem with that?
Racist see everything as racist.
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To me, there was a bright, shining line between great Rolling Stones songs, and absolutely terrible ones. What I could never fathom was how supposedly feminist music critics loved the harsh misogyny. Don’t get me wrong: Any one of these songs doesn’t come across as necessarily misogynistic. But combined on Hot Rocks, they’re rather hard to listen to.
Mother’s Little Helper, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Under My Thumb, Honkey Tonk Woman, Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Beast of Burden...
And yeah, I know a lot of these songs are plagiarisms of ... I mean are tributes to ... Black music, but they play very differently when sung by wildly successful rock stars partying endlessly with underaged groupies than they do from poor, lonely outcasts.
Please don’t complain about including individual songs; my point is of the way they collectively come across. And please don’t think I’m calling the Rolling Stones talentless; Sympathy for the Devil, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Gimme Shelter, Paint It Black, Satisfaction... these are some absolutely fantastic songs.
“‘Brown Sugar’ sees Jagger ignorantly explore a relationship with a black woman.”
Not ignorant at all. “The chorus of “Brown Sugar” was inspired by the group’s African American background singer, and Jagger’s one-time girlfriend, Claudia Lennear.”
Is there anyone who would want Mick Jagger to marry their daughter. Yes, he is not enlightened.
Remember, he "got married" to Jerry Hall, then when they split about ten years later he said the ceremony was never valid.
Rock musicians aren’t saints. They’re like comedians they push the envelope. Since when rock stars doing outrageous stuff become news? 😉
1st 2 are great songs.
I am sick of the perpetually offended.
I worked with this band numerous times. It was always pro all the way. Check out a couple YouTube vids on one show I was a production coordinator for. If this is "sexist" it's pretty well done. In a theatrical sort of way.
Opening of the show, massive balloon release.
Under My Thumb LIVE Tempe, Arizona '81
"Used" 100 "Miss Kitties" to dance this number..;O)
Honky Tonk Women LIVE Tempe, Arizona '81
Who is this “we” the author refers to?
Some Hot Rocks songs I didn’t think of, but I believe they’re there: Time Is On My Side (which comes off way different from a woman’s point of view), The Last Time, Heart of Stone, ...
great song too.
These are among their best songs so this article is trash.
“Rocks Off” is their best
Story written by a twit that hasn’t noticed how bad rap music is.
Country music has a lot of bad stuff in it as well, but you have to look for it.
“That’s the night the lights went out in Georgia”.
That's the song about a woman who kills her brother, and blames it on the justice system.
And while I haven't listened to radio in years, I wouldn't be surprised if the classic rock stations have also removed Brown Sugar from their playlists.
We? I like all five. P*ss off, Aimee...how about an article on ‘rap’ or ‘hip hop’? Yeah...I didn’t think so.
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