Why the Rolling Stones ruled the Seventies

Telegraph UK ^ | 5/13/09 | Neil McCormick

[pissant]

Pretty simple. They made great rock and roll Music starting with Sticky Fingers and ending with Some Girls.

Of course, their 1960s music was just as good. They really started to decline after 1981's Tattoo You.

I will say their 1994 release, Voodoo Lounge was quite good. That's the last one I listened to.

[Lurker]

Exile on Main Street.

[pissant]

Pound for pound, their best, IMO

[Lurker]

I saw them right after Steel Wheels. They played for 3-1/2 solid hours.

One of the best R&R shows I have ever seen.

[Snickering Hound]

Brian Jones Stones for me.

[Chuzzlewit]

60s Stones ruled... Under my thumb, Satisfaction, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Get off of my cloud, Painted Black... loved them right up to Exile on Main Street...

[Seruzawa]

For me they started to lose it after Sticky Fingers when they replaced the guitar god Mick Taylor for the mediocre Ron Wood. Just compare the beginning riff of “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” to anything Wood ever did. Mick’s riff rivals any R&R riff anywhere.

[edzo4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0G25j3gN9s

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Keith Richards is an economical guitarist, who squeezes out a lot of non-standard tunings and unusual chord voicings. In Taylor, he suddenly had a guitarist foil who was technically far superior, providing subtle licks and fluid lead solos, so that the tracks are always moving, shifting into new places.

There must be a pony somewhere.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Rolling Stones ruled the Seventies

"Ruled" like the monarchy of Britain; figureheads. Led Zeppelin owned the 70's

[a fool in paradise]

[pissant]

Nah. Zep was stoner music. The Stones were kings of Rock and Roll.

[Gay State Conservative]

99% of their best stuff was done in the 60’s.Let It Bleed was their last truly excellent album.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

For many, Zep was not stoner music. Now, if your talking “tail” music, well....

[Mariner]

Anyone who has seen the Stones live when they were "on", knows their claim to be "The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World" is accurate.

They simply BURN THE HOUSE DOWN and blow everyone away, from 8 to 80.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wife and I saw the Stones at the Metrodome in Mpls back in the early 90s. It was a hoot !

[pissant]

No sir. Exile on Main Street, Black and Blue and Some Girls are all excellent.

[massgopguy]

I played Rolling Stones songs in my first band when I was 13. I had to get good to play Bonham’s chops and find a real guitar player to play the solo in Stairway to Heaven.

[dfwgator]

Anyone who has seen the Stones live when they were "on", knows their claim to be "The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World" is accurate.

Sorry, but at their peak, nobody touched these guys:

[pissant]

Zep definitely had some great stuff. But they had too many dirges, like Dazed and Confused, Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, etc