Rolling Stones Street-fighting 'Neo-Con'

USA Today & Yahoo ^ | August 18, 2005 | Edna Gundersen

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[FlingWingFlyer]

I was a Stones fan for their first 100 years. Like someone above said, they haven't put out anything good in the last 20 or 30.

[Petronius]

After several hours of convulsive sobs, I've composed myself enough to haul all my Stones CDs out for a bonfire. My neighbor shook his fist at me as black smoke wafted through his backyard. He doesn't realize the Stones are guilty of Thoughtcrime and must be sent down the Memoryhole. (They're also old, which everyone sees fit to mention but never bothers to explain how it's relevant. Hmmmm...I suppose...old--unlike all those great bands from the 80s & 90s that I can't think of...)

Clearly, Purity of Thought is a prerequisite for all entertainers. The faintest hint of subversion demands the cleansing of fire! Maybe we can organize a re-education camp for Jagger and all those depraved enough to listen to him. Imagine someone criticising the omnibenevolent seraphs who guide our foreign policy! (Wasn't he supposed to submit this song to the Ministry of Truth before its release?)

I'm spending the rest of the week playing my LPs backwards to check for anti-neocon messages. I'll keep everybody posted.

[ConservativeStatement]

I just saw an interview with Eric Clapton on CNN. He was asked about politics and he said "I don't trust politicians" and then followed it up by saying that they have a some ulterior motive for everything they do.

[Mr. Mojo]

they haven't put out anything good in the last 20 or 30.

27 yrs, to be exact. Some Girls ('78) was their last good album, imo. And Exile on Main St. ('72) was their last great album.

Yep, it's been a while.

[Daaave]

"Ladies and gentlemen, The Strolling Bones!"

"Please allow me to introduce myself

I’m a man of wealth and taste

I’ve been around for a long, long year

Stole many a man’s soul and faith"

[KellyAdmirer]

I'm spending the rest of the week playing my LPs backwards to check for anti-neocon messages. I'll keep everybody posted.

I think Natalie Maines wishes she hadn't been so flip.

[Petronius]

I think Natalie Maines wishes she hadn't been so flip.

I'm sure she does, but there's a bigger issue here: I don't turn to popular "culture" for enlightenment. From time to time, I like the way it sounds--that's all. Is anyone seriously afraid that Jagger's song is going to change the political landscape?

I don't even turn to real culture for political insights. Wasn't Mahler a socialist? Where did Beethoven stand? It sounds silly to ask these questions. It's even sillier to fret over where Jagger stands.

[NickatNite2003]

It's the jaded capitalism of the irrelevant and
truly hypocritical Jagger

No0thing much more pathetic than a bunch of
sixty something wrinklies, trying to convince
not only themselve, but everyone else, they are
still "rebels" (with their $300 million dollar
contract) and 18....sure...rock and roll
never forgets....until Alzhiemers sets in...

And By thhe way..Hunter Tompson was was nothing
more than a spastic brain destroyed paranoid
sideshow freak, of relevance to only the gullible
drug addicts that bought into the whole Dim-o-Leftie
"Steamin Conciessness" of torturing murderers.


"Viva La Che Chique!"
(Ohhhh!...Didn't he look *so* cool in his beret!"

[jayhorn]

Is anyone seriously afraid that Jagger's song is going to change the political landscape?

My issue with the Stones is that it comes across as a naked attempt at stirring up controversy. Sure, they've always been a controversial band, but I don't think they've been this brazen. Coupled with the pervasive opinion that their music hasn't been up to par in years, if not decades, it just seems really futile.

The Stones can sing about neo-cons until their dentures fall out, for all I care. I haven't bought a Stones album since Stripped because of all the filler. This flailing attempt at controversy really isn't going to change that for me.

[Petronius]

Bridges To Babylon wasn't bad. (Or was that before Stripped? It features a Keith Richards reggae tune! Some of the others, though. "Filler" is being polite. Why can't they put out an album--without filler--every ten years or so?

To be fair, some of their 70s stuff wasn't completely free of filler: It's Only Rock n' Roll, Goat's Head, Black n' Blue, Emotional Rescue, even Tattoo You had more than one lame tune. The problem is that they've set an impossible benchmark with Sticky Fingers, Exile, and Some Girls.

[Kokojmudd]

I thought about burning all may Stones records but then I realized I didn't have any and never have. I'll see if I can find something else to burn in proxy....maybe my brother's old records like styx or journey.

Now back to Mario Lanza.

[Black Tooth]

The problem is that they've set an impossible benchmark with Sticky Fingers, Exile, and Some Girls.

And sympathy for the devil. When songs made 25 plus years ago sound better than what passes for rock today, I'd say that isn't much of a problem. What is most amazing to me, is the band is still together. Most bands would have killed each other by now.

[jayhorn]

Stripped was in 1995 and Babylon was in 1997.

[Petronius]

And By thhe way..Hunter Tompson was was nothing more than blah blah blah blah of relevance to only the gullible drug addicts that bought into the whole Dim-o-Leftie "Steamin Conciessness" of torturing murderers.

Thank you so much for "thhe" thoughtful post! I'll be sure to put that in my diary. Did you mean "stream of consciousness"? That wasn't how Thompson wrote (Joyce, Faulkner, and Woolfe come to mind). In any event, it was a literary technique that has nothing to do with any political ideology.

But I'll be sure to add all my Hunter Thompson books to the bonfire. Don't want to be a "torturing murderer."

[wardaddy]

That is refreshing about Keith isn't it?

[wardaddy]

LOL

[wardaddy]

Their best work even precedes Sticky in my view. I still listen to High Tide and Green Grass more than anything else.... Beggars and LIB......Get Yer Ya Yas.....and so forth. Some Girls was their last standout....and around the last time I saw them....Fox in Atlanta.

[Petronius]

LOL! After 40+ Dead concerts and God-only-knows how many Weir shows, I've never seen that Steal Your Face!

Like shows at the Greek Theatre or Red Rocks, the Alpine Valley shows had a religious dimension to them for those of us in the Midwest.

[NickatNite2003]

Yes, i actually meant 'Steamin" asa is "Pile of.."

And I *know* that Thompson didn't write
"Motorcycle..}, but he's part of the same dregs
of un-illuminati, that you partially cataloged.

LOL! ..So you're sayin Che Guevara has

"...that has nothing to do with any political
ideology"??

So what was he?...Just a misunderstood bohemiam?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And if you don't think he was a torturing murderer...
try reading the facts about him, instead of taking
*his* word for it, or watching the nlatent celluloid
lie-fests, put out by the HollyPuke Socialist
Perverts, like Stone...and all the others Castro has blackmail videos of.

[wardaddy]

It's a Dixie Deadhead thing. I had not seen that version of Steal Your Face in 25 years till a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert 3 weeks ago and a kid had one on.

I last saw them in 77 or 78 in Baton Rouge. I go to that Berkley Archive site and have dowloaded all the live shows I attended from early to late 70s. I was at this Fox show. I am a biggest fan of early Pig Pen Dead.....Alligator