[HHFi]

Can you imagine in a million years Mick Jagger being able to write a song lyric as funny, trenchant and original as "Apeman?" Or "Low Budget," "Waterloo Sunset," "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," "Wish I Could Fly Like Superman," "Education," "Holiday Romance," "Village Green Preservation Society," "David Watts," etc., etc., etc.? Mick and the boys work their rut very well, but it hasn't resulted in a memorable new song since the early 1980s. If there were any relationship between money and talent, Ray Davies would not only have Mick's knighthood, he'd also have Mick's bank account.

[sushiman]

Here here , though to be fair Ray's post 1980 output hasn't been THAT memorable either .