Rolling Stones long decline

[John Meachen]

While I was working in my freezing shed today I had the radio tuned to my favourite station.Late in the morning they played "Streetfighting Man",early in the afternoon they played the current single.Its name has never registered with me and in this sense it is like their other releases since really about the time Mick Taylor left.Had he stayed,there is no queston that he would have become very wealthy,as it is I believe he ought to be admired for leaving at the high point.Can anybody else remember a good track from the last thirty years of their efforts?

[Mrleft8]

"Some girls" had a few good tunes..... "Far away eyes" "Before they make me run"... That cover of an old Mo-town song that I can't recall the title of....

[Garrett Lowell]

Their latest should be titled "Dog Vomit".

[Phil Heffernan]

I stopped buying Stones albums years ago...

I liked Micks solo album from 3 years ago, though...

PHX

[Donn]

"Can anybody else remember a good track from the last thirty years of their efforts?"

Waiting On A Friend
Harlem Shuffle
Start Me Up
One Hit (To The Body)
Beast Of Burden

[Donn]

Mixed Emotions - 1989

[PeterSibley]

I haven't bought their last CD, but heard one of the tracks on TV,blues and sounded pretty good.

[Victor]

My brother is the original Stones fan, way back when everyone else liked the Beatles. He raves about how sick he is of listening to the same old crap for 30 years. The Stones have of the most limited reportoires out there. Watched a show about the BeeGees the other night. Now THAT band, like them or not, have been producing totally different types of music for over 30 years.

[Donn]

No offense, but if your "original Stones fan" brother can listen to Out of Our Heads (1965) and Voodoo Lounge (1994), and not hear a difference in their music, he has no future in music criticism.

[carioca1232001]

Victor wrote:


My brother is the original Stones fan, way back when everyone else liked the Beatles... When I was at university reading engineering in London, England, in the mid-60´s, 95 % of the students were exactly like your brother.

What attracted most young people to the Stones was their non-conformist stand, their adoption of R&B black-music and its subsequent introduction and acceptance into white middle-class homes.....

And Mick´s father was a lecturer at the LSE, no mean feat, while Mick himself did not survive there for long, as was also Colin Chapman´s fate at Imperial College, which later saw him start up Lotus Cars.

Their Let´s Spend the Night Together number jammed the telephone exchanges in Britain, what with irate, prudish parents calling up the authorities - and the BBC - to ban its airing to innocent youth :rolleyes: