joey f could not have said it any better
 
MikeL said:

I understand your point.  I myself get tired of hearing "Happy" and "Tumbling Dice."  However, there are some overlooked gems on the albums I just mentioned, such as "Stray Cat Blues" from "Beggars' Banquet," "Live With Me" from "Let It Bleed" and "Soul Survivor" from "Exile."

 

As far as their early stuff goes, I only have "England's Newest Hitmakers" and "12x5."  I might be getting "Aftermath" and "Their Satanic Majesties Request" in the near future.

joey fuckup said:

This has always been a debate that I would have with other Stones fans...Everybody I know considers "Exile" to be the best album in their whole discography, which I'm not disagreeing at all on that. For me personally, I'll take "pre-1970" Stones anyday. I have nothing against '70's era Stones music, but it's so overplayed, especially on most any rock station (it definately is here). The '60's era Stones gets so overlooked nowadays, with only a huge hit, like say "Satisfaction" getting airplay on said radio stations. And whatever oldies stations that even do exist anymore, choose to overlook many of their gems that us garageheads really dig. So overexposure of their catalogue has definately influenced my tastes on such a great band, however, being that I love '60's garage rock 'n' roll, I find their "1st Wave" to be more of a fit for me...

yes,yes,yes everybody agrees on exile,yet some girls was the stones response that they were still the nasty,dirty boys of rock&roll,and being in cleveland for the miss you tour.camping in front of the turstiles for 3days assuring my place up front.there are also great bootlegs ,one in mention the chess sessions chicago 66 i believe where you can listen to live back&forth talks between mick&kieth.also a playfull song about andrew oldham eating pussy,getting high and sucking anything that comes his way .

a fan who paid $480 to see the big bang tour in louisville in 04

I like "Sticky Fingers" too:)  "Dead Flowers" is one of my favorite Stones' tunes.

sideshow Barty said:

sticky fingers is being a little overlooked here,cant you hear me knockin and sway are on it ffs,and yeah everyones always goin on about exile being the best record ever made.....probably 'cos it is.

sticky fingers is being a little overlooked here,cant you hear me knockin and sway are on it ffs,and yeah everyones always goin on about exile being the best record ever made.....probably 'cos it is.

You may be right. 

I might of mis-remembered.  The book is too thick for me to remember or find the page.

Or was it Jumping Jack Flash he used that technique on?

Either way anyone can screw around with the idea and get some interesting results.

Personally I believe Kieth is holding a bit back on the Satisfaction thing.  If it was an acoustic into a tape machine...

 

I actually really like Sucking in the 70's

.......

go figure!

 

Although many people will throw some hate my way I always considered the Rolling Stones to be a really good R&B cover band that could write awesome songs.

The whole "constant craving" thing is pretty much par for the course.

Personally I believe Kieth is holding a bit back on the Satisfaction thing.  If it was an acoustic into a tape machine He probably had the microphone taped right on the guitar near the bridge.

  By  coincidence I did a similar thing when I was 12.  My parents bought me a crappy steel string acoustic guitar AND one of those childrens circuit boards kits that allowed you to learn and build electronics.  From it a built the most basic solid state amplifier from the instructions (obviously no limiter) and  used the microphone/speaker diaphragm part it came with as an "electric guitar" pickup.

At the time I thought it sounded pretty rad.  however my family was not so impressed.

I totally forgot about it until I read the book and thought...of course!!!

 

I actually really like Sucking in the 70's

.......

go figure!

Although many people will throw some hate my way I always considered the Rolling Stones to be a really good R&B cover band that could write awesome songs.

The whole "constant craving" thing is pretty much par for the course.

Personally I believe Kieth is holding a bit back on the Satisfaction thing.  If it was an acoustic into a tape machine He probably had the microphone taped right on the guitar near the bridge.

  By  coincidence I did a similar thing when I was 12.  My parents bought me a crappy steel string acoustic guitar AND one of those childrens circuit boards kits that allowed you to learn and build electronics.  From it a built the most basic solid state amplifier from the instructions (obviously no limiter) and  used the microphone/speaker diaphragm part it came with as an "electric guitar" pickup.

At the time I thought it sounded pretty rad.  however my family was not so impressed.

I totally forgot about it until I read the book and thought...of course!!!

What are some good 70's boots to look for?

http://bootleg-addiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/rolling-stones-philadelphia-special-2.html

PHILADELPHIA SPECIAL!!!

that live version of midnight rambler might be my favorite thing the stones have ever done

I'm reading Keith's book now... what a trip. I'm more inclined to listen to the early stuff, but, of course, I have my favs from the later works.

Get the book... great stories.

Without Brian, they're just the Stones.

Current Rolling Stones!!!!

I think it had more to do with the fact that relatively speaking, the LP was still kind of the new kid on the block. The concept of the single was as old as the first commercially recorded music. Singles were on the radio and what people cared more about. Also the artists weren't trying that hard to make cohesive albums and were promoting singles way more than albums. The real age of album oriented rock only began kicking in with the later 60's and the rise of FM rock radio.

David Kitching said:

The reason singles were so important in the sixties was that LP's were so expensive. Another reason was the already mentioed filler tracks, I'd hear people saying how they'd bought an LP and there was a load of boring crap on it. And they wouldn't buy anything else by them.