The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
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- The Basics
If you were forced to compress the 50-year history of rock into five measly seconds, it would sound something like the opening riff to “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.” Pulling their mojo from the Mississippi Delta and the rubble of Chicago’s South Side, these leather-lunged lads ripped out the still-beating heart of the blues, injected it with a dangerously sexy swagger, and cranked-up the whole mix up to the flash point.
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Found a track you haven’t heard before? Probably not. Even at a single hit per year, the Stones would be well into the forties, and there were years when they did a lot and could do no wrong. They played Pin the [i]Cojones[/i] on Buddy Holly, taking an adolescent hiccup of a song like “Not Fade Away” and setting steel in its backbone. By no means saintly themselves, the band still wagged a finger at the folks’ hypocrisy in “Mother’s Little Helper.” And they could break your heart “As Tears Go By.”
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Even as we get to the Deep Cuts, the hits just continue to roll. When Mick tosses his girl on the rubbish heap in “Out of Time,” she can’t say she wasn’t warned — and plainly — in “Play With Fire.” Meanwhile, the hellhound that once haunted bluesman Robert Johnson clearly has Mick’s scent in “Hand of Fate.” And while Nat King Cole took a Cadillac on his tour of “Route 66,” the Stones roll over it in a muscle car in one big, organ-grinding, coast-to-coast carnival of love.
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The Stones packed so much grit in their songs, it’s a wonder the tape heads weren’t ground down to stubs. Between feuds, tours, divorces, accidents, drug busts, and deaths, the Stones have proved to be the perpetual motion machine that physics tells us simply can’t exist. Over five decades, the swagger and sweat, the jolt and crackle, and the sound of a million hands clapping have followed these midnight ramblers from one end of the planet to the other. Grabbing some dirt off those Mississippi Delta back roads and drinking up the gin joints of Chicago’s South Side, they mainlined the blues and gave them a British accent. In 1963, they hit the road, and it doesn’t seem they’ll ever stop rolling. Photo: c. Michael Ochs Archives.com
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Customer Reviews
Not much better
Too many reviews focus on the comparison to the Beatles' body of work. If you want to hate on the Fab 4 go somewhere else, but don't insist on mentioning it here. Both bands can stand on their own merit. To fail to recognize the Stones' catalogue of tunes as a visceral, soul stirring trip with no end in sight is a travesty. Just listen to the opening riff of Satisfaction or Can't You Hear Me Knocking and try to remain neutral. No self-respecting music collection should be without a great number of Stones' tunes. Over the years and in a few different incarnations, the seemingly ageless Rolling Stones just keep on rockin'. Arguing your favorite band at the expense of another should be done in another venue. You're in the presence of rock-n-roll royalty. Please, a little respect.
Greatest. Rock band. Of All time.
They invented the idea of an album, they popularized blues-rock, they are the biggest rock stars of all time, they have been relevant for 50 years (Streets of Love was just as big as Play With Fire or As Tears Go By), their rythm section and riffs are uncomprable,and Mick has to be the bluesiest, rockiest singer of ALL TIME. Eat your heart out, Muddy Waters and Bon Scott, but Mick is the best. And Keith is the best. And who can forget Charlie's jazz influence? INCREDIBLE.
Better than the Beatles.
What makes them so great is that there are 75 songs listed here and you can easily think of another 20 or 30 that could be here. Ballads, Rockers, Dance songs, Country & Pop songs they can do any genre and do it well. That can not be said about a lot of bands. They had to compete against every genre of modern music. British invasion, Disco, Punk, Metal, Grunge, New Wave etc. Not too many other groups had to do that, definatly not the Beatles.