best rolling stones ever

Sympathy for the Devil.

Respectable

paint it black
little red rooster
mothers little helper
last time

classics by the best band ever.

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If you have to Google that, you're not a Stones fan.

If you're not a Stones fan and haven't heard it, go listen now -  it could easily turn you into a Stones fan.

That is pertinent and terrible info, Hound Dog. Shame on them.

For all I'm a Stones fan, Lennon crushes them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-b3fRisu50

Not in the same class, music wise or power wise, and Mick got jealous.

Even his first and second record, we wrote for him.

Those ticket prices are absolutely outrageous. Do the Rolling Stones need money so badly they rip off their most faithful fans. The $75 tickets were nowhere in sight, average price available £200 up to £575. Amazing that they sold out in 2 days ! On the resale market now average prices being asked $480 to $800 (£368 to £600+).

^ Heard that Lennon interview before and it's true what he is saying. And when the Stones first started they didn't really have any direction, just look at first few singles, Come On, and the old Buddy Holly song Not Fade Away, and the Beatles song I wanna Be Your Man. There was no shape to that early music. When Jagger and Richards started writing their own songs and when they done The Last Time, that was really the start of their musical evolution.

As Lennon says Satanic Majesties album was their copy of Sgt Pepper, but the Stones were not about Flower Power and it was all a bit wishy-washy and they were really only half-hearted hippies and got out of that very quickly.

For The Rolling Stones to be still going now in their 70's and to be able to sell out a 17,500 seat arena in 2 days - at those kind of prices !  Bloody amazing !

sftd has to be up there

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Its common knowledge that they did covers in the early years including the Beatles "I Wanna Be Your Man". The Beatles also did covers before they got started, most bands do. But The Stones version absolutely blows the Beatles version to smithereens. Not many would argue that the Beatles were better musicians, and I wouldn't disagree either. Musically speaking The Beatles were way better than almost every band you can think of. But the Stones were way better performers, far better live and had far more presence about them. Their lyrics were menacing, edgy and controversial and although I can appreciate lots of great Beatles songs, very few of them would get in my all time fav tracks. Whereas I'd have at least 20 tones tracks in my top 100 of all time. But the whole Stones v Beatles clash is b0l10cks anyway - they weren't really rivals, that was just media spin, their music was very different and they were in fact great mates during the sixties in particular.

The Rolling Stones were better musicians than the Beatles, even the Beatles themselves would have said that.

Brian Jones may have been the most talented musician, but he couldn`t write songs.

Jagger and Richards could, after the Beatles every group had to be able to write songs

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I assumed you did but other less-knowledgeable types could have been misled by your earlier post.

yes loads mention Brian Jones and his songwriting but he did a very well received soundtrack to a movie which Pallenberg starred in. I've not long finished his biography and Loog Oldham's treatment of him was diabolical as was that of Jagger & Richard.

yes BB Jones was badly treated, he became sidelined a little from the group that he started. he was much more talented as a musician in many ways, naturally gifted.
but the most difficult thing to do is write a song

It is template.

The theory goes that most of those with artistic talent born in the 40s and to a lesser extent the 50s tended to turn to pop/rock/soul music as being their most natural outlet ( a lot of British musicians went to art school.) Later generations turned more to visual media as the marketplace for that expanded.

"...."I Wanna Be Your Man". The Beatles also did covers before they got started.... But The Stones version absolutely blows the Beatles version to smithereens"

That was a throwaway song really from The Beatles, they even choose to let Ringo loose with that one on their second album With The Beatles.

" Their lyrics were menacing, edgy and controversial "

A lot of their lyrics don't make sense, and they wouldn't be half as good if they did make sense.

You're spot on, Percy. The version I'm referring to is from the Performance movie soundtrack, and only features Mick Jagger. There was a bit of internal politics going on at the time with some of the other Stones members (esp Keith) who didn't want anything to do with the movie so they didn't take part in that recording (and that turned out to be a great move because Ry Cooder's incredible slide guitar and Gene Parson's hypnotic drumbeat were mesmerising). But it remains a Stones song since it was written by Jagger/Richards, so I'm still counting it.

"best Rolling Stones ever" was for me the 1976 Granby Hall Leicester one where there was a 9 piece band playing (were 8 on stage then Clapton walked on & plugged his guitar in to join in the fun)