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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Sticky Fingers |
| Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:13:19 -0400 |
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At 01:44 PM 4/11/2003 -0500, Lee Elliott wrote:
>Beggars Banquet also sounds great on the SACD release. Yeah, that's a good
>one too, isn't it? Ditto Between The Buttons. I can see your point about
>Exile. Taking a page from George Martin, it probably would have been better
>as single album than a double. I rate it high becuase it has some of my all
>time favorite Stones songs (Black Angel, All Down The Line, Tumbling Dice)
>and there's a certain vibe to those recordings that I think of as the
>quintessential Stones sound.
I think of the '65-'67 Stones as being the Real Deal. Revisionist history
has done the Stones no favors -- everyone acts like they were these
degenerate rock and roll badasses who spent all their time pissing against
garages and sucking Mars bars out of Marianne Faithfull, but in the
mid-'60s, they were doing the same kind of pop-art exploration as the
Beatles, the Kinks, the Who and all the other most worthwhile groups of the
era. It's hard for me to see the '68-'72 era, no matter how much I like
those records, as anything but artistic calcification. "This is what our
image demands we do. This is what we shall do, with diminishing returns,
for the rest of our lives."
I also think that SATANIC MAJESTIES is a better record than SGT. PEPPER,
but I've made that argument before.
S
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