― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
>they simply won't let their music do what the Rolling Stones would do. I'm not sure how best to convey what I mean, but notice the lyrics to "Brown Sugar": "Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields/Sold in a market down in New Orleans/Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right/Hear him whip the women just around midnight." And that sadistic slaver inhabits and contaminates every sex act in the rest of the song. And this stoking the fire, pulling the rug, yanking up the floorboards, is just what Brooks & Dunn won't do, with either their sound or the words. Not that they're required to, any more than the Stones were required to reincarnate Howlin' Wolf. I'm just pointing out what's missing, where the real barrier is. And hell yeah, sorry for wimping out, they should cross the barrier, or someone should, 'cause if they or Montgomery Gentry or some other performers of that caliber don't cross it (this feeling of mine colored by the fact that Toby's horse-vomit song cited earlier, which came within a hair's breadth of endorsing lynching, lived high on the charts), the genre will continue to be a fake moral, fake rowdy, bullshit lie. (But not an uninteresting one.)<
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes and no! It's fun to take the piss out of the band, and its self-important critics. Do you know how many bar fights I've almost started defending Emotional Rescue and Dirty Work over fucking Let it Bleed and shit?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Edd, I'm buying drinks tonight.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
i vote sticky fingers. but even then, just like all the other albums in their purple patch, you have to put up with the mawkish/sentimental/somewhat unlistenable fillerish ballads and downhome country-blues tributes that arent as good as the rock tracks next to them. exile is good in that its so consistent but its highpoints dont stick out immediately like with the others. but then i dont really think the stones are an albums band either, for the most part. hot rocks 1 is my fave album of theirs.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 25 January 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Of the earliest albums, Now! is great. Their version of "Mona" kills.
― WmC, Sunday, 25 January 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I like Goat's Head Soup better than Exile.
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 25 January 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link