point me in the direction of the really good rolling stones album that's not 'exile on main street'

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And so I'm right about "Dirty Work" after all!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

actually chuck, i was thinking more about you when i said critics were useless.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

:-)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

aw =)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

it's pathos!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean what the fuck life is finite and we're talking endlessly about the "14th or 15th greatest rolling stones album"? is there nothing else to be said about the rolling stones"

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

i guess i feel like the piss has been taken and then some, and endless iterations of "no [x later album] is actually quite good" or "no [x later album] is actually better than [x canonized album" are extremely dull. but you know what's even duller? me complaining about it. so carry on my wayward sons.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

there'll be peace now that Amateurist is done, at least.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry, that was stupid.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

shit, Frank Kogan's comment is great. I was watching that Godard movie about the Stones the other day, trying to explain what I think Godard is doing there--making the connection between the collective action of the Stones trying to make art (from samba, folk music, blues) and the action in the streets, as unpalatable as it is to various sensibilities. Which is exactly what country music can't do in its current, not uninteresting, ahistorical muddle. The morality of form and its exploitation and all that.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the Stones' filler better than I do the Beatles' , anyway. Their takes on Hank Snow and Benny Spellman and Berry and Rufus Thomas feel pretty integral to me, on those early albums. Anyway, my favorites are indeed "Exile" and "Bleed" and "Aftermath," but I sure listen to "Dirty Work" and "Emotional Rescue" and "Some Girls" more these days, when I listen to the Stones.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

"but I sure listen to "Dirty Work" and "Emotional Rescue" and "Some Girls" more these days, when I listen to the Stones."

Edd, I'm buying drinks tonight.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

c'mon and meet me at the Red Door on Division in Nashvegas, we'll get some old country singers to buy *us* drinks ( Mark Collie stood me n' my buddies to a round the other night, and he told us tales of his unreleased live record made at Tennessee's Women's Prison...Dirty Work indeed.)

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Nowadays I just look to the stones for fashion tips.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

ha! i like that last post.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Once again I thump my fists on the table, proclaiming the greatness of Dirty Work and Emotional Rescue.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

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

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