3. Jumpin’ Jack Flash – 1023 points (41 votes, 5x #1)
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http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOJumpin.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
That Slate piece really resonated, yet I'm not sure I'm in a position to know much.
It's brilliant anyway, but what is it, exactly? Why was it written like that?
I think it was meant as a riposte to all the fawning reviews Life got, most of which parroted the "Keef = real rock 'n' roller / Mick = sellout showbiz clown" line.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
bill wyman should lay off the makeup
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
This was probably the first Stones song I wanted to and eventually learned to play on guitar.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
My #1 (yeah, "inwardness" bad choice of words). I think I am projecting a bit as parents using drugs and stuff does a number on a kid--Marlon sort of had the deluxe version of that, but whatever
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
SO disappointed when I realized that Slate piece wasn't really Mick (bout 3/4 of the way through) (still great tho)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't even re-listen to this song when making my ballot, which was kinda a mistake, but I refused to vote for it. It is better than I give it credit for though.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
My feeling was the Slate piece was crafted as an answer to Keef's bitchier sections of Life, where he's the wounded artist and Mick's the evil capitalist,he really took the gloves off in those sections...and the Slate piece definitley put a finer point on some of the hypocrisies and omissions in Keef's book. A bit of a Rosencrantz & Guildernstern version of Keef's book, if you will.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
A handful of news outlets, including the Pittsburgh (I think) Fox affiliate, reported it as MICK JAGGER RESPONDS HERE IT IS IT'S OFFICIAL and then swiftly removed said reportage from their websites.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
"Sway" in my top ten btw
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Mick Jagger is too intelligent to respond to Keith.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Come to think of it, why didn't Wyman write it from "Bill Wyman"'s pov? That woulda been cool!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
I gave my Jumpin' Jack Flash vote to Street Fighting Man but can't begrudge the finish. Johnny Fever totally OTM on the fun of playing this. Also fun to sing. My karaoke go-to when I need an ace in the hole.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
JJF is more wicked and malevolent than Sympathy or Midnight Rambler--as Mick said, there's no peace and love in JJF
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
One thing I've gotten out of this prolonged meditation on the Stones and their periods and history etc is a much deeper, um, grokking sucks but it's really the only word for this, of the mick/keef marriage. like, i can totally understand how keef would actually see it that way. and how he'd be completely wrong.
xpost yes alfred otm
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Jumpin' Jack Flash - nothing not to like about this song, it *is* rock & roll. It's just too familiar to me now, it'd be like having the Mona Lisa as my favourite painting (which it kind of is, now I think about it).
I don't know what JJF I'd been listening to for years, but I only heard the real one with the half-assed backing vox at the end relatively recently. It was a bit of a shock.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Keith is playing my floor tom-tom on it to give the boom-da, boom-da sound. Now you'd just program it and loop it or something daft like that.
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost myonga otm, a fictional Wyman rebuttal would have been cool
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Fascinating reading about how Keith got that distorted acoustic guitar sound
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I know right?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
(I unknowingly did something similar once with an alto sax and and dying Walkman! That was like 20 years ago in fact.)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
I love hearing that stuff, and the Beatles stuff, them all just tinkering and messing around trying to make x sound like y, how do I do that. The problem-solving/collaboration/innovation in recording all this awesome music is so fucking cool to me.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Mick Jagger is too intelligent to respond to Keith
Richards said that he did not want to take the stage with someone wearing a "coronet and sporting the old ermine. It's not what the Stones is about, is it?" Jagger retorted: "I think he would probably like to get the same honour himself. It's like being given an ice cream—one gets one and they all want one."
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
well, I meant at length. I admire Jagger's immense aversion to "confessional" garbage.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
The fascinating thing is that Mick and Keef have known each other for so long that they know exactly what to say to each other publicly to really get at them. Like, even if Mick doesn't respond to all that calling out in the book, you *know* he threw the book at the wall.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
to/about each other publicly, I mean
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, not taking a pop, it's more I'd just been reading that & thought it was pretty damn stylish.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
This might have been problematic. Critic Wyman was sued by Stone Wyman for using the name Bill Wyman. Funny thing was, Critic Wyman was always Bill Wyman, whereas Stone Wyman wasn't Bill Wyman until 1963. Prior to that, he was William George Perks.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I think the real nitty gritty shit Keef keeps under his hat. He only airs the laundry that makes himself look good. He's not calling out Mick for the crap that everyone hates. Just the stuff where Mick maybe already is on the back foot, ie his solo outings etc.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
what's left for 2nd and first?Shelter and Sugar?
― nostormo, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
Brown Sugar already placed, didn't it?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
or am I high?
even if Mick doesn't respond to all that calling out in the book, you *know* he threw the book at the wall.
uhh Mick would never chip good paint by throwing a book against it, never mind damaging a book.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
shhh no spoilers, but Sugar's been already
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
garage wall, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it was xxpost
― nostormo, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
2. Mixed Emotions. 1027 points (41 votes, 23x #1)
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― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Euler, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred...(taps foot)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
no sympathy for anything else
if you weren't so lovely I'd flag you, Soto :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Mick's Emotions
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
I like that you cobbled up some real stats for that, Alfred
that's what Keith called it!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
"So get off the fence nowIt's creasin' your BUTT"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I can go home now ....
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
you know, this will sound dumb but I didn't know that these last 2, if they are what I think they are, would be the 2 favorite songs. I don't know why. Just kinda surprises me.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
nice song, but 2nd?!
― nostormo, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
more than "kinda surprise" imo