POO: Rolling Stones post-1978

No "Summer Romance," no cred!

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/you-trying-to-get-an-a-pass-best-rolling-stones-songs-1978-2005/

You could probably toss out one of the rockers on my list and put it back in. I'd probably cut 'Mixed Emotions' to put it in.

Good on Earl for recognizing "It Must Be Hell".

'Sparks Will Fly'

If I was to choose one album of theirs from the post-Some Girls period, then I'd choose A Bigger Bang just over Tattoo You.

I'm listening to Steel Wheels now (after running thru most of the other '70s & '80s albums). It's good! I bought the tape when it came out, but haven't heard the album in the intervening 30 yrs. (I don't recall what 13-yr-old me thought of the line, "I'm horny as a hog").

These are quality songs; the band sounds tight & focused; the production and songwriting are big and "commercial" in a pleasing, late-'80s way...

A goddamn lot of filler. The singles and "Slipping Away" and mayyyyybe "Terrifying," where they get a solid groove going in the outro.

"Almost Hear You Sigh" has some cool chord changes.

I thought it would be kinda embarrassing "suburban dads jamming in the rec room" rock, and I guess to a degree it is, but these songs are tight and hard, with solid riffs and playing that's "pro-level" without sounding too faceless & slick

Some nicely "sensitive" moments, too -- like "Never Hear You Sigh" and "Slipping Away"

(I concede that "Continental Drift" and "Break the Spell" are filler)

Still making my way thru their catalog... I didn't realize these guys' songs could be so cartoonish/horny/corny!

The lyrix of earlier songs like "Some Girls" and "Little T&A" seem to represent a sort of, er, "sexist" nadir... happily, by the time you get to Voodoo Lounge, Mick is more good-naturedly kicking off the album with:

Your love is strong, and you're so sweet
You make me hard, you make me weak

...and a few tracks later:

Ooh, I wanna f@#$ your sweet a$$

!!!!

TS: "She's So Cold" vs. "She Was Hot"

"Waiting on a Friend" by a mile
― James Blount (James Blount)

That's a great song, but even it has dodgy lyrics... "Bros before (literal) Ho's!"

(I'm not trying to "cancel" the Stones, btw -- I just didn't realize their lyrics were frequently so ridiculous)

right now i'm vibing to WINTER

LOL OOPS WRONG STONES THREAD

xxxp I think it is deliberately perverse to read the lyric of WoaF as "bros before hos"

Wanting to fuck a sweet ass is not sexist.

what if the ass were Jagger's?

Yeah that’s not sexist, just horny/corny!

(There are a few different categories at work here, sorry I didn’t make that more clear)

(“Dirty Work”)

for some loser
for some jerk
for some dumbass
yeah

There’s a noticeable dropoff at Bridges to Babylon (including to Mick’s voice, but I know that happens)... do that and A Bigger Bang have their fans?

Anyway, I’m pleased to discover how good they remained on record, into the ‘90s (and beyond?). Tattoo You is the only post-‘78 album that I love all the way through — but man, you could put together one hell of a 2CD comp of choice cuts from the others.

I haven't kept up with / saw no reason to keep up with post-'78 Stones, but I listened to A Bigger Bang a couple of times and was extremely surprised at how decent it was. With past Stones records, when the singles were rolled out (with the requisite hype), I just thought, meh, more dull-ass Stones shit; if "Harlem Shuffle" or "Has Anybody Seen My Baby?" is the lead single, there's little hope for anything great lurking elsewhere on the record. But "Rough Justice" and "Streets of Love" are...good. Very good, even.

Like a lot of Classic Rockers, the Stones had problems with CD Bloat. There's decent vinyl-length albums hidden in much of their later work.

Really good piece!: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-rolling-stones-tattoo-you/

wow, "Heaven" might be a contender here, thank u shuffle play