The Rolling Stones

I am on the sirius.com website listening to the rolling stones chn 99 and they play rolling stones 24-7 and i wondered if anyone else out there was a big fan of the stones.

do you like the rolling stones?

Fanatic long time Fan
Big Fan
Casual Fan
There ok
They were great once
They are past there primes
I dont care for the stones


what are your top 10 favorite tunes by the stones?

Undercover Of The Night
Anybody Seen My Baby?
star me up
brown sugar
angie
God Gave me everything I want(mick jagger solo project)
Street Fighting Man
Waiting On A Friend

working on me list

do you like the rolling stones?

Fanatic long time Fan
Big Fan
Casual Fan
There ok
They were great once
They are past there primes
I dont care for the stones

Big Fan
past their prime, but still better than most **** out there.

Casual fan because I don't own most of their records and I bet there's alot out there I like, which would change it to big fan//

A couple of songs:

Can You Here Me Knockin
Sympathy For The Devil
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Under My Thumb
B*tch
Paint it black

Huge fan a lot of their stuff, but after about 83' I wish they would have called it quits. Got to see them at Downsview Park along with AC/DC and the bunch, as I'm sure a lot of people on these boards did. :yo:

Huge fan a lot of their stuff, but after about 83' I wish they would have called it quits. Got to see them at Downsview Park along with AC/DC and the bunch, as I'm sure a lot of people on these boards did. :yo:



considering they are in there early 60's i feel they are still putting out hit music

I don't like anything they do nowadays but their early 70's output is very good. I've got me Sticky Fingers and Exile this summer and Beggars Banquet and Yaya's are still on my to buy list.


Dylan is much more interesting of course but the Stones do rock :yo:

Salt of the Earth is a great tune...especially the live-version.

Going to see them Monday!!

Top 10 songs...
Gimme Shelter
Paint it Black
Mother's Little Helper
She's A Rainbow
She's So Cold
Angie
Get Off My Cloud
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Ruby Tuesday
Shattered

Sounds about right.

Casual fan. I like some of there songs, others not so much.

I said casual fan. I love a lot of their songs. My 16 year old sister went to see them last month and loved it. There were people of all ages there rocking. I think it's pretty cool that these guys are older and still rocking. I hope I can keep my youth for that long.

Big Fan....been spotty after 'Exile....' (they're last great album....for me anyways. Some say 'Some Girls'). Ironically, they're playing as good, if not better, than any time on their career. The're output over the last 20 odd years has sounded great but no real hooks to make them memorable....and Mick just makes me cringe a lot nowadays, but he is what he is.

My top 20, (the songs I can listen at anytime, anywhere), pretty much in order.

- "Last Time"
- "Happy".....(ah hell, just put me down for the entire album)
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Monkey Man"
- "Gimme Shelter"
- "Live With Me"
- "B*tch"
- "Can You Here Me Knockin"
- "Sympathy For The Devil" ('Ya-Ya's' version)
- "Honky Tonk Woman" (one of the best song intros of all time....up there with Bo Diddley's "Roadrunner")
- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
- "It's All Over Now"
- "Get Off Of My Cloud"
- "Under My Thumb"
- "Let's Spend The Night Together"
- "She's A Rainbow"
- "2000 Light Years From Home"
- "Melody"
- "Fool To Cry"
- "Winning Ugly"

my top 10(pretty much in order:)

Wild Horses
Gimme Shelter
Paint It Black
Angie
Ruby Tuesday
Start Me Up
Street Fighting Man
She's A Rainbow
Fool To Cry
Happy

What a great band
:yo:

I've always had mixed feelings on the Rolling Stones because I feel they are past their prime but overall were a pretty good band. I am partial to Led Zeppelin in a classic rock battle that I always have with my buddies. They call me a Stones hater, but I do respect their work. I think they are terribly overrated in many ways, but they are still touring and recording today and you have to respect that.

As for favorite songs, "Gimme Shelter" is probably my favorite Stones tune. Shattered, Thru and Thru, Sympathy for the Devil, and Anybody Seen My Baby also merit recognition.

I fall in categories 3, 5 and 6.

From the time they came out to maybe '75 or '76 they were absolutely great. From when they started playing disco-influenced songs until about 1990, they were still better than most. Since then...uhh...not so good.

I prefer their 60s stuff and some very early 70s tracks from them, but the rest is still listenable.

I guess I am a casual fan, in that I like some of their songs. I respect them as a band, but they are past their primes (obviously), and personally I prefer the Who and Zeppelin to them.

I guess I am a casual fan, in that I like some of their songs. I respect them as a band, but they are past their primes (obviously), and personally I prefer the Who and Zeppelin to them.


they are now moments in time May as well say you prefered thedoors and jimmi hendrix while you are at it:D

Big Fan here. Glad to know that there's alot of other Stones fans at HF.

I'm an album guy. It's a pet peeve of mine to start an album and not listen to it through until the end. (This probably explains why Pink Floyd is my fav. band, but I digress)

I have Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street and Some Girls by the Stones. I listen to them all regularly and love them all. I want to get my hands on Satanic Majesties, Beggars Banquet and Goats Head Soup.

It's tough to pick out my favourite songs. I find that everytime I listen to Exile, a new song gets stuck in my head and it becomes 'my favourite' until I listen to the album all over again.

Songs that Stick out for me:
She's a Rainbow
2000 Light Years from home
Mothers little helper
Painted Black
Sympathy for the Devil
Gimmie Shelter
Midnight Rambler
Can't Always get what you want
Wild Horses
Sway
Can't you hear me Knocking
B!tch
Moonlinght Mile
Rocks off
Happy - (I love Keef's songs)
Just want to see his face
Let it Loose
Tumbling Dice
Just my Imagination (EXCELLENT cover)
Before they make me Run (my Fav. keef song)
Beast of Burden
Shattered
Start me Up

As you can tell most of those tracks come from my collection. If you're curious about the Stones and think you might like them, get one of the albums I mentioned above. That should give you a good idea. They're all excellent IMO.

I think I'll put some Stones on now. :yo:

Casual fan, I guess. Vastly, vastly overrated, but Sticky Fingers and Let It Bleed were good albums

Big fan here, they kick ***!!

They suck. They suck a lot.

They suck. They suck a lot.
So says the Nickelback fan..... :shakehead

So says the Nickelback fan..... :shakehead
Ziiiiiiing!

So says the Nickelback fan..... :shakehead

Hey. The guy asked a guestion, and I answered.

I think the Stones are the most pathetically overated band ever.

Hey. The guy asked a guestion, and I answered.

I think the Stones are the most pathetically overated band ever.
I guess that puts Nickelback on par with, um....Kenny G?

I don't know, I guess we all have our crosses to bear.... :sarcasm:

I guess that puts Nickelback on par with, um....Kenny G?

I don't know, I guess we all have our crosses to bear.... :sarcasm:

Okay I've seen this war of word with Nickelback and the Stones and I'm going to try and make some sense of it.

Is Nickelback a good band? I would say they are okay but just okay.

Are the Rolling Stones a good band? Very.

But I and others seem to think that the Rolling Stones are overrated by the general public. I put them in the second tier of great rock bands but Led Zeppelin is pretty much alone in my first tier. Nickelback does not get the same acclaim that the Stones get and rightfully so. I know I get tired of hearing about how great the Stones are, but not quite to the degree of Alberta Hab Fan.

So in summary

Rolling Stones > Nickelback

Rolling Stones = Overrated

Just got back from the Stones concert at the Rogers Centre!

Awesome performance by the Stones, especially Jagger who was incredible!

Lots of fun and they played almost every song you'd want them to play, plus a couple of their new songs which weren't completely horrible.

Stones = best rock band ever

Haven't done anything much good in the last 30 years ... their first decade was good, but they are definitely not "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band Ever" or whatever people call them. Their early songs are on the radio enough that I never have felt the urge to buy any of their albums. If I don't hear "Start Me Up," "Tumbling Dice," "It's Only Rock N' Roll," or "Satisfaction" for another decade, I'll be just fine.

Top 10
-- "19th Nervous Breakdown" 1966
-- "Angie" 1973
-- "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" 1973
-- "Gimme Shelter" 1969
-- "The Last Time" 1964
-- "Midnight Rambler" 1969
-- "Monkey Man" 1969
-- "Mother's Little Helper" 1966
-- "Paint it Black" 1965
-- "Sympathy for the Devil" 1968

Somewhere between big and casual.

Fanatical about their early stuff, downright terrified of 99% of the stuff they've done since the mid-70s.

Bunch of my all time favorites are Stones songs, including Paint It Black, which is right there with Bohemian Rhapsody on the top of my list.

Okay I've seen this war of word with Nickelback and the Stones and I'm going to try and make some sense of it.

Is Nickelback a good band? I would say they are okay but just okay.

Are the Rolling Stones a good band? Very.

But I and others seem to think that the Rolling Stones are overrated by the general public. I put them in the second tier of great rock bands but Led Zeppelin is pretty much alone in my first tier. Nickelback does not get the same acclaim that the Stones get and rightfully so. I know I get tired of hearing about how great the Stones are, but not quite to the degree of Alberta Hab Fan.

So in summary

Rolling Stones > Nickelback

Rolling Stones = Overrated
Understandable......I guess it is like saying, "The best defenseman ever, Bobby Orr.....and then there's everyone else".

I also understand that musical taste is subjective and if you feel that the Stones are overrated, so be it. Me personally, the two most overrated bands on the planet were/are the Grateful Dead and Kiss.

I find nothing appealing about the former, never understanding the reverential treatement by their fans.

The latter to me are competant enough musicians, have a few good songs but they are and always have been a caricature of 'RAWK!!!!!', with a severe Tap-ish quality that even they have to acknowledge...they are masters of marketing manipulations, the Karl Rove's of Rock, ( or would it be that Rove is the Kiss of politics?)

Certainly the Stones, (and to a much bigger degree The Who), have been living off their golden period for quite awhile now...but just like The Who, they are probably playing as well, if not better, than anytime in their careers.

Overrated? I don't think so....but I do get a kick out of folks who, (if you pardon my analogy), say possibly a Potvin or a Robinson or a Park were overrated, and may prefer the qualities of a Tom Poti instead? Kind of odd I'd say.....

Well, if nothing else, I just cannot respect a band that goes disco because it's the cool thing to do.

Big Fan....been spotty after 'Exile....' (they're last great album....for me anyways. Some say 'Some Girls'). Ironically, they're playing as good, if not better, than any time on their career. The're output over the last 20 odd years has sounded great but no real hooks to make them memorable....and Mick just makes me cringe a lot nowadays, but he is what he is.

My top 20, (the songs I can listen at anytime, anywhere), pretty much in order.

- "Last Time"
- "Happy".....(ah hell, just put me down for the entire album)
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Monkey Man"
- "Gimme Shelter"
- "Live With Me"
- "B*tch"
- "Can You Here Me Knockin"
- "Sympathy For The Devil" ('Ya-Ya's' version)
- "Honky Tonk Woman" (one of the best song intros of all time....up there with Bo Diddley's "Roadrunner")
- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
- "It's All Over Now"
- "Get Off Of My Cloud"
- "Under My Thumb"
- "Let's Spend The Night Together"
- "She's A Rainbow"
- "2000 Light Years From Home"
- "Melody"
- "Fool To Cry"
- "Winning Ugly"

My response would be virtually identical. My favourite Stones' song :SATISFACTION!
I would add a few to your list, Some Girls, Shattered, for instance, and maybe take out a few of yours - Fool to Cry, She's a Rainbow.

BTW a few years ago, they issued "The London Years - The Singles Collection", which is A and B sides of the 45's - it's a must for Stones' die-hards (but you probably know that already)

Understandable......I guess it is like saying, "The best defenseman ever, Bobby Orr.....and then there's everyone else".

I also understand that musical taste is subjective and if you feel that the Stones are overrated, so be it. Me personally, the two most overrated bands on the planet were/are the Grateful Dead and Kiss.

I find nothing appealing about the former, never understanding the reverential treatement by their fans.

The latter to me are competant enough musicians, have a few good songs but they are and always have been a caricature of 'RAWK!!!!!', with a severe Tap-ish quality that even they have to acknowledge...they are masters of marketing manipulations, the Karl Rove's of Rock, ( or would it be that Rove is the Kiss of politics?)

Certainly the Stones, (and to a much bigger degree The Who), have been living off their golden period for quite awhile now...but just like The Who, they are probably playing as well, if not better, than anytime in their careers.

Overrated? I don't think so....but I do get a kick out of folks who, (if you pardon my analogy), say possibly a Potvin or a Robinson or a Park were overrated, and may prefer the qualities of a Tom Poti instead? Kind of odd I'd say.....

Agree with you completely on both the Grateful Dead and Kiss. Kiss has a couple good songs but they did a disco album. The Dead are okay, but I guess I don't do enough drugs to really latch on to them.

I don't think of the Stones as Tom Poti at all, maybe Brad Park is the better analogy. Park was an excellent defenseman, he just wasn't Bobby Orr. The only difference is that Orr is unanimously #1 while many people I know debate that the Stones are better than Zeppelin.

Its all opinion though, so everyone is entitled to it. But since it is opinion we are all allowed to disagree.

I can understand them being respected as one of the more popular bands of their time but I really can't understand how they were ever on the same page as the Beatles or why anyone would want to go see them right now.

Zep v. Beatles is a classic apples v. oranges argument, but my hockey player analogy may be off kilter somewhat, (as sports is a stat driven, tangible entity and music is subjective to personal taste), it was to convey that the Stones were Brad Park and Nickelback was Tom Poti.

They are both in the same forum but there is just a HUGE difference when it comes down to the quality of their performance, consistancy, longetivity, etc.....

Anyone claiming Park was overated is ignorantly foolish...that Poti is overated is debated on an almost daily basis on the HF...likewise with Nickelback.

I can understand them being respected as one of the more popular bands of their time but I really can't understand how they were ever on the same page as the Beatles or why anyone would want to go see them right now.

Millions do though. They must have done something right. I like the Stones way better than the Beatles.

I can understand them being respected as one of the more popular bands of their time but I really can't understand how they were ever on the same page as the Beatles or why anyone would want to go see them right now.

The Stones are in Pittsburgh right now and a lot of my friends are going. They paid way too much for the tickets. I'm sure the Stones put on a pretty decent show but I wouldn't pay to buy their tickets. However, Pearl Jam is the opening act and I hear they put on a good performance too. One of our local radio stations is referring to it as the Pearl Jam and Fossil Act Show.

odds are they wanna se them b4 one of the stones kick it

plus they are legends and they still do good music

Okay I've seen this war of word with Nickelback and the Stones and I'm going to try and make some sense of it.

Is Nickelback a good band? I would say they are okay but just okay.

Are the Rolling Stones a good band? Very.

But I and others seem to think that the Rolling Stones are overrated by the general public. I put them in the second tier of great rock bands but Led Zeppelin is pretty much alone in my first tier. Nickelback does not get the same acclaim that the Stones get and rightfully so. I know I get tired of hearing about how great the Stones are, but not quite to the degree of Alberta Hab Fan.

So in summary

Rolling Stones > Nickelback

Rolling Stones = Overrated

I would tend to agree. The Stones just aren't cup of tea, that's all.

About Nickelback...I'm sick and tired of all the bashing. Are they a great band? Hell no. But way too many people bash them because it's the 'cool' thing to do. Bashing just for the sake of bashing. He's bashing them, so I'll bash them too! Quite pathetic.

Oh, and

Gob's Paint It Black > Rolling Stones' Paint It Black. ;)

I would tend to agree. The Stones just aren't cup of tea, that's all.

About Nickelback...I'm sick and tired of all the bashing. Are they a great band? Hell no. But way too many people bash them because it's the 'cool' thing to do. Bashing just for the sake of bashing. He's bashing them, so I'll bash them too! Quite pathetic.

Oh, and

Gob's Paint It Black > Rolling Stones' Paint It Black. ;)I'll bash them because they are extraordinarilly ordinary, much like Dave Matthews,...they are safe, MOR pablum, musical wallpaper, the Bobby Vintons of their day....or a good cover band, which is how these bozos started.

Don't get me wrong, I like a good pop song as much as anyone else...
I'm not afraid of positive vibe tunes...
nor am I afraid of the these pseudo jazzy structures, (what Sting hath wrought?),...
nor am I too old to enjoy the heavy angst ridden white boy metal...but there is nothing about either of these two that sticks on a wall for me, it just flies by like everyday ambient noise....very superfluous.

The Stones on the other hand, have appropriated the best of Chuck Berry and a number of other R&B artists, (which makes me laugh wehen people are horrified about the "disco" Stones), tarted it up and presented it with some serious personality and panache...love him or hate them, the band mambers are very distinctive characters and the dynamics between them makes for some very interesting musical material.

But that's just my opinion...

Undercover Of The Night
Anybody Seen My Baby?
star me up
brown sugar
angie
God Gave me everything I want(mick jagger solo project)
Street Fighting Man
Waiting On A Friend

working on me list[/QUOTE]

Stones are better than a large majority of the bands out there.Longevity and kick *** tunes mean that theyll be around forever. I mean Good Charlotte and Simple Plan? :shakehead :cry: I hate groups like that, with a burning passion.

Top Stones songs (personally):

Gimme Shelter
Beast of Burden
Its Only Rock n Roll (I Like It)
Start Me Up
Wild Horses
Satisfaction
Sympathy for the Devil
all i can think of at the moment...

I think the Stones are the most pathetically overated band ever.

Sorry to inform you but there's a face painted, blood spitting, glorified one hit wonder 70's act still out there that completely owns that title.

Sorry to inform you but there's a face painted, blood spitting, glorified one hit wonder 70's act still out there that completely owns that title.

lol

They can share the title.

nor am I afraid of the these pseudo jazzy structures, (what Sting hath wrought?),...

Whoa, hold on there for just a second. Granted, 20 years was a long time ago, but Sting had THE hottest jazz band in the world, backing him on "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" and the live, "Bring on the Night." (The DVD comes highly recommended.) Coincidentally, the bass player, Daryl Jones, now makes a living doing session and tours with the Stones. Children' Crusade and Shadow's in the Rain contain more musical sophistication than anything Dave Matthews could ever dream.

Sting's cover of Hendrix's Little Wing features arrangements by no less than Gil Evans. What was that Miles Davis barked about in his autobiography with there "being nothing jazz about Sting"?

Some redemption here:

which makes me laugh wehen people are horrified about the "disco" Stones

Emotional Rescue can get tossed out the window, but Dance (Pt. 1) has held up remarkably well.

Whenever anybody links the Stones with disco, it should be kept in mind that Mick was a regular patron at Studio 54.

Its Only Rock n Roll (I Like It)

Heh. If they'd performed Harlem Shuffle intead in Toronto, it would've made me happier.

The Rolling Stones output from "Out of Our Heads" to "Exile on Main Street" is better than all but one or two bands recorded output. Since then they've only had one or two good albums (Goat's Head Soup and Some Girls) but, IMO, it doesn't take away from the fact they continuously put out classic albums for about 8 years.

The Rolling Stones output from "Out of Our Heads" to "Exile on Main Street" is better than all but one or two bands recorded output. Since then they've only had one or two good albums (Goat's Head Soup and Some Girls) but, IMO, it doesn't take away from the fact they continuously put out classic albums for about 8 years.
I've thought about this often....there is only a finite amount of great artistic achievement that nearly every individual entity can produce. To sustain a run of "brilliancy" over an extended period of time is extremely difficult. Really, think about any artist, in any medium, you can say that has produced innovative masterpieces after a ten year period?

Miles Davis comes to my mind immediately. Herbie Hancock? (60's bop and his 70's funk oriented stuff), James Brown maybe? (King Records in the 60's, the People/Polydor material in the 70's)....but for the most part these master achievers are few and far between.

Please remember, the Beatles entire output was over only a seven year period. The Byrds released 9 excellent records over only a 5 year period. Zep listening for me ends at 'Physical Graffiti'....that's 6 records in 6 years. You can't tell me that Page or Plant have released anything over the 30 years since that comes close to their heyday...or even what the Stones have done over the same period....(we won't talk about Clapton after 'Derek And The Dominoes' now will we?)

As mentioned above, the Rolling Stones released a slew of albums that were flat out great. And as mentioned above they've released a couple more very impressive releases and more than their fair share of solid tunes on nearly any given disc, (for the record, I am not a big fan of 'Some Girls' and a little over half of 'Goat's Head Soup' does it for me).

Too say they are the most overrated band ever is pure foolishness. They are playing as solid as ever and frankly it's an achievement that they doing as well as they are. There others who also fit in this category, (Prince and Bowie come to mind).....and really, with the amount of dreck out there, is this a bad thing?

I'm a fan but they past their prime...

I was at the Moncton show and I think it was the biggest of the tour with 85 000 persons!