Just Discovered The Rolling Stones
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Not really, but kind of. I had "Tattoo You" on 8 track as a kid, I have a couple of their Greatest Hits type albums, and I have the 40 Licks DVD, but none of their studio albums. Last night I picked up "Exile on Main Street," "Some Girls," "Tattoo you," and "Sticky Fingers" on CD. I haven't listened to any of them all the way through yet, but I can already tell that the greatness of the Stones lies in their deeper cuts. While I'm a big fan of most of their hits, I'm really digging getting into most of the songs that I've never heard. If you're like me and know The Rolling Stones based on the hits, do yourself a favor and pick up one of the aforementioned CD's and really get to know them.
Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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I too am a late comer to the Stones. I knew their "hits" but like you have found the deeper cuts to be where it's at.
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Get you some Beggar's Banquet, too! Must be a youngster? We grew up with the Stones!Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!
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It's on my list to get.Get you some Beggar's Banquet, too! Must be a youngster? We grew up with the Stones!
Youngster? To some. To others I'm an old timer. Put it this way, I bought Tattoo You when I was about 10 years old
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Get "Let It Bleed" if you want a real dose of the Stones.If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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Get the first ten or eleven albums that they released, ending with "Let it Bleed". It's a treasure trove of great R&B stuff. I don't care for any of their stuff after that for a lot of different reasons.
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Their zenith, arguably, was the trilogy of Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street. I am not really a big fan of the band, but their best stuff was very good, basic rock and roll*.
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George Grand wrote: »Get the first ten or eleven albums that they released, ending with "Let it Bleed". It's a treasure trove of great R&B stuff. I don't care for any of their stuff after that for a lot of different reasons.
I had planned on getting about 6 or 7, but I may go ahead and get them all (first 10 or so). I actually had Steel Wheels and Voodoo Lounge on cassette, but I wasn't crazy about either of them, so I know I'm out on the later stuff.Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden -
FWIW: I found copies of most of the early (US London released) Rolling Stones rekkids at my erstwhile favorite local emporium (the "Yankee swap" pile at the Harvard, MA town dump... umm, I mean, transfer station) some years back. Not the more desirable monos, though, if memory serves. I am of the opinion that their albums (at least the US versions) prior to the above-mentioned trifecta are kind of hit or miss (not unlike the ones after the above mentioned triad).
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I digress. The only one of the first 10 or 11 that isn't worth owning is "Got Live If You Want It." Lousy recording job, but it's mostly girls screaming anyway.
Sometime around 1967 or 1968, Sears put all Rolling Stones albums on sale for sixty-nine cents each. A one day Saturday sale with no returns. I bought everything they had up to either Flowers or Aftermath. On the way home from Sears, I realized none of my albums had "STEREO" printed anywhere on them. At the time I was truly bummed, seeing as how I was now a "stereo kind of guy". Some of them I didn't even open, and they stayed unopened when I traded them into the Princeton Record Exchange for cash in the early to mid 80's. I had bought them all on cd and there was no longer a reason to hold onto the vinyl.
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The second side of Tattoo You on vinyl is great. Sticky Fingers is a masterpiece, being released in a week or two. They just played the entire album in L.A. to 1,800 people about three days ago. Get ahold of a couple of the early Greatest Hits. "Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass); the one that has eight sides like a stop sign which name escapes me at the moment; and "Hot Rocks The Rolling Stones - '64-'67. Some great sheet boyo
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Have to agree with much of the above, except Exile on Main St. Didn't care much for that one. But even that has one or two tunes worth a listen-there are a LOT of later Stones albums that are like that, one or two songs and that's it.
Hot Rocks on vinyl was the college party go to, back in the day. Always got everybody moving!Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!
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Don't forget Get Yer YaYas Out. For me, it is one of the best live albums around.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
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The octagon jacket compilation is Through the Past Darkly. It was the first Rolling Stones album I bought; a good collection of their earlier stuff for a semi-fan such as I, at the time, I'd opine.
Didn't pick up a copy of Hot Rocks til many years later -- not entirely sure why; maybe because it was a two rekkid set and I didn't want to plunk down that much gelt for an RS record.
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Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers.....3 of the best rock albums ever.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Get "Let It Bleed" if you want a real dose of the Stones.
+1 Let It Bleed belongs in your Stones collection best one as far as I'm concerned.
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LOL. Pretty Beat Up just started on the random play rock playlist. It is from Undercover of the Night.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
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My favorite Stones album is "Their Satanic Majesties Request".......(no, really)*runs and hides*
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I find Satanic Majesty's Request quite interesting (if, perhaps painfully deliberate, if not satirical -- the Stones' psychedelic album).
Let it Bleed is probably the best all-'round, though, to my ears.
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My vote is for Sticky FIngers - all great songs and the order on the album flows really well. Featuring the late, great Bobby Keys on sax."Science is suppose to explain observations not dismiss them as impossible" - Norm on AA; 2.3TL's w/sonicaps/mills/jantzen inductors, Gimpod's boards, Lg Solen SDA inductors, RD-0198's, MW's dynamatted, Armaflex speaker gaskets, H-nuts, brass spikes, Cardas CCGR BP's, upgraded IC Cable, Black Hole Damping Sheet strips, interior of cabinets sealed with Loctite Power Grab, AI-1 interface with 1000VA A-L transformer
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Sticky Fingers, Exile, Let it Bleed, Beggars Banquet, Only RocknRoll, Some Girls, London Years Box Set, Tattoo You. O, and grab Mick's solo album Wandering Spirit while your at it- SDA 2B (1989, Oak Tops, 194s, Spikes)
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George Grand wrote: »Get the first ten or eleven albums that they released, ending with "Let it Bleed". It's a treasure trove of great R&B stuff. I don't care for any of their stuff after that for a lot of different reasons.
I have to agree with Mr. Grand. Great R&B stuff IMO it's what the stones do best.“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain -
Best of Rolling Stones Jump back 71-79 is one of my favorites
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Looks like I got a ticket to the Stones' Milwaukee show. Its called a "Lucky Dip" ticket and you don't know where you sit until you get in. But its only $29.99. A guy is going to take me as his guest. No reselling, I have to go with him to pick it up at will-call and he needs to show identification and the credit card he bought the ticket with, and they escort you in, no leaving. Who cares, for that price? And you may get to sit in the pit, or you may be in the bleachers. Better not rain if its the latter... Lol. My friend just saw them in Minneapolis a week ago and he said they still deliver the goods BIG time.
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If anybody ever sold their souls for Rock & Roll, it would be the Stones.
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I took my son to see the Stones when he was 8 years old, @ Ohio Stadium (home to the national champion Buckeyes) 19 years ago or so. He saw them a couple weekends ago in the same stadium. He said the same, they still got it. I was on vacation or I would have been there as well. I have in the past,seen them 5 times.The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Let it bleed as any lp with "Gimme Shelter" would be considered a hallmark of rock.humpty dumpty was pushed
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motorhead43026 wrote: »If anybody ever sold their souls for Rock & Roll, it would be the Stones.
Really? Mick has been the biggest phony for 50 years, riding on Brian and Keith's images. Charlie and Bill couldn't have cared less about the hooplah, just the checks please. Keith morphed into a legend, and Brian had sold his soul before he even became a Rolling Stone. Brian, the only true Stone.
