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Title: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by BrianRollingJones on Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 6:23pm

Myself I prefer the band from '63 to '69. I feel that in the 1970s - not necessarily because of the loss of Brian, or because of the audition of Taylor - that the Stones lost a certain darkness to them. You never really saw them make a song as haunting as Gimme Shelter or as creepy as Midnight Rambler after 1969. You never had stuff as melodic or simply pretty as Ruby Tuesday or Child of the Moon again. You never saw the dark medievalism of stuff like Play with Fire or Citadel again.

I feel that in the Taylor years they went from being a blues based pop-rock band to just being a 70s rock band with over the top guitar noodling. I think that with the loss of The Beatles as their main competition, they didn't try as hard to be melodic and a lot of the melody and musicianship was tossed in favor of pure rock.

With Ronnie they began to experiment again but it was very disjointed. You'd have a Keith by numbers rocker one track, and then a cool piece of experimentation by Mick the next.

That said, I think "Happy" and "Dance Little Sister" are my two favorite tracks by the Stones of the entire '70s.

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Voodoo Child in Wonderland on Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 6:42pm

1966-1976, specially the Jimmy Miller days

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Steel Wheels on Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 6:46pm

2016-2017

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Paranoid Android on Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 6:52pm

Era?

Depends how you define "era"...we have the "Brain era"...The Wyman Years...The Taylor Era...The Oldham period...The pre-Ronny...The 60/70/80/90/etc...The fighting years...

Ahhh...I am just kidding...I love the Stones of the 70's...but I do love Beggers Banquet and Undercover...with GHS as my fave

Thats if you are talking MUSIC...if you are talking TOURING/Performances...Jagger sounds so much better now that he is no longer clocking in 5 miles of running around each nite (forward AND backwards) in a stadium...so that would prolly be VooDoo Lounge to present...maybe even 40 licks to present...hard to tell w/o looking/listening
at footage

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by WaiteringOnAFiend on Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 9:44pm

Changes daily.

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by gorda on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 12:13am

Late 60's, Early 70's!

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Egon on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 3:41am

any era where they are still alive and kicking!

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Steel Wheels on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 6:00am

Egon wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 3:41am:

any era where they are still alive and kicking!

Which is why I pick 2016-2017 as my favorite!

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by gimmekeef on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 11:41am

The big run of the 4 albums during their peak creative years. 69-72....

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Heart Of Stone on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 11:45am

The Brian & Mick Taylor years.

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 6:30pm

Anything with Mick Taylor on it. :keithpunky :willya

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by mojoman on Apr 3^rd, 2017 at 7:19pm

the bill era

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by philgood on Apr 4^th, 2017 at 11:14am

1968 - 1972

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Post by Edith Grove on Apr 6^th, 2017 at 3:58pm

This one:

https://youtu.be/6a4eZNwJ85M

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Voodoo Child in Wonderland on Apr 6^th, 2017 at 7:46pm

Edith... Even that I said "1966-1976, specially the Jimmy Miller days" I gotta say that LIVE the 1978 tour was one of the most "Stone" tours, almost as dead drunk and high as the New Barbarians tour next year!

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by BrianRollingJones on Apr 6^th, 2017 at 9:38pm

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 6^th, 2017 at 7:46pm:

I've always felt the 1975-1976 shows are underrated personally. The band is sloppy, messy, and all strung out, with an awesome backing band. It's also cool because Woody still played lead guitar in that era before doing the weaving thing.

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Sleepy City on Nov 15^th, 2022 at 3:27pm

Roughly autumn '65 to Spring '67. Aftermath, Between The Buttons, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Paint It Black, Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Let's Spend The Night Together, Ruby Tuesday, Got Live If You Want It!, those classic appearances on Ed Sullivan/RSG/TYLStars... They never looked or sounded better!

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Goo on Nov 16^th, 2022 at 5:25am

Sleepy City wrote on Nov 15^th, 2022 at 3:27pm:

Great “pop” era ……love it

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Sailor on Nov 26^th, 2022 at 6:09pm

I love the Brian Jones years cause they were more into pop and blues

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Post by Gazza on Nov 26^th, 2022 at 7:03pm

68-73 with 1978 as a glorious encore

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Rev 20 Redlights on Nov 26^th, 2022 at 9:15pm

the jagger-richards era

oct 61 -

i'm still obsessed currently with the "dog shit" outtakes,
but also very hopeful about the "dog's breakfast" album

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by WaiteringOnAFiend on Nov 26^th, 2022 at 11:16pm

The 2020s and the 2030s, innit?

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Rev 20 Redlights on Nov 27^th, 2022 at 12:02am

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Nov 26^th, 2022 at 11:16pm:

The 2020s and the 2030s, innit?

I'm OK with the mick-no-keith era starting in 2033,
but it will never be my favorite...

Call me old-fashoned

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by ThomasOliver on Nov 27^th, 2022 at 2:10am

68-82 for me which is quite a long period but every studio album they produced was a winner and some great tours right up to the UK one in 82 which sadly was Stu's last.

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by philgood on Nov 27^th, 2022 at 9:23am

1964 - 1972

Title: Re: What's your favorite era of the Stones
Post by Goo on Dec 1^st, 2022 at 1:58pm

1963-65
66-67
68-73