there are alot on these lists that are merely a matter of taste...
i, for one, think that start me up is overrated and silly, but its not a bad song.
and those early soul covers were atrocious,
but let me remind everyone of the real travestly in the stones canon:

any way you look at it....
anybody have a link to this - just to drive that point home?

i bought the cd.  it has saint of me and anyway you look at it for 1.99.  i have to say that anyway song is lame.  there was a song on the bonus cd of a bigger bang, the one that had 2-3 extra songs on it and one of those was lame too.

gotdablouse wrote on May 7^th, 2009 at 6:56pm:


"Raise your glass to the hard-working people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading, but take gamblers instead
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
Whose empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And parades of gray-suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio."

I agree. Where did that guy go? Whenever anyone has any doubt about how great of writer Mick was, I play 'em something like this.

StonesFanatic wrote on May 11^th, 2009 at 8:42am:

Child of the Moon wrote on May 8^th, 2009 at 1:21am:


To his credit you can only write that song once and he did it so...I guess he just ran out of things to say or stopped caring about much else than his dick, anyway it sucks to not be in 1968 anymore as far as the Stones go.

" Anybody who doesn't like Sweethearts Together or Indian Girl never liked a Sam Peckinpah movie "


Amen !!!!!!!


The Wild Bunch ROCKS !!!!!


RIP William Holden ......... Warren Oates  ........ Jeff Healy

Even these days at his old age? Weird!!

I was surprised, looking back, to see so much hate for Start Me Up on here.  While I can take or leave that song, it's always regarded as a Stones "classic" so I was surprised to see so much dislike for it...

Gazza wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 10:02am:


Agreed G.
Add the HIDEOUS video and the number of times we've endured it live and this is one I could definitely live without ever listening to again.
Well, may not EVER.

LJ.

StonesFanatic wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 10:21am:


The video is very amateurish for the GREATEST Band of all time.
Lip synching and air guitars are an embarrassment.
Why bother???
They finally get a single (s/p 1980) that hits the charts and then put out that piece of junk????
It's so damned cheesy.  

LJ.

"What do you think of the video for Undercover of the Night?"

Mick in that White Suit and moustache....let's just say he's not going to win any Academy Awards.  But Keith looks badass so it's tolerable.

Overall, most of the Stones videos were average, imho.

LJ.

LadyJane wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 10:52am:


Most videos are crap, full stop. However, IMO the Stones - back as late as the late 90's when they still cared - were always trendsetters and pioneers when it came to promo videos.

Right from the early days where they were basically promo clips - Have You Seen Your Mother, Jumpin' Jack Flash and the video for the song from which you take your screen name up through the 70's (IORR and the 3 'Some Girls' videos) - and on into the MTV age when even as late as that magnificent one for Anybody Seen My Baby, a new video premiere from the Stones was often  a TV event and often pretty innovative, eg Undercover, Love Is strong, Like A rolling Stone etc.

In the last decade or so though, their reluctance to bother with them has matched their reluctance to spend much time making new music - the one for 'Don't Stop' was so bad I actually hid behind the settee when it was on TV.

The 'Start Me Up' video just looks very dated now. Prancing about lip synching was pretty normal for 1981 though and , in fairness, all that campy arse wiggling and gymnastic pouting was pretty much the way Jagger was still performing on stage at that time (he toned it down by the time they went back on the road in 1989). They did 4 other videos for Tattoo You - Hang Fire, Worried About You, Neighbours and Waiting On A Friend - all of which were more plleasant to watch to varying degrees, especially the last two.

First rule of thumb for a Stones video in the MTV age (ie post 1981) - if it's shot against a New York backdrop, it's usually going to be very good. The New York tourist office should have paid the band a fortune for what was basically a series of great commercials for the city throughout the 80s and 90s.