Has there ever been another group REMOTELY like The Stones?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I'll be the first to admit, there are a lot of stories out there about Jagger & Co. that, true or not, frankly creep me the hell out. Given their rep, one must also admit they've been a musical fixture since the sixties, and their body of work is nothing short of magnificent.

I've been going through what I have of their discography, and I have yet to hear a tune that hasn't seen major airplay at some point in time.

It's hard to fathom that even now they're still going. Mick is what, two hundred years old now?

Their music has been, is, and always will be simply the best.

What's your favorite Rolling Stones tune? Here's mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8MhpofxMgk

Waiting On A Friend

[blue neen]

1. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV2gvumwYSI

Brilliant song...Mick Taylor absolutely cooks! :)

[tigereye]

8. hey Neen!

long time no see! :hi:

[RetroLounge]

9. Oh Yeah!

Mick Taylor was the best guitar player they've ever had!

:hi:

RL

[flvegan]

2. Ronnie Wood has an Enzo Ferrari.

So then, no there isn't.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Has Anybody Seen My Baby?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufp0RANigro

[Dr. Strange]

4. The only group that comes close is Air Supply.

[jobycom]

23. Somebody is going to ignore your sig line and

:spank:

[MrSlayer]

5. Hard for me to pick a favorite.

Sympathy is probably their best overall song but, gun to my head, my favorite is "Sway".



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDm3qoDaGo8

[VenusRising]

6. Thru and Thru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FGBXZGyhlk

[DS1]

7. Their song that hit me the hardest is "Paint it black" which is played after Full Metal Jacket

I watched that movie in the theatre with my parents while I was already signed up and ready to go to Marine Bootcamp.

Boy, was I surprised to find out the movie version was 1/10th the intensity of real boot camp. It's still a great song.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. This is the greatest Rock 'n' Roll song of all time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPovuLgo0Wo



There can be no argument.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. No argument from me.

:headbang:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. I've always wondered if they knew what they had

when they cut it. If I'd been in the studio and heard the master, I think I would've just died right then and there.

It has every element of great Rock 'n' Roll, and I can't think of another single song about which that can be said.

It's perfect.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Sorry, but...

...this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqtsNWkpUk

...rides the other one hard and puts it away wet.

:toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. No

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. "We're gonna do a couple of numbers from Leon..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_Z9NuwVBY

YES

:evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. ...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. Aretha says...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToCOlIjgO9U

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. House says...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaL0kdL4FE4

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. Nice. Overshadowed by the grandeur of THIS one, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewewL64hsNE

:toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. ...

:spray:



Well played. :rofl:

[mitchum]

24. That's the one

[Schema Thing]

32. ck your link; you accidently didn't post up "Gimme Shelter"

[Ptah]

17. Cultural impact? Benny Goodman.

Benny Goodman Orchestra Sing Sing Sing

Carnegie Hall concert

In bringing jazz to Carnegie, , in effect, smuggling American contraband
into the halls of European high culture, and Goodman and his 15 men pull it off with the
audacity and precision of Ocean's Eleven.

[datasuspect]

29. that gene krupa can swing

he's a real hep cat

[Tom Kitten]

19. I think the early Flaming Groovies were remotely like the Stones

even sounded like them on occasion! But in the long run, they have turned out to be totally obscure...

[mitchum]

25. The Groovies certainly did the "greatest Rolling Stones song not...

by the Rolling Stones"
And that song is called "Slow Death"
absolutely perfect

[tismyself]

26. Gimme Shelter

Oh, a storm is threatning
My very life today
If I dont get some shelter
Oh yeah, Im gonna fade away

War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away

[Orsino]

27. *Every* group is at least remotely like the Stones.

They're how all other bands learned to act.

[VOX]

28. The Stones were proto-punk in their early days: scruffy, no suits, sneeringly intense...

One wag wrote, "The Beatles play from the brain, and the Stones play from the groin."

Of note, U.S. garage bands were able to master the Stone's rehash of American blues standards with a lot more ease than they could, say, the Beatles complex harmonies.

The Stones also buried the uniformed, suited look for all time. Early on, the Stones did have matching suits, but by the time they came to America, they were a scruffy lot who frightened our parents.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. I'm not a huge Stones fan, but I love "I Am Waiting."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moJ3oXye_-4

[Jetboy]

31. Yeah, all of the great rock-n-roll bands since then!

I love this Otis Redding cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HLyyZwgS5k

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. The Stones. The Rolling Stones.

Rock and Roll personified.
Fucking A.
The End.