Virgin Records B00006IR69
A friend of mine wayyyyy up in north Austin
picked up Rolling Stones Forty Licks
for me at a steal at Fry's. Jeffrye and I
have disagreed for years over this band. He has said he wouldn't give a
dollar for a carload of Stones CD's. I, host of the Brian Jones Hoot
Night for four years running, would obviously beg...hell...scream
to differ. But even Jeffrye was forced to admit he had to open the damned
thing and listen to it before passing it along to me.
What a great find ! The remastering is bright and
huge. These songs show why, after 40 years, the Stones are truly the
greatest rock n roll band of all time. The Beatles may have had more
command of
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a recording studio, and may have had a more
engrossing creative streak, but this band makes a guitar come alive in the
hands of a greasy faced kid like none other!
This band made Muddy Waters a household name. This CD also shows what
today's creatively deprived musicians are missing. Even a relative
throwaway from the Stones catalog...Fool
To Cry...for example is a far better,
many-times-smarter song than the dull-as-dishwater, overwrought,
undercooked four chord junk that passes for a "song" here in
2002. There surely are no Stones left in the road when these guys kick
off, which can't be too far away.
When you get into the real meat of this material
like Street Fightin' Man,
19th Nervous Breakdown
and the radio abused Jumpin' Jack Flash
you see the sneering sarcasm and coded contempt for social decorum that
made the 60's so much fun. If extra crunchy rock n roll in it's unedited,
impolite, punchy, blues worshipping form is an art...The Stones are it's
Van Goghs. And the Rolling Stones
Forty Licks is
an art gallery in itself...
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