Lamest/Worst/Stupidest Rolling Stones song of all time

[Willie Johnson]

I must agree that this thread certainly causes me to question the musical taste and knowledge of a few people. The Stones have recorded a few songs I don't like, especially cover songs, but for the most part they have spent 60 years giving us great songs, innovative music, a lesson in blues history, etc.

If called upon to pick a worst original Stones song - the worst would probably be something I can't even remember - of the bad ones I can think of, maybe Emotional Rescue.

But people putting down "Some Girls"? Man, I love Some Girls - every song except the cover of Just My Imagination, which is good enough, but boring. Some Girls is the album that caused me to listen to the Rolling Stones, when I was 12.

Oooh, good one--Emotional Rescue is bad. But I love Miss You--that and Brown Sugar are my go-tos when I want to play some Stones myself.

 

[Toast]

Why can't they just play and sing what their life's experiences are

You do not want to go down that road. Trust me.

 

[brenn]

Oooh, good one--Emotional Rescue is bad. But I love Miss You--that and Brown Sugar are my go-tos when I want to play some Stones myself.

The earliest I can remember listening to the Rolling Stones was when I was in the 4th grade and the older kid next door bought Some Girls and played Miss You for me. He also talked me into buying things like KISS and BTO and Boston, that the other kids in elementary school weren't necessarily listening to. He turned out to be a guitar guy, as well.

 

[David C]

No, Elvis didn't steal. He took songs (blues, gospel, country songs..) and made them completely different, completely his own. His "Milk Cow Blues Boogie" sounds nothing at all like the original. His "Hound Dog" is a rock song, the original is a deep blues song.

Elvis, I guess you don't know, was a rock artist. He took blues, country western, gospel tunes, anything he loved, and with Scotty and Bill, made them rock. It was absolutely brilliant what he did in the early years. Heard a song and interpreted it his way --- in other words, rock.

Elvis didn't steal. He completely changed songs. The Rolling Stones were playing blues songs as blues songs. That's stealing.

Elvis was not fully original. He took from the black artists of his time. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-et-music-elvis-thief-20170805-story.html

 

[Mike M]

I always thought their cover of this Temptations song

 

[Bruxist]

I love Under My Thumb.

 

[Moonraker5]

Elvis was not fully original. He took from the black artists of his time. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-et-music-elvis-thief-20170805-story.html

Yes, he took songs originally sung by black artists....and white artists! Elvis wasn't a songwriter. He covered songs. That makes him a thief?

Elvis took songs he loved as a kid (mostly blues, country western, gospel tunes) and completely rearranged those songs and turned them into his own brand called rock and roll! Do you understand that? That's not stealing. That's covering and making the song your own. Or do you think every artist who covers a song (and that would be just about 100% of musical artists) are thieves?

Stealing would be what The Stones did - take a blues song and play it as a blues song. Elvis took a blues song ("Hound Dog," for instance) and made a rock and roll record of it.

 

[Alamo]

Everything alright in the critics section?

 

[Geoff738]

Too Much Blood was a good call. Or anything off that record really.

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[Jazzcaster21]

Just waiting on a friend

I gotta disagree; that's a good tune and the Sonny Rollins sax solo at the end caps it off nicely. That's just me though.

 

[Jazzcaster21]

But people putting down "Some Girls"? Man, I love Some Girls - every song except the cover of Just My Imagination, which is good enough, but boring. Some Girls is the album that caused me to listen to the Rolling Stones, when I was 12.

I think I have the same experience as you. That was one of the first Stones albums I heard in its entirety and I had no idea it was from 1978 until much later.

 

[Timbresmith1]

Anyone here as rich and famous as the Stones? No thought not.

I reckon that if I started a thread titled "why are <insert American band> so ****e" it would get ****canned tout suite, and rightly so because it would be trolling. So why is this thread still alive?

Smacks of envy from wannabes that never were still knocking out 12 bar blues for tip money in a dive bar. It's the one thing I really hate about this site.

Steven Segall is rich and his movies are horrible…

 

[Joe M]

This thread, which was pretty much a trolling one in the first place, has become way too difficult to moderate. Too many people have forgotten to "treat everyone with respect, no matter how difficult".

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