The Rolling Stones song you're thinking about right now thread

[muppet hi fi]

I love Keith's vocals. More and more as he's aged, too.

Loads of sly character. Keef and Tom Waits singing together is a thing to behold. Now if they could just get Dylan in on the act - hell, they'd sell millions!

[Kory]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb and Paint It, Black...is there anything to recommend based on this that I wouldn't have already heard on "classic rock radio?"

[WestwayKid]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb and Paint It, Black...is there anything to recommend based on this that I wouldn't have already heard on "classic rock radio?"

Check out Aftermath, Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties. In my opinion, their 3 most musically adventurous albums. Brian Jones is really in his element - playing pretty much every instrument under the sun and Jagger/Richards were really coming into their own as songwriters.

I prefer the UK versions of both Aftermath and Buttons. Their Satanic Majesties only came in one version. Also - the mono versions sound incredible. I know they have them on Spotify.

[Kory]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb and Paint It, Black...is there anything to recommend based on this that I wouldn't have already heard on "classic rock radio?"

Check out Aftermath, Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties. In my opinion, their 3 most musically adventurous albums. Brian Jones is really in his element - playing pretty much every instrument under the sun and Jagger/Richards were really coming into their own as songwriters.

I prefer the UK versions of both Aftermath and Buttons. Their Satanic Majesties only came in one version. Also - the mono versions sound incredible. I know they have them on Spotify.

I'll look into it, thanks!

[WestwayKid]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb and Paint It, Black...is there anything to recommend based on this that I wouldn't have already heard on "classic rock radio?"

Check out Aftermath, Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties. In my opinion, their 3 most musically adventurous albums. Brian Jones is really in his element - playing pretty much every instrument under the sun and Jagger/Richards were really coming into their own as songwriters.

I prefer the UK versions of both Aftermath and Buttons. Their Satanic Majesties only came in one version. Also - the mono versions sound incredible. I know they have them on Spotify.

I'll look into it, thanks!

In that 3 LP stretch, Brian Jones played: electric and acoustic guitar, sitar, dulcimer, harmonica, marimba, koto, organ, piano, recorder, vibraphone, kazoo, trumpet, trombone, Mellotron, flute, saxophone, theremin, jew's harp, sarod, and harp!

[Kory]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb and Paint It, Black...is there anything to recommend based on this that I wouldn't have already heard on "classic rock radio?"

Check out Aftermath, Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties. In my opinion, their 3 most musically adventurous albums. Brian Jones is really in his element - playing pretty much every instrument under the sun and Jagger/Richards were really coming into their own as songwriters.

I prefer the UK versions of both Aftermath and Buttons. Their Satanic Majesties only came in one version. Also - the mono versions sound incredible. I know they have them on Spotify.

I'll look into it, thanks!

In that 3 LP stretch, Brian Jones played: electric and acoustic guitar, sitar, dulcimer, harmonica, marimba, koto, organ, piano, recorder, vibraphone, kazoo, trumpet, trombone, Mellotron, flute, saxophone, theremin, jew's harp, sarod, and harp!

Sounds like my kind of guy. I got my dad a biography of him and he lent it to me to read when he'd finished. Little did he know how large my reading pile is already.

[tepista]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb

you seem like a fan of xylophones

[WestwayKid]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb

you seem like a fan of xylophones

That's a marimba...

[Heston]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb

you seem like a fan of xylophones

I was gonna suggest this but didn't know if it fell into the "FM classics" category.

Good deeper cuts by the Stones...

Monkey Man
Connection
Yesterday's Papers
Dandelion
Have You Seen Your Mother

[tepista]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb

you seem like a fan of xylophones

That's a marimba...

Does Fischer-Price make one? :)

[tepista]

I was gonna suggest this but didn't know if it fell into the "FM classics" category.

Good deeper cuts by the Stones...

Monkey Man
Connection
Yesterday's Papers
Dandelion
Have You Seen Your Mother

Those are some great fucking songs. Monkey Man will come up on FM radio once in a while, but not the others.

[WestwayKid]

I don't really care for what i've heard from the Stones other than Under My Thumb

you seem like a fan of xylophones

That's a marimba...

Does Fischer-Price make one? :)

I once saw Sonic Boom in concert and he played a Speak and Spell!

[WestwayKid]

I was gonna suggest this but didn't know if it fell into the "FM classics" category.

Good deeper cuts by the Stones...

Monkey Man
Connection
Yesterday's Papers
Dandelion
Have You Seen Your Mother

Those are some great fucking songs. Monkey Man will come up on FM radio once in a while, but not the others.

Monkey Man is a GREAT song!

A couple more off the top of my head:

Think
It's Not Easy
All Sold Out
Who's Been Sleeping Here
Citadel

Between the Buttons is an absolutely fantastic recording. I'd go as far as calling it a masterpiece.

[tepista]

Between the Buttons is an absolutely fantastic recording. I'd go as far as calling it a masterpiece.

I go back and forth between that and Out of Our Heads as the best

[WestwayKid]

A great somewhat lost track from that era is Ride On, Baby. It's on the Flowers comp (and was originally scheduled to be on their aborted "Could You Walk on the Water?" LP that became "Aftermath").

Lyrically, a pretty nasty put down of a pretty girl more interested in partying and living hard than anything more substantial. Some great couplets: "You walk up to me, and try and look shy, the red round your eyes, says that you ain't a child" and "Laugh it a bit, give it a try, if I'm not impressed, you can still cry" as examples. It's definitely not a "nice" lyric - but seems to say something about the darker edges of the Swingin' London of the 1960's.

Musically, a tour de force from Brian Jones: 12 string guitar, harpsichord, marimba, autoharp, and congas. Keith provides a great rhythm part and Jagger's delivery is perfect - managing to sound both sneering and dismissive at the same time. Stew's piano is another highlight.