The Rolling Stones

What does Sup Forums think about these guys?

I quite enjoy their earlier music but not a lot of their new stuff. I still somewhat respect them for doing what they love until they die though.

What's your favorite Stones song?

They were a legitimately great band from 1965-1972 or so.
Even their early blues covers are pretty funky for a bunch of white English kids.
I prefer the Beatles overall, but "Between The Buttons" is better than Sgt. Pepper IMO.
That and "Aftermath" are my favorite Stones albums.
"Midnight Rambler" is probably my favorite Stones song, at least for now.

IMO Exile on Main St. and Let it Bleed are two of the best albums of all time, but that's kind of a normie opinion I guess.

Didn't type it in post but favorite song is Start Me Up.

I like individual songs & singles from "Goats Head Soup" onwards, but I don't listen to the full albums as much as the earlier stuff.

The single most overrated band of all time. Aftermath is a pretty good album and they have some good songs scattered about but that's it. Comically unimportant to the evolution of rock or pop music, contrary to what most boomer rock fans spout, and not particularly talented musicians or songwriters to boot.

>One of the biggest bands of all time
>Comically unimportant to the evolution of rock

Huh?

Name one thing they did to evolve rock or pop music in a similar vein other British Invasion bands (Beatles, Kinks, Who) or the Beach Boys, Byrds, Dylan (etc.) did.

I'll save you some time: you can't.

The Stones were never great innovators but they proved through their career that they could take any sound and make it their own.

Nigger you can't claim a band didn't evolve rock when they were one of the biggest rock bands of all time.

Doesn't it seem fucking obvious that they would have a colossal impact on rock due to their popularity?

Except they didn't. They tried to go baroque and psychedelic for like two albums, they were shit, then they went back to their roots (got the idea from Dylan, the Beatles, and the Band) and started making straight bluesy rock again, then hit a short stride of albums that played to their strength, then they died out in the early-mid 70s.