Is this the best classic rock album of all time?

Is this the best classic rock album of all time?

yes

No

Hell no
Mick Jagger is awful

it's the worst one

fuck no. the stones went to shit after brian jones left. their best album is probably between the buttons.

Top Ten maybe. It's the Rolling Stones' best.

that's not Born to Run

WIDE-WIDE HORSESSSSSS

Came here to say this.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest and most influencial rock vocalists of all time

They're best albums barely had Brian Jones on them, if at all

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it's pretty good desu, the stones are underrated on Sup Forums

Samefag

t. someone who hasn't listened to springsteen

Springsteen and the Stones have some legitimate musical accomplishments, but the media dicksucking of them for decades makes it hard to like them.

I personally couldn’t appreciate Jagger’s voice until I saw videos of him perform and could sense his charisma from that point on and it reshaped their sound for me. That might sound strange but you can’t deny Jagger is one of the most enigmatic frontmen of all time.

>all the contemporary reviews from the 70s (Christgau, Rolling Stone Mag, etc) calling "Fingerprint File" a garbage song and proof that the Stones were losing it

Really, guys? You don't think that wah-wah porno funk riff isn't fucking awesome?

Unfortunately, I have. I listened to the entirety of BTR and BITUSA and a good amount of The River. The dude apparently loves recording albums while he's sitting on the can trying really hard to push a log out. Not like he can do anything worth noting with a guitar either.

I could do without the saxophone on every other track.

Back in the day, among the rock press, everything was Dylan, Stones, Beatles, and Who worship as all those artists had established reputations, lyrics vaguely hinting at revolution, and hipster cred. Everything else was kind of dismissed.

Exile is better

Let's run down the list with Bruce Springsteen.

>singing ability
Nope
>playing ability
Nope
>sense of melody
Nope
>sense of humor/self-awareness
Nope
>sex appeal
Nope
>interesting lyrics
Nope
>lyrics that have held up
Nope

>>sex appeal
>Nope
lol what. bruce is hot af

I'm old enough to remember the 70s-80s and I didn't know anyone who was into Bruce Springsteen. If you were 14 in the early 80s, you were a lot more likely to have Van Halen or Back In Black on your shelf than The River. I never understood how the guy got so big or the media worship of him.

Mick Taylor was added IIRC because they were trying to update their sound a little bit for the 70s by adding a young kid whose playing style was rooted in boogie rock.

its a working class thing, plus in the early eighties, ac/dc VH were still considered "heavy Metal" & eeeeeeviiil

I heard they wanted to add more guitar solos which was a thing that Keith really didn't like doing.

>its a working class thing

IDK, the average AC/DC fan was pretty greasy. Most of them I knew became auto mechanics or roofers or crap like that and still listen to the same music almost 40 years later.

Machine Head
Excitable Boy
Thick as a Brick
The Royal Scam
Dire Straits??

Plus several more that I might pick over any stones record. idk. Born to Run is a perfect album though, this fucking guy who barges into every thread to hate on Springsteen is starting to get on my nerves.

Excitable Boy [Asylum, 1978]
The further these songs get from Ronstadtland, the more I like them. The four that exorcise male psychoses by mock celebration are positively addictive, the two uncomplicated rockers do the job, and two of the purely "serious" songs get by. But no one has yet been able to explain to me what "accidentally like a martyr" might mean--answers dependent on the term "Dylanesque" are not acceptable--and I have no doubt that that's the image Linda will home in on. After all, is she going to cover the one about the headless gunner? A-

The Royal Scam [ABC, 1976]
The first question is whether the melodic retreat represents a refusal to indulge the audience or a withering of invention. The second is whether the conscious choice of a jagged, pinched music is a wise one. As if in compensation, the lyrics are less involuted and personal, but in fact their objectivity intensifies Steely Dan's natural nastiness. Whether this narrowing of spiritual possibilities is willed or a symptom of the same chronic insularity that makes Fagen and Becker unwilling to tour, the result sounds a trifle arty and a trifle producty at the same time. Does it matter whether they call San Juan "the city of St. John" in reference to the apocalypse or because it scans nice? B

Machine Head [Warner Bros., 1972]
"Smoke on the Water" is about a big fire in Montreux, obviously the most exciting thing to happen to these fellows since the London Symphony Orchestra. No jokes about who's getting burned, though--I approve of their speeding, and Ritchie Blackmore has copped some self-discipline as well as a few suspicious-sounding licks from his buddies in London. Personal to Paul Kantner: Check out "Space Truckin'." B

Thick as a Brick [Reprise, 1972]
Ian Anderson is the type of guy who'll tell you on one album that a whole side is one theme and then tell you on the next that the whole album is one song. The usual shit--rock (getting heavier), folk (getting feyer), classical (getting schlockier), flute (getting better because it has no choice), words. C-

Sticky Fingers [Rolling Stones, 1971]
You'd think some compensation was in order a year and a half after the fact, but that old evil life's just got them in its sway. From titles like "Bitch" and "Sister Morphine" and (the one Altamont reference) "Dead Flowers" through "Brown Sugar"'s compulsively ironic and bacchanalian exploitation/expose to the almost Yeatsian "Moonlight Mile," this is unregenerate Stones. The token sincerity of "Wild Horses" drags me. But "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "I Got the Blues" are as soulful as "Good Times," and Fred McDowell's "You Gotta Move" stands alongside "Prodigal Son" and "Love in Vain." A

>this fucking guy who barges into every thread to hate on Springsteen is starting to get on my nerves

It's not just one guy, laddy.

what kind of brainlet do you have to be to actually believe Between the Buttons is anything but scene-hopping filler?? your contrarianism is boring

>You'd think some compensation was in order a year and a half after the fact, but that old evil life's just got them in its sway

>year and a half after the fact
???

Let it bleed is better

He's either referring to Let it Bleed or Altamont, I think

Altamont Free Concert. Christgau was so shaken up by that that he didn't review Let It Bleed or pay any attention to the Stones for almost two years afterwards.

absolutely not, this is

...

I could understand why the Stones have disowned that album considering the circumstances around its recording.

I don’t care if it’s Brian Wilson’s fav Stones song, “My Obsession” is trash

Yeah that's all springsteen is. You won.

>lyrics that have held up
>Nope
wat

>abbey road
>IV
>WYWH
>the white album
>physical graffiti

all better albums

Oh look the melody pleb showed up

...

pleb

this.

Not even the best stones album, let alone even top 25 all time

boston ins't even classic rock, m7

fucking boomers

who /deadflowers/ here?

*best Stones album reporting in *

how the hell not?

imagine thinking this

they were only good in the 60's

This

What do you think Enigmatic means?