Comments | skyecaptain: I Has Purchased My First Ever Rolling Stones Album(s)!

skyecaptain

I Has Purchased My First Ever Rolling Stones Album(s)!

Jan 27, 2011 11:20

Their first one ("England's Newest Hitmakers") and "Sticky Fingers." More interested in their white-boy rock-blues on the debut than the latter, plan to move forward accordingly, ending at Exile (if I can find them as cheap as I got these -- 10 bucks for two).

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dubdobdee January 27 2011, 18:09:50 UTC

Their last six albs are the best!

Disclaimer: not actually true

skyecaptain January 27 2011, 18:22:05 UTC

Well, I'm so intimately familiar with the Beatles' catalogue that I thought I should have the same kind of familiarity with the Stones, who I generally only know through hits. Going "in order" is a nice way to build my own little narrative about 'em, since I missed the boat when I formed my first mental canon. But maybe I'll go one step forward from the beginning and one step backward from the end, meeting in the middle at Exile or so.

koganbot January 29 2011, 08:48:19 UTC

Get the American versions, not the British, since the Brits had to include some shitty early recordings that the Americans could ignore. I'd say, take 'em in order through Exile, and don't overlook the two live LPs. But also, if you're actually only paying a dollar a piece, get the American hits compilation 'cause they've got several non-LP tracks, and also get the oddball compilation Metamorphosis. If you don't get any compilations, you'll need to get "Play With Fire," "We Love You," "Jumping Jack Flash," and "Dandelion." Count Flowers as an album, not a compilation. In any event, even if you do get the compilations, you'll need to get ahold of "I Wanna Be Your Man" for one of the great slide guitar solos ever by anybody; and if you draw the line at getting More Hot Rocks (which among other things'll give you shitty early recordings), find a way to hear "Child Of The Moon" for them being at their most hippy dippy and "Money" for the eeriness of the arrangement. Also, find a way to hear Mick Jagger's Memo From Turner. You may have to ( ... )

skyecaptain January 29 2011, 18:01:17 UTC

Thanks! Yeah, wasn't sure how to describe it except as something like "white ryhthm and blues," the phrase R&B meaning something different to me now and feeling weird using it -- like using rock 'n' roll instead versus rock.

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koganbot February 13 2011, 22:28:15 UTC

So, has the experiment continued?

skyecaptain February 14 2011, 13:35:05 UTC

Naw, those are still the last CDs I bought. But I'll keep updates here.