First let me say:
A. To each his/her own.
B. You people are balls out freaking insane crazy.
I\'m not even a "huge" stones fan. But I know enough of their music to know you have to be deaf or ignorant not to understand and appreciate what a powerful and beautiful force the Stones have been on music for the last 50 freakin\' years.
The period from \'68 - \'72 produced 4 of rock\'s all time top masterpieces: Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St.
Oh, and Yoda what you really should do, before taking one more step in this world is the following:
1. Send your wife and child away for a fun weekend with Grandma & Grandpa.
2. Buy Exile on Main St., a bottle of fine booze, and a sack of fungus.
3. Throw that album on repeat
4. Eat the whole bag of fungus
5. Take large slugs of the fine booze as needed to help control the psychotic-mania
Then you sit back and allow Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts to take you on a journey that may be the only thing to save you and the rest us from this constant flood of MORONIC shit that flows from your head, to your keyboard, and across the airwaves to this site.
Great post Slim.
There\'s a long-running and unfortunate error that people make when discussing music: When someone does not enjoy a band\'s music, instead of saying, "I do not enjoy the music of {Band}" they instead say, "{Band} sucks". It\'s just plain unintelligent. Stating that a band of such documented accomplishment and universal acclaim as The Rolling Stones "sucks at playing music" is a statment that can only serve to bring down the stater\'s own credibility. The Rolling Stones cannot possibly suck at music any more than milk sucks as a beverage or soccer sucks as a sport or Nintendo sucks as a video game system. You may not like milk or soccer or Nintendo, but if that\'s the case then just say that, don\'t say that they suck, it doesn\'t make any sense.
So many times people say that a band they happen not to like "sucks". moe. sucks, Akon sucks, Girl Talk sucks, The Breakfast sucks, Paul Oakenfold sucks, now even The Rolling Stones suck. Um, no. You just don\'t like them. Here\'s a short list of musical acts that actually suck:
Smackin\' Vibes (my high school band)
The person singing karaoke at your local bar
William Hung
Now here\'s the freaky part: I enjoy all 3 of those acts, even though any sensible person would agree that they all suck. So if a band sucks but I like them anyways, would I say, "I do not enjoy that band." No, it would not make any sense for me to say that. Conversely, if a band is great but I don\'t like them anyways, does it make sense for me to say, "That band sucks" No, that makes no sense either and if I said it I would only be putting my own intellectual suckage on display.
Th Beatles vs The Stones....Zep vs The Who....Can we change the subject and talk about something a little less controversial?
:awaits the Lowdown vs. Appettite For Destruction thread: :rolleyes2
I\'m going to go start
The Definitive Band Rivalry Throwdown Thread
