Catching up...

[Henry]

I think that MJ and the RS are funnier than most of us sorry sots generally give them credit for, as was Jim Morrison and the Doors. Unless I'm mistaken, some of the bombast is intentionally over the top. "Deep in the forest, we is stoned... immaculate" intoned with that big voice, with that silly organ (Farfisa?), and Mick likes to PLAY at being the ballsy black R&R, R&R, or blues stud, e.g. "some girls give me children, I never... asked (them) for," but he also sings the part of the cockteasing or put-upon girl. Unless they're not as bright as I'd like to think they are, their tongues are lightly planted in their, and our, cheeks. The Beatles made no pretense of being rootsy, bluesy, or basic, and were thought of (except by religious conservatives) as bright, witty, cute, and cheeky, at least from the time that they were introduced to the USA's audience.

HM
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From: Steven [mailto:mcquaryq at comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:48 AM

I picked SG up recently and like a few of the cuts -- but the best of their albums imo came out in the 70s -- Exile, Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed, Beggar's Banquet. I find them hard to compare with the Beatles, whom I also enjoy, because there's so much diff....the Stones have the more direct connection to the roots music of the blues. 


Steve--Stones/Chandler Beatles/Hammet Pink Floyd/Pynchon :o) 




On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

you can't get much more
mannnered than middle-class Mick) are Some Girls,



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