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| IanBillen |
Here is a post and a very good article I seen on a different messageboard and many thanks to Mr. StonesDoug himself for finding it: I think most of all this is merely coincidence but it is positive in most respects and it's an enjoyable read. Ian
NY Daily News
Jokes a Stones throwaway
Keith Richards & Co. still have fun.
The Rolling Stones never get enough credit for being the funniest great rock 'n' roll band.
Take last week at Lincoln Center, when they unveiled a world tour by singing a new song called "Oh No, Not You Again."
This may be the best self-referential music joke since Jerry Garcia and some friends named their string band after the song "Old and in the Way."
And most people, naturally, missed the Stones' joke, because they think the only story about the Stones is that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts are over 60. People who don't know much about the Stones find their ages more interesting than the fact they can still play great rock 'n' roll.
Yes, I know some Stones fans say the band peaked live on the '72 tour with Mick Taylor and peaked on record with "Beggars Banquet" (1968) and "Let It Bleed" (1969).
Now it's true they've never matched those two records. How many bands have? But if their last four tours are any indication, they still play with fire.
No, they aren't U2, whose new material can eclipse their older stuff. But they still make great songs come alive.
They don't sell out stadiums because middle-aged people have too much extra money. They sell out stadiums because people who don't go to rock shows anymore still go to see the Stones, and because you don't mind paying for a great steak when you know you're going to get one.
And as with all great rock acts from the Beatles to Springsteen and yes, even U2, the Stones wouldn't have gotten this far without a sense of humor.
The only question with humor in Stones songs, really, is where to start. "Dear Doctor," about the guy whose idiot brother mercifully steals his unwanted fiancee? "Honky Tonk Women," wherein "she had to heave me right across her shoulders"?
I've always loved the postgame analysis on a seduction in "The Spider and the Fly": "She told me later she's a machine operator/She said she liked the way I held the microphone."
Thirty-six years ago they were writing about "scented jasmine tea." "Oh No, Not You Again" discusses lemon Jell-O. Are these guys not having a good time?
The Stones don't get full credit in a couple of areas, including their ability to slide from "Jumping Jack Flash" to a multilayered ballad like "Wild Horses," "Angie" or "Lady Jane." But they're never far from a line where an hour later you remember it and laugh all over again.
"I went down to the demonstration/To get my fair share of abuse."
People who don't know the Stones tend to think they only laugh all the way to the bank.
Maybe they do. But they distribute the wealth. If they get the silver, we all get the gold.
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| Gazza |
Not bad. Thanks Ian
(although it was "cousin Lou" who ran off with the fiancee in 'Dear Doctor', not the writer's brother, but thats a minor point - pedantic bastard that I am...) |
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| IanBillen |
[quote]Gazza wrote:
Not bad. Thanks Ian
(although it was "cousin Lou" who ran off with the fiancee in 'Dear Doctor', not the writer's brother, but thats a minor point - pedantic bastard that I am...)
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Actually, now that you mentioned it, wasn't it cousin Luke? not Lou?
Ian |
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| Gazza |
I've sang along with many a Stones lyric over the last 25-30 years with my own version of the lyrics which are in probability gibberish without the benefit of a lyric sheet, but I've always heard that one as "Lou".
At the risk of being sued or fired for providing this link, here's the lyrics as transcribed "<<<<<< over there"
http://www.keno.org/stones_lyrics/dear_doctor.htm |
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| wgwalsh |
Very good perspective Mr. Ian. |
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| IanBillen |
[quote]wgwalsh wrote:
Very good perspective Mr. Ian.
Oh I see. I would of taken your word for it Gazza,....I am sure you are about ready to fall out from shock...about right now.
Ian |
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| IanBillen |
[quote]wgwalsh wrote:
Very good perspective Mr. Ian.
Thank you Thank you Mr. wgwalsh. So nice to see you again at The Rocks Off palace. I don't see you post that often anymore. As for the Dear Doctor Lyrics...I have been wrong before.
By the way, So has Gazza. Just ask the dude and he will tell you that!!!!
And it IS "cousin Lou". Not Lukey as I once heard it.
-I got virgin ears but a whore of a pee-pee-
Ian
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| glencar |
That article is the best thing you've ever posted, IanBillen! Let's hope you post more imported articles & fewer odd fantasies. Thanks in advance! |
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| MrPleasant |
Usually the richest, most rewarding albums go through the whole emotional spectrum. Thus Blonde On Blonde, Live At Leeds, Ramones (self-titled), etc., all have their share of humor.
Aftermath is one of the funniest albums of all time.
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| glencar |
Between The Buttons? |
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| MrPleasant |
Absolutely. |
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