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| Boomhauer |
Here is the review of 40 Licks (and perhaps her visions of them in the last 20 years) a CDNow Senior editor placed on the site:
October 8, 2002
Enough has been made of the Rolling Stones' ongoing state of desiccation. Unfortunately, the group's new two-disc, greatest-hits package is in itself a ruthlessly effective reminder of the utter haplessness of its recent output.
Though all but the most casual fan will be better served by picking up the recently remastered versions of Beggar's Banquet and Let It Bleed, Forty Licks -- smartly sequenced, crisply remastered, and stuffed with classics -- is pretty irresistible. All the essentials are here: the sublime ("Gimme Shelter," "Get Off My Cloud," "Ruby Tuesday," "Happy," etc.) and the offensive ("Under My Thumb") as well as altogether too many tracks from the group's two-decades-and-counting slide into irrelevancy ("Undercover of the Night," "Mixed Emotions," etc.).
There are four new songs as well: Most are of a piece with recent, mid-tempo tracks like "Love Is Strong," with an anemic, album-closing ballad besides. They neither enhance nor further diminish the group's legacy, though next to the towering presence of, say, "Angie," they seem wan indeed.
Allison Stewart
CDNOW Senior Editor
At least she says Forty Licks is irresistable. But,I guess to this chick the only good music is something that makes it to #1.
That's why so many people like to slag on the STones. If an album doesn't go to #1 or if a single isn't in the top 10, they label them as irrelevant. Oh......and Nelly, Eminem, Blink 182, and Justin Timberlake are somehow the bearers of great musical knowledge and performance, and are somehow the musicians that aspiring children and teenagers should want to be like? These are the people that are supposedly "relevant" in today's age of music? The ones that don't play instruments and spew lyrical chitter-chatter and schmatta-schmatta-schmatta! Yeah right.
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| KeepRigid |
Billboard.com has a good review in which they describe Satisfaction as 'frustration set to music'. I think it's been mentioned already, but it's one of the better ones I've read.
Oh, and those groups you mentioned WISH they could spew schmatta-schmatta-schmatta!!!
[Edited by KeepRigid] |
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| Number two |
I don't think the CDnow review implied that they were irrelevant because their music isn't making it to the top of the charts. I personally agree with her sentiment that only the very casual fan will find Forty Licks useful. |
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| Pants Make the Man |
Allison Stewart? Is that that fat "Vj" from MTV? I think she's a huge Blink 182 fan. She dig's neo-punk. |
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| Maxlugar |
That was a good review?
That was like pushing on old lady in the mud and pissing on her head, then saying her how hot she was in the 40's.
The only thing I agree with is the notion that this is for the casual fan.
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| jb |
She is overweight .... |
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| egon |
quote:
Boomhauer wrote:
Oh......and Nelly, Eminem, Blink 182, and Justin Timberlake are somehow the bearers of great musical knowledge and performance, and are somehow the musicians that aspiring children and teenagers should want to be like? These are the people that are supposedly "relevant" in today's age of music?
let's just see in 5 years time who's still around... |
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| jb |
yea..whatever happened to the 15 million seller Hootie and Alanis....flavors of the day discarded like soiled panties! |
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| stonesmik |
You can buy "40 licks" for Euro 17,99 at Amazon.de (that's about $18 at the moment). |
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| jb |
I bought asnother copy today at 23.99!!!!! But hey, I can afford it!!! I am a lawyer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| gypsy |
Well, I had to buy a copy for KeepRigidsLawyer, and he's a lawyer!!!!!!! |
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| Moonisup |
LOL
I've bought for 29.99 euro, that is 27 dollar, yeah every stones cd is very expensive here
I've bought for my dad, the hot rocks cd and Get Yer Ya Ya at lp (he already had that afcourse but I've framed it for him with all our concerttix)
Get yer ya ya: Euro 20,00 that 18 $
Hot rocks: Euro 30.00 that is 29.00 $
ah man very expensive, but hey it's my dad. I can afford it and I ain't a lawyer
Rik, the wooden shoe |
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| Maxlugar |
I got the new Elvis 30 #1's and I meant to just listen to the first few songs and wound up listening to the whole damn thing.
What a voice.
Hound Max! |
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| Mr T |
I'd have to say that aside from Losing My Touch, Satisfaction is easily the worst song in that collection - and yet it's revered by morons like that. I'm sure that editor could tell you a lot about being irrelevant |
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| KeepRigidsLawyer |
My dear gypsy, I believe if you will recollect the incidents that followed soonafter that evening, you will recall being 'repaid in full'.
At least, I am almost fairly certain that it was you. |
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| gypsymofo60 |
quote:
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yea..whatever happened to the 15 million seller Hootie and Alanis....flavors of the day discarded like soiled panties!
....Hootie & The blow offs were more boring than Dylan, and that is going some. Alanis'first album was quite good I thought, she just shouldn't play with the harmonica. |
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| gypsymofo60 |
quote:
Maxlugar wrote:
I got the new Elvis 30 #1's and I meant to just listen to the first few songs and wound up listening to the whole damn thing.
What a voice.
Hound Max!
..Maxy, I'm not even an Elvis fan , but I thought about buying that, it looks quite good, especially if like me you have no previous Elvis stuff. |
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| gypsymofo60 |
quote:
Mr T wrote:
I'd have to say that aside from Losing My Touch, Satisfaction is easily the worst song in that collection - and yet it's revered by morons like that. I'm sure that editor could tell you a lot about being irrelevant
....Alas, I must be a moron! Along with the thousands, upon thousands who purchased the original 45rpm. Along with the thousands, upon thousands of old 33 1/3rpm albums, and CDs that have sold on the strength of it's inclusion. Along with all the artists(famous, and not so famous), who have covered it since it's release, not to mention the long list of critics who have cited it as 'THE Rock song of the 20th century'.The thousands who at every Stones concert scream their approval whenever it is played. A long list of fellow morons. I'm so glad I'm another moron. |
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| Stonesthrow |
Mr. T-- A wild guess. You weren't around in the '60s right? You have no idea what effect Satisfaction had on an entire disaffected generation. It is the anthem of that generation. Considering your handle is the same as the guy from A-Team, I wouldn't be dissing any song as irrelevant-- especially the most perfect rock song ever made.
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| Scot Rocks |
Satisfaction rocks Mr T, how can you say it is the one of the worst songs. As well as being a fuckin classic it was the first Stones song I ever heard and will always be special too me personally for that.
Mark
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| gypsy |
No, KRsL, I recall that you left me with the bill at IHOP, and left with the middle-aged waitress. So, you owe me for the CD, and for your order of "Two Moons Over My Hammy." |
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| Moonisup |
oh no.
a lady leaving without paying the bill sure ain't a good thing!!
I even open doors for ladies, that is why they like me
I am a wooden whoe and my aunt does dirty things wiyh tulips |
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| gypsy |
Well, KeepRigidsLawyer does have his good points... |
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| Moonisup |
quote:
gypsy wrote:
Well, KeepRigidsLawyer does have his good points...
I don't know THAT for a fact, everybody has his own good point, mine is loosing the url for an ftp site with toronto 2002 sb, and the link is edited at a site
DUMB |
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| KeepRigidsLawyer |
As does gypsy's hammy. |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
I strained a hammy in a particularly athletic sex position once.
Kids, taks Uncle SS's advice. Always do some stretching before engaging in frantic jungle sex. |
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| gypsy |
That's nothing, Sir Stonesalot. KRsL once strained his gastrocnemius in a terrible accident involving a Denny's waitress and a pleasure swing. What a sad, sad day that was... |
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