Q: You've said the Rolling Stones used to be your favorite band, but they aren't anymore. Why did you lower your opinion of them, and where would you rank them now?
A: I still like the Stones a lot as a band, but as individuals, compared to such contemporaries as Dylan or Reed or Young, I find both Jagger and Richards--especially Jagger, of course, although Keith's blood changes are an exercise of economic privilege every bit as dislikable as Mick's posturing--harder and harder to suspend disbelief over. I can no longer go to the work and avoid what I know of the man. And this calls the realism I once prized in their work into question. I played Sticky Fingers not long ago and my wife said she couldn't hear them anymore without snickering a little (that's not how she put it, she's no snickerer, but they just don't mean much to her now). I enjoyed Sticky Fingers a lot myself. But its power was certainly diminished.
Q: You've said the Rolling Stones used to be your favorite band, but they aren't anymore...
huh? what were they singing about that is now so unbelievable because of what he knows about the man
>band with a song written from the Devil's POV
>they were known for their realism
>lets artists' personal lives interfere with his enjoyment of their work
weak-minded fool
>Stones were his favourite band
>Finds realism in their lyrics
>Doesn't separate art from artist
This man gets more retarded the more I know about him.
>rich rock star with women hanging off his arms writes a song about how he can't get none
I sort of get his point, that the Stones by their later career did kind of turn into a joke/punchline by being washed-up Spinal Taps playing the same ten songs every night, but I also think he's kinda dumb comparing them to a guy like Neil Young who was doing completely different stuff and didn't pull the stereotypical rock star antics which was certainly the case for the Stones by the 70s.
I thought his point was more that they have gray hair, they should quit pretending to be eternally 25 while the other guys he mentioned matured with age.
that is one of the reasons why DEVO’s cover is so much better
>art, a product of culture exists in a vacuum without any relation to cultural context
You are a fucking moron. Death of the Author is a fucking joke.
Woah, calm down Robert
Since when were the Stones rich rock stars when they did Satisfaction? That was in like 1965? They were just starting out back then and only fucked fugly teen groupies. It was later on in the 70s when they were jetsetting rock tycoons who dated actresses and models.
>[Q] What do you think about the 1975, arguably the most important band of the 2010s?
>[A] I think they suck, and having streamed the new one at least three times without retaining anything but the internet skit will only consider explaining why for a minimum of a buck a word--as I just said, I don't do pans anymore. Congratulations, however, for not calling them a "rock band." Rock bands still oughta, you know, rock (for better or worse--here's to you, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age). I note as well that you are not from the United Kingdom, the spawning ground of the 1975 delusion. Don't let me stop you--stick to what you believe. But don't kid yourself if you find your faith faltering.
I think "suck" is a bit too kind word for The 1975.
hello sweetie, postmodernism exists for +4 decades, you can follow any aesthetic theoretician you desire
fuck you conservative ass
>In the Court of the Crimson King [Atlantic, 1969]
The plus is because Peter Townshend likes it. This can also be said of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Beware the forthcoming hype--this is ersatz shit. D+
King Crimson BTFO
Stephen Sinclair: A Plus [United Artists, 1977]
Wrong. D+
Come back once the high wears off and you're capable of being coherent, you drugged up fuckwit.
DEVO were definitely proto-incels. Like half the songs from the demos era are about sexual frustration.
The Very Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary [Rhino, 2005]
The Dylan and Seeger songs need no introduction by this point, and although the pained compassion of "El Salvador" certainly won't make you root for the bad guys, it won't make you root for the good guys either. But hey, at least my old high school pal Lenny Lipton can make a few more bucks from "Puff, The Magic Dragon", which I am very sure is not about pot. C
Love to Love You Baby [Oasis, 1975]
Did you come yet? Huh? Did you come yet? B-
Foreigner [Atlantic, 1977]
You've heard of Beatlemania? I propose xenophobia. C
>mfw imagining a band finding these fucking reviews waiting for them after weeks working on an album
take that back, heathen.