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« Reply #780 on Dec 14, 2012, 7:40pm » | ![[Quote]](http://images.proboards.com/new/buttons/quote.png "[Quote]") |
In the meantime, you guys can satisfy my curiosity by telling us what your favorite post-Tattoo You Stones album is. If you just can't pick because you love them all equally, uh, then how about just call out the title of one of them.
If you can, of course. And no Google. That's cheating.
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« Reply #781 on Dec 14, 2012, 7:48pm » | |
Dec 14, 2012, 7:40pm, Horned Gramma wrote:In the meantime, you guys can satisfy my curiosity by telling us what your favorite post-Tattoo You Stones album is. If you just can't pick because you love them all equally, uh, then how about just call out the title of one of them.
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« Reply #782 on Dec 14, 2012, 7:51pm » | |
Trying to think of any single other band on the planet that could release six consecutive bullshit albums and still headline Coachella.
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« Reply #783 on Dec 14, 2012, 7:53pm » | |
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« Reply #784 on Dec 14, 2012, 7:54pm » | |
Holy shit, can someone be excited about a band and not give a shit about their last 5 albums??? They will play the hits, and that is all that matters... /stones
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« Reply #785 on Dec 14, 2012, 7:59pm » | |
Dec 14, 2012, 7:51pm, Horned Gramma wrote:| Trying to think of any single other band on the planet that could release six consecutive bullshit albums and still headline Coachella. |
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U2 is well on their way there
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« Reply #786 on Dec 14, 2012, 8:11pm » | |
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« Reply #787 on Dec 14, 2012, 8:13pm » | |
I'm sure SOMEONE can, but I sure as fuck can't. More than once have I stopped listening to a band because of how badly they grew to suck. And I don't mean that I just refuse to listen to the bullshit material, either. The bitch of it is that when a band starts to deploy the same songwriting techniques that they used to write their classic material in the service of writing fucking terrible songs, it reveals the flaws in the classic material as well and I grow to hate the entire catalog.
The reason I'm going to bat over it is that I fucking KNOW that Coachella people are going to be all HOLY SHIT FUCK YEAH ROLLING STONES MOTHERFUCKER because, y'know, they're the Rolling Stones. People know who they are; they're a big, expensive act that's been going for fucking ever, whatever. People are shitting themselves over the NAME, and the problem with that is that it is the reason that the Stones have spent the entire second half of their career taking a huge, steaming shit on the entire first half of their career. Oh, the people will keep giving us money because we used to be the most important band in the world? Well, alright then! Fucking HAVE DIGNITY, Rolling Stones. Calling it now: y'all are gonna come back from Indio bitching about having seen a very, very old man sing a couple of songs that you've heard on the radio out of key, and everyone but Stamper is gonna say how terrible it was.
SEEING the Rolling Stones perform isn't a big deal at all. SAYING that you've seen the Rolling Stones perform is a big deal. Which I guess makes them a perfect fit for Coachella, the world's premiere fashion show/beer garden/food court/open air drug market/status symbol that also happens to feature musical performances.
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« Reply #788 on Dec 14, 2012, 8:46pm » | |
Aren't you the guy who lost his shit over seeing Roger Waters do a 30 year old album? What the fuck has Roger Waters done lately? Has he even released an album since The Wall?
I've seen The Stones twice over the last 10 years or so and they are easily two of my top 10 favorite shows of all time.
Whatever, I'm not defending myself for being absolutely fucking geeked about seeing my all time favorite band at my favorite festival in the world. This is going to be fucking AWESOME.
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« Reply #789 on Dec 14, 2012, 9:06pm » | |
Dec 14, 2012, 8:46pm, wompwomp wrote:Aren't you the guy who lost his shit over seeing Roger Waters do a 30 year old album? What the fuck has Roger Waters done lately? Has he even released an album since The Wall?
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Dude. It's the Wall.
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« Reply #790 on Dec 14, 2012, 9:10pm » | |
The Wall is The Wall, dude. Not even in the same ballpark, hell it ain't even the same sport.
If you love the Stones, more power to ya. Obviously it works for a LOT of people in ways that it doesn't work for me. Obviously my favorite band -- who are just as fucking old and generally considered to be waaaaaaay less relevant than the Rolling Stones -- are going to play to half-empty clubs across the country around the same time that the Stones are headlining the biggest festival in America. Just sayin' my shit.
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« Reply #791 on Dec 14, 2012, 9:37pm » | |
Dec 14, 2012, 8:13pm, Horned Gramma wrote:I'm sure SOMEONE can, but I sure as fuck can't. More than once have I stopped listening to a band because of how badly they grew to suck. And I don't mean that I just refuse to listen to the bullshit material, either. The bitch of it is that when a band starts to deploy the same songwriting techniques that they used to write their classic material in the service of writing fucking terrible songs, it reveals the flaws in the classic material as well and I grow to hate the entire catalog.
The reason I'm going to bat over it is that I fucking KNOW that Coachella people are going to be all HOLY SHIT FUCK YEAH ROLLING STONES MOTHERFUCKER because, y'know, they're the Rolling Stones. People know who they are; they're a big, expensive act that's been going for fucking ever, whatever. People are shitting themselves over the NAME, and the problem with that is that it is the reason that the Stones have spent the entire second half of their career taking a huge, steaming shit on the entire first half of their career. Oh, the people will keep giving us money because we used to be the most important band in the world? Well, alright then! Fucking HAVE DIGNITY, Rolling Stones. Calling it now: y'all are gonna come back from Indio bitching about having seen a very, very old man sing a couple of songs that you've heard on the radio out of key, and everyone but Stamper is gonna say how terrible it was.
SEEING the Rolling Stones perform isn't a big deal at all. SAYING that you've seen the Rolling Stones perform is a big deal. Which I guess makes them a perfect fit for Coachella, the world's premiere fashion show/beer garden/food court/open air drug market/status symbol that also happens to feature musical performances. |
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Most acts who have been around 50 years quit making relevant music halfway through their career. They are also making exactly the type of music their fans have grown to love. There aren't many 60 year old dubstep fans.
I don't see how you can blame only the Rolling Stones for this when your comment would read the same for Paul McCartney, the Who, the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, and like womp said, Roger Waters. How many amazing albums has that crew created since you've been alive (and I've argued with you enough to know that your reply would completely overlook my point, and you would start blindly naming your favorite Paul McCartney albums as a defense)?
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« Reply #792 on Dec 14, 2012, 9:43pm » | |
I don't listen to any late-period material from any of the artists that you named, and I wouldn't pay to see any of them perform. Again, The Wall is an exception. That is as much a sculpture as it is a rock album. The Wall is a thing that is miles removed from any artist with a half-century career under his belt.
There aren't many 60 year old dubstep fans, and there are certainly quite a few people who still shit their pants every time the Stones drop a new record, but the Venn diagram representing those people and the people who will be at Coachella would look like this:
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« Reply #793 on Dec 14, 2012, 9:43pm » | |
(No, there isn't supposed to be anything there.)
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« Reply #794 on Dec 14, 2012, 10:03pm » | |
Dec 14, 2012, 9:43pm, Horned Gramma wrote:| I don't listen to any late-period material from any of the artists that you named, and I wouldn't pay to see any of them perform. |
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And that's why it's such a big deal. 100,000 people who share the same view as you (might) get to see the Rolling Stones at a festival they are already attending, and that is pretty fucking cool.
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