Categories: annals-of-a-rock-nerd
Date: 28 November 2007 16:15:04
When listening to the Rolling Stones in your car, do not attempt to beat time with your right foot on the accelerator. No, really. Just don't.
A strange experience, listening to practically the whole Stones back catalogue back to... er... back. I'd forgotten all about that psychedelic phase they went through from around 'She's a Rainbow'* till they got back on the good old hard rock track with Jack Flash. And yes, I know Lennon accused Jagger of nicking all the Beatles' ideas, with 'We Love You' after 'All you need is love' and 'Let it Bleed' after 'Let it Be', but honestly, isn't 'We Love You' a big bad beautiful song, in fact rather better than 'All you need'? You can't say Jagger and Richards didn't make something new out of what they nicked.
Well that's enough of the rock memories. I'm not at all sure what my nineteen year old passenger thought of it all, but she wisely kept quiet as I belted out the chorus of Honky Tonk Women (which, IMO, is a much better song than Brown Sugar which gets played all the time).
*actually on listening again, I think it started with the rather fey 'Dandelion' which was obviously an attempt to do early Pink Floyd.