Rolling Stones - '69 thru '72

[Stu Gotz]

Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile - the greatest period of creativity any rock band ever had?

[freshies]

can't argue with you on that.

they had it going on from roughly 66/67 - 72/74, then began the slow decline (as most good bands do as they age), but then rallied hard with "some girls" in 78. their last great album IMO.

I'm reading Keef's memoir right now, "Life", pretty amazing.

[bl2000]

Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile - the greatest period of creativity any rock band ever had?

I'd agree but add Beggar's Banquet. There was another thread on this back when Jimmy Kimmel had Stones week. Somebody on the board held up Goats Head Soup as better than Exile. Unpossible.

PBS had a concert from the 1990 Steel Wheels tour recently. Can't say I was into their new music at that point, but the concert was awesome.

[OSECS]

Golden period of great rock and roll.

[slim]

I'd agree but add Beggar's Banquet. There was another thread on this back when Jimmy Kimmel had Stones week. Somebody on the board held up Goats Head Soup as better than Exile. Unpossible.

Go read the thread again jack-ass. At no point did I say Goat's Head is better than Exile. I simply said don't dismiss Goat's Head and Some Girls.

Still rocking Keith Urban?

[Zeppelinskier]

I like the stones well before 69' the nitty gritty polar opposites of their more bubble gum pop counterparts. I loose the stone after sticky fingers.

[bl2000]

Go read the thread again jack-ass. At no point did I say Goat's Head is better than Exile. I simply said don't dismiss Goat's Head and Some Girls.

Still rocking Keith Urban?

I don't have time to re-read that thread, but someone (maybe you fuck-face?) said that GHS was in heavy rotation at their place. FWIW, I never heard of Keith Urban before the show. So, I didn't have any preconceived notion like you apparently do. But he did a freakin good cover, and a good song is a good song. I've never heard him again since. As far as I know.

Some of GHS is OK. But I still say "Angie" sucks.

[Rontele]

I agree with this thread.

[buttahflake]

Mick Taylor roolz.


oh yeah, remember this
[ame="http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192941"]Exile On Main St.:reissue - Teton Gravity Research Forums[/ame]

[Benny Profane]

Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile - the greatest period of creativity any rock band ever had?

Incredible stuff, but can't match the Beatles from Rubber Soul to the end.

[Marshall Tucker]

^ I'd have to agree. Not my cup of tea but revolver, white album, just fucking towering acheivements. Sometimes you want to argue that say a who tommy-quadro, zep I-untitled, floyd, but really...nothing else even comes close to stones & beatles in that timeframe.

[beahen]

Sorry to chime in late here but Led zeppelin had more ground breaking music during that era.

[Arty50]

Is it a coincidence that the years Stu has chosen were the Mick Taylor years? Nope.

I saw Taylor live a handful of times around 7-10 years ago. Dude was still bringin' it.

The Taylorized version of Sympathy is amazing (listen to Ya-Ya's). With him on board, the song morphed from simply awesome to filthy nastiness. His solos on Can't You Hear Me Knocking and Time Waits For No One are amazing too. There's something about the way he plays guitar. Just nasty.

The Goats Head Soup discussion is interesting too since I was listening to it earlier today. I love that album. Doo Doo Doo is a classic. Lots of other good tracks too. Winter was the perfect song for today. And Angie most definitely does not suck. I'm sorry, but that song kicks ass. So well written. To each their own I guess.

[marshalolson]

it does beg the question:

rolling stones: 69-72 - let it bleed, sticky fingers, exile
jimi: 67-70 - are you experiances, axis, electric ladyland, band of gypsys
beatles 66-70 - revolver, sgt peppers, magical mystery tour, abbey road, let it be
pink floyd - 69-73 - ummagumma, atom heart mother, meddle, obscured by cloud, dark side
led zepplin 69-73 - LZ, II, III, IV, Houses of the holy

while exile is probably my favorite album ever, i gotta go with pink floyd here. those contributions are beyond exceptional. with dark side being possibly the single most creative, well produced, stand the test of time album ever recorded, from start to finish.




and the non-rock winner, IMO is:
Public enemy: 88-91, nation of millions, Fear of a black planet, apoclypse 91

[Stu Gotz]

Certainly not in the same league as the others, but for a five year period, Fogerty was definitely dialed in with Creedence. The band had an unbelievable run from '68 to '71 with the following albums.

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou Country
Green River
Willy and the Poor Boys
Cosmo's Factory
Pendulum

[marshalolson]

darkhorse:

radiohead 93-97 - pablo honey, the bends, ok computer
followed by:
radiohead 2000-2003 - kid a, amnesiac, hail to the theif
or what i would call the most productive decade in modern music.

[Art Shirk]

Another darkhorse, but in terms of creativity, I gotta mention:

REM 1983-1987
Murmur, Reckoning, Fables, Life's Rich, Document

[Marshall Tucker]

The Taylorized version of Sympathy

Always been a fan of the gunner's version of that song, which was much more true to the gunners than to the stones. Ass-kickin guitar riff, "save us, milkboy..." there's also a pretty decent instrumental version on the soundtrack to an old peter strauss movie Jerico Mile.

Always thought Beggar's was one one of the most underrated albums ever. Jigsaw puzzle, stray cats, parachute woman, etc. Their answer to st. peppers.

[mmmm...pow!]

i gotta go with pink floyd here. those contributions are beyond exceptional. with dark side being possibly the single most creative, well produced, stand the test of time album ever recorded.




and the non-rock winner, IMO is:
Public enemy: 88-91, nation of millions, Fear of a black planet, apoclypse 91

This, + Parliament/Funkadelic '70-'77

[marshalolson]

This, + Parliament/Funkadelic '70-'77

good call.

i am also tossing in there curtis mayfield 1970-72 - curtis, roots, superfly

[marshalolson]

how about eric clapton? certainly not a band... but well... in terms of creativity:

1966-1974 - john mayall and the bluesbreakers w/ EC (if you have never heard this album, go download it right now), fresh cream, disraeli gears,wheels of fire, goodbye, blind faith, layla, EC, 461 ocean blvd

he defined modern blues (bluesbreakers), invented psychedelic rock (along with jimi), gave birth to hard rock (ie cream->sabbath->everything else), perfected southern style rock (layla w/ duane a), and launched reggae to the US (461).

oh, and if that is not enough, recorded probably the most famous guitar solo ever on while my guitar gently weeps.

[t.odd]

darkhorse:

radiohead 93-97 - pablo honey, the bends, ok computer
followed by:
radiohead 2000-2003 - kid a, amnesiac, hail to the theif
or what i would call the most productive decade in modern music.

hard to argue with that, pablo honey though is my go-to Radiohead album most of the time, just a straight up kick ass rock album.

[Rontele]

Exile on Main Street > everything else.

[bl2000]

Sure to be as non-controversial an addition to this thread as my view of Angie:

The Grateful Dead, 1967
Anthem Of The Sun, 1968
Aoxomoxoa, 1969
Live/Dead, 1969
Workingman's Dead, 1970
American Beauty, 1970
Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses), 1971
Europe '72, 1972
Wake Of The Flood, 1973
Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel, 1974
Blues For Allah, 1975
Terrapin Station, 1977

But, Exile was one of the few albums that hit me like a stun gun the first time I heard it.


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[Arty50]

how about eric clapton?

Do you notice a common thread? John Mayall. Here's a list of people who's careers he helped launch (stolen from wiki): Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Rick Cortes, Jon Mark, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, and Buddy Whittington.

Anyway, I'll add one to the epic few years list:
Jane's Addiction '87-'91