Rating My CD’s: Exile on Main Street
58. The Rolling Stones —Â Let it Bleed Recently I issued a half-formed opinion on double-albums. A prejudice, really, arising as … Continue reading Rating My CD’s: Exile on Main Street
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Rating My CD’s: Sticky Fingers
57. The Rolling Stones —Â Sticky Fingers You could probably make an argument, if you really wanted, about the relative decline … Continue reading Rating My CD’s: Sticky Fingers
Rating My CD’s: Hot Rocks
56. The Rolling Stones — Hot Rocks 1964-1971
This is where it all began for me.
I became a fan of the Rolling Stones about halfway through college, at the end of a late night viewing of Full Metal Jacket in a friend’s appartment. We were both of us familiar with the movie but had not seen it all the way through, and had some kind of odd theory that Gomer Pyle and Animal Mother were the same dude (probably my theory, given how wrong it was). I was pulled in by the perversity of the flick and smacked in the face by the end, when the survivor of Tet march lockstep through the ruins of Hue, Vietnam singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme song. And as the credits came up out of the fade, “Paint it Black”
It was perfect. I got it. I was a fan.
Rating My CD’s: Let it Bleed
55. The Rolling Stones — Let it Bleed I don’t remember if I bought this before or after Their Satanic Majesties Request. … Continue reading Rating My CD’s: Let it Bleed
Rating My CD’s: Their Satanic Majesties Request
 54. The Rolling Stones — Their Satanic Majesties Request This album, long drawing question marks and sneers from the taste historians … Continue reading Rating My CD’s: Their Satanic Majesties Request
I Write About the Rolling Stones
One of the things I had in mind for this blog was a combination of my politics blog, Revolutionary Nonsense, with … Continue reading I Write About the Rolling Stones
Rating My CD’s: Reveal
53. REM — Reveal I bought this — or rather, my aunt bought it for me, and I may have … Continue reading Rating My CD’s: Reveal
Rating My CD’s: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
52. R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Critics like to give bands certain arcs, and those arcs tend to conform with the rise-and-fall of tragedy. The Beatles “fell apart” due to success, the Stones jumped the shark in the 70’s, briefly re-grouped for Some Girls, and then coasted along ever since. And according to overwhelming critical assessment, R.E.M. put out their last good album in 1996. Continue reading “Rating My CD’s: New Adventures in Hi-Fi”
Rating My CD’s: Automatic for the People
52. REM — Automatic for the People
In January 1999, I was on assignment for my first job at Nabisco Headquarters in New Jersey. I was driving a 1986 Lincoln Mk VII that I’d purchased for a song the previous August. I used to drive up from my Philadelphia apartment early Monday Morning and drive back Friday evening. One Friday that month a blizzard struck. All my colleagues advised against trying to get home, but I was 22 and stupid, so I went anyway. Somewhere in the 130’s of the Garden State Parkway, I tried to pass a snowplow, fishtailed, panicked, over-corrected, and smacked into the Jersey wall. My Lincoln was totalled and I spent eight hours getting home.
The song on the stereo when I crashed? “Everybody Hurts” by REM.
You can laugh, it’s funny.
Rating My CD’s: A Cheaper Kind of Love Song
51. Red Sammy — A Cheaper Kind of Love song [For the first 50 of this series, go here.]Â I … Continue reading Rating My CD’s: A Cheaper Kind of Love Song
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