[Rolling Stones Thread]

I saw them at the 02 back in August and they were dire. Keef was so out of it it was laughable, even Charlie was off colour, only Mick (for me, usually the villain of the piece) was anywhere near up to scratch.

I haven't bought a new album since Dirty Work in '86, and that was rubbish. So I think of them in the past tense too - 1963 to 74 or thereabouts. Best album? Beggars Banquet or Exile On Main Street

But when they woz good, they woz magic, innit. Would loved to have seen them in the early 70s.

[THE PUNK/NEW WAVE THREAD!]

Hey The Kevster and Sister Ray, were you at the last board?

No, why do you ask?

[How The West Was Won Vs The Song Remains The Same OST]

I think HWTWW just edges it, but TSRTS's stunning version of No Quarter is quite simply the best thing LZ have (officially) released IMO. I think it was just that the 72 tour (especially the two nights on HTWW) wasgenerally better than the MSG 73 dates.

Of the songs that are duplicated:

Rock & Roll - TSRTS

Stairway - HWTWW

Dazed & Confused - HTWW

WLL - TSRTS

Moby Dick - HTWW

I'm going to reserve judgement on the songs on the expanded TSRTS until I get to know them abit better...

[THE PUNK/NEW WAVE THREAD!]

JOY DIVISION

New Order

Public Image Ltd (only up to "Flowers Of Romance" though)

Buzzcocks

Slits

The Fall

Ramones

Television

Siouxsie & The Banshees

Pistols

Clash

Stranglers (pre 1980)

Penetration

X-Ray Spex

Raincoats

Au Pairs

Undertones

Stooges

MC5

New York Dolls

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks

DNA

Contortions

and, of course, the mighty, hugely undervalued Magazine...

[The White Stripes Thread . . .]

I've seen the WS 7 or 8 times (and The Raconteurs once - their version of Bang Bang has to be heard to be believed), they've never been less than stunning, easily the best live band in the world at tthe moment.

I have a recording of the July Madison Square Garden gig, it's almost Zeppelinesque in its scope. Last summer I saw them in Hyde Park, they easily filled the night sky with noise and did an awesome 10-minute medley of Cannon-John The Revelator-Astro-Ball & Biscuit that was so ground-shaking it could have been Zep...