MY HIT LIST: JUMPING JACK FLASH-THE ROLLING STONES

If someone were to ask "what's all the fuss about?" regarding The Rolling Stones, tell them to listen to Jumping Jack Flash and watch this video.

The Rolling Stones at their most imperious and dangerous.

JUMPING JACK FLASH-THE ROLLING STONES

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right. Im jumpin jack flash,
Its a gas! gas! gas!

I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag,
I was schooled with a strap right across my back,
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right, Im jumpin jack flash,
Its a gas! gas! gas!

I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead.
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled.
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I was crowned with a spike right thru my head.
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right, Im jumpin jack flash,
Its a gas! gas! gas!

Jumping jack flash, it's a gas
Jumping jack flash, it's a gas
Jumping jack flash, it's a gas
Jumping jack flash, it's a gas
Jumping jack flash

-Jagger/Richard

JUMPING THE SHARK-DAVID BOWIE & THE ROLLING STONES

Tonight by David Bowie

The follow up to the successful Let's Dance album was far from being a hit; it was an absolute miss. Bowie had produced some of the greatest records of the period between 1967 and 1983. Blue Jean is probably the best known track and is pretty good (there is a interminably long video accompanying the song) there is little else to recommend the album. The Brixton Bard still remains iconic, but the good times had to end and, musically, they pretty much did with Tonight.

http://youtu.be/xmCEYu29mHM

Blue Jean Bloated Video (edited)

Undercover by The Rolling Stones

1983 was also when the last drop of quality came out of the Rolling Stones with the album Tattoo You, it's follow up, Undercover, was quite frankly awful. Undercover of the night was far and away the best track and gave some glimpses of the Stones we all loved. However the rest of the material comes across as lazy. The Rolling Stones produced some of the greatest Rock 'n' Roll records ever; this was not one of them

http://youtu.be/sthRYIB91P8

Undercover of the night Bloated video

MY HIT LIST: GIMME SHELTER

 

http://youtu.be/MVor2Xm8qg0

Mick Jagger called it a ‘kind of an end of the world song’ and in respect to the times in which it was written you can understand. It remains one of the finest rock records ever. Merry Clayton adds a haunting female vocal and the song grows to a great climax, the production and recording of the song are catching lightning; this makes for an amazing record. It is always synonymous with the tragedy at Altamont, Sharon Tate Vietnam and the violence that marred the end of the sixties. It's use on soundtracks has often been effective and poignant. Among the many great Rolling Stones songs and performances this record captures a certain chemistry and delivers.

http://youtu.be/htpZ8Y_oCrU
Gimme shelter/The Departed

*It has been covered, of course and the version by Grand Funk Railroad isn't half bad

http://youtu.be/7M9E7BsbHd0

Grand Funk Railroad-Gimme Shelter

Life through a Lense # 3

Keith Richards NY 1972

A picture that sums up the Rock 'n' roll lifestyle of the late sixties and early seventies. That most Rock 'n' roll of rock 'n' rollers Keef, steps of the Rolling Stones private jet