Defend the indefensible: Mick Jagger Solo

But if you REALLY wanna howl, check out his work with "Papa" John Phillips..."She's Only 14" especially.

The legendary Rolling Stones' guitarist has flown into a rock and roll rage against Mick Jagger over the singer's decision to accept a knighthood, the ultimate nod from the British establishment.

"I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine," Richards told British music magazine "Uncut" in an expletive-rich interview.

"I told Mick it's a paltry honor ... It's not what the Stones is about, is it?"

The Stones, still rocking after 40 years, made their names with crunching rock classics including "Satisfaction," "Street Fighting Man" and "Brown Sugar."

A 1967 Stones' album was entitled "Their Satanic Majesties Request."

Despite his near spotless rebel credentials(????), Jagger, 60, is scheduled to become "Sir Mick" at a Buckingham Palace ceremony on December 12.

He will join British musicians Paul McCartney and Elton John who have already been knighted by Queen Elizabeth with a touch of the sword.

Richards' own chances of arising Sir Keith, already thought slim after 59 years of hard living, will have receded even further.

Oh, and Wandering Spirit is great.

What We All Need: the Mick Jagger solo comp.

Track listing:

1. God Gave Me Everything
2. Put Me In the Trash
3. Just Another Night
4. Don't Tear Me Up
5. Charmed Life
6. Sweet Thing
7. Old Habits Die Hard
8. Dancing In the Street
9. Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup)
10. Memo From Turner
11. Lucky In Love
12. Let's Work
13. Joy
14. Don't Call Me Up Listen
15. Checkin' Up On My Baby
16. (You Got To Walk And) Don't Look Back
17. Evening Gown

How does a tax exile get a knighthood?

listening right now to goddess in jann wenner's doorway for the first time ever, in rhapsody, and it's really not bad. lead track "visions of paradise" and lenny kravitz collab "god gave me everything" have hit me so far. not sure if rhapsody has that hidden track discussed upthread though. sigh. "hideaway" has a vague tattoo you soul thing about it.

i'm still not sure what benefit anyone, including mick himself, gets from a mick jagger solo album. was keef not available to make a stones album at the time or something?

well, it allows Mick to actually be seen with Bono, Rob Thomas, and Wyclef without Keef going after him like in the "One Hit (To The Body)" video.

a s-s-s-seventeen track solo Jagger comp?
why on earth be so defensive?

The crazy thing here is that for a "Best Of" it doesn't include the few songs that seem worthy. No "Visions of Paradise," "Throwaway" (with Jeff Beck) or "Wired All Night." I"m not claiming acute greatness here, but more worthy of inclusion than some of the tracks that were picked. Of course, this is a perverse distinction for the most part.

I got a press release about that solo best-of, but it didn't indicate what a fucking hash the sequencing would be.

You picked the two tracks I would've included too, smurfherder ("Throwaway" and "Wired All Night"). On the other hand, at least he thinks "Evening Gown" is worth preserving.

do you think Mick had a hand in this? I can imagine him dispatching some lackey to handle the details while he shops for wine in Ibiza. Now photo approval was probably all him...but the actual tunes? hmmn...

lets work, in all its cheesy glory.

to repeat what keith richards once said, "mick likes a lot of shit."

Good lord, David Fricke gives it four and a half stars on Rolling Stone site:

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/16496251/review/16682334/the_very_best_of_mick_jagger_wbonus_tracks

so it fails to live up to the glory of Goddess Of The Doorway, then

or Goddess In, wtfever

Yeah, the five star coup is reserved for the new Springsteen alone, apparently.

Interesting. I thought ALL "contractually obligated" reviews were 5 stars in RS. Maybe Mick didn't return Jann's latest email and was docked a half? Obviously, Bruce knows how to IM a friend.

Could "Chrome Dreams II" be the next five star album? It is Neil, after all.

Could Radiohead? They're "Cutting Edge" enough. Or do we have to wait for the new REM?

has Mick ever listened to "Let's Work"?

probably -- that's why he was running like a girl in the song's video.

i just heard "Charmed Life" on a dell commercial last night. what a GREAT song. newish. produced by Rick Rubin. dubby. i thought this was some old stones track from their disco/reggae phase at first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhflDA2WtU
stupid video though.

^^^^

Yeah, I heard the Solitare mix on the radio last month (before it was on the Superbowl commercial) and and had the exact same thought.

hmmm
Guess Who’s In Mick Jagger’s New Supergroup?

A crazy lineup of people! Namely: the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, and A.R. Rahman (of Slumdog Millionaire fame in America, and just regular all-around fame in India). They're called Super Heavy; they've been together for eighteen months; and they're planning on dropping their debut in September. Wow! So: Either these people have the most scintillating conversations ever heard, or they just sit around after practice avoiding eye contact.

say what?

lol

I read about it in Rolling Stone this weekend.

Can't believe Will.i.am was busy.

i like to think the lineup was picked by Mick going through his google contacts w/a blindfold on

The Not Ready For Gorillaz Players

I'll defend the cover art of Primitive Cool, which I think is awesome, and also I had She's The Boss on LP when I was a kid and I can still sing the chorus to "Lucky in Love," having not heard it in like 25 years.

I love "Throwaway" - I've put it on a few CD-R's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu_MhgIFDGM&feature=player_embedded#at=58

this sounds really good, guys

jk it sucks

I was going to say.

in before 5 star review

in which my slow internet connection acts as a defence mechanism

if anyone has the capacity to take screengrabs from youtube, we could poll the facial-expressions-denoting-pleasure-in-the-mess-they-are-making amongst the players

i always wanted all of these people to work in all of these genres

if the organ guy had a swivel chair you could probably use him to generate electricity like a dynamo

Disappointed Dave Stewart isn’t involved

If we poll the lyrics, I'm voting for "see my poncy books/ teach myself to cook."

Even though the song is in many ways aggressively stupid, there's something kind of sweet about it too, imo; it feels like the same friendly version of Mick that we saw in that "You Can't Always Get What You Want" video at the very beginning of lockdown.

XP DAVE GROHL IS THE NEW DAVE STEWART

"Disappointed Dave Stewart isn’t involved"
or Greg Kurstin for that matter

I wonder how many people don't even know he plays guitar.

― but also fuck you (unperson),

A friend told me what a shock it was in 1978 to see him strumming an electric guitar onstage.

Lily Dale otm.

Curiosity got the best of me (and also because I had been listening to a lot of Jeff Beck lately). I can't say I'll play those first two albums ever again, but they both had one cut apiece that I'm sticking on a reference disc for '80s Stones music: the title track of She's The Boss and "Party Doll." The former fits in pretty well between the dance-oriented keepers from Undercover and "Harlem Shuffle" - suggests a logical path in terms of where Jagger wants to go musically. "Party Doll" sounds pretty good coming between the angrier Dirty Work cuts and Keith's own "Take It So Hard," where you hear something like a dialogue between Mick and Keith after the band falls apart.

And Wandering Spirit is actually commendable, mostly for the quieter cuts - nothing earthshaking, but removed from whatever marketing hype that must've surrounded it back then, it's surprisingly a decent album, at least to me. He does a really good version of "Handsome Molly," a great folk song I was very familiar with thanks to Dylan. (see the 1962 Gaslight tape that's a favorite among collectors - Starbucks put out most of it on a CD in 2005)