Defend the indefensible: Mick Jagger Solo

Ha ha, came here two years later to post that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN9YLLQl7gE

trenchant social commentary

Finally -- a worse song than "Let's Work"!

According to the comments, naysayers are just jealous of Mick's physique.

I haven't bought a record Mick Jagger has been involved with since 1992, and I kinda hate Dave Grohl and most of what he stands for, but I don't get what's so uniquely terrible about this. I mean it's exactly as not good as I would have imagined it would be, but it doesn't even crack the top 1000 most terrible things I have ever heard

It's fine. I mean, this track woulda fit on Too Much Too Soon just fine and even a weak-ish Dolls album is still the Dolls.

I'm just glad Mick (or Dave for that matter) aren't on the COVIDiot thread.

(I realize the anti-science faction of Foo Fighters doesn't technically include Grohl but he is the fightingest of Foos and he let that shit happen.)

Don’t know whether to FP you or report you to Robert Christgau for that comment.

Lol, Alfred.

Ripping off the Puss in Boots riff doesnt mean it sounds like the Dolls ffs.

Ah yes, nothing like having the 77 year old man worth 400 millions tell you everything’s gonna be ok and he wants to get freaky.

I played this like 8 times in a row this morning. I think I got addicted to a) how much it sucks as well as b) how much it doesn't suck.

The Rolling Stone interview is actually pretty good.

Why did you decide to write about conspiracy theories?

It just seems to be that even people you know that are relatively sensible about a lot of things have one thing that they just don’t kind of get. I have several friends and relations and they go off on these things that just doesn’t… They’re just irrational. Of course, there’s no point in speaking to people about it. They don’t get it. They got what they believe in and they believe in that. And it doesn’t matter what you say, they’re gonna believe in it. And rational thought doesn’t work.

Even a country like France that prided themselves in the 18th Century on rationality is the most anti-vaccine country in Western democracy. It’s not as if [vaccines] are a new thing. When I was a child, which was a really long time ago, people would die from polio. They would just not be there the next day. And that’s been eradicated through vaccines. These poor children were either dead or crippled, and I had lots of friends like that. Would you rather have a vaccine if you had a child or would you rather their legs not work? You can’t argue with these people. So that’s how I got to the conspiracy theories; through the anti-vaxxers. Even I didn’t mention it in that verse; I probably should’ve though [since] I just went off on it. [Laughs]

Just listened… It was better than I thought it would be! I like the chorus.

I imagine Van Morrison listened to it and went 'this, but unironically'.

Lol

someone pls poll the individual lyrics of this song

The one that goes like - "Am I gaining weight?, think I'll have another drink, then I'll clean the kitchen sink" - hits very close to home for me, lol

It's not what I would call a good song, but having listened to it all the way through I sort of like it. Actually laughed out loud at "Everybody sing 'Please Please me.'"

i wish there could be a vaccine to un-hear mick saying "everything's smooth and greasy"

I understand Mick originally wanted the vocals buried in the mix of the Stones stuff so people would buy the records and try to decipher the lyrics. With every line ignominiously splattered across the screen in this video, I guess those days are gone!

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

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)