What about celibacy????

Common..."Ruby tuesday", "As tears go by", "Angie", "lady Jane", "Dandellion","Time is on my side"... although not obviously out there in the lyrics,(ohh I looove you so much!!!) they have incredible sentimental feelings, and that surprises me since their reputations has been so much more of reckless anti-heroes, and emotionally crippled.

 

It's all hype - they're actually just a bunch of ultra rich decadents who like to cosy up to the establishment these days - mick is a good pal of Mr. Blair.

 

The songs!! It's all about the songs!

 

Yeh, the Stones' schtick has been pretty much the same for 30+ years now...but as Hari said, it's all about the music...I still love them.

 

Ok they wrote a few good rock songs -

With music it's all a question of personal taste - personally I fiind the stones a bit boring and commercial - But of course, I'm not trying to dictate to others what they listen to.
For me, that kind of rock n'roll pretty much died sometime back in the late 70's or 80's.
About the only stuff from that era I can put up with these days is some of the old motown stuff, and a bit of Dylan, Cohen or Harrison occaisionally. Maybe I OD'd on rock music - but as an idiom it seems to me it's all been used up long ago.

About the only 'new' songwriter/singer I can think of who I like in recent times is the American country singer Gillian Welch - check out her 'Revelator' album if you can - it's really good.

 

If you like electronic psy-trance at all, check out Raja Ram.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Raja+Ram

:H

 

Despite my liking for the old stuff, I OD'ed on rock as a daily dose many years ago as well.

Today...a quieter sound, nothing at all, or nice spiritually-oriented music, traditional Indian bhajans or contemorary interpreters such as Krishna Das.

 

As I say, I'm a big fan of some of the electronic music which has surfaced over the last 15 years or so. Some of it these days is getting very sophisticated, and certainly I find a spiritual element in some of it.


For me, music has played a big part in life. I studied classical music as a youngster, was an avid beatles fan, then moved onto Hedrix etc. Later on Reggae, New Wave, even some disco . Also a lot of US rock - Jefferson, Rundgren etc.
Also I used to be in a band, although we never got far, and ran for a number of years a small recording studio.
Back in the late 80's I got entirely dissilusioned with the whole scene, and pretty much quit.
In the 90's I began to listen to some of the early acid house rave music, and Goa Trance that was coming out, and became pretty much converted, but only on the level of listening.

Also still listen to some classical stuff from time to time, I guess I have contary tastes, because the kind of stuff I like tends to be explictly spirtual music, such as the Estonian composer, Arvo Part, and also John Tavener.
J.S.Bach though is my number one composer.

About the only form of music I really think is negative is some of this hip hop and rap stuff which seems to be pretty psychotic. Probaly add stuff liie 'death metal' in there too.

 

Believe it or not it's been a long time I have listened to anything out there. I don't own a single stones or Beatles albums. Right now I'm listening to my own recordings, jam sessions and CD's I have created myself, and for sales. In this case, listening is a way of looking for mistakes or ways I can make the music better as well as for peace.

 

Great.

It's always good to go over and over what you're doing - and it's also good that you're trying to put out some positive energy.

I've got back into music these days on the level of computer Djing and mixing - it's a bug which once it bites you, you never really get cured of.

 

That crap out to be outlawed, freedom of speech notwithstanding...it's a crime against the ears and the spirit, goes perfect with crystal meth and cheap vodka!

We have a large collection on CD with all the rock classics...but I hardly listen to any of them anymore, except when my wife gets them out, and then I'll go to a quiet part of the house to get away after a few minutes.

I lack snake's wideranging taste and descriptive ability, but suspect that I do like some of the things he's mentioned, though unable to connect artist with music.

As far as my own...I'm not a natural or trained musician at all; can play a few bhajans and versions of Hare Krishna on harmonium, self-taught but not too horrible when I practice.