Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Rolling Stone Creativity
If you're old enough to know what Mods and Rockers were in England in the early 60s then you reveal which of those two sides you were on to admit which band you liked more back then--the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. (Actually you're choosing between American Rhythm and Blues versus American Blues in choosing one over the other). I'm a Beatles guy. I did like the early Stones when they did blues covers and when Jagger/Richards wrote good songs. That period has been over for a long, long time.
The sexegenarian rock group (oxymoron) The Rolling Stones apparently needs either money or the drug of adoring fans and they're about to tour on the new album A Bigger Bang, and one of the songs on the new album is political. It's title--Sweet Neo Con. I have to admit that I'm amazed Keith Richards even knows what a Neo Con is.
Here are some sample lyrics:
You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of shit...
How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo con?
Worthy successor to Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown, eh?
The Stones never did a thing that the Beatles didn't do first and better, including quitting. (For example, just compare their albums from 1967--Their Satanic Majesties Request versus Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--it's no contest). The Stones had a career built almost solely on attitude and 42 years of a diminishing creativity now running on fumes. It is only rock and roll...
UPDATE: Drudge has more lyrics:
How come you're so wrong? My sweet neo-con, where's the money gone, in the Pentagon...
It's liberty for all, democracy's our style, unless you are against us, then it's prison without trial.
The sexegenarian rock group (oxymoron) The Rolling Stones apparently needs either money or the drug of adoring fans and they're about to tour on the new album A Bigger Bang, and one of the songs on the new album is political. It's title--Sweet Neo Con. I have to admit that I'm amazed Keith Richards even knows what a Neo Con is.
Here are some sample lyrics:
You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of shit...
How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo con?
Worthy successor to Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown, eh?
The Stones never did a thing that the Beatles didn't do first and better, including quitting. (For example, just compare their albums from 1967--Their Satanic Majesties Request versus Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--it's no contest). The Stones had a career built almost solely on attitude and 42 years of a diminishing creativity now running on fumes. It is only rock and roll...
UPDATE: Drudge has more lyrics:
How come you're so wrong? My sweet neo-con, where's the money gone, in the Pentagon...
It's liberty for all, democracy's our style, unless you are against us, then it's prison without trial.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:45 PM 
