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| "Paint it black you devil" shouts the chick in the audience, caught on record on Get Yer Ya Yas Out.
"Won't you tell your dad "Get off my back
Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black' "
Thirteen - Big Star
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| minimole wrote: Dear RP, could we please have a "PSA" (Play Song Again) button? brilliant |
| One of my absolute favorites. I can't believe this is the first time I've heard it on RP. Turn it up to 11.
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| Cualquier cosa que se diga sobre esta canción, jamás será suficiente para intentar adjetivarla.
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| This fine trippy gem was one of the ones my mom kinda didn't want me listening to on the radio above the headboard when I was just a little kid, (head floating in the breeze, man); I remember jumping up and whirling like a dervish and asking her, "What's that he's saying?" and can't forget how she said, "How the heck should I know? Turn it off, time for bed, buddy-boy!" Years later, I dived right in...and I'm still there.
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| rdo wrote:
Yep, I remember that well. Imagine that, an intelligent prime time drama about the Vietnam war with good music in the intro. Oh how times have changed. Now, we got teenagers eating spiders. But that spider eating was several years ago and I don't watch prime time TV anymore. What are they up to now? I just watched Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket the other night for like the 100th time, the closing credits roll to this as well. This might lead some to think I have an unhealthy obsession with war, the Vietnam war in particular, to which I would readily concede. Check out the book Matterhorn , by Karl Marlantes, for the full Vietnam experience. Stanley Karnow's history of the war is also something everyone should read. |
| Shimmer wrote:
The Stones were trying to capitalize on the the artistic spirit of the 60's, as exemplified by, say, Bob Dylan or the Beatles. I realize this is not the popular opinion, but to me it comes through so clearly in songs like this (which could be called "I am such a tortured artist") or albums like Satanic Majesties Request (which is an utter ripoff of Sgt. Pepper's and the like).
To judge the Rolling Stones by the album Their Satanic Majesties Request is to show your ignorance. The good natured rivalry between the Stones and Beatles in the 60's certainly lead to innumerable comparisons and some similar album concepts (TSMR being one of them). The Stones were never out to capitalize on the "spirit of the 60's" (whatever that is). If anything they were capitalizing on the spirit of the American blues which came before the 60's. As were the Beatles. In the process, both bands expanded the reach of popular music and defined rock and roll for generations to come. Poseurs could never have such an affect. Back to the rock you crawled from under. |
| kurtster wrote: You sure didn't have to be there for this one, but if you were, its a 10. I was there and for me it's a 2. |
| The stones made some phenomenal and unique music in the 70s - pick any album. Why do we have to hear the same overplayed stuff on RP???????? Can't you here me knockin'??????
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| Good choice Bill.......
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| Charlie Watts, the drum fill master...love it coming out of the break...one of the best
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| Dear RP, could we please have a "PSA" (Play Song Again) button?
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| dvalfre wrote:
Yap, this song in my mind is forever tied to the "Tour of Duty" TV show and from there to every reference of the Vietnam War...
(too bad the producers of the show didn't pay due royalties so the DVDs don't include the original soundtrack) Yep, I remember that well. Imagine that, an intelligent prime time drama about the Vietnam war with good music in the intro. Oh how times have changed. Now, we got teenagers eating spiders. But that spider eating was several years ago and I don't watch prime time TV anymore. What are they up to now? |
| Baby_M wrote: Yap, this song in my mind is forever tied to the "Tour of Duty" TV show and from there to every reference of the Vietnam War... (too bad the producers of the show didn't pay due royalties so the DVDs don't include the original soundtrack) |
| Pharlap wrote: "Paint it Black, You Devils"...anonymous woman at Altamount concert....minutes before the mayhem |
| Shimmer wrote:
The Stones were poseurs. The Beatles and Dylan were not.
So what...? The point you trying to make is plain stupid! |
| The Feelies did a great version of this.
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| Proclivities wrote:
I am not attempting to refute your point; this is not a court of law. It is your opinion . All performers are poseurs to some large extent - always have been - always will be - otherwise they would have become actuaries or lighthouse keepers. You apparently do not like the Stones' music - that is fine - but to me, they produced outstanding music for a very long time. For example: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street are as great as any rock/pop records ever recorded. Was Mick Jagger more of a showman and/or front-man than Dylan or any of The Beatles? Probably. If you believe that one of the greatest bands in the history of rock-n-roll were nothing more than "poseurs", then that's what you believe; I cannot change your mind (well, unless I had that "zombie-headpiece" device from the 1940's Batman serial). I was just pointing out that they were/are all in the same racket. Anyhow, you and I probably like a lot of the same music. An awesome, civilized refute. |
| You sure didn't have to be there for this one, but if you were, its a 10.
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