[Closed] Any Stones fans in the house?

The highest regarded Stones album is Exile on Main Street. I also like Beggars Banquet as it was mixed to sound good on a Dansette (as well as being great).

God, you can't go wrong, can you!

You could always go for something unusually early:

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Chris Evans, a self confessed uber-fan, called them "the best cover band of all time".

I don't know how costly an LP of super early bluesy-standards would be, but it'll BLOW HER TINY MIND!

I need to buy Exile on Main Street again - I remember as a teenager lending it to someone and never getting it back 😥
If she likes the Stones, you can buy any of their albums - they're all good.

[b]Nedrapier [/b]is my Friday Night Hero!

Edit:I just came from the Jack Daniels thread to here.
My speaker volume went from there, to here^^^!

Thanks folks! I know enough about them to realise I could buy any album and she'd be happy, but I'd like it to be something well known to 'proper' fans. I just don't want to end up getting her a 'Greatest Hits'

Exile on Main Street sounds like a good one to go for, or maybe Sticky Fingers?

cfinneymore - what's the Super Bluesy one?

Sticky Fingers

Is she really big into vinyl?

If not so much, you could buy a lot of CD's for the same price, 2nd hand from Amazon.

Some Stones, but some of their influences and contemporaries too, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, the Doors, Presley... Hendrix, Dylan, Beefheart. And some stuff you really love, too.

For me, introductions to things I don't know are more of a present than expensive versions of things I do know.

cfinnimore: nice to know I made someone's day! I played it 4 times over 😀

He was a good looking guy, too, eh?

This is funny:

Gotta be Beggars Banquet AND Let It Bleed.
Then you get Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil and You Can't Always get what You Want.
No record collection should be without em!

I didn't hear the stuff about Chris Evans *spit* lalala can't hear you!

And Clay Cotton:

[url= http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/claycotton ]What Do Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Hank Williams Jr., B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Chuck Berry, Boz Skaggs, Charlie Musselwhite, Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, Etta James and scores of other music legends have in common...?[/url]

What a fella, I'll be honest, my Dad's a legend to me for surrounded me with odd, random LP's of 20/30's Southern blues. Jangly, crackly, dirty & beautiful.

Get her something inspired, some real Rhythm n' Blues...
Everyone had a drink? Good

Yes!

Can we keep this going for the sake of a good Friday night, Mrs.C's away and it's Sowf Central in my front room.

ned - she's getting that way (into vinyl). Not sure what she already has but she's a quirky little wotsit so vinyl would be much more suitable than a lot of CDs. She gets the whole listening thing about vinyl over CD.

Since budget is £20 she won't be getting anything too expensive (I can/will go over budget but not by much), the idea is to get her something meaningful. She recently got a letter back from Keith Richards so the Stones is closest to her heart at the moment.

If you want a greatest hits that's not a greatest hits you could get her Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, one of the best live albums ever. But you won't go wrong with any of Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers or Exile On Main St.

Oh, shout for Ya Ya's.

Allow me...

Oh, my.

That second one in the OP's link is good - you get some fantastic photos in the gatefold vinyl as well. It has this on it

Good stuff, keep em coming folks. I'll check in tomorrow as I'm getting some sarcastic comments now - I might have to actually talk to the missus for a while 🙂

Check the tracklisting on [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/GRRR-The-Rolling-Stones/dp/tracks/B0095VOYFW/ref=dp_tracks_all_2#disc_2 ]GRRRR![/url]
Brilliant. No vinyl though...

"Sticky Fingers" is my choice of Stones albums. If only it had "Sympathy for the Devil" on it, it would be perfect.

yeah, Dez, it's all of their good songs! Again! In the same place! Again!

Plus a couple of new ones which are actually pretty good.

I've got Grrr coming for Christmas, can't wait. I am genuinely
worried for integrity of my car speakers.

I have to say I really like Doom and Gloom, Paint it Black is probably my favourite track tho.

Another good choice would be the Singles Collection everything from the start up to Brown Sugar and Wild Horses inc B sides and the great Memo From Turner from Performance. I think it also has the single version of Honky Tonk Woman and Jumpin Jack Flash which was just a single too.

i bought grrrr,, really like the doom and gloom track, from the first time i heard it,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROLLING-STONES-Let-It-Bleed-DSD-Remastered-Vinyl-LP-NEW-SEALED-/181031008999?pt=UK_Records&hash=item2a2649fae7
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROLLING-STONES-Beggars-Banquet-DSD-vinyl-LP-SEALED-NEW-/310415941131?pt=UK_Records&hash=item48463b5e0b
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rolling-Stones-Lp-/140888316338?pt=UK_Records&hash=item20cd9919b2
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-LP-vinyl-UK-1971-coc59100-zipper-MINT-/150952661438?pt=UK_Records&hash=item23257ad1be

Out of interest, when can I expect my 12 yr old to develop taste? Daughter #1 is still a fan of the latest chart crap, at some point can I expect her to grow up and love the Stones?

[b]mogrim[/b] I feel i'm quite well placed to answer this. Just have it on around, she'll say it's pish and stick on some Happy Hardcore or whatever.

Expect a phonecall, or a happy rant, at some point when she eventually "gets it".

I still phone my dad to say cheers for the Bowie, Monk, Clash and Hooker. 'Cause i've matured into it.

Even though I spent my teenage years shouting "shiiiite" at his dad-taxi-choons. I appreciate his patience.

Can I also just add the explicitly-absolute coolness with which Keith Richards changes fag holding hands in that video.

Good thing I chose Pete Doherty as my Uniidol eh.
boo.

You've got me started now.

Cheers cfinnimore, there is still hope then.

Tell her you've gone right off them and think it's just a bloody racket. Then she'll think they're cool and start playing them. It's what I did twenty years ago.

Tell her you've gone right off them and think it's just a bloody racket. Then she'll think they're cool and start playing them. It's what I did twenty years ago.

🙂

My oldest lists the Foos and One Direction as her favourite bands. Half way there.

Don't get her a collection of singles.
Let it Bleed, Beggar's Banquet, Main Street, Goat's Head Soup, It's Only RocknRoll are excellent albums.
The Stones went off in about 1983, anything before then should be fine.

Beggars banquet is one of the best of all time, forget the stones

Hot rocks is still better than grrr

But the best stones on vinyl? Fools gold ep 🙂

Sticky Fingers, excellent album. I got the remastered CD, which actually has a real zip on the front!
Oh, and I've seen the Stones, too... (@smug) 😀

Sticky fingers side 2 makes me get all emotional like. Dead flowers is my fave track they've done.

High Tide Green Grass is a good early compilation album.

Oh, and just for you Count Zero... I've worked with the Stones #even smugger 8)

The BBC documentary Crossfire Hurricane is excellent. I was rocking out on the train watching part 1 this week and part 2 on [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p2lw0 ]tonight[/url]

Love the stones, get her satanic majesties request!

Or let it bleed of course.

Crossfire Hurricane was excellent. Very amused by the chap commenting on the river of urine that ran down from the stalls from all the over excitable young ladies!

High Tide is great, as is the follow-up Through the Past Darkly, which has Paint it Black, Jumping Jack Flash, Honky Tonk Women etc. No idea if either are available on vinyl. Otherwise, you can't go wrong with Let it Bleed, Sticky Finger, Exile etc.

Nothing later than Tattoo You.

stevenmenmuir - oddly enough I added that Sticky Fingers ebay item to my watch list last night. I think it's going to be that or the Exile one you also linked. While remastered vinyl would prob be in better condition I think she'd appreciate something original - more authentic perhaps and will hopefully have a nice smell to it.

So if any of you aficionados are online this evening, which do you think?

[url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-LP-vinyl-UK-1971-coc59100-zipper-MINT-/150952661438?pt=UK_Records&hash=item23257ad1be ]Sticky Fingers[/url] or [url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rolling-Stones-Lp-/140888316338?pt=UK_Records&hash=item20cd9919b2 ]Exile[/url]?

I'm leaning very heavily towards Exile - is it really the 'highest regarded' of their albums (per BigJohn)?

Yes

I'd go for Exile, more songs on it. I'd describe it as a good Saturday night record and Sticky Fingers as a good Sunday morning record. Both excellent albums though.

My suggestion

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Barney is ok, I've always found Fred's voice annoying.