Music of Excess

[I Will Deny You]

Like all leftists I condemn the $10 million homes, bags upon bags of coke and MC Hammer-style pants that are so commonly associated with rock stars (although the Hammer pants can't be blamed on the music). However, I've got to admit that some of the music made by bands known for going overboard in the sex, drugs, rock and roll and other useless spending can be quite good.

My favorites bands that would either hit me up for drugs or try to rape me:
Led Zeppelin (shark or no shark, Puff Daddy sample or no Puff Daddy sample, Page and Plant are geniuses)
Ram Jam (bam-ba-lam)
The Rolling Stones
Alice in Chains (is there anything that Layne Stahley isn't hooked on?)
Guns 'N Roses (I know, I know)
AC/DC

Ah, well. You don't always need to be socially conscious to rock.

[Zippy]

Quote: from I Will Deny You on 8:53 am on Feb. 10, 2002
The Rolling Stones
I cant help but despise The Rolling Stones, and i have tried so hard to like them. I was watching a documentary on Andy Warhol the other week and it had a few minutes discussing the people who went to his factory to hang out, and the Rolling Stones were one of these groups.
They didnt like his art, they were just doing it to be cool. I hate them. In the words of Mos Def;

"Rolling Stones arent rock and roll,
everything they did, they stole."

Listen to The Velvet Underground instead. ;)

Zippy.

[vox]

While I agree with Zippy that you should listen to VU, I can't agree about the Stones.

"Beggars Banquet" is a Leftist disc, after all--a them album beginning with the rich (Sympathy for the Devil) and ending with praise for the Salt of the Earth, with a timeout for underage, runaway sex, of course.

Yes, the Stones rock.

vox

[I Will Deny You]

Also, without the Stones there would be no Led Zeppelin, or much else.

[munkey soup]

The Rolling Stones rock.
Andy Warhol was a poser!
The way he talks, his "art." I just don't like the guy. I'm not attacking you or anything, Zippy, he just gets my blood boiling for some reason. Oops, off topic, sorry.

[I Will Deny You]

About the Andy Warhol thing, people didn't go to his factory just because of the art there. There was a real scene in that neighborhood. Before the hippie movement became so widespread, lots of hippies lived right near his factory. There were also plenty of older bohemians--soon after Warhol moved his factory, Abbie Hoffman moved across the street. The Rolling Stones might have had some friends there, and went into Warhol's factory just for the hell of it.

[Zippy]

Quote: from munkey soup on 10:25 pm on Feb. 13, 2002
I'm not attacking you or anything, Zippy, he just gets my blood boiling for some reason.
I wasnt feeling attacked. Im not an art critic, i was just interested in him so i watched the documentary.

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Back to The Rolling Stones, i watched "Being Mick" on Channel4 and it warmed me a little to the man, but im still not a big fan. I guess its just one of those things, a band that will never really be my thing.

Zippy