Rolling Good Times

Hmm.

I recently acquired The Rolling Stones CD 'Exile At Main St.'. And people, this album seriously rocks hard man....

I mean, ok, look around at rock music today. You've got the Punk-whiners (Hoobastank, Simple Plan), Classic Rockers (Def Leppard, The Darkness, Deep Purple), the Sad Rockers (Coldplay, The Cure, Travis), the Punk Rockers (Green Day, Sum 41, Blink 182), the Metal Heads (Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and anythng featured monthly in Guitar World mag), the pop rockers (U2, Jet, and anything feature for only two months on MTV at any one point) and some othe miscellaneous groups who rock in their own right.

Oh, and one thing: punk-whiners don't rock.

Anyhow, after you go through all those people, and look back and try to seperate the crap from the cream... you think, man, the Rolling Stones rock don't they.

'Exile On Main St.', I'd like to say, is one fine album which rocks as if there's no tomorrow. Every track laid down is pure Rock N' Roll with balls the size of planet earth.

And that's sayin a lot especially since you get people trying so sound HUGE what with their souped-up Marshalls and Les Pauls trying to crap every bit of distortion and bass into every bloody track. And then it all sounds like one big whallop to the ears, and there's only the sound.

With the Rolling Stones, baby, you got tha groove.

Unlike The Beatles who evolved their sound from schoolboy pop to wild man psychedelia, the Stones stayed true to their sound (if not changing their Lead Guitarist after the first one died, the second quit, and the present still going strong) and style.

Imagine without the sound of music without songs like 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', or 'It's Only Rock And Roll' or even 'Wild Horses'.

I mean, they started it all groovin' didn't they?


People, check out 'Exile At Main St.', and you ain't gonna say: 'I can't get no (satisfaction)'.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy