Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hitmakers
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Free Music Review: Great debut album by the Stones.
Hit: 4 Stars
This the American debut album of the group that now is known as the Greatest Rock Band in the World (which they clearly deserve, by the way), and it is indeed a great album.. It is easy to see why the Stones got so popular, as they are the total opposite of the Beatles' lighter and cleaner rock'n'roll - and I'm not saying that as a negative comment on the Beatles, I love them, I'm just stating facts. This is a blues record, filled with fast-rocking songs like "Route 66" and "Carol", together with slower, but equally great, ones like "I'm A King Bee" and "Honest I Do". And I must say it is amazing how the Stones at such a young age almost reach the level of their idols, like Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. Despite their youth (they were all in their early 20's when making this record) all of the songs, in all their dirtiness and honesty, sound very adult and mature. The passion they were feeling for these songs really shine through, and its wonderful when you encounter artists with such affection for their material. And the band also plays remarkably well together, like they have been together for years. Just listen to how Charlie Watts (drums) and Bill Wyman (bass) already are on their way to creating a unique rhythm section in rock'n'roll, or the magnificent guitar weaving between Keith Richards and Brian Jones. And although you can sense the youth in Mick Jagger's voice, he stills sounds very provoking and sexy. The harmonica playing, split up between Jones and Mick Jagger, also deserves an honorable mention, since it is nothing short of great.
The songs listed from best to worst:
Route 66 -- 10/10
I'm A King Bee -- 9/10
Carol -- 9/10
Honest I Do -- 9/10
Not Fade Away -- 8/10
Tell Me -- 8/10
Can I Get A Witness -- 8/10
Little By Little -- 8/10
You Can Make It If You Try -- 8/10
Walking The Dog -- 8/10
I Just Want To Make Love To You -- 7/10
Now I've Got A Witness -- 7/10
Rated on a song to song basis, this album receives an 8.3 out of 10 rating from me. As a whole, it receives a 9 out of 10 rating.
Free Music Review: Rocking the 60s
Hit: 5 Stars
Keep in mind that when this album came out it was part of a huge wave of lps from countless British Groups that followed the Beatles to America. What kept the Stones from just becoming another Manfred Mann or Gerry and the Pacemakers? One listen will tell you. This album absolutely sizzles with youthful, naiive enthusiasm and it didn't try to imagine that it would spawn "Top 40" hits like the Fab Four were dominating the charts with. They were true to themselves and their passion for R&B and it set them apart from the pretenders from the first cut. It still represents the best of what the Rolling Stones stood for and set the pace for their next 6 or 7 albums to come. Would-be rock and roll musicians at that time wanted to look like George Harrison but they wanted to play like Brian and Keith!Free Music Review: The First Great British Rock Album!
Hit: 5 Stars
First, a response to a very negative reviewer who said this album made his ears hurt: It's called Rock & Roll, Junior!!!! It's supposed to sound raw and impassioned. Were you expecting something in the vein of Phil Collins or Seals & Crofts? Yes, the Beatles were definitely the most innovative, prolific, and musically brilliant rock band to ever come from the United Kingdom, I'm certainly not debating that. But as to which group ROCKED harder, longer, and with the most hip-swinging, soul-swaggering pathos, it's The Stones, hands down!!! The Stones were NOT a duplicate of the Beatles, they are a total original. I'd rather hear the Stones in '62 than the Beatles in the same year, when they were mostly doing bubblegum ditties and merseybeat ballads. If it were the Beatles of "Revolver" or "Magical Mystery Tour", maybe it'd be a (slightly) harder decision. This isn't to say that I don't love the Beatles, but they adapted to a rock style much later than the Stones, whose humble working-class upbringings in the dreary industrial sector of England gave them the hard-bitten cynicism and youthful angst to make hard-rock sentiments come as second-nature. Having said that, I can not even begin to extoll this deliciously furious, infectiously catchy album enough. This first album chronicles their love affair with 50's and 60's soul and R&B, and they pull it off in spades. Even the Beatles could never do the music of early bluesmen and black rockers like Chuck Berry this much justice. The Stones take music that was already brilliant, and make it even BETTER! Could you ask for a more rollicking interpretation of "Can I Get a Witness?", or "Walkin' the Dog"? This is the Stones at their roughest, most raw-edged, musically unbridled beginnings, and this album of covers, to me at least, is just as satisfying and revolutionary as the Stones' original work (which is an outstanding, enduringly phenomenal and still-growing ouvre in and of itself). In closing, yes, these are covers, and yes, they are RAW as they come. But that's Rock & Roll, baby!!! So kick up the stereo and enjoy!!!Free Music Review: Crudo y salvaje R&B
Hit: 4 Stars
Definitivamente uno de los debuts más logrados de la primera mitad de los 60's, en abierta oposición al sonido beat que reinaba por entonces. En sus inicios, los Stones interpretaban una versión acelerada del r&b americano, pero también absorvían elementos del soul y el rock and roll. Una de las ventajas de este disco (y los debuts en general) es que presenta a unos Stones ejecutando el repertorio que hacían en vivo, lo que le da al sonido una crudeza que irían perdiendo en sus sucesivos trabajos.Las adaptaciones de sus ídolos demuestran la real pasión que sentían por esa música y una capacidad musical y nivel de cohesión grupal sorprendente. Route 66, I Just Want to Make Love to You y Carol son pura energía en formato Inglés, con todos los elementos necesarios, ya sea potente voz y sólida armónica, perfecto dominio instrumental y económicos pero contundentes solos. Honest I Do baja las revoluciones pero sigue siendo un excitante blues (gran armónica). La instrumental Now I've Got a Witness recuerda a The Animals con el órgano como conductor, con un rabioso solo de guitarra.
El resto del disco sigue en la linea r&b y rock, mientras los tres útimos temas ven al grupo aproximarse hacia el soul, con no tan buenos dividendos (aunque Walking The Dog es irresistible). Tell Me marca un importante hito: es su primer original y como tal excelente para que Jagger y Richard tomen confianza, porque casi no hay banda que perdure sin hacer canciones propias. 1964 aun era un año para tomar sonidos prestados, y pocos lo hicieron con tanta maestría como los Stones, popularizando un sonido para quienes buscaban algo diferente al cautivante beat.
Free Music Review: Help its the worst band ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hit: 1 Stars
owww my ears hurt is the typicAL respnse that anyone would give after listining to this or any other stones cds. THes stones are jusat rip offs of the Beatles. i mean look at the facts. this cd there first came out in 1962 before the Beatles. Now does anyone realize there first good song (which still Sucks) Satisfaction caME OUT aFTER THE BEATLES DUBUET. All this band did was take all of the Beatle Ideas and create sucky versions of them. The only good song on this whole Cd is walk that dog and the stones didnt even write that. its a shame. and for the love of god will JAGGER SHUT UP ALREADY. so bottom line either all stones fans are either deaf people or people who have insane jealously probolems over the Beatles. oh yeah and Beatles Rule.