Album Reviews

Saw a thread on social media by a young guy - think mid-20’s - who took on an ambitious project.

He decided to listen to every record ever made by the Rolling Stones, and he ‘reviewed’ them.

It was pretty funny as he didn’t really believe that the Stones deserved their fame.

There were classic Stones songs like, ‘Mother’s Little Helper’ or ‘Beast of Burden’ where his review consisted of:

“This song sucks.”

He criticized Mick’s voice saying that ‘He can’t sing at all.’

Made fun of Keith and Ronny for their long gone drug days, and gave nearly every album a C + or lower.

And I read every single album review he did.

“Exile on Main Street” is an album that is widely regarded as one of the greatest rock and roll records of all-time, and he pans it by saying:

“It sounded like it was recorded in a shed.”

Okay, maybe the Stones weren’t his cup of tea.

He went to the Beatles and immediately began complaining about how they were a bubble gum pop band that was truly just a boy band.

I didn’t read all of his reviews of the Fab Four records.

Enough is enough.

It dawned on me that perhaps you had to be alive, and living through those times to truly appreciate the art being made.

I remember the day the Stones ‘Some Girls’ record was released.

They were on top of the world then.

‘Miss You’ and ‘Beast of Burden’ were huge hits.

The rest of the record just rocks.

There was a controversy about the album cover and some of the lyrics.

“Mick and Keith wrote lyrics that are shameful to women,” the kid said.

Perhaps.

But back in 1977, we didn’t analyze everything that came out of everyone’s mouth, and then damn them to hell.

Mick and Keith were the bad boys.

Paul and John were the first to do it, and were genius songwriters.

The Beatles arrival was an international event because we’d never seen anything like them.

And 50 years later, a dork on social media breaks down how horrible they are.

What a world.

The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were/are legendary.