A few that struck me the right way:
10. “You do tend to present a yobbish image.” One interviewer suggested this to him as the Stones were breaking through. “Moronic, I think, is a better word,” he replied, deliciously....
15. Great rock stars project vanity. And you don’t get more magnificently vain than Jagger singing “Tell me a story about how you adore me,” on Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?...
34. Turner, in Nicolas Roeg’s Performance, remains the best film role written for a rock star, and Jagger gives the best film performance ever by a rock star. By a mile.
40. “The sunshine bores the daylights out of me.” What a line, from Rocks Off....51. Mick Jagger does not give a fuck what you think. When it was put to him that the 1978 album Some Girls was replete with both sexism and racism, he replied: “The next one’s gonna be more sexist and more racist and it’s gonna be a whole bunch better.”...63. It’s 1985. The Smiths are the hottest young band in Britain and Meat Is Murder has just come out. What does Jagger think? “I’m not sure I wanna hear a whole album about meat.”...
And here's one of my personal favorite songs:
And here, if you're wondering how to watch "Performance" today... and don't mind paying $3. The great documentary "Gimme Shelter" is playing on Max and Criterion.
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Here's hoping that the tags feminism and meat become today's theme.
Ya get a few seconds of Gram’s back in Gimme Shelter. I swear to god I know people that will (probably have) pay three dollars for that.
Mick went on SNL and sang something something Romney bad something something in one of his songs. That knocked him down a few spots in my book. By a few spots I mean I think he's just another sheep fucker...
When my father was in his mid-eighties, my younger brother took him to see a movie with "Shine a Light" previews. He said, "No one looks old to me, I'm in my eighties...but those guys look OLD"!
One of the things I've always loved most about Mick is his obvious business savvy. He has a capitalist's brain married to a rock and roll heart.
Jagger is an arrogant prick. But he has the talent to back it up. I think without the arrogance he is not the same......so in my opinion it is a worthwhile trade-off. His performance on so many different songs is just incredible. Is it really arrogance when the talent is there?
Love their music, but he and the other Glimmer Twin have left quite a trail of bodies behind them.
Number 81 - The Jagger/Richards relationship. Despite the ups and downs they always understood that they are better together than apart.
Number 82 - If you thought that the opening riff to “Brown Sugar” is a typical Richards riff you would be wrong. That was composed by Jagger.
One of the things I like about Jagger (and Richards) is that we know so little about them. Just the other day I was rewatching the Richards documentary “Under the Influence”. We all think of Richards as the prototypical drugged out rock star. What we see are glimpses of a family man living the life of a suburban one-percenter in suburban Connecticut. Watching I thought - “who is this guy?l
Psychedelics, beer and Hell’s Angels…
What could go wrong!?!?
Good music. Vile person.
There used to be one of those A/B questions where your answer says something basic about your personality: "Stones or Beatles?"
I'm totally Stones.
He was one with his moment, but that moment has passed. "Let's Spend the Night Together". My God, they openly advocated premarital sex. None of that sly Cole Porter innuendo. Iirc, radio stations couldn't play that song. Times change. A glimpse of pubic hair used to be shocking. Now it sort of is, but in a different way....The Beatles took you somewhere new and bright. The Rolling Stones took you somewhere new and dark.....I think the music of the Beatles and the Beach Boys has aged better than that of the Rolling Stones. Still, the Rolling Stones themselves have aged better than most of their contemporaries. Just for one thing they're still alive....Not Brian Jones though. Poor fucker missed out on a lifetime of supermodels and private jets and all that fun with viagra in his declining years.
Incredible he's alive at 80, let alone still playing.
On an episode of "New Girl," the Zooey Deschanel sitcom about roommates in L.A., the characters were discussing how they lost their virginity when they were young. Cece, the gorgeous model who was somehow part of their friend group, revealed that she had lost hers to Mick Jagger (who would have been nearing 60 at the time).
The other characters were extremely impressed by this -- a reaction that I don't think would have occurred if she had mentioned any other middle-aged rock star. (Of course, the show aired 10 years ago -- I don't think a network would even film a scene like that today.)
I liked "Performance" but David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (same director) was better.
The thing that impresses me about Jagger and the Rolling Stones is how good they still sound. Their song 'Living in a Ghost Town' sounded like classic Stones (and was maybe the best song from/about the pandemic). Before that, their album of blues covers sounded great too. Virtually every other musician of a similar age sounds old to me (McCartney, particularly).
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