THE ART OF DECEPTION

All Rolling Stones, all the time…

It’s a pretty nice piece of viral marketing for A Bigger Bang, and it makes satrad relatable for the boomers.

Somebody somewhere is surely getting a Corvette and a seersucker suit out of this deal…

Take It or Leave It
Wrapping their orneriness for the same marketplace that was buying Herman’s Hermits and Gerry and the Pacemakers. For all their charges to the barricades, they were ultimately an accommodating bunch…

You Can’t Always Get What You Want (live)
No, not live when it mattered. But it’s not Love You Live, Still Life, or Flashpoint either. Sounds more recent, with Mick giving the audience “You can’t…” and then letting the folks in the $1000 seats handle the “…always get what you want.” Soulless, perfunctory, and cynical in concept. At least it’s not completely cynical in execution.

Diddley Daddy
One of the great rock-historical gaps is the lack of officially released Stones outtakes/rarities. If they could squeeze six CDs out of the Beatles, I’d have to think the Stones can do better than the half-assed single disc that was dropped recently. This would be a nice start…

Fool to Cry
Etymology of falsetto: Italian, from diminutive of falso false, from Latin falsus.

Driving Too Fast
Someone should really hide their metaphors from them. I’d be much more interested in hearing songs about 60 with an Exile twist…

Jumpin’ Jack Flash
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If I need to explain this, you’ll probably never ever ever get it.

Grade: B