Rolling Stones in general

So, here I am. Again, once more. Indefinetly. It's been a while. Let's get to the point: Latest Rolling Stones effort = first time ever defining greatest hits package; almost everyone's talking about it. And it has charted, very high, unsurprisingly. There are two types of people in the world can it comes to popular rock nepotism: The white Buddy Holly blues descendants of The Beatles or the tattered darker black blues by none other than Sir Mick and co's ancient Stones. I am a Stoner, so to speak. Without ranting about The Beatles being soft (for they too, are a great band, and credited greater); The Stones were always much more ...  Read the complete review

The sticker on this 2 CD Collection of forty Rolling Stones tracks proclaims 'For the First Time Ever! The Definitive Rolling Stones Collection' meaning that, at long last an overview of the Stones 40 years career can be attempted because an agreement has been reached between Universal Music Operations who own the rights to ABKCO Music Records, who in turn own the rights to Rolling Stones tracks recorded for the Decca label between 1963 and 1969, and Virgin Music who are the current distributors for the material the Stones have released on their own label since 1971 to the present day, adorned with the 'lips and tongue' that are featured on the cover of ...  Read the complete review

With a career spanning decades the Rolling Stones must have reached some type of Satisfaction by now. Despite personnel changes the nucleus of Mick, Keith & Charlie remain from the early days and while their music is not as adventurous as it once was occasional hints of inspiration still seep out. This group has lived life to the full – sex, drugs and rock n roll – but now they seem content to let the money keep rolling in via an extensive back catalogue, infrequent concerts and infrequent albums. The most controversial thing to have happened in recent years was when they had to cancel some concerts as Keith was injured. How? Was it ...  Read the complete review

So it appears to the music journalists and so-called real music fans that the Stones are trying to get every last penny out of consumer's pockets. True, I guess but there is, but a question that seems to me that one question remains unanswered to these people at large. Who would you rather see making the money out of Stones' merchandise? Let's not forget that to stay around for a long time that good business organisation needs to be there, and that in my opinion I would rather see the Stones or any other artist have their own kind of merchandise so they can have quality controlover what is sold in the name of the artist on the T-shirt and all other ...  Read the complete review