Album Rating: 4.0

He forgot to post it from his alt

"Awful band." I agree.

Rocks Off is one of the best tracks of all time but okay

nice

Album Rating: 2.0

"Underflow! Why do you do this?"



I did it because I felt strongly that this needed to be said, and no one else on this site, at least that I've seen, was saying it.

Album Rating: 4.5

You’re so brave

This is like the one Rolling Stones album that is good throughout though. Why not shit on their albums that borrow more heavily from blues artists?

Album Rating: 2.0

Stolen music isn't good.

Album Rating: 4.5

Music that builds off of previous forms isn't stolen. Your whole premise is wrong.

Album Rating: 4.5

"I felt strongly that this needed to be said"

Pfff, why does everybody think their opinion will change the world?



This review is entirely wrong, and [2] what Diva said.

Album Rating: 5.0

Greatest rock n roll album ever created.

Nonsense " review" . The Stones frequently gave tons of credit to black artists and often brought them on tour. Everyone influences everyone. As for " cultural appropriation" give me a break. They loved the music and tried to emulate it . As for sexism or racism it's rock and roll, it's a performance. Midnight Rambler has Mick singing as a murderer does that mean he is a murderer or he endorses murder? Some of the most mysogynist artists are rap artists.
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb is it " cultural appropriation" every time an African American flips a light switch?
Just another white person trying to make themselves feel better.

This is why I don’t eat peanut butter.

Album Rating: 5.0

and i'm listening to it again today



solid gold man, can't get behind your review Underflow



i totally get not liking a band, genre, or style, but there's no denying the Rolling Stones' place on the all time music pyramid.....you know know that tiny ass triangle way at the top?.....that's where they're hiding out

Album Rating: 5.0

Asked about the Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters said:



"They helped turn the white people around in America, recording our records and putting our names on them. When I first came out on records, white people didn't want their kids to buy my records. (They) called it "n***r music".



When the interviewer interjected, "Race music?"



Muddy answered:



"They wouldn't say "race", they'd say "n***r".

Part One

Having now read through the review and subsequent posts I am off to burn my Beastie Boys vinyl, as that is the logical conclusion to the argument being posited here. That they are equally guilty as Mick et al, in playing music that is in a style of music created from within the black communities of their country.

I don’t ever remember The Rolling Stones appearing on stage blacked up, or ever suggesting for one minute that they were the originators of blues music, or had played it in a manner that was in anyway demeaning to the original artists or perpetuating any racial discrimination.

Cultural appreciation IS NOT cultural appropriation.

Cultural appropriation by its very definition requires an unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc of one people or society by members of another and typically dominant people or society.

I am at a loss at to how The Rolling Stones playing blues-based rock satisfies any of this definition.

Part Two

Every time an artist picks up a pen, a paintbrush, a camera or a musical instrument and is used for the creation of art, then it is unavoidable that their expression will be a synthesis of influences, experiences and history (personal and cultural). And it is inconceivable that an artist can create art that is truly free from some kind of influence whether that is on a conscious or subconscious level.

Being influenced by, borrowing from, and reinterpreting art forms from another culture is all about enriching your own cultural and artistic expression, and progressing art - moving forwards into new artistic territory.

How lifeless would art be if an artist could only make art based purely on those things that they had directly experienced for themselves or could only use art that formed part of their own specific culture and history, and nothing else.

I mean if you follow the argument presented here in the review then it really is the beginning of the end.

Musicians openly expressing their enjoyment and pleasure in the music of other musicians, and being inspired by other forms of music from other cultures - surely this is something that has been happening for centuries and centuries.

Sure The Rolling Stones are multi millionaires but that is a separate issue entirely, that has everything to do with the record industry and commercialism and nothing to do the individual members of a white band playing black influenced music being guilty of cultural appropriation.

I did promise myself never to react to the internet of things when it got me all flustered, but just felt compelled to have my say. Great album by the way, and what a run of albums 68-71 Beggars Banquet - Let It Bleed - Sticky Fingers.

Album Rating: 4.0

Dude you just wrote two whole ass novels for a race baiter troll

Album Rating: 5.0

Classic