The other day while hearing a terrible song off of
Love You Live (a truly awful version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash"-- Mick sounds unintelligible, it's actually hilarious) I realized
again that the suckier the Stones are, the more I love them. They have a particular suckiness that doesn't make them worse to me. Wee-id. This album Love You Live is from the 80's, Mick Jagger is wearing fucking football pants and Keith Richards looks like a Star Wars figure. The cover is a horrible line drawing, everything is fucking shitty shitty shitty. They cover 'Mannish Boy'-- puke. But I don't know why, I am still gladly cranking this album.
The other thing I need to write down is that everyone who ever plays a Chuck Berry song sounds like a wedding band, it's fucking awful. But when The Stones cover Chuck Berry, it's slow and heavy and cool. I guess because it's fucking sleazy as hell this is good. The other band that can cover Chuck Berry is The Flamin' Groovies, weirdly enough they actually sound rockin when they do Chuck Berry. I'm not kidding, check the cover of 'Carol' that they do. Even fucking Judas Priest sounds like a wedding band when they do 'Johnny Be Good'. I had to say this, thanks for reading.
