Inner beauty, bubbling to the surface.
Posted on 08/10/2005 3:44:04 AM PDT by jimbo123
The normally apolitical Rolling Stones have no sympathy for President Bush.
In the refrain of the 13th track on their upcoming album, Mick Jagger belts out the refrain: "How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con?"
"You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite," the verse goes. "You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think you are full of s---!
Fans have been buzzing about the tune, with many up in arms over rumors that Virgin Records cut it from the final disk, fearing America's conservative-owned radio networks and big-box chain stores would refuse to play or stock it.
But it's there, even though Jagger told Newsweek magazine that Keith Richards is "a bit worried" about the song because he lives in the U.S.
Even though nothing sells a new album better than a little controversy, the wrinkled rockers' people seem a mite jumpy, too.
Stones publicist Fran Curtis told the Daily News the song doesn't mention Bush by name.
The album - "A Bigger Bang" - isn't even out yet, but right-wing Internet discussion groups already were fizzing with anti-Stones vitriol.
"The Rolling Stones' main audience these days is that segment of the [baby] boomers that has refused to recognize that the '60s have been over for almost 40 years, and so they'll lap this slop up and beg for more ... while they tie their hair back into gray ponytails and stretch those old tie-dyed T-shirts over their potbellies," wrote one poster at Free Republic.
The song is not going to break Bush's heart. When the White House put out the contents of the presidential iPod, the Stones were not on his playlist.
I wonder if the Daily News has someone on staff who just monitors FR all day.
Ah, what class!!
The rolling stones are just trying to be the "in" group, I stooped listening to them 20 years ago. they play the same music over and over again and just change the words.
"Some Girls" was the last Stones album I ever bought.
Soon after that, they jumped the shark.
They're good fodder for parody, though....:)
The Rolling Stones are here in Toronto rehearsing their concert tour. The people in line to get tickets to their thank-you concert (at a venue where 2 people were shot, in our latest two-week spree of unrestrained gunfire) are in their fifties, taking off a couple of days from their law practice to re-live the Glory Days. They don't care about politics; they just want to pretend for a couple of days that it's 1969 -- and a good look at the Stones will remind them that it is not. (I go through this with Gordon Lightfoot concerts regularly.)
Nobody is listening to the Rolling Stones for their political education.
That's a great quote. Really describes a lot of the rock concert attending boomer crowd.
The Err America demographic-- Aging pedophiles who "Can't Get No"....
Does the guy have AIDS?
The Stones are always ahead of their time. ; ' )
You are quoted.
I don't take anything seriously when it comes from someone who looks like a muppet...
Skinny Bones and frozen tones - a one, a two…
a skinny bump. . .
Sounds like a boycott of MNF is warranted....
ARE YOU HOPING HE DOES OR SIMPLY DEFAMING HIM?
SHOW LOVE, SAID CHRIST.
WAS HE WRONG IN THAT ONE RULE, THE GOLDEN RULE?
IF SO, HOW SO?
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