Posted on 10/14/2005 7:25:26 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Fox News is reporting that the latest album by the Rolling Stones, "A Bigger Bang," is "less than a month old, [and] already out of the Top 50."
"A Bigger Bang" is the album that features "Sweet Neo-Con," a rare poltical song from the band, and one that attacks President Bush and Condoleezza Rice as "full of sh-t."
Fox also reports that the latest album by frequent Bush critic Barbra Streisand, "Guilty Pleasures," "has caused little excitement even among her rabid fans."
Both the Stones and Streisand are acts that appeal to the adult segment of the music buying public. Approximately half that public votes Republican. Maybe, therefore, the lesson is to not attack the politics of approximately half your potential audience.
....and the peak was actually Exile on Main St. (1972).
The Stones have been a parody of themselves for around a quarter century.
This is no surprise, even liberal propaganda songs aimed at teens don't comman a major appeal (a higher one than for adults certainly but nothing stller)
The Stones may have finally hit the wall.
Things you never want to hear:
A nostalgia band at their concert saying, "And now here's something from our new album."
Exactly ...I saw them on TV playing live in Japan back in 1991 and said the same thing to my Japanese girlfriend in our Nikko hotel room , " They look like they're doing a parody of themselves . "
The last good album The Stone's had was Hot Rocks. 35 years
ago.
I think the more likely scenario is that the fad of 50 year old's proving to each other that they are still hip by going to a concert put on by 60 year olds (where I might add a band of 5 musicians whose songs aren't complicated somehow needs a backup band of another 10 musicians) has come to an end.
....and the peak was actually Exile on Main St. (1972).
I thought the peak came with satisfaction?
Just a stupid move - no one thinks of them as a political act and there's no better way to date yourself than to release a "current events" song.
Another set of has-been celebrities trying desperately to be relevant.
Mick Jagger dances to "Sweet Neo-Con"...
It's the "Michael Jackson Duet" Curse, everyone who does a duet with MJ (Stevie Wonder, McCartney, Jagger) their career tanks afterwards.
If they keep touring, they keep the money rolling in.
I haven't bought a Stones album since Sticky Fingers...
THe Strolling Bones.
(Laura Ingraham, I think)
I haven't bought one since "Satanic Majesties Request" (nice cover)...
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