The Friday Canon: THE ROLLING STONES

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They're still not dead yet! Mick & Keef and the boys are still very much alive and kicking, despite the best efforts of various illicit pharmaceuticals, Mars Bars, Winnie The Pooh statues, Hells Angels, falling coconuts etc. Out of their 43 UK Top 40 hits, you get to pick your favourite FOURTEEN! Well go on then!

[Poll #952249]


NB I only realised that Satisfaction was on the front page of Wikipedia after I'd typed out the poll! Spooky!

Comic Relief: (link)
1. "Mama/Who Do You Think You Are" - The Spice Girls
2. "Living Doll" - Cliff Richard and the cast of The Young Ones
3. "Absolutely Fabulous" - Absolutely Fabulous (Pet Shop Boys, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley)
4. "Help!" - Bananarama & La Na Nee Nee Noo Noo (French and Saunders with Kathy Burke)
5. "Is This the Way to Amarillo" - Tony Christie & Peter Kay

Comments

[koganbot]

Mark, I think Robin's stereotyped Jagger into the category Individualism rather than seeing the "individualism" as I do, as one pole of an unlivable tension whose unlivability Jagger acted out in music and lyrics while (presumably, since he's still alive) compromising/sidestepping the tension in his actual life. (I mean, I personally find it hard to see the midnight rambler as the prototype of a Thatcherite's entrepreneurial self-image of self-sufficiency.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think there's also the problem of treating "the stones" as if they were just jagger writ large -- even if you take any given member as somehow unipolar, they are a group not an individual

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(by countercarmodic i meant i differed from robin here, if that isn't clear)

(haha not that i was trying very hard to be clear!)

[koganbot]

was clear