Gimme Shelter

10 Comments

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   BooMan on October 6, 2006 at 7:58 pm

   Rape, Murder.  It’s just a shot away, it’s just a kiss away.

   It’s just a 9/11 away, and yet we thought it was so much further away.

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     librarylil on October 6, 2006 at 8:41 pm

     Yeah those boyz were on to something.

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   Gaianne on October 7, 2006 at 12:31 am
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   A Patriot on October 7, 2006 at 4:25 am

   I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s and remember when Rock Stars were the voice of our generation. When Neil Young came out with Living With War, I knew that music as I had grown up understanding it, was over. I’ve been a professional musician for 29 years and for the last six or seven have felt the end of Rock and Roll coming. Everyone’s too interested in making a buck to give a shit about making a statement. I’m glad I’m semi-retired because when the Dixie Chicks can put it on the line instead of the mainstream rock and rollers, it’s time to give a big “Fuck You” to all the wanna be rock stars that are to afraid of losing their fame and fortune. The Stones did their part, as did the Doors, The Beatles, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, County Joe and The Fish, and all the others that would take me too long to name. Can anyone here give me one popular rock band that has come out and made any huge political statement(s)? I’d love it if you could.

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     librarylil on October 8, 2006 at 7:55 pm

     Green Day’s American Idiot was strong stuff and it rocks. It was a big hit and even won a Grammy.

     Don’t want to be an American idiot
     Don’t want a nation under the new mania
     Can you hear the sound of hysteria?
     The subliminal mind fuck America

     Well maybe i’m the faggot America
     I’m not part of the redneck agenda
     Now everybody do the propaganda
     And sing along to the age of paranoia

     Welcome to the new kind of tension
     All across the alien nation
     Where everything isn’t meant to be ok
     Television dreams of tomorrow
     We’re not the one meant to follow
     For that’s enough to argue

     Don’t want to be an American idiot
     One nation controlled by the media
     Information age of hysteria
     Calling out to idiot America

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   RubDMC on October 7, 2006 at 12:01 pm

   And I thought the opening line was “Ooooo, stoned and sweaty…”

   Your way works, too.

   “Let It Bleed” by the Stones is one of my Top 5 Albums of All Time. Not a clinker on the disk. Together with “Beggar’s Banquet” and “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out” (live stuff from that era), it forms the core of the essential Stones collection for old farts like me.

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     BooMan on October 7, 2006 at 12:43 pm

     I am an early 70’s fan.

     Exile
     Sticky Fingers
     Goat’s Head
     It’s Only Rock n’ Roll

     That’s the stuff I really like.  And of course Some Girls and Tattoo You.

     The sixties stuff doesn’t really do it for me, although Gimme Shelter is my vote for most prototypical rock and roll song ever.  Not my favorite, but it gets to the essence of the genre.  

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       RubDMC on October 8, 2006 at 7:22 pm

       …was a real groundbreaker.

       “Under My Thumb” is another.

       Hey, they’re all good, for one reason or another.

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     Alice on October 7, 2006 at 1:48 pm

     I love that. Thanks Rub, laughing sure feels good!

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       RubDMC on October 8, 2006 at 7:21 pm

       Maybe I was the stoned and sweaty one…