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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
Mmmm well maybe, but "by the numbers" might only be the case because they invented the numbers. I mean, you can think what you want about Mick, he's got his ups and downs, but Keef is the embodiment of music. He was pure and unmolested feeling, all vibe, and frankly, the closest you get to that in the Bealtes was McCartney, I mean Lennon and Jagger wrote better lyrics (arguably) but those two were the musical workhorses, and while I respect the balls otu of McCartney, he's far more "crafty" than Keef, and thats where the stones surpass the beatles by a long shot in my eyes. Their honest, there was a calculation with the Bealtes like..."hey this would sound good" but it was premeditated. The stones knew what worked for the song, and to me, honest music is better than great postured music everyday.
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You`ve basically summed up for me why I would take Exile On Main Street over Sgt Pepper any day of the week.
Sgt Pepper to me seems like a bunch of hippy dippy concepts wrapped up in a load of window dressing. To me it just seems like a really fake album , I guess you could say they were trying too hard to make a 'classic' album.
Whereas with Exile On Main Street it sounds more like a band honestly playing with respect to their influences and sound like the kind of album the Stones wanted to make all along. For me the reason it is a classic album is because because it`s the Stones at their peak just concentrating on the music.
I get the feeling that the Beatles could have made any old crap for a concept album and it would have been hailed a classic.