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Originally Posted by scottsy
I've never really been hugely into the Stones - I dunno, its probably a taste thing, but I just can't find the appeal in the music, the lyrical themes, the mythology of the band - i guessed i just missed the whole era when they were poular, too, being way too young or not even born during what was considered their "heyday"...
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A large amount of the appeal of the Stones is that they were so raw. Not so much their very first work (which I consider atrocious), but thereafter the Stones would take a song in its supreme essence and draw out the emotional response of the listener. I won't pretend Mick Jagger is as fantastic a vocalist as people pretend, but he had quite a gift for bringing iconoclastic themes into his work.