Hilarious Image Revamps (punk, reggae, albums, rolling stones, springsteen)

**Janszoon** · 11-18-2008, 08:02 PM

Who you think had the funniest attempt at revamping their image? Tell me about it and post the evidence here.

One of the funnier examples I can think of is New Kids On the Block. When their popularity as a squeaky clean boy band started to fade after several years in the limelight they tried to change over to more of a bad ass image, with hilarious results. Here's the evidence (for some reason embedding the video isn't working, so here's a link):

YouTube - NKOTB - Games

WaspStar · 11-19-2008, 02:23 PM

I still think it's funny that the Rolling Stones attempted to embrace "punk" with Some Girls. Actually, any of their post-Exile attempts at being interesting (or relevant, depending on how you look at it) are amusing. See Dirty Work.

And I'm not sure if Springsteen lip-syncing in those Born In The USA promo videos was funny or a downright travesty.

**Janszoon** · 11-19-2008, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by WaspStar

I still think it's funny that the Rolling Stones attempted to embrace "punk" with Some Girls. Actually, any of their post-Exile attempts at being interesting (or relevant, depending on how you look at it) are amusing. See Dirty Work.

There are some good songs on Some Girls at least. "Beast of Burden" is actually one of my favorite Stones songs.

WaspStar · 11-19-2008, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

There are some good songs on Some Girls at least. "Beast of Burden" is actually one of my favorite Stones songs.

I know it's one of their more popular albums, but apart from Before They Make Me Run (one of the Stones' very best moments, imo), it sounds like a bunch of aging guys pretending to be an angry, youthful punk band with something to say. What happened to aging gracefully? (See Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello, who don't pretend to be 20 anymore.)

**Janszoon** · 11-19-2008, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by WaspStar

I know it's one of their more popular albums, but apart from Before They Make Me Run (one of the Stones' very best moments, imo), it sounds like a bunch of aging guys pretending to be an angry, youthful punk band with something to say. What happened to aging gracefully? (See Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello, who don't pretend to be 20 anymore.)

I can see what you're saying but it's not like they were that old at the time, they were only in their mid-30s. Honestly, I've never followed the Stones career all that closely so I wasn't even aware that this album was their stab at punk until you mentioned it. The songs I know off this album never seemed all that different from stuff they had done in the past to tell you the truth. I could see "Beast of Burden" for example having been written ten years earlier easily.

WaspStar · 11-19-2008, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

The songs I know off this album never seemed all that different from stuff they had done in the past to tell you the truth. I could see "Beast of Burden" for example having been written ten years earlier easily.

The songs, maybe not, although there's nothing there to match You Can't Always Get What You Want or Moonlight Mile or Can't You Hear Me Knockin' or even All Down The Line. The sound, though, and the performances, in particular, seem like they're faking it.

I realize they weren't "old" at the time, but they were certainly past their peak and, with Mick Taylor's departure, lost a lot of their edge.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I think it's a bit unfair to say The Stones went punk.

Keith Richards said he liked the directness of punk & tried to incorporate that into some of his own writing, he didn't even like punk just the attitude of it.

If your going to knock them for something do it for the bloody awful cod reggae they did on the Black & Blue album.

Black and Blue just seems too...obvious.

simplephysics · 02-14-2009, 12:19 PM

I love Patrick Wolf.

4ZZZ · 11-20-2008, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by WaspStar

I still think it's funny that the Rolling Stones attempted to embrace "punk" with Some Girls. Actually, any of their post-Exile attempts at being interesting (or relevant, depending on how you look at it) are amusing. See Dirty Work.

And I'm not sure if Springsteen lip-syncing in those Born In The USA promo videos was funny or a downright travesty.

I can't agree with that. In fact I would suggest that was the last thing that the Stone's were attempting with Some Girls. Miss You, Just My Imagination, Some Girls, Far Away Eyes, Beast of Burden are no where near sounding like anything that came out of the New Wave. Most of the other songs were rock and roll songs with a hard edge but that is what the Stones where any way. A rock and roll band. FWIW Some Girls is the last Stones album that I ever found particularity interesting.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-19-2008, 02:42 PM

I think it's a bit unfair to say The Stones went punk.

Keith Richards said he liked the directness of punk & tried to incorporate that into some of his own writing, he didn't even like punk just the attitude of it.

If your going to knock them for something do it for the bloody awful cod reggae they did on the Black & Blue album.

**Janszoon** · 11-19-2008, 02:52 PM

All this talk about legitimate bands is making me look like kind of a puss with my NKOTB OP.

11-18-2008, 08:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Hilarious Image Revamps Who you think had the funniest attempt at revamping their image? Tell me about it and post the evidence here. One of the funnier examples I can think of is New Kids On the Block. When their popularity as a squeaky clean boy band started to fade after several years in the limelight they tried to change over to more of a bad ass image, with hilarious results. Here's the evidence (for some reason embedding the video isn't working, so here's a link): YouTube - NKOTB - Games

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11-19-2008, 02:52 PM	#10 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	All this talk about legitimate bands is making me look like kind of a puss with my NKOTB OP.