That previous post reminds me: yesterday I completed my Rolling Stones collection.
No, I don't have every Stones release, and I don't want them all, either. But I now have what Steven Van Zandt calls "the second great period" and "the greatest run of albums in history"--from Beggars Banquet through Exile on Main St:
Beggars Banquet (1968)
Let It Bleed (1969)
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out: The Rolling Stones in concert (1970)
Sticky Fingers (1971)
Exile On Main Street (1972)
And as Van Zandt points out, it was all done in three and a half years.
Van Zandt's comments are part of Rolling Stone's cover story, "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time," in which The Rolling Stones are placed fourth, behind The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis. Rounding out the Top Ten are Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles.
Posted by Craig Ceely at April 11, 2004 03:41 PMElvis should NOT be behind Bob Dylan.
In the interesting, but probably meaningless category: the top five are all white, the next five are all black. And speaking of the next five, I can't really see Hendrix outranking Brown either...
Posted by: Matt at April 13, 2004 10:08 AM