The Inescapable Conundrum
By Mitch Berg
Great band? Yes.
Great song? Yes – indeed, one of my favorite songs of the rock and roll era.
Excellent performance of a great song by that great band? Oh, my, yes.
But after all these years, it’s incumbent on the responsible to say that, “performer” and “sex symbol” and outsized personality and media myths aside, and considering only technical ability, Mick Jagger would get laughed out of karaoke night as a singer.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:30 am
‘Cuz he’s butt ugly? Tall & gangly? Because of his weird spastic movements? Because he’s like 157 & try’s to act like he’s 21?
What are you trying to say???
December 4th, 2008 at 9:43 am
yet he still manages to sleep with Brazilian supermodels….
December 4th, 2008 at 10:03 am
What, no shout out to your b-day girl?
December 4th, 2008 at 10:50 am
yet he still manages to sleep with Brazilian supermodels….
…and he’d still walk out of that bar with a one under each arm…[fingers crossed behind back] but I’m a family man so I don’t envy him in the least …[/fingers crossed behind back].
December 4th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Well, he does have to outsource to Brazil. Perhaps they are doing the jobs that Brits & Americans won’t do?
December 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
There are plenty of Americans and Brits who will.
It’s Eddie Murphy’s old routine from the early/mid-80s.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
See, Mitch is a super smart guy when you get him off the politics. Gonna call up “Heartbreaker” on the YouTubes.
Hey Mitch, you’ll note from AngryClown’s choice, he’s got a weakness for horn accompaniment. Granting your correct cultural orientation and superior refinement in matters musical, Angryclown hesitates to ask. But you’re the only one he trusts to answer the question:
Is that on par with admitting that one enjoys prop comedy?
December 4th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
From Wikipedia: “Brown Sugar’s popularity indeed often overshadowed its scandalous lyrics, which were essentially a pastiche of a number of taboo subjects, including interracial sex, cunnilingus, slave rape, and less distinctly, sadomasochism, lost virginity, and heroin use.”
You don’t get that from the Beatles.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
AC, we’re still trying to figure out when you become a super smart guy.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
“You don’t get that from the Beatles.”
Strawberry Fields was (purportedly) about heroin use.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
yet he still manages to sleep with Brazilian supermodels….
If you’re cool and have lots of money YOU can get a model!
Michael Wincott
from the movie Talk Radio
December 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
he’s got a weakness for horn accompaniment…Is that on par with admitting that one enjoys prop comedy?
Any precondition that equates Southside Johnny, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, the Memphis (Stax/Volt) Horns and the Stones’ various horn sections (see: Exile on Main Street) with Carrot Top is dead to me. (And a look at case law shows, oddly, that the injunction against prop comedy specifically excludes Joel Hodgeson)
Proceed with the horn enjoyment.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
True, and Steve Martin had an arrow through his head. I wouldn’t ever say that all prop comedy is Carrot Top, but I am, justifiably, suspicious of the genre.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I love Carrot Top!
December 4th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
oh, Terry…