Rolling Stones: the marketing myth and the 500 bad songs
The claim of 500 bad songs attributed to the Rolling Stones and the defense of Wild Horses: marketing or talent.
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The Rolling Stones: an overrated catalog or pure marketing?
Is there a single good song among the hundreds they released? The question sounds like heresy, but some people claim that almost all their big hits are junk. Satisfaction, Paint It Black, Sympathy for the Devil, Angie, Gimme Shelter: a list that, for some, is nothing more than commercial noise.
The 500 bad songs theory
A particular analysis argues that the band chains together mediocre singles, hundreds of bad songs, and then suddenly a handful of good ones. The proof, according to this view, lies in Mick Jagger's solo album, Goddess in the Doorway, where every song would supposedly be excellent. How is that explained? For some, with the same suspicion that trinc 50 Cent: the big hits are written by others. Marketing does the rest.
Exceptions that save the catalog
It's not all that bleak. Wild Horses stands out as a heart-wrenching love song, with a highly inspired Jagger, even better than the Burritos' version. Some covers of Battiato are also rescued to show that the underlying material has substance. And in the 1970s, they say, there were 500 better bands. So why do they reign? Marketing, once again.
With 500 bad songs and ten good ones, the math doesn't add up. But the mystery lingers: nobody fully explains why we're still talking about them.
Is there a single good song among the hundreds they released? The question sounds like heresy, but some people claim that almost all their big hits are junk. Satisfaction, Paint It Black, Sympathy for the Devil, Angie, Gimme Shelter: a list that, for some, is nothing more than commercial noise.
The 500 bad songs theory
A particular analysis argues that the band chains together mediocre singles, hundreds of bad songs, and then suddenly a handful of good ones. The proof, according to this view, lies in Mick Jagger's solo album, Goddess in the Doorway, where every song would supposedly be excellent. How is that explained? For some, with the same suspicion that trinc 50 Cent: the big hits are written by others. Marketing does the rest.
Exceptions that save the catalog
It's not all that bleak. Wild Horses stands out as a heart-wrenching love song, with a highly inspired Jagger, even better than the Burritos' version. Some covers of Battiato are also rescued to show that the underlying material has substance. And in the 1970s, they say, there were 500 better bands. So why do they reign? Marketing, once again.
With 500 bad songs and ten good ones, the math doesn't add up. But the mystery lingers: nobody fully explains why we're still talking about them.
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