>>508072680 (OP)“Oh the singer, he looked angry
At being thrown to the Lions
And the bass player he looks nervous
About the girls outside
And the drummer, he’s so shattered
Trying to keep on time
And the guitar players look damaged,
They’ve been outcasts all their lives”
-Jigsaw Puzzle
That is why.
The Stones were able to write a lot of really good fucking songs, yes they were degenerates(sans Charlie Watts who was actually a pretty upstanding and dignified individual) yeah they stole a lot of blues riffs, but they were able to construct a
Huge catalogue of awesome songs.
To paraphrase my boomer uncle “the Beatles were there to hold your hand, the Stones were there to bend you over a table and have their way.”
I am not even a huge Stones fan, but one of my favorite bands, the Brian Jonestown Massacre wouldn’t exist the way that it does without their influences, their name after all is a reference to their late guitarist Brian Jones.
My favourite Stones tracks
The aforementioned Jigsaw Puzzle, Paint it Black, Jack Jumping Flash, Satisfaction, Brown Sugar, Sympathy for the Devil to name a few, I hate the song Ruby Tuesday though.
Also, the Stones with the help of the hells angels helped kill the hippie movement with Altamont, where they paid the HA beer to provide security and several people were injured and the festival culminated in the HA killing those Urban Scholar who was drunk and high and pointed a long barreled revolver at Mick because his girlfriend said she loved him.