superbowl halftime show

[cubed]

No one would complain about KISS doing the half time show.

KISS and Detroit go hand in hand!!!

Although originally from NYC they first broke big in none other than Detroit.

And don't try to get away with telling me Ruby Tuesday is an unrecognizable song, THERE WAS A CHAIN OF RESTAURANTS NAMED AFTER IT!!!!

The Stones got hired because of corporate backing, that's the only reason. They were the first group to have a massively corporate sponsored tour. I think their latest tour was sold to Ameriquest for 50+ Million.

APPARENTLY MORTGAGES AND ROCK N ROLL GO HAND IN HAND!!!

They're washed up, plain and simple.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by mugsy

any big name performer doing half time would do their most recognizable songs whether they are over played or not. plus not many people would recognize music from their new album (which is some serious hot shit) ever heard the song out of control? it was huuuuuuuuuuge. but not alot from our decade would hear it. how about ruby tuesday? honky tonk woman? would your feelings be the same if they played other overtly recognized songs? the stones got hired probably to play their most familiar. if kiss got hired they'd play detroit rocks city, would you complain about kiss saying "they always play that song get some new material"?

anyways.... the stones rock. end of story.

You lose. You just explained that the stones performed what they performed because they were hired to. And they refuse to branch out into their other less recognizable tunes because they were hired to. Where is the part that you're convincing me that they haven't sold out?

The stones used to rock. When they were edgy, avant-guarde and controversial. Fuck, I would've even been happy if they played Sympathy For The Devil... and don't you dare go saying that that wasn't one of their more popular/recognizable songs.

Now watching the Stones is akin to translating Jesus' teachings 2000 years after his death. Trying to get an audience to grasp onto something that they weren't really there for by repackaging it for the new generation, losing all meaning and point that was intended through the process.

[mugsy]

my point was that the stones have numerous songs that have been over played and to some may seem out dated. they have been around forever. ANY performer at the half time show will play what they are told, and it will be their most recognizable songs. so thats why your heard start me up and satisfaction. because, yes, indeed, most everyone has heard a few times.

most middle aged men who are most likely 50% of the super bowl fans can relate to the rolling stones and did grow up in their era.
personally i think its obscene to have people like justin timberlake and janet up there. i dont think they really relate to alot of the fan base. how many hardcore nfl fans who fork out the money to see the superbowl are rocking to justin on their way to the game?

and yes it is sad that the whole fucking world is being baught over by corporations, it really really is. but its the super bowl, do you really think that its not going to be slandered in corporate funding?

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by mugsy

my point was that the stones have numerous songs that have been over played and to some may seem out dated. they have been around forever. ANY performer at the half time show will play what they are told, and it will be their most recognizable songs. so thats why your heard start me up and satisfaction. because, yes, indeed, most everyone has heard a few times.

My point is that it doesn't seem to matter how many different songs they've done, they never seem to move much past Start Me Up and Satisfaction.

Seriously. In the last three years I haven't heard a single appearance by them where they haven't used those two, or in situations where they only play one song, Start Me Up. Interestingly enough, those are also their songs that appear most on television commercials.

This is what we call selling out. Plain and simple. And frankly, watching Mick Jagger develop a lisp in front of a pit of people that were most likely paid to be there in the first place, playing songs that are long outplayed and they really can't perform that well anymore... doesn't really strike me as a rewarding concert experience.

But whatever. Enjoy your rockstar worship. In the meantime I'll save myself for shows I'll actually enjoy.

So how was that Lingerie Bowl, anybody?