I note that folk occasionally talk about 'obligatory B&S content'. Well, here's a tad. I was listening to 'Sinister' yesterday for the first time in ages, and couldn't help but be reminded of what the President of the Peter Reid Fan Club (Greenwich Cell) has told me: *** There's Always Been A Stones Element To Their Music.*** Older readers, and those who've rifled through Stevie T's bookshelves, will know that Simon Reynolds used to say this once a week about the Smiths. B&S? Not to dwell on matters like the fact that the Stones wrote 'Stray Cat Blues' and B&S 'Fox In The Snow'; that the Stones sang about 'a block in St John's Wood', and B&S 'a caravanette in Hull'; that the Stones have covered a Dylan song, indeed played with Dylan, and B&S mention him in a song; that the Stones did 'The Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man' and B&S 'Seymour Stein' - which my poetry contacts tell me is identical to 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'. I won't even draw on the really startling fact that the second track on Beggars Banquet is called 'No Expectations', and the second track on Sinister is called... No, let's stick to these 3 big musical links: 1. You're Just A Baby. Chunk-a-chunk-chunk. Say no more. 2. The solo in 'Dylan In The Movies'. The solo in 'The Last Time'. 3. 'The Loneliness Of The Middle Distance Runner'. I've heard this from a distance. At first I thought it was like a pastiche of 'Gimme Shelter'. Then I thought it might be a pastie of 'Stray Cat Blues' or 'Moonlight Mile'. But no: I have to reveal that it's a pistachio of 'Sister Morphine'. *Seriously.* It ain't no capital crime. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+