parachute woman, street fighting man

Having blogged my way through an entire movie (Body Heat), I feel a little lost.  Don't know what to write about.  I didn't know it would take that long, to "blog a movie."  It took me over two months.

Could a person "blog" a record album?
------------------------ Beggars Banquet.  The Rolling Stones.

1.  Sympathy for The Devil
2.  No Expectations
3.  Dear Doctor
4.  Parachute Woman
5.  Jigsaw Puzzle
6.  Street Fighting Man
7.  Prodigal Son
8.  Stray Cat Blues
9.  Factory Girl
10.  Salt Of The Earth

All of these songs on the album written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except for #7, "Prodigal Son," which was written by Rev. Robert Wilkins.

The online Free Encyclopedia assigns each song on Beggars Banquet to a genre.  And assigns the album in its entirety to a genre it calls "roots rock."

Genres:
Sympathy For The Devil:  rock
No Expectations:  blues rock, country rock
Dear Doctor:  country blues
Parachute Woman:  rock, blues
Jigsaw Puzzle:  rock, blues
Street Fighting Man:  folk rock, raga rock
Prodigal Son:  blues
Stray Cat Blues:  blues rock, rock and roll, hard rock
Factory girl:  country rock, folk rock, blues rock
Salt Of The Earth:  rock

I like that.  (Feel like asking, in the softest whisper, "Who decides this stuff?"  But I won't.)  I love it when the song belongs to more than one genre.  Folk rock.  Rock.  Blues rock.  Blues, country rock, country blues, blues country rock.  With anchovies but hold the mustard.

Free Encyclopedia:
>> Producer Jimmy Miller described guitarist Keith Richards as "a real workhorse" while recording the album, mostly due to the infrequent presence of Brian Jones.  When he did show up at the sessions, Jones behaved erratically due to his drug use and emotional problems.  Miller said that Jones would "show up occasionally when he was in the mood to play, and he could never really be relied on.... <<

-------------- Some fans consider four albums to be the most important core of the Stones' work:
Beggars Banquet  (1968)
Let It Bleed  (1969)
Sticky Fingers  (1971)
Exile On Main Street  (1972)

But -- they have such an extensive body of work -- how can we even pick?  What about Some Girls?  What about Shattered?  But maybe if it was a case of -- you have to start somewhere, start with those four records.  Or a desert-island situation:  you're being sent to a desert island and you're only allowed four Rolling Stones CDs....

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I always really liked the title "Exile on Main Street" even before I'd heard the album.  Just the way the words went...Exile on Main Street....

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