tegs07

For me they wrote a bunch of truly great tunes in the 1960s and early 1970s apart from Charlie Watts (RIP) I don’t really care much about anything that they have done since. That said any pub band that could write Paint it Black, Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man, Satisfaction, Gimmie Shelter, Start me up, Wild Horses (Flying Burrito bros version is fantastic), Angie, You can’t always get what you want etc is not going to be playing in pubs for long.

I once overhead a discussion where someone claimed that the measure of a great songwriter is whether the window cleaner, postie, builder will still be humming their tunes a couple of decades later. On that bases the luckiest pub band in the world are doing pretty well.

loverman - nick cave

punish me with kisses - the glove

sweet talkin’ guy - the chiffons

battle of the beanfield - levellers

master of puppets - metallica

ymca - the village people

charlotte sometimes - the cure

this wheels on fire - Siouxsie and the banshees

road to nowhere - talking heads

pretty in pink - psychedelic furs

dog days are over - Florence and the machine

discipline - throbbing gristle

the lady in red - chris deburgh 😭🤣🤮🤮🤢

ship of fools - world party

pick up the pieces - A.W.B

freebird - skynyrd

Body electric - sisters of mercy

return of django - upsetters

crawling king snake - the doors

the tourist - radiohead

i like dirt - rhcp

after midnight - jj cale

in the jailhouse now - soggy bottom boys