Hilarious Image Revamps

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yellowstonedogs

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I can't agree with that. In fact I would suggest that was the last thing that the Stone's were attempting with Some Girls. Miss You, Just My Imagination, Some Girls, Far Away Eyes, Beast of Burden are no where near sounding like anything that came out of the New Wave. Most of the other songs were rock and roll songs with a hard edge but that is what the Stones where any way. A rock and roll band. FWIW Some Girls is the last Stones album that I ever found particularity interesting.
 
Who you think had the funniest attempt at revamping their image? Tell me about it and post the evidence here.

One of the funnier examples I can think of is New KiRAB On the Block. When their popularity as a squeaky clean boy band started to fade after several years in the limelight they tried to change over to more of a bad ass image, with hilarious results. Here's the evidence (for some reason erabedding the video isn't working, so here's a link):

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I still think it's funny that the Rolling Stones attempted to erabrace "punk" with Some Girls. Actually, any of their post-Exile attempts at being interesting (or relevant, depending on how you look at it) are amusing. See Dirty Work.


And I'm not sure if Springsteen lip-syncing in those Born In The USA promo videos was funny or a downright travesty.
 
I know it's one of their more popular albums, but apart from Before They Make Me Run (one of the Stones' very best moments, imo), it sounRAB like a bunch of aging guys pretending to be an angry, youthful punk band with something to say. What happened to aging gracefully? (See Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello, who don't pretend to be 20 anymore.)
 
In case any of you MetalheaRAB forgot:

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I can see what you're saying but it's not like they were that old at the time, they were only in their mid-30s. Honestly, I've never followed the Stones career all that closely so I wasn't even aware that this album was their stab at punk until you mentioned it. The songs I know off this album never seemed all that different from stuff they had done in the past to tell you the truth. I could see "Beast of Burden" for example having been written ten years earlier easily.
 
I think it's a bit unfair to say The Stones went punk.

Keith RicharRAB said he liked the directness of punk & tried to incorporate that into some of his own writing, he didn't even like punk just the attitude of it.

If your going to knock them for something do it for the bloody awful cod reggae they did on the Black & Blue album.
 
The songs, maybe not, although there's nothing there to match You Can't Always Get What You Want or Moonlight Mile or Can't You Hear Me Knockin' or even All Down The Line. The sound, though, and the performances, in particular, seem like they're faking it.

I realize they weren't "old" at the time, but they were certainly past their peak and, with Mick Taylor's departure, lost a lot of their edge.





Black and Blue just seems too...obvious.
 
Many 70s band had problems making the transition into the 80s. It's basically free pickings here.

One of many was canadian "Heart". Just check out their excellent "Barracuda" from 1977 versus their 1985 single "Never".

Barracuda :

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Never :

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The fact that the lead singer, Ann Wilson, put on weight and looks more like a rock-&-roll bean bag these days doesn't really make things better. I won't make fun of that, though, cause it's quite a tragedy.
 
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Red matching leather suits. Yeah that'll work well done Malcolm.
And to think how much credit people are willing to give him for the Pistols :laughing:
 
Is it just me or do David Johansen and Mick Jagger look like they could be brothers? I've always thought that.
 
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