The Rolling Stones and Philosophy: It's Just a Thought Away (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

461 Pages·2011·1.86 MB·English

by  Luke Dick, George A. Reisch

Table of Contents
Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch
Title Page
It’s Only Philosophy but We Like It
I - One Thought (to the Body)
Chapter 1 - The Glimmer Twins
Pretty Pairs
Picking a Fight
Only Rock’n’Roll
Genius
Let It Bleed
Fifteen Minutes of Fame?
Art for Art’s Sake
Sweet Home Chicago
Doomed to Repeat It?
In The Shadows
Saviors of Rock’n’Roll
The Songs
Chapter 2 - My Dinner with Mick
The Death of the Woodstock Nation
Before and After Altamont
Violence and Philosophy
Violence, Rock, and the Rolling Stones
So, Back to Altamont …
Chapter 3 - The Beggar’s Genius
As I Watch You Leaving Me, You Pack My Peace of Mind
What’s Puzzling You Is the Nature of My Game
The Beggars at the Banquet
What Can a Poor Boy Do?
Chapter 4 - You Probably Think This Chapter’s about You
Two Jaggers
A Little Help from Nietzsche
You’re So Not Vain
II - A Rolling Stone Gathers No Illusions
Chapter 5 - The Head and the Groin of Rock
To Riff or Not to Riff
Monkey Man
Only Rock’n’Roll?
Tell Me, Sister Dopamine
Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
Satisfaction
Chapter 6 - Paint the Flowers Black
Flowers
Standing in the Shadow
Out of the Cave
Dandelions on My Cloud
Back to the Roots (Again)
Dead Flowers and Concepts
Philosophy’s Bad Boys
Chapter 7 - Zen and the Art of Being a Stones Fan
Hey Paparazzi, Get Off of My Cloud
My Philosophical Experiment
Live at Epidaurus
Zen and the Art of Being a Stones Fan
Chapter 8 - Epicurean Satisfaction
Out of Control
A Rolling Stone Gathers … Happiness?
What Can a Poor Boy Do?
Now I Need You More than Ever
I’m Shattered
Can You Always Get What You Want?
Satisfaction?
III - Time Is on Rock’s Side
Chapter 9 - From Main Street to Guyville
The View from Guyville
Répondez S’il Vous Plaît
Bloody Hermeneutics
Testing One Two Three
Really? You Guys Are into Music?
Mick and Liz: Partners in Crime?
With You It’s Always Take, Take, Take
Exile from Ancient Greece—Yeah!
Phair’s Song-by-Song Responses to Exile on Main Street
Chapter 10 - When the Whip Comes Down
Mad Men
“It”
Musical Metaphysics
The Sum of the Parts
A Date with Keith
Maestro Tempo and Mr. Groove
Who Could Hang a Name on You?
Alright Now
Riffing
You Make a Dead Man …
The Singer, Not the Song
A Steady Synthesis of the Data
The River of Tight
Charlie Chuckles
Paying the Bill: An Ode to Satisfaction
What a Mess!
Chapter 11 - The Stones in Pepperland
Please Pass the Pepper
It’s Only Their Satanic Majesties Request, But …
In the Court of the Satanic Majesty
Beelzebub’s Bugged-Out Bequest
You’re So Very Lonely
2000 Light Years from the Blues
Chapter 12 - Beatles versus Stones: The Last Word
Avant the Avant-Garde
Salt of the Earth
The Riff Not Taken
You’re 2000 Light Years from Home
Let the Blues Be
IV - Politics: Sexual and the Other Kind
Chapter 13 - You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Saw Her Today at the Reception
A Footloose Man
Practiced at the Art of Deception
Glass of Wine in Her Hand
If You Try Sometimes …
In Her Glass was a Bleeding Man
Get What You Need
Chapter 14 - Riding the Devil’s Tank and Complicit in His Mayhem
Philosophy by Satanic Example
Please Allow Me to Introduce Complicity
Killing the Kennedys—What’s Your Alibi?
Washing the Evil off Your Hands
The Stench of War
The Puzzling Nature of the Complicity Game
Restraining Lucifer with Some Courtesy, Sympathy, and Taste
Chapter 15 - The Most Dangerous Rock’n’Roll Band in the World
What’s the Law against Rock and Roll?
Muddy Water and Brown Sugar
Keith Richards the Prophet
Judge Richards Presides
Chapter 16 - How Come You’re So Wrong, My Sweet Neo Con?
No Place for a Street Fighting Man?
Like a Rollin’ Stone
My Sweet Neo Con
Oh No, Not You Again
If You Turn Out Right, I’ll Eat My Hat Tonight
Chapter 17 - Keef for President
My Name Is Called Disturbance
A Palace Revolution
Shout and Scream and Kill the King
Compromise Solution
What Can a Poor Boy Do, but Sing in a Rock’n’Roll Band?
V - Undercover of the Knight
Chapter 18 - Sympathy for The Stones
Killing One “Traditional” Bird with Five Stones
The Devil Went Down to Altamont
What Happens in Carthage Stays in Carthage
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction … Or the Satisfaction that I Ought To
Who’s to Blame?
Sympathy for The Stones
Chapter 19 - How Mick Learned to Love the Devil
Just as Every Cop Is a Criminal, and All the Sinners Saints
Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
And I Was ’Round when Jesus Christ Had His Moment of Doubt
and Pain
But What’s Puzzling You Is the Nature of My Game
I Tell You One Time, You’re to Blame
Chapter 20 - A Devil’s Trick of Opposites?
It’s Just that Demon Life Has Got Me in Its Sway
It’s Only Rock’n’Roll, But I Complicate It
I Shouted Out, Who Killed Meredith Hunter?
Under Our Thumb
A Wild Murder Couldn’t Drag Me Away
Chapter 21 - Lucifer Rising and Falling
Diabolical Beginnings
From Satyrs to Martyrs
Invocation of My Demon Brother
Flowers of Evil
The Devil Is My Name
Lucifer’s Dream Ends
Chapter 22 - Frenzy
Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
The Nature of My Game
Reading the Riot Act
A Little Help from Their Friends?
Gimme that Old Time Religion?
I’ve Been Around for a Long, Long Year
I’m in Need of Some Restraint
Stole Many a Man’s Soul and Faith
Use All Your Well-learned Politesse
Mother’s Little Helpers
Won’t You Guess My Name?
“They’re So Ugly It’s Appealing”
Pleased to Meet You
From Woodstock to Altamont
Standing in the Shadow
Index
Copyright Page
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