The Rolling Stones- Second Album

I really just cannot listen to the Rolling Stones. Every time we listen to it in class I am honestly just waiting for it to be over. Like, I look forward to listening to an album by them that I haven't heard yet, and then it just disappoints me. Hopefully, their later stuff will interest me more, but at the moment, I just can't take it. 12X5 was definitely an improvement from their first album, don't get me wrong. But even just a couple songs that I don't like just ruin the whole album for me. A couple of examples of songs I didn't like were "Under the Boardwalk", "212 South Michigan Avenue", and "Congratulations".

"Under the Boardwalk" (don't look at the video, it might give you a headache...)


I mean....seriously this song is dumb. I started laughing while listening. It's not that bad I guess until Jagger starts hitting those high notes and then they harmonize (grossly) when they say boardwalk and then you're just like....wait what. That was really bad. Anyways, that just was a part of me not liking this album.

"212 South Michigan Avenue"



I don't like this song because I don't like that it's an instrumental. Whenever I hear an instrumental for the first time and don't know it, I'm always like...so when's the singing going to start. I don't feel like an instrumental is something you would want to listen to in your free time. That's just my opinion. There's nothing to sing along to and there's no meaning to the song. I guess some people would disagree but that's how I see it.

"Congratulations"



This song is so slow and boring I almost fell asleep. Plus the lyrics are just dumb. I think that when you first hear a song, you want the beginning to like grab you and get your attention and make you want to keep listening but this makes me want to turn it off right away and go to sleep. Like, if you want to get people listening, come up with better lyrics! Or atleast pay someone else to...

Another reason I don't like a lot of their songs in this album is because of the harmonica. I feel like it sounds out of place in a lot of their songs. Whenever I think of harmonica, I think of either folk or country. Rock is different than both of those and I feel like harmonica just doesn't belong in it.

I don't want to bag on the Rolling Stones this entire time, because every song on their album was not bad. I do like a couple, for example, "Time is on My Side" and "Suzie Q" (a cover).

"Time is on My Side"



"Suzie Q"