A SENTIMENTAL ETC ETC III:
I'm happy to make this argument:
"...which makes me ask if anyone else finds it ironic to see the heyday of the Rolling Stones – “‘Paint it Black’ you devil” – invoked as a time when young people appreciated the value of tradition."
If the Rolling Stones are about anything, it's the value of tradition. This is a band, after all, who were happy to play interpretations of traditional American musical forms (and rather obscure ones, at that) until their manager locked Mick 'n' Keef in a kitchen and forced them to start writing songs. Their best work is gloriously backward-looking--happy to embellish, not looking to break any new ground.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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