Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco
Truth to Power (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Sympathy for the Devil Song lyrics by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Performed by "The Rolling Stones" Album: Beggars Banquet (1968) Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long long year stolen many man's soul and faith I was around when Jesus Christ had His moment of doubt and pain Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed His...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
If we remember nothing else about Halloween 2009, maybe we’ll at least recall it was the night that two of the world’s marquee jambands both turned in ace renditions of the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street obscurity Ventilator Blues. Stranger things have happened, right? Right? Bueller? [All Photos by Heath Robson from Mule.Net ] On a smaller scale than some marginal little festival...
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Rolling Stones have a famous song called “Sympathy for the Devil.” I think it may be an apropos title for John Milton’s Paradise Lost. English poet William Blake, who admired but disagreed with Milton, famously [...]
It's Eclectic! It's Eccentric! It's RadioNowhere's... (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The RadioNowhere Halloween Special 26.October.2009 RICHARD O’BRIEN – Science Fiction, Double Feature MINISTRY – Everyday Is Halloween THE ROLLING STONES – Sympathy For The Devil THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND – The Devil Went Down To Georgia THE CULT – The Witch BING CROSBY – The Headless Horseman OINGO BOINGO – Dead Man’s Party DEAD MAN’S BONES...
Later On (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Dan Colman has an excellent clip. He notes: Jean-Luc Godard, one of the founders of New Wave French cinema, directed “Sympathy for the Devil” during the tumultuous summer of 1968. The film is part rockumentary, part advertisement for left-wing ideas that were alive at the time. (There’s no real way to sugarcoat that.) Above, Godard takes [...]
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
In Art Forum, Our pal Andrew Hultkrans wrote about a Process Church event held in New York. Several former members of the strange and defunct religion were in attendance, as were our friends, Feral House book publishers Adam Parfrey and Jodi Wille, who have a book about the history of the Process Church, called Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment. Andrew's...
Nothing but my Opinion (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Let me briefly explain what's gonna happen blog post wise for the next few weeks or so. Due to unforeseen circumstances I've decided to focus more on what I plan on doing after leaving school. I'm not entirely without a plan here, I have decided what I'm going to do and in the next few weeks I'm gonna start planning basics and saving money up for it so I don't have to worry about crossing that bridge...
The Gamesblog (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/PS2; £39.99; cert PG; Neversoft/Activision The Guitar Hero franchise is hugely popular, inspiring a tribal level of following, and it's easy to see why – the original fake-band game is still fantastically good fun to play. But Guitar Hero 5 breeds a nagging sense of disquiet: one feels it is treading water, a dangerous approach given the huge strides the rival developer...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Over time, "Sympathy for the Devil" has been treated with huge fanfare and has become the common denominator fan favorite, but in actuality "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" gets to the core of what the Rolling Stones were.
Culture (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Susan Boyle’s performance of The Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Wild Horses’ on her American television debut is such a typically audacious Simon Cowell manoeuvre, its hard to know whether to be appalled or applaud his Satanic daring. Just like his appropriation of Leonard Cohen’s (and Jeff Buckley’s) ‘Hallelujah’ for X Factor, Cowell has staged another blitzkrieg...
TV.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Supernatural returned with a bang last night, delivering a rock-solid premiere that perfectly sets the stage for a Hellish Season Five. The Apocalypse is almost upon us, and as expected, Sam and Dean have pretty significant roles in cleaning up the mess. The title of the episode, "Sympathy For the Devil" (borrowed from a Rolling Stones song), was very apropos. There's an instant urge by...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Perhaps the seminal live rock 'n' roll document, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out has remained for nearly 40 years a short 10 tracks. No longer! The Stones have announced a "box set" reissue of the album that expands the track list to 27 tracks, including 5 unreleased live Stones cuts and 12 songs from openers B.B. King and Ike and Tina Turner. Here's the track list for the reissue, which is due out...
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