Sunday, February 05, 2006

We Ironically present - The Rolling Stones

So the legendary Rolling stones rocked the Super Bowl halftime show in the middle of an anticlimactic close to another season of the actual American pastime. Keith Richards returned from the the dead to perform a few classics with old Mick and the boyz. Jagger looked good, the rest of the stones looked - well, bad. However, they jammed. Besides sounding out of tune and dealing with a poor sound system, they seemed energetic and happy to be there.

I've got one problem: How can they possibly play "Satisfaction" - an accepted criticism of manipulative advertising during the most manipulative of advertising events. Jagger belted his usual chorus of :

When I'm driving in my car
and the man comes on the radio
he's telling me more and more
about some useless information
supposed to drive my imagination
I can't get no....

Jagger continued his banter with:

When I'm watchin' my TV and that man comes on to tell me
how white my shirts can be
Well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
the same cigarettes as me
I can't get no.....

What's the deal Mick? Your most famous song obviously takes shots at the whole reason for the Super Bowl being what it is. Hell, maybe they should have cut to commercial break in the middle of the song and pick it back up after making about $10 million.

I could have done a little better with "Get off of my Cloud", or "Ruby Tuesday".

I can't get no.....

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