This is true, for me anyway.  Those comps are fine for me, especially Hot Rocks (I think that the name of the compilation).  The only Stones album I can make it all the way through is Sticky Fingers.

It's also got that Illusions-ish problem of being too fucking long.  I should give side 2 a listen.  But I usually tap out after Happy.  And that's only the tenth song.  But it does include some of my faves like Rocks Off, Happy, Tumbling Dice, and Sweet Virginia (you can tell the Jagger is doped out on this song).

Is this the early 80s film w/Micheal Keaton and  Shelly Long (I think) as workers at a morgue?  I have to rewatch that it's been maybe 10 years since I've seen it.

Charley Varrick--a 70s classic.  This is one of the few non Clint,  Don Siegel films.  I think it improves upon every viewing for me.    Hits multiple notes as a crime film.  Also perfectly plotted, in the sense that the information /plot points  that you are given don't go to waste. Also a great look at small town/rural Americana.  I don't know why but 70s films were always great at this.   Speaking of "regular" films, watching something once or more a year you pick up  on stuff /appreciate characters more, in this film it's the Sheree North character.  It's a minor role but there's a certain MILF hotness to her as well as the fact that she knew the score and played both sides (slight spoiler...she works as kind of a producer of fake passports).

The one guy that could have done it and had cred with both factions would have been Izzy.  Axl wouldn't have pulled off  all of that 90s bullshit if Izzy had set him straight.  Maybe Adler but he was too fucked up on drugs.  And Izzy just didn't give a fuck say past 1989 or 90 for his own reasons.

By the time Matt tried it , it was too late and he was still more or less a hired gun even though he had been with the band for years.

Great RS article by the way.  I'm not a fan but Lady Gaga seems like an interesting person to hang around with.

The other two guys (Slash and Duff) were always kind of passive aggressive and in the case of Duff "spineless".

Fuck yes!  That was one of the big problems.  Yeah, it seems superficial but he looked weird and not the Axl that most people were accustomed to.  Go with any of the 2001 looks or even the 2006 look (to signify yes, this is a new band!) and the entire reaction to the thing changes.  Well that and releasing the album around that time.

I'd almost want to go back in time and redo that entire time period.  Such a wasted opportunity.

And yeah, they should have went with The Blues.  It sounds a lot more like "classic guns" and it's a lot shorter.  If you're doing a medley busting out an epic that requires a soundbite is not the best idea.