Flower Top Ten: Dead Flowers (#3)

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We’re watching the weather because a big-butt system is moving into the area. It might drown the flowers! That’s okay, I’ll just flood you with music. Here’s a song @TheHorse had pegged to appear on this list of favorites with “flower” in the title. #3: Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones Whodathunkit, the Stones go country! Well, just about as “country” as they could. You may not know this, but Keith Richards had a friendship (and a drug habit) with country rock pioneer Gram Parsons. (Keith survived his, Gram died at 26. ) It is pretty obvious on the classic song “Wild Horses.” And, of course, there’s also “Far Away Eyes“ on Some Girls. So if you’re down on your luck….oops, wrong song. this is just another Stones song with some dang snarky lyrics as the rich girl leaves the poor boy to his drug habit (“I’ll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon”), while he accepts her offer of dead flowers with the take-it-any-way-you’d-like promise that he “won’t forget to put roses on your grave.” That album with the wild LP cover also has some pretty good music on the inside! Dead Flowers Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Recorded by The Rolling Stones From Sticky Fingers, 1971 You think you’re the queen of the underground: