You'll want to play this one until it wears out!

My Boomer mom used to wait to hear the 1960's band The Rolling Stones bellow out "Jumping Jack Flash," the signal in her college dorm that the dance was starting. Mick Jagger provided "Satisfaction" that's gone a long way. Now in 2005, the AARP-eligible rockers are still at it, creating a fresh new album that played on one of their greatest strengths, vocalist Jagger. While the Beatles wrote anti-war songs in the sixties and band member John Lennon actively participated and funded pacifist demonstrations, the Stones shied away from any political discourse. This all changed in 2005. Buzz about the new Stones album, A Bigger Bang, containing a vituperative attack on President Bush's administration's foreign policy soon percolated throughout the media. Buoyed by early strong reviews, the Stones new album shot up to the number one place on Amazon.coms bestsellers list. I eagerly awaited the album's September 6th release. Amid a CD full of classic rock-n-roll songs was the song I'd looked forward to, "My Sweet Neo Con." Even the title of the song launched an acerbic political debate. Was the title an attempt to emasculate cowboy hat-wearing, macho George W. Bush, or was it a Freudian slip of Keith Richards' clandestine lust for Condoleezza Rice? Either way the single proved to be a hit. The song begins with a bang, not a whimper. Jagger sings, "You call yourself a Christian I think that you're a hypocrite/ You say you are a patriot/ I think that you're a crock of sh*t." Later on, the London School of Economics grad Jagger offers some tongue-in-cheek investment advice for his listeners, "Life is good at Haliburton/ If you're really so astute/ You should invest at Brown & Root." Brown and Root is a subsidiary of Haliburton that has benefited from a slew of no-bid Iraq war contracts from the Defense Department. This album is proof that the Stones have transformed themselves once again. Who woulda thunk that a group of sixty-something British chaps would create a number one selling album in the 21st century? This album is not only a bold political statement but it also may help patch the generational gap between the Boomers and the Generation Yers."