WHAT A DRAG IT IS GETTING POLLED – ILM Artist Poll #16 – The Rolling Stones (Extended deadline: April 1st)

I didn't think about timeline when I was working on my ballot (promise!), just looked at it afterwards and realized that the cutoff year was surprisingly early. Felt a little guilty, not guilty enough to make changes (yet).

My latest is 1978

I just couldn't can't do anything later, and I did try to devote a little bit of listening time to the later catalog stuff.

I was pretty conscious of the timeline, but still had a hard time coming up with something after 1973. "Shattered" and "One Hit" were late cuts, though.

i'm trying to fit in some guilty pleasure later singles. i think having only 20 spots on ballots makes the poll results consolidate more firmly on the peak period of long-running artists, though, for better or worse (for worse imo).

The whole "Some Girls" album is a huge weakness of mine, I had 2 picks off that album, very nearly 3.

I love "Waiting on a Friend" as much as any sixties ballad.

Although I experienced the Stones later than what Rob Sheffied has called the Mall Rat Years (1978-1983), that's how I most fondly remember them.

I included "One Hit," but nothing later than that.

Waiting on a Friend is pretty great.

my real intro to the stones was my parents' copy of hot rocks, which i became seriously obsessed with around age 12, followed by my mom's purchase of tattoo you when i was 14. i did then and still love do that album. also have a lot of affection for the funky slinky side of the late 70s/early 80s stones: "miss you", "shattered", "emotional rescue", "slave". all of those songs probably should have made my ballot, but most didn't.

Some Girls isn't as good as I'd hoped. It's like they tried to remake Exile, only this time commercial, and missed what was good in the first place.

god i will be so pissed if "Miss You" gets a raw deal in the final results because of the nothing-after-Exile crowd

tattoo you tracks that made my first cut:

Hang Fire
Little T & A
Neighbors
No Use In Crying
Slave
Start Me Up
Waiting On A Friend
Worried About You

"no use in crying" and "little t&a" were the hardest for me to deny

no "Heaven"!

I've always been a baby duckling with music, imprinting on whatever's first. In this case, Hot Rocks and More Hot Rocks at 14, then Now! and Beggar's Banquet a year later.

Miss You is amazing, but it's the exception here.

I guess I do need to vote if anything after 72 is in danger? wtf people?!

I had a couple of compilation cassettes when I was in early high school. One was Through The Past Darkly, and I think I had England's Newest Hit Makers, and I listen to those two alot. Especially ENHM, I loved the super-old garagey sound of those early covers. I think that kind of informed the sound I wanted from them, so I have a hard time with the cleanness of the later stuff. And stuff like Start Me Up, it just sounds like Superbowls and stadiums to me. There's sort of a, I dunno, smaller feel to the old stuff. That's not the right word, but it'll do.

Bigger Bang was as close as I've come to 'enjoying' their newer stuff.

you were thinking about not voting? wtf at u!
xp

Miss You is outstanding.

WASSAMATTAWITCHOOBOY

Lurkers might be stuffing out on Bridges to Babylon for all we know

There was a strong lurker demographic for Bowie -- I hope they're out in strength for this one!

I don't have the energy to get all ~involved~ but I will submit a ballot because clearly "She's So Cold" needs me.

I love "Hang Fire", thinking of voting for it. For the longest time I didn't know the name of the song, only knew it from the radio, & had convinced myself that it was "Angie", so when I sang the song around the house I sang the chorus as a series of howled "Angieeeeeeee"s, which I think I still prefer to the real song.

I don't have the energy to get all ~involved~ but I will submit a ballot because clearly "She's So Cold" needs me.

srsly

That song is SO FUN to dance to.

"She's So Cold" was one of my very last cuts!

the guy singing with his lady friend at 2:00 exactly looks like alfred!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rf7Z-TBeTI&feature=related

She's So Cold is fun, I wouldn't be sad if it made it. I didn't vote for it, but vote away lurkers!

It's not that the stuff after Exile is bad, lots of it is great. But for me at least, the Rolling Stones from 68 to 72 is the best music ever made by anyone. So naturally my top 20 is going to focus heavily on that period.

Here's a question (apologies if this has been covered upthread. What is the super immortal megaclassic Stones song that you're most sick of, and won't be on your ballot? For me it's Honky Tonk Women.

Possibly Brown Sugar. Certainly Satisfaction.

Honky Tonk Women, Ruby Tuesday.

I can't quit on Brown Sugar, Keyes' sax has its hooks in me.

*Keys

sick of: Honky Tonk Women, Satisfaction, Street Fighting Man, Wild Horses, Get Off of My Cloud

super immortal megaclassic Stones songs I can't believe I didn't vote for: The Last Time, Let's Spend the Night Together, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Have You Seen Your Mother Baby...

I just came her to say that this title has had me singing Mother's Little Helper over and over again in my head since late last week. It's driving me nuts. Thanks a lot, RM! ;)

HERE

dammit

the guy singing with his lady friend at 2:00 exactly looks like alfred!!

lol a bit! You've got a good eye.

I thought about that too, the song you're most sick of. Ten at least, led by "Satisfaction" and "Paint It Black." I'm pretty sure I loved every one of them when I was younger.

My favorite thing about Wild Horses, aside from straight up loving the song, is imitiating Mick's delivery of the title line

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild Hawwwwwwsssseeeesssssss

He's very sibilant, it makes me laugh

;_; that everyone is sick of Satisfaction.

I've tried to get sick of it! I can't!

i'm actually finding it really hard to think of songs for my most hated ballot. there are tons of big hits i'm a little blase about but only in relation to other Stones hits, and of course a lot of treading water, but very little i outright dislike, even of the fallow periods.

I'm pretty sick of "Mixed Emotions."

oh i love that one

I kind of hate Emotional Rescue. And Under My Thumb.

Nono, Under My Thumb will be getting voted for, even if I end up leaving off all the other classics

lol I was kidding – I don't hear "Mixed Emotions" enough

I'm definitely tired of "Satisfaction," but I was never all that nutso about the song in the first place. I used to think I was sick of "Miss You," but then some friends of mine came around at twelve with some Puerto Rican girls that, evidently, were just dying to meet me. They brought a case of wine and we messed and fooled around, you know, like we used to.

"Emotional Rescue" is my least favorite single for sure, despite loving the album to bits. "Undercover of the Night" is pretty damn cynical and makes a good case for the post-'72 naysayers.

i will probably be the only voter for "love is strong," won't i