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

we need you m@tt!!

insane circumstances for that hyde park show -- brian jones dies two days before, hey let's break in our new guitar player in front of 250,000 people.

terrifying

2nd VG's request for good live stuff to check out, vids or just audio. not at all knowledgeable abt that stuff, though i like a lot of what i've heard.

m@tt fwiw the distribution of track votes is so broad that your ballot really will make a difference.

ok y'all i'll try to do one :)

by the way just because ppl are talking about the Stones, I URGE you all to track down "The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones" by Stanley Booth which I just re-read again and I think the greatest book about rock music ever written. He's with the Stones on the whole tour that culminates in Altamont. It's just brilliant writing -- in some ways, he's a less gonzo Hunter S Thompson -- but yeah if you want the Stones as the real actual human beings they were not the myth, it's just amazing and chilling in parts....serves as bit of an elegy for an entire era....

also the paperback I have has THE BEST passive/aggressive back cover blurb:

Mick Jagger on books about the Rolling Stones - "I suppose Stanley Booth's might be somewhat interesting. At the very least, I knew Stanley Booth, and he knew me."

caveat is if you're an 80 & beyond stan like Ismael and Alfred, then please hang back by all means

JOEKS BRUV, I LOVE YOUSE GUYS

*80's

insane circumstances for that hyde park show -- brian jones dies two days before, hey let's break in our new guitar player in front of 250,000 people.

― tylerw, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:28 PM (4 minutes ago)

also, King Crimson just opened for you and blew the nonexistent roof off the joint

I will definitely hunt down that book, it sounds great. I've heard someone else talk about it on another ilx thread maybe?

Almost forgot, the just-released Ft. Worth '78 show is great, too.

yeah brussels affair is the best stones boot, that perth one is great too. lotsa stuff from 72-73 is killer. also one from Leeds 71 is sweet

I loaded down a lot of shows a couple of years back including that lot. I burned them onto CDs for my car. Great times.

About a week later I had to drive my (much) younger cousin on a long trip up the country. I happened to have Amy Winehouse's Back to Black on the stereo when I picked him up. He was sniggering at me for it, then with a flourish produced Beggar's Banquet, and was all 'time to put on some real music'. I could've let him know that if he lifted the Back to Black case he could take his pick from the half-dozen awesome boots that he'd never heard of, but I got a kick out of letting him think he was converting the square.

In retrospect it was definitely time to pull rank though.

xp At the time, I preferred Keith's singing to Mick's. But that was mainly because Mick had just put out those two crappy solo records ("Let's Work" was on MTV far more frequently than it had any right to be, which is to say, more than once), and the way he sang "competition" in "Winning Ugly" made me think, that guy there, if he doesn't stop it, man...
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I see what you did there! You mean this? (@2:59)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYx6UTwHSsg

Can't say I envy Jagger there, prime target having to try to keep all that together (but I do really like that take of Under My Thumb, despite everything)

Relistened to Talk Is Cheap tooling around town at lunchtime. Good shit.

"bitch" is the 2nd to last song

you mean #1 BEST SONG!

I decided not to vote for it

hate myself, tbh

THOSE HORNS

Not sure if I'll go as far back as the 70s on my ballot, but if I do Bitch certainly has a chance of making it.

*shakes head* I may never understand

ie "not going back as far as the 70's"

xxpost roffle

it's the distillation of what i like about the stones
loose, groovy, sleazy, loud

otm

feel a lot worse about cutting ruby tuesday and paint it black than bitch or brown sugar tbh.

(sentences like that, btw, are what make this poll so awesome/nutso)

pretty much

i got ruby tuesday covered, roger...i really hope it doesn't get killed the way i think it will

melanie kinda ruined ruby tuesday for me

I can handle ruby tuesday placing, just don't make me listen to it 20 times

I hated cutting "Bitch," it was one of the last to go, but I rationalized that "Stray Cat Blues" and a couple of others would maintain the sleaze factor of my ballot.

I see what you did there! You mean this? (@2:59)

haha, yep.

^^ username victory itt

what do people like about Bitch exactly

the monster riff, shakey!

always seemed like one of the weaker tracks on Sticky Fingers imho. (the other being the execrable I Got the Blues)

er I mean You Gotta Move. I Got the Blues is pretty weak too tho

here's a horrible cover of Bitch by the Silkworm guy and Stephen Malkmus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Buf1eQaHT8

m@tt otm that one week is a really agonizingly short amount of time to contemplate catalogs this huge and rich. but then anytime someone gives a poll a 2 or 3 week window people freak out about how they won't get to do their Letter To Cleo tracks poll until November.

― some dude, Wednesday, March 28, 2012

fwiw if the ILX Poll Gods see fit I have no issue with extending the polling period. just had the impression we're trying to keep things tight.

what do people like about Bitch exactly

it's the distillation of what i like about the stones
loose, groovy, sleazy, loud what more do you want? it has everything a person could ask for aside from a new pair of balls

also: fantastic Charlie drumming (love when he switches to using the hi-hat) and the best enunciation of "Pavlov dog" in rock history.

^^ "pavlov dog" and charlie's turnaround are actually the only things that gave me a half-second's hesitation about cutting it loose

I'm okay w/extending the deadline. It'll give me some needed prep time for my Kinks poll.

I Got the Blues weak? uhhhhhhhhhh no.

Bitch is fat, nasty and rockin. Huge horn section, super groovy bassline...it's the shit, shakey!

i am satisfied with my existing balls, thank you

I'm hearing ” Upgrade U” in a whole new light

i have voted

what a world

No objection here to extending balloting -- I hope it results in more votes! It's impossible to know if there are many ilxors out there who were on the fence about voting if only they had more time.

i for one am in no rush to stop re-listening pre-vote. i go in cycles of bingeing on bands and the stones' turn came right on time

i'm skeptical that a deadline will prevent ppl from voting -- i suspect it's more the scope of the task/decisions

i'm down for extending the listening party for an extra two days, with ballots due the same time on Sunday, April 1. i'd still be able to roll out results on the same calendar.

speaking of which, and to get m@tt in the mood...

blog with separate tracks of Gimme Shelter this is pretty fucking amazing

the mick/merry vocal track is INSANE acapella...

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/deconstructing_gimme_shelter_listen/

this is the greatest song...

at their peak they were conjuring some serious bad mojo

― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, December 1, 2010

sadly most of the vids have been disabled but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5rUKbI3Y-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1Y10Ufcdg