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

i definitely voted for some deep cuts but even some of their album tracks feel like ubiquitous timeless standards so it's a blurry line

yeah at this point, nothing from Sticky Fingers really feels like a "deep cut"...

I think I ended up with like, 5 Sticky Fingers tracks.

only 4 for me, but i really could've voted for all of 'em.

this is too hard and everyone else is way more into this catalog than I am, gonna refrain from voting

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/RS_StickyF-Esp71.jpg
weird!

Yeah, that's far less offensive than the zipper cover.

Shakey, don't be a crybaby. RIP THE BANDAID. We need you!

xxxpost shakey don't u dare >:[

In re "Connection," it was in contention for me but I ended throwing my BtB deep-cut vote to "Something Happened to Me Yesterday."

gripe, grumble, grudge

ffs there is no excuse for not voting, seriously

Just half of Bridges to Babylon, all of A Bigger Bang, and a buncha heartache then I'll be ready to go. I'm just gonna have to abandon the 60s stuff. It's probably rubbish anyway.

In re "Connection," it was in contention for me but I ended throwing my BtB deep-cut vote to "Something Happened to Me Yesterday."

That makes two of us. Would rule if it made the final results.

there's just vast swathes of their catalog I haven't listened to and, frankly, don't feel like investigating right now - and everything I like is obvious and gonna get voted for anyway so eh whatever

I think I ended up with like, 5 Sticky Fingers tracks.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 30, 2012 10:06 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

only 4 for me, but i really could've voted for all of 'em.

― tylerw, Friday, March 30, 2012 10:08 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

voted for 0 sticky fingers tracks. probably should have voted for brown sugar, but figured the hot rocks voters would cover that base for me. "sway" and "dead flowers" came very close for me, but we've talked abt that upthread.

? Ah right xp, BtB can also refer to Between the Buttons

Ismael your ballot gives me stomach cramps but I love you dearly so I can't shout at you

<3

SHAKEY YOU GODDAMN GRINCH JUST VOTE JEEZUS

Aw shucks, it's all mutual

plus you still have years of good will with me from doing the fiction poll

roger noted VOODOO LOUNGE on my albums pallot (and 2 songs from it on my tracks ballot) and said i should defend it itt. i think it's aged really well, at least compared to anything since or a decade or so beforehand.

My 80s-and-beyond shortlist is at 21 tracks already btw, I'm still gonna have some weeding to do xp

Voodoo Lounge is really, really good btw, it made this morning a joy.

Something went a bit wrong mid-80s though, Dirty Work is almost a write-off. I think it's the drum sound.

btw i didn't mean "explain yourself!" or nothin'... just, without commenting on any ballots I can say that going in I expected the real Big Reveal in the album results to be #5 and it's cool to see the love get spread around. I can't say I voted for it, but it's the last record where it felt like the Stones managed a few minutes of relevance. Like, that Fincher vid was all over the MTV.

there's just vast swathes of their catalog I haven't listened to and, frankly, don't feel like investigating right now - and everything I like is obvious and gonna get voted for anyway so eh whatever

― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, March 30, 2012

imma get sincere for a sec and say, see, this is why you SHOULD vote. your idiosyncratic experience of the catalog as someone who Loves Music is at least as valuable as any imagined Expert Assessment.*

...

*or at least, this is the rationale by which I allowed myself to cut a ton of classic and historically significant and Important stuff off my ballot in favor of tracks that for whatever reason have mattered deeply to me at various times in my life.

^^^^^^

yeah, i didn't let being unfamiliar with "vast swathes" of their catalog (well most anything post 1980?) stop me from voting.

I was super-intimidated going in bc everyone was talking about songs and albums I didn't know. I tried to get down with a couple of albums I hadn't heard, that yielded maybe 1 song that i would vote for...but most of them were songs that had already burrowed their way in, and fuck it, there's nothing wrong with that.

follow your heart shakey! <3

it goes beyond anything post-1980 tho. don't think I've ever listened to the entirety of Between the Buttons or Aftermath, for ex. or Goat's Head Soup. Or It's Only Rock n Roll... I mean I have a *bunch* of Stones stuff but there's all kinds of things I never bothered to track down/sort out (their pre-70s catalog is a mess - almost as bad as the Kinks!) and I mean does Brown Sugar really need any more votes etc

Aw just vote & don't fret about it, it makes the countdown more fun.

xpost yes! if it's a song you like then fuck it, why not?

Listen to what you like, dude. You sound almost exactly like where I was at. Give your favorite albums a relisten, maybe listen to one that you don't go back to very often, and just go with your gut.

too much overthinking will make a ballot with a bunch of songs that you don't actually care about, and what's the point of that?

or at least, this is the rationale by which I allowed myself to cut a ton of classic and historically significant and Important stuff off my ballot in favor of tracks that for whatever reason have mattered deeply to me at various times in my life

yeah, that's how i wound up with half of goats head soup on my ballot

xpost okay you don't need to bother with IT'S ONLY ROCK'N'ROLL ;-)

"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I'll Never Forgive You If You Don't Vote)"

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze shakey?

thread is bringing back childhood memories of my mom rooster walking around the house in anticipation of the Steel Wheels tour

^^^ ain't too proud to beg
xp

jeez, the amount of rooster walking I've been doing this week...

I bought a pair of yellow spandex lyra shorts and some kneepads, I have no idea what's come over me

I'm having my blood changed while awaiting trial for Heroin Trafficking!

Too far? Yeah.

no perfect

no-one's allowed to climb ANY palm trees between now and the results thread. We don't want any hospitalizations.

done and sent. i would have been satisfied with 30 songs in my ballot--20 was just not enough

naughty schoolteacher >>>>>>>>>>>> rooster

This sucks

ha, yeah. i'm actually almost more interested to see what gets left off. like, i ended up cutting satisfaction -- what if everyone cut satisfaction!? omg.

Curious to see how many votes "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" gets vs. "(first half of) Can't You Hear Me Knocking."

Dude, I cut that shit early. Eff it. The riff was not enough, nor the cool drum beat, nor the ... wait a minute.

Uh, "Satisfaction" that is.