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

I thought we all agreed that "Hand of Fate," "Crazy Mama," and "Memory Motel" were good songs.

Crazy Mama's not all that, but the other two are terrific

Is there anyone out there but me who likes Fool to Cry?

Hand of Fate reminds me a little of Bruce, it's not HORRIBLE....but every song on that album, they sound like they're dead inside. Everything's sorta flat, and kinda bored sounding to me. Like, ugh let's just get this over with, throwing out a steak to the barking dogs kinda thing.

Maybe it's just me.

I'm the first person to HATE being called darling/sweetheart etc and I hate it when old aging rockstars do it to female interviewers but Keef might be the only person on earth who can do that to Terry Gross and get a pleasant, happy laugh in response. Which proves there is a world of difference between Gene Simmons and Keef.

when Keef calls you "darlin" you hear his affection and he's actually listening you ("No one's ever divorced ME!" he once cracked). When it's Gene Simmons calling you "darling" he wants you to notice that none of that women's lib crap made a fuck's worth of difference on his dick size.

i just barely cut "Memory Motel" from my ballot

'I Don't Know Why' is fantastic btw. I'd never've found it without that tipoff - lord knows how much stuff I'll never hear.

Is there anyone out there but me who likes Fool to Cry?

I do but it's one of those outliers like "Undercover of the Night" -- they never approached that sound again, y'know?

ooh

when I said every song I meant every song except Fool To Cry

my brain thinks it's from a different album bc I like that one

(hides)

btw I've been in love for years with Mick and Keef's terrible keyboard work on "Memory Motel." It makes the song.

Fool To Cry was a very late cut for me, sad to see it go.

xxpost eisbaer otm. Gene uses those epithets as some kind of weapon to get a reaction. Keef's affection always seems legit.

I would like Keef to call me darlin.

i know people of taste who really dig "fool to cry." i'm not one of them but.

would take "worried about you" over "fool to cry" or "memory motel" without hesitation.

I Don't Know Why was written by Stevie Wonder, correct? Or did he just cover it too? Anyway, if you know Stevie Wonder's version, I prefer it to the Stones' (xp)
Yeah, that's true about Fool to Cry--sort of a one off, but I like it alot

'I Don't Know Why' was what they were recording on the night Brian Jones died, it says here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgwj6HZ04po

Yep, it's a Stevie Wonder tune. I love Stevie's version (it was way up on my Stevie ballot), and I'm glad I heard it first. But the Stones version has more drama. And it has Mick Taylor.

Is there anyone out there but me who likes Fool to Cry?

no, i fucking love that song. better than "hand of fate" even. was the last thing i cut from my ballot :.......(

i love Stones R&B covers, wanted to vote for "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Just My Imagination" but it seemed simpler and wiser to stick with originals

btw Undercover is not a fab album but "All the Way Down" is a good tune

I voted for Fool To Cry. Placed it pretty low, but it's such a lovely melody.

TOO MUCH TOO MUCH BLOOD

spoken word part is hilarious & the video is all time for sure

http://www.schlockmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA-tmblood-RS-01.jpg

NEVER FORGET

I was going to say I placed "Memory Motel" at the bottom of my ballot but I haven't submitted it yet.

"Memory Motel" is so strong that even the version with Dave Matthews in 1998 has Keith in great voice (the crowd goes apeshit too).

xpost eeegah

There are so many gems on these late albums though. If I ever host a dinner party I'm going to put my ballot on a CD to confuse guests - there'll be this amazing soundtrack that sounds like the Stones tearing through Stones classics, but nobody's ever heard any of them.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, March 30, 2012 1:14 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you should post a few tubes, IK, like other posters who've been trying to proselytize for the underappreciated (!voteforchildofthemoonnow!). i say this cuz i don't really know the post-undercover stuff at all at all. i only know that i don't like any of the later singles and have had no luck listening to random tracks.

Try this one, contenderizer. It's not major but I love its groove:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVEGu776Og

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2pkO-CBiyA

it would feel perverse to vote for "Continental Drift" but I dig it lots

this is a REALLY killer ballad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50YVcEZM68

Laugh I Nearly Died is pretty good, I really liked Bigger Bang a lot.

and you can find most of these albums for a couple cents on Amazon.

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

This is pretty great imo - as good as anything hair metal was putting out at the time. That sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it's not, except maybe insofar as you should be able to spot the Stones in Bruce, but not the other way round.

It was a single, but a totally failed one. I'm deliberately not posting the video btw.

surprised how many people saying how sucky IOR'n'R is...i only slightly disagree but GHS is greater suck!

One Hit to the Body --- god I forgot about that. I remember digging that one as a kid.

thanks, all (but don't let that stop you from posting more). will check these when i get home. "one hit" didn't do much for me at the time, but maybe i'll like it more now.

surprised how many people saying how sucky IOR'n'R is...i only slightly disagree but GHS is greater suck!

GHS is brilliant, or at least half of it is, though i don't expect any of you to understand

[lights clove cigarette]

GHS is really good. Angie, Winter AND Star Star on there. I mean, come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7r0SBb14SQ

I'm generally not a fan of Keith songs, but this one is very charming

(I'm assuming it's a Keith number, but possibly Jagger smoked a pound of Tarmac before stepping up to the mic)

Dirty Work has "One Hit," "Hold Back," "Winning Ugly," and my favorite Keef ballad, "Sleep Tonight."

it is, Ismael.

why is "doot doot (heartbreaker)" so bad and hated? all-time for the keyboard work alone.

I love it, personally, it's such a groove. I pissed myself laughing when I found a live bootleg where Mick introduces it, talking really fast, as 'this one's called ... Doo-Doo-Doo Doo-Doo'

And those horns!

lol yes, that live heartbreaker intro is hilar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnlnOWGhryg

I just heard him do that on Brussels Affair, so lol

pretty amazing version after mick has his larf

based on comments itt i gotta stand up and say:
• "i got the blues" is classic for the horns alone
• "love is a bed for the blues" is as good a lyric as rock music has to offer
• and by the time it all comes together around the 3:00 mark I believe every word Jagger's corny english ass is saying. fake it so real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9zStmEmA_8

I loooooove I Got The Blues!!
I had a hard time cutting it :(