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

"She Said Yeah" is fierce

enjoying Steel Wheels a lot as I write fwiw

their Route 66 is one of my favorite things in life

I regret not giving the deep cuts on the albums I own on vinyl more of a listen (I never wear headphones when listening to LPs so they can blur compared to what I've got on CD), but with the Stones its easy to find 20 classics even if you haven't dragged the well.

for sure

OK I sent my ballot

ranking the 20 was surprisingly easy

ballot's nearing completion & I notice that evidently I'm quite a fan of the songs that get blasted as misogynist, which I think isn't an entirely fair description but I prefer Mick's more acidic & focused lyrics, & I think women bring that out best.

I know I already linked up thread, but on that point there's some good discussion here: what is sexist exactly about the rolling stones' under my thumb?

no thread for "some girls" tho

I love some girls #secretshame

some girls is great and hilarious!

there's some good discussion here: what is sexist exactly about the rolling stones' under my thumb?

yeah, good thread, if short - esp like kog@n's long post before the break

and "some girls" is pretty damn funny, if o_0

sent!

good man, wonder how many we've got so far?

If anyone has lists longer than 1-20, when we get to posting our ballots please include your also-rans! I want any and all ILM deep cuts!

I'm very proud of my iconoclastic ballot; I'm pretty sure that today they're my 20 favorite Stone ballads.

er, songs. Ballads too!

haha. #1 on Alfred's ballot - "Out of Tears"

^^^ forgot that one! It's not bad.

i can kind of remember how it goes.

"worried about you" is still the late-stones ballad champ, but "out of tears" ain't bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91KmtnsUtw8

"Out of Tears" is lovely. Alfred and I will have terse words if he voted for "Streets of Love" though

can neither confirm nor deny

btw can we just talk about michael philip jagger's hair circa 1986?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUy8Ydq-oUA

^ Page solo on that is astonishing.

They should turn up the drums and background vocals on that track, christ

I appreciate the romantic appeal of Dirty Work to some, but I think the only "boomer legends trapped in gated drum-land" artifact I'm personally enamored of is Neil's Landing On Water.

xpost yes. 13 seconds. sounds exactly like jimmy page. video handles this section poorly imo. "there's a guitar here so let's get some shots of keef and ronnie running around"

sorta agree with da croup on this one, though the the first 30 seconds are imo as powerful and ominous as anything they've done incl the intro to "gimme shelter."

I appreciate the romantic appeal of Dirty Work to some, but I think the only "boomer legends trapped in gated drum-land" artifact I'm personally enamored of is Neil's Landing On Water.

Oof. That one actually makes me angry, since it's the brilliant Steve Jordan being gated. Said gating ruins this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NulUOzBkjA

I don't mean Landing On Water is a genuine triumph, I just love how it sounds like an alternate reality where Crispin Glover played Crockett on Miami Vice.

the Booming Gated Drums of Dirty Work don't sound like LAW or Never Let Me Down's or other purported period catastrophes, in part b/c Charlie isn't drumming for almost half the record (one of the Nevilles and Ronnie do the honors). It's what tiggers like Steve Lilywhite do best.

"One Hit" made my ballot.

Ballot sent!

never forget:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxsVJKAZsno&feature=relmfu

thought about putting that on my most hated

their last American top 40 hit!

btw if you guys wanna get a sense of how much Charlie, Keef, and Mick loathed each other in the mid eighties, watch this rehearsal footage, especially the gobsmacked journalist's response to Charlie's boredom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kilQ1qzYNc&feature=related

oh jesus I had forgotten about Rock and a Hard Place. and I was so happy. Curse you Alfred

wait wait wait is the choreographer Bruno from Dancing With the Stars? LOLOLOL

I listened to Rock & a Hard Place today & didn't hate it as much as Gomper so it made the non-cut

they won't defend Steel Wheels as a hidden masterpiece but croup and ship, a couple years younger than me, came of age when its singles were the last time MTV gave the Stones saturation play.

it's likable enough

I liked "Mixed Emotions" enough to ask for the cassingle as a kid (wound up getting "rock and a hard place" instead, wah wah) though when I heard it again recently it sounded pretty damn weak.

I just remember all those terrible music videos with Mick's pastel and primary color jackets

at this point any exploration of albums after Tattoo You would be done for case study

oh wait i like "She Was Hot"

xpost unless your name is a) Ismael or b) Alfred

yeah I couldn't go past Tattoo You, it hurt too much.

I'm planning on voting one Steel Wheels song

if I'm in the mood for variations on "Start Me Up" I put on this album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZB7QPOABEM

haha I don't listen to latter-day Stones albums often! But with a couple of exceptions the post-TY albums don't disgrace their legacy like IOR&R or GHS do. If you care about admittedly boring things like craftsmanship -- and what band but the Stones insists on evaluating them for craftsmanship? -- they were better at it in the eighties and nineties. Plus, like I've said repeatedly, Dirty Work is something of a last gasp for boomer rockers raging against the dying of VIP lounges.

yeah I couldn't go past Tattoo You, it hurt too much.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:33 PM (

no offense but this is insane to me, especially since every song but two was recorded in the seventies