MAD POLL, LOST YER WAY – ILM Artist Poll #16 – The Rolling Stones RESULTS THREAD

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1. It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) - 17 points (5 votes, three #1 votes)

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Boo! Thought it'd be the ghastly Ruby Tuesday.

Surprised at that. It's got Kenney Jones on drums!

It's only rockn roll always sounded like a bored T-Rex song to me

I don't hate it as much as Ruby though

I like It's Only Rock'n'Roll though, especially the dirty scuzzy sounding line before the chorus. It sounds so flat though, the whole album, even though half the songs are good. I wonder how far it could be polished, properly remastered?

Why isn't Charlie on drums?

It's only rockn roll always sounded like a bored T-Rex song to me

specifically bang a gong, yes? this is the only "hate" vote i cast in anger. just always seemed perfunctory + pandering

and yes, i'm on break using courthouse wifi

the poor sucker doesn't stand a chance now

Reasonable choice--playing catch-up at that point.

xxpost: yes Bang A Gong, exactly. That alone gets a lot of ire from me, because they don't NEED to rip it off.

Hated poll is incorrect. Here is my number one, and it should have been yours too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4jv6PhSAQ&feature=related

fyi we're also talking overplayed, as well as hated

Why isn't Charlie on drums?

Dunno, but the only then-Stones on it are Mick & Keith. Ronnie Wood plays guitar, Bowie sings backup, and Willie Weeks plays bass. Watts was always pretty easygoing about other drummers on Stones records, though. iirc, he said to Jimmy Miller something like, "I don't care, it sounds like me anyway" after Miller played on "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

but yeah Indian Girl is yeeeeeeeeeeeesh

Aside from just being kinda wtf, Indian Girl sounds so thin!

and it's like Spanish Harlem being overlaid with Far Away Eyes and something else I can't place, it's like PICK A STYLE jesus

comes off kinda condescending but given that it was released prior to The Clash's SANDINISTA it's surely an interesting choice for a major act

okay i won't lie i find the verses weak but the refrain quite powerful.

ROLLING STONES POLL RESULTS PART TWO: THE ALBUMS

• 42 ballots
• 23 albums receiving votes

23 albums! nice spread

"Indian Girl" is one of my least played ER songs but the lyrics only look condescending, and you cant separate them from Jagger's vocals. Plus, it boasts a great, mysterious bass part.

10. Flowers - 11 points (2 votes, one #1 vote)

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Have any of y'all ever spent any time Dancing With Mr. D?

― kornrulez6969, Monday, April 2, 2012 6:38 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kornrulez with the tough questions. lotta stones songs worse than the bottom 6 finalists. then again, i would have cast a stone at "little red rooster", so what i know?

Flowers is the best, my #1 with a paisley bullet

glad that flowers is so beloved. not one of my top 5, but great and not well known among non-fans.

FLOWERS tracklist

1. Ruby Tuesday
2. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
3. Let's Spend the Night Together
4. Lady Jane
5. Out of Time
6. My Girl
7. Back Street Girl
8. Please Go Home
9. Mother's Little Helper
10. Take It or Leave It
11. Ride On, Baby
12. Sittin' on a Fence

side 2 is killer, as I hope we'll have time to discuss on the songs thread

side 1 pretty ace too except for "My Girl", which isn't a horror at least

uggghhh

fuck I am a moron, I didn't vote for an album!

bleh

Little Red Rooster was muzak in a shop I was in yesterday. Kind of an odd choice.

can't believe I didn't vote for Flowers! but then, Beggars Banquet (or Exile?) was my number five. not much room in the top 5.

42 ballots

number 10 has only 2 votes?

Uh yeah, that sounds a bit wrong. That makes 210 votes if everyone did a full ballot - either there's massive consensus on the top five, or there's no consensus at all.

what are the odds of Freejack placing in the comedy films poll?

A rarely appreciated element of Freejack is that Mick Jagger AND David Johansen are in the film.

Never heard Flowers but know most of the songs from the UK versions of Between the Buttons and Aftermath. So many Stones compilations...

That #10 ballot result doesn't sound too crazy to me. Led Zeppelin #10 was

10. How the West Was Won - 20 points (5 votes, 1 first-place vote)

and that was with only 13 albums to choose from.

one of its best songs, "Ride On, Baby", wasn't on either, so Flowers is essential.

Flowers > Between The Buttons

Also, I was the other voter for Flowers, yay!

Mick on Between the Buttons: "(That album) I never really liked. (Back Street Girl)'s the only decent song. The rest of it is more or less rubbish."

Mick hates an awful lot of good Stones stuff

I'm not sure I trust his judgement, lol

Yeah I should probably work out which songs I'm missing and d/l them from somewhere. I just get confused by the early discography (xposts).

why are US grab bags like Flowers eligible for the albums poll?

WWII

The same reason The Pink Opaque will be (should be) eligible for the Cocteau Twins poll. It's a solid album that half of the electorate is really familiar with.

I was gonna say Allen Klein's ghost, but I like buzza's explanation better.