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

There's one upthread already. (see links)

Anyways, sented..

Oh ok, thanks. I did skim a bit.

voted. much easier than I anticipated.

eeek yeah this is gonna be tough

I put together a provisional ballot w/o thinking about it toooo much, but then I have to strategize a bit since I could easily vote for 40 songs off the top of my head. Do I cut singles, or most singles, knowing they'll be fine w/o me? I guess! Do I lean heavily on the "twee Stones" era I love so much, knowing that it'll likely be in vain? I think so! Do I care that my ballot is 60s heavy? I guess not!

anyway Flowers is pretty much the best

I wanna see the Dirty Work contingent up in here.

Do I lean heavily on the "twee Stones" era I love so much, knowing that it'll likely be in vain?

Hard to tell when your love's in vain iirc

great thread title btw

what a drag it is cutting "Live With Me"

xpost it was that or "i rate tracks for the troubadours"

a little ILM Classic grist for the mill...

The Rolling Stones OP10 (or, that would be, only pick ten)
Greatest Unheralded Rolling Stones Song(s)
what is sexist exactly about the rolling stones' under my thumb?

done!

I know what my number 1 is. after that... uh

I'm gonna play too!

this is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Shit's impossible. I thought I knew what my #1 would be, then about seven other songs decided THEY wanted to be #1...it's gonna take forever to clean up this mess.

I want to thank this poll for getting me to finally "get" Emotional Rescue....that album slams!

and on that note: Rolling Stones' "Emotional Rescue" - C or D?

iiiiii am your knight
in shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiining aaaaaarmour

"Where The Boys Go" is terrific; I may have to make space for it on my ballot.

voted

I've been listening to the Stones since Hot Rocks, age 8, and only now will I be hearing any record of theirs from Undercover to the present. Any last bits of advice?

hearing "all" the records from 1982 to the present, I mean--kind of daunted by it and hope they're not awful!

Go boldly. See you on the other side...

For some reason Voodoo Lounge I imagine as the worst...we'll see

It's been a long time since I revisted that time period but a lot of it resembles varying cirlces of hell, iirc

There's at least a couple of good tracks on voodoo lounge and one on bridges to babylon.

I hadn't ever listened to anything since Dirty Work until tonight -- really kind of surprised to enjoy A Bigger Bang as much as I did.

Bigger Bang is pretty listenable. It's not great, but it's better for the lame-Stones era, lol

Totally forgot how epic Can't You Hear Me Knocking is. It's like they morph into Santana halfway through

Speaking of Mick Taylor-dominated Stones songs, I gotta remember to put (the Keefless) "Sway" on my ballot.

Keef sings backing vox so there

I got/get the impression "Bigger Bang" was a final "look let's end on a great album" as far as the discography is concerned. Whereas they may well keep doing five-yearly tours forever.

The only embarrassing Stones albums post-Tattoo You are Undercover (I'll save "She Was Hot" and "Too Much Blood" adn damn the test) and about half of Bridges to Babylon. At worst the other albums are perfunctory.

wow "Moonlight Mile' sounds like something off of Merriweather Post Pavilion in the verses...!

Moonlight Mile is one of my faves, but I'm pretty sure She Smiled Sweetly will be my #1. My ballot will probably have a lot of singles/familiar tracks, though.

Ballot sent. Waffled on my #1, but after listening to it three times in a row this morning, yeah, it's definitely my favorite Stones song.

I'm thinking about ranking a top 40, then chopping off 1-20 and sending in 21-40 as my ballot. Just for perversity's sake.

ha! Moonlight Mile is probably going to make my top 10 but not top 5, certainly not #1!

Just wanna rep for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydHupXGnzPU

Ideally I'd do a top forty, then strip out the singles and submit the rest, but too many of those standards are undeniable. The thought of not voting for Saint Of Me is giving me a cold sweat.

"Try A Little Harder" is a jam, love that echo at the end when the song sounds like it's falling apart.

Might have to sit this one out, feeling like my list would be particularly useless for the Stones (unless I spend hours relistening to albums). Will be really excited to see the results though.

re. standards, right now I feel like I gotta vote for "Gimme Shelter", "Paint It, Black", & "Sympathy", but I'm relistening & those'll be the ones to fall should I rate anything higher. Or else I'll cut "Lady Jane", which is a standard too I guess.

not gonna cut "Brown Sugar" though

will definitely vote "saint of me" over "brown sugar," though I have no idea if either will make my final cut

Out of curiosity, what is the logic behind not voting standards? Is it so the results are more varied?

in my case I'm seeing the PS poll with a bunch of standards, & it's not so interesting to me to know which of those are highly rated & which aren't; when I've found these polls interesting it's b/c of less prominent songs that have been rated highly (the Pavement poll was useful to me this way; so was the Blur poll). Since I know the Stones pretty well I want to do my part to make this happen; it'll probably end with unsatisfaction but w/e.

goddam that was brutal. maybe the most time and effort i've ever put into a single-artist poll vote? wound up stacking my top 10 with personal favorites i hope to nudge into the bottom of the countdown, saved the bigger singles for the lower half of my ballot. early 70s heavily represented, w three from exile and four from goat's head soup. also a bunch of stuff from '67, between the buttons and satanic majesties. only two songs post '73, one from emotional rescue, one from tattoo you. nothing from sticky fingers.

suspect that few of my votes will make the cut :(

could have voted for the last 20 songs i cut from my ballot almost as happily

haw, this is going to be hard. might just pick 10 from the 60s, 10 fro the 70s? don't think i'd vote for anything past that.

i'd like to put in a good word for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LNmR5Ja1sc

finalmente sent; hope I made the deadline

I actually have to step out for a few so I'm fine with stragglers trickling in until 10pm PST

cool, gonna do a 2nd ballot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIE2GAqnFGw

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9-YQq1GKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEjAAVJ7A8s

Man I wish I had included "Rocks Off" on my ballot

I changed mind, imma do an all Steel Wheels/Voodoo Lounge ballot.

lurline

POLLS ARE CLOSED

soooooooooo exciting

how many you get, roger?

not enough to give bowie a scare but solid

some bum news: pulled jury duty tomorrow so may have some challenges posting in a nice steady stream. may compensate by releasing "most hated" tonight...

guess that's kinda ironic huh?

Can't you get a witness to do it?

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

Possibly they've been around and I just didn't notice, but I've been amused to see the ads for goat's head soup mix that seem to be on a lot of the subways this week. Maybe it's a sign...

http://www.buygracefoods.com/site/product.cfm?id=mannish_water_ram_goat_soup_mix

"mannish water"

a day of learning then