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

Rank these albums: Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street

Taking Sides: Let It Bleed VS. Sticky Fingers

2. Sticky Fingers - 176 points (30 votes, eight #1 votes)

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1. Brown Sugar
2. Sway
3. Wild Horses
4. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
5. You Gotta Move

6. Bitch
7. I Got The Blues
8. Sister Morphine
9. Dead Flowers
10. Moonlight Mile

for those of you gnashing your teeth over the low finish for Let It Blled, take a look at the point differential.

YAAAAAAY

imo it is now Proven By Science that it's a three-way tie for second place

dunno, there was a lot of challopsy bashing of Sticky Fingers on that Can't Your Hear Me Knocking poll, but look at that tracklisting. So good! I know some people prefer the Marianne version of Sister Morphine (I might too), but i looooooove the sequencing of "Dead Flowers immediately following it. like, taking you to the darkest corners of addiction, and then saying lol nevermind, where's my needle and spoon?

I didn't vote for any albums, but ILX OTM with this top two.

Exile is going to have more than 300 pts right?

I do think the first 6 songs of Sticky are perfect. Maybe it does get a bit dark for me after that. 'sway' and 'wild horses' are among my all-timers.

Also, they never had a string arrangement (before or since) to compare with "Moonlight Mile."

i may be the only person who didn't vote for Exile

Sway, Moonlight Mile, Wild Horses, Brown Sugar, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, I Got The Blues...I mean, fuck. So great.

and BITCH! and Dead Flowers!

I just saw the "Stones In Exile" doc, the making of the album, for the first time. It wasn't bad. Lots of cool photos from the villa.
Looks they worked their asses off until the drugs finally spent them.
I can't believe I haven't heard the 11 additional tracks released from the sessions.
I am one sorry ass Stones fan.

The extra tracks aren't all great. But there's a couple of good ones.
Plundered my Soul is pretty good, and the alternate take of Loving Cup is cool.

one thing that the big relisten has really driven home for me is the Lost Art of Making An Album. pacing matters, and during this period the Stones were masters.

otm

Oh my God. I can't believe It's Only Rock n' Roll is going to come in first.

Pretty sure it's Steel Wheels dude.

Plundered my Soul is pretty good, and the alternate take of Loving Cup is cool.

Yes. The rest of the Exile bonus tracks are kinda dull, and in the case of Pass The Wine, downright awful. That song made my most hated list.

I just don't think I'll ever understand the logic of, 'we found some unfinished pieces of music, of course everyone will love it if old man me puts some half-ass lyrics to it'

worked for Tattoo You!

touche

Typical, none of mine are gonna place. (did Let It Bleed get 29 votes btw?)

I actually had to double-check if I placed Let It Bleed over Beggars as my #1 or not (I did). Both are just so great.

Let It Bleed is badass. My first Stones album.

er... yes, sorry. 29 votes for Let It Bleed.

i only voted for two albums, which may have skewed expected results slightly

which 2 did you vote for, Mookie?

1. Exile on Main St. - 269 points (39 votes, fourteen #1 votes)

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1. Rocks Off
2. Rip This Joint
3. Shake Your Hips
4. Casino Boogie
5. Tumbling Dice

6. Sweet Virginia
7. Torn and Frayed
8. Sweet Black Angel
9. Loving Cup

10. Happy
11. Turd on the Run
12. Ventilator Blues
13. I Just Want To See His Face
14. Let It Loose

15. All Down the Lin
16. Stop Breaking Down
17. Shine a Light
18. Soul Survivor

i'm with Mick on Exile, i still can barely hum any song on that album besides "Tumbling Dice"

the top two, in that order

that would have been my 2 as well.

I always liked that guy with the three billiard balls in his mouth

The resounding endorsement of Exile for me is that I cannot hear a single song off that album without automatically singing the next track immediately afterwards in my head.

I love that there's no 'singles' in the classic Stones sense...even having Tumbling Dice as a single sort of seems an afterthought decision. It's not a commercial album at all, I get that's probably why Mick doesn't really get down with it, there's nothing super hooky or super meaty...but UGH GOD SO GOOD.

and I really love 'Happy' as Keith's little mini bio song. It's great.

Loving Cup is maybe my favorite track. But there are days when it's Let It Loose and there are days when it's Torn and Frayed.

It's been my favorite album of all time since the day I heard it. I'd love for something to dislodge it, but nothing will.

another recent poll won by Exile: best big iconic classic rock studio double LP of the 1960s and 1970s

btw roger how many tracks are you counting down? top 50 or what?

Good discussion here: Exile on Main St.

xpost yup based on ballot volume we've got enough for a solid top 50

my first full stones album; still tremendous

rocks off, ventilator blues, let it loose, loving cup <3

ventilator blues. YES.

let's take a moment with this

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72 Rehearsals

I kinda love this

(btw no harm no foul but let's keep youtubes to a minimum so that folks can load the thread -- we're nowhere near the danger zone yet but we've got 50 tracks to go)

oops sorry

yeah, folks need to be posting the unembedded youtu.be versions imo

xp

please don't apologize! i just remembered getting effectively locked out of the Jacksons thread...

Well, regardless...I will be on my best behaviour from now on. Youtube-wise, anyway.