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

CHILD OF THE MOON!!! yes, so glad this made the cut! my #1 for reasons i can't fully explain, it just sticks with me. love the deathly drone, the melodic hook, the weirdly inverted & cryptic flower child sentiment. such a great song, and unique in their catalog (though i guess 2000 light years from home is similar, love that too).

all at once he's just a skinny theater kid who didn't realize until just now that the audience wasn't in on the joke, had never been in on the joke, didn't know it was all a show at all...

agree that this is totally depressing moment

stones from Tattoo You forward much less embarrassing than U2 from Pop forward imo

would agree, but the failure to be embarrassing isn't always a victory. U2 have had more worthy tunes in the post-pop era than the stones since tattoo you, jmo.

That's a great summary roger xp. Keith is in a way the personification of evil in that very same bit, where Mick's shouting at him to shut up but he just keeps jamming, enjoying the show.

xxpost god yeah, that moment in Gimme Shelter...it's all over his face, so fucking sad

I liked what Mick said to Wenner about how journalists were falling over themselves to parse a meaning from that moment and for him it was someone died, and that's more than enough.

Love Play With Fire. LOVE

...also did not vote for it

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl)

yeah, same here. one of the dumber omissions from my list.

also love "midnight rambler" and didn't vote for that either. don't regret it though.

i have to admit that i've been soured on "Play With Fire" partly by the absolutely horrible interpolation of it on a Lil Wayne song a few years ago

IMHO, it was poorly used in The Darjeeling Limited too.

so far most disappointed about "live with me" being so low.

and there's a score of harebrained children
they're all locked in the nursery
they got earphone heads they got dirty necks
they're so 20th century

haha are we done with the Wes Anderson portion of the thread yet?

I'm on Lester Bangs' side re Altamont: Jagger, as rogermexico reminded us, looked like a charlatan while Keith was the only one who met force with force (i.e. we're not playing anymore until you guys CUT IT OUT).

also: Jagger expressing sympathy for the victims was as inauthentic as Madonna crying at her mom's grave in Truth or Dare. Give these guys masks and they'll tell the truth every fucking time.

also: "Play With Fire" yay!

Lol I haven't seen Darjeeling Limited

Ftr I'm still furious w myself for neglecting Jigsaw Puzzle

"Street Fighting Man" was in Mr. Fox! xpsts

Charlie's reaction here to HA bullshit strikes me as so human, so sad, and so grown-up: http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/a4OUEZSg8xY/search/off

I like thinking that Play With Fire is like a Part 2 of Heart of Stone, where the false bravado has given way to a kind of menace.
I think a lot, lol.

Play with Fire sounds to me the template for Love, another Wes A fave.

ENOUGH WITH WES ANDERSON

:)

my favorite Play With Fire interpolation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTR-7LU3Fc

and hey all their pld blues heroes keep playing guitar with arthritic fingers until the day they drop dead, why not the Stones too?

Yeah, I seem to recall an interview with Mick where he made exactly this point. I couldn't fault the logic, and a lot of my disdain for old rock musicians, especially British Invasion bands, dropped away at that point. There are more worthy targets.

xp yeah, that's p great

36. Happy – 274 points (13 votes)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/yvZqiroI9chktcsj8bxPwzqh_500.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/Je1wsntVm7w

xp Yeah, the "hope I die before I get old" sentiment ended as soon as the boomers realized they'll mostly live past 80 or 90. They might as well keep working to offset the ones who will be bankrupting the social security system and whatever they have in the UK.

Meanwhile Keef the cock-a-roacha has shown some signs of frailty lately and I fear won't be seeing 90, let alone 80.

according to a recent article in RS, the band thought Keith was in seriously bad shape.

yay! Happy!!

This was one of my last cuts, goddamn it hurt.
I love the line 'Never wanna be like papa, workin' for the boss every night and day'...after reading Keef's book I feel like this is Keef in song form. I love it, I love his singing voice...it's a fun jam

when Keith finally kicks it i'll feel like i did when Jack Lalane or George Burns finally passed, like "what!? you're not allowed to die!"

I don't want to entertain the thought of no Keef

that bums me out

I will cry more than I did when Strummer died

love happy, tho it didn't make the cut on my ballot. some of the live versions of that song are pretty lol, keith seeming to have no clue how to sing into a microphone, jagger trying to keep things together.

i let "happy" go even before "turd on the run" (and just about blew a fuse cutting that), but am super glad to see it here, easily the sunniest exile track. also one of the few keef songs i really dig.

keith-sung, i mean, he wrote lots of great shit

xp I read that same article and another one. They took a break from touring due to unspecified health issues Keith was dealing with, but since then he's played at least one gig and seemed okay.

Love "Happy", too low imo. Love the riff, the slide playing, the horns mimicing the slide, the vocals. And, uh, it makes me feel happy too, which sounds stupid but is true, so gotta fess up.

I killed the thread with my earnest appreciation. Very un-Stonesy.

no way! lotsa earnest appreciation itt.

it turned out the picture kinda said everything for me

35. Waiting on a Friend – 282 points (13 votes)

http://i39.tinypic.com/25r1i5x.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/wMYjTWbU76k

xpost it really is an A+ pic

I didn't vote but I love ooooh oooh's in this

Almost voted for this just for the Rollins solo.

Yay! Second of mine to place - it's so good-natured.

I like the sound of the guitar in this. I haven't the musical knowledge to describe either the guitar or kind of playing but I dig it :D

i believe the correct musicological term for that guitar sound is "heavenly"

<3

I shoulda voted for this, I forgot how much I love it

so so many great songs i didn't vote for, god this poll was tough. their most beautifully relaxed song? no tension or angst, just this effortless sunny afternoon sway, can't help but love it. tattoo you forever.