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

15. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – 544 points (23 votes)

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http://www.youtu.be/8_VbImuG71M

lol it's the same scene as the nilsson! maybe someone can pipe up w/ a 'i owe my george harrison fandom to goodfellas'.

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felt like i *should* have voted for satisfaction, but didn't

monkey man is tremendous, my #4

xp currently at work, would love to say more later tho

hey balls, it is real nice to see you posting more again

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:31 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^

"You Can't" was in my top 10, it's a song that has weirdly only gained power for me over the years, and i'm generally not big on "Hey Jude" or whatever other songs might be comparison points

keith "ocasek" richards

<3 balls

if u know what i mean

Same scene? Hoho, pleading "baked adolescence" in my defense here
xp to balls

You know, ten years ago, not ten minutes ago

Man, missed a lot, but really glad "Monkey Man" made it. My #14, such a killer sounding song. Riff is all time for me too.

love that Satisfaction 45 pic!!

"Satisfaction" is an eternal keeper for me. I love how aggressive it is, it's kinda slower than I ever remember whenever I hear it, but I just love the forcefulness of it. It doesn't sound like many of the other popular songs of its day, it has that really nasty garage quality to it that I just love from that era. Good song for playing air tambourine to, if you're so inclined

The version of "Satisfaction" from Got Live If You Want It! has been my go-to lately whenever I want to hear this song.

@ 2:22 here:

http://youtu.be/TFn98iVkQpo

btw can someone link me this jagger-wenner interview?

love monkey man so much

http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/Jagger_Remembers.aspx

thank u

no problem! there's a great typo in that article that makes me wish someone really wrote a song called "that's how strong my lore is".

btw for those of you who haven't clicked on the "satisfaction" youtube, do yourself a favor and check out 00:45-00:49.

<3 charlie watts 4 all time

i have mixed feelings about "satisfaction":
• riff is obviously all-time
• made even more all-time by the innovative use of guitar fx (keef noticed that the gibson maestro fuzz, a relatively new invention, could make his guitar sound like a horn, and laid down "in a dream" more or less a motown horn part)
• bassline is all-time
• super-edgy subject matter for the time and for years after, genuinely frightening to parents
• super-sharp and still-otm observation of the relationship between conspicuous consumption and sexual frustration/fear of death
• somehow never really gets in my pants -- it's all strangely lifeless, which i suppose is appropriate to the subject matter: all looks no action (imo!)

Great breakdown, and I agree. It was never really on my ballot.

^^^

14. Brown Sugar – 559 points (23 votes, 1x #1)

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http://www.youtu.be/3B0Y3LUqr1Q

http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOBrown.html

i'll take 'racial tropes in rolling stones songs' for 1000, alex

my #11

(I've written riffs that people assume are Keith's.) Brown Sugar. That was the first one I did. I've done many since.
- Mick Jagger, 1994

I'm the #1 for "Monkey Man," really glad to see it placed. I can understand if it's a little thin for some, but it's definitive for me.

Listening to my CD stones on shuffle today, and I gotta say, while I didn't vote for the 5 worst Stones tracks, if I had, "Under The Boardwalk" definitely would have placed. Easily the least valuable of their early covers imo.

"Monkey Man" is great, thought i'd voted for it but i guess it was a last minute casualty

keith "ocasek" richards

― buzza, Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:51 PM

just wanna take a moment to savor the OTMness

haha yes

rogermexico, are you familiar with Otis Redding's version on Live in Europe? revitalized the song for me, Otis takes a VERY different approach to the vocal.....

Can I just say Muscle Shoals fuck yeah.

"Satisfaction" and "Honky Tonk Woman" seem ranked way too low to this old-timer. Those two songs were the ultimate transistor radio jams in their time. Instant dance parties coming at you on the AM band. And while we're talking Stones songs on film soundtracks, "Satisfaction" in Apocalypse Now is exactly what I'm talking about.

Now youre talking

Educating myself about the Stones in the late nineties, I was amazed how quickly the cliches broke down: Mick wrote a lot of the riffs and Keef wrote the best ballads.

xpost hell yes! love otis and love that take. otis was from another world.

Brown Sugar was my #1 most hated. To be honest, I don't really hate it at all; I just think it's kind of boring and gets WAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION over the dozens of superior RS songs

Which is why I didn't vote for a lot of the hits.

That's how I vote in most of these polls. No reason to vote for "Brown Sugar" when 500 people will.

My take too, so my ballot's a little peculiar

thought hard about voting for Brown Sugar though because I once sang a fun nursery rhyme version to a group of toddlers & it worked

Charlie's tom-tom work on "Brown Sugar"=All-time.

or really the mix of toms and kick

i voted for a lot of big hits because tbh i knew "Satisfaction" was gonna be too low

exactly. i frontloaded my top 5 with big hits (iirc) to counteract the contrarians

figuring most everyone would leave out the big hits...although we're already well through the big hits, right? (sorry, breaking my own thing about telecasting what is to come)

13. Moonlight Mile – 561 points (23 votes, 3x #1)

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http://www.youtu.be/moQmARaiOEU

http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOMoonlight.html

lower than I expected but *swoon*

my #2

how much do I love this freaking song

the way i see it there's pretty much nothing but big hits from here on out. maybe one or two deep cuts and minor singles, if that. (xpost -- there's one)