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

Jones tried writing a couple of songs, I read Mick or Keith saying once, but they were these horrendously complicated numbers with like a hundred jazz chords. It was never going to work.

lol

my #1 too!

That's all for my top 5 except for #2 left

brian jones - really?

Doesn't look good for my #1 and my #2 is definitely out, but I was never sure either would make the countdown.

Supposedly, Hendrix and Brian were pretty tight, and Hendrix' take on the situation was that Mick & Keef were just jealous. But he likely didn't hear the whole story.

Not looking good for my #1 at all.

When my sister postgraduated a few years back I took her and my parents out for a celebratory dinner at Claridge's.  It was very nice.

My dad and I were lounging on the couches in the lobby afterwards, rather decadently we fancied, while the girls went to the ladies.  This statuesque brunette sashayed down the stairs in a bronze dress while we gawped - utterly gorgeous.  So much so that we only spotted the old wrinkly guy beside her at the last moment, all loose-limbed confidence and casual nods to the doormen as the couple disappeared outside to their taxi.

Of course it was Mick. We didn't talk or anything, or even get much of a look - he just monkeyed past, looking pleased with the world.  I found out later he'd been living there for a year after Jerry Hall had finally kicked him out for good, so we'd basically been eating in his kitchen and hanging out at his front door.

Thirty seconds later my mum & sister came out the bathrooms, all enthusiastic about the vast selection of hand creams they'd been trying.  When we told them what they'd missed they barrelled out the doors after them, but they'd already gone.  As they're both massive Stones fans and it was my sister's big night, it was all too cruel.

Thanks folks, very inciteful! I knew none of this.

my privilege

Hah, that was a good story indeed.

5. Rocks Off – 881 points (35 votes, 2x #1)

http://i41.tinypic.com/24m9tzp.gif
http://www.youtu.be/_lNP-x94-SE

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

"so he was the 'bez' of the Stones?"

From the "brian jones - really?" thread.

My #1! xpost

rocks off would've been my #1 if i ever voted in these.

ah, my only Exile vote; best moment on the album is when the drums come in, after the opening riff & Mick's purr/growl.

the horns are the best anything ever all time

...the sunshine bores the daylights out of me!

Now I wanna hear "Rip This Joint"

of all the many many covers only the Feelies come close to doing it justice....

I like the ones by the Avengers, Social Distortion, Firewater, feedtime. Pretty hard to mess this song up, though I guess W.A.S.P. accomplished that, ha ha.

Satisfaction, part ii, and this time i believe it

"Rocks Off" my #6! The horns the horns the horns. Love the vocals on this one too.

http://youtu.be/94e6aZiTRE0

kick me like you've ki'icked befoh-oh
i don't even feeel the paaaain no moooore

inventing g'n'r in that pic btw

I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed
Plug in, flush out and find the fucking feed

I need to repeat that sunshine line in all caps, if I may, because it's so fucking great

THE SUNSHINE BORES THE DAYLIGHTS OUTAAAA MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Excellent! This was my #6 and I was starting to think it wasn't going to be here.

When Max Weinberg was assembling his Let There Be Drums compilations, he really wanted "Rocks Off" on the 70s edition. But licensing was insanely complicated/expensive. Watts got wind of what Max was trying to do, and personally stepped in to clear the licensing for "Rocks Off."

Just to sidetrack on Jones again, the post below from the Brian Jones thread sort encapsulates his dichotomy to me...the myth vs the man. All of what's said below is true, but without the dark undertones of drug use, obsessiveness, jealousy, violence and just general all round fragility it becomes a mythological story of a nice guy done wrong, taken too soon. Wheras to me, Jones' story is of a talented but petty, violent, jealous obsessive unpredictable and fragile dude just completely swallowed by fame. I can't buy into the hippy prince/cock robin stuff.

You can't help but feel sorry for him. Originally - way back at the beginning - it was his band. He was the most creative musical thinker in the group if not the primary songwriter. ... Then Keith stole his girlfriend - the beautiful Anita Pallenberg - and he got kicked out of the band. Then of course, there is the whole mystery surrounding his death. Something about dodgy death certificates or something, I can't remember. I used to know all the conspiracy theories but hey I've forgetten.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:59 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry for the derail

4. Sway – 1017 points (37 votes, 8x #1)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sXZ0GRlCgt4/TzVOs0eFO5I/AAAAAAAAPFI/RsRt3Osyh-E/s1600/mtmjkr.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/1Xk8ZLU6bYM

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

waaaaaaaan tooooooooooo threeeeeeeeeee foooooouuuuuur

Sway almost sounds like a Neil Young song

whoa

Wow, 8 #1 votes. Huge "Sway" contingent.

BAWWWN
NAWWWW
BAWWWW
BAWWWWWWWWWWW
DANANANANANAWWWW

cult of sway right here

Sway was my #1, Moonlight mile was my #2

Sway is an absolute monster.

TOO LOW

BAWWWN
NAWWWW
BAWWWW
BAWWWWWWWWWWW
DANANANANANAWWWW

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 6, 2012

^^ OTM

i guess we have lots of other corroborating evidence that BJ was a scumbag, but i wonder just how much we rely on MJ and KR's posthumous spin for our image of him. Keith doesn't have any excuse for stealing Anita from him, and I think it's clear that Mick and Keith wanted him "out of the way". It's amazing how late into 1965 and 1966 performance clips that you'll see Brian at dead center of the stage, taking in the lion's share of the girls' screaming...I don't Mick liked that one bit.

Sway is the greaaaaaaaaaaaatest ever

if an alien asked me to describe rock n roll with one song, I would give them this. and then we would open a six pack, smoke a pack of marlboros and have a great fucking night.

Sway is the "Life on Mars" of this poll

Kind of amazing that such a (deservedly) well-regarded Stones song doesn't even have Keith playing on it.

xxxpost but I don't think that they ever saw Brian as a threat because he was such a squirrelly weirdo. That's what I get from the stories, anyway.

Kind of amazing that such a (deservedly) well-regarded Stones song doesn't even have Keith playing on it.

It could be the best Mick Jagger vocal ever.

xxxxpost that's retroactive snark towards Brian, that he was hopeless, a joke, etc....let's face it, Brian may have been bad news but is there any doubt that the Glimmer Twins could be royal pricks? And I say that with luv

I found Keith's lack of inwardness or any kind of regret in Life sort of disturbing, actually...the one thing I didn't like about the (self) portrayal. But that's the human riff, obv.

THERE MUST BE WAYS TO FIND OUUUUUUUUUUT
LOVE IS THE WAY
THEY SAY IS REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYSTRUTTINGOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTT

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