xp well, by autopilot i mean it sorta seems like the band was like "wot, we need another ballad? alrightee." and then they knock it out of the park. seems effortless.
― tylerw, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh SHIT I left "Sway" off my ballot! ARrrgg!
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
winter's good, but it's the one goats head track i had under consideration that i did eventually cut. lot of stones ballads i like better.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, sway's better, and i cut that too, no regrets
"Star Star" in contention for my ballot; "Stray Cat Blues" vying for my top spot with "I Am Waiting" (which I didn't realize had been featured in a popular film until a clip was posted recently; the song's been one of my favorites for a long time but I'm not much for films)
"Sway" will be high on mine too
we are in the groove now!
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
deep cuts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLELdezjuE
okay, not a deep cut but come AWN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inqCrGnNXDI
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
I can play this game too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FhkS2r2dP4
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
going through the London years comp. man this band made a lot of shit. I mean there's tons of great stuff too but 50 years of shameless careerism results in a fair amount of detritus.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M84FaMn6J9I
btw i'm not posting the KISS cover of 2000 man because it's a bit dire imo but if anyone can find the comsat angels cover of "citadel" plz post
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
are we really posting stones covers on you tube on the poll thread? people, please!
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
rogermexico must be reading my ballot by telepathy or else has tremendous taste
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Am going to do proper homework for this one. Queued up Aftermath, Between The Buttons and Goat's Head for re-listen. I don't think I've heard Aftermath before. Treats abound!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
i do congratulate cibbo matto for finding the song "why don't we sing this song all together" always wanted to be. only stones cover i can think of that significantly improves on the original.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
except with one less bee
sort of bummed by all these cover versions, because "2000 light years from home" is COMPLETELY GREAT, and while that monster magnet cover is cool in its way, it's not really doing the song any favors
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
"why don't we sing this song all together"
lol brain damage
[it's not really all that funny]
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Sleeper off of GHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrciVFFw3iQ
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
i do congratulate cibbo matto for finding the song "why don't we sing this song all together" always wanted to be
pretty much. the original isn't bad at all, but CM's version is an improvement/refinement
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Aftermath and Between the Buttons are my favorite albums (like, ever) but I just couldn't choose between all of those deep cuts. so only 2 songs from each made it (not even that since Ruby Tuesday is not on my favorite version of BTB).
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
hell yes, highest-placing GHS track on my ballot
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
listen to "100 years ago" if you haven't yet
^^ after "Star Star" it's the only GHS track worth a damn imo.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
listening to Dirty Work right now & think what's hard for me is Mick's voice; he's more shouty than I'd like.
This is why I love the record: a pissed-off, impatient Mick feeding off the aggression in the riffs and rhythms. I don't think he's ever sung a lyric like "I've been caught in this tree of promises for over forty years."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Angie
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
yes, and i love etc etc "heartbreaker" though ymmv
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
huh gonna have to listen to Dirty Work with that in mind, then.
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
dunno if I can bear to subject myself to anything post-Emotional Rescue
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Tattoo You Jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5VtlCDnD9E
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
^ hell yeah it is. only TY track to make my ballot, though i really had to agonize over cutting "no use in crying".
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Townshend and Rollins, together at last!
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
xpost so slinky
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
"little t&a" hurt too
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
ripping version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr0yOcTVs88
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
ragh it's not on youtube but Australian band The Beasts of Bourbon has a great cover of "Dead Flowers" on their Live & Rare compilation.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
goddamn I love "Summer Romance"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
I've been noticing with their late 60's-early 70's songs that do a lot of interesting things with their songs in the outros...like they're not a 'repeat refrain/repeat chorus/fade out', it'll turn into a whole new jam and just as it fades out you're like 'hey whoa stop that was cool'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
No need to rep for the song, but any excuse to post a Who clip...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVkiW4_JyuM
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
What are ilxors feelings abt the really early stuff, covers and whatnot?
I really love stuff like "Not Fade Away", "Oh Carol", "I Wanna Be Your Man", even their "Route 66".
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Without giving too much away, at least two of those are on my list.
― Mark G, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
What are ilxors feelings abt the really early stuff....?
xpost: Around and Around beats Chuck Berry; "I wanna be your man" betters the beatles, and i like the others you mentioned. only a couple times did they miss, imo (talkin' about "under the boardwalk" for example)
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Under the Boardwalk was not a good fit for them.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of their early stuff is clumsy and or outright offensive in its brazen ripoff-ness but "Not Fade Away", you can't fuck with stuff like that. Phil Spector on maracas iirc.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
says the guy who just listened to the entirety of the London Years box
it's also readily apparent that Keith was a startlingly good guitar player right from the get-go. he's often the best thing about those early singles.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Lennon seemed kinda pissy when he tried to play off "I Wanna Be Your Man" later on, like 'meh it wasn't a very good song anyway so who cares, we made Ringo sing it" but Stones played the HELL out of it. That opening guitar is just like WHOA undeniable
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
xpost lol Shakey I'm ploughing through London Years this afternoon :)
the early stuff is definitely best when it's in Keith's rock n roll wheelhouse, which sorta seems like Mick's wheelhouse too.and Mick's harmonica in some of those early rockers is really good. makes me want to punch John Popper so hard, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
xcept maybe not just rock but blues, because Heart of Stone is kinda slow tempo but it really works. But some of the really ballady songs early are just, ick, no.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
Plus you have Brian Jones playing the hottest white guy slide guitar in the world circa '63 in the solo.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link