WHAT A DRAG IT IS GETTING POLLED – ILM Artist Poll #16 – The Rolling Stones (Extended deadline: April 1st)

unreleased: probably won't chart high but go for it imo

"in another land" appears on Their Satanic Majesties Request and therefor qualifies despite also having been released as a bill wyman single

seriously i trust the collective's best judgment on this stuff -- if it's worth a spot on yr ballot it'll get counted

If any of their unreleased tracks have a chance at making the results, Cocksucker Blues is the one I'd think.

CS Blues is pretty great, but narrowing it to 20 will be hard enough

yeah, 20 is particularly brutal in this case

my first cut = nearly 70 songs...

Ballots will undoubtedly fall into categories of when-did-it-end? Three most common: nothing after Exile (me), nothing after Some Girls, nothing after Tattoo You. If Nick Cohn were voting, it'd be nothing after Aftermath or thereabouts. If the rules were different and Rob Sheffield were voting, it'd be Mick Jagger solo hits very much in play.

That might make a good minipoll some day.

How are votes for live versions being calculated (I'd pick "Sympathy" from Ya-Yas over the studio version)?

(I'm also curious because I'm trying to figure out how to tackle this issue when I do the Who poll)

When I did the Beatles one (ah, only one "Live" record, nobody voted a pref in that way), I noted 'alt: versions' votes but compiled them as one.

yeah that's the standard practice I think

Many thanks to rogermexico for running this one. It should break all existing response records.

yup - votes for alt versions count as votes for the track but will be noted

Many thanks to rogermexico for running this one. It should break all existing response records.

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, March 22, 2012 6:55 AM

aw... y'all are vv welcome. about time i gave something back to this board. thanks to everyone here for a lot of years of good times and good company.

yup - votes for alt versions count as votes for the track but will be noted

Cool, yeah, I was sort of thinking along those lines for the Who poll.

Thanks for doing this! Been looking forward to this one.

Excited for this one! I'll probably put together a ballot over the weekend and let it sit and stew for a couple of days to see if any changes demand to be made before I send it in. I would love for this one to break the Bowie record, but with a 9-day voting period, a lot of people in the "yeah I'll get around to it...ooops I forgot" camp are going to have to pull their thumb out and just make the time.

this ballot is going to break my mind tbh

Won't someone post a comprehensive list of songs that voters (or potential voters) can c/p and sift through idly/agonize about (your choice)?

There's one upthread already. (see links)

Anyways, sented..

Oh ok, thanks. I did skim a bit.

voted. much easier than I anticipated.

eeek yeah this is gonna be tough

I put together a provisional ballot w/o thinking about it toooo much, but then I have to strategize a bit since I could easily vote for 40 songs off the top of my head. Do I cut singles, or most singles, knowing they'll be fine w/o me? I guess! Do I lean heavily on the "twee Stones" era I love so much, knowing that it'll likely be in vain? I think so! Do I care that my ballot is 60s heavy? I guess not!

anyway Flowers is pretty much the best

I wanna see the Dirty Work contingent up in here.

Do I lean heavily on the "twee Stones" era I love so much, knowing that it'll likely be in vain?

Hard to tell when your love's in vain iirc

great thread title btw

what a drag it is cutting "Live With Me"

xpost it was that or "i rate tracks for the troubadours"

a little ILM Classic grist for the mill...

The Rolling Stones OP10 (or, that would be, only pick ten)
Greatest Unheralded Rolling Stones Song(s)
what is sexist exactly about the rolling stones' under my thumb?

done!

I know what my number 1 is. after that... uh

I'm gonna play too!

this is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Shit's impossible. I thought I knew what my #1 would be, then about seven other songs decided THEY wanted to be #1...it's gonna take forever to clean up this mess.

I want to thank this poll for getting me to finally "get" Emotional Rescue....that album slams!

and on that note: Rolling Stones' "Emotional Rescue" - C or D?

iiiiii am your knight
in shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiining aaaaaarmour

"Where The Boys Go" is terrific; I may have to make space for it on my ballot.

voted

I've been listening to the Stones since Hot Rocks, age 8, and only now will I be hearing any record of theirs from Undercover to the present. Any last bits of advice?

hearing "all" the records from 1982 to the present, I mean--kind of daunted by it and hope they're not awful!

Go boldly. See you on the other side...

For some reason Voodoo Lounge I imagine as the worst...we'll see

It's been a long time since I revisted that time period but a lot of it resembles varying cirlces of hell, iirc

There's at least a couple of good tracks on voodoo lounge and one on bridges to babylon.

I hadn't ever listened to anything since Dirty Work until tonight -- really kind of surprised to enjoy A Bigger Bang as much as I did.

Bigger Bang is pretty listenable. It's not great, but it's better for the lame-Stones era, lol

Totally forgot how epic Can't You Hear Me Knocking is. It's like they morph into Santana halfway through

Speaking of Mick Taylor-dominated Stones songs, I gotta remember to put (the Keefless) "Sway" on my ballot.

Keef sings backing vox so there

I got/get the impression "Bigger Bang" was a final "look let's end on a great album" as far as the discography is concerned. Whereas they may well keep doing five-yearly tours forever.

The only embarrassing Stones albums post-Tattoo You are Undercover (I'll save "She Was Hot" and "Too Much Blood" adn damn the test) and about half of Bridges to Babylon. At worst the other albums are perfunctory.

wow "Moonlight Mile' sounds like something off of Merriweather Post Pavilion in the verses...!

There's nothing wrong with GHS at all, and even the 'worst' songs are nowhere near as unlistenable as the later period Stones stuff that Alfred stans for that I object to.

Winter's beautiful.

Goats Head Soup is better than its reputation. It's Only Rock 'n Roll, on the other hand, blows.

at this point any exploration of albums after Tattoo You would be done for case study

A Bigger Bang is great. It's one of the two or three best records they've made since 1972.

I do like Bigger Bang. I dont have any favorite tracks but I can listen to it without sadly shaking my head

Aside from Angie & Starfucker GHS is listless.

― Euler, Saturday, March 31, 2012 6:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

list is not high on my list of priorities for a good stones tune

Submitted my HR-heavy ballot - in the end I just didn't have much desire to hunt down great album tracks that I know I'll get around to eventually. The problem is that I've known and loved the obvious selections on that comp for so long that it would take weeks or months of repeated listens for me to feel similarly about a deep cut here or there. I could vote for tracks I heard and liked based on recommendations ITT, but that would mean bumping songs I've cherished for a dozen years or more. Think it's more important to be honest about what you love.

The making of "One Hit" video, it should be noted, was filmed right in the middle of Charlie's short but very intense drug phase.

I was gonna say, he seemed to be in pretty bad shape in that interview. Every other interview of his I've seen, he's been extremely gregarious and engaging.

<3 charlie. "short but very intense" is the way to do yr drug phase, imo. so long you come out ok on the other end.

TWO HOUR WARNING -- GET THOSE BALLOTS IN

LET YER VOICE BE HEARD

http://i42.tinypic.com/33o7kno.jpg

bwahaha

PUT ON YOUR SEQUINED BOLERO JACKETS, PEOPLE; SHIT'S GONNA GET REAL

Done.

encouraged by all these last minute balloting, should have a p good turnout

let's get this party started!

yeah, 491-500 NOW!

so amazing getting to see the super-8 footage that Frank used to make the Exile cover art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE

I think I've sent mine but my internet connection has been a bit shaky so shout if it hasn't arrived!

finalmente sent; hope I made the deadline

I actually have to step out for a few so I'm fine with stragglers trickling in until 10pm PST

cool, gonna do a 2nd ballot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIE2GAqnFGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GugjdJzMePw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9-YQq1GKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEjAAVJ7A8s

Man I wish I had included "Rocks Off" on my ballot

I changed mind, imma do an all Steel Wheels/Voodoo Lounge ballot.

lurline

POLLS ARE CLOSED

soooooooooo exciting

how many you get, roger?

not enough to give bowie a scare but solid

some bum news: pulled jury duty tomorrow so may have some challenges posting in a nice steady stream. may compensate by releasing "most hated" tonight...

guess that's kinda ironic huh?

Can't you get a witness to do it?

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

Possibly they've been around and I just didn't notice, but I've been amused to see the ads for goat's head soup mix that seem to be on a lot of the subways this week. Maybe it's a sign...

http://www.buygracefoods.com/site/product.cfm?id=mannish_water_ram_goat_soup_mix

"mannish water"

a day of learning then