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

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...!

Moonlight Mile is one of my faves, but I'm pretty sure She Smiled Sweetly will be my #1. My ballot will probably have a lot of singles/familiar tracks, though.

Ballot sent. Waffled on my #1, but after listening to it three times in a row this morning, yeah, it's definitely my favorite Stones song.

I'm thinking about ranking a top 40, then chopping off 1-20 and sending in 21-40 as my ballot. Just for perversity's sake.

ha! Moonlight Mile is probably going to make my top 10 but not top 5, certainly not #1!

Just wanna rep for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydHupXGnzPU

Ideally I'd do a top forty, then strip out the singles and submit the rest, but too many of those standards are undeniable. The thought of not voting for Saint Of Me is giving me a cold sweat.

"Try A Little Harder" is a jam, love that echo at the end when the song sounds like it's falling apart.

Might have to sit this one out, feeling like my list would be particularly useless for the Stones (unless I spend hours relistening to albums). Will be really excited to see the results though.

re. standards, right now I feel like I gotta vote for "Gimme Shelter", "Paint It, Black", & "Sympathy", but I'm relistening & those'll be the ones to fall should I rate anything higher. Or else I'll cut "Lady Jane", which is a standard too I guess.

not gonna cut "Brown Sugar" though

will definitely vote "saint of me" over "brown sugar," though I have no idea if either will make my final cut

Out of curiosity, what is the logic behind not voting standards? Is it so the results are more varied?

in my case I'm seeing the PS poll with a bunch of standards, & it's not so interesting to me to know which of those are highly rated & which aren't; when I've found these polls interesting it's b/c of less prominent songs that have been rated highly (the Pavement poll was useful to me this way; so was the Blur poll). Since I know the Stones pretty well I want to do my part to make this happen; it'll probably end with unsatisfaction but w/e.

goddam that was brutal. maybe the most time and effort i've ever put into a single-artist poll vote? wound up stacking my top 10 with personal favorites i hope to nudge into the bottom of the countdown, saved the bigger singles for the lower half of my ballot. early 70s heavily represented, w three from exile and four from goat's head soup. also a bunch of stuff from '67, between the buttons and satanic majesties. only two songs post '73, one from emotional rescue, one from tattoo you. nothing from sticky fingers.

suspect that few of my votes will make the cut :(

could have voted for the last 20 songs i cut from my ballot almost as happily

haw, this is going to be hard. might just pick 10 from the 60s, 10 fro the 70s? don't think i'd vote for anything past that.

i'd like to put in a good word for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LNmR5Ja1sc

^ good one!

I could happily put the whole disc 3 of the Singles Collection for half my ballot.

lemme know if you don't get my ballot(s), rogermexico (sent my album votes as a separate message).

while we're boosterizing, i'd like to put in a word for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt37Fj1U5iM

^ their "venus in furs" moment

I'm not sure yet, but this might be somewhere near the end of my list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlsudiYhn4

Twee Stones Poll

a fav Stones thread of mine

Out of curiosity, what is the logic behind not voting standards? Is it so the results are more varied?

Yeah a bit, not that one ballot will make much difference. Also it's that I love a lot of things pretty much equally, and if I don't vote for Satisfaction it'll still make it, but if I don't vote for Ventilator Blues it probably won't.

^ yeah, that was my thinking. pushed hard for the things i'd love to see make the countdown, but suspect won't. figure "you can't always get what you want" will do fine without my help.

listening to Dirty Work right now & think what's hard for me is Mick's voice; he's more shouty than I'd like. The songs are fast & direct, Keith's playing sounds great, the melodies are sharp, but Mick sounds almost hoarse. It's the voice he has on "Start Me Up" too, but it seems worse here.

I can imagine their equivalent of "Hey Jude" failing to make it, like in the Beatles Poll...

I didn't think I would vote for stuff like Satisfaction or Jumpin Jack Flash, but as I listen to them in amongst the things I think I *will* vote for, I've been surprised by how hard it is to say 'eh I could live without it'. Satisfaction came on while I was driving home last night and after I really took the time to listen and not just tune it out, I was saying to myself, 'you know, I've heard this song a thousand times but it's really fucking great."

I'm probably just being insecute. But like with the Paul Simon poll ppl are like "ugh these are the worst results ever" when popular songs rank more highly than the deep cuts. And it's kind of nuts to me. Paul Simon was a GREAT songwriter. He had a TON of popular songs.

The Stones are prolific. They're not a band that noodled around with only a couple of recognizable hits and left all their best stuff on 5 albums no-one heard. Half their material was popular, ubiquitous stuff. That's a GOOD thing! That's why we're still talking about them after what, 40 or 50 years. I guess I just get intimidated by all the deep cuts, like I'm going to be the rube voter who ruins it for everyone, lol.

I dunno. I'm tired, I need more coffee. I like the process and I love participating in the polls I've joined in on after years of lurking. I'll try not to get intimidated :)

fuuuuuuuuck talk about tl;dr

sorry!

"insecute"?

new word

Hey, don't worry - those should be the meat of the poll! I love it when the odd deep cut turns up unexpectedly high, but only when it's one I like. I guess I'm hoping that one day mine will chime with the ILM collective unconscious.

It has to be random though - worst thing ever was on the metal poll, where the #1 was this lurked block vote thing that a lot of folk had never heard of.

like with the Paul Simon poll ppl are like "ugh these are the worst results ever" when popular songs rank more highly than the deep cuts. And it's kind of nuts to me...

OTM imo. Like, "American Tune" is deeply personally important to me, but "Graceland" absolutely transcends and there's nothing wrong with that.

The Stones are prolific. They're not a band that noodled around with only a couple of recognizable hits and left all their best stuff on 5 albums no-one heard. Half their material was popular, ubiquitous stuff.

I'm not sure about this. I'm still amazed by how many people in the general population base their entire notion of the Stones on HOT ROCKS. And you, like, give them a copy of STICKY FINGERS or LET IT BLEED and they're like "whoa, i had no idea."

ps and thank you for the tl;dr -- kinda hearkens back to the old days. ou sont les kogans d'antan?

I'm still amazed by how many people in the general population base their entire notion of the Stones on HOT ROCKS.

I have a feeling none of those people will be voting in this poll, LOL

haha. on which note:

Taking Sides: Let It Bleed VS. Sticky Fingers

tbf hot rocks is one of the best greatest hits comps ever. xp

xxxpost that is a good point rog, re HOT ROCKS; Exile was the first Stones album I heard in full and it completely changed the way I felt about them after only really knowing their hits. So I take that part back :D

yeah, i love reading long, thoughtful posts, so no worries, VG.

I didn't think I would vote for stuff like Satisfaction or Jumpin Jack Flash, but as I listen to them in amongst the things I think I *will* vote for, I've been surprised by how hard it is to say 'eh I could live without it'. Satisfaction came on while I was driving home last night and after I really took the time to listen and not just tune it out, I was saying to myself, 'you know, I've heard this song a thousand times but it's really fucking great."

oh yeah, i never even considered cutting "satisfaction". for a while, i thought it might be my #1. emphasizing beloved deep cuts is one thing, but i'm not crazy.

and "insecute" is a great word :)