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

I don't have the energy to get all ~involved~ but I will submit a ballot because clearly "She's So Cold" needs me.

srsly

That song is SO FUN to dance to.

"She's So Cold" was one of my very last cuts!

the guy singing with his lady friend at 2:00 exactly looks like alfred!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rf7Z-TBeTI&feature=related

She's So Cold is fun, I wouldn't be sad if it made it. I didn't vote for it, but vote away lurkers!

It's not that the stuff after Exile is bad, lots of it is great. But for me at least, the Rolling Stones from 68 to 72 is the best music ever made by anyone. So naturally my top 20 is going to focus heavily on that period.

Here's a question (apologies if this has been covered upthread. What is the super immortal megaclassic Stones song that you're most sick of, and won't be on your ballot? For me it's Honky Tonk Women.

Possibly Brown Sugar. Certainly Satisfaction.

Honky Tonk Women, Ruby Tuesday.

I can't quit on Brown Sugar, Keyes' sax has its hooks in me.

*Keys

sick of: Honky Tonk Women, Satisfaction, Street Fighting Man, Wild Horses, Get Off of My Cloud

super immortal megaclassic Stones songs I can't believe I didn't vote for: The Last Time, Let's Spend the Night Together, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Have You Seen Your Mother Baby...

I just came her to say that this title has had me singing Mother's Little Helper over and over again in my head since late last week. It's driving me nuts. Thanks a lot, RM! ;)

HERE

dammit

the guy singing with his lady friend at 2:00 exactly looks like alfred!!

lol a bit! You've got a good eye.

I thought about that too, the song you're most sick of. Ten at least, led by "Satisfaction" and "Paint It Black." I'm pretty sure I loved every one of them when I was younger.

My favorite thing about Wild Horses, aside from straight up loving the song, is imitiating Mick's delivery of the title line

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild Hawwwwwwsssseeeesssssss

He's very sibilant, it makes me laugh

;_; that everyone is sick of Satisfaction.

I've tried to get sick of it! I can't!

i'm actually finding it really hard to think of songs for my most hated ballot. there are tons of big hits i'm a little blase about but only in relation to other Stones hits, and of course a lot of treading water, but very little i outright dislike, even of the fallow periods.

I'm pretty sick of "Mixed Emotions."

oh i love that one

I kind of hate Emotional Rescue. And Under My Thumb.

Nono, Under My Thumb will be getting voted for, even if I end up leaving off all the other classics

lol I was kidding – I don't hear "Mixed Emotions" enough

I'm definitely tired of "Satisfaction," but I was never all that nutso about the song in the first place. I used to think I was sick of "Miss You," but then some friends of mine came around at twelve with some Puerto Rican girls that, evidently, were just dying to meet me. They brought a case of wine and we messed and fooled around, you know, like we used to.

"Emotional Rescue" is my least favorite single for sure, despite loving the album to bits. "Undercover of the Night" is pretty damn cynical and makes a good case for the post-'72 naysayers.

i will probably be the only voter for "love is strong," won't i

I haven't revisited Undercover of the Night on my listen-through yet, but I'll be amazed if it doesn't sail way up my ballot.

And stuff like Start Me Up, it just sounds like Superbowls and stadiums to me. There's sort of a, I dunno, smaller feel to the old stuff. That's not the right word, but it'll do.

it does sound that way at this point, yeah. it didn't then, at least not to me, and so i still dig it, despite the yucky associations. did cut it early and without regret tho.

have never grown tired of "satisfaction" or "paint it black". "you can't always get what you want", however, has wilted considerably.

and, yeah, "she's so cold" is great. the best stuff off black and blue, some girls, emotional rescue, tattoo you and undercover would make a hell of a compilation.

The totally bazonkers International Harvester version of "Satisfaction" saved it for me -- otherwise, that.

listened to aftermath this morning. might vote for every song on there.

Eight post-'72 tracks on my ballot and only three pre-Beggars Banquet. Not that I don't love early Stones too!

The one Tattoo You track i did keep was "Slave", as I think I mentioned earlier. I also kept "Summer Romance" off Emotional Rescue, mostly cuz i love the fucked-up punk rock outtake version I posted upthread, easily the silliest and most perverse choice on my ballot. Together those two songs suggest something to me...

Duderock Essentials #19: The "I'm Gonna Leave You, Woman" / "You Don't Own Me, Woman" Song.

The children of "Milkcow Blues", I suppose. A lot of bands hit this note occasionally (see every emo and frat rock band ever to exist), but the Stones are kind of unique in having devoted seemingly half their career to it. I think of these as permission-granting songs, as they seem constructed to draw out and validate male sexual angst, feelings of wrath and/or powerlessness. Such songs encourage fantasies of straying, even the corresponding action only extends to getting drunk with the boys and talking shit. They also give guys in relationships a bonding point with the recently dumped and the perpetually unhitched. At their worst, they're "that bitch" songs. At their best, well, they're still "that bitch" songs, but, uh, good ones.

make that "Such songs encourage fantasies of straying, even if the corresponding action only extends to..."

Tired of, easily cut: "Honky Tonk Women" and especially "Sympathy for the Devil"

Hohoho, 'Petrol Blues' - what the hell is this track?!

I'll never tire of Honky Tonk Women, Brown Sugar, or Jumpin' Jack Flash...on the other hand, I can't listen to Sympathy for the Devil, just too played out.

Sent it in. My oldest song was from 1966 (and the last song I cut from my top 20 was 1964); the newest was finished in 2010 (so you can guess what that was). There's more godawful crap after Mick Taylor quit, but the highlights are still very damn high. Looking forward to the results.

Not that anyone cared, but I had the wrong band, same family -- it's this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SOBAaVmjtU&feature=related

I thought it was going to be easy to make an initial list, and it was until I started listening to the albums again. Now I have 76 tracks to whittle down, 43 from the 60s, the rest from 1970-78. I'm sure I could add a few post-Some Girls tracks but there's no way they'll make my top 20.

listened to aftermath this morning. might vote for every song on there.

― tylerw, Monday, March 26, 2012 10:51 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

haha, I listened to it yesterday and had almost the exact opposite reaction, I know it's considered an unfuckwithable classic but it seemed weak to me and the misogyny is unbearable.

that said OF COURSE I'm voting "Paint It, Black", and I think "I Am Waiting" might make the cut as well.

btw what's the record for ballots anyway?

I think the Bowie poll beat the Pavement one, but I forget the numbers

Bowie got 80.

The hardest one to cut for me was "The Lantern", but I only love that song in the original stereo mix and I have to play with the stereo: right channel only, so it's just Mick and Keith, through the verses and full stereo only on the instrumental bridge. It turns from a bluesy honkytonk throwaway into something super creepy and awesome. Try it some time! (NB: I can't find that old stereo mix online.)

I think all the SatMaj tracks made my final ballot (yes, even that one)

i've finalised my top 20, but have not yet ordered them. i didn't really have much of a shortlist as i tried to be very particular and precise about which tracks made it so far as the drawing board, so just had to cull a couple in the end. pretty happy with the songs i came up with, though a couple of albums which i really enjoy either have very minimal representation or don't get a nod at all. hard to really strike a great deal of balance when the peaks of Beggar's through Exile are so incredibly high.

Sent!

i will probably be the only voter for "love is strong," won't i

― internet somebody (some dude), Monday, March 26, 2012 12:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

No.

so I'm getting the impression that I should own Satanic Majesties....

the misogyny is unbearable
ha, i did take note of this, and it is indeed filthy with woman-loathing, but i thought that aspect was, ummm, revealing in some interesting way? i'm sure someone has written a boring thesis on it.