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

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.

i might vote for this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiydOyjFkPM
misogyny-free zone!

SO CONFUSING

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_%28The_Rolling_Stones_album%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones,_Now!

I think their US/UK track shufflings are even worse than the Beatles records.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones,_Now!

garg, wth?

anyway, there is a page for that album. you just can't link to it.

...

oh, it's the comma. this works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_Now!

FUCK THE WORLD

Rolling Stones early releases definitely as confusing/wtf as the AC/DC shuffles.

The vote splitting (if any) in the album poll will be interesting.

Many xposts, but in defense of Sympathy for the Devil it has one of their greatest-ever grooves. Which is saying something, since groove is pretty much their greatest weapon. Or at least their least appreciated/articulated.

wait are unranked ballots not an option? dear lord.

percussion on Sympathy is the thing that keeps me coming back

wait are unranked ballots not an option? dear lord.

yeah, fucking brutal

Plus, lyrics that they had taken time over and pointed towards an idea.

Didn't do much of that post 1974 or so..

what's the point of unranked ballots?

BUY THE TICKET, TAKE THE RIDE, MOTHERFUCKERS.

you got to roll me the tumblin' 20-sided dice

i never for even a moment considered cutting sympathy for the devil. i may be many things, but i am not so crazy as hat.

lol "crazy as hat"

crazy asshat

:/

percussion on Sympathy is the thing that keeps me coming back

^ this...erm, even though I cut it. But I was completely flummoxed as to how Charlie did it until I saw this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H3QcpvcIrY

YOU CUT IT?

yeah don't think i'll be able to cut that one. the guitar solo! heard it a bajillion times and i still snap to attention when it kicks in.

xp Yeah, I couldn't decide between the studio version or the Ya-Yas version. In the end, I cut both, and now no one has any glue to glue with.

omg shirtless Mick

imma need a moment brb

I really love that RNRC version, how it's SO percussion, and Keef's guitar's a little more languid.

RULES

*chicken dances furiously*

xpost

they all look so blazed, lol

They didn't go on until 1 or 2 in the morning. To keep the audience entertained (and awake), the Who put seat covers on their heads and wackiness ensued.

I haven't watched it in forever, I might need to go get it.

The version of "street fighting man" on the London Singles collection is so brutal, so violent. I love jimmy miller; the percussion on his stuff is always dope.

otm I love that version

They didn't go on until 1 or 2 in the morning. To keep the audience entertained (and awake), the Who put seat covers on their heads and wackiness ensued.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:16 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Stones didn't want to go on at the RnR Circus after they witnessed this, and really, can you blame them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ku7QNRudg

Hope "No Expectations" gets some votes. Loved how it was used in Wild Palms (split up over two clips--13:30 in the first one, then continues on in the second).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSZUT6g8TwY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKXKdHuxJg

That's why the film stayed in the can for 27 years. The Stones were dissatisfied with their performance, plus, Brian was in awful shape. The Who had just come off a few months in the US but couldn't get arrested in the UK ("Dogs" and "Magic Bus" stiffed, and they were back to playing the Marquee). Their performance at the Circus was met with stunned disbelief; none of their contemporaries expected anything like it.

xp

Thanks Tarfumes, that's what I had heard.
Oh yes, Clemenza, No Expectations is my one vote from Beggars Banquet...one of my favorites of theirs and Brian Jones' final great performance in the group (?). Brian Jones was apparently a thoroughly evil person but I am in thrall of his musicianship always

"No Expectations" made my top 10, easy. Watching Brian play it on the Circus is heartbreaking, though; he's shaking like a leaf.

I don't know why I have such a soft spot for Jones. I find Keith's post-mortem trashing of him to this day really distasteful. (And I think the circumstances of his death are truly sketchy!)

which is why Jagger's small tribute is touching (especially the source):

JAGGER: Isn’t “No Expectations” on that record?

WENNER:It’s got that wonderful steel guitar part.

JAGGER: That’s Brian playing. We were sitting around in a circle on the floor, singing and playing, recording with open mikes. That was the last time I remember Brian really being totally involved in something that was really worth doing. He was there with everyone else. It’s funny how you remember – but that was the last moment I remember him doing that, because he had just lost interest in everything.