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

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.

Sent -- what a relief.

"No Expectations" is in my top ten too.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Most Hated results...

yeah that's a nice quote

xp

There's a little bit of this in all Mount Rushmore-level rock stars, but Jagger especially: "Isn’t 'No Expectations' on that record?"

"That record"--Beggars Banquet.

I've often wondered if that's an act, like when one of the Beatles says, "what album was that on?" please.....

This is a story, a very special story.
It's about Brian Jones, one of the Rolling Stones.

Where were you when the stars went out?
Where were you when they started to shout?
I saw you alone by the pool,
and all your friends called you a fool.
Godstar, Godstar. Godstar, Godstar. Godstar, Godstar. God.......star.

And you were so beautiful, you were so very special,
I wish I was with you now, I wish I could save you somehow.

Godstar, Godstar. Godstar, Godstar. Godstar, Godstar. God.......star.
(Echoing chorus): Brian, Brian, Brian.
Brian, Brian, Brian.
Godstar, Godstar. Godstar, Godstar. Godstar, Godstar. God.......star.

Where were all your friends that night
as you switched off the final light?
I saw your body in the water
Like a lamb going to the slaughter

And where were all of your laughing friends?
Where were they at the very end?
They started to steal your glory
They never even told your story

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv2Taq1PSbg

Dylan also pulled off that art of pretend forgetfulness...until Chronicles, in which he proved he remembered everything.

I like that Psychic TV song, never heard of them--thanks NAGL

don't have my ballot at hand, but i think i voted for "no expectations". at least i hope i did...

it made my list, so great.

I keep thinking about Rolling Stones music used well in non-Scorsese films: opening credits of Coming Home (2:45).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpwx-XIxWE

I was surprised by my inability to cut No Expectations, expect it'll make my final cull

the existence of "no expectations" is why i was so comfortable cutting stuff like "sway" and "winter", tbh

No Expectations got a vote

how can you even cut Sway AND Winter, christ you are the Genghis Khan of voting

i am the ghenghis khan of brussels sprouts, too, so so many discarded buds

they deserve it, jerks

btw since my ballot is going to make sick monkey love to Mick Taylor and slight the Woodie Years, let me just say that Ron Wood's pedal steel playing on "the worst" absolutely makes the track. takes a special kind of player to deliver the goods like that while never chafing in the role of Keef's Valet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BQ3cBRfxw

ronnie is a good bloke

Don't get to see much of Taylor onstage, this vid's just an overdub but still, the footage is p cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIpqiEK8wfw

I was so close to including this in my ballot. Fuckin love Dead Flowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjni_t3MgY

ooh and really good Taylor in that Dead Flowers vid

still p sure the live "stray cat blues" from this era (as captured on Ya-Ya's) is about the sleaziest thing ever.

fuuuuck that dead flowers vid. like i didn't love the taylorstones enough already.

One day I would like to do a poll of Mick Jagger's stage outfits.

omg I just found that whole Marquee Club show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gf-CXBCfhY

I can't think of a better way to kill half an hour

<3
<3

I'm so in love with them

this is not helping me get over my Mick Jagger crush at all

I thought I was cured!
But I'm not! I'm so not.

oh shit

I Got The Blues

*ahem*

don't mean to introod, but WOO YAH i didn't forget "no expectations"!!!

hooray me

you still cut Sway though

i did i did

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/sadponysm.png

you're just going to have to live with the fact that you cut their greatest song
it will haunt you

or, well maybe their 21st ;)

hmph

in other news, "Bitch" on that Hyde Park youtube is the balls, seriously.

Bill Wyman is so weird on stage.

or in general

just started watching that marquee club vid you posted. "live with me" is great!

SO GOOD

It sort of feels like Mick's flagging when they start 'Satisfaction' and then ZOOM! he's got a whole new gear for the last 2 and a half songs.

the little dance him and Bobby do together during Brown Sugar is A+

"dead flowers" is such a beautiful song, it's only the wierd, affected american "country" accent he was putting on circa let it bleed that keeps me at a distance

as a american

i dunno, maybe that's how we sound to yawl

Yeah that was what stopped me from voting Far Away Eyes. I love the song soooooo much, but I can't defend the drawl, lol.

Dead Flowers too.

They do such GREAT interpretations of country, stylistically, and it's not that the drawl is bad it's just hard to convince someone who's never heard the song that it's really okay.

well okay it is bad

love this version. check out Mick giving Keith lyric reminders in that last chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64CrBxCAtI

Keith's harmonies on that were A+

I love him.

I'm kinda mad at myself for not voting for Dead Flowers now. WHOSE DUMB IDEA WAS IT TO ONLY VOTE FOR 20 SONGS.

saxophone mullet keeps fucking me up. not the playing, which is fine, just the hair.

WHOSE DUMB IDEA WAS IT TO ONLY VOTE FOR 20 SONGS.

yeah, for this poll, just 20 songs seems criminal. would have been much satisfied w 40. my top 40 is unfwable.

saxophone mullet = Bobby Keys = bow down