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

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

I didn't know this, as if he needed to be awesomer (from Keys wikipedia entry) Other recordings made by Keys was the baritone saxophone on Elvis Presley's "Return to Sender", and on John Lennon's first American solo #1 single hit (and the only US #1 in Lennon's lifetime) "Whatever Gets You thru the Night".

xp lol, i shoulda guessed. know his playing, but not his growth.

could you ask for a better 'selective discography'?

The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Goats Head Soup, Emotional Rescue, Stripped
Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
John Lennon: Some Time in New York City, Walls and Bridges, Rock 'n' Roll
Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap, Live at the Hollywood Palladium
Ringo Starr: Ringo, Goodnight Vienna
Ronnie Wood: 1234, Gimme Some Neck, Mahoney's Last Stand
B.B. King: B. B. King in London
Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand
Carly Simon: No Secrets, Hotcakes
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
Delaney, Bonnie & Friends: On Tour with Eric Clapton
Donovan: Cosmic Wheels
Dr. John: The Sun, Moon & Herbs
Eric Clapton: Eric Clapton
Faces: Long Player
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson, Son of Schmilsson, Pussy Cats, Duit on Mon Dei
Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon
Humble Pie: Rock On
Joe Ely: Lord of the Highway
John Hiatt: Beneath This Gruff Exterior
Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Keith Moon: Two Sides of the Moon
Leo Sayer: Endless Flight
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping
John Lennon and Paul McCartney: A Toot and a Snore in '74
John Lennon: Whatever Gets You thru the Night
Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On (deluxe edition)
Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions
Yoko Ono: Fly
Jim Carroll: Catholic Boy

"midnight rambler" guitar solo is BADASS, but whoever's in charge of video editing here needs to be taken out back behind the shed and instructed in the proper way to be

Jim Carroll: Catholic Boy

you could not ask for a better "selective selective discography"

but HOLY FUCK, bow down, etc.

agreed about the video editing. they do it a couple of times during key awesome jamouts and it's like raaagggh wtf are you doing

Doesn't Start Me Up automatically place on the most hated list? I was in high school when it came out. It was a defining song - if you loved it, you couldn't be a real Stones fan. For years we laughed when the DJ said he was going to play some classic Stones and put on Start Me Up. Too plastic and shiny. The riff was an cheap high when we knew they were capable of Brown Sugar. And the lyrics. After absorbing the murk of Live With Me, Shattered and Stray Cat Blues, Start Me Up just seemed like a joke. Guess I better send in my hated songs ballot.

i was 14 & jr. high, thus not properly schooled in the ways of the HS world. i dug "start me up" and still feel a faded echo of the initial attraction, despite the shinyness, despite years of hideous flogging abuse by bill gates and his corpse buddies.

plus VG otm, that hyde park "bitch" fucking RIPS

<3<3<3 "brown CHOOGAH"

mick fucking taylor, ftr

that may be the best version of "brown sugar" i've ever heard

"Dead Flowers" was high on my ballot. Overall, Sticky Fingers is my least favourite of the Hopkins/Taylor four-album run, but it produced two of my top five. (The other being the most obvious one.)

Will rep for Sister Morphine and Moonlight Mile

Sticky Fingers is not among my favorites but Brown Sugar and Moonlight Mile are the biggest songs ever

Contenderizer had a good post last night on the comedy-poll thread delineating the difference between Taxi Driver and Tarantino's films in terms of comedy and tone. (I was being a little disingenuous when I asked where the line should be drawn; I think I was trying to force someone to articulate clearly the difference.) I'd draw the same distinction between "Far Away Eyes" and "Dead Flowers." "Far Away Eyes" is just straight laughs for me--it's a nice song, and I like it, but its appeal begins and ends with the broad parody. Jagger slips into the same voice on "Dead Flowers" (less broad, which is one advantage), but I consider it a much darker, more vivid song. Even though I know that "I'll be in my basement room/with a needle and a spoon/and another girl to the pain away" is, in itself, a bit of a caricature of the Rolling Stones' image circa 1971, the line, and the whole song, actually does encapsulate why they seemed so mysterious and grown-up to me when I discovered them around that time.

Agreed. Jagger's injection of humor into "Dead Flowers" makes it more moving

Jagger may have been taking the piss out of Gram Parsons a bit, too; supposedly, he was acutely jealous of Parsons' friendship with Keith.