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

Did you ever see the Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Horrible isn't it? ... oh no, don't saw off me leg, don't saw off me arm

This is awesome!

It's only been mentioned once so far, but for me this stands alongside "I Am Waiting" as their prettiest song ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkm1efUhGJ4

The lyrics, not so much LOL

one of the their best but pretty is a wrong word.

xxpost Tarfumes otm: Talk is Cheap is great! Love it. Took me a while to get used to Keith's singing just bc the sound is still kinda Stones and you're waiting for Mick, but once you get over that, damn it's good stuff.

re "backstreet girl": a sad & bitter little song, but undeniably lovely

was there a single from Talk is Cheap? i think i remember liking it when it came out.

Take It So Hard was the single

xp At the time, I preferred Keith's singing to Mick's. But that was mainly because Mick had just put out those two crappy solo records ("Let's Work" was on MTV far more frequently than it had any right to be, which is to say, more than once), and the way he sang "competition" in "Winning Ugly" made me think, that guy there, if he doesn't stop it, man...

I hadn't even thought about the lyrics--the music is so perfect for me, I don't think I've ever given them a thought.

the way he sang "competition" in "Winning Ugly" made me think, that guy there, if he doesn't stop it, man...

haha we won't agree will we?

I kinda wish Keith had done an earlier solo album, because his voice was so much brighter...by the time Talk is Cheap came around he's sounding a little more ragged than I'd like.

but I still love him.

xp I actually like that song now, but some of Jagger's 80s vocal quirks make me cringe.

Where's the Hyde Park "Bitch" youtube?

scroll up; it's the whole show

"bitch" is the 2nd to last song

stick around for "brown sugar" though, it's amazing

Yeah, I must be an idiot but I keep looking through the thread and not seeing it? I see the Marquee Club one, but not Hyde Park

oh, that vid is sometimes titled "marquee club/hyde park", not sure why

yeah it's Marquee Club, that's the link above.

Hyde Park is a totally different show, it was outdoors iirc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPFrUzp87w

can always count on you tyler <3

i'm really looking forward to this poll but i'm not doing a ballot i just can't deal with it so soon after the bowie one and this would be even harder, god help me if we do a neil young one

these come so fast and furious! we need to take brand nubian's advice and slow down.

actually that reminds me, sort of a sidetrack but does anyone have any recommendations for good live stuff to check out? official or bootleg, I'm easy. I haven't dug much into their live stuff.

"Brussels Affair" from stonesarchive.com has some supersonic shit on it. Also, Perth and Sydney '73 boots are ace. Taylor fucking kills on those.

m@tt otm that one week is a really agonizingly short amount of time to contemplate catalogs this huge and rich. but then anytime someone gives a poll a 2 or 3 week window people freak out about how they won't get to do their Letter To Cleo tracks poll until November.

xpost <3 <3 thank you Tarfumes!

xpost the hell you're not >:[

Get on that ballot, soldier. If you don't do this you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday (say, day three of results) and for the rest of your life.

Just do it fast, like ripping off a band-aid.

DON'T BE SUCH A BABY

:D

dude I've done Simon & Garfunkel, Comedy Movies, and Rolling Stones all within 3 weeks. Suck it up :)

yeah brussels affair is the best stones boot, that perth one is great too. lotsa stuff from 72-73 is killer. also one from Leeds 71 is sweet.

Get on that ballot, soldier. If you don't do this you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday (say, day three of results) and for the rest of your life.

Just do it fast, like ripping off a band-aid.

rogermex OTFM. you gotta do this thing, m@tt.

some of the stones in the park stuff is a train wreck iirc. totally out of tune satisfaction. crazy how tiny they look in that video.

xpost thanks tyler!

yeah I like hyde park to watch, but listening is just sadface. vocals are almost nonexistent in some places

The El Mocambo tracks on Love You Live (Mannish Boy/Crackin' Up/Little Red Rooster/Around and Around) are loads of fun, but I haven't really liked any other live stuff I've heard by them, tbh.

Rank 'em, M@tt! 20 minutes, no apoogies, no looking back.

NO APOOGIES!

A ralling cry if ever there was one. Gonna make this a thing if I can tbh.

we need you m@tt!!

insane circumstances for that hyde park show -- brian jones dies two days before, hey let's break in our new guitar player in front of 250,000 people.

terrifying

2nd VG's request for good live stuff to check out, vids or just audio. not at all knowledgeable abt that stuff, though i like a lot of what i've heard.

m@tt fwiw the distribution of track votes is so broad that your ballot really will make a difference.

ok y'all i'll try to do one :)

by the way just because ppl are talking about the Stones, I URGE you all to track down "The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones" by Stanley Booth which I just re-read again and I think the greatest book about rock music ever written. He's with the Stones on the whole tour that culminates in Altamont. It's just brilliant writing -- in some ways, he's a less gonzo Hunter S Thompson -- but yeah if you want the Stones as the real actual human beings they were not the myth, it's just amazing and chilling in parts....serves as bit of an elegy for an entire era....

also the paperback I have has THE BEST passive/aggressive back cover blurb:

Mick Jagger on books about the Rolling Stones - "I suppose Stanley Booth's might be somewhat interesting. At the very least, I knew Stanley Booth, and he knew me."

caveat is if you're an 80 & beyond stan like Ismael and Alfred, then please hang back by all means

JOEKS BRUV, I LOVE YOUSE GUYS

*80's

insane circumstances for that hyde park show -- brian jones dies two days before, hey let's break in our new guitar player in front of 250,000 people.

― tylerw, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:28 PM (4 minutes ago)

also, King Crimson just opened for you and blew the nonexistent roof off the joint

I will definitely hunt down that book, it sounds great. I've heard someone else talk about it on another ilx thread maybe?

Almost forgot, the just-released Ft. Worth '78 show is great, too.