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

Is there anyone out there but me who likes Fool to Cry?

no, i fucking love that song. better than "hand of fate" even. was the last thing i cut from my ballot :.......(

i love Stones R&B covers, wanted to vote for "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Just My Imagination" but it seemed simpler and wiser to stick with originals

btw Undercover is not a fab album but "All the Way Down" is a good tune

I voted for Fool To Cry. Placed it pretty low, but it's such a lovely melody.

TOO MUCH TOO MUCH BLOOD

spoken word part is hilarious & the video is all time for sure

http://www.schlockmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA-tmblood-RS-01.jpg

NEVER FORGET

I was going to say I placed "Memory Motel" at the bottom of my ballot but I haven't submitted it yet.

"Memory Motel" is so strong that even the version with Dave Matthews in 1998 has Keith in great voice (the crowd goes apeshit too).

xpost eeegah

There are so many gems on these late albums though. If I ever host a dinner party I'm going to put my ballot on a CD to confuse guests - there'll be this amazing soundtrack that sounds like the Stones tearing through Stones classics, but nobody's ever heard any of them.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, March 30, 2012 1:14 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you should post a few tubes, IK, like other posters who've been trying to proselytize for the underappreciated (!voteforchildofthemoonnow!). i say this cuz i don't really know the post-undercover stuff at all at all. i only know that i don't like any of the later singles and have had no luck listening to random tracks.

Try this one, contenderizer. It's not major but I love its groove:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVEGu776Og

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2pkO-CBiyA

it would feel perverse to vote for "Continental Drift" but I dig it lots

this is a REALLY killer ballad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50YVcEZM68

Laugh I Nearly Died is pretty good, I really liked Bigger Bang a lot.

and you can find most of these albums for a couple cents on Amazon.

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

This is pretty great imo - as good as anything hair metal was putting out at the time. That sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it's not, except maybe insofar as you should be able to spot the Stones in Bruce, but not the other way round.

It was a single, but a totally failed one. I'm deliberately not posting the video btw.

surprised how many people saying how sucky IOR'n'R is...i only slightly disagree but GHS is greater suck!

One Hit to the Body --- god I forgot about that. I remember digging that one as a kid.

thanks, all (but don't let that stop you from posting more). will check these when i get home. "one hit" didn't do much for me at the time, but maybe i'll like it more now.

surprised how many people saying how sucky IOR'n'R is...i only slightly disagree but GHS is greater suck!

GHS is brilliant, or at least half of it is, though i don't expect any of you to understand

[lights clove cigarette]

GHS is really good. Angie, Winter AND Star Star on there. I mean, come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7r0SBb14SQ

I'm generally not a fan of Keith songs, but this one is very charming

(I'm assuming it's a Keith number, but possibly Jagger smoked a pound of Tarmac before stepping up to the mic)

Dirty Work has "One Hit," "Hold Back," "Winning Ugly," and my favorite Keef ballad, "Sleep Tonight."

it is, Ismael.

why is "doot doot (heartbreaker)" so bad and hated? all-time for the keyboard work alone.

I love it, personally, it's such a groove. I pissed myself laughing when I found a live bootleg where Mick introduces it, talking really fast, as 'this one's called ... Doo-Doo-Doo Doo-Doo'

And those horns!

lol yes, that live heartbreaker intro is hilar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnlnOWGhryg

I just heard him do that on Brussels Affair, so lol

pretty amazing version after mick has his larf

based on comments itt i gotta stand up and say:
• "i got the blues" is classic for the horns alone
• "love is a bed for the blues" is as good a lyric as rock music has to offer
• and by the time it all comes together around the 3:00 mark I believe every word Jagger's corny english ass is saying. fake it so real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9zStmEmA_8

I loooooove I Got The Blues!!
I had a hard time cutting it :(

horns are Otis-good

Sent! Was easier than I thought, but could have been 30-40 songs too.

okay, folks, i tried with those post-undercover tracks, really i did. no go. won't trash anything in detail or by name, but not for me.

Gotta rep for "Undercover of the Night" which still sounds awesome to these ears - crisp and exciting with those lovely falsetto ooh-oohs. Chris Kimsey and the Glimmer Twins really knew how to produce awesome sounding Stones music. I think this is why I am still not sick of "Start Me Up" - it's just such a great sounding song.

Both Undercover and Heartbreaker made my list!

"Heartbreaker" (sorry, DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO) made mine, "Undercover" nearly did.

UNDACOVAH OF DA NOIIIIGHT

everyone voted for Heart Of Stone and Play With Fire, right?

I never took to that early folk side of them--I don't even think I cared for those two songs when I bought Hot Rocks as a teenager. Useless addendum: if memory serves, "Play with Fire" is Metal Mike Saunders' favourite Rolling Stones' song. Not sure what Mick Jagger's favourite Angry Samoans song is.

Heart of Stone was one of my last cuts :(

everyone voted for Heart Of Stone and Play With Fire, right?

umm, those were among my early cuts. it's not that i don't like them - i do! - just that i wanted to rep hard for my non-hot rocks favorites. i probably should have saved some love for play with fire, though. used to be so confused by the apparent contradiction in the "owns a block in st. john's wood" line.

Yeah, neither of those made my list!

Heart of Stone has always been a favorite

those two are crucial early Jagger tracks for me. sort of like what Sympathy for the Devil/Let It Bleed were for the late 60's and Brown Sugar/Miss You for the 70's (I know that is chronologically flawed)

He really threw himself into his delivery in those songs, they have a real theatrical quality that I love

Just submitted! Almost forgot!

yay this poll is gonna be the BEST EVER