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

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

awright croup!

speaking of early covers I love their "Cry to Me."

"She Said Yeah" is fierce

enjoying Steel Wheels a lot as I write fwiw

their Route 66 is one of my favorite things in life

I regret not giving the deep cuts on the albums I own on vinyl more of a listen (I never wear headphones when listening to LPs so they can blur compared to what I've got on CD), but with the Stones its easy to find 20 classics even if you haven't dragged the well.

for sure

OK I sent my ballot

ranking the 20 was surprisingly easy

ballot's nearing completion & I notice that evidently I'm quite a fan of the songs that get blasted as misogynist, which I think isn't an entirely fair description but I prefer Mick's more acidic & focused lyrics, & I think women bring that out best.

I know I already linked up thread, but on that point there's some good discussion here: what is sexist exactly about the rolling stones' under my thumb?

no thread for "some girls" tho

I love some girls #secretshame

some girls is great and hilarious!