pretty amazing version after mick has his larf
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
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
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I loooooove I Got The Blues!!I had a hard time cutting it :(
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
horns are Otis-good
Sent! Was easier than I thought, but could have been 30-40 songs too.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Kent Burt, Saturday, 31 March 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Both Undercover and Heartbreaker made my list!
― broom air, Saturday, 31 March 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
"Heartbreaker" (sorry, DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO) made mine, "Undercover" nearly did.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 31 March 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
UNDACOVAH OF DA NOIIIIGHT
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 March 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
everyone voted for Heart Of Stone and Play With Fire, right?
― gospodin simmel, Saturday, 31 March 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 March 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Heart of Stone was one of my last cuts :(
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, neither of those made my list!
― broom air, Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Heart of Stone has always been a favorite
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― gospodin simmel, Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
He really threw himself into his delivery in those songs, they have a real theatrical quality that I love
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Just submitted! Almost forgot!
― da croupier, Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
yay this poll is gonna be the BEST EVER
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
awright croup!
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of early covers I love their "Cry to Me."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
"She Said Yeah" is fierce
enjoying Steel Wheels a lot as I write fwiw
― Euler, Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
their Route 66 is one of my favorite things in life
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
for sure
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
OK I sent my ballot
ranking the 20 was surprisingly easy
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I love some girls #secretshame
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
some girls is great and hilarious!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
there's some good discussion here: what is sexist exactly about the rolling stones' under my thumb?
yeah, good thread, if short - esp like kog@n's long post before the break
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
and "some girls" is pretty damn funny, if o_0
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
sent!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
good man, wonder how many we've got so far?
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
If anyone has lists longer than 1-20, when we get to posting our ballots please include your also-rans! I want any and all ILM deep cuts!
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
I'm very proud of my iconoclastic ballot; I'm pretty sure that today they're my 20 favorite Stone ballads.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
er, songs. Ballads too!
haha. #1 on Alfred's ballot - "Out of Tears"
― tylerw, Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ forgot that one! It's not bad.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
i can kind of remember how it goes.
― tylerw, Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
"worried about you" is still the late-stones ballad champ, but "out of tears" ain't bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91KmtnsUtw8
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
"Out of Tears" is lovely. Alfred and I will have terse words if he voted for "Streets of Love" though
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
can neither confirm nor deny
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
btw can we just talk about michael philip jagger's hair circa 1986?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUy8Ydq-oUA
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
^ Page solo on that is astonishing.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
They should turn up the drums and background vocals on that track, christ
― da croupier, Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I appreciate the romantic appeal of Dirty Work to some, but I think the only "boomer legends trapped in gated drum-land" artifact I'm personally enamored of is Neil's Landing On Water.
― da croupier, Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
xpost yes. 13 seconds. sounds exactly like jimmy page. video handles this section poorly imo. "there's a guitar here so let's get some shots of keef and ronnie running around"
sorta agree with da croup on this one, though the the first 30 seconds are imo as powerful and ominous as anything they've done incl the intro to "gimme shelter."
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Oof. That one actually makes me angry, since it's the brilliant Steve Jordan being gated. Said gating ruins this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NulUOzBkjA
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link