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

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at this point any exploration of albums after Tattoo You would be done for case study

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link

oh wait i like "She Was Hot"

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link

xpost unless your name is a) Ismael or b) Alfred

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link

yeah I couldn't go past Tattoo You, it hurt too much.

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link

I'm planning on voting one Steel Wheels song

Euler, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link

if I'm in the mood for variations on "Start Me Up" I put on this album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZB7QPOABEM

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link

haha I don't listen to latter-day Stones albums often! But with a couple of exceptions the post-TY albums don't disgrace their legacy like IOR&R or GHS do. If you care about admittedly boring things like craftsmanship -- and what band but the Stones insists on evaluating them for craftsmanship? -- they were better at it in the eighties and nineties. Plus, like I've said repeatedly, Dirty Work is something of a last gasp for boomer rockers raging against the dying of VIP lounges.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link

yeah I couldn't go past Tattoo You, it hurt too much.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:33 PM (

no offense but this is insane to me, especially since every song but two was recorded in the seventies

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link

oh wait read you wrong -- sorry

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link

GOATS HEAD SOUP IS NOT A DISGRACE

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link

But with a couple of exceptions the post-TY albums don't disgrace their legacy like IOR&R or GHS do.

There's only been a couple albums post-TY!

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link

six by my count

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link

kind of amazing, considering it's been 30+ years since TY, which was less than 20 after their debut

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link

the superb writeup of the Stones in the 1990 RS guide stressed the craft of their 80s work & pointed out how that's a judged a positive by regular fans of country & blues, genres for which the Stones had considerable sympathy

Euler, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link

plus if you have a fever, the only cure is MORE GATED DRUMS

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link

at this point any exploration of albums after Tattoo You would be done for case study

― da croupier, Saturday, March 31, 2012 6:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wait i like "She Was Hot"

― da croupier, Saturday, March 31, 2012 6:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, undercover is semi-defensible. i like all three of the singles (including "too much blood"). any serious investment in the later albums has to be some combination of masochism, nostalgia and barefaced challops.

It just sounds like reheated hooks to me, and Mick's weird barky vocals really get on my nerves. To be fair, I haven't given them an earnest, non-prejudiced listen but I don't know if you understand how much it hurts to hear that stuff, given how much I loooooooooooove the 60's-70's Stones.

And I don't want danceable Stones, like nightclub dancing Stones. Outside of Miss You I can really live without that.

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link

But with a couple of exceptions the post-TY albums don't disgrace their legacy like IOR&R or GHS do.

VG otm. where goats head soup is concerned, this is the basest of calumny. pistols at dawn.

I'm ready!

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link

Aside from Angie & Starfucker GHS is listless.

Euler, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link

GWS' flirtation with decadence sounds more jaundiced and cynical than Jagger in DW "honestly" writing and singing about his ambivalence about privilege.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link

well, duh

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link

the murky production works superbly on Angie though, you can hear other vocals, distant moans, bleeding through.

Euler, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link

besides I only own butter knives not swords so let's adjust dueling terms

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link

if we were doing top 5 stone videos I'd have to throw a vote for this (sadly pulled from youtube): http://stsanders.com/www/pages/videos/band-shreds/sts-rolling-stones.php

da croupier, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link

I hear "Angie" and think lol American critics thought Bowie was a mannered vocalist?

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link

it's about the piano imo, & the haunted background. isn't he singing about fucking Bowie's wife too?

Euler, Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link

when we were young the story was that Mick had fucked Bowie in a threesome with Angie; maybe Rod was there with the hamster & they all got thir stomach pumped the next morning

Euler, Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link

or fucking with Bowie

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link

just listened to GHS today. it's a solid fucking record. fewer great songs than what preceded but the filler is really good filler and "winter" is all-time, unless you blame it for the counting crows.

makes a nice bookend with Satanic Majesties around the crazy-mojo peak.

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link

There's nothing wrong with GHS at all, and even the 'worst' songs are nowhere near as unlistenable as the later period Stones stuff that Alfred stans for that I object to.

Winter's beautiful.

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link

Goats Head Soup is better than its reputation. It's Only Rock 'n Roll, on the other hand, blows.

at this point any exploration of albums after Tattoo You would be done for case study

A Bigger Bang is great. It's one of the two or three best records they've made since 1972.

kornrulez6969, Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link

I do like Bigger Bang. I dont have any favorite tracks but I can listen to it without sadly shaking my head

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link

Aside from Angie & Starfucker GHS is listless.

― Euler, Saturday, March 31, 2012 6:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

list is not high on my list of priorities for a good stones tune

Submitted my HR-heavy ballot - in the end I just didn't have much desire to hunt down great album tracks that I know I'll get around to eventually. The problem is that I've known and loved the obvious selections on that comp for so long that it would take weeks or months of repeated listens for me to feel similarly about a deep cut here or there. I could vote for tracks I heard and liked based on recommendations ITT, but that would mean bumping songs I've cherished for a dozen years or more. Think it's more important to be honest about what you love.

do dat do dat do do dat dat dat (thewufs), Sunday, 1 April 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link

The making of "One Hit" video, it should be noted, was filmed right in the middle of Charlie's short but very intense drug phase.

Three Word Username, Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link

I was gonna say, he seemed to be in pretty bad shape in that interview. Every other interview of his I've seen, he's been extremely gregarious and engaging.

Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

<3 charlie. "short but very intense" is the way to do yr drug phase, imo. so long you come out ok on the other end.

TWO HOUR WARNING -- GET THOSE BALLOTS IN

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

LET YER VOICE BE HEARD

http://i42.tinypic.com/33o7kno.jpg

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

bwahaha

PUT ON YOUR SEQUINED BOLERO JACKETS, PEOPLE; SHIT'S GONNA GET REAL

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link

Done.

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

encouraged by all these last minute balloting, should have a p good turnout

let's get this party started!

Iago Galdston, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, 491-500 NOW!

so amazing getting to see the super-8 footage that Frank used to make the Exile cover art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE

Iago Galdston, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link

I think I've sent mine but my internet connection has been a bit shaky so shout if it hasn't arrived!

Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link

finalmente sent; hope I made the deadline

Euler, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

I actually have to step out for a few so I'm fine with stragglers trickling in until 10pm PST

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link

cool, gonna do a 2nd ballot

Whiney Houson (WmC), Sunday, 1 April 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link


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