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

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

I'm planning on voting one Steel Wheels song

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

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

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.

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

oh wait read you wrong -- sorry

GOATS HEAD SOUP IS NOT A DISGRACE

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!

six by my count

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

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

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

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.

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!

Aside from Angie & Starfucker GHS is listless.

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

well, duh

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

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

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

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

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

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

or fucking with Bowie

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

<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

LET YER VOICE BE HEARD

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bwahaha

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

Done.

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

let's get this party started!

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

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

finalmente sent; hope I made the deadline

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

cool, gonna do a 2nd ballot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIE2GAqnFGw

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