MAD POLL, LOST YER WAY – ILM Artist Poll #16 – The Rolling Stones RESULTS THREAD

never dug Steel Wheels, always dug GHS

Gimme time though. Maybe I'll turn into a Bridges To Babylon stan

ugh Steel Wheels. bleh

satanic majesties definitely owns this category though. flopped and was critically savaged on release, seems to be hugely beloved these days by both critics & fans. i think it's half a mess but has definite high points.

"high points" lol

are satanic majesties and emotional rescue the two stones lps to have the biggest reversal in reputation over the past whatever years?

That's a very good question re ER. Christgau liked it for one. Not being there at the time, I can't see why SG outtakes would have been received so disparagingly.

Dirty Work has its partisans too. The only album that hasn't recovered is Undercover, which probably does deserve a good reevaluation. I know I'll never care for it.

satanic majesties is a great listen, imo. it didn't make my 5 but i really dig it. puts the lie to "the beatles invented everything" because: space rock!

ILM sez: Their Satanic Majesties Request

well, emotional rescue is a pretty draggy and uninspired album, overall. if it's been dramatically reevaluated, i'd guess that that reflects more on its few standout tracks than the album as a whole.

I always liked ER but that is probably because it coincided w/my formative years (although I came very close to putting "Indian Girl" on my most hated). I definitely had to ignore a lot of critical panning to explore Satanic - it was partially rehabilitated by a great Sky Cries Mary cover version of 2K Light Years in the early 90's.

Draggy? When it's got "Let Me Go," "Summer Romance," "Dance Pt. 1," "She's So Cold," and "Where The Boys Go"? Plus: "All About You"!

ER rose the highest in my estimation for this poll; I ended up voting for it.

I can see "draggy" but I dig "down in the hole" a ton. much love for "she's so cold" and "all about you" as well.

yeah i can remember satanic being a punchline even into the early 90s, maybe the cd era helped ppl to overlook 'in another land' and 'gomper', maybe prominent placement of '2000 man' and 'she's a rainbow' in wes anderson movies and apple ads helped. steel wheels rep now is probably comparable to dirty work or voodoo lounge, whereas at the time its reception (in the market and critically) was much better; probably due to ppl happy the stones were back together, sounded like the stones, were gonna tour, etc but still.

the Stones owed their Steel Wheels "comeback" (in reality it didn't sell much more than its predecessors) to inspired Keef-and-Mick-reconcile PR.

i keep waiting for someone somewhere to make the 'no really, you need to listen to it's only rock n roll again' cuz it's the only album i don't have thru tattoo you (which reminds me i should probably cave and finally get undercover). anyone here game?

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I like it, like it, yes I do... not the album, but the song is undeniable when the chorus kicks in.

Draggy? When it's got "Let Me Go," "Summer Romance," "Dance Pt. 1," "She's So Cold," and "Where The Boys Go"? Plus: "All About You"!

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, April 2, 2012 5:09 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i probably don't give emotional rescue enough credit. "dance pt. 1" is a killer groove, formless in a good way. while i voted for and will defend "summer romance", i prefer the punkier outtakes to the album version. "send it to me" is 80% badass, but the "chorus" (???) is kind of a trainwreck. "let me go" is a fun throwaway, and "indian girl" is both lovely and ghastly. side two is better. could do without "down in the hole" and "all about you", but the rest are good ("where the boys go") to great (title track and "she's so cold"). whole thing has a worn-down, broken quality that's similar to exile, but it less consistently falls perfectly into "accidental" place.

man now i'm imagining a sprawling double lp version of emotional rescue as the exile to some girls sticky fingers.

7. Between the Buttons - 59 points (12 votes, one #1 vote)

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1. Yesterday's Papers
2. My Obsession
3. Back Street Girl
4. Connection
5. She Smiled Sweetly
6. Cool, Calm & Collected

7. All Sold Out
8. Please Go Home
9. Who's Been Sleeping Here?
10. Complicated
11. Miss Amanda Jones
12. Something Happened to Me Yesterday

Always loved that cover photo -- that expression on Mick's face is pure evil. (He's probably just really cold.)

charlie looking dapper per usual

US version adds "let's spend the night together" and "ruby tuesday", but sadly loses "back street girl"

voted for BtB BtW

btw, we reached a verdict so I am back. my own assumption going in was that the the only mystery around the top 4 albums would be which order they'd fall in.

without giving anything away, since it's already after midnight GMT I'm thinking we'll let today's Big Reveal be which album came in at #5. tomorrow we can wrap the albums and get get caught up on tracks 40-31 and then we should be back in business for a big finish on Friday.

i had btb at #5, at least one of my top four almost definitely isn't making it.

i couldn't vote in this poll. trying to list in preference BtB, Aftermath, Exile, Bleed, Flowers or 12X5 (or beggars and SF) was too daunting a task; let alone trying to decifer a list for trax....i suck and hate lists i guess

6. Some Girls - 61 points (15 votes, two #1 votes)

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1. Miss You
2. When the Whip Comes Down
3. Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
4. Some Girls
5. Lies

6. Far Away Eyes
7. Respectable
8. Before They Make Me Run
9. Beast of Burden
10. Shattered

these results are weird

how so?

YES SOME GIRLS SOME GIRLS

Maybe my 3rd favorite album behind Exile and Sticky Fingers

Just my Imagination is <3 <3 <3

i just heard their "Imagination" last week while working on my ballot and was really blown away, so great

yeah album seems pretty predictable for better or worse to me right now - tattoo you maybe too low (probably not), satanic too high (almost definitely since seems pretty likely 12X5 and december's children won't be ranked). guessing top five: #5 aftermath #432 beggars-let it bleed-sticky fingers (no idea what order) #1 exile

Also "Beast of Burden" - guitar work on that is just straight-up beautiful to me, always kind of sends me, in that Sam Cooke way :)

and Far Away Eyes is one of my favorite songs, humorless haters be damned

can I just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBjL4tDeufM

please do

5. Aftermath - 70 points (17 votes, three #1 votes)

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UK
1. Mother's Little Helper
2. Stupid Girl
3. Lady Jane
4. Under My Thumb
5. Doncha Bother Me
6. Goin’ Home

7. Flight 505
8. High And Dry
9. Out Of Time
10. It's Not Easy
11. I Am Waiting
12. Take It Or Leave It
13. Think
14. What To Do

US
1. Paint It, Black
2. Stupid Girl
3. Lady Jane
4. Under My Thumb
5. Doncha Bother Me
6. Think

7. Flight 505
8. High and Dry
9. It's Not Easy
10. I Am Waiting
11. Going Home

Mother's Little Helper has gotta be up there with GOAT opening tracks

xpost the phase tone on "just my imagination" is to die for if you like chewy MXR Phase 100 type shit

well maybe I do

really all of some girls is like an ad for the Phase 100... listening again tonight i kinda regret not voting for it.

...

but then tonight "no use in crying" is coming off achingly beautiful and i'm also regretting not voting for tattoo you so.

I had the US version of Aftermath in mind when I voted it #1, but really either one would still be my favorite Stones album.

The Stones really do have a fair few good-but-slightly-patchy 7/10 type albums - Satanic Majesties, Aftermath, Between the Buttons and Tattoo You are all in this category for me.

I like Emotional Rescue a lot, that and Some Girls feel like two halves of the same album.

i just heard their "Imagination" last week while working on my ballot and was really blown away, so great

can I say again that I love the guitar sound Chris Kimsey wrung from Mick, Ronnie, and Keith?

^^ absolutely. many guitar-playing type folks would agree.

4. Beggars Banquet - 163 points (33 votes, two #1 votes)

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1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. No Expectations
3. Dear Doctor
4. Parachute Woman
5. Jig-Saw Puzzle

6. Street Fighting Man
7. Prodigal Son
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Factory Girl
10. Salt of the Earth

BB is so fucking great. look at that tracklist right there.