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

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.

Yeah, too low for Beggars Banquet. It should be 2

BB definitely has the edge over Sticky Fingers, i'll say that much.

Let It Bleed too, imho

I never could totally get onboard the country-folk-blues tunes on that album. It should have kicked off with "Jumpin' Jack Flash". No way is it better than Let It Bleed.

Jumpin' Jack Flash would make any album far better. But you can also say that Let It Bleed should have had Honky Tonk Women instead of Country Honk.

Yeah, but I only recently discovered that "Country Honk" was the original version.

3. Let It Bleed - 169 points (19 votes, eight #1 votes)

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1. Gimme Shelter
2. Love In Vain
3. Country Honk
4. Live With Me
5. Let It Bleed

6. Midnight Rambler
7. You Got The Silver
8. Monkey Man
9. You Can’t Always Get What You Want

for those of you gnashing your teeth over the low finish for Beggars Banquet, take a look at the point differential.

two #1s vs. eight #1s though! i didn't realize LIB would have sucha lead on it

I'm feeling okay about BB and Let It Bleed, i love them both, I love Let It Bleed slightly more, but I don't love either album more than the 2 that are yet to place.

really love the country-blues material that inhabits BB and find it to be really well executed and stripped-back with all kinds of swagger and poise. never found it to be insincere of too much of a stretch. thinking about it now, i'm reminded how i haven't thought much about "prodigal son" recently. damn that track smokes.

otm

BB is a really satisfying album, it hangs together so well.

it was probably the first one i fell in love with.