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

yeah, folks need to be posting the unembedded youtu.be versions imo

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please don't apologize! i just remembered getting effectively locked out of the Jacksons thread...

Well, regardless...I will be on my best behaviour from now on. Youtube-wise, anyway.

I didn't vote for albums, but hearty approval of the top four.

Sticky FIngers is the first great Stones album that I don't LOVE. I think the lyrics got weaker(?!) and it's simply not as interestingas Aftermath, Between the Buttons or LET IT FUCKING BLEED. on the other hand, songs that can compare with Brown Sugar and Moonlight Mile are rare indeed.

BJM is definitely more of a comedy than The Time Traveler's Wife Eternal Sunshine

oh christ wrong thread

Let It Bleed is definitely the weak link out of the big four Stones albums for me - I've tried and tried but I can't get into it beyond maybe four songs. It seems missing some spark that the others have.

Final album rundown, with two small corrections (thank you Ismael K!):

10. (tie) Voodoo Lounge (11 points, 2 votes, one #1)
10. (tie) Flowers (11 points, 2 votes, one #1)
9. Tattoo You (11 points, 5 votes)
8. Their Satanic Majesties Request (31 points, 6 votes, one #1)
7. Between The Buttons (59 points, 12 votes, one #1)
6. Some Girls (61 points, 15 votes, two #1)
5. Aftermath (70 points, 17 votes, three #1)
4. Beggars Banquet (163 points, 33 votes, two #1)
3. Let It Bleed (169 points, 29 votes, eight #1)
2. Sticky Fingers (176 points, 30 votes, eight #1)
1. Exile on Main St. (269 points, 39 votes, fourteen #1)

and yes, i'm going to let ties share the slot in track results as well -- more/merrier plus avoids "wait where's number 34?" type concerns

haha my vote for voodoo lounge made a difference after all!!!

I have never understood Dr. Morbius as well as I do in this moment.

Your love is strong, Some Dude

i voted for that song, too!

u make me weep

your love is bitter

seems a little weird to go the full Morbz given that the top 4 are exactly as expected. the weird results can be mostly attributed to massive agreement on 1-4, and a point system that weights #1 votes heavily and #5 votes very lightly. add to that, the early stuff gets slighted because the album catalog is a mess prior to Satanic Majesties and voila.

some dude, smdh

Arrg. I voted Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! as my #1, and it got beat by...Voodoo Lounge? Yeesh.

Not fully Morbsing. 4 of my 5 made the list -- I was zinging some dude for Voodoo Lounge, but the top 8, at least, make sense to me.

tbf i put Voodoo Lounge as my #5 mainly as a gesture towards the kind of chronological variety that this poll will undoubtedly be lacking in, however justifiably

it is by far their best-sounding later record, thoguh

you're so weird

what sounds better? Steel Wheels?

depends on what you mean by "better"

you and Alfred and Ismael will have a lot to talk about

i'm talking about the production, the way the sound of the band is captured on tape

like, the songs on Voodoo Lounge might not be classics but compared to the horrid-sounding Bridges To Babylon it's pretty pleasing to the ears

without making any claims wrt artistic merit, voodoo lounge has like double the sales of ya ya's

Sure, but it also likely has vastly more sales than Satanic, Buttons, or Aftermath.

i think a lot of people just didn't think to include a live LP in their ballots

Yeah, I'll totally grant that live albums may not be in the forefront of peoples' minds when thinking of "the best Stones albums," but I see it as just as crucial to the Golden Era as BB or LiB.

Ya-Yas would be my #1 if we did a best album cover poll though

maybe when we do the frampton poll

tbf i put Voodoo Lounge as my #5 mainly as a gesture towards the kind of chronological variety

i'm making a different gesture towards your kind of chronological variety

I'll join you in that gesture

are people actually mad at me for being one of two people that helped an album tie for #10? jeez guys

i mean should it have placed ahead of Goats Head Soup? probably not, no, but ain't that your fault?

i made Aftermath my #5 for the same reason and have nothing but love for all ballots.

speaking of which

mad at you for voting for an album based on sonics

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ROLLING STONES POLL RESULTS PART THREE: THE TRACKS

• 67 ballots
• 169 tracks receiving votes

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Ya-Yas would be my #1 if we did a best album cover poll though

― some dude, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 1:24 PM (2 minutes ago)

That would be a fun side poll. I don't know whether Some Girls would rank really high or really low on that scale.

tbf i put Voodoo Lounge as my #5 mainly as a gesture towards the kind of chronological variety - mike daisey explains his stones ballot

mad at you for voting for an album based on sonics

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 2:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not PURELY based on sonics, i was just saying for an old fogey album made in 1994 it has held up surprisingly well from a production standpoint

balls going over my head

how many songs can you hum off it?

Being irritable at anyone else for liking what they like is o_O to me. I'm not setting foot in that comedy films thread because of exactly that.