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

some dude you are the challopiest challop to ever challop and don't even try to deny it

not irritable! just amused and I like poking some dude cause it's fun and he pokes back :D

i don't think anyone's ~mad~ at some dude

we're just disappointed because we'd thought better of him *sighs*

getting excited here rogermexico, muchas gracias for the poll!

we think some dude is mad, but we are not mad AT him

hey all i really said was it's my favorite post-Tattoo You album. unless there's another you'd like to stump for i don't see how that can be controversial.

Alfred and Ismael can make excellent cases for why they would vote for it, beyond that it 'sounds better' than the others.
You just need to work on your material.

i have to admit i don't mind voodoo lounge up there cuz man have i known some HARDCORE stones dorks that will ride hard for that album (and dirty work go figure). mind you these guys also inevitably will let you know that the new york dolls were faggots and will regale you with how much they hated seeing prince or living colour open for the stones for reasons that will get very uncomfortable very quickly but still, nice to see the myth of voodoo lounge represented.