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

"angie" was one of the staple "slow dance" numbers when i was in junior high

haaaa, such a raw song for 13 year olds to be dancing to.

it's weird to think that "Angie" is one of only 8 or so Stones songs that topped the charts in the states. it sure doesn't feel like one of their 8 biggest songs.

shouldn't the number of votes decide the ties?

it could, but since there are very few ties and they're all at the tail end of the list I went with more/merrier. rest assured there's no impact once things get serious.

xp yeah in terms of classic rock radio ubiquity there are a bunch of stones songs ahead of "angie." not that i don't hear it pretty often.

"angie" is a genuinely great song, top 20 for me, and the only one of these i really care about. damn glad i voted for it, as it wouldn't have made the cut otherwise.

LISTEN TO GOATS HEAD SOUP

incidentally for shits and giggles, here are the most played Stones songs (in descending order) on U.S. classic rock as of 2011: Miss You, Start Me Up, Beast of Burden, Gimme Shelter, Sympathy For The Devil, Satisfaction, You Can't Always Get What You Want, It's Only Rock N Roll, Honky Tonk Woman, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, Paint It Black, Angie, Shattered, Heartbreaker

interesting. maybe it's just the one i listen to out here, but it seems like i can't go a half hour w/o hearing beast of burden.

57. It's All Over Now - 152 points (10 votes)

http://www.mclub.com.ua/images/alb/cover499_181596.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/ok3HV-d8814

Beast Of Burden being third most played seems to square with that! (xpost)

I'm pretty drunk now so yeah I'll drink to the common foot soldier

Miss You, Start Me Up, Beast of Burden, Gimme Shelter, Sympathy For The Devil, Satisfaction

I have heard ALL of these w/in the past week blaring from the speakers outside the Hard Rock Cafe across the street from where I work.

"Ir's All Over Now" was the last one I cut from my list. Something kinda perfect about it.

Actually, pretty much every week. xp

yeah, meant to say it makes sense (which i did not express well durr) xxp.

Aw damn, I went to a party and missed Voodoo Lounge's moment in the sun. I was the no.1 obviously. It's such a striking album to me, part of it is the sound, which is properly fresh and urgent, like they've got their mojo back and stopped, I dunno, following the times or something. You can imagine them kicking back and making the record they felt comfortable making - for a lot of acts that'd be a recipe for lame, but this is The Stones.

They've probably got better sets of songs, though these are damn good in their own right; it's just that I don't think they ever put out a better, truer set.

(150 xps, and don't get me started on A Bigger Bang)

out of curiosity, where did you find that radio play info?

i love the way Mick's vocal comes in on "Out of Time", so.......? "mannered," sure, but that's half their discography--ah, fuck adjectives

i know a guy who occasionally pulls airplay info from a database for me

i feel like i've heard 'mother's little helper' an awful lot lately considering how little classic rock radio i listen to -- weird

Really? I just keep hearing Guns n Roses songs...

p. sure you mean chili peppers

izzat to me?

Heh, just noticed Goat's Head Soup missing out entirely - that's some consensus, ilm.

wouldn't you rather listen to Voodoo Lounge?

who do? you do! remind me of the lounge

think I cut Out of Time in the end but hs me woulda put it really high, I mean the version on the London Years: such a cheery dis

TIE
56. Mother's Little Helper - 164 points (7 votes)
http://www.youtu.be/13olfeD026g

56. The Last Time - 164 points (8 votes)
http://www.youtu.be/27ouOE4RvUc

yay Staples

Mother's Little Helper boldly showing low

more bands should steal the "The Last Time" riff

omitting these two from my ballot was painful

will It's All Over Now be the highest placing cover? Not Fade Away, maybe? Love In Vain? surely not Shake Your Hips?

Not Fade Away will be there--the others, nah

There's some weird effect on the bass right after the chorus in "Mother's Little Helper" that's I've never read an explanation of -- sounds like it's being doubles by an electronic organ or some early synth thing. Anybody know the story there?

i hope Not Fade Away and Ain't Too Proud and Just My Imagination place but i only voted for originals

i think it would be crazy for 'time is on my side' to place over 'mother little helper' but it could happen

esp if any heinz ppl voted

55. Shine a Light - 166 points (9 votes)

http://i43.tinypic.com/5wy2yw.jpg
www.youtu.be/thZ__Ak8PyA

only voted one Exile track but if I'd voted two, that'd been it.

GREAT pic

btw my pilgrimage to the Exile villa last summer was fab

Fabulous photo. Beautiful song and pristine solo.

Wait, you can go there? Inside?

x...p forgot about time is on my side. yeah, that could happen

pristine solo

OTM and TOO LOW >:[

if i'd known you people were going to overlook this one i would have voted for it myself ;_;

considered a lot of exile, but not "shine a light". not to say i don't love it, just that i love a bunch of others so much more.

if i'd known you people were going to overlook this one i would have voted for it myself ;_;

Real problem with this poll, so many good songs, stuff just had to go ... probably going to be a common theme

Exile was my number 2 album and I didn't vote for a single song off of it -- it's an album that I can't break into its constituent parts that easily.

I wasn't invited into the villa, no, just stood outside its gates & enjoyed the odor of money