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

"Tumbling Dice" exists in some corner of my mind next to Al Green, the Spinners, the best singer-songwriter hits, and all my favourite music from my favourite year. "Angie" (which I basically like fine) belongs to some bizarre free-for-all with the likes of Vickie Lawrence, Skylark, and "Dueling Banjos." I'm being selective in my memory there, but that's really the difference that that one year makes for me.

one thing that's weird is looking at old wabc charts and seeing (eg. http://www.musicradio77.com/Surveys/1972/surveyjul2572.html) 'happy' popping up amongst 'candy man' and the partridge family covering neil sedaka, etc.

You called my bluff! That's what I mean about the way I romanticize 1972. There's "Happy" next to "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast," "Candy Man," and "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A."--any of which is basically just as junky as what comes along in '73. (On the whole, though, I think most people on this board would find a higher concentration of great chart music in '72.)

something/anything is that year

i think your point holds though - 'happy' on the air beside 'candy man' seems bizarre to me, whereas 'angie' on the air beside 'half breed' and the defranco family feat tony defranco (http://www.musicradio77.com/Surveys/1973/surveyoct2373.html) - sure, that totally makes sense.

42. We Love You – 232 points (13 votes)

http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/afiles/brianjonesrollingstoneskldkfkd.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/cF5sDwYSTCM

god Brian's face is the stuff of nightmares

i feel like i've recently seen pics of brian looking hott before the drugs kicked in? in any case, masonic boom is likely to dispute your verdict.

I know I know I've argued up and down that one before, I don't get it I'll never get it *shudder*

But I really fucking love this song, I couldn't justify it in my ballot but I'm stoked that it gets a nod because it's pretty rad.

I love that it's hippy sounding but those meaty guitar riffs just beef it up so much, it's awesome

Also I might have to distance my earlier agreements with Alfred that Mick got hotter in the 70's, because him in roger's vid just, um A+ outstanding

the way the vocals slowly swoop in like a fighter jet on We Love You is my favorite part

I voted for this

me too

me too

you are all winners in my book :)

damn "Heartkbreaker" shoulda been way higher imo

...like every little piece of that song is perfect to me

― some dude, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 7:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and brian just looks like ron weasley there

"we love you" is far and away my favorite stones song that i didn't vote for. no excuse, just savage nights in process. glad y'all knew to pick up the slack.

otoh, kind of hate mincing twee "i am waiting", clever wes anderson deployment or no.

love the dot-matrix solo at the end of "we love you", such forward-thinking devils

'shake your hips' isn't going to place and it's all my fault

if it's your fault then it's mine too dude

;_;

41. Ventilator Blues – 242 points (12 votes)

http://cdn.umg3.net/rollingstones/files/imagecache/thickbox_popup/photos/DT_MickKeithJimmy_87.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/0wEvKIrGcNI

shit yeah, shoulda been higher, etc

Another one I didn't vote for but I love love love love

"ventilator blues" is GREAT, but my exile love points went elsewhere. sorta figured from the balloting thread that it'd do okay without me anyway. such a brutal song, love the "some kinda ventilator" repetition @ 2:10 or so.

also grebt photo rogermexico

WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT?

all those nellcôte pics just grebt themselves tbh

i imagine no band has been photographed more

I want Euler to tell me more about going to Nellcôte

btw I'm starting to think this deserves its own thread: I love the look on Charlie's face

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Hj4neqKqbSw/TFLfrzaJI8I/AAAAAAAAB9s/Rxf2cQGlFtI/s400/charlie_watts.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/12109289/Charlie+Watts+December+1963.jpg

http://cdn.umg3.net/rollingstones/files/imagecache/thickbox_popup/photos/DT_CharlieBreakAtDrums_04.jpg

yes please, we need a catalog of Charlie

Um,

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/12/33/33/2733782/3/628x471.jpg

I shall create this magical thread

http://www.keno.org/stones_images/jimie_charlie.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_letf1w838P1qc1m17o1_500.jpg

THE STORY THUS FAR

60. Sister Morphine - 123 points (6 votes)
59. Salt of the Earth - 125 points (6 votes)
58. Angie - 142 points TIE (7 votes)
58. Out of Time - 142 points TIE (9 votes)
57. It's All Over Now - 152 points (10 votes)
56. Mother's Little Helper - 164 points TIE (7 votes)
56. The Last Time - 164 points TIE (9 votes)
55. Shine A Light - 166 points (9 votes)
54. Undercover (Of The Night) - 167 points (8 votes)
53. Memo From Turner - 168 points (7 votes)
52. Back Street Girl - 169 points (7 votes)
51. Jig-Saw Puzzle - 183 points (9 votes)

50. Dandelion - 187 points (9 votes)
49. Start Me Up - 199 points (11 votes)
48. Winter - 205 points (9 votes)
47. You Got The Silver - 208 points (9 votes)
46. Emotional Rescue - 209 points (10 votes)
45. Live With Me - 217 points (10 votes)
44. I Am Waiting - 220 points (9 votes)
43. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - 221 points (11 votes)
42. We Love You - 232 points (13 votes)
41. Ventilator Blues - 242 points (12 votes)

nice work, rog, thank you so much for running this

this is fun!!!

"dandelion" is another that i hated to cut and now at least half wish i'd kept. as lovely and ephemeral as its subject.

Let me catch up on the ones posted after I went to bed.

54. Undercover (Of The Night) -- voted for it. One of the last times the Stones allowed themselves to sound upset and upsetting.

53. Memo From Turner -- Not a Stones song. Pretty amazing scene in a movie, though.

52. Back Street Girl -- A late cut from my list. Maybe I'm reading this into it, but Mick sounds a tiny bit regretful here, which makes it work.

51. Jig-Saw Puzzle -- too much of a blues in Bob minor for me to love, but Brian's Mellotron (and maybe slide? well, whoever's slide) keep this very pleasurable for me to listen to.

50. Dandelion -- I guess this is residual love for "We Love You" rubbing off? My love for twee Stones has shrunk over the years into tolerance. Dig the backing vocals, though.

49. Start Me Up -- Having whined about "overplayed!" as a reason to not like a song, I guess I have to dig a little deeper -- I guess this just seems like a sketch for a song more than a song. But the way Keith turns the beat completely around in the first 8 seconds is brilliant, of course.

48. Winter -- sweet, pretty, slight.

47. You Got The Silver -- Somewhere between really being a Keith song and really being a blues song. A prototype, yeah.

46. Emotional Rescue -- made my list despite Ron Wood's "30 seconds of brilliance, 5 minutes of wank" bass playing. It's Charlie's psychedelic high-hat and Mick slipping from real ache to ridiculous parody from second to second. This sounds like wanting somebody you can have and being amused by yourself because of it.

45. Live With Me -- Might have made my top 25, would have made my top 10 on the strength of that live performance posted, but I was rating songs on records.

44. I Am Waiting -- Not the first time folks in the ilxnaverse have mistaken the brilliant use of a song in a movie for a brilliant song and it won't be the last. There is no there here, and to me, it's typical of a lot of lesser Brian-driven songs: he has one nice idea, nobody else takes it anywhere.

43. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) -- another top 25 for me. Mick get politipreachy without sounding smarmy or above it all, Charlie drums like a very angry man falling down the stairs.

42. We Love You -- Didn't vote for it but dig it greatly. One of those songs that make me mad at Brian Jones for preferring drugs to music, 'cause he had fantastic musical ideas and was lousy at being a head.

41. Ventilator Blues -- As I said, Exile is one thing for me. But this is a fantastic song.

wanting someone you CAN'T have, obviously.

lol, i was totally on board with "sounds like wanting somebody you can have and being amused by yourself because of it." i mean, the lyrics make it very clear that he can't have her, as you say, but the vibe is so sleazy and casually playful that i liked your (accidental) inversion. the cocksure swagger and campy come-ons seem to say "yeah, sure, i got this, we both know it, no big deal."

anyway, agree abt most everything else, especially "i am waiting" and "heartbreaker"

despite Ron Wood's "30 seconds of brilliance, 5 minutes of wank" bass playing

otm. What the hell is that about?

fair question, but i like the weird, wanky bass playing for some reason (and i almost never like wanky bass). maybe it's that it suits the song's taped-together, off-the-cuff vibe. the drums carry the beat regardless, and the bass somehow manages to imply what it's supposed to be doing even when ron's just blooping around.

suppose i should say "charlie carries the groove regardless..."

Yes, she could, I suppose, be his.

Love the Mellotron on "Jig-Saw Puzzle"

Heh, I never knew what this sound was, it makes the song for me though.

Good to see 'Winter' and 'Heartbreaker' place - there are four songs on GHS I really love but I only voted for one of them and it wasn't either of these.

I guess the 'Spotify' playlist is impossible..

Pleased that Live With Me made it. The last song I cut from my ballot.

okay now I am wishing I had included "We Lve You" as the mysteriously missing track from my ballot

nm I just realized that I forgot to vote for Jigsaw Puzzle; that song is waaaaaaay too low