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

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

I guess the 'Spotify' playlist is impossible..
I was going to ask about this but nm :( Still, good job so far, folks!

i have been listening to every song on the poll on US spotify as it placed, afaict pretty much all the Stones essentials are on there if someone wanted to make a playlist (and i could).

Yeah, dunno how it is in the UK, but having pretty much everything available on Spotify in the US really helped when I was putting together my ballot.

Everything is available here too afaict, not sure what the problem is...

Let's see if this works: http://spoti.fi/HkKd6C

worked for me!

And it's an okay in the UK too. Thanks!

40. Child of the Moon – 243 points (10 votes, 1x #1)

http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/images/ChildoftheMoon_PS.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/Xt37Fj1U5iM

Hey! My first song!

:D

good song but it's weird to me that it's rated so highly here

I know it from the London Years box & remain puzzled about why the cd case says it's "Child of the Moon (rmk)". Was there an original version?

xp Memo From Turner and Jigsaw Puzzle aren't showing for me (UK) - any chance you could add a duplicate from a different album to see if that works better?

I'd never really paid any attention to 'Child of the Moon' until recently (I think I found mention of it on one of the other Stones threads) but it's a great song, would maybe make my 21-30.

"Child Of The Moon" is awesome, but I am really predisposed to droney rock/music, so I know why it works for me I guess.

Starting to feel like most of my reasons for digging the Stones different than a lot of others. Very little blooze in my ballot ...

xpost replaced those with others, but for jigsaw in particular there aren't a lot of options.

Also, guitar at the end of "We Love You" sounds a lot like a slowed-down Robert Fripp! Cool song for sure.

I almost voted for "Jigsaw Puzzle", very late cut. I think I decided that I could only keep one: either "Children ..." or "Jigsaw ..."! Was how I got through my ballot, did that kind of thing quite a bit.

39. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? – 246 points (11 votes)

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/stones_in_drag_b.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/zJCu3R1Mqk0

YES!

was worried about this one

The flower psych stones don't convince me; dirty nasty strung-out psych stones do, every time. Love this one, glad many of you agree.

Some of my favorite guitar sounds on this, Stones or otherwise.

Definitely my favorite of their psychedelic songs.

Hah, I also voted this one quite high. See what I mean?

They were great songwriters, hooks galore whether in blooze or flower/psych mode.

38. Midnight Rambler – 264 points (10 votes, 1x #1)

http://leglessscotsman.blogit.fi/files/2009/11/1969detroitbill.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/IM-XXW6FJbw

You cannot gainsay the Midnight Rambler

that poor disembodied head, caught in bill wyman's crotchal area

so great.

everyone needs to watch that youtube roger linked as well, the Marquee Club version KILLS so hard.

Not a great song, but one the Stones have done some fantastic mind-blowing performances of.

I first heard "Child Of The Moon" on Yung Wu's (Feelies side project) Shore Leave (1987). Even better is Band Of Susan's version on Love Agenda (1989). It wasn't until I picked up the London Years discs in the 90s that I finally heard the original. That may be why I wished the Stones version had a bit more oomf to it.

"Midnight Rambler" might . . . ramble some, but how can you say it's not a great song??

Midnight Rambler not a good song? Pshaw, it's a great song...

possibly the Stones' 38th-finest hour

yeah, there's such an embarrassment of riches that MR inevitably winds up being 2nd tier....is it just me (don't choose that) or is this one of the more poll-arizing polls thus far? I guess the catalogue is varied enough to have different stones for different folks

Hah! It's an ok song, but surely the #1 vote was for the live potential of the song, not the song itself. If not speak up #1 Rambler fan.

I can say it's not a great song because I don't see the lyrics as anything special, and there's nothing else left to distinguish it from any other 16-bar blues. That's not a problem for me, mind you, when they play the hell out of it.

keef's guitar playing on midnight rambler is scary.

^ this. The little figures he plays in the minute or so before "You heard about the Boston..." are so quietly terrifying.

I guess the catalogue is varied enough to have different stones for different folks

I've always felt like this would be an important element of the really good polls, and it has been present in e.g. Bowie, but the Stones is the first where I can feel like fans of one era might hate other eras.

Did you hear about the Midnight Rambler?
He'll leave his footprints up and down your hall
Did you hear about the Midnight Rambler?
Did you see me make my midnight call

And if you catch the Midnight Rambler
I'll steal your mistress from under your nose
Well, go easy with your cold fandango
I'll stick my knife right down your throat
Baby, and it hurts!

It's more chilling and effective than say, The Doors' "The End." Less pretentious maybe?

always found that song deeply silly

x-post re: Doors A McDonald's hamburger is preferable to a piece of shit. What's your point?