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

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?

I think I have a problem with any time Mick Jagger attempts being dark/threatening. dude is a clown, you can't do the rooster in yellow hotpants and then expect me to take you seriously as the prince of darkness or whatever.

I love all of those evil Mick showcases on Let It Bleed (Live With Me, Let It Bleed, Midnight Rambler, Monkey Man) which only make You Got the Silver that much more powerful.

the reason it works in Sympathy for the Devil is that he's still campy as hell

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I dig "Midnight Rambler" in the context of the album but I agree that it's one of Mick's sillier poses. I tend to get caught up in the ramp-it-up ending.

I think I have a problem with any time Mick Jagger attempts being dark/threatening. dude is a clown, you can't do the rooster in yellow hotpants and then expect me to take you seriously as the prince of darkness or whatever.

He's like Ned Flanders as the Devil: it's always the one you least suspect.

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I'll stick my knife right down your throat BABY AND IT HURTS boom clack

the Stones is the first where I can feel like fans of one era might hate other eras.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, April 4, 2012

i think this only goes one way though, yes?

37. Play With Fire – 269 points (13 votes)

http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/MBrbTqt3fxU/hqdefault.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/u5vn6OqnD_Q

I dunno, I'm getting the vibe that some people aren't all that into the eighties stuff.

lol Ismael whatever gave you that idea

love it, love the guitar, love the lyric, didn't vote for it though

Love Play With Fire. LOVE

also did not vote for it

Hey another of mine placed! This song owns!

makes a nice pair with midnight rambler imo. what's always grabbed me about "play with fire" is the undercurrent of menace.

Not really a fan of Rambler -- thought about putting it on my most-hated list but realized how OTT that would be. I don't know why it turns me off. (xp -- Shakey may have it nailed)

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.

Yeah, I do kind of dislike Stones stuff from the last 20-25 years, but more the idea of it existing at all rather than anything specific. As I mentioned on the voting thread, I was surprised at how much I liked A Bigger Bang. Just a totally irrational take from someone who gravitated from songs to noise, drones and the avant-garde over the last couple of decades. I think I drank a little of the critical "hey you dinosaurs, quit existing and turn into oil already" kool-aid. Unfair in this case, probably.

setting aside concerns of rich old bastards making insane amounts of money off of subpar tours/albums, i think it's kind of awesome just to see a rock'n'roll band play together for FIFTY FUCKING YEARS, just because it's such uncharted territory. and hey all their pld blues heroes keep playing guitar with arthritic fingers until the day they drop dead, why not the Stones too?

pld=old

stones from Tattoo You forward much less embarrassing than U2 from Pop forward imo

xxposts mick is complicated imo. the moment in Gimme Shelter (the motion picture) when Things Get Real always breaks my heart a little. all at once he's just a skinny theater kid who didn't realize until just now that the audience wasn't in on the joke, had never been in on the joke, didn't know it was all a show at all...

Totally, some dude. The Paul Simon catalogue was such an eye opener because he's still fresh and has been going even longer. He's got a rich lyrical seam to keep mining though, whereas the Stones have it a bit more difficult I feel.

CHILD OF THE MOON!!! yes, so glad this made the cut! my #1 for reasons i can't fully explain, it just sticks with me. love the deathly drone, the melodic hook, the weirdly inverted & cryptic flower child sentiment. such a great song, and unique in their catalog (though i guess 2000 light years from home is similar, love that too).

all at once he's just a skinny theater kid who didn't realize until just now that the audience wasn't in on the joke, had never been in on the joke, didn't know it was all a show at all...

agree that this is totally depressing moment

stones from Tattoo You forward much less embarrassing than U2 from Pop forward imo

would agree, but the failure to be embarrassing isn't always a victory. U2 have had more worthy tunes in the post-pop era than the stones since tattoo you, jmo.

That's a great summary roger xp. Keith is in a way the personification of evil in that very same bit, where Mick's shouting at him to shut up but he just keeps jamming, enjoying the show.

xxpost god yeah, that moment in Gimme Shelter...it's all over his face, so fucking sad

I liked what Mick said to Wenner about how journalists were falling over themselves to parse a meaning from that moment and for him it was someone died, and that's more than enough.

Love Play With Fire. LOVE

...also did not vote for it

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl)

yeah, same here. one of the dumber omissions from my list.

also love "midnight rambler" and didn't vote for that either. don't regret it though.

i have to admit that i've been soured on "Play With Fire" partly by the absolutely horrible interpolation of it on a Lil Wayne song a few years ago

IMHO, it was poorly used in The Darjeeling Limited too.

so far most disappointed about "live with me" being so low.

and there's a score of harebrained children
they're all locked in the nursery
they got earphone heads they got dirty necks
they're so 20th century

haha are we done with the Wes Anderson portion of the thread yet?

I'm on Lester Bangs' side re Altamont: Jagger, as rogermexico reminded us, looked like a charlatan while Keith was the only one who met force with force (i.e. we're not playing anymore until you guys CUT IT OUT).

also: Jagger expressing sympathy for the victims was as inauthentic as Madonna crying at her mom's grave in Truth or Dare. Give these guys masks and they'll tell the truth every fucking time.

also: "Play With Fire" yay!

Lol I haven't seen Darjeeling Limited

Ftr I'm still furious w myself for neglecting Jigsaw Puzzle

"Street Fighting Man" was in Mr. Fox! xpsts

Charlie's reaction here to HA bullshit strikes me as so human, so sad, and so grown-up: http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/a4OUEZSg8xY/search/off

I like thinking that Play With Fire is like a Part 2 of Heart of Stone, where the false bravado has given way to a kind of menace.
I think a lot, lol.

Play with Fire sounds to me the template for Love, another Wes A fave.

ENOUGH WITH WES ANDERSON

:)

my favorite Play With Fire interpolation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTR-7LU3Fc

and hey all their pld blues heroes keep playing guitar with arthritic fingers until the day they drop dead, why not the Stones too?

Yeah, I seem to recall an interview with Mick where he made exactly this point. I couldn't fault the logic, and a lot of my disdain for old rock musicians, especially British Invasion bands, dropped away at that point. There are more worthy targets.

xp yeah, that's p great

36. Happy – 274 points (13 votes)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/yvZqiroI9chktcsj8bxPwzqh_500.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/Je1wsntVm7w

xp Yeah, the "hope I die before I get old" sentiment ended as soon as the boomers realized they'll mostly live past 80 or 90. They might as well keep working to offset the ones who will be bankrupting the social security system and whatever they have in the UK.