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

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.

Meanwhile Keef the cock-a-roacha has shown some signs of frailty lately and I fear won't be seeing 90, let alone 80.

according to a recent article in RS, the band thought Keith was in seriously bad shape.

yay! Happy!!

This was one of my last cuts, goddamn it hurt.
I love the line 'Never wanna be like papa, workin' for the boss every night and day'...after reading Keef's book I feel like this is Keef in song form. I love it, I love his singing voice...it's a fun jam

when Keith finally kicks it i'll feel like i did when Jack Lalane or George Burns finally passed, like "what!? you're not allowed to die!"

I don't want to entertain the thought of no Keef

that bums me out

I will cry more than I did when Strummer died

love happy, tho it didn't make the cut on my ballot. some of the live versions of that song are pretty lol, keith seeming to have no clue how to sing into a microphone, jagger trying to keep things together.

i let "happy" go even before "turd on the run" (and just about blew a fuse cutting that), but am super glad to see it here, easily the sunniest exile track. also one of the few keef songs i really dig.

keith-sung, i mean, he wrote lots of great shit

xp I read that same article and another one. They took a break from touring due to unspecified health issues Keith was dealing with, but since then he's played at least one gig and seemed okay.

Love "Happy", too low imo. Love the riff, the slide playing, the horns mimicing the slide, the vocals. And, uh, it makes me feel happy too, which sounds stupid but is true, so gotta fess up.

I killed the thread with my earnest appreciation. Very un-Stonesy.

no way! lotsa earnest appreciation itt.

it turned out the picture kinda said everything for me

35. Waiting on a Friend – 282 points (13 votes)

http://i39.tinypic.com/25r1i5x.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/wMYjTWbU76k

xpost it really is an A+ pic

I didn't vote but I love ooooh oooh's in this

Almost voted for this just for the Rollins solo.

Yay! Second of mine to place - it's so good-natured.

I like the sound of the guitar in this. I haven't the musical knowledge to describe either the guitar or kind of playing but I dig it :D

i believe the correct musicological term for that guitar sound is "heavenly"

<3

I shoulda voted for this, I forgot how much I love it

so so many great songs i didn't vote for, god this poll was tough. their most beautifully relaxed song? no tension or angst, just this effortless sunny afternoon sway, can't help but love it. tattoo you forever.

man, it's tough watching mick in the 80s videos though

"Waiting On A Friend" was a very late cut for me, glad to see it place relatively high (every song at this point is gonna be great and thus could be considered as "placing high" relatively).

I was joking about the earnestness, and roger summed it up: that picture of "Happy" Keith is the best. Where did that come from?

for me, this is the last stones lyric with genuine mojo.

i actually never got "waiting on a friend" until I heard the luna cover

ha, i think i had the same experience. that is a nice version.

shit, i would have made space for this--and the video is SO New York '80 or 81' or whenever it was...love the scene in the bar at the end where they are miming.

i remember seeing that video when i was reallllly young and i thought the rolling stones lived on sesame street.

hahah that's cute as hell, tyler

my #10, the "latest" of my picks but not really since it's from the early 70s mostly, no?

xxxpost grandavis do a search on dominique tarlé nellcote and kiss half your day goodbye. i've used a bunch here and will use more. extraordinary stuff.

Already kissing enough of it away with this thread. Makes work interesting, we'll say, though not as heavy as the Bowie or Zep polls so far, but yeah, gonna wait until I have more time to kill. Photos are amaaaaazing so far.

34. Shattered – 285 points (14 votes)

http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/johmbolaya/covers/RS-Shattered.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/wMYjTWbU76k

shadoobie!

Tough one for me to cut. Love the handclaps on the solo.

i want to like a song that obnoxious but i can't quite get with it

damn, i want that single

wrong youtube link tho