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

no chance

"Some POLLS give me children..."

My ideas were "Poll This All Together (See What Happens)" and "Poll Poll Poll Poll Poll (Heartbreaker)".

"(I'm a) POLL SURVIVOR"--too obv?

always figure that POLL titles should be as crushingly stupid as possible, so rhyming is out, as it makes a kind of sense

"Poll Poll Poll Poll Poll (Heartbreaker)" is pretty great though, and less stupid than the song title it's playing off

Cherry Poll Baby

LET IT BLEED! My #4, but I kind of wish I'd voted it #1...there's a whole novel's worth of unpacking in the way Mick moves through the choruses, from lean to cream to feed to finally bleed. I love the camaraderie aspect of the Stones more than anything else about them; their vision of barfly camaraderie in Hell is one of my favorites.

"Some POLLS give me children..."

― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, April 4, 2012

In all seriousness: this very nearly happened.

there's a whole novel's worth of unpacking in the way Mick moves through the choruses, from lean to cream to feed to finally bleed. I love the camaraderie aspect of the Stones more than anything else about them; their vision of barfly camaraderie in Hell is one of my favorites.

― Year of the RMDE (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, April 4

Good post! Makes me like a song I already like more than I already liked it!

TIE
32. Beast of Burden – 308 points (14 votes)

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls7vs9YSbM1qa22hyo1_cover.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/bj8lRssjN48

32. Ruby Tuesday – 308 points (15 votes, 1x #1)
http://www.keno.org/stones_images/Brian_Ruby_Tuesday.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/ecF-WZgGkoM

would've been genuinely impressed w/ 'black POLLS just wanna get fucked all night'. if changing i vote for 'poll poll poll poll poll (heartbreaker)' which is sublime.

hilariously fitting those two tied!

"Beast of Burden" overplayed in recent years but it's such a bauble.

Fun Fact: the last time they ever scored two top tens from one album.

I feel like this poll is fucking with me now. My almost-favorite RS song and my WORST RS song tied

oh cruel irony

I love Bette Midler's version of Beast too

tipsy mothra OTM in the voting thread re "the pummeling snare drum lead-in to the chorus" on Ruby Tuesday. impossible not to pull out the air sticks for that one.

love both of these songs so much (though i prefer evil twin "play with fire" to "ruby tuesday")

sort of disappointing that they dropped their fey and experimental side so completely after, well, you know

frankly I'm glad it was just a side, I don't think I would like them half as much their career was 50 years poncing around in velvet and playing recorders

side = phase

karaoke peeps, have you tried either of these? both seem very fun in very different ways.

I'm dying to try out Beast of Burden

yeah i know ppl who hate both so so much and they're both 'overplayed' i guess (seriously ppl, it's 2012, get spotify, put mp3s on yr ipod, change the station, no excuse to whine about hearing anything too much - everything is very avoidable now), but i'm still fine w/ both. when i was a very young kid (ie when this song was still somewhat contemporary) i thought 'beast of burden' was possibly some kind of sex slang i didn't understand, like that m&m stuff they talk about in 9 to 5.

xxxp lol, yeah i guess not, but little something strange now and again in between all the romantical swaggeringness might have been nice

'ruby tuesday' was featured in a wes anderson movie btw

I don't think I would like them half as much their career was 50 years poncing around in velvet and playing recorders

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, April 4, 2012

based on beggars banquet it seems like they knew there was only so far that would take them, even before, well, you know

xp and a popular chain of homestyle sit-down eateries!

i guess i'm just feeling nostalgic abt the *lost innocence*

xxpost balls, yeah I always thought it was a weird sex euphemism too, I was kind of embarrassed that I liked the song for a long time because I thought it meant I was a pervert

turns out I am and that liking the song has nothing to do with that, lol

i asked my mom what it meant when i was a kid and she said it was a song about being married

hahah

mom otm

"It's about being married to your father, dear"

Thank u for the kind words, rogermexico! :)

BREAKING

Today's second clerical error: Ruby Tuesday's point total is correct but I failed to note it received a #1 vote.

Wes Anderson is among my most loathed directors, and I had no idea he used Ruby Tuesday (my #5). The guy should be banned from using the stones

does anyone dislike BOB?

i was one of the 'let it bleed' number 1s. i don't love it as much as rogermexico's post suggests, it was more that it had to be number 1, simply by what it does. just listen to the first 25 seconds: the slide guitar sketch to start, the acoustic guitar which seems to change rhythm ever so slightly, charlie's drums starting bang bang, then the piano coming in on the second beat.

they swung as well as they rocked.

it's the only one of the results so far i really don't like
xpost

love the lazy swing of "let it bleed", the way the drums come in, all that. even like the song, but it's far from a favorite. enjoy singing & drinking along with brokedick country stones, but i think they do other things so much better.

does anyone dislike BOB?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 6:32 PM

I love Beast of Burden, and I was trying to NOT leave things off if I really can't listen to them anymore, but this one fell through the cracks and I left it off. I don't think I've ever been as unhappy with what I submitted, but this is just impossible to do in 20 songs (and I stopped at Exile!)

Beast of Burden is off the cuff and v relaxed but it feels kind of bland to me tbh

think i said this on the results thread but it's entirely possible to put together two separate 20-track ballots that are wholly defensible with zero challops and do not share a track in common.

without prejudicing results i can also state I received many ballots that would have made just as much sense in either order.

"Put me out of misery" can't be bland, but it is p chill.

i put beast of burden up pretty high. that song sounds great when you're just on the verge of being way drunk.

xxp yeah, i'd be just as happy submitting my 21-40 as i would my top 20

yeah beast is a slow-dancing by yrself in an empty bar kinda song

in a good way

the slow dancing by yrself in an empty bar in a BAD way song would be Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love

there's at least 4 or 5 songs on my ballot that there was no way i wasn't voting for (only one has shown up - don't need a virgin priest), but i easily could've picked a completely different roster for the rest and still been fine w/ my ballot.

31. Loving Cup – 311 points (13 votes, 1x #1)

http://wemakeitgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Bianca-and-Mick-Jagger.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/Z2IL0iAGgX0