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

wyman on the vibes!

hearing this song in goodfellas is what prompted me to deliberately listen to the rolling stones (ie buy an album - let it bleed). haven't looked back.

a trifle too satanic!

let's not start guessing what's left...

dig "Monkey Man" but it's interesting to see the kind of song that's consensus on ILM evidently: 68-72, solid meat & potatoes Stones, the earthy years. did we do a general 70s poll on this board? thinking there's more taste for classic rock here than I thought

monkey man is one of those songs where it's great and then if you break it down into its individual parts it is even more great

Pretty classic, on my ballot, though here it's above some songs I love a lot more. (Let it Loose was my #1.)

feel free to say a few words about "let it loose"!

Speaking of Satanic, anyone see Fallen (1998) with Denzel Washington? I think that's the one that put "Time Is On My Side" to effectively creepy use, where a serial killer is executed, but his spirit possesses different people to carry on the same kind of killings, and always whistles that song.

every time ABKCO gets paid like that a kitten ODs

on catnip, guys, on catnip

hey balls, it is real nice to see you posting more again

^^^

it's interesting to see the kind of song that's consensus on ILM evidently: 68-72, solid meat & potatoes Stones

Nothing wrong with focusing on that 5 year period. It was a doozy. But with these polls, it seems the songs that win are usually the frontrunners, like When the Levee Breaks & Life On Mars. If Gimme Shelter wins by less than 100 points, I'd be surprised.

The intro to Monkey Man is exquisite and I cannot believe how much I always love it. My #6.

You Can't Always Get What You Want: My #3. Even after living through Classic Rock Radio and hearing this song way more times than necessary, I still am completely in love with everything about it, including the choir and the lyrics and the overplayedness.

hearing this song in goodfellas is what prompted me to deliberately listen to the rolling stones (ie buy an album - let it bleed). haven't looked back.

― balls, Friday, April 6, 2012 12:03 AM (33 minutes ago)

Hehe, same thing happened to me, except it was Nilsson! Didn't realize Monkey Man was even in Goodfellas, tho, but it makes sense, so sleazy and paranoid. My #2.

the slide and piano breakdown from approx 2:30 to 3:10 is awfully nice too imo

Ugh, remind me to switch my i and u keys around. self xp

15. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – 544 points (23 votes)

http://vedettesbritanniques.retrojeunesse60.com/TheRollingStones4.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/8_VbImuG71M

lol it's the same scene as the nilsson! maybe someone can pipe up w/ a 'i owe my george harrison fandom to goodfellas'.

15

felt like i *should* have voted for satisfaction, but didn't

monkey man is tremendous, my #4

xp currently at work, would love to say more later tho

hey balls, it is real nice to see you posting more again

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:31 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^

"You Can't" was in my top 10, it's a song that has weirdly only gained power for me over the years, and i'm generally not big on "Hey Jude" or whatever other songs might be comparison points

keith "ocasek" richards

<3 balls

if u know what i mean

Same scene? Hoho, pleading "baked adolescence" in my defense here
xp to balls

You know, ten years ago, not ten minutes ago

Man, missed a lot, but really glad "Monkey Man" made it. My #14, such a killer sounding song. Riff is all time for me too.

love that Satisfaction 45 pic!!

"Satisfaction" is an eternal keeper for me. I love how aggressive it is, it's kinda slower than I ever remember whenever I hear it, but I just love the forcefulness of it. It doesn't sound like many of the other popular songs of its day, it has that really nasty garage quality to it that I just love from that era. Good song for playing air tambourine to, if you're so inclined

The version of "Satisfaction" from Got Live If You Want It! has been my go-to lately whenever I want to hear this song.

@ 2:22 here:

http://youtu.be/TFn98iVkQpo

btw can someone link me this jagger-wenner interview?

love monkey man so much

http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/Jagger_Remembers.aspx

thank u

no problem! there's a great typo in that article that makes me wish someone really wrote a song called "that's how strong my lore is".

btw for those of you who haven't clicked on the "satisfaction" youtube, do yourself a favor and check out 00:45-00:49.

<3 charlie watts 4 all time

i have mixed feelings about "satisfaction":
• riff is obviously all-time
• made even more all-time by the innovative use of guitar fx (keef noticed that the gibson maestro fuzz, a relatively new invention, could make his guitar sound like a horn, and laid down "in a dream" more or less a motown horn part)
• bassline is all-time
• super-edgy subject matter for the time and for years after, genuinely frightening to parents
• super-sharp and still-otm observation of the relationship between conspicuous consumption and sexual frustration/fear of death
• somehow never really gets in my pants -- it's all strangely lifeless, which i suppose is appropriate to the subject matter: all looks no action (imo!)

Great breakdown, and I agree. It was never really on my ballot.

^^^

14. Brown Sugar – 559 points (23 votes, 1x #1)

http://991.com/newGallery/Rolling-Stones-Brown-Sugar-19142.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/3B0Y3LUqr1Q

http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOBrown.html

i'll take 'racial tropes in rolling stones songs' for 1000, alex

my #11

(I've written riffs that people assume are Keith's.) Brown Sugar. That was the first one I did. I've done many since.
- Mick Jagger, 1994

I'm the #1 for "Monkey Man," really glad to see it placed. I can understand if it's a little thin for some, but it's definitive for me.

Listening to my CD stones on shuffle today, and I gotta say, while I didn't vote for the 5 worst Stones tracks, if I had, "Under The Boardwalk" definitely would have placed. Easily the least valuable of their early covers imo.

"Monkey Man" is great, thought i'd voted for it but i guess it was a last minute casualty

keith "ocasek" richards

― buzza, Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:51 PM

just wanna take a moment to savor the OTMness

haha yes

rogermexico, are you familiar with Otis Redding's version on Live in Europe? revitalized the song for me, Otis takes a VERY different approach to the vocal.....