Great breakdown, and I agree. It was never really on my ballot.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
14. Brown Sugar – 559 points (23 votes, 1x #1)
http://991.com/newGallery/Rolling-Stones-Brown-Sugar-19142.jpghttp://www.youtu.be/3B0Y3LUqr1Q
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOBrown.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
i'll take 'racial tropes in rolling stones songs' for 1000, alex
my #11
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
(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
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
"Monkey Man" is great, thought i'd voted for it but i guess it was a last minute casualty
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
keith "ocasek" richards
― buzza, Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:51 PM
just wanna take a moment to savor the OTMness
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
haha yes
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.....
― theStalePrince, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Can I just say Muscle Shoals fuck yeah.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Satisfaction" and "Honky Tonk Woman" seem ranked way too low to this old-timer. Those two songs were the ultimate transistor radio jams in their time. Instant dance parties coming at you on the AM band. And while we're talking Stones songs on film soundtracks, "Satisfaction" in Apocalypse Now is exactly what I'm talking about.
― ρεμπετις, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
Now youre talking
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
Educating myself about the Stones in the late nineties, I was amazed how quickly the cliches broke down: Mick wrote a lot of the riffs and Keef wrote the best ballads.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
xpost hell yes! love otis and love that take. otis was from another world.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
Brown Sugar was my #1 most hated. To be honest, I don't really hate it at all; I just think it's kind of boring and gets WAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION over the dozens of superior RS songs
― Life Is Most Assuredly NOT a Long Song (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
Which is why I didn't vote for a lot of the hits.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
That's how I vote in most of these polls. No reason to vote for "Brown Sugar" when 500 people will.
My take too, so my ballot's a little peculiar
thought hard about voting for Brown Sugar though because I once sang a fun nursery rhyme version to a group of toddlers & it worked
― Euler, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
Charlie's tom-tom work on "Brown Sugar"=All-time.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
or really the mix of toms and kick
i voted for a lot of big hits because tbh i knew "Satisfaction" was gonna be too low
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
exactly. i frontloaded my top 5 with big hits (iirc) to counteract the contrarians
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
figuring most everyone would leave out the big hits...although we're already well through the big hits, right? (sorry, breaking my own thing about telecasting what is to come)
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
13. Moonlight Mile – 561 points (23 votes, 3x #1)
http://cdn.umg3.net/rollingstones/files/imagecache/thickbox_popup/photos/DT_TaylorStudio_169.jpghttp://www.youtu.be/moQmARaiOEU
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOMoonlight.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
lower than I expected but *swoon*
my #2
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
how much do I love this freaking song
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
the way i see it there's pretty much nothing but big hits from here on out. maybe one or two deep cuts and minor singles, if that. (xpost -- there's one)
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
just got to the part of the Wenner interview where Mick talks about how "Moonlight Mile" is one of those songs that Keith isn't really on at all
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
the way i see it there's pretty much nothing but big hits from here on out
nope
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
i.e., you are wrong, unless you count 'sway' as a big hit
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
hey i said one or two exceptions. we just saw one, that could be the other. are any more Exile non-singles a lock?
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
isn't sway another non-keith song?
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
sleeping under strange strange skies... <3
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
my almost-equal love for moonlight mile and sway should not be taken as any indication that I do not like Keith/have any great love for Mick Taylor beyond guitaring
but damn Moonlight Mile is just so beautiful and etherealI could hardly believe this song existed when i first heard it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
Did not know "Moonlight Mile" was pretty much all Jagger + Taylor. Respect! My #3.
― Brad C., Friday, 6 April 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
tbf keith is present on moonlight mile in spirit since his "japanese thing" contributed the bones
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
and he sings backups, doesn't he?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
btw i am by no means a stones expert but i've really enjoyed reading y'all's take on things
so thanks to rm and u. sorry if i voted too much exile
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
• 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!)
otm all the way to the finish line, where it falls down flat, just short of the gold. it's a such vibrant, electrifying song, one of the most insistently physical combinations of groove and tone the early stones managed, the way the frustration and intensity build in the vocals. unaccompanied drumbeat as a hook, so badass. criminally underrated in this poll (not least by me! i had it to damn low in my own ballot).
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
xpost 'too much exile' does not compute and naysayers can git tae fuck :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
"moonlight mile" is sweet, but i don't feel it quite the way y'all do. nice song though.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
nice face
:)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
the high finish for moonlight mile was a big surprise to me, but a happy one
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
it's like a whole new song with that outro
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
12. Stray Cat Blues – 577 points (24 votes, 2x #1)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TF0TBqwB6-w/SyG66XlvXlI/AAAAAAAADZY/DrEOSKps1qI/s400/ANITA+%28163%29.jpghttp://www.youtu.be/hIpqiEK8wfw
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOStratCat.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
wow, i'm a big Beggars Banquet head and did not see that coming at all
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
me either!
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
sleazy-ass stones fans b lurkin'
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
ya ya's version of this is possibly the grimiest thing they ever put on record