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

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.

xpost hell yes! love otis and love that take. otis was from another world.

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

Which is why I didn't vote for a lot of the hits.

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

Charlie's tom-tom work on "Brown Sugar"=All-time.

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

exactly. i frontloaded my top 5 with big hits (iirc) to counteract the contrarians

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)

13. Moonlight Mile – 561 points (23 votes, 3x #1)

http://cdn.umg3.net/rollingstones/files/imagecache/thickbox_popup/photos/DT_TaylorStudio_169.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/moQmARaiOEU

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

lower than I expected but *swoon*

my #2

how much do I love this freaking song

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)

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

the way i see it there's pretty much nothing but big hits from here on out

nope

i.e., you are wrong, unless you count 'sway' as a big hit

hey i said one or two exceptions. we just saw one, that could be the other. are any more Exile non-singles a lock?

isn't sway another non-keith song?

sleeping under strange strange skies... <3

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 ethereal
I could hardly believe this song existed when i first heard it

Did not know "Moonlight Mile" was pretty much all Jagger + Taylor. Respect! My #3.

tbf keith is present on moonlight mile in spirit since his "japanese thing" contributed the bones

and he sings backups, doesn't he?

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

• 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).

xpost 'too much exile' does not compute and naysayers can git tae fuck :)

"moonlight mile" is sweet, but i don't feel it quite the way y'all do. nice song though.

nice face

:)

the high finish for moonlight mile was a big surprise to me, but a happy one

it's like a whole new song with that outro

12. Stray Cat Blues – 577 points (24 votes, 2x #1)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TF0TBqwB6-w/SyG66XlvXlI/AAAAAAAADZY/DrEOSKps1qI/s400/ANITA+%28163%29.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/hIpqiEK8wfw

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

wow, i'm a big Beggars Banquet head and did not see that coming at all

me either!

sleazy-ass stones fans b lurkin'

ya ya's version of this is possibly the grimiest thing they ever put on record

my #4......"I don't want your ID": no longer possible after, say, 1977 or so?

[& yeah, I was a sleazy lurker up til the results thread]

aaaaand there's my #3. Pretty sure my top 10 will be totally accounted for by the end, unless some serious challops are afoot.

Wow, in the Ya-Ya's version, Mick changes her age from 15 to 13.

I did not vote for it but I looooove this sleazy-ass song

any time i think it's too scuzzy, i remember how many songs I enjoy that celebrate capital crimes

but Mick swore it aint no capital crime

my point!

lol I'm slow

Presumably Polanski's favorite live Stones....

i'm starting to feel curmudgeonly. not a big "stray cat blues" fan either. sleazy cool, but kind of generic and overstated.

The first of many all-time-best Watts drum sounds achieved by Jimmy Miller. And the way Jagger sneer-drools through "matter" is probably illegal.

xpost i dunno seems pretty ballsy for 1968