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

yeah man, thanks, best poll evar

srsly

One of the best side-benefits is how much Stones stuff I've been listening to since I started creating my ballot. I don't think a day's gone by where I haven't blown through Beggars or Exile once or twice just because the thread discussion puts a few songs in my head, or digging around the youtubes for live stuff, or heck getting my hands on the Brussels Affair live stuff for the first time.

^ yeah no shit, have not had such thorough bath in them stones since i "discovered" exile 20-some years ago

Stones bath: lotsa bodily fluids in that tub...

eeuagh, thank you for that mental image

yeah i'm not even a massive fan or anything but it's been great listening to those remastered(?) singles comps on Spotify.
also hadn't heard Live With Me for years; how good is THAT?

Live With Me sax A++

very happy with how "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" placed, after all the snark and criticism about the song's outro on ilm i thought i'd be its only #1 voter

mark me down in the snark corner on this one

Even snark is relative though - It's Only Rock n Roll would be a pretty great song for most bands.

For anyone who's interested, hunt down the Honolulu 1966 bootleg--radio broadcast so the quality is excellent, and better than "Got Live" iirc

stuff I voted for: 19th Nervous Breakdown, Monkey Man, Moonlight Mile, Can't You Hear Me Knocking (my #1)

Satisfaction probably shoulda been #1 but I figured it would get the Space Odditty treatment

There's one 80s song that I voted for: it'll be interesting to see if its in top 10; I'm thinking no but who knows?

Totally digging this poll, rogermexico. Wonderful job.

OK, there are 9 songs that are pretty much guaranteed to show up in the top ten. But 1 mystery. Hmmmmm.

the Space Odditty treatment

That must be a UK thing because Bowie has plenty of bigger songs in the USA.

Wow, missed a whole lot. How do all of you stay online for this? You are magicians all of you.

I somehow thought "Moonlight Mile" was going to be a sleeper top 5 pick, maybe even #1. Going to be really interesting to me to see what ends up there, though getting easier to suss out.

"Stray Cat Blues" remains one of the more convincing blues workouts for me, just so much personality in it yet somehow it seems a little less forced (and more fun) to me. Maybe it's just the guitars. I turn up the radio/stereo EVERY TIME "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" comes on (unless my wife is in the vicinity ...) Please tell me the Mick did not write that riff too, I am not sure I could take that.

this has been the best poll I've participated in--i.e. completely mysterious and maddening from stem to stern.

agreed ... the Zep and Bowie polls were very engaging and led to a lot of highly enjoyable listening, but this one has been way more crazy-making and way more fun

It's really satisfying to see CYHMK rate so highly (although I wouldn't have personally!) after all the kvetching over it

don't understand the Can't You Hear Me Knocking love.

think I know which 9 kornrulez is talking about

longshots from my ballot that I hope could take the one remaining spot: Heart of Stone, Tell Me and Cocksucker Blues

i'm going to repeat what I said about Can't You Hear on the voting thread because i was otm: "so many big Stones radio staples are these tight 3-minute singles that it's nice to occasionally hear that one big sprawling AOR noodlefest imo"

Yeah, the big 7 minute FM epic is not their thing, at least compared to bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.

Prefer "Memory Motel" and even "Slave" as sprawling AOR noodlefest.

Looking at what's left on my ballot, the longest shot is probably "The Spider and the Fly."

don't understand the Can't You Hear Me Knocking love.

yeah, me either. the song at the beginning is a nice & sleazy blues rocker exile-style. it's great but not far & away the best thing they ever did in this vein. unfortunately undercut by the tepid jamband workout that follows. alfred otm re: the relative merits.

of 23 #1 votes cast so far, only three have been pre-let it bleed: one each for "19th nervous breakdown", "ruby tuesday" and "child of the moon". all the rest in the late 60s/early 70s country-blooze sweet spot.

10 of my top 20 yet to appear, and it seems like 9 will......I am consensus boomer Serious Rock Critic dude!
should've gone with my alternative ballot which was 50% "Exile"...

will be shocked if Gimme Shelter is not #1

me too, although if it's not i can think of a couple plausible spoilers

Really thought "Moonlight Mile" had a shot there for some reason

listening to the Spotify playlist...damn i forgot how much i love "Jigsaw Puzzle," which i'd voted for it and bumped it up a few spots

gosh, "Winter" is lovely. Goats Head Soup is definitely the album this poll is giving me the greatest appetite to get more acquainted with.

the slide guitar on Jigsaw Puzzle is the nuts

I'd like "Winter" more if the piano line were eliminated; it's a crowded mix.

aw you guys... just trying to give the board the best stones poll i can. thanks for 67 rad ballots and an awesome conversation. all credit to WmC for managing this massive undertaking, finefinemusic for the spreadsheet, and everyone who's done on of these already. Ismael's U2 poll and WmC's Zep poll really set the bar imo.

now let's do this

::sits up, leans forward::

TOP 10!

Mr Watts, a drull-roll if you please

Lady Jane

http://www.rollingstonesarchive.com/14%20a%20Lady%20Jane%20AUS.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/s5yBS36jnaE

Please, anyone who didn't watch that "Satisfaction" vid posted above, please do so for the Watts amazingness. roger very OTM there.

is it unusual that two-thirds of the #1 votes would go to the top 10? the centricity surprises me for some reason, but i've never thought about the distribution of #1s before. maybe it's always that way in these polls...

"lade jane" was a late cut for me. i'm surprised by how much i like it, cuz it seems so slight, oddly affected and should-be-cloying. love it though.

I like how clumsy – uncharacteristically so – Jagger sounds on "Lady Jane."

hmm. welp. since i messed up the html on the gag, let's just move along and get down to business :-)

10. Miss You – 672 points (28 votes, 1x #1)

http://www.animaki.com/bild_skivor/rolling_missyou7_fr.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/8C_7VNInfuc

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

ha i totally fell for the "Lady Jane" thing and was scratching my head

more evidence of how rong i am in predicting this poll: i thought "Miss You" was a lock for top 5 and one of the plausible #1s i alluded to earlier this morning

we're gonna mess and fool around like we used to!

xp lol so was i. thought there was a heavy "twee" rolling stones faction lurking or something. i like lady jane, though.

Exile is probably one of the first major rock records w/substantial profanity in the lyrics.

Been waiting for an opportunity to bring this up on this board...were the Stones for first pop artists to get away with both "ass" (1964) and "bitch" (1966)? Not counting underground folks like the Fugs or w/e?

lol at lady jane, "sing this all together" would have been my gag entry

"miss you" was a last-minute cut from my ballot, kinda surprised it garnered that much enthusiasm