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

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

oh thank god --- I was like WTF Lady Jane, I hate that song!

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

lol, yeah, me too. one born every minute...

Miss You got I think a #19 vote for me because I couldn't leave it out, it's too cool.

WHASSAMATTAWITCHOOBWWWOY

i do like "lady jane" though! no idea why.

"Miss You" the COOLEST

Miss You is probably my favorite Stones song to dance to. So much fun!

Lady Jane belongs in the 'poncing around in velvet with recorders' group of songs that I kind of can't stand

"Miss You" is the only Big Hit that made my top five. I've never gotten tired of it. Dancing to the Bob Clearmountain 12" in a crowded Chicago bar (with jaymc!) in summer '98 remains a fond memory.

and THE best Stones karaoke number

gonnagetttacaseahwine

xxpost not that there's any recorders on Lady Jane but you know, it's the vibe of the thing

WITH SOME PUERTO RICAN GIRLS THAT'S JUST DYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYN TAMEEETCHU

props to Mick for writing this monster by himself.

i like lady jane mainly because it's the source material for neil young's borrowed tune.

I adore Miss You.

huh, never knew that's not mick on harmonica on miss you. learn something every day.

i totally get loving bad-mojo stones the most, but i don't get hating twee stones. lady jane is so composed you almost don't notice it's completely mental. as with most stuff where BJ was involved, you just have no idea what they're going to rock you with next. sitar! dulcimer! recorder!

This is almost like the Stones described in a paragraph, lol

"A lot of those songs like Miss You on Some Girls... were heavily influenced by going to the discos. You can hear it in a lot of those four on the floor rhythms and the Philadelphia-style drumming. Mick and I used to go to discos a lot... It was a great period. I remember being in Munich and coming back from a club with Mick singing one of the Village People songs - YMCA, I think it was - and Keith went mad, but it sounded great on the dance floor." Charlie Watts, 2003

Lady Jane is just too precious-sounding in every possible way. for me it's like nails on a chalkboard-Stones.

went with the studio recording on miss you bc tbh the live versions don't measure up. there's something hot-summer-in-new-york about the riff alone.

I kind of dig "Lady Jane" but, xp to tylerw, its existence is largely justified by "Borrowed Tune."

one of my very earliest Stones memories is always getting "Miss You" and "Heartbreaker" confused because my two favorite songs on my mom's best-of CD both went "doo doo doo"

Mick:

I don't think anyone resisted it at all, not to my knowledge. Whether they did mentally or not, I don't think anyone can really remember that. If they say they remember, they probably don't. They're probably lying (laughs). I mean, I think Charlie particularly loved it and Bill loved it because he came up with a really nice bass line. So I think that it was instantly accepted, in my view. It was only really different as far as the rhythm section was concerned. The rest of the instrumentation is very much a kind of blues-rock instrumentation. You just play what you would play. It's just the beat that's different. It's a sloppy version of the beat of six months before in New York, and not played quite so exactly as you would have played it if you were playing in a session band doing those kind of tunes for a dance record. It's quite strict tempo, it doesn't move around, but it's got a nice loose feel to it compared to some of those records. It's very danceable and that's what we were trying to achieve there.

we all need to take a moment to get down with this
http://youtu.be/eKPNqiOY9Gw

everybody on the floor

(Dre's Remix of Miss You)

miss you sounds totally fun to play. actually, i think that's what i like most about some girls, is that the band really sounds like they're enjoying themselves.

oooooh, baby why you wait so long
oooooh, BAby why you wait so looooooong

xpost that quote from Mick -- whether they did mentally or not, well I've blocked that out of my mind because who cares what Keith thinks, lol.