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

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.

I imagine other people's experiences, you must realize that. It's imagination, observation... You combine the two. In the middle of the song I thought wouldn't it be funny if you're in New York and you're missing someone and you get these terrible crass people knocking on your door... I don't know, it's never happened to me. I don't sit around moping. It's fiction, somgwriting is fiction...

I'm starting to really love Mick, this kind of control he has where he's warm and ice-cold at the same time. 'The kind of guy who works out income after tax on the back of a cocktail napkin' is such a perfect line. That's what I aspire to.

all credit to...finefinemusic for the spreadsheet

srsly, the secret weapon that makes these polls a lot easier to do

oh Spotify's Stones section is so full of patchy commissioned superstar remixes, i had to remind myself the other day how goofy the Neptunes mix of "Sympathy For The Devil" is

i didn't do the Timbaland poll on a spreadsheet but i think i'll definitely use it for the Jay-Z one, looks very helpful

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

get this, cuz it's what "i am waiting" does to me. can't stand that one. but lady jane is just so fucking weird, so incredibly stilted and wrong that it becomes charming in some inexplicable way.

and you get these terrible crass people knocking on your door

Haha...when Mick was in New York around this time, he tried to pay a visit to Miles Davis. Miles refused to come to the door.

the Dre remix is awesome, it's one of the only ones I've heard that that I've loved

god, that "miss you" rmx is horrid

(lol, VG. can't win em all)

could rly go for 'a case of wine' right about now.

anyway, love "miss you", love disco stones, glad to see it finish so high

Miss You wasn't coming together at all, then Billy said, Try playing octave riffs on the bass.

- Bill Wyman, 2011

you're horrid, contenderizer

whatEVER at you :)

could rly go for 'a case of wine' right about now.

http://www.undercover.fm/medias/xmedium/5392.jpg?1288063283

ha amazing; Stones wine!

free headscarf with every case

rolling stones merch through the years could be its own amazing thread tbh. poster art too.

9. Street Fighting Man – 685 points (27 votes, 4x #1)

http://991.com/NewGallery/Rolling-Stones-Street-Fighting-M-294456.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/qUO8ScYVeDo

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

great one but i'm a little surprised it got this high

all-time great riff to open, secret weapon brian jones on sitar takes this one over the top

Didn't think we'd see that. I've never cared for it.

also mick's turn on "dancing in the street" - not a lot of acts do this any more, use pop as a conversation

(hip hop does this all the time of course, but i'm thinking pop/rock)

think this was like 11 or 12 for me; this song is bad to the bone

I love the drums in this, and the jangly guitar, it *feels* like fighting music

and the kinda weird timing/phrasing

I didn't think I liked this until I started putting my ballot together, then I coudln't stop listening to it. It's just really unique-sounding to me, I love it. And it's definitely one of those great time and place songs, historically/culturally speaking

this is rock sitar done right imo - no orientalist decoration, just finding a way to take a "new" instrument and make your shit more badass

like basically every song in this countdown, "it's great", but yeah, i'm also surprised to see it this high. verses are thrilling, seem to seethe with imminent chaos and violence (like "gimme shelter", the sound of the ground giving way beneath your feet), which makes the relatively staid chorus a bit of a disappointment. great arrangement though.

Love the collision of sounds on street fighting man: piano, guitars, sitar, some kind of horn? Mick's shouts. Get Down!

i think this song did as much as "angie" to spark my interest in phonology

Street Fighting Man is my favorite song of all time.

I think the staid chorus is part of why I like it so much; lot of the big-hit Stones songs have a lot of release in the chorus, and that doesn't happen here. None of the tension from the verse (which are kind of askew) ever gets released and the whole thing seems kind of tangled & gnarled. It's great to hear these guys try to work songs like this, that doesn't quite offer the easy immediate payoff, into their blooze-country-rawk formula

this will sound kinda corny but I find this a really 'energizing' song, like a blast of caffeine or something

I was adding "Moonlight Mile" to playlist and noticed Lee Fields covers it on his latest album. Not bad!

This song is badass, my #3. Have always loved it, always will. Can't understand what there is to not like about it. Especially cool the way the piano kinda lays out and then, when the chorus kicks in, does this kinda frantic pounding (that is still pretty mind you) while the big sitar drone hangs in the background. And then the (what sounds like) bowed sitar playing over the outro ... super cool. Love the odd vocal phrasing as well.

Cool favorite song, kornrulez!

sidenote: loving the spotify playlist, guys! thanks to whoever's maintaining that (I lost that detail somewhere in the murk of this thread, lol)

xpost: Thanks. And my #2 song of all time is another Stones song which has yet to place, but no doubt it will.

I am on my 4th straight listen to "Street Fighting Man"

it's a killer

Okay, Street Fighting Man is a lot better than I'd thought. It's really good. If I were to change one thing it'd be to remove the snare, and let the whole thing float in that beautiful mess of a mix. Then I'd ramp up the vocal.