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

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.

totally worthy placing for the majestic "street fighting man". that bass line, that snarling vocal, man. fucking perfect really.

my no. 10 apparently, but should have been higher.

8. No Expectations – 689 points (30 votes, 2x #1)

http://k20.kn3.net/06BE0AB72.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/qUO8ScYVeDo

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

Hey! I had written that one off! :D

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Fine song, position is way inflated.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

^ otm, was my #5

One reason I really like "Street Fighting Man" is that it doesn't do much aping of any other band/genre. It is a very original Stones song, and actually sounds inspired.

I wouldn't put it ahead of Moonlight Mile personally, but I'm happy it's got so much love nonetheless

Not sure why the pic didn't work. Trying again:

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Oooops, enough of that. "No Expectations"! My #5 as well, helluva song.

no expectations is incredible. the acoustic guitar sound is all time.

I don't actually know this one, nice to have a treat inside the top ten

...the top ten. But 1 mystery. Hmmmmm.

Mystery song solved.

a lot of love for the aching, mournful, downtempo stones in this poll, but i don't think they ever did it better than on "no expectations".

Makes me want to learn to play slide and then do nothing but play guitar

well there you go, i thought i had "no expectations" sussed as one of the lesser BB songs for mine, but listening to it now it's an astounding marriage of tender vox, gentle strums, twangy slide and delicate piano flourishes. wow.

jagger's vocal on no expectations is wonderful -- he really does play it pretty straight. i can imagine him hamming it up a bit more and ruining the vibe. and even though it's a blues-inspired number, he sounds suuuuuper english, which is good.

Ach no, of course I know this. It's lovely alright, but surprised it's up here.

I thought this one might still be on the horizon -- very high on my ballot.

Stones staying out of their own way and just letting themselves write a classic tune. It's actually touching to me, which not many of their songs are.

I cut "Lady Jane" because I wanted to vote snobby & figured "Lady Jane" would be highly rated without me. Alas!

I voted "Miss You" super high, top 5 I think, & I fought hard to avoid voting for "No Expectations" but my hand was forced by Johnny Cash's version.