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

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.

oh & "Stray Cat Blues" was my #1

I think that is the last surprise of the poll because there are 8 classics (that will remain nameless) still unaccounted for.

Hmmm, meant to say "a simple, classic tune". Obviously they wrote a fuck-ton of classic tunes, just not many like this.

Then the surprise is that there are only seven slots left

still don't get the love for "stray cat blues"

after a very cursory scroll through the album track lists, i came up with 6 locks for the remaining places.

i slept a very sound sleep after placing "stray cat blues" no. 1 on my ballot. it just scorches.

"No Expectations" was the one deep cut i voted for and thought might still place, really a pleasant surprise to see it this high.

xpost if u like sleazy stones u love stray cat blues

re: no expectations i'm about to go off on a tl;dr but before that i'll just say here's brian jones in the Top 10 again and for good reason

is it time for "Paint It, Black" already? i thought it might be higher

you are that guy in the audience on Get Yer Ya-Ya's out and I claim my 5

haha i don't know that album but ok

Paint It Black, you devils.

it's a lady saying that, isn't it?

sounds like, yeah

I'm tempted to reward PIB for the useless comma.

i could never tell tbh.

(anyway yeah some dude there's a running joke on Ya-Ya's with someone in the audience who keeps yelling for "paint it black," which does not appear on the record.)

great diaglogue by Mick on that record

di-a-logue

okay the tl;dr

so "no expectations" means a lot to me. def didn't expect to see it this high since it's so "minor," but as with "let it loose" and "moonlight mile" and "stray cat blues" it's really sweet to know i'm not alone.

i can't exactly say i grew up on the Rolling Stones. when i was little and just beginning to explore music on my own (which generally involved lying on the rug in front of the record player) i had my parents' LPs of Flowers, Satanic Majesties, and Beggars Banquet plus some ABKCO collection that was sort of Hot Rocks but not quite. my folks discontinued music from basically 1969 to 1980 so they stopped at Beggars Banquet, so those four LPs were my Stones. and then middle school came around and i discovered U2 and REM and stopped listening to old LPs, though by high school and the time i was driving i had a cassette of Hot Rocks to play in the car.

but of course the Stones were also kind of just always there. this was the glory days of AOR so you could pretty much count on hearing "Brown Sugar" or "It's Only Rock n' Roll" or "Wild Horses" a couple of times a week at least. seemed kinda dated tho. the domain of old LPs from when you were little plus jerky rock radio DJs and grown-ups with camaros and mirrored sunglasses who were also really into Styx.

somehow in college me and my late night bar buddy discovered Sticky Fingers and Exile and it felt like we were almost in on some kind of secret. like the Rolling Stones were actually kind of awesome. but it didn't go much beyond our own private Cult of Sway.

and then not long after I graduated college and got my first real job, i found myself alone in a hotel room in, like, i'm pretty sure it was Cleveland. like for the first time in my life feeling this feeling that it's hard to put your finger on the first time you feel it, but what it really was was, the first time you actually feel real nostalgia. and for the first time i did that thing where you leave messages for a couple of old girlfriends not because you're drunk or want to get back together but because you were with them during a time that's gone and not coming back, and as much as anything you want to say hello to those days. and you're alone in a hotel room in Cleveland.

so i'm in this hotel room in Cleveland in like spring of 1993, having worked a long day in a client's office, and i get my room service and turn on the TV and I'm watching this much-hyped, kinda mediocre miniseries because it's on, and i hear this song. sad and beautiful and soaked with longing and regret and it just... you know: kaboom. i don't even want to watch this dumb show but i want this song to go on forever.

and i realize i know this song. i've heard it before, lying in front of my parents' record player in 1979. and it's "no expectations" and it's the best song that anyone ever wrote or played.

beautiful

"No Expectations" is awesome!

I'm sort of sad "Little Red Rooster" is not going to make it.

Also, didn't "She Said Yeah" get a lot of love in the pre results discussion ? Looks like that's not making it either.

Beautiful post, rogermexico.

that was really cool and moving, thanks rogermexico!

Thanks rogermexico, makes this poll, and the placing of that song, all the sweeter! I think I like the song even more than I did now.

having people to talk to about this stuff is what makes ILM great imo. i kiss you!

hey ho, on with the show

(btw final True Confession of Rogermexico itt: i was at that giants' stadium show featured in the monkey man youtoob. greatest rolling stones cover band on earth. never needed to see another stadium show again.)

7. Tumbling Dice – 754 points (33 votes, 3x #1)

http://27.media.tumblr.com/njE9Bw4rv984x6hlWwKnDJuD_400.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/OmfHV8Nw8Mw

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

Very nice post, rogermexico. Good thing that miniseries didn't play Dancing With Mr. D

That photo should've been the cover of Keef's book.

love "Tumbling Dice," love it.

Keith doing his part to deprive Americans of their drugs

I didnt' vote for Tumbling Dice but I full support it's Top 10 placing. It's a fucking winner.

loving this youtube, rogermexico

the drumming in "Tumbling Dice" = A+

^ this. Miller and Watts are killing it.

And I always heard the line as "don't need no jewels in my frown."