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

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."

this is one of songs where I just make up word-sounding-noise to sing along, randomly interspersed with the words I can actually discern and remember

I have never ever retained the words to this song, no matter how hard I tried

^^Neither has Jagger.

from the youtube comments

this song still gets my dick hard
TackMan00 2 years ago 11

tackman00 otm

Keith doing his part to deprive Americans of their drugs

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, April 6, 2012

A+ gets funnier every time i read it

Keith Richards singlearmedly cleaning up America.

loooooooool @ Myonga I missed that!!

tackman00 otm

GOT TO POLL ME! (KEEP ON POLLIN')

"our own private Cult of Sway"

As a fellow cult member, I will be very surprised/happy that "Sway" made it that high, but that's too good to be true?

It's hard to believe it doesn't make the top 60!?

Not sure how I justified cutting "Tumbling Dice", other than I knew that it needed no help from me. Undeniably great, and that opening figure of Keith's is just so cool.

if memory serves there's a pretty strong cult of Sway on ILM, I think it'll still make a showing. Or else I'll throw a pretty loud and whiny tantrum, lol

"Sway" will be super high I think, was my #2 iirc

"Sway" won the "Sticky Fingers" poll in a landslide iirc

that opening figure of Keith's is just so cool

it really is. super-easy to play and deeply satisfying. he's always copped to just slowing down chuck berry's stuff, but what he does with those double-stop slides is magic.

There's no way Sway doesn't make it. I think I finally know all the top six now; just one I'm not 100% sure of.

"sway" is bound to place top 5, so many people talked it up on the balloting thread

i cut "tumbling dice" in favor of "rocks off", stand by that though i love 'em both

very cool reminiscence, rogerm

Is this gonna wrap up by 5:00 p.m. U.S. east-coast time? Will be sad to miss the run-down, though obviously the world should not revolve around east-coast time.

and thanks so much for posting that reminiscence, roger, loved reading that, esp the last couple lines.

very cool reminiscence, rogerm

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Friday, April 6, 2012 11:44 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol xp

totally identifying with a lot of that post too

while we're talking about cleveland...
i remember going to the hall of fame (in cleveland) after a day of shopping at my favorite gigantic thrift store and seeing mick jagger's clothes and thinking now THAT's what i call an outfit. and they were in my size too! why can't i ever find clothes like THAT?!

Aren't knee pads one-size-fits-all?

it was a white suit iirc

xpost -- wrapping it by 5pm EST would mean savoring each track a little less but if folks don't mind i'm happy to speed it up

haha read that as "found Mick's clothes in a thrift store" xpost

if only!

6. Paint It, Black – 813 points (35 votes, 3x #1)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/withsssoul/iorr/1966may27probably_ReadySteadyGo.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/Q9DDpmyPZZA

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

Great song all the way through, but the first 20-30 seconds especially is some of the greatest rock music ever recorded.