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.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
beautiful
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful post, rogermexico.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
that was really cool and moving, thanks rogermexico!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
having people to talk to about this stuff is what makes ILM great imo. i kiss you!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
7. Tumbling Dice – 754 points (33 votes, 3x #1)
http://27.media.tumblr.com/njE9Bw4rv984x6hlWwKnDJuD_400.jpghttp://www.youtu.be/OmfHV8Nw8Mw
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOTumbling.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Very nice post, rogermexico. Good thing that miniseries didn't play Dancing With Mr. D
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
That photo should've been the cover of Keef's book.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
love "Tumbling Dice," love it.
― some dude, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Keith doing his part to deprive Americans of their drugs
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
I didnt' vote for Tumbling Dice but I full support it's Top 10 placing. It's a fucking winner.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
loving this youtube, rogermexico
the drumming in "Tumbling Dice" = A+
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
^ this. Miller and Watts are killing it.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
^^Neither has Jagger.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
from the youtube comments
this song still gets my dick hardTackMan00 2 years ago 11
tackman00 otm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, April 6, 2012
A+ gets funnier every time i read it
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Keith Richards singlearmedly cleaning up America.
loooooooool @ Myonga I missed that!!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
GOT TO POLL ME! (KEEP ON POLLIN')
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
"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!?
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
"Sway" will be super high I think, was my #2 iirc
― Euler, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
"Sway" won the "Sticky Fingers" poll in a landslide iirc
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
very cool reminiscence, rogerm
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
and thanks so much for posting that reminiscence, roger, loved reading that, esp the last couple lines.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Friday, April 6, 2012 11:44 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
lol xp
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
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?!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Aren't knee pads one-size-fits-all?
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
it was a white suit iirc
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
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
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
haha read that as "found Mick's clothes in a thrift store" xpost
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
if only!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
6. Paint It, Black – 813 points (35 votes, 3x #1)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/withsssoul/iorr/1966may27probably_ReadySteadyGo.jpghttp://www.youtu.be/Q9DDpmyPZZA
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOPaintIt.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
Great song all the way through, but the first 20-30 seconds especially is some of the greatest rock music ever recorded.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
once again, brian jones on sitar takes it next-level
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
You could make a case for Brian as their instrumental MVP for '66
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
fuckn killer, changed my teenage ears hearing this, I'd mostly grown up with the Beatles/Elvis...hearing this dark stuff when I was getting into my hella-mope phase was just, 'omg people got super-bummed back then too? awesome'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link