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

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
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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.

once again, brian jones on sitar takes it next-level

You could make a case for Brian as their instrumental MVP for '66

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'

also every teenage cover band in every garage everywhere owes the Stones a vote of thanks for helping them with material

You could make a case for Brian as their instrumental MVP for '66

Bob Dylan said in a recent interview that he was one of the best musicians he ever saw.

I know very little Stones history, was Jones a childhood friend of anyone in the band or a guy on the scene/in other bands that they recruited?

I always wondered how much of Mick & Keith's bitterness towards Brian was because Brian was actually a dick or because he was a dick with a sitar and brilliant ideas.

of all the many many covers only the Feelies come close to doing it justice....

Or classmate at school, that kinda thing?

from all the anecdotes I've heard I think he was straight-up dick....like, to the point of severe mental problems, from what I have been able to parse in the stuff that's been going around. I think they would have LIKED him if he was just talented.

Jones was an established musician with a band and if memory serves Mick & Keith answered an advertisment in the local paper or something

yep, according to Wiki it went thusly:

Jones left Cheltenham and moved to London where he became friends with fellow musicians Alexis Korner, future Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones, future Cream bassist Jack Bruce and others who made up the small London rhythm and blues and jazz scene there. He became a blues musician, for a brief time calling himself "Elmo Lewis", and playing slide guitar. Jones also started a group with Paul Jones called the Roosters and in January 1963, after both Brian and Paul left the group, Eric Clapton took over Brian's position as guitarist.[11]

Jones placed an advertisement in Jazz News (a Soho club information sheet) of 2 May 1962 inviting musicians to audition for a new R&B group at the Bricklayer's Arms pub; pianist Ian "Stu" Stewart was the first to respond. Later singer Mick Jagger also joined this band; Jagger and his childhood friend Keith Richards had met Jones when he and Paul Jones were playing Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" with Korner's band at the Ealing Jazz Club.[12] Jagger brought guitarist Richards to rehearsals; Richards then joined the band. Jones's and Stewart's acceptance of Richards and the Chuck Berry songs he wanted to play coincided with the departure of blues purists Geoff Bradford and Brian Knight, who had no tolerance for Chuck Berry.

I know very little Stones history, was Jones a childhood friend of anyone in the band or a guy on the scene/in other bands that they recruited?

the Stones were Jones' band, he's the founding member!