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

Kind of amazing that such a (deservedly) well-regarded Stones song doesn't even have Keith playing on it.

― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, April 6, 2012

it's weird, right? like, going by this evidence you'd have to be pretty stoked for a Mick Jagger solo release. and yet.

I remember getting Sticky Fingers near the end of my acquisition of Stones albums & thinking, great, here's the one with all the AOR songs that I don't really care about anymore, but everyone says it's a classic so I'll buy the cd used & give a whirl, & while I can't say I'm completely over that view nowadays, "Sway" was an unsuspected gem amongst the radio songs.

love the guitar outro a lot too

xxpost I know, Iago... I still have a lot of guilt, lol

No guessing!

xxpost hahah lol rogermexico

Mick's solo stuff is *way* underrated imo

If Keith had gotten done in by that coconut tree, would we see a Mick n Mick tour? "Winter, Sway, Moonlight Mile and other family faves"?

I'm gonna be really bummed when the full results get posted and I find out I was the only sap who voted for "Time Waits for No One".

And as I say, he was very narrow-minded in his view of music, and, really, Keith and I had been very catholic.

Totally contradicting something Keith once said

"Sway" has my favorite Jagger electric rhythm part.

are there any americans named mick?

you're bumming me out, Iago lol

i know, i'm being a huge jerk--gonna stop now. but i am getting sad this is almost over...

xp MICKy Dolenz

I have to leave now and I'm bummed that I'm going to miss the big reveal. But it's been a pleasure. You people are all Rolling Stones knowledge ninjas.

Many thanks to rogermexico for running this poll. There will always be a place for it in the Citadel of my heart.

*cue sitar*

His original instrument was the clarinet.

He played alto saxophone on the Beatles' "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)." Sessions for it started in 1967, but it wasn't completed and released until after Brian died, in 1970.

have a good day, kornrulez!!

I found Keith's lack of inwardness or any kind of regret in Life sort of disturbing, actually...the one thing I didn't like about the (self) portrayal.

Keith is obviously a great artist and an immensely entertaining figure, but I can't imagine he's anything less than an utterly horrible human being. I have very little sympathy for junkie parenting.

[hands over ears] lalala

how are defining "inwardness"?

Bill Wyman -- the critic -- said as much in his revew/"Mick Jagger's response."

xp

Mick's solo stuff is *way* underrated imo

― Ismael Klata, Friday, April 6, 2012 1:26 PM

If I like "Don't Tear Me Up," and both of the honky-tonk numbers from Wandering Spirit, what other solo Mick should I revisit.

It's funny actually. Laying Wandering Spirit next to X-Pensive Winos really lays out what both of these guys do well and why they work so well together.

Well, if you trust Jann Wenner, he gave "Goddes In The Doorway" 5 stars. I suggest you don't ...

I'm not going to defend two vampires but from what I've read about Jagger and Richards their middle class backgrounds came out when bringing up their kids: they look as normal as any rich kids. I'm sure Keith's son Marlon had it worse but he had the daughters (beautiful women btw) when he was off the junk.

kornrulez, let me make it a little easier on you. I'll post number three, and you can probably figure out the rest.

That Slate piece really resonated, yet I'm not sure I'm in a position to know much.

It's brilliant anyway, but what is it, exactly? Why was it written like that?

Wandering Spirit is three fourths an excellent album. Toss in "Throwaway" from Primitive Cool, a couple of Laswellized numbers from She's the Boss and you've got a dandy CD-R.

3. Jumpin’ Jack Flash – 1023 points (41 votes, 5x #1)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K7pkn9BpUGY/TIJttAhkJ-I/AAAAAAAAAf0/rFNOVJZupXQ/s1600/11pare-2-650%5B1%5D.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/eUnPO9qmRuk

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

That Slate piece really resonated, yet I'm not sure I'm in a position to know much.

It's brilliant anyway, but what is it, exactly? Why was it written like that?

I think it was meant as a riposte to all the fawning reviews Life got, most of which parroted the "Keef = real rock 'n' roller / Mick = sellout showbiz clown" line.

bill wyman should lay off the makeup

This was probably the first Stones song I wanted to and eventually learned to play on guitar.

My #1 (yeah, "inwardness" bad choice of words). I think I am projecting a bit as parents using drugs and stuff does a number on a kid--Marlon sort of had the deluxe version of that, but whatever

SO disappointed when I realized that Slate piece wasn't really Mick (bout 3/4 of the way through) (still great tho)

Didn't even re-listen to this song when making my ballot, which was kinda a mistake, but I refused to vote for it. It is better than I give it credit for though.

My feeling was the Slate piece was crafted as an answer to Keef's bitchier sections of Life, where he's the wounded artist and Mick's the evil capitalist,he really took the gloves off in those sections...and the Slate piece definitley put a finer point on some of the hypocrisies and omissions in Keef's book. A bit of a Rosencrantz & Guildernstern version of Keef's book, if you will.

A handful of news outlets, including the Pittsburgh (I think) Fox affiliate, reported it as MICK JAGGER RESPONDS HERE IT IS IT'S OFFICIAL and then swiftly removed said reportage from their websites.

"Sway" in my top ten btw

Mick Jagger is too intelligent to respond to Keith.

Come to think of it, why didn't Wyman write it from "Bill Wyman"'s pov? That woulda been cool!

I gave my Jumpin' Jack Flash vote to Street Fighting Man but can't begrudge the finish. Johnny Fever totally OTM on the fun of playing this. Also fun to sing. My karaoke go-to when I need an ace in the hole.

JJF is more wicked and malevolent than Sympathy or Midnight Rambler--as Mick said, there's no peace and love in JJF

I think it was meant as a riposte to all the fawning reviews Life got, most of which parroted the "Keef = real rock 'n' roller / Mick = sellout showbiz clown" line.

One thing I've gotten out of this prolonged meditation on the Stones and their periods and history etc is a much deeper, um, grokking sucks but it's really the only word for this, of the mick/keef marriage. like, i can totally understand how keef would actually see it that way. and how he'd be completely wrong.

xpost yes alfred otm

Jumpin' Jack Flash - nothing not to like about this song, it *is* rock & roll. It's just too familiar to me now, it'd be like having the Mona Lisa as my favourite painting (which it kind of is, now I think about it).

I don't know what JJF I'd been listening to for years, but I only heard the real one with the half-assed backing vox at the end relatively recently. It was a bit of a shock.

Keith is playing my floor tom-tom on it to give the boom-da, boom-da sound. Now you'd just program it and loop it or something daft like that.

xxpost myonga otm, a fictional Wyman rebuttal would have been cool

Fascinating reading about how Keith got that distorted acoustic guitar sound

I know right?

(I unknowingly did something similar once with an alto sax and and dying Walkman! That was like 20 years ago in fact.)