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

I like that you cobbled up some real stats for that, Alfred

that's what Keith called it!

"So get off the fence now
It's creasin' your BUTT"

Well, I can go home now ....

you know, this will sound dumb but I didn't know that these last 2, if they are what I think they are, would be the 2 favorite songs.
I don't know why. Just kinda surprises me.

nice song, but 2nd?!

more than "kinda surprise" imo

that's what Keith called it!

Stole it from a magazine cover, sorry...

I thought that one would get the treatment Satisfaction got, certainly

(I stole it, not Keith)

xps one of them was the #2 in the 20th Century poll, so I imagined it would do well here.

I voted for one pretty low, but not the other. Shoulda voted for the other as well, but I reined in my big hit votes and it somehow did not make the cut. Like both songs plenty, interested to see the vote totals vs. #1 votes.

But really, gotta go home. Look forwards to seeing the results. Thanks roger!

*waves*

2. Sympathy For The Devil – 1026 points (40 votes, 1x #1)

http://joshmooreblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sympathy-mick-vocal-close.png
http://www.youtu.be/vDVq50i6Zzc

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

UGH

All I know about the history of Western civilization I learned from this song.

"Pleeeze allow me to introduce mahself...."

No, thanks, I have to clean my teeth!

No, it's wonderful. I thought it might be just me though.

wait Alfred you don't like this song!?

My worst.

Keith's solo is hot but the rest is ennnnnnnnnndleeessss. lol hippies

kinda shocked

NB the margin between "sway" at #4 and "sympathy" at #2 is less than 10 points

When I was a kid we walked to school past my church. One morning, which must have been 1987, we found it covered with graffiti saying stuff like '25 years of The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil'. It seemed outrageous then, and not really any less so now.

It was likely my first introduction to them as anything other than a thing old people might like.

Bongos/percussion on Sympathy is my favorite thing about this song

(the GNR cover at the end of Interview with a Vampire was one of my favorite things as a teenager, lol 90s)

I used to hate "Sympathy", then came to dig it on account of the solo, but I can understand completely hating it still.

Keef's solo <3

I found it hard to believe, but my wife insisted she was unfamiliar with Sympathy and most other Stones songs before meeting me. Apparently people at her college in the mid 90s only listened to Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and Cat Stephens. It was fun observing her hear the song with fresh ears. The riddle-like lyrics are great.

Just that demon life got me in its sway. That was a staple on mix tapes for eons in my youf. It was my #6 but on further thought I'd move Sway up a few notches.

Love those spooky bk vocals not-quite-erased from the tape

HOOO HOOO

HOOO HOOO

I missed my chance to scream this earlier but

ONE DAY I WOKE UP TO FIIIIIIIIIIIND
RIGHT IN THE BED NEXT TO MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE

^^ some of my favorite rock singing ever, but why are they in separate beds?!

my #2 but only by a hair
cult member to the core

<3

I just decided that Sticky Fingers will be cranking in the car for the drive home tonight

[catching up]

ROCKS OFF! hell yeah, wasn't at all sure it'd place, though it was dumm of me to think not. love that song so much, so sleazy wrong & bad. it is my "stray cat blues".

"paint it black" & "sympathy for the devil" were two of the acknowledged classix i just couldn't deny. both so completely badass, and in completely different ways. latter might be the song i've been most likely to have snatches or phrases of stuck in my head over my lifetime. couldn't happen to a nicer tune. percussion is killer, lyrics were so much fun to puzzle over when i was a kid.

SWAY! i churled on this one a bit on the balloting thread, but i don't know why. it's undeniable, easily the best sticky fingers track. not only should i not have cut it, it should have been top 10.

Like I said earlier in the thread, Sympathy's got one of their greatest grooves, and by extension one of the greatest grooves ever. I started a whole thread about it once:

the "sympathy for the devil" groove

I can sort of take or leave the lyrical conceit, but the PLEASED TO MEETCHOO chorus is awesome. My #2, so its placement is exactly right by my count.

(otoh, I'm going to be in the don't-say-anything-if-you-can't-say-something-nice camp on #1...)

Sympathy's got one of their greatest grooves, and by extension one of the greatest grooves ever.

also best deployment of "woo woos" ever

I put Sympathy at #12 on my ballot. Too classik to be lower, but there were others I dug more to put it higher than that.
Am stil really surprised that it gets this much love here. It's kinda nice.

"Sympathy" was my #3. "Paint It Black" my #1. I always felt like it was just the quintessential rock 'n' roll song.

The Attack's version of "Sympathy" popped up when I was updating the playlist. I forgot they covered it. Not bad!

I like Sympathy but yeah there are more than 20 stones songs I'd rather hear if I'm not putting on Beggars.

So #1's just a kiss away...

yeah and there's no shelter to protect us..

proto-disco, mancuso played this at early loft parties. too high here i think and i'm not nearly as fond/tolerant of the lyrics as i was when i was 13 but the rhythm, the piano - can't deny it.

I'm going to be in the don't-say-anything-if-you-can't-say-something-nice camp on #1...

What?! How is this even?

the only problem with Sympathy is that it's too long

sympathy at #2 just makes this poll all the more lovably WTF

proto-disco

Wow, this is a piece of recontextualisation I'm going to have to grapple with

Sympathy's sorta like the cooler version of We Didn't Start The Fire, as far as 'stuff to google'

yeah I can understand how the song might have opened up an inquisitive junkie to Baudelaire and Hegel.