I used to hate "Sympathy", then came to dig it on account of the solo, but I can understand completely hating it still.
― Euler, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Keef's solo <3
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Love those spooky bk vocals not-quite-erased from the tape
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
HOOO HOOO
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I missed my chance to scream this earlier but
ONE DAY I WOKE UP TO FIIIIIIIIIIINDRIGHT 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 haircult member to the core
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
(otoh, I'm going to be in the don't-say-anything-if-you-can't-say-something-nice camp on #1...)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Sympathy's got one of their greatest grooves, and by extension one of the greatest grooves ever.
also best deployment of "woo woos" ever
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
"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!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
I like Sympathy but yeah there are more than 20 stones songs I'd rather hear if I'm not putting on Beggars.
― da croupier, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
So #1's just a kiss away...
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah and there's no shelter to protect us..
― nostormo, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― balls, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
the only problem with Sympathy is that it's too long
― nostormo, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
sympathy at #2 just makes this poll all the more lovably WTF
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
proto-disco
Wow, this is a piece of recontextualisation I'm going to have to grapple with
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Sympathy's sorta like the cooler version of We Didn't Start The Fire, as far as 'stuff to google'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I can understand how the song might have opened up an inquisitive junkie to Baudelaire and Hegel.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol, the only problem with "sympathy" is that it isn't long enough
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
dude I had no idea what a troubadour was til the Stones told me about them
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, #1 otm. was only #12 on my criminally gamed ballot, but has of course been my lifelong favorite stones song.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Is Master and the Margarita any good? Sounds awful...
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
well it's not nearly as much proto-disco as motown (and lol hippies is definitely a charge you can throw at disco's roots - 'love saves the day'), 'what's going on' is the early mancuso fave that when i relistened to it again in the context of disco it was like another song.
― balls, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
It's all about the simmering tension in Sympathy. when the piano vamps really kick in + the background vocals. And then the guitar solo!
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
OK, not nothing nice. Another great groove, and the opening 30 seconds are classic. But I guess we all have Mick Jaggers we don't believe in, and I find the poncey velvet prince, e.g., way more credible than the apocalyptic prophet redeemer.
Much love for Merry Clayton, tho.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
The piano riff in sympathy is TOTALLY proto house.
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Great work here, rogermexico. Loving the photos.
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
I hated it.
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I love a lot of weirdo Russian literature but the reputation of that one is inexplicable
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
1. Gimme Shelter – 1684 points (57 votes, 10x #1)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SSHnKjHTt6g/TvY7mjq4bFI/AAAAAAAAOs4/pi0zU74x5dk/s1600/800_gimme_shelter_blu-ray3x.jpghttp://www.youtu.be/5zSkgeNd5N0
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOGimmie.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
QED
it won because it is the best thing ever
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Image choice is fantastico!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
First heard it in Goodfellas, Merry Clayton's unearthly caterwauls particularly.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
Scorsese thinking he owns it is the only slight negative mark for this track
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
urgent + key - http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/deconstructing_gimme_shelter_listen/
― balls, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
everybody likes this song a lot more than I do
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
love this version also - http://youtu.be/XCyTqnizcvI
― balls, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's really a toss-up between the Stones version and Merry Clayton's tbh.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
The winning margin is even greater than When The Levee Breaks, I think
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
"Apocalyptic" is one of my most loathed adjectives but this is the only instance of something that earns it.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Merry miscarried while doing her part, I was reading last night
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
THREAD DELIVERS
and yeah, that is the perfect picture to go out on
ALL HAIL ROGERMEX!
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
such a weirdly terrifying fact
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link