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

[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.

lol, the only problem with "sympathy" is that it isn't long enough

dude I had no idea what a troubadour was til the Stones told me about them

anyway, #1 otm. was only #12 on my criminally gamed ballot, but has of course been my lifelong favorite stones song.

Is Master and the Margarita any good? Sounds awful...

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.

It's all about the simmering tension in Sympathy. when the piano vamps really kick in + the background vocals. And then the guitar solo!

What?! How is this even?

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.

The piano riff in sympathy is TOTALLY proto house.

Great work here, rogermexico. Loving the photos.

Is Master and the Margarita any good? Sounds awful...

I hated it.

I love a lot of weirdo Russian literature but the reputation of that one is inexplicable

1. Gimme Shelter – 1684 points (57 votes, 10x #1)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SSHnKjHTt6g/TvY7mjq4bFI/AAAAAAAAOs4/pi0zU74x5dk/s1600/800_gimme_shelter_blu-ray3x.jpg
http://www.youtu.be/5zSkgeNd5N0

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

QED

it won because it is the best thing ever

Image choice is fantastico!

First heard it in Goodfellas, Merry Clayton's unearthly caterwauls particularly.

Scorsese thinking he owns it is the only slight negative mark for this track

urgent + key - http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/deconstructing_gimme_shelter_listen/

everybody likes this song a lot more than I do

love this version also - http://youtu.be/XCyTqnizcvI

Yeah, it's really a toss-up between the Stones version and Merry Clayton's tbh.

The winning margin is even greater than When The Levee Breaks, I think

"Apocalyptic" is one of my most loathed adjectives but this is the only instance of something that earns it.

Merry miscarried while doing her part, I was reading last night

THREAD DELIVERS

and yeah, that is the perfect picture to go out on

ALL HAIL ROGERMEX!

Merry miscarried while doing her part, I was reading last night

such a weirdly terrifying fact

"Apocalyptic" is one of my most loathed adjectives but this is the only instance of something that earns it.

i dunno, applies pretty well to "when the levee breaks" too!

huge fan of this version also - http://youtu.be/u7iWRXH1crw

^album that came from is awesome, available on spotify btw

as is the clayton

everybody likes this song a lot more than I do

I don't hate it, it just doesn't do much of anything for me. An over-telegraphed Big Statement song, lyric- and arrangement-wise.

I do not believe that Mick Jagger lacks for shelter, or can even really imagine it, is part of my problem.

yep

see previous comments about Jagger's other attempts at being threatening/evil/Prince of Darkness