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

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

Thanks rogermexico! It's been a fun week of Stonesin'.

Word. Thanks everyone for a serious good time. Looking forward to updating the Spotify when I get home this evening.

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

― Ismael Klata, Friday, April 6, 2012

This is OTM

I voted this kinda low, didn't realize it had so much love.

Is it bc of the Altamont/Maysles association as well, that this gets a bump? I mean, it is an undeniably huge song...but I had no idea it was so beloved

"Connection" wuz robbed

So were She Smiled Sweetly and Time Waits for No One. :(

The Perth '73 version is hilarious; it takes Charlie an entire verse to find the 2 and 4.
http://youtu.be/iSGk3LeM56E

I was afraid of "gimme shelter" as a young kid. It really does sound like some rough shit is about to come down.

my ballot, i'm guessing at least 70% of this changes from moment to moment

1 - sway
2 - she said yeah
3 - jumping jack flash
4 - torn and frayed
5 - gimme shelter
6 - no expectations
7 - paint it black
8 - waiting on a friend
9 - 19th nervous breakdown
10 - dead flowers
11 - too much blood
12 - monkey man
13 - let's spend the night together
14 - rocks off
15 - street fighting man
16 - heaven
17 - all down the line
18 - if i was a dancer (dance pt 2)
19 - 2000 man
20 - you can't always get what you want

5 best albums

1 - exile on main st
2 - beggars banquet
3 - aftermath
4 - december's children
5 - between the buttons

3 most hated

1 - in another land
2 - might as well get juiced
3 - back to zero

xpost i think it's just bc it's undeniably huge. never had any doubt it would take this but did not expect the absolute knockout margin of victory.

that #2-4 are separated by only 9 points in a 67-ballot poll confirms just how tough this one was and how much every ballot counted.

Dang I think just about every song on my ballot placed!

Nicely done, roger! Tho I didn't submit a ballot 'cause ILX breaks everytime I do (twice so far)

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

it kind of doesn't matter. the song is an invocation, and by the time it gets going full throttle, it's generated this massive, devastating, hurricane power that erases any relationship to the human beings creating it. it's maybe the most viscerally violent and horror-movie-terrifying pop song ever recorded, this raging, howling cataclysm of sound.

my reminiscence is that when i was about 12 years old, i used to set up my stepdad's stereo speakers facing each other and lie on the living room floor with my head between them and listen to side three of hot rocks fucking CRANKED. eyes closed, so loud it made my ears hurt. "jumping jack flash", "street fighting man", "sympathy for the devil", "honky tonk women" (i'd usually jump up to skip that one, not cuz i didn't like it, but it broke the mood) and finally "gimme shelter". straight shot of evil, violent, black mass rock n roll. gave me chills, filled my head with awful visions, still does today.

"Connection" wuz robbed

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, April 6, 2012 3:39 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yes, truth to power

Kinda surprised my #1 didn't place:

1. Rip This Joint
2. Jig-Saw Puzzle
3. Honky Tonk Women
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Street Fighting Man
6. I Don't Know Why
7. No Expectations
8. Torn And Frayed
9. Stray Cat Blues
10. Miss Amanda Jones
11. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
12. Monkey Man
13. Jumpin' Jack Flash
14. All Sold Out
15. Sway
16. We Love You
17. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing In The Shadows)
18. Rocks Off
19. Dead Flowers
20. Something Happened To Me Yesterday

albums

1. Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert
2. Beggars Banquet
3. Exile On Main St.
4. Between The Buttons
5. Sticky Fingers

also blown away that "star star" (or "starfucker" or w/e) didn't make the cut. you people, i swear.

I LOVE Something Happened To Me Yesterday!

I'm sad not to see CS Blues on here--absolute classic

my top 20:

Child Of the Moon
2000 Light Years From Home
Connection
Sweet Black Angel (yeah, i know, wtf)
No Expectations
Back Street Girl
100 Years Ago
Summer Romance
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Rocks Off
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Gimme Shelter
Paint It, Black
Sympathy For The Devil
Get Off Of My Cloud
Sweet Virginia
2000 Man
Angie
Slave
Star Star