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

Loved this poll! Cult of Sway 4 life!

1. Gimme Shelter
2. Sway
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. Get Off of My Cloud
6. Before They Make Me Run
7. Brown Sugar
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Rocks Off
10. Jumpin' Jack Flash
11. Ventilator Blues
12. You Got the Silver
13. Moonlight Mile
14. No Expectations
15. Paint It, Black
16. Rip This Joint
17. Citadel
18. Miss You
19. Happy
20. Honky Tonk Women

Stray Cat Blues
I Am Waiting
Ride On, Baby
Rocks Off
Let It Bleed
Backstreet Girl
Miss You
Under My Thumb
Sway
Hang Fire
No Expectations
Long Long While
She Said Yeah
Citadel
2000 Man
Where The Boys Go
Star Star
Heaven
She's So Cold
Almost Hear You Sigh

Long Long While is great. I wish the early covers were better loved.

Sorry, that one's Jagger/Richards, which is amazing. That one came out of the gate a standard.

yeah that's a tune I'd like to see more widely appreciated, a classic eruption at the end with Mick's cries & Keef's guitars climaxing together.

very Otis I think

yes, Otis, exactly, thanks

rogerm, do you have extended results or a googledoc for the data miners?

I'm glad the turnout for this one beat the Led Zeppelin poll.
--improvised explosive advice (WmC)

I'm jammed up with work + family obligations but I can get a googledoc up tomorrow for sure.

Oh wow am I the only one who voted for Mixed Emotions?

Youtube comment on Long Long While:

This song reminds me of when I was 16 dating an X-convict that my Dad did not approve of. He chased him away. HAHAHA! Love you Daddy!

7. I Just Want to See His Face

HERO

hey Myonga, if you're still around --- can you give us a theoretical top 5 or 10 of what you would have voted, had you decided to damn the torpedoes and crash ILX for a third time? :)

OK, without putting a great deal of real thought of permanence into it:

1. Get Off My Cloud
2. Rocks Off
3. Sympathy For The Devil
4. The Last Time
5. Dandelion
6. Factory Girl
7. 2k Light Years From Home
8. Gimme Shelter
9. Sway
10. Monkey Man
11. Sweet Virginia
12. Mother's Little Helper
13. Stupid Girl
14. Who's Driving Your Plane
15. Citadel
16. Back Street Girl
17. Happy
18. Under My Thumb
19. She's a Rainbow
20. Sad Day

Yay!!! Thank you!

Get Off My Cloud #1? Bold and awesome

Wow, two votes each for "Just Wanna See His Face" and "Sweet Black Angel"! Is there an Exile track that no one voted for?

aggh forgot JJFlash!

aggh forgot JJFlash!
--Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee)

^^ think all of us said something like this at some point

otm

no idea why it's not on my ballot

Ducked out today--think I was worn out from that comedy poll.

1. “Sway” (40)
2. “I Am Waiting” (36)
3. “You Got the Silver” (33)
4. “Rocks Off” (30)
5. “Dead Flowers” (28)
6. “Prodigal Son” (26)
7. “Tumbling Dice” (25)
8. “Back Street Girl” (24)
9. “No Expectations” (23)
10. “Out of Time” (22)

11. “Let’s Spend the Night Together” (21)
12. “Street Fighting Man” (20)
13. “Loving Cup” (19)
14. “It’s All Over Now” (18)
15. “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind” (17)
16. “The Last Time” (16)
17. “Happy” (15)
18. “She’s a Rainbow” (14)
19. “Time Is on My Side” (13)
20. “Please Go Home” (12)

"Gimme Shelter" was one of my favourite songs by anybody many years ago, but it's another one I've just heard too many times. Of all the hits from '68 on, "Street Fighting Man" and "Tumbling Dice" are the only two that are still vital to me. The one omission from the list that surprised me was "Prodigal Son." Good job, rm.

1. Rocks Off
2. 19th Nervous Breakdown
3. Wild Horses
4. Parachute Woman
5. Brown Sugar
6. Sweet Virginia
7. Dandelion
8. Dead Flowers
9. Jumpin' Jack Flash
10. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
11. Before They Make Me Run
12. Where The Boys Go
13. Slave
14. Please Go Home
15. When The Whip Comes Down
16. Sway
17. 100 Years Ago
18. I Wanna Be Your Man
19. The Last Time
20. It Won't Take Long

Five Best Albums:

1. Exile On Main Street
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Beggers Banquet
4. The Rolling Stone Now! (us version)
5. Some Girls

"Jumpin' Jack Flash" for some reason wasn't on the wiki list of Stones songs, meaning i nearly missed it off my original ballot too before i went back thru the albums for a second think. might be why some peeps missed it altogether?

Great poll, worthy winner, thanks rog. Have listened to pretty much nothing but Stones for the past week. My ballot:

Tracks:
1. Miss You
No Expectations
100 Years Ago
Happy
Beast of Burden
Tops
Sway
Emotional Rescue
Time Waits for No-One
Play With Fire
Jigsaw Puzzle
Heaven
Torn & Frayed
Bitch
Tumbling Dice
Citadel
19th Nervous Breakdown
Moonlight Mile
Gimme Shelter
Shattered

Albums:
1. Sticky Fingers
Beggars Banquet
Exile on Main St.
Some Girls
Emotional Rescue

15 of my tracks placed, pretty good going!

100 Years Ago can't have missed by much

Great poll/thread everyone. I've massively enjoyed lurking here for the duration, and as someone who has never really tried to get into the Stones, I have a lot of cool stuff to check out.

Somehow I managed to be away from a computer during the big finish, but well done, all. Many thanks to rogermexico for handling the poll so smoothly in spite of jury duty etc.

After the Zep and Bowie polls, I was not ready to hear any more of either for a while, but I think I might be stuck on the Stones a little longer.

Here's my ballot --

1. Gimme Shelter
2. Sway
3. Moonlight Mile
4. Monkey Man
5. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
6. No Expectations
7. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Let's Spend The Night Together
10. Play With Fire
11. Dead Flowers
12. Jigsaw Puzzle
13. Live With Me
14. The Spider & The Fly
15. All Down The Line
16. Ventilator Blues
17. Loving Cup
18. Rocks Off
19. Tumbling Dice
20. Rip This Joint

I didn't vote here only because I know only about half their songs, and didn't have time to go on a listening binge of late, and didn't want my mainstreamy ballot squeezing out worthy obscurities. I'd never heard "2000 Light Years" or "Jig-Saw" or "Loving Cup" until this rollout, and they all would have bumped something else off my top 20 (though I was actually saving the #20 slot for "Mixed Emotions", no kidding), and there's still some high-placing songs I've never heard that I need to check out. But I'm pleased most of would-have-been picks made the cut ("As Tears Go By" the only glaring ommision - and one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar).

I was guessing "Tumbling Dice" would be #1. I like "Gimme Shelter", but I'd never have expected it to be the runaway winner, and may not have even made my ballot. Stoked that "No Expectations" made the top 10.

Man, such a good time. No real problems with the placement of stuff, though I was one of the 10 votes who did not vote for "Gimme Shelter". Would have made a top 30, just not my top 20. I have had "Rocks Off" stuck in my head for at least 24 hours, wish I had voted it even higher! Maybe shoulda been my #1.

My ballot:

Moonlight Mile
Let's Spend The Night Together
Street Fighting Man
Happy
No Expectations
Rocks Off
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow
Winter
Child Of The Moon
She's A Rainbow
Dandelion
Stray Cat Blues
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Monkey Man
Paint It Black
Emotional Rescue
Sympathy For The Devil
19th Nervous Breakdown
I Am Waiting
2000 Man

Thanks again roger, great great job.

My ballot, dashed off in a hurry. Would probably be different on any given day, but I love all of these. And yes, I'm an unapologetic fan of Stones Baroque.

Ruby Tuesday
Sympathy for the Devil
Shattered
Start Me Up
Paint It Black
Get Off My Cloud
Mother's Little Helper
Rip This Joint
2000 Man
Jumpin Jack Flash
Miss You
19th Nervous Breakdown
She's So Cold
Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
Sweet Virginia
Street Fighting Man
Dead Flowers
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Lady Jane
Something Happened to Me Yesterday

Albums

Aftermath
Exile on Main Street
Sticky Fingers
Between the Buttons
Some Girls

To answer a question posed three days ago by Alfred ("does anyone dislike BOB?"): Yes, hate it. (I consulted the rule book, and it clearly states that the acronym should only ever be used for Blonde on Blonde.) Was I the only vote for "Prodigal Son"?

rule book updated years ago: should only be used for 'bombs over baghdad'.

Nice! That might make a good three-way poll.

Was I the only vote for "Prodigal Son"?

I was thisclose to voting for it, but settled on Parachute Woman instead for the guitar riff. But Prodigal Son is so great. My favorite part is Mick's "Heyyyy" at the end, it sounds like he touched a hot plate or something.

I'd actually never heard the original until a few months ago (something prompted me to look for it one day):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylud4u1aAKI

GOOGLE DOC FOR THE WONKS AND DATA MINERS

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlaC0Fq2y5GXdFJhaFYwT3o2WFEzZXFLWnE2bTJHSVE

This one is tracks only but if anyone's interested I can post Albums as well. Looking forward to the findings!

Nerds, start you engines...

Whoa did not expect to see my irl name in there

Aw, nobody else voted for "Mona"! ;_;

Thanks, roger m. Exemplary roll out.

Haven't got my ballot handy on this PC, but my #1 was J J F and my 3 non-placers were:

- Little Red Rooster (my #2)
- I'm A King Bee (I was the only voter for this - ILM don't got the blues?)
- Soul Survivor (only thing from Exile I voted for; I've tried and tried but still don't get most of that album. "Rocks Off" is also good. The rest? No thanks.)

I voted for LRR. I wonder why exactly ILMers don't seem to like the early blues stuff...

Weird, I didn't think I'd be the only one who voted for "Miss Amanda Jones" and "All Sold Out".

i dunno if it's "don't like" so much as "ouch, top 20 huh"

yeah, i guess--it's definitely not on the top of the list if you got only 20
(btw, run don't walk to get yourself a copy of the Stones in Exile DVD...fantastic!)

Stones in Exile apparently on Netflix streaming, btw.

It's All Over Now is on the spreadsheet twice....

argh. curly vs non-curly apostrophes. thought i find-replaced all of them. lost vote would have placed "It's All Over Now" at 52.

“It’s a good story to say that what was created at Nellcôte was a result of the incredibly decadent atmosphere,” Mr. Jagger said. “Well, yeah: it’s probably true that the atmosphere affected the feeling of the music, and the sound of the studio. But you’ve no idea how much or how little. And in the end, it’s just a sort of myth, really.”

Can he hear the sound of the Nellcôte studios when he listens to the album?

“I’ve no idea which is the Nellcôte stuff and which isn’t, to be honest.”

Ah.

Mr. Richards feels differently. “All of the bone and the muscle of the record was done down in that basement,” he said when asked the same question. The rest of the work he considers “fairy dust.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/arts/music/23stones.html

He referenced that godawful Greenfield "Season In Hell" book. Man I really fucking hated that book.

I've really come to love how unsentimental Jagger is. No opportunity is missed to puncture the myth. He leaves you in no doubt that you have to love it for what it is, not for some bunch of hokum.

Yeah but it's all borne out of him hating the attention it gets for being "Keith's" album. That's 100% of why he's doing it. It's not like he's speaking truth to power..

That Greenfield book is terrible. He's constantly warning you, as portentously as bad writing allows, that you're about to enter into a world of depravity unprecedented in the entire history of the world; unless you weren't aware that drugs were on the set during the Mick Taylor era, you spend the whole book waiting for a someday that never comes. He also singles out "Jumpin' Jack Flash" as one of Sticky Fingers' highlights.

It's one of few books I'd ever support burning

Clemenza otm. Cannot express enough how awful it is.