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.
― pandemic, Saturday, 7 April 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
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. Sway3. 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 Off19. Tumbling Dice 20. Rip This Joint
― Brad C., Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
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 MileLet's Spend The Night TogetherStreet Fighting ManHappyNo ExpectationsRocks OffHave You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The ShadowWinterChild Of The MoonShe's A RainbowDandelionStray Cat BluesCan’t You Hear Me KnockingMonkey ManPaint It BlackEmotional RescueSympathy For The Devil19th Nervous BreakdownI Am Waiting2000 Man
Thanks again roger, great great job.
― grandavis, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
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 TuesdaySympathy for the DevilShatteredStart Me UpPaint It BlackGet Off My CloudMother's Little HelperRip This Joint2000 ManJumpin Jack FlashMiss You19th Nervous BreakdownShe's So ColdHave You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?Sweet VirginiaStreet Fighting ManDead FlowersCan't You Hear Me KnockingLady JaneSomething Happened to Me Yesterday
Albums
AftermathExile on Main StreetSticky FingersBetween the ButtonsSome Girls
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
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"?
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
rule book updated years ago: should only be used for 'bombs over baghdad'.
― balls, Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Nice! That might make a good three-way poll.
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 7 April 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Nerds, start you engines...
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa did not expect to see my irl name in there
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, nobody else voted for "Mona"! ;_;
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― Jeff W, Saturday, 7 April 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for LRR. I wonder why exactly ILMers don't seem to like the early blues stuff...
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 8 April 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
Weird, I didn't think I'd be the only one who voted for "Miss Amanda Jones" and "All Sold Out".
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno if it's "don't like" so much as "ouch, top 20 huh"
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
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!)
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Stones in Exile apparently on Netflix streaming, btw.
― beachville, Sunday, 8 April 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
It's All Over Now is on the spreadsheet twice....
― ρεμπετις, Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
“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
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
He referenced that godawful Greenfield "Season In Hell" book. Man I really fucking hated that book.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
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..
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's one of few books I'd ever support burning
Clemenza otm. Cannot express enough how awful it is.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of bad writing, I'm nominating "a world of depravity unprecedented in the entire history of the world" for a "Live and Let Die" award.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
also re that NYT piece. Sub-heading should be "I dont really like Exile much and Mick agrees with me"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Props to whomever voted for "Ride on, Baby" - that's my favorite.
― timellison, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
I considered it strongly but went with Sittin on a Fence for my Flowers pick.
― JoeStork, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
my ballot
TOP 20 TRACKSCan't You Hear Me KnockingMiss YouDoo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)Gimme Shelter(I Can't Get No) SatisfactionWild HorsesYou Can't Always Get What You WantNo ExpectationsTumblin' DiceSalt Of The EarthTime Is On My SideLet's Spend The Night TogetherHeavenLove Is StrongBeast of BurdenUnder My ThumbMixed EmotionsMoonlight MileThru And ThruDead Flowers
5 BEST ALBUMSSticky FingersBeggars' BanquetLet It BleedBlack And BlueVoodoo Lounge
3 MOST HATED TRACKSSweet VirginiaRocks OffTorn And Frayed
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
Thru and Thru is pretty great
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
Ride On, Baby was mine, not one to sleep on
― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
"Thru and Thru" has one of Keith's spectral vocal melodies, for which he bends notes, Arab style.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
Out of nowhere: Ok doesn't it seem like "Brown Sugar" and "Start Me Up" come from a few years before their actual provenance? "Brown Sugar" wasn't around in 1969? Really? People weren't listening to "Start Me Up" in 1979? 1981 just doesn't scream "Start Me Up" to me.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
it is mind-bogging to me that "Time Is On My Side" didn't place, makes sense that "Heaven" and that are just outside the top 60
also kind of surprised at the high placing of "Jumpin' Jack Flash," out of their big charging anthems it never woud've really occurred to me that that was so much more highly regard than "Street Fighting Man" or "Satisfaction" or "Brown Sugar"
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
Ride On, Baby has one of the great Mick/Keith joint (heh) vocals, Keith on harmony really but they sing the chorus together & it's glorious; Mick's "uh uh uh"s super too, remind me that I gotta run a girl group Stones songs poll one of these days because it was one of their best looks imo
― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I've always thought Street Fighting Man an inferior Jumpin Jack Flash, could have the latter placing much higher here
plus I secretly love the Whoopi flick, esp. the scene when she tries to figure out the lyric & wonders about a lesbian wind
― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
whuuuut... Street Fighting Man inferior Jumping Jack Flash?
I'm going to have to scratch my head on that one for a while, Euler
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 April 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
same kinda riff & churn, always sounded like same-ish songs to me
― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
"Ride On, Baby" was my last cut
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 9 April 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
Ride On, Baby has one of the great Mick/Keith joint (heh) vocals, Keith on harmony really but they sing the chorus together & it's glorious
You know, Keith sings on that, but the big harmony part is Mick singing with himself.
I agree that it's glorious. Just one of my favorite things ever.
― timellison, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
ah really, I just hear Keith's high lonesome on the eg FBI file part
― Euler, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
& on the title phrase too, duh me
I don't know how often this was done, but the "FBI file" part of the chorus is one of those instances where you can't tell if the lower or the upper part is the melody. Neither of them sound like the melody, really, but together something happens that works.
Try to sing it and you'll see - you don't know what the melody is!
― timellison, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
And needless to say, that's some next level stuff.
― timellison, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm the only voter for Tell Me? how is this possible?
― gospodin simmel, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link