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
so I added up the tracks points for each album (up through the top 60 tracks) and this is what I came up with
15. 12 X 5 (152 points) 14. Undercover (167 points)13. Emotional Rescue (209 points) 12. Tattoo You (481 points) 11. Goats Head Soup (568 points)10. Their Satanic Majesties Request (722 points)9. Between The Buttons (922 points)8. Out Of Our Heads (977 points) 7. Some Girls (1265 points) 6. Flowers (1474 points) 5. Aftermath (1762 points) 4. Beggars Bangquet (3265 points) 3. Let It Bleed (3699 points) 2. Exile On Main Street (3734 points)1. Sticky Fingers (4143 points)
which changes things a little bit from the albums poll results:
10. (tie) Voodoo Lounge (11 points, 2 votes, one #1)10. (tie) Flowers (11 points, 2 votes, one #1)9. Tattoo You (11 points, 5 votes)8. Their Satanic Majesties Request (31 points, 6 votes, one #1)7. Between The Buttons (59 points, 12 votes, one #1)6. Some Girls (61 points, 15 votes, two #1)5. Aftermath (70 points, 17 votes, three #1)4. Beggars Banquet (163 points, 33 votes, two #1)3. Let It Bleed (169 points, 29 votes, eight #1)2. Sticky Fingers (176 points, 30 votes, eight #1)1. Exile on Main St. (269 points, 39 votes, fourteen #1)
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
as a Sticky-over-Exile partisan i feel very vindicated, obviously
I was surprised about "Tell Me"'s absence too. Would have been high on my list at one point--wore it out via Mean Streets--but it's perfect Brill Building-era pop.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
"Tell Me" was one of my last cuts -- sorry it didn't get more support.
Interesting variations! Thanks for doing that -- I might try it with the Bowie results and see if anything interesting pops up.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Monday, 9 April 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
You know why this is a silly post.
Beggars Bangquet
Naughty record.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
silly because of the rep of Exile as an-experience-as-a-whole-not-a-collection-of-songs etc etc?
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Easier to choose standout individual SF tracks because there's only half as many as Exile? (kinda the same thing, I guess)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 9 April 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
I know! Let's bring ROBERT CHRISTGAU into this!
Rewind (1971-1984) [Rolling Stones, 1984]
Song for song, a stronger album than anything they released in the period, and while for concept I'll take not just the eternal Exile but the casual Some Girls, it flows and maybe coheres. A-
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
haha i had been meaning to bring up how it was Rewind (the American CD edition), not Hot Rocks or any more canonical comp, that was really my introduction to the Stones catalog. i mean, a 13-track best-of with "Hang Fire" and "Fool To Cry" on it! good times.
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
It was some weirdo ABKCO 8-track (lol) comp that was my first Stones product too! Had "Sympathy For the Devil" and "Have You Seen Your Mother" alongside odd stuff like "Good Times Bad Times".
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
It was on 8-track or it had eight songs on it? Because lol at the idea of abkco putting out such a short best-of.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Rewind was made for road trips.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Myonga: guessing it was this?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FKzNtXljL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
I remember that album. Once had Exile on 8-track.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
That's it! Found it at a flea market in Sault Ste Marie around '86.
Other cool 8-track (cartridges) I found at that same shop were Forever Changes and Hawkwind's Space Ritual Live.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
omg that's the "plus some ABKCO collection that was sort of Hot Rocks but not quite" i was thinking of upthread. thanking u!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 9 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
I think that one was "Not Sold In Stores"/heavily TV advertised in the late '70s? I remember certain Stones/Creedence/Smokey Robinson collections being promoted CONSTANTLY in commercials during my late tween/early teens.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
definitely mail-order and definitely late 70s
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh hey this is a pretty fine keef interview:
http://jasobrecht.com/keith-richards-1994-interview-songwriting-creativity-rolling-stones/
love that interview, roger - thanks so much for sharing!
that's the Keef I love.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 April 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
uh oh, guys, i think we summoned the beast from its slumber: http://www.billboard.com/#/news/rolling-stones-entering-studio-soon-1006714352.story?utm_source=most_recent
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Yes!
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Not much can top their tour from two years ago:http://users.tpg.com.au/bsnyman//2010_RS%20Tour.jpg
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Ramps To Babylon
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
A Smaller Bladder
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Voodoo Waiting Room
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Gimme Tax Shelter
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Well I used to love foodbut it's all yogurt now
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link