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

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.

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"

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

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

whuuuut... Street Fighting Man inferior Jumping Jack Flash?

I'm going to have to scratch my head on that one for a while, Euler

same kinda riff & churn, always sounded like same-ish songs to me

"Ride On, Baby" was my last cut

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.

ah really, I just hear Keith's high lonesome on the eg FBI file part

& 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!

And needless to say, that's some next level stuff.

I'm the only voter for Tell Me? how is this possible?

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)

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.

"Tell Me" was one of my last cuts -- sorry it didn't get more support.

so I added up the tracks points for each album (up through the top 60 tracks) and this is what I came up with

Interesting variations! Thanks for doing that -- I might try it with the Bowie results and see if anything interesting pops up.

as a Sticky-over-Exile partisan i feel very vindicated, obviously

You know why this is a silly post.

Beggars Bangquet

Naughty record.

silly because of the rep of Exile as an-experience-as-a-whole-not-a-collection-of-songs etc etc?

Easier to choose standout individual SF tracks because there's only half as many as Exile? (kinda the same thing, I guess)

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-

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.

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".

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.

Rewind was made for road trips.

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.

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.

omg that's the "plus some ABKCO collection that was sort of Hot Rocks but not quite" i was thinking of upthread. thanking u!

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.

definitely mail-order and definitely late 70s

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.

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

Yes!

Not much can top their tour from two years ago:
http://users.tpg.com.au/bsnyman//2010_RS%20Tour.jpg

Ramps To Babylon

A Smaller Bladder

Voodoo Waiting Room

Gimme Tax Shelter

Well I used to love food
but it's all yogurt now

Hey! Hey! You! You! Get Off My Lawn!

Well I hope we're not too geriatric
or a trifle too satanic
We've got corrective shoes!

Get Yer Dentures Out

Wild Rascals
could drag me away

hahah

Break Your Hips

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Pacemaker)

Itch

Shattered (my hip)

I Know It's Only Geritol (But I Like It)