favorite The Rolling Stones album

this thing will finally close tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure the code just let me vote a second time in this poll. Exile a couple of weeks ago, The Rolling Stones Now! this time.

-- Rock Hardy, Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I think I accidentally voted twice in a poll before, but I was drunk so I kept my mouth shut 'cause sometimes I don't remember too good, see? I'm also darn sure that I've voted in this poll before and was just now able to cast another vote (for Exile, if we're keeping count).

I never felt like the Stones were a very good 'album band'... but I'm going to go with Satanic Majesty, which I think is the most consistent and a hugely underrated album. This one needs a critical re-evaluation.

Awesome, I just voted a third time! Whatever the code problem is, I'm all for this ballot-box stuffing.

I voted Out Of Our Heads, since I played that one last, and quite enjoyed it.

Geir sez: "But even a failed psych album is better than a great rock'n'roll album"

*head explodes*

Wow! Biggest (well, longest certainly) poll ever is coming home!

Stuff that ballot-box, y'all. I've voted at least three times so far.

I'm pretty sure the code just let me vote a second time in this poll. Exile a couple of weeks ago, The Rolling Stones Now! this time.

hey, that's my vote

i went with exile in the end tho

Between The Buttons (UK). I don't expect it to win.

Several members have probably voted two or more times. I guess a long voting period is no good idea :)

you can only vote once, surely?

Depends on your cookie settings.

Cheat!

OK, you talked me into it!

Well, for the longest ran poll, the largest quantity votes it seems.

And no great surprises, apart from a couple of no-voteds.

poor emotional rescue ;_;

I believe so, yes.

Yay Dirty Work!

haha Satanic Majesties scoring so high is hilarious (and I LIKE that album!)

GHS?? srsly?

Goats Head Soup is great.

i'm surprised beggars finished below goat's head soup

The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hitmakers) (1964) 0
12 X 5 (1964) 0
Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965) 0
Out of Our Heads (1965) 1
The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965) 3
December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) 2
Aftermath (1966) 13
Got Live If You Want It! (1966) 0
Between the Buttons UK (1967) 6
Between the Buttons US (1967) 2
Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) 17
Flowers (1967) 1
Beggars Banquet (1968) 11
Let It Bleed (1969) 12
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (1970) 1
Sticky Fingers (1971) 28
Exile on Main St. (1972) 47
Goats Head Soup (1973) 12
It's Only Rock 'N Roll (1974) 0
Black and Blue (1976) 2
Some Girls (1978) 5
Emotional Rescue (1980) 0
Tattoo You (1981) 0
Undercover (1983) 0
Dirty Work (1986) 6
Steel Wheels (1989) 0
Voodoo Lounge (1994) 0
Bridges to Babylon (1997) 1
A Bigger Bang (2005) 1

One big crashdown in 1974!

I'm mean, it's ok and all, but for my money it's tied with B&B (I KNOW I KNOW ILM <3 B&B) for their worst of the 70's. I'll Take IORAR over either...

i'm surprised beggars finished below goat's head soup
for real

Emotional Rescue is totally under-valued. I take it xhuxk didn't vote in this one?

These are pretty unpredictable results and really awful as well.

I love "Satanic", but I doubt you'll find a lot of Stones fans who'd rank it as their third best album :)

Yeah this is annoying, I like these polls and there's no way that TSMR beat Let It Bleed without cheaters...shame, shame, shame!

Why not? Let It Bleed is good, but I wouldn't say it's hands-down better than TSMR.

man, u ppl stoopid

diebold'd

2 (or 3--I can't remember) of the Aftermath votes were from me. Something should really be done to make multiple voting from the same IP address more difficult, at the very least.

XP

Fess up, Alfred, all those Dirty Work votes were from you, no?

I think Stan maj is better than Let it bleed.

I could say it's because SMR is less cynical, more psyche and less crummy blues, but then it's MY FAVOURITE not necessarily about which one's the best.

Do a "best" poll, everyone'd vote "exile" probably.

I don't find "Let It Bleed" particularly good, but it's way better than "Exile". If there is one album in the traditional canon that is underrated in this poll, then I would say "Beggar's Banquet" is the one. I mean, it contains "Sympathy For The Devil", "Street Fighting Man" and "No Expectations". Nuff said.

BB is seventh, that's hardly 'under-rated' considering how many there are here.

BB is obviously a lot better than "Goat's Head Soup". Plus I would say it is better than all of their "classic" 1969-72 albums too.

isn't flowers technically a comp?

Fess up, Alfred, all those Dirty Work votes were from you, no?

Two, actually, and was quite prepared to accept bribes to vote some more.

xp: so what, it rules

There's contrarian votes all over ILX, so why all the fuss on this thread?

i want people to explain why they voted Goats Head Soup. grated i love this album but it not even remotely close to their best. these poll results are strange even for ILM. how the hell does Bridges to Babylon or A Bigger Bang even get one vote? but than i love the fact that Some Girls got five votes.

Yeah, the Goats Head Soup fiends should out/explain themselves.

"A Bigger Bang" was considered sort of a "return to form", but granted I'd expect those who named it so to still vote for something from the late 60s or early 70s.

I can see with some of the 60s psych fans on this board that Their Satanic Majesties Request would get some votes, but not that many and Beggars Banquet being that low is really surprising. I think "No Expectations" is the best song that Jagger and Richards ever wrote.

holy 1965

Classic ILXOR poll - just the right mix of contrarianism and trendiness.

just the right mix of contrarianism and trendiness

Should be the new board description for ILM

Yep.

ILX = "I love Pet Sounds AND 'Kokomo!' Too bad 'Good Vibrations' and 'Help me Rhonda' were such pieces of shit."