favorite The Rolling Stones album

Christ, still one week to go!?

Never saw this one (not that I vote on a lot of these polls). I'd like to give some props to December's Children and Out of Our Heads - both excellent energy boosters. Beggars is an all time fave but I think I love Sticky Fingers more.

sticky fingers, for 'moonlight mile' and more.

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.

As it would happen, i just finished compiling a personal MP3 compilation covering their discography through the mid 80s. In assembling the mix, i pulled in various outtakes and singles (and b-sides) and buried them into the most appropriate album folder so some of those albums are artificially bloated, but still, representative of the era. The winnowing process took a few days but finally resulted in about 6 hours of music that fit onto a single CDR.

Looking over the tracklist today, i see a suprisingly healthy dose from 1964's 12 x 5, both 1965's ...Now & Out Of Our Minds, 1976's Black and Blue and, of all things, 1983's Tattoo You. The most fertile ground comes from 1965 where no less than three albums-worth of material amply covers their most defining period. At the end of the day, however, i can't help but nod to the refinement found in 1968 and 1969 (Let It Bleed) with my final vote going to Beggars Banquet (which is represented by numerous alternate, live, and various heretofore "lost" tracks -- but damn, how could two separate versions of "Memo to Turner" ever be wrong???).

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."

setlist from London 2012 show

I Wanna Be Your Man
Get Off of My Cloud
It's All Over Now
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter
(with Mary J. Blige)
Wild Horses
All Down the Line
I'm Going Down
(with Jeff Beck) (Live Debut)
Out of Control
One More Shot
Doom and Gloom
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)
(with Bill Wyman)
Honky Tonk Women
(with Grrregory)
Before They Make Me Run
Happy
Midnight Rambler
(with Mick Taylor)
Miss You
Start Me Up
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Sympathy for the Devil
Encore:
You Can't Always Get What You Want
(With choir)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Cherry oh Baby

Kind of an odd choice for Wyman to join them on; he didn't even play on the studio recording.

Bridges to Babylon and A Bigger Bang got a vote

!

Yeah, can't believe those two got votes and Tattoo You got none.

would've voted for 'the rolling stones' (which isn't the same album as 'england's newest hitmakers'), which is the one i listen to most these days.

Dirty Work getting more votes than Some Girls or Flowers is one of those "only on ILM" things.

soto got socks

Just noticing how many "BB" album titles they had: BB, BtheB, B&B, BtoB and aBB.

Too bad they were beaten to Blonde on Blonde, Back in Black or Beaucoups of Blues.

lol buzza

Would have voted for Sticky Fingers

They ended their concert with Cherry Oh Baby? What an odd choice

that was my mistake, Yellow Kid. That was playing on the PA as people filed out!

I guess Street Fighting Man is a little too risky to play these days, lol

I dunno if this is the thread for it but I finally saw Crossfire Hurricane and while the interview content isn't necessarily anything new, goddamn I loved some of that footage (no not just naked mick bending over in front of the camera O_O). also cool to get more horse's mouth stuff from Taylor, even if it's stuff I already knew.

How I'd rank their discography.

Well done. Interesting that Goat’s Head Soup escaped Meh status. I like it but I understand it has its share of detractors.

like this guy, for instance

Ha!

Just noticed that the title, like that of Finnegans Wake, contains no apostrophe, sorry.

I disliked Goats Head Soupp for years thanks to that pustule called "Angie," but I saved it for the sake of "Winter," "Coming Round Again," and "100 Years Ago."

Fair enough

https://www.discogs.com/Rolling-Stones-Sticky-Gingers/release/10992280

Trying to update the tracklist using only one letter substitutions, not quite there yet..

The Rolling Stones ‎– Sticky Gingers

A1 Blown Sugar
A2 Slay
A3 Wild Hordes (Part 1)
B1 Wild Hordes (Part 2)
B2 Can't You Hear Me Slocking
B3 You Gotta Love
C1 Botch
C2 I Got The Bliss
C3 Sister Morphing (Part 1)
D1 Sister Morphing (Part 2)
D2 Dear Flowers
D3 Moonlight Mule