IT'S THE ROLLING STONES EPICS POLL

"Knocking" is the obvious choice for me but I'm also gravitating to the slow burners like "Memory Motel" and "Thru And Thru."

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Definitely "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?"

"Jigsaw Puzzle" by a little over "Sympathy for the Devil"

"Jigsaw Puzzle," I guess. I feel like "Let it Loose" should be in here, even though it's only 5-something - it just feels way more epic than, say, "Fingerprint File" (which I have a hard time not voting for).

Sympathy, basically.

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" (closely followed by "Sympathy For The Devil").

Bullsht boomer nostalgia notwithstanding, you just can't fuck with "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

aah, that one. It's all fantastic but the verses are, well, adequate. As opposed to "as good as they should have been"

"Jigsaw Puzzle." Just keeps getting spookier and spookier as it goes along.

Sympathy For The Devil.

Although epics weren't their thing, it's tough to argue with this.

Rambler

Memory Motel for the way it takes forever to get to the part where they kick Keith awake to sing "She's got a mi-yi-yi-ind of her own and she used it well, yeah" and then he goes back to sleep until it's his turn again in another three minutes...

At 4:30, "Gimme Shelter" feels more epic than most of these.

I'll go for "You Can't Always Get What You Want" ... "Sympathy for the Devil" isn't quite evil enough, especially the backing vocals.

Are you kidding? The b/vocs are practically the best part.

"Jigsaw Puzzle"

How about I can vote for Sisters of Mercy's cover of "Gimme Shelter"? That (cover) is the only one I like.

"Out of Time (long version)"

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"Memory Motel," for reasons smurfherder already articulated, and for how desperately Mick tries to enforce the distance between himself and the girl he won't admit he fell for by dra-a-a-a-a-wling every vowel.

The Stones don't really do epics but I'll take the closest, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" with "Going Home" second.

what about moonlight mile? does that count?

At 4:30, "Gimme Shelter" feels more epic than most of these

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^ But that said I'm voting for "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"

"Going Home" is a really, really horrible track from an otherwise rather good album. So repetitive it would have been unlistenable even as a three minute song.

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" (closely followed by "Sympathy For The Devil").

-- Geir Hongro, 11 December 2007 10:31 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ this

actually yeah Moonlight Mile is a real stones epic! I'd vote for it were it listed.

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You truly have never heard Midnight Rambler until you hear the Leeds March 13, 1971 (Get Your Leeds Lungs Out) version. One hundred times better than any other live performance of any song caught on tape by them, anywhere.

love midnight rambler

Geir OTM re "Going Home"