Rolling Stones singles poll: post-Tattoo You

I've only knowingly heard three or four of these, but I'm gonna take a chance that they never got near 'Undercover Of The Night' again

thread inspired by me remembering how super catchy "Mixed Emotions" is

Have a soft spot for Steel Wheels, went Mixed Emotions, could live a full life without hearing any of these again.

i'm down with all the the Undercover era stuff, so I'll probably end up picking from that bunch. others I liked when they came out: "Mixed Emotions" and "Love is Strong." a lot of the rest I've never heard (B-sides?) or just kind of sucked.

I would take the Talk Is Cheap singles over any of these ("Take It So Hard" and "Struggle", anyway).

thread inspired by me remembering how super catchy "Mixed Emotions" is

Indeed – I owned this on 45 rpm.

I'll vouch again for "One Hit (To The Body)," with its great acoustic intro and Page outro.

Then there's the remix of "Too Much Blood," which has Alex in NYC's full endorsement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxB8Erv3Xk

leaning towards Too Much Blood for the spoken bits @ around 2:20 & 4:10 and the incredibly silly video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GugjdJzMePw

heh xpost

lol

"You know people ask me: it is really true where you live
in Texas, it is really true what they do around there, people?
I say, "yeah every time I drive through the crossroads I get
scared there's a bloke running around with a fucking chain
saw. Oh oh no, gonna, oh no. Don't saw off me leg, don't saw
off me arm."

fwiw these are all charting A-sides (or in one case a double A-side), pretty much all of their later albums had 2 or 3 singles plus a couple more promo singles that charted on U.S. rock radio

Best ballad after "Biggest Mistake": "Almost Hear You Sigh."

ok wow i did not realize they had put out that many a-sides in the last 25+ years. i was under the impression "Think I'm Going Mad" was a b-side?

ah yeah it was the "She Was Hot" b-side, but it did get mainstream rock airplay on its own

Rough Justice. But best of all could be the Mick Jagger solo song Don't Tear Me Up.

Wandering Spirit is better than Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, and BOB.

Some tolerable ones - You Got Me Rocking, One Hit, Rock and a Hard Place ... but it has to be Undercover, for being the last time they sounded engaged.

yeah "Don't Tear Me Up" really is better than most if not all of these

I've only knowingly heard three or four of these, but I'm gonna take a chance that they never got near 'Undercover Of The Night' again

― Ismael Klata, Monday, April 12, 2010 8:57 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^^^

Second place: One Hit

I can't quite forgive the limpness "Undercover of the Night"'s chorus, despite Jagger's trying to make up for it with one of his classic contorted vocals; it just sounds cynical.

*the limpness OF

It's a song where I'm willing to go full Raggett and not even pay attention to the vocals at all, let alone the actual lyrics. The whole band is just so damned tight in a way they never really have been since. And a thousand times funkier than they were on "Emotional Rescue" or "Miss You."

Because it uses slap bass?

No, not just that. It's the drums/bass interplay married with the guitar stabs -- honestly, if you removed the vocal track, the whole thing reminds me of something you'd hear on a 70's blaxploitation soundtrack.

One Hit vs Saint of Me

"Sad Sad Sad," just because it kinda reminds me of "Rocks Off."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

missed this---going with "Almost Hear You Sigh" which as I think wrote elsewhere on this site fuses gorgeously with "Continental Drift". I recently picked up the post-Steel Wheels albums but haven't yet listened so consider this a not-terribly-well-informed vote. "Too Much Blood" also deserves attention here.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i guess maybe i underestimated "Undercover"'s place in the canon, probably shoulda moved up the cutoff a couple more years to get the more interesting spread of points i was hoping for.

really surprised by the weak showing for "Love Is Strong," seemed like such an obvious pick to me that i defaulted to another one i like about equally.

I dig "love is strong" but prefer it as "wicked as it seems"... i may have forgotten to actually vote in this, which seems about right really.

Missed this one. "Undercover Of The Night" winning is no disaster, but I'd rather have voted for "Mixed Emotions" or "Rock And a Hard Place"

I didn't know where to stick this, so here's my list of their best post-1978 singles.