The Rolling Stones albums poll Grand Final

oh wow a boring predictable EXILE vote fuiud

where's Dirty Work?

no one would ever vote for Dirty Work, would they? ;)

will never understand ilm's abiding love for GHS.

and yeah i think Exile's got this

GHS has three or four really good songs. but it's no classic stones record.

i mean i like it fine, maybe even a lot on some days, but why it's regarded over stuff like IORnR (which i think is vastly underrated), i'm not sure i understand.

We'll never reach consensus on those three mid seventies albums.

GHS is the last stones alb to sustain a (fuggy) mood the whole way through, works as a gd 'comedown' alb after Exile

i mean i like it fine, maybe even a lot on some days, but why it's regarded over stuff like IORnR (which i think is vastly underrated), i'm not sure i understand.

― used to bull's-eye Zach Wamps in my T-16 back home (will), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:07 PM (6 minutes ago)

yeah, check the Mick Taylor thread for dudes repping for IORnR coming outta the closet ITT

so true. i do <3 "Starfucker" and "Hide Your Love" would have fit nicely on side 3 of Exile

xxpost

If I save seven songs from those three albums it's plenty:

Starfucker
100 Years Ago
Fingerprint File
Memory Motel
Fool To Cry
Hand of Fate
Crazy Mama

wish you'd done included 4 pre-exile too, aftermath woulda thrown the oldies fans like me a bone

Echoing something I've said in other threads, I'd rather see a fight between their various greatest hits collections...

Surprised "Aftermath" didn't make it too, but hey.

If I save seven songs from those three albums it's plenty:

Starfucker
100 Years Ago
Fingerprint File
Memory Motel
Fool To Cry
Hand of Fate
Crazy Mama

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

really?no love for " if you can't rock me", "luxury", "time waits...", "dance little sister", "short and curlies", or "hey negrita"?

what about "winter"? love that one.

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Let It Bleed. I love EOMS to death, almost love it more purely from a fan's perspective, but can't see anything more perfect than Let It Bleed--ne plus ultra

GHS, cuz that's just how it is these days.

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goats head soup no 2 gtfo

hahaha yeah what the hell

contrarians of the world unite! such bullshit

really?no love for " if you can't rock me", "luxury", "time waits...", "dance little sister", "short and curlies", or "hey negrita"?

I nod as they walk by.

I don't think I've ever even bothered to listen to GHS all the way through

They were much better at being "professional" in the eighties, although not many people I know share this view. And they were much more than that on Dirty Work, in which they turned their contempt in on themselves, with a booming production as correlative for the war in their hearts.

Tattoo You, Undercover, Dirty Work >>>>>>>>>>> Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock n Roll, Black and Blue.

don't bother...winter and comin' down again are the only good songs on it

Goats Head Soup is not as bad as it's made out to be. It just starts off with the mother of all clunkers, Dancing With Mr. D. It's not in the same universe as the previous 4, but what is?

I think that I need to give Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock 'n' Roll both a fair listen, but in my head, they still don't occupy the same classic plain of existence as Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile (or even Aftermath and Between the Buttons).

i like alfred's suggestion of culling the best tracks of the three, 'cause there are some great ones. and over the years i've really become fond of the filler on iorar

"three" being GHS, B&B, IOR'NR

I'm surprised by the fine showing for GHS. Pleasantly surprised because I think its unfairly slagged due to the transcendent nature of the previous four. "Can You Hear the Music" strikes me as one of the Rolling Stones' most psychedelic tunes, and at a time when such a thing had become quite out of fashion. "Star Star" & "Silver Train" are top-notch Stones pelvic-thrust rawkerz. Not a bad LP at all really, which I loved when it came out. That said, GHS hasn't aged as well as Black & Blue which I initially despised but have grown to like quite a lot for its dirty funk shellac.

I dunno. I slag it because most of the album is no good on any level.

I kind of look at Black & Blue as kicking off a second period of Rolling Stone classic goodness extending through Tatto You and peaking with Some Girls (not counting the horrible live albums they put our during this period). Never really cared for Undercover, but probably never gave it a fair listen either.

I cited it above but I don't care for it either: a punked-up aural version of a Haneke movie.

i ignored it initially b/c i didn't care for "undercover" (song), but i picked it up for pocket change last year and have grown to love it.

like goat's head soup is fine, it's decent but to see it up there above sticky fingers????

"Sway" >>>>> the entirety of Goats Head Soup

i hate to be all o_O on folks' opinions, but GHS -- 19

LIB -- 11
BB -- 7
SG -- 1
ER -- 1
TY -- 0

This is awesome though:

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

haha yeah, i love jagger's spoken bit about TX chainsaw massacre

oh no, don't saw off me arm, don't saw off me leg