The Friday Canon: THE ROLLING STONES

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They're still not dead yet! Mick & Keef and the boys are still very much alive and kicking, despite the best efforts of various illicit pharmaceuticals, Mars Bars, Winnie The Pooh statues, Hells Angels, falling coconuts etc. Out of their 43 UK Top 40 hits, you get to pick your favourite FOURTEEN! Well go on then!

[Poll #952249]


NB I only realised that Satisfaction was on the front page of Wikipedia after I'd typed out the poll! Spooky!

Comic Relief: (link)
1. "Mama/Who Do You Think You Are" - The Spice Girls
2. "Living Doll" - Cliff Richard and the cast of The Young Ones
3. "Absolutely Fabulous" - Absolutely Fabulous (Pet Shop Boys, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley)
4. "Help!" - Bananarama & La Na Nee Nee Noo Noo (French and Saunders with Kathy Burke)
5. "Is This the Way to Amarillo" - Tony Christie & Peter Kay

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I ticked, what, nine of these? For most of this poll, track names are familiar but I have no idea how they go.

I blame Whoopi Goldberg for prevalence of Jumpin Jack Flash in popular culture.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Blimey! The only Rolling Stones songs I really like are 'Sympathy for the devil' and 'Gimme shelter', and I'd always presumed that they'd been huge hits!

[cis.livejournal.com]

I thought 'heart of stone' was a hit as well (i've seen the video on vh1 classic!), but it seems to have been a single only in the US? Different releases by territory is a funny thing: I wonder how much impact it has, whether in the long run it all evens out.

US but not UK singles, Wiki sez

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Tell Me (#24, 1964)
Time is on My Side (#6, 1964)
Heart of Stone (#19, 1964)
As Tears Go By (#6, 1966)
Mother's Little Helper/Lady Jane (#8/#24, 1966)
Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend the Night Together (um, #1, 1967)
Dandelion (#14, 1967)
She's a Rainbow (#25, 1967)
Wild Horses (#28, 1971)
Happy (#22, 1972)
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) (#15, 1973)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg (#17, 1974)
Beast of Burden (#8, 1978)
Shattered (#31, 1978)
Hang Fire (#20, 1982)

1989 was the last time the Stones hit the Top 40 in the US.

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" appears to have been a double-A w/"Honky Tonk Women" in US and UK

[cis.livejournal.com]

Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) was one of my favourite records as a child, although my mother (second time in as many days i've mentioned her on pmists!) didn't let me listen to the Rolling Stones until I was of a suitable age, I'm assuming because she thought the sexuality would be a little problematic for my young mind. I did go through quite a period of hating Mick Jagger for the persona he adopted in a lot of the mid-sixties stuff, before I managed to get my head around the concepts of characterisation, irony, subtleties, enjoying problematic emotions, &c &c.

About the only thing that saves me from having a completely conventional, canonical view of the Stones is that 'come on' remains my favourite of their songs, no matter how well I recognise that it's lightweight, derivative, just a cover, absent of the genius of e.g. 'paint it, black', etc etc etc.

Well, that was easy

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

14 ticks exactly on first run through. And there were only two, "The Last Time" and "Miss You", that narrowly missed the cut.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I ticked 14 sequential singles, which struck me as kind of extraordinary. I don't think Sympathy or Shelter were singles at all. They are my favourite rock band ever, and I could have ticked several more. They've not done much of interest in 30 years now, but their stuff before then is just about untouchable.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

when martin sez "They've not done much of interest in 30 years" i wd rewrite that as "i have not found interesting the idea of checking out anything they've done in 25-odd years" (which is not quite the same)

has anyone actually heard any of the things getting zeroes?

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed at the number of songs I'd expected to be hugely famous Stones singles that are absent from this poll.

Also blimey Kat you're brave for attempting this. But I suppose you did do Cliffcanon.

[koganbot]

Mark, I think Robin's stereotyped Jagger into the category Individualism rather than seeing the "individualism" as I do, as one pole of an unlivable tension whose unlivability Jagger acted out in music and lyrics while (presumably, since he's still alive) compromising/sidestepping the tension in his actual life. (I mean, I personally find it hard to see the midnight rambler as the prototype of a Thatcherite's entrepreneurial self-image of self-sufficiency.)

[koganbot]

I often want to put up the warning SPOILERS when I discuss the Stones, since Jagger's so good at pulling the rug out from under himself, and a first listen works best when you're unprepared.

Solo s/d

[koganbot]

Solo s/d

Search: "Memo From Turner"
Destroy: everything else (though I haven't heard the most recent Jagger).

If they'd have been singles

[koganbot]

I'd have ticked them if they'd been singles:

Definitely: "She Said Yeah," "Under My Thumb," "Stray Cat Blues," "Gimme Shelter"
Possibly: "Back Street Girl," "Route 66," "Midnight Rambler," "Play With Fire" (which might have gotten airplay as a B-side)
Would have wanted to but out of ticks: "Carol," "Complicated," "I'm All Right" (second live version), "Citadel," "Around and Around," "Sympathy For The Devil," "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love," "Talkin' About You," "Ventilator Blues," "Turd On The Run," "Dance," "Surprise Surprise," "Good Times," "Doncha Bother Me," "Think," "2000 Man," "Spider To The Fly," etc.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I'm aware it's hideously wrong of me but I actually really love 'Laugh, I Nearly Died.' It's just so wank on some levels and so louche-y jaded but also still has that thing Red Hot Chilli Peppers think they can do but don't.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Get Off My Cloud is their best song.

I like "she talks to rainbows" too, well the Cub cover.