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How can you not get that?
BORING. Their most boring song ever.
Woah, chill out.
Exactly. Everyone knows Lies is way more boring.
Really? The tile tune is one of the worst and Shattered is just embarrassing.
A differing point of view, probably, but on the level of that album (one of their weaker, also I have to say) I prefer "Back to Zero" to "One Hit to the Body", "Fight" and "Hold back". I listen to vinyl, and almost always, despite "Harlem Shuffle", it feels good for me to have come through side A and be able to switch to side B of DIRTY WORK with only quite OK songs or even better. [Among the remaining tracks, I find, for instance, "Winning Ugly" quite nice with its Tamla Motown pop(?)-like approach and better than it is valued by most posters here.]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014-08-04 11:18 by Witness.
........almost the same as mine, I had Exile instaed of IORR
I didn't think to include live albums.........maybe do a live album poll....although GYYO is pretty much sure to win that........
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014-08-04 18:51 by EddieByword.
in hindsight i should have probably thrown "Stripped" a vote.
adding all the recently released live downloads into the game,
i would be left too confused to actually reach a verdict. but
seeing B2B right up there with B&B and aBB ahead of IORR does
re-encourage the impression their latter-day studio work made on me.
Ya Yas got a few good contenders now, like The Brussels Affair and SG Live In Texas, though..
But probably understable, since the status of those rather low-profile official live albums (a download release, a DVD extra release) is not so obvious as proper studio albums.
Probably if everyone would have all the official releases listed in the front of their eyes, and rank all of them from best to worst, we might have a bit more objective account of fan's taste. But that would be a helluva job....
In that sort of poll I think quite many would reflect carefully how they would rate, say, BRUSSELS AFFAIR to A BIGGER BANG, especially the ones who now wouldn't even remember their existence now when thinking of best four albums.
But even then I think if we look at the recent top nine or so, it probably would not be much different... the difference and some odd rankings just happens in the bottom, in where the idiosyncracies of individual fans seem to matter more, since it is a question of just a vote or two...
And like noted, the early DECCA/LONDON catalogue suffers from having so many different but related releases covering the era.
But 'Big Four' is big four...
- Doxa
This is true, of course.
Still, what's on the top of your head, or imprinted in your heart, as the best releases will often be pretty accurate.
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Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
RomanCandle
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Date: August 2, 2014 20:12
Beggars Banquet
Aftermath
Exile On Main Street
Goats Head Soup
Aftermath
Exile On Main Street
Goats Head Soup
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
stickybanquetonmainst
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Date: August 2, 2014 20:49
1- Brussels Affair - Stones in their prime...period.
2- Sticky Fingers - Perfect album
3- Exile On Main Street - Wide range of styles, awesome mixing
4- Let It Bleed/Beggars Banquet, tough to choose between them, equally epic.
2- Sticky Fingers - Perfect album
3- Exile On Main Street - Wide range of styles, awesome mixing
4- Let It Bleed/Beggars Banquet, tough to choose between them, equally epic.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
GeorgV
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Date: August 2, 2014 22:17
In the days of LPs you put the weakest songs as the second to last songs on side 2 (always finish with a good one). On CDs that makes no sense.
Anyway, these have no "weak" songs in that spot
1. Let It Bleed.
2. Sticky Fingers.
3. Beggars Banquet
3. Aftermath (UK issue)
This is today. On another day Exile mighwould be up there, and also Betewen the Buttons (UK) which have a lot of charm. But I see that I tend to like best the LPs where Keith did most of the guitars
Anyway, these have no "weak" songs in that spot
1. Let It Bleed.
2. Sticky Fingers.
3. Beggars Banquet
3. Aftermath (UK issue)
This is today. On another day Exile mighwould be up there, and also Betewen the Buttons (UK) which have a lot of charm. But I see that I tend to like best the LPs where Keith did most of the guitars
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
GasLightStreet
()
Date: August 2, 2014 23:46
This morning I was almost folding some clothes and I broke out into air drumming the intro to If You Can't Rock Me so...
Black And Blue
IORR
Goats Head Soup
Undercover
Black And Blue
IORR
Goats Head Soup
Undercover
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
GasLightStreet
()
Date: August 3, 2014 00:21
It's interesting how SOME GIRLS is such a bizarre album in some ways. The sound of it is awful - it's very tin can sounding, very thin, too bright, too clean; not fun to listen to by those apsects. It has one incredibly boring as shit song (Respectable) and one that, it's a nice nod etc, but they left off a ton of great stuff in its place (Imagination) as well as Respectable (think Figi Jim, Misty Roads, No Spare Parts, EITTGold and a few others).
It has 'disco' (Miss You), rock (Whip, title track, BTMMRun), punk (Lies and maybe Shattered) and country (FAEyes) and a fantastic "ballad", Beast Of Burden.
What SG has as an album is an incredible attitude that its follow up doesn't. Of course having the huge hit (Miss You) helps with its status. Overall 3 pretty big singles (regardless of charting) and a great promotional campaign that would put any "current" promotion to shame (really since the 1990s).
And yet... some days I can't stand it.
It has 'disco' (Miss You), rock (Whip, title track, BTMMRun), punk (Lies and maybe Shattered) and country (FAEyes) and a fantastic "ballad", Beast Of Burden.
What SG has as an album is an incredible attitude that its follow up doesn't. Of course having the huge hit (Miss You) helps with its status. Overall 3 pretty big singles (regardless of charting) and a great promotional campaign that would put any "current" promotion to shame (really since the 1990s).
And yet... some days I can't stand it.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
Bastion
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Date: August 3, 2014 00:23
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GasLightStreet
It has one incredibly boring as shit song (Respectable)
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
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GasLightStreet
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Date: August 3, 2014 00:45
Quote
BastionQuote
GasLightStreet
It has one incredibly boring as shit song (Respectable)
How can you not get that?
BORING. Their most boring song ever.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
Bastion
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Date: August 3, 2014 00:52
Quote
GasLightStreetQuote
BastionQuote
GasLightStreet
It has one incredibly boring as shit song (Respectable)
How can you not get that?
BORING. Their most boring song ever.
Woah, chill out.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
treaclefingers
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Date: August 3, 2014 02:32
Quote
BastionQuote
GasLightStreetQuote
BastionQuote
GasLightStreet
It has one incredibly boring as shit song (Respectable)
How can you not get that?
BORING. Their most boring song ever.
Woah, chill out.
Exactly. Everyone knows Lies is way more boring.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
Witness
()
Date: August 4, 2014 00:44
To me SOME GIRLS is a somewhat uneven album. However, it features three outright grand songs, even in a career perspective. Those are "Miss You", "Far Away Eyes" and "Shattered". "Beast of Burden" is a good song as well. And personally I do like "Lies", with its punk leanings. The title track is also quite good. The remaining songs are OK. My verdict then is that SOME GIRLS is a more or less great album, by virtue of its parts, mainly due to the three grand songs. In addition , as a whole the album emerges as even a little better, because of its energy and vitality. The band appears as a younger band again than on the preceding albums. Much needed at the time of new wave and, in its midst, punk.
As to a shade of "boring", however, I cannot always avoid the sensation that Just My Imagination" might be just that.
As to a shade of "boring", however, I cannot always avoid the sensation that Just My Imagination" might be just that.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: August 4, 2014 02:10
There's not a boring moment on SG.
Interesting that you find Back To Zero less boring than Respectable, Skip
Interesting that you find Back To Zero less boring than Respectable, Skip
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
More Hot Rocks
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Date: August 4, 2014 02:47
Quote
DandelionPowderman
There's not a boring moment on SG.
Interesting that you find Back To Zero less boring than Respectable, Skip
Really? The tile tune is one of the worst and Shattered is just embarrassing.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
Witness
()
Date: August 4, 2014 11:17
Quote
DandelionPowderman
There's not a boring moment on SG.
Interesting that you find Back To Zero less boring than Respectable, Skip
A differing point of view, probably, but on the level of that album (one of their weaker, also I have to say) I prefer "Back to Zero" to "One Hit to the Body", "Fight" and "Hold back". I listen to vinyl, and almost always, despite "Harlem Shuffle", it feels good for me to have come through side A and be able to switch to side B of DIRTY WORK with only quite OK songs or even better. [Among the remaining tracks, I find, for instance, "Winning Ugly" quite nice with its Tamla Motown pop(?)-like approach and better than it is valued by most posters here.]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014-08-04 11:18 by Witness.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
KRiffhard
()
Date: August 4, 2014 15:54
- Sticky Fingers
- Exile on Main Street
- Beggars Banquet
- Let it Bleed
- Exile on Main Street
- Beggars Banquet
- Let it Bleed
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: August 4, 2014 18:03
And here are the results:
Exile On Main Street: 61
Sticky Fingers: 59
Let It Bleed: 54
Beggars Banquet: 35
Some Girls: 19
Goats Head Soup: 19
Tattoo You: 17
Get Yer Ya Yas Out: 14
Aftermath (UK): 13
Emotional rescue: 7
Bridges To Babylon: 6
Undercover: 6
Black And Blue: 6
A Bigger Bang: 5
Voodoo Lounge: 5
The Brussels Affair: 4
It’s Only Rock’n’Roll: 4
Their Satanic Majesties Request: 4
Stripped: 3
Love You Live: 3
Now: 3
12x5: 3
England’s Newest Hitmakers: 3
Dirty Work: 2
Out Of Our Heads (UK): 2
Out Of Our Heads (US): 2
Shine A Light: 1
No Security: 1
The London years: 1
Metamorphosis: 1
Rolled Gold, Vol. 1: 1
Between The Buttons (UK): 1
Flowers: 1
Live In England ’65: 1
December’s Children: 1
Around And Around: 1
No 2: 1
The Rolling Stones: 1
Sweet Summer Sun: 0
Light A Fuse: 0
Live Licks: 0
Live In Tokyo: 0
Flashpoint: 0
Steel Wheels: 0
Live At Roundhay Park: 0
Hampton 81: 0
Still Life: 0
Some Girls – Live In Texas: 0
LA Friday 75: 0
Have You Seen Your Mother – Live: 0
Got Live if You Want It (EP): 0
Got Live If You Want It (LP): 0
Between The Buttons (US): 0
Aftermath (US): 0
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014-08-04 19:12 by DandelionPowderman.
Exile On Main Street: 61
Sticky Fingers: 59
Let It Bleed: 54
Beggars Banquet: 35
Some Girls: 19
Goats Head Soup: 19
Tattoo You: 17
Get Yer Ya Yas Out: 14
Aftermath (UK): 13
Emotional rescue: 7
Bridges To Babylon: 6
Undercover: 6
Black And Blue: 6
A Bigger Bang: 5
Voodoo Lounge: 5
The Brussels Affair: 4
It’s Only Rock’n’Roll: 4
Their Satanic Majesties Request: 4
Stripped: 3
Love You Live: 3
Now: 3
12x5: 3
England’s Newest Hitmakers: 3
Dirty Work: 2
Out Of Our Heads (UK): 2
Out Of Our Heads (US): 2
Shine A Light: 1
No Security: 1
The London years: 1
Metamorphosis: 1
Rolled Gold, Vol. 1: 1
Between The Buttons (UK): 1
Flowers: 1
Live In England ’65: 1
December’s Children: 1
Around And Around: 1
No 2: 1
The Rolling Stones: 1
Sweet Summer Sun: 0
Light A Fuse: 0
Live Licks: 0
Live In Tokyo: 0
Flashpoint: 0
Steel Wheels: 0
Live At Roundhay Park: 0
Hampton 81: 0
Still Life: 0
Some Girls – Live In Texas: 0
LA Friday 75: 0
Have You Seen Your Mother – Live: 0
Got Live if You Want It (EP): 0
Got Live If You Want It (LP): 0
Between The Buttons (US): 0
Aftermath (US): 0
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014-08-04 19:12 by DandelionPowderman.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ATE COUNTED!
Posted by:
Doxa
()
Date: August 4, 2014 18:08
That's how democracy of taste works... Individually taken some idiosyncratic, surprised choices, but in the end, taking all those views together, the ranking is pretty conventional...
- Doxa
- Doxa
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: August 4, 2014 18:21
It's interesting that "A Bigger Bang" got more votes than "The Brussels Affair", and that Some Girls - Live In Texas didn't get a single vote
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
EddieByword
()
Date: August 4, 2014 18:48
Quote
GasLightStreet
This morning I was almost folding some clothes and I broke out into air drumming the intro to If You Can't Rock Me so...
Black And Blue
IORR
Goats Head Soup
Undercover
........almost the same as mine, I had Exile instaed of IORRRe: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
EddieByword
()
Date: August 4, 2014 18:51
Quote
DandelionPowderman
It's interesting that "A Bigger Bang" got more votes than "The Brussels Affair", and that Some Girls - Live In Texas didn't get a single vote
I didn't think to include live albums.........maybe do a live album poll....although GYYO is pretty much sure to win that........
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014-08-04 18:51 by EddieByword.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
Nikkei
()
Date: August 4, 2014 19:13
most of us seem to have limited our ranking on the studio albums.Quote
DandelionPowderman
It's interesting that "A Bigger Bang" got more votes than "The Brussels Affair", and that Some Girls - Live In Texas didn't get a single vote
in hindsight i should have probably thrown "Stripped" a vote.
adding all the recently released live downloads into the game,
i would be left too confused to actually reach a verdict. but
seeing B2B right up there with B&B and aBB ahead of IORR does
re-encourage the impression their latter-day studio work made on me.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: August 4, 2014 19:14
Quote
EddieBywordQuote
DandelionPowderman
It's interesting that "A Bigger Bang" got more votes than "The Brussels Affair", and that Some Girls - Live In Texas didn't get a single vote
I didn't think to include live albums.........maybe do a live album poll....although GYYO is pretty much sure to win that........
Ya Yas got a few good contenders now, like The Brussels Affair and SG Live In Texas, though..
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums
Posted by:
Nikkei
()
Date: August 4, 2014 19:15
i also find Lies to be the most boring 3 minutes of SG.Quote
treaclefingers
Exactly. Everyone knows Lies is way more boring.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: August 4, 2014 19:17
Being a passenger in breakneck-speed rock'n'roll is boring now??
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
Nikkei
()
Date: August 4, 2014 19:42
well we were both merely talking in relative terms.
if something is more boring than something else,
both of these things don't necessarily have to be boring.
just a comparison. or ranking if you like =)
if something is more boring than something else,
both of these things don't necessarily have to be boring.
just a comparison. or ranking if you like =)
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
stonehearted
()
Date: August 4, 2014 19:48
Now: 3
12x5: 3
England’s Newest Hitmakers: 3
Dirty Work: 2
Out Of Our Heads (UK): 2
Out Of Our Heads (US): 2
The Rolling Stones: 1
Sheesh! With numbers like that, this is mainly why I just sit at home and listen to the Stones by myself. I'm also with the one poster who chose No. 1--I have a Russian bootleg of No. 1 with extras, so sometimes that subs for Newest Hitmakers, then it's on to my other favorites, 12X5, Now, and Out Of Our Heads (US and sometimes UK goes into the rotation if I'm not in a December's Children mood).
So, what posters here are saying is that those first few albums covering 1964 and 1965 are right up there with Dirty Work. Again, sheesh!
Stats like this is one reason I never go to parties.
12x5: 3
England’s Newest Hitmakers: 3
Dirty Work: 2
Out Of Our Heads (UK): 2
Out Of Our Heads (US): 2
The Rolling Stones: 1
Sheesh! With numbers like that, this is mainly why I just sit at home and listen to the Stones by myself. I'm also with the one poster who chose No. 1--I have a Russian bootleg of No. 1 with extras, so sometimes that subs for Newest Hitmakers, then it's on to my other favorites, 12X5, Now, and Out Of Our Heads (US and sometimes UK goes into the rotation if I'm not in a December's Children mood).
So, what posters here are saying is that those first few albums covering 1964 and 1965 are right up there with Dirty Work. Again, sheesh!
Stats like this is one reason I never go to parties.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
BroomWagon
()
Date: August 4, 2014 19:54
It's an unofficial poll so it's fun and I take that into consideration.
There is a big crossup as to the duo-albums, early discography on both sides of the Atlantic, OOOH, Aftermath, Between The Buttons so the results are to be taken with a grain of salt.
You would really need to list album and then songs of each album to start getting a near-official result imho.
There is a big crossup as to the duo-albums, early discography on both sides of the Atlantic, OOOH, Aftermath, Between The Buttons so the results are to be taken with a grain of salt.
You would really need to list album and then songs of each album to start getting a near-official result imho.
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: August 4, 2014 20:14
Quality vs. quantity
Aftermath is a bit misguiding as well, since virtually no one specified which release they preferred.
Just a fun little situation report, which shows we'll never change
Aftermath is a bit misguiding as well, since virtually no one specified which release they preferred.
Just a fun little situation report, which shows we'll never change
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
Doxa
()
Date: August 5, 2014 10:03
Quote
DandelionPowderman
It's interesting that "A Bigger Bang" got more votes than "The Brussels Affair", and that Some Girls - Live In Texas didn't get a single vote
But probably understable, since the status of those rather low-profile official live albums (a download release, a DVD extra release) is not so obvious as proper studio albums.
Probably if everyone would have all the official releases listed in the front of their eyes, and rank all of them from best to worst, we might have a bit more objective account of fan's taste. But that would be a helluva job....
In that sort of poll I think quite many would reflect carefully how they would rate, say, BRUSSELS AFFAIR to A BIGGER BANG, especially the ones who now wouldn't even remember their existence now when thinking of best four albums.But even then I think if we look at the recent top nine or so, it probably would not be much different... the difference and some odd rankings just happens in the bottom, in where the idiosyncracies of individual fans seem to matter more, since it is a question of just a vote or two...
And like noted, the early DECCA/LONDON catalogue suffers from having so many different but related releases covering the era.
But 'Big Four' is big four...
- Doxa
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: August 5, 2014 10:20
Quote
DoxaQuote
DandelionPowderman
It's interesting that "A Bigger Bang" got more votes than "The Brussels Affair", and that Some Girls - Live In Texas didn't get a single vote
But probably understable, since the status of those rather low-profile official live albums (a download release, a DVD extra release) is not so obvious as proper studio albums.
Probably if everyone would have all the official releases listed in the front of their eyes, and rank all of them from best to worst, we might have a bit more objective account of fan's taste. But that would be a helluva job....
But even then I think if we look at the recent top nine or so, it probably would not be much different... the difference and some odd rankings just happens in the bottom, in where the idiosyncracies of individual fans seem to matter more, since it is a question of just a vote or two...
And like noted, the early DECCA/LONDON catalogue suffers from having so many different but related releases covering the era.
But 'Big Four' is big four...
- Doxa
This is true, of course.
Still, what's on the top of your head, or imprinted in your heart, as the best releases will often be pretty accurate.
But this was just good fun
Re: Rank your 4 best official Stones albums - THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!
Posted by:
Doxa
()
Date: August 5, 2014 10:52
Quote
DandelionPowderman
But this was just good fun
And that's the bottom line!
- Doxa
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