Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll poll

One of their worst albums, marginally better than GHS.

"Fingerprint File."

I disagree with you!!

Although I am listening to "Luxury" as we speak and....haha...oh dear...

But there is no way this is worse than Steel Wheels

or Dirty Work or A Bigger Bang

I'll take "Mixed Emotions" and "Almost Hear You Sigh" over most anything here.

ha – Dirty Work is nearly a great album but we've been thru this.

yeah but as whole records, Alfred

xp-ugh I hate Dirty Work

also Goat's Head Soup is fantastic

it's a work of dark, brilliant genius

Anyway, I like the ballads on this record, and I like Time Waits For No-One.

But I like, I think, pretty much every Stones ballad ever recorded.

I mean "If You Really Want To Be My Friend" is pretty generic sounding, but the sentiment is really cool.

"It's Only Rock and Roll" is the most enervated song about rock ever recorded. A recent entry in this category: Wilco's "Heavy Metal Drummer."

should be a thread about that

I have a very emotional connection to this record, I think. I was way into it in college. I would sit and listen to it in my room and I would wander the wilds of Norfolk on winter nights listening to it on my discman (haha).

xp-yes!

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"Ever recorded," I think you're being a tad dramatic. I don't agree with you about either of those songs; and I do not think Diry Work was a great album.

Title track the obvious winner.

I think you're being a tad dramatic

I think that's just what he does

should be a thread about that

good idea – it's all yours!

Goat's Head Soup is great.

'Time Waits for No-one' is one of my favourite Stones songs but the album is kind of patchy (although I'd rate it higher than Black And Blue). I've always really hated the title track too.

Enervated/listless/unconvincing songs about how awesome it is too rock, boy i'm really rockin' now, rock'n'roll is the best, remember how we used to rock?

hmm never listened to this one

Goats Head Soup doesn't quite clear the bar set by the previous four Stones albums, but it's still a great attempt at trying to do so. I've always found it to be a very underrated record and it's a record I do have plenty of time for and do enjoy a hell of a lot.

It's Only Rock'n'Roll on the other hand, I've never really liked as a whole, although 'Time Waits For No One' remains one of my Top 10 personal Stones songs of all time. If only the rest of the album was of the same quality.

I guess this is what frustrates me about this particular Stones record, and numerous Stones records (but not all) that came after: lord knows they had the capability to come up with an absolute gem, but when you listen to the stuff that surrounds those gems you think "what the fuck are you doing, guys!?"

God help anyone who votes 'Luxury' in this poll. Seriously. One of the most loathsome tracks I've ever heard, and then some.

"Ever recorded," I think you're being a tad dramatic. I don't agree with you about either of those songs; and I do not think Diry Work was a great album.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:44 AM

I didn't say it was – I said it almost was. I wish Woody and Keith played guitar like this more often, or that Jagger had continued to sing with such ferocity. His last bunch of good lyrics too.

goat's head soup isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than it's only rock 'n roll. better than dirty work, better than black and blue.

Maybe, I might tie it with Black and Blue

Haha Luxury!!

let's listen to it together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca0O4xi66Ss&feature=related

That SOUND !!! Unique !!!
eromadrol 1 month ago

this is one of those songs only a true stones fan digs. or even knows of.
dreekd80 5 months ago

I just realized that the vocal makes me think of Guns Of Brixton. Uh oh...

Have always a soft spot for the much-hated "Luxury" because it falls into that beloved category of early seventies fake-reggae.

Better than "Cherry Oh Baby"?

B&B isn't great either but "Memory Motel" and "Fool to Cry" sound nothing like the Stones recorded at the time; the former sounds like Roxy Music recording a Big Star ballad. And "Hand of Fate" and "Crazy Mama" are better shit-kickers.

Especially fake reggae featuring percussion by Ray Cooper.

"Cherry Oh Baby" is OK too.

falls into that beloved category of early seventies fake-reggae.

is that what this is...? Charlie can't seem to get a handle on the one-drop rhythm if so. It doesn't strike me as particularly terrible, but it is quite boring.

'Embarrassing' is a word that I'd use to describe 'Luxury'. 'Shite' is another.

Voted Time, but nearly went for Fingerprint File. Haven't played this album in something like 15 yers though.

GHS is indeed better. DW is one of the very few Stones albums I've never heard.

Underrated album: Rolling Stones' "Dirty Work"

Ugh. Their worst 70s record, obviously. Went with the awful Time Waits for No One just for Mick Taylor's beautiful "swan song" of a solo (as admrl put it so well). I guess FF is alright

Haven't listened to Black and Blue in at leat as long, but I remember it sucking pretty hard.

it sucked in the seventies, as it were.

Lol, I voted Luxury. I didn't know it was so hated!

Second choice was Ain't Too Proud To Beg

It's been a long time since I played this one, it's better than I remembered. "Time Waits for No One" is great and the other ballads stand up pretty well too. "Fingerprint File" is a good preview of the next few albums. "Dance Little Sister" is sort of a throwback to "Carol" by the tighter 70s band -- I like it.

I like this LP way more than Goat's Head Soup and Black and Blue. Heartbreaker is probably the best track between the three records though.

Personally, I really dig Fingerprint File. That is one ice cool coked up paranoid track. It's a way better than most of the times the Stones tried to tap into 70s funk.

I wish Undercover of the Night had this kind of production sound. I really dig that tune, but this kind of 70s sound would have worked better with it.

haha I like this one! I listen to it more than GHS or B&B. goin to have to think on this.

"Time Waits for No One"

"Tom Waits for Every One"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

That version of "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" really sucks.

Time Waits For No One would be fine without those lyrics! Just terrible...

the chorus in "till the next goodbye" kinda plods but there are some great throwaway lines re your cure-all from new-aw-leans and your louisiana recipes. sounds a little like some van morrison would have done around the same time.

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

Ugh. Their worst 70s record, obviously. Went with the awful Time Waits for No One just for Mick Taylor's beautiful "swan song" of a solo (as admrl put it so well). I guess FF is alright

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xxxposts: ugh, voted luxury. calling it "fake reggae" doesn't even make sense. *maybe* there'e some Jamaican influence on the Stones already but the rhythm isn't really close to reggae. GHS sounds better but this is a stronger but not great songs record overall, period.

You're saying I should take back my vote?

nope. i think that luxury is just kinda unique and one of the three best songs on it's only...(including the title cut and time waits). those three songs, to me, are so much better than the three best songs on GHS (Angie, 1000 years, Heartbreaker) i kinda don't get the hate for this record. maybe i miss the point of the term "fake reggae", but the Stones proved they could handle reggae: "Crackin' uP" and "Too Rude" are two great examples. MUCH prefer the original of Cherry Oh though

The lyrics to 'If You Can't Rock Me' make me laugh. Basically Jagger saying if some chick doesn't wanna ball, he'll have no trouble finding someone who will.

he's right

In 1974 he would have definitely been right. The whole song is just basically bragging about it... definitely the type of song that only someone who has been a rich and very famous rock star for so long would have even dared to put out.

THE BANDS ONSTAGE AND IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE NIIIIGHTS...

...OOH YEAH!

Christ, I fucking love this song.