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What are the best Rolling Stones songs?

posted 16 years ago by seangordon
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I'm going per album! And I'm only doing up to Tattoo You, because everything after that was kind of, well...you know.

England's Newest Hit-Makers: Not Fade Away
12 x 5: Around and Around
Now!: Little Red Rooster
Out of Our Heads: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
December's Children (And Everybody's): Get Off of My Cloud
Aftermath: Paint it Black
Between the Buttons: Let's Spend the Night Together
Flowers: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows?
Their Satanic Majesties Request: She's a Rainbow
Beggar's Banquet: Sympathy for the Devil
Let it Bleed: Gimme Shelter
Sticky Fingers: Brown Sugar
Exile on Main Street: Shine a Light
Jamming With Edward: Every song on that is awful.
Goat's Head Soup: Angie
It's Only Rock n' Roll: It's Only Rock n' Roll (But I Like It)
Black and Blue: Fool to Cry
Some Girls: Miss You
Emotional Rescue: She's So Cold
Tattoo You: Waiting On a Friend

[–] unclepooch 16 years ago

monkey man. satisfaction from the begining of gimme shelter. too bad it's not on get your ya ya's out.

[–] guer0071 15 years ago

Tumbling Dice >(slightly) Shine a Light

[–] wylierichardson 13 years ago

1. Gimme Shelter
2. Sympathy for the Devil
3. Torn & Frayed (From "exile on main st.")
4. Let's Spend the Night Together
5. Sweet Virgina (also "exile")
6. Sway (from "sticky fingers")
7. Street Fighting Man
8. Casino Boogie (from "exile")
9. Dear Doctor (from "beggars banquet")
10. Lady Jane

[–] 13 years ago

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[–] joechicago8877 12 years ago

*** Exile: All Down The Line ***

The peak of "Exile" IMHO, and perhaps the most under-rated song by the Stones period.

[–] ktowny 12 years ago

My list is a little skewed because I'm sick of hearing the 'classics' all the time, JJF, Brown Sugar, etc. Here's a dozen in no peculiar order

Rocks Off
Stray Cat Blues
I'm Allright
Before They Make Me Run
She Was Hot
Salt of the Earth
When the Whip Comes Down
Sway
Too Tough
One Hit to the Body
Shine A Light
She Said Yeah

Love's turned to lust and blood's turned to dust in my heart.

[–] darryl-tahirali 10 years ago

My list is a little skewed because I'm sick of hearing the 'classics' all the time, JJF, Brown Sugar, etc. Here's a dozen in no peculiar order - ktowny

I hear you--most of the usual radio suspects have lost their charm for me a long time ago. Also, I lost serious interest in the band by Some Girls although "Undercover of the Night" seemed fresh enough at the time that I was prompted to buy Undercover although that turned out to be the usual recycled Chuck Berry too.

My Stones faves in no particular order except perhaps chronologically (although I like "peculiar order" too):

"Get off of My Cloud"
"It's All over Now"
"Little by Little"
"Play with Fire"
"The Last Time"
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
"Mother's Little Helper"
"Bye Bye Johnny"
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" (even after the 10,000th time . . . )
"Memo from Turner"
"No Expectations"
"Stray Cat Blues"
"Sympathy for the Devil" (overexposed, but still a revelation)
"Midnight Rambler"
"Carol," "Little Queenie," "Sympathy for the Devil" (all from Ya-Ya's)
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
"You Got to Move"
"Rocks Off"
"Rip This Joint"
"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" (another chestnut but the sentiment is evergreen)
"Undercover of the Night"

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[–] AdmiralTugBenson 11 years ago

England's Newest Hit-Makers: Not Fade Away
12 X 5: It's All Over Now
Now!: Heart Of Stone
Out Of Our Heads: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
December's Children (And Everybody's): Get Off of My Cloud
Aftermath: Paint It, Black
Between The Buttons: Connection
Their Satanic Majesties Request: 2000 Light Years From Home
Beggar's Banquet: Jigsaw Puzzle
Let It Bleed: Monkey Man
Sticky Fingers: Sway
Exile On Main St.: Rocks Off
Goat's Head Soup: Star Star
It's Only Rock N' Roll: Dance Little Sister
Black And Blue: Hand Of Fate
Some Girls: Far Away Eyes
Emotional Rescue: She's So Cold
Tattoo You: Start Me Up
Undercover: Wanna Hold You
Dirty Work: One Hit (To The Body)
Steel Wheels: Slipping Away
Voodoo Lounge: Blinded By Rainbows
Bridges To Babylon: Too Tight
A Bigger Bang: Rain Fall Down

Non-Album Track: Jumpin' Jack Flash

Flowers is a compilation album by the way, not one of their studio albums. Some of those songs listed I don't listen to as much as others on the album. When it comes to Out Of Our Heads and Tattoo You I usually listen to more songs like Mercy Mercy and Hang Fire respectively, but there's no arguing with those massive hits like Satisfaction and Start Me Up. I'm tired of some of the warhorses, but they're huge for a reason.

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[–] friendoffilm 11 years ago

I'm just going per song, but here's my list of the Rolling Stones' songs that I like best:

Sympathy for the Devil
Street-fighting Man
Under My Thumb
Wild Horses
Brown Sugar
Ruby Tuesday
Let's Spend the Night Together
Hands of Fate
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Start Me Up
Beast of Burden
Bitch
Gimme Shelter
Get Off of My Cloud

[–] jellyree 10 years ago

OK, so this wasn't really a question.

Perhaps the OP just wants to reach out for some sense of community.

[–] kenny-164 10 years ago

By album:

Hitmakers - Not Fade Away
12X5 - It's All Over Now
Now! - Heart of Stone, but this album is underappreciated Hon men for Mona
Heads - The Last Time
Children - Cloud, but note She Said Yeah
Big Hits - Satisfaction, also Time is On My Side and 19th Nervous Breakdown
Aftermath - Under My Thumb, but Think deserves a mention
Buttons - Let's Spend the Night Together, but All Sold Out should be noted
Flowers - Ruby Tuesday, also Please Leave Home
Request - 2000 Light Years
Past, Darkly - Jumping Jack Flash
Banquet - Jigsaw Puzzle
Bleed - Monkey Man
Ya Yas - Street Fighting Man, also Flash
Fingers - Too tough to pick one (Sugar, Sway, Knocking, Moonlight all excellent)
Exile - Again too tough; could be about 12 songs. How about Soul Survivor?
Goat - Silver Train
Rock 'n Roll - If You can't Rock Me
Black and Blue - don't really like this album
Some Girls - Before They Make Me Run, also SOme Girls
Rescue - meh. I guess She's So Cold
Tattoo You - Waiting on a Friend (Sonny Rollins, awesome)
Undercover - another meh. She was Hot
Dirty Work - On Hit
Steel Wheels - Sad Sad Sad
Stripped - Dead Flowers

Favorite Songs (in order)

Jumping Jack Flash
The Last Time
Jigsaw Puzzle
About 50 other songs
All the rest except for the really bad ones*

* Emotional Rescue (hate that song), Fool to Cry, Who's Been Sleeping Here, On with the Show

[–] JackSparrow92 9 years ago

Haven't seen many mentions of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" from Sticky Fingers. There's just something about the riff in that song. Messy, dangerous-sounding, grungy.... pretty sure I've heard somebody refer to it as "slutty", and that's accurate too. To me that song, plus "Gimme Shelter", represent the Stones at their best.

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