Your Top 5 Rolling Stones Songs

[NMFC4LIFE]

You mean it was released as a single? I never knew that. It's about my least favourite track on Exile.

Not to sure if it was ever released as a single,mind just slipped me what album it was featured on at the time I was typing, but you're right of course it was on exile.

some more contributions to the list other posters have missed, actually one that springs to mind that I missed as well.... Ruby Tuesday, though I wouldn't have it in their top 5 I'm suprised it's been missed by other posters given that it was one of the bigger stones songs to be released I would have thought, quite the interesting thread this is turning into.

 

[quickstraw]

Not to sure if it was ever released as a single,mind just slipped me what album it was featured on at the time I was typing, but you're right of course it was on exile.

Interesting that you think it was the first time they went outside the square. They'd done plenty of experimenting before that.

some more contributions to the list other posters have missed, actually one that springs to mind that I missed as well.... Ruby Tuesday, though I wouldn't have it in their top 5 I'm suprised it's been missed by other posters given that it was one of the bigger stones songs to be released I would have thought, quite the interesting thread this is turning into.

I personally think Ruby Tuesday is a really ordinary Stones song, but this thread shows there are plenty out there who dig deeper than the surface when it comes to Stones music. The amount of non-hits they have which are well known songs, or people's favourites, or get covered, is amazing. They have more hits that anyone, but the quality and popularity of their not hits is where it's at. Most bands' material outside their main hits is filler.

 

[ManWithNoName]

My next five would probably be:

6. Sweet Virginia
7. Midnight Rambler
8. Let it Bleed
9. All Down the Line
10. Live With Me

Just realised that that means in my top 10 there's no Brown Sugar or You Can't Always Get What You Want. Holy crap.

 

[NMFC4LIFE]

Interesting that you think it was the first time they went outside the square. They'd done plenty of experimenting before that.

I personally think Ruby Tuesday is a really ordinary Stones song, but this thread shows there are plenty out there who dig deeper than the surface when it comes to Stones music. The amount of non-hits they have which are well known songs, or people's favourites, or get covered, is amazing. They have more hits that anyone, but the quality and popularity of their not hits is where it's at. Most bands' material outside their main hits is filler.

I hear what you're saying that's more or less what I was getting at just sorta didn't seem to come across that way, my top 5 was basically all deeper album tracks that wouldn't have seen much airplay unless you had a deeper dig through their material which obviously alot of posters on here which is good to see.
My next 5 would be INPO lies,sparks will fly, paint it black, black limousine & fool to cry

 

[quickstraw]

My next 5:

Gimme Shelter
Hey Negrita
Stray Cat Blues
Dead Flowers
Ventilator Blues.

Again, no partic order

 

[quickstraw]

Been rediscovering Goats Head Soup a bit lately. The second half of 100 Years Ago is some pretty snappy work for it's time. Whilst not bad, just wish the first part of the song was better. Winter is always a great track.

 

[The_Eagles]

start me up
brown sugar
cant always get what you want
satisfaction
ruby tuesday

 

[johnnyhoward]

Interesting that you think it was the first time they went outside the square. They'd done plenty of experimenting before that.

I personally think Ruby Tuesday is a really ordinary Stones song, but this thread shows there are plenty out there who dig deeper than the surface when it comes to Stones music. The amount of non-hits they have which are well known songs, or people's favourites, or get covered, is amazing. They have more hits that anyone, but the quality and popularity of their not hits is where it's at. Most bands' material outside their main hits is filler.

That's what separates the truly great bands like the Beatles and Stones from just good bands. Fans of 60s pop love the Stones, as do fans of early 70s hard rock.

1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
3. Wild Horses
4. Live With Me
5. Torn and Frayed

 

[hawk for 37]

No-one mentioned Star****er yet.

Thought it was pretty cool when I was 17.

 

[SunKing]

Fans of 60s pop love the Stones, as do fans of early 70s hard rock.

Put me in the earlier category. Most of my favorite stones songs come from either the mid 60s pop period (Dandelion,Ruby Tuesday,Under My Thumb etc) or the new wave period (Start Me Up,She's So Cold)

 

[ManWithNoName]

Put me in the earlier category. Most of my favorite stones songs come from either the mid 60s pop period (Dandelion,Ruby Tuesday,Under My Thumb etc) or the new wave period (Start Me Up,She's So Cold)

I'm more a fan of their 70s work. I've got a few gigs of them from the 70s and they're mindblowingly good. Those gigs beat anything I've heard any other band do.

That said the best Stones gig I have is Atlantic City in 1989. 28 song setlist, including a live performance of Salt of the Earth featuring Izzy Stradlin and Axl Rose. They also get John Lee Hooker out for Boogie Chillen and Eric Clapton out for something. Can't remember what though.

 

[andrew coombs]

Been rediscovering Goats Head Soup a bit lately. The second half of 100 Years Ago is some pretty snappy work for it's time. Whilst not bad, just wish the first part of the song was better. Winter is always a great track.

Vastly underrated albumn. Probably suffers because it followed the holy four and was recorded and played so differntly from most of Exile. Some really nice ballads ( winter, Coming done again,angie ) some great guitar ( dancing with Mr D,100 years ago ) some great funk'n roll (can you hear the music,hide your love ) and some classic Stonesy bar rockers ( silver train, StarStar ). A great Mick Taylor albumn.

 

[XFactor1979]

Gimme Shelter
You cant Always Get What You Want
Wild Horses
Sympathy for the Devil
Miss You

 

[Mr.X]

This song has a stones type feel to it

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[quickstraw]

and Eric Clapton out for something. Can't remember what though.

From memory it was Little Red Rooster

 

[scooterb]

I'm not a big Stones fan myself, as something really irks me about Mick Jagger's voice.

That being said:

1) Gimme Shelter
2) Brown Sugar

Raffle 3+4+5

EDIT - Paint it Black can go at number 3.

 

[Fossie 32]

1 Sympathy For The Devil [Get Yer Ya Yas Out]
2 Let's Spend The Night Together
3 2000 Light Years From Home
4 Midnight Rambler [Get Yer Ya Yas Out]
5 Under My Thumb

 

[Fossie 32]

Put me in the earlier category. Most of my favorite stones songs come from either the mid 60s pop period (Dandelion,Ruby Tuesday,Under My Thumb etc) or the new wave period (Start Me Up,She's So Cold)

I forgot Dandelion! Here's another 5

1 We Love You
2 Dandelion
3 She's A Rainbow
2 Complicated
1 Undercover or Something Happened To Me Yesterday

 

[Vinnie Vegas]

1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. Jumping Jack Flash
3. Paint It Black
4. Wild Horses
5. Get Off Of My Cloud

 

[Crosby87]

This is hard. There's just so ****ing many. But...

1. Gimme Shelter
2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
3. Sweet Virginia
4. Miss You
5. Ventilator Blues

 

[gloryandfame]

Gimme Shelter
Angie
Wild Horses
You Can't always get what you want
Paint it Black

 

[cats56]

1. Gimme Shelter.
2. Sway.
3. Sympathy For The Devil. (Ya Ya's).
4. Can't You Hear Me Knockin'.
5. Sister Morphine. Play With Fire. Monkey Man. Satisfaction. Get Off My Cloud. Rocks Off. Loving Cup. Paint It Black. Memo From Turner. Salt Of The Earth etc.