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love the Rush, but that's still funny.and i'll list my 204 favorite porcine grooming habits after that!We've been a bit overdue for a Rush love/hate match. Someone else can tackle a top 200 Rush song list next.
love the Rush, but that's still funny.and i'll list my 204 favorite porcine grooming habits after that!We've been a bit overdue for a Rush love/hate match. Someone else can tackle a top 200 Rush song list next.
But there's only one third stone from the sun.Leroy Hoard said:Billy was both the 6th Stone & the 5th Beatle!
Both seem kinda low. Are we getting to the dense part already? Coo-ul, if so. HYSYMB was smack dab in the middle of that crazy great run of Jones era singles: Satisfaction/Cloud/Breakdown/Paintitblack/Ruby/Let's Spend/etc. They never will get the credit they deserve for figuring out how to be hard without losing their pop currency. Crazy Mama was kinda the dawn of the era that gave krista & her kind such a distaste for Jagger - rehash of the BrownSugar/JJackFlash beat with Mick salaciously overarticulating each syllable in a way that made him sound like he was trying to work foreign matter out of his mouth. good times....
I think it starts to get pretty thick in a hurray, but I can't promise that you'll think some of the songs that are forthcoming deserve to be ahead of these two. Heck, I can't promise by next week I will think they should have been either.Both seem kinda low. Are we getting to the dense part already? Coo-ul, if so. HYSYMB was smack dab in the middle of that crazy great run of Jones era singles: Satisfaction/Cloud/Breakdown/Paintitblack/Ruby/Let's Spend/etc. They never will get the credit they deserve for figuring out how to be hard without losing their pop currency. Crazy Mama was kinda the dawn of the era that gave krista & her kind such a distaste for Jagger - rehash of the BrownSugar/JJackFlash beat with Mick salaciously overarticulating each syllable in a way that made him sound like he was trying to work foreign matter out of his mouth. good times....
i dated an Akron girl once who said she knew the Mothersbaugh brothers (Devo) when they were kids. Apparently, there was a Holiday Inn out on the interstate which had a room that was the only place rock bands could gig for decent money and that a cousin or family friend of the Mothersbaughs had the house band there. They'd go to listen to him and he would play Satisfaction like 7 times a night, which is apparently how the song distilled down into its DEVOlutionary treatmentFor example I can't exactly ding Satisfaction because we've all heard in 1,000+ times.
Big thumbs up from me.191. Have You Seen You Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
Year: 1966
US Album: Flowers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Baby, where have you been all your life? Talking about all the people who should try anything twice”
This is probably the Stones best known song to appear on this list so far. It reached number five on the UK charts and number nine (number nine, number nine) on the US Charts.
It’s the first Stones song to feature a horn section – something that would be a staple of their early seventies sound. It’s also the first song Keith claims to have written on the piano rather than on the guitar – although it was Jack Nitzsche playing the piano on the recording.
The record is a cacophony of sounds played at a break-neck frantic pace: the blaring horns, the twangy guitars, Bill’s thumping bass, Keith and Brian on high register back-up vocals, and Mick, ever the showman, selling the chaos.
EASY top 10 for me, prolly top 5191. Have You Seen You Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
Year: 1966
US Album: Flowers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Baby, where have you been all your life? Talking about all the people who should try anything twice”
This is probably the Stones best known song to appear on this list so far. It reached number five on the UK charts and number nine (number nine, number nine) on the US Charts.
It’s the first Stones song to feature a horn section – something that would be a staple of their early seventies sound. It’s also the first song Keith claims to have written on the piano rather than on the guitar – although it was Jack Nitzsche playing the piano on the recording.
The record is a cacophony of sounds played at a break-neck frantic pace: the blaring horns, the twangy guitars, Bill’s thumping bass, Keith and Brian on high register back-up vocals, and Mick, ever the showman, selling the chaos.
I'd rather just have a drink and talk music.EASY top 10 for me, prolly top 5
fight me
I'd rather just have a drink and talk music.
I can see that though - the beauty is that there is probably someone out there that probably thinks that for each song on this list.
OK, after listening to these 2 as well - just now - I have come to a new revelation regarding my Stones vs. Beatles childhood.
If it makes you feel better he'll be a contributor to 1/2 of the top 10.
whut i love about "Shadow" is it's proto glam/punk ethos - that #### coulda come out 10/20 years later and been relevant to the alterna kidz, etc
ps - i'm a suckah for the Jonesy era, one of the rotating 4th busts on my Rushmore of Music - dude was quantum.
befitting his unparalleled mad brillianceIf it makes you feel better he'll be a contributor to 1/2 of the top 10.
Got a feelin' David Johansen listened to this song 40 times a day at one point.
ok, so we have the Glimmer twins (Mick/Keef), their stepbro spinoff Toxic Twins (Tyler/Perry) ... the Dolls era sandwiches right in between, and all three cut from that same cloth ... DaJo and the mighty god of Thunders ... nom de plume?Got a feelin' David Johansen listened to this song 40 times a day at one point.
Comic relief & comeuppance in one song.
honest-to-god, i used to initiate make-up sex w Scary Mary by kissing her just below the navel and limply singing "nobody else will do", completely having forgotten where it came from til now.
Nicehonest-to-god, i used to initiate make-up sex w Scary Mary by kissing her just below the navel and limply singing "nobody else will do", completely having forgotten where it came from til now.
ETA: worked like a charm...
Probably felt even longer for the coach.Just took a quick look at some of the online rankings and was pleased to see my #1 is frequently listed as #1 or #2.
Remember dozing on my GF's coach the summer after HS with that song on in the background and was in that perfect place between waking and sleeping, just taking in all the perfectly blended layers, and it seemed like it went on for an hour. Top five musical moment for me. Can still recall exactly how it felt.
That coach must have really needed her on the team.Probably felt even longer for the coach.
- unlike the Beatles, with the formalistic (tho brilliant) producer and all the tracking & collaboration, the Stones' song personnel was often down to who was around when somebody got a song idea.185. Summer Romance
Year: 1980
US Album: Emotional Rescue
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Just a few days and you'll be back in your school
I'll be sitting around by the swimming pool
And you'll be studying history and you'll be down the gym
And I'll be down the pub, probably playing pool and drinking”
Emotional Rescue was the follow up record to Some Girls and continued the Stones penchant for trying to stay current musically, continuing to feature punk and disco songs scattered among their blues based rock and roll.
This is a pop/punk based song with a great bass line that is actually Ronnie Wood and not Bill Wyman. It’s a fun rollicking song that harkens back to their ability to make pop songs that have still sound heavy and dark on some level. It’s (strangely enough) about a summer romance between a school girl and an older boy who relishes in the fact that unlike his love, the summer ending doesn’t mean the end of fun.
love this one so much, would be top 25, at least, for me ... Jonesy's fingerprints smeared all over it - gotdamn with that coda - glorious.182. Dandelion
Year: 1967
US Album: Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock chimes. Dandelions don't care about the time.”
One of two songs on this list that feature Paul McCartney and John Lennon on backing vocals – there was no rivalry boys and girls. It was released as the B side to the other song that featured the two Beatles on it, and reached No.8 on the UK Singles chart and No. 14 on the US Billboard chart.
The ever versatile Brian Jones plays mellotron and saxophone on this track and Charlie’s drum outro is a nice bonus.
Would have been higher for me too. Even though they'd finally figured out how to resolve the Lady Jane songs Jonesy liked into actual r&r with Ruby Tuesday, i liked the Dandelion bridge into psychedelia even better.182. Dandelion
Year: 1967
US Album: Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
Just catching up. I was playing at the beach Fri-Sun and felt like I could only keep up with one music thread (shuke's, since his was first). You nailed it on this description. I started it up and thought, "Ooooh, I'm going to like this one," and then the vocal came in and NOPE.190. Crazy Mama
Year: 1976
US Album: Black and Blue
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
Those that get turned off with Mick’s vocals will likely not be pleased with this one because he surely mugs it up even letting out some “whooos” and “whoooops” that would make David Lee Roth blush.
The link here seemed to go back to this thread.185. Summer Romance
Year: 1980
US Album: Emotional Rescue
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Just a few days and you'll be back in your school
I'll be sitting around by the swimming pool
And you'll be studying history and you'll be down the gym
And I'll be down the pub, probably playing pool and drinking”
Emotional Rescue was the follow up record to Some Girls and continued the Stones penchant for trying to stay current musically, continuing to feature punk and disco songs scattered among their blues based rock and roll.
This is a pop/punk based song with a great bass line that is actually Ronnie Wood and not Bill Wyman. It’s a fun rollicking song that harkens back to their ability to make pop songs that have still sound heavy and dark on some level. It’s (strangely enough) about a summer romance between a school girl and an older boy who relishes in the fact that unlike his love, the summer ending doesn’t mean the end of fun.
LOVE this one. I feel like Mick's voice really works with this style, even for me. This is my favorite find so far.184. Down in the Hole
Year: 1980
US Album: Emotional Rescue
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Will all your money
Buy you forgiveness
Keep you from sickness
Or keep you from cold?”
Some real gut-wrenching gritty blues here with a Stones twist. You can just see Mick sitting in an alleyway somewhere belting this out with Keith playing next to him right after shooting up in the corner.
Ronnie and Keith carry the day weaving in and out of eachother’s leads with solos that go right through your insides. Sugar Blue, a blues harmonica player out of Harlem (who also played on Miss You) helps create the mood with some bad mofo blowing on the harp. This may be the most under-rated song in the Stones catalogue – heck I’m probably doing it a disservice myself by keeping it out of the top 100.
Fantastic.182. Dandelion
Year: 1967
US Album: Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock chimes. Dandelions don't care about the time.”
One of two songs on this list that feature Paul McCartney and John Lennon on backing vocals – there was no rivalry boys and girls. It was released as the B side to the other song that featured the two Beatles on it, and reached No.8 on the UK Singles chart and No. 14 on the US Billboard chart.
The ever versatile Brian Jones plays mellotron and saxophone on this track and Charlie’s drum outro is a nice bonus.
178. Citade
We go back to the Their Satanic Majesties Request album, their psychedelic response to Sgt. Peppers.
Earlier I mentioned how despite the Beatles v. Stones rhetoric that has been going on forever there was no real rivalry between the bands. In fact they planned to release psychedelic themed records together –
I think it's a bit tongue in cheek (he sang on "We Love You" after all) and he was always a bit bitter that the Beatles were portrayed as the "good boys" while the Stones were the "bad boys" but he could have his moods as well.*** WARNING - a non PC word is used to describe Mick, don't wanna trigger anyone ***
not sure John got the memo on all that ... love me some classic/caustic Irish 'pudlian Lennon.
That's an awful lot of Les Paul for a Stones' song but, by hook or by crook, the ol' farts showed they could still build a record here.181. Anybody Seen My Baby?
Year: 1997
US Album: Bridges to Babylon
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards/Lang/Mink
Not the Beggar's Banquet lover that most Stones' fans are, but still awrightawrightawright180. Parachute Woman
Year: 1968
US Album: Beggars Banquet
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
This came out about the same time as a lot of those British movies that had wild parties and ended with people riding go-karts & such, so i'd close my eyes and make my own movie to this'n
I discovered psychedelics not long after this album came out and, for some reason, i listened to it a LOT more than Magical Mystery Tour178. Citadel
Year: 1967
US Album: Their Satanic Majesties Request
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
oh yeah, they certainly hobnobbed and collabed durung the heyday ... the "Yer Blues" scorcher in R n' R Circus most notable among the many.I think it's a bit tongue in cheek (he sang on "We Love You" after all) and he was always a bit bitter that the Beatles were portrayed as the "good boys" while the Stones were the "bad boys" but he could have his moods as well.
He and Keith were very good friends however and there's a long list of projects they worked on together.
I love me some John as well so it's all good. Ok, the rivalry is back on though
In college, some 20+ years after the record was released, it was our go to soundtrack for many a pot smoking session.I discovered psychedelics not long after this album came out and, for some reason, i listened to it a LOT more than Magical Mystery Tour
Three of these will be in my top 10, with one almost making it (at 11) - and all but one in the top 50.if i may, now that the "Shadow" cherry has been popped, chuck my top 10 up in here ...
Satisfaction, Child of the Moon, Winter, Play With Fire, Mother's Little Helper, Wild Horses, She's A Rainbow, Paint It Black, Shadow ... all in a blender for spots 2-10, no quibble with ranking in any order - the permanent #1 of Sister Morphine is undefeated and still heavyweight champ of my rock n' roll world (yep, much as i love Jonesy, he was gone for this one).
hmmmm .... that's a pretty nice haul for my choicesThree of these will be in my top 10, with one almost making it (at 11) - and all but one in the top 50.
Another link issue.Dr. Octopus said:180. Parachute Woman
Year: 1968
US Album: Beggars Banquet
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
"Parachute woman will you blow me out? My heavy throbber's itching just to lay a solid rhythm down.”
A Stones original that could have been a Robert Johnson or Muddy Waters original. It’s raw and muddy sounding blues and features Mick in his mumbling vocal style bragging about his many sexual conquests in cities all over America. Another song that features only the five original Stones and no one else.
There is conflicting information about whether the harmonica on this track was Brian or Mick and even some stories saying each played and contributed separate harmonica parts.