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In this thread I rank my favorite Rolling Stones songs: 204-1: Four Musketeers Get Their Ya-Yas Out (6 Viewers)

Dr. Octopus said:
4. Gimme Shelter

Year: 1969

US Album: Let It Bleed

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
My very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way”

God bless Merry Clayton (credited as Mary Clayton) who adds the spectacular and powerful harmony vocals on this one. Apparently, she is now a double leg amputee after being in a serious car accident in 2014.

Upon the release of Let It Bleed, Rolling Stone Magazine said of "Gimme Shelter"' “[the band] has never done anything better.” Notwithstanding songs 1-3 still to come, they still may be correct.

Keith plays some spectacular guitar here. He said although it became a political song over the course of its creation germinated when he saw dozens of people scurrying for cover during a sudden monsoon while looking out the window of a friend’s apartment.

Jagger in a 1995 Rolling Stone interview spoke on its political nature:

Such a powerful song.
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Probably my #1 most days. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
4. Gimme Shelter

God bless Merry Clayton (credited as Mary Clayton) who adds the spectacular and powerful harmony vocals on this one. Apparently, she is now a double leg amputee after being in a serious car accident in 2014.
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I love the intro in this song. 

Here is a little back story about them ringing up Merry Clayton to sing on the song. Mick Jagger said, "When we got to Los Angeles and we were mixing it, we thought, 'Well, it'd be great to have a woman come and do the rape/murder verse,' or chorus or whatever you want to call it," said Jagger. "We randomly phoned up this poor lady in the middle of the night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked off this rather odd lyric. It's not the sort of lyric you give anyone--'Rape, murder/It's just a shot away'--but she really got into it, as you can hear on the record."

Merry was called by one of her producer friends at almost midnight to come in and sing. Her husband took the phone out of her hand, and said Merry was very pregnant, and why is he calling at that hour to have her come in and do a session. After thinking about it, he told her she should do it.  She had no idea who the Rolling Stones were. She went in, and according to her, did three takes. She had a miscarriage soon after leaving the studio. It was assumed that the emotional intensity of the session and late hour contributed to her miscarriage. She wouldn't listen to the song for years, but she made peace with it, and learned to appreciate the song in a positive way.

 
simey said:
I love the intro in this song. 

Here is a little back story about them ringing up Merry Clayton to sing on the song. Mick Jagger said, "When we got to Los Angeles and we were mixing it, we thought, 'Well, it'd be great to have a woman come and do the rape/murder verse,' or chorus or whatever you want to call it," said Jagger. "We randomly phoned up this poor lady in the middle of the night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked off this rather odd lyric. It's not the sort of lyric you give anyone--'Rape, murder/It's just a shot away'--but she really got into it, as you can hear on the record."

Merry was called by one of her producer friends at almost midnight to come in and sing. Her husband took the phone out of her hand, and said Merry was very pregnant, and why is he calling at that hour to have her come in and do a session. After thinking about it, he told her she should do it.  She had no idea who the Rolling Stones were. She went in, and according to her, did three takes. She had a miscarriage soon after leaving the studio. It was assumed that the emotional intensity of the session and late hour contributed to her miscarriage. She wouldn't listen to the song for years, but she made peace with it, and learned to appreciate the song in a positive way.
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Jeez. That's a heck of a story. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
4. Gimme Shelter

Year: 1969

US Album: Let It Bleed

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
My very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way”

God bless Merry Clayton (credited as Mary Clayton) who adds the spectacular and powerful harmony vocals on this one. Apparently, she is now a double leg amputee after being in a serious car accident in 2014.

Upon the release of Let It Bleed, Rolling Stone Magazine said of "Gimme Shelter"' “[the band] has never done anything better.” Notwithstanding songs 1-3 still to come, they still may be correct.

Keith plays some spectacular guitar here. He said although it became a political song over the course of its creation germinated when he saw dozens of people scurrying for cover during a sudden monsoon while looking out the window of a friend’s apartment.

Jagger in a 1995 Rolling Stone interview spoke on its political nature:

Such a powerful song.
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I think it was Twenty Feet From Stardom that did a segment on Clayton. The film makers sat Jagger down and played Merry's isolated vocal on "Gimme Shelter". The look on his face is priceless - it was like "Jesus, how do you DO that?". Merry also was interviewed for the segment. Well worth checking out (the whole doc is, really).

 
simey said:
I love the intro in this song. 

Here is a little back story about them ringing up Merry Clayton to sing on the song. Mick Jagger said, "When we got to Los Angeles and we were mixing it, we thought, 'Well, it'd be great to have a woman come and do the rape/murder verse,' or chorus or whatever you want to call it," said Jagger. "We randomly phoned up this poor lady in the middle of the night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked off this rather odd lyric. It's not the sort of lyric you give anyone--'Rape, murder/It's just a shot away'--but she really got into it, as you can hear on the record."

Merry was called by one of her producer friends at almost midnight to come in and sing. Her husband took the phone out of her hand, and said Merry was very pregnant, and why is he calling at that hour to have her come in and do a session. After thinking about it, he told her she should do it.  She had no idea who the Rolling Stones were. She went in, and according to her, did three takes. She had a miscarriage soon after leaving the studio. It was assumed that the emotional intensity of the session and late hour contributed to her miscarriage. She wouldn't listen to the song for years, but she made peace with it, and learned to appreciate the song in a positive way.
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Jack Nietzsche their session keyboardist during that period was the one who recommended her. Sad about the miscarriage - hell of a thing to live with.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
4. Gimme Shelter

Year: 1969

US Album: Let It Bleed

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
My very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way”

God bless Merry Clayton (credited as Mary Clayton) who adds the spectacular and powerful harmony vocals on this one. Apparently, she is now a double leg amputee after being in a serious car accident in 2014.

Upon the release of Let It Bleed, Rolling Stone Magazine said of "Gimme Shelter"' “[the band] has never done anything better.” Notwithstanding songs 1-3 still to come, they still may be correct.

Keith plays some spectacular guitar here. He said although it became a political song over the course of its creation germinated when he saw dozens of people scurrying for cover during a sudden monsoon while looking out the window of a friend’s apartment.

Jagger in a 1995 Rolling Stone interview spoke on its political nature:

Such a powerful song.
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This is the sixties, maaaan.

I watched the big PBS series Chasing the Moon this week and its amazing how often radicalized people even infringed on the progress of the space program. Noise, pain, fiery indignation, swarms of hurt folk everywhere, others digging the act of riot for its freedom & frenzy. I wish young folk could KNOW how different the world was before and after the conflagrations of that time, cuz it would blow your mind. Crying "rape, murder" was the only way to be heard. And the music -  you hear the lick of small flames, feel the fire build and, when Charlie Watts pounds down like a police baton, the riot is on.

And the verse DocOc quotes, just what i been talking about. There are songs you listen to, songs you hear, songs you sing along to, song you shout like your life depended on it. This lyric is designed to be shouted, Jagger matching long vowels (see, sweep street) as he so often did to draw the ear in for a tasty image or series of barks. Simply as good as it gets.

 
It's weird, and I'm certainly no uber-Stones fan like some of you all, but they never struck me as political even when they were sort of trying to be. They rock too much. By '65, The Beatles could sing traditional love lyrics and have it be political, the Stones could write a policy essay and it would be rock n' roll.

 
rockaction said:
It's weird, and I'm certainly no uber-Stones fan like some of you all, but they never struck me as political even when they were sort of trying to be. They rock too much. By '65, The Beatles could sing traditional love lyrics and have it be political, the Stones could write a policy essay and it would be rock n' roll.
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But, unlike rock & roll, Rock is necessarily political, or least, revolutionary. Great hard 70's music was not as Rock as the worst punk. Rap started out with borrowed frikkin music and ended up more Rock than grunge, which changed our chord structures forever. The Beatles were a pop band, no matter how well they rocked or how much their talent and curiosity changed the musical, social, cultural landscape. And it's all because there will always be more rage in us than love - we had to let the rage out to play in order that our life & love not be poisoned by it. That's Rock and the Stones made it so.

 
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rockaction said:
It's weird, and I'm certainly no uber-Stones fan like some of you all, but they never struck me as political even when they were sort of trying to be. They rock too much. By '65, The Beatles could sing traditional love lyrics and have it be political, the Stones could write a policy essay and it would be rock n' roll.
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They only have a handful of songs that I would consider political. Even "Gimme Shelter" is more just reflecting on the worries and fears of a world in chaos, not necessarily political.

 
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Year: 1965

US Album: Out of Her Heads

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“oh no no no….hey hey hey”

I can name that song in three notes. I can name in in two. One. Is there a more identifiable opening riff in rock history?

The legend of this song is the melody came to Keith in a dream. He woke in the middle of the night and started playing his guitar into a Phillips cassette recorder. He did not remember doing so until he saw the tape and started playing it. He claims there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar riffs followed by the sound of his pick dropping to the floor and then snoring.

This is their most popular and overplayed song, but I just can’t find it in my heart to play contrarian and knock down their masterpiece outside of the top 3 just because it’s all played out.

Keith rocks it out on electric guitar while Brian plays acoustic, Bill and Charlie on rhythm and Jack Nietzsche on piano.

Mick Jagger once famously said about becoming an aging rock star “I would continue to write and sing, but I’d rather be dead than sing Satisfaction when I’m 45.”

How’d that work out for you Mick?

A young Laurence Fishbourne does his best Mick Jagger impersonation

 
Dr. Octopus said:
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Year: 1965

US Album: Out of Her Heads

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“oh no no no….hey hey hey”

I can name that song in three notes. I can name in in two. One. Is there a more identifiable opening riff in rock history?

The legend of this song is the melody came to Keith in a dream. He woke in the middle of the night and started playing his guitar into a Phillips cassette recorder. He did not remember doing so until he saw the tape and started playing it. He claims there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar riffs followed by the sound of his pick dropping to the floor and then snoring.

This is their most popular and overplayed song, but I just can’t find it in my heart to play contrarian and knock down their masterpiece outside of the top 3 just because it’s all played out.

Keith rocks it out on electric guitar while Brian plays acoustic, Bill and Charlie on rhythm and Jack Nietzsche on piano.

Mick Jagger once famously said about becoming an aging rock star “I would continue to write and sing, but I’d rather be dead than sing Satisfaction when I’m 45.”

How’d that work out for you Mick?

A young Laurence Fishbourne does his best Mick Jagger impersonation
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Now THIS is political!!!! Every speech i ever heard since this song came out - from MLK to Richard Nixon to David Foster Wallace to Donald Trump to Marianne Williamson - at some point i could always say "all they sayin is 'satisfaction. i can't gemme no satisfaction".

The release of Satisfaction is the Stones equivalent to Beatles on Sullivan. It created a seachange of outlook. If i aint getting satisfaction, i'm grabbin' at what i think satisfaction is, that dont work i'm grabbing the next best thing & punishing anyone in my way, that don't work i'm punishing somebody so i dont feel so bad. The world has never been the same.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I think it was Twenty Feet From Stardom that did a segment on Clayton. The film makers sat Jagger down and played Merry's isolated vocal on "Gimme Shelter". The look on his face is priceless - it was like "Jesus, how do you DO that?". Merry also was interviewed for the segment. Well worth checking out (the whole doc is, really).
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Not sure if this is the referenced documentary but around 2:02 they play the isolated vocal: Link

 
Dr. Octopus said:
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Year: 1965

US Album: Out of Her Heads

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

The legend of this song is the melody came to Keith in a dream. He woke in the middle of the night and started playing his guitar into a Phillips cassette recorder. He did not remember doing so until he saw the tape and started playing it. He claims there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar riffs followed by the sound of his pick dropping to the floor and then snoring.
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...in a downtown Clearwater hotel, after a concert at Jack Russell Stadium (spring training home of the Phillies), after they were boo'd off the stage before opening for some surf band i forgot the name of.  I have some historical pics of them by the pool goofing off in downtown either the day of or day after.  It's now the religious HQ of Scientology.

 
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2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Year: 1971

US Album: Sticky Fingers

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed-freak jive”

Another song that’s identifiable from the first guitar lick.

Keith describing it:

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" came out flying – I just found the tuning and the riff and started to swing it and Charlie picked up on it just like that, and we're thinking, hey, this is some groove. So it was smiles all around. For a guitar player it's no big deal to play, the chopping, staccato bursts of chords, very direct and spare.
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And we get two songs in one, with a coda at the 2:43 mark, that was not part of the song as conceived. Mick Taylor on that:

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" ... is one of my favourites ... [The jam at the end] just happened by accident; that was never planned. Towards the end of the song I just felt like carrying on playing. Everybody was putting their instruments down, but the tape was still rolling and it sounded good, so everybody quickly picked up their instruments again and carried on playing. It just happened, and it was a one-take thing. A lot of people seem to really like that part
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Bobby Keys knocks this one out of the park as does Taylor with the extended jam.

This is another song whose greatness is enhanced by Keith’s backing vocals which to me as far greater than Mick’s lead vocals on this one.

For those in the New York area rock station WNEW used to run a great television ad featuring an obese man wearing headphones and dancing away to this song at a Bus Stop. It’s heavily involved in pop culture being featured in movies such as Casino, Blow and Spider Man:Homecoming as well as many TV shows.

Just, greatness.

 
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Only one song to go. While it isn't super-obscure it is a deeper cut and I've considered it my favorite for about 15 years now. It's a top 3 overall song for me as well.

 
This has introduced and re-introduced me to some Stones songs, and I'm what one would consider the most casual of fans. Good work, DocOc, this is also a labor of love like k4's (I still prefer the Liverpool folk). 

 
rockaction said:
This has introduced and re-introduced me to some Stones songs, and I'm what one would consider the most casual of fans. Good work, DocOc, this is also a labor of love like k4's (I still prefer the Liverpool folk). 
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I love both bands. I've been a Stones fan for practically my  whole life and it's become my identity with my friends and family.

However,  at my fantasy football draft with my college buddies a few years back in late night drunkenness while listening to the Beatles I admitted "on my death bed I'll admit the Beatles were better than the Stones"

After further review, I'm not going to do that :P .

This is my simple explanation: The Beatles were better song writers, had better vocalists and had a secret weapon in George Martin who elevated their greatness with his wizardry. The Stones were a better band from a musicianship perspective and are more "real". That's not to say the Beatles could not play. They are underrated in that regard, but I just see the Stones being much more accomplished and using that ability much more on their records.

The Beatles had melodies. The Stones had force. The Beatles are the best pop ban ever. The Stones are the best rock band ever.

 
Love it. People that love the proverbial ROCK, like you and wikkid, love the Stones. 

It's probably no accident that I think the epitome of the Brits are The Who and The Zombies and The Kinks. Heh. Mod, jazz, songwriters. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Year: 1971

US Album: Sticky Fingers

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed-freak jive”

Another song that’s identifiable from the first guitar lick.

Keith describing it:

And we get two songs in one, with a coda at the 2:43 mark, that was not part of the song as conceived. Mick Taylor on that:

Bobby Keys knocks this one out of the park as does Taylor with the extended jam.

This is another song whose greatness is enhanced by Keith’s backing vocals which to me as far greater than Mick’s lead vocals on this one.

For those in the New York area rock station WNEW used to run a great television ad featuring an obese man wearing headphones and dancing away to this song at a Bus Stop. It’s heavily involved in pop culture being featured in movies such as Casino, Blow and Spider Man:Homecoming as well as many TV shows.

Just, greatness.
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As i've said before around here, the best guitar song of all time - go back to sleep Laylaheads.

Keef layin' it down, ve uvva Mick pickin it up yeah' annat uvva bloke wreckin it on the horn, kno'mean? Oright!!

 
rockaction said:
Love it. People that love the proverbial ROCK, like you and wikkid, love the Stones. 

It's probably no accident that I think the epitome of the Brits are The Who and The Zombies and The Kinks. Heh. Mod, jazz, songwriters. 
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Heh. I get it.

Now, for me ... the epitome of the Brits is Jimi Hendrix.

Yep. I said it. Jimi had to go to England to be "discovered". Only after that, did he invade the USA.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Year: 1971

US Album: Sticky Fingers

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed-freak jive”

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Ok, great song. It is well deserving of #2, imo.

But, I've also got a stupid old memory connection to this song. Yeah - most of my memories are stupid. Anyways, I am flat footed and had to wear god awful "corrective-shoes" while my feet were still growing. All of the other kids got to wear tennis shoes. So .. I was always trying to find a way to turn my situation "cool" ...

...

Hear me prowlin'
I'm gonna take you down
Hear me growlin'
Yeah, I've got flatted feet now, now, now, now
Hear me howlin'
And all, all around your street now
Hear me knockin'
And all, all around your town

Thnx Stones!

       😎

💪 👕👍

       👖

   👞👞

 
Dr. Octopus said:
7. Paint It Black

Year: 1966

US Album: Aftermath

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“No more will my grey sea turn a deeper blue
I cannot foresee this thing happening to you”

This first number one hit to feature a sitar (played by Brian of course) is next on our list. Everyone knows that when they hear those sitar notes, Charlie is going to start pounding on the skins soon.

From wiki:

The song's lyrics are, for the most part, meant to describe blackness and depression through the use of colour-based metaphors.

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It is often claimed that Jagger took inspiration from novelist James Joyce's 1922 book Ulysses, taking the excerpt "I have to turn my head until my darkness goes", referring to the novel's theme of a worldwide view of desperation and desolation.[8] The song itself came to fruition when the band's leader Brian Jones took an interest in Moroccan music. It was their first song to feature a sitar instrumental.

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This is a big one for me. I have not ranked the songs myself, but I would consider this a #1- #3 for my taste.

This part:

The song's lyrics are, for the most part, meant to describe blackness and depression through the use of colour-based metaphors.
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... is something I'm glad you noted. 

However, I've always "heard" this lyric:

Dr. Octopus said:
“No more will my grey sea turn a deeper blue
I cannot foresee this thing happening to you”
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... as:

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you

I don't know if it is right, but I always preferred the contrast of the Red Door with the Green and Blue of the sea. It has a balanced quality to it.

The sitar information is new to me. Plus, while I have not read Joyce's Ulysses, I have often claimed that the Odyssey (Greek Odysseus = Roman Ulysses) is my favorite story. Lot's of great connections here.
 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I'd be very interested in seeing top 25 (or top 10) lists from those that have participated in or just followed the thread.

Shout out to (forgive me for missing anyone): @ProstheticRGK @wikkidpissah @otb_lifer @Man of Constant Sorrow @rockaction @jwb @Bonzai @shuke @krista4 @simey @Leroy Hoard @neal cassady @Mister CIA @Spock @gump @Uruk-Hai @Big Blue Wrecking Crew @jomar @ffldrew and anyone else that wants to post a list.
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Yeah - I'll do it.

I'm not sure how soon - but soon.

 
1. Loving Cup

Year: 1972

US Album: Exile on Main St.

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“I'm the man who walks in hillside in the sweet summer sun
I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none
Well I can run and jump and fish, but I won't fight
You if you want to push and pull with me all night”

I can’t quite put my finger on why this is my favorite Stones tune, I just know it is.

It just reminds me of a lazy summer day with its simple piano driven melody and Mick’s sing-song type vocals.

 
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
This is a big one for me. I have not ranked the songs myself, but I would consider this a #1- #3 for my taste.

This part:

... is something I'm glad you noted. 

However, I've always "heard" this lyric:

... as:

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you

I don't know if it is right, but I always preferred the contrast of the Red Door with the Green and Blue of the sea. It has a balanced quality to it.

The sitar information is new to me. Plus, while I have not read Joyce's Ulysses, I have often claimed that the Odyssey (Greek Odysseus = Roman Ulysses) is my favorite story. Lot's of great connections here.
 
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I think it is green - not sure why I did not notice their mistake in the cut and paste. I have changes others a few times were they were listed incorrectly.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I'd be very interested in seeing top 25 (or top 10) lists from those that have participated in or just followed the thread.

Shout out to (forgive me for missing anyone): @ProstheticRGK @wikkidpissah @otb_lifer @Man of Constant Sorrow @rockaction @jwb @Bonzai @shuke @krista4 @simey @Leroy Hoard @neal cassady @Mister CIA @Spock @gump @Uruk-Hai @Big Blue Wrecking Crew @jomar @ffldrew and anyone else that wants to post a list.
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Thanks for the ping. I'll do a Top 25 in a day or three.

Warning that it'll be fairly top-heavy, though. I think the Stones are one of those acts where the cream rose to the top.

Request from a lazy guy: finish the countdown in the initial post.

Awesome job here, by the way. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I'd be very interested in seeing top 25 (or top 10) lists from those that have participated in or just followed the thread.

Shout out to (forgive me for missing anyone): @ProstheticRGK @wikkidpissah @otb_lifer @Man of Constant Sorrow @rockaction @jwb @Bonzai @shuke @krista4 @simey @Leroy Hoard @neal cassady @Mister CIA @Spock @gump @Uruk-Hai @Big Blue Wrecking Crew @jomar @ffldrew and anyone else that wants to post a list.
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Well my top 3 are 1) Can’t You Hear Me Knocking 2) Monkey Man 3) Gimmie Shelter, with 4) Sympathy For The Devil and 5) Angie very close behind.  Those 5 songs are just so iconic and full of raw emotion.  They just have a dirty, mysterious feel to them.  The next 5 would probably be 6) Paint It Black 7) You Can’t Always Get What You Want 8 Midnight Rambler 9) ##### 10) Brown Sugar.  I thank you for putting this together.  I’ve always like The Rolling Stones, but this broadened my knowledge of them and raised my appreciation of them.  Good job! 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I'd be very interested in seeing top 25 (or top 10) lists from those that have participated in or just followed the thread.

Shout out to (forgive me for missing anyone): @ProstheticRGK @wikkidpissah @otb_lifer @Man of Constant Sorrow @rockaction @jwb @Bonzai @shuke @krista4 @simey @Leroy Hoard @neal cassady @Mister CIA @Spock @gump @Uruk-Hai @Big Blue Wrecking Crew @jomar @ffldrew and anyone else that wants to post a list.
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I think it'd go something like this:

Gimme Shelter
Satisfaction
Dead Flowers
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Moonlight Mile
Tumbling Dice
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Rocks Off
Happy
Sway
Paint it Black
Beast of Burden
Mother's Little Helper
Under My Thumb
Get Off of My Cloud
19th Nervous Breakdown
Let it Bleed
Loving Cup
Sweet Black Angel
She's a Rainbow
Street Fighting Man
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Sympathy for the Devil
Love in Vain
Time Is on My Side

 
Dr. Octopus said:
1. Loving Cup

Year: 1972

US Album: Exile on Main St.

Songwriter: Jagger/Richards

“I'm the man who walks in hillside in the sweet summer sun
I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none
Well I can run and jump and fish, but I won't fight
You if you want to push and pull with me all night”

I can’t quite put my finger on why this is my favorite Stones tune, I just know it is.

It just reminds me of a lazy summer day with its simple piano driven melody and Mick’s sing-song type vocals.
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Worthy #1.  Sweet tune.  

Nice work on this overall.  Fun to follow along.   :thumbup:

 
This was a great thread. Thanks Doc Oc. I may post a top 25 / 15 / 10 sometime next week when I have a little time. I'm sure this thread will still be on the front page.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I'd be very interested in seeing top 25 (or top 10) lists from those that have participated in or just followed the thread.

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Don't have enough beer left to do legit rankings, but I'll throw in some comments and pound out a half-assed assembly required rankings.

Comments in no particular order:

  • My biggest beef with your rankings was Midnight Rambler. Would have made my top 10.
  • Can You Hear Me Knockin'

    First 2:45 - Legit #1 overall
  • Post-2:45 - Spinal Tap-esque jazz odyssey - Hundreds of times, around the 5:00 minute mark I remarked to myself, "You got me again!" 

[*]Exile on Main Street - The fly in the ointment.  You are breaking down songs as individual components, to which Exile does not lend itself so much.  It's a great album that demands undivided attention. Still, Loving Cup was an inspired choice.  Torn and Frayed is probably my favorite.

[*]Under My Thumb - This is a beautiful song and top-10 worthy.

[*]Dead Flowers, Gimme Shelter, and Sympathy for the Devil are all stone-cold top-10 locks, as is You Can't Always Get What You Want.

[*]Emotional Rescue was a betrayal.

[*]Always liked, but never cared deeply for Street Fightin' Man and Jumping Jack Flash.

[*]I'd rank both Monkey Man and It's Only Rock and Roll in top 20.  I'll boldly suggest that It's Only Rock and Roll is the most underappreciated Stones song. 

[*]I love Have You Seen Your Mother's Baby, Standing in the Shadow.  It's all about that angst!

[*]Not wild about Paint it Black, Stones style.  I've seen better covers at Tacoland :SnobbySnobSnob:

[*]Speaking of cover bands, I'm not wild about Wild Horses either.  It's a tired,    tired,   song. 

 
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Mister CIA said:
Don't have enough beer left to do legit rankings, but I'll throw in some comments and pound out a half-assed assembly required rankings.

Comments in no particular order:

  • My biggest beef with your rankings was Midnight Rambler. Would have made my top 10.
  • Can You Hear Me Knockin'

    First 2:45 - Legit #1 overall
  • Post-2:45 - Spinal Tap-esque jazz odyssey - Hundreds of times, around the 5:00 minute mark I remarked to myself, "You got me again!" 

[*]Exile on Main Street - The fly in the ointment.  You are breaking down songs as individual components, to which Exile does not lend itself so much.  It's a great album that demands undivided attention. Still, Loving Cup was an inspired choice.  Torn and Frayed is probably my favorite.

[*]Under My Thumb - This is a beautiful song and top-10 worthy.

[*]Dead Flowers, Gimme Shelter, and Sympathy for the Devil are all stone-cold top-10 locks, as is You Can't Always Get What You Want.

[*]Emotional Rescue was a betrayal.

[*]Always liked, but never cared deeply for Street Fightin' Man and Jumping Jack Flash.

[*]I'd rank both Monkey Man and It's Only Rock and Roll in top 20.  I'll boldly suggest that It's Only Rock and Roll is the most underappreciated Stones song. 

[*]I love Have You Seen Your Mother's Baby, Standing in the Shadow.  It's all about that angst!

[*]Not wild about Paint it Black, Stones style.  I've seen better covers at Tacoland :SnobbySnobSnob:

[*]Speaking of cover bands, I'm not wild about Wild Horses either.  It's a tired,    tired,   song. 
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I agree that Exile is more an album than a collection of songs but most of the songs are excellent.

while I preferred the first act in Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, I think the coda adds to its greatness not detracts from it.

Great comments overall!

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I agree that Exile is more an album than a collection of songs but most of the songs are excellent.
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To me, Exile is too much of the same thing. I think a lot of that has to do with how the album was mixed and arranged, but the songs tend to run together for me after a while. Which is why I'd rather listen to the songs - many of which are brilliant - on it individually instead of one after another for 90 minutes. 

But then, I'm in the minority among classic rock fans because I think the whole "concept album-made-as-an-album" is largely bunk made up by wishful-thinking Boomer critics and fans.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
To me, Exile is too much of the same thing. I think a lot of that has to do with how the album was mixed and arranged, but the songs tend to run together for me after a while. Which is why I'd rather listen to the songs - many of which are brilliant - on it individually instead of one after another for 90 minutes. 
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I listen to side one and two straight through on Exile.  Side three and four I pick out the songs I want to hear. I do the same thing with The White Album by The Beatles. 

Off topic here Uruk, I finished watching Rectify last night. I thought it was great. Thanks for the recommendation!

 
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