Your favourite Rolling Stones songs.

[TheTecknician]

I'll preface this by saying I'm only familiar with the band's singles so I can’t accurately comment on the tracks from their extensive album back catalogue. But, if you can, go for it. My three in no particular order are:

Angie
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Honky Tonk Women

Angie is gorgeous!
Let's spend the night together is banging
Sympathy for the devil has cracking lyrics
I like play with fire/as tears go by too.

Gimme Shelter is stunning and I never get tired of hearing it, I used to have the opening riff as my ring tone

Wild Horses is heartbreakingly beautiful

Honky Tonk Women another wonderful riff, so sleazy and hits you in the gut

I am a huge fan so I could put a lot more slightly less known tracks, such as most of Exile on Main Street album which rewards multiple listens and includes gems like Tumbling Dice, Shine a light, Casino Boogie, Shake your hips, Rocks off and Rip this joint.

I am lucky enough to have seen them live, they were getting on but Charlie Watts was still alive so I am so happy to have seen them with him on drums. I thought it would be a bit cabaret and they would just be going through the motions, instead they were bloody thrilling.

Music aside they are comedy gold with the Mick and Keef thing that has been going on for decades like an old married couple.

Waiting on a friend .

What amazes me is the quality of the song writing, they have some amazing lyrics as well as unforgettable tunes. When you think how young they were when they were writing some of their best stuff, 25 or 26 years old when they released the classic Let it Bleed album. I was thinking the same about Dylan when I was watching A complete Unknown, he was 24 when he wrote songs such as Like a Rolling Stone which of course Mick and co have sung on many an occasion.

Let It Loose
Winter
Dance (there are three versions of this in various places, so you can line them up end-to-end for a twelve-minute jam should you be in the mood)

Gimme shelter,
paint it black
wild horses

I like a lot of the above but also came across a later album which had a couple of great tracks - Already Over Me and Always Suffering. I cant recall the album name or any other tracks; I will have a look.

Those are my three favourites too. The lyrics of Paint It Black are so good at describing depression.

I keep thinking of more! I love shine a light

Their later albums are definitely worth a listen. They’ve always put out good stuff, even if nobody got excited about it after around 1978.

Not a RS fan, but agree with Paint It Black. I think it’s just a really good song and just makes you feel that ‘thing’ (no, I don’t know either!) when you hear it!

here's a great live version of Monkey Man with the wonderful Lisa Fischer out singing and out dancing Mick. I think Keef is only about 102!

Strangely I don’t really know their stuff before about 1968, except the biggest hits. There were publishing issues iirc that meant their work never got curated properly – unlike the Beatles, where there’s a dozen albums that cover everything, the Stones’ early years seem like a bit of a shambles. I always think that would be a fun project, to try and track down everything from the early years.

The RS were on Decca Records during the 1960s so that company, or its successors, should be the copyright holders. Unless the band themselves have bought all their 60s recordings. I'm not sure if the publishing is significant but then I know nothing of copyright law!

Gimme shelter is helping me through some long runs at the minute! Also tumbling dice…

Paint it Black
Gimme Shelter
Sympathy For The Devil

It's a shame more of their stuff doesn't get played on the radio (it's always the same 2-3 usuals ime).

Fool to Cry
Gimme Shelter (although this version is way superior to the original)

Link isn't working. Look up Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones) feat. Taj Mahal | Playing For Change | Song Around The World.

Thank me later ;)

Wild Horses, it’s a beautiful song and reminds me of an amazing summer I had in my 20s.

Whole of Sticky Fingers and Exile. Most of Goats Head Soup and Only Rock and Roll. Hand of Fate, all of Some Girls and Tattoo You. Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Gimme Shelter,Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man. Simply the definitive Rock band. Great songs, front man, guitar player. The template for every aspiring rock band since the 60s. You want debauchery and drugs? It was all there. Models, supermodels, Glitterati, headline news? Yeah, got that.

Angie.
Reminds me of my first love!
It always makes me laugh that I saw them in 1982 when they were making their first comeback & everyone thought they were quite old then...

The Last Time

There are so many brilliant aongs but the ones I think of as particularly special are:

Beast of Burden
Moonlight Mile
Street Fighting Man

" A smile relieves a heart that grieves" 💙

I never liked Satisfaction very much but hearing it live with thousands and thousand people singing along and wildly dancing changed my mind. I read a great remark by Keith saying that he gets energy and emotion from the audience and how great it is but "wouldn't it be awful if they turned on you"