Your top ten Rolling Stones songs

[Richard Tarleton]

As a plucker meself, I found this fascinating

[cloughie]

Little Red Rooster and Time Is On My Side are two of my favourite Stones songs, but I can't explain why they don't get into my top ten!

I think that Little Red Rooster was amazing as the first pure blues song to trouble the number one singles spot - I say trouble because at the time some charts had it at 1, others at 2. Either way the audacity of the Stones in putting it out as a single paid off. But why was it left off Forty Licks? A few years later on the Howling Wolf London Sessions, with Clapton on Guitar, Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts on drums, Howling Wolf taught how hit should be sung and played. I must say that the Stones version sounded good back then and still does. Beefy, Aftermath still sounds good 50 years on - despite your reservations give it a listen and add 19th Nervous Breakdown and Paint it Black as bonus tracks on your playlist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Howlin%27_Wolf_Sessions

[pastoralguy]

One of my all time favourite biographies is Bill's 'Stone Alone'.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

From the man with 678 versions of the same old piece

He can't get no...

[Richard Tarleton]

One of my all time favourite biographies is Bill's 'Stone Alone'.

Stanley Booth's True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is their story up to and including the 1969 tour, intercut with Booth's terrifying reportage of the Altamont concert - a riveting and disturbing read.

[P. G. Tipps]

Now, now ...

When I was young and handsome I liked the Stones as a group but even then the sight and sound of the lead singer was a real turn-off for me and who now, in old age, looks and sounds even more ridiculous, imv.

So my favourites tended to be instrumental tracks like 2120 South Michigan Ave, Little by Little, Now I Got A Witness ... can't remember any more.

So these would be my top three and, if forced to listen to Jagger, I'd go for Carol and Route 66 as my other two.

I think that would be quite enough these days, tbh ...

[Flosshilde]

I wonder why this thread is posted under 'Talking about music', which surely relates to R3's output? Even the Proms in their present state haven't yet included the Rolling Stones.

[Richard Tarleton]

They turn up on Private Passions occasionally. Jonathan Meades....

[MrGongGong]

I wonder why this thread is posted under 'Talking about music', which surely relates to R3's output? .

Since when?
I never read it to mean that at all
'Talking about Music' surely means 'Talking about Music' as distinct from 'Talking about music on R3'

[teamsaint]

This thread seems to be proving a little trickier to reply to than I think Beefy would have imagined.
Perhaps the " top five or ten" thing is the problem ?

[MrGongGong]

He can't get no...

one to believe a word he says when he insists on barking at the moon ?

[cloughie]

One of my all time favourite biographies is Bill's 'Stone Alone'.

A very good read - he was a real diarist.

[EdgeleyRob]

Stanley Booth's True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is their story up to and including the 1969 tour, intercut with Booth's terrifying reportage of the Altamont concert - a riveting and disturbing read.

I have read this,one of the best books about anything to do with any kind of music (cheap used copies on Amazon).

My favourite 10

Get Off My Cloud
Paint It Black
Angie
Tumbling Dice
Loving Cup
Satisfaction
Lady Jane
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Sweet Virginia
Gimme Shelter

Favourite/best album,Exile On Main Street

[AmpH]

I always think this is an excellent distillation of what the Stones were about ....... Live from the 69 Tour. Excellent sound quality on the CD and ' Midnight Rambler ' is just awesome !



Jumpin' Jack Flash
Carol
Stray Cat Blues
Love In Vain
Midnight Rambler
Sympathy for the Devil
Live with Me
Little Queenie
Honky Tonk Woman
Street Fighting Man

[Beef Oven!]

AmpH,

I bought that in 1973, and I've loved it for ever! Great Choice - and yes, 'Midnight Rambler is AWESOME