Best Stones' Song

[mauvais]

Midnight Rambler on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! has got to be up there.

Oh No Not You Again off the recent one is alright too.

 

[Pie 1]

You Can't Always Get What You Want
Midnight Rambler

(Let It Bleed is simply, one of the best albums ever recorded)

Get Off of My Cloud.

 

[corporate whore]

Gimme Shelter
Midnight Rambler
Happy

 

[Gavin Bl]

Gimme Shelter, Can't always get what you want, Lets spend the night together, jumping jack flash.

 

[kage]

Gimme Shelter
Monkey Man
Sympathy for the Devil

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Lots of those are good.

I also like

Shine A Light

Sweet Virginia

Rocks Off

[I'm a big Exile on Main Street fan]


Waiting on a Friend

 

[selamlar]

Paint it Black,

Gimme Shelter.

Anyone spotted a trend yet?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I never really got into the Stones. It was frowned upon. "Boring old farts". All that sort of thing. But last year, maybe, I was persuaded to listen to what I was told was their two best albums. Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers. I wasn't very impressed. Especially with the latter.

I prefer the Faces.

I agree, the Stones have always baffled me.

 

[nick301171]

Play With Fire
Ruby Tuesday
Gimme Shelter

 

[corporate whore]

Waiting on a Friend

You're kidding, right?

 

[jonH]

Think I'm Going Mad
(Jagger/Richards)

And I think I'm going mad

Life goes by so fast
Time whirls by so fast
You think I whine so
All the women come and go

Think I'm going mad
Think I'm going crazy

All the highs and lows don't mean a thing to me
Don't give a damn

This season that'll pass
Think will be my last
I know my mind's afloat
Sometimes I feel so young and sometimes I feel so old

Yeah you want to see, you want to see all the things
And I'm thinking, they say that your crazy
They say that your insane
I think.... and I think I'm going crazy
And I think I'm going mad

You ought to see my shaking hands
I think I've been drinking lots of cups of coffee
I think I've lost my head
I think I should be sacrificed
I think I should be put to rest
Save yourself
And I think I'm going mad
Think I'm going now
Think I'm going crazy

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You're kidding, right?

It has personal significance.

 

[Flashman]

Bloody great video.

 

[treefrog]

Wild Horses
Paint it Black
Gimme shelter

some of their stuff is all kinds of ace, and some of it is just awful

 

[felixthecat]

Paint it Black
Sympathy for the Devil
Gimme Shelter.

....just like everyone else

 

[soulman]

You Can't Always Get What You Want

 

[poului]

You Can't Always Get What You Want

tosser.

 

[christonabike]

Out of Time

 

[corporate whore]

It has personal significance.

Ah fair enough.

 

[jonH]

Wild Horses
Paint it Black
Gimme shelter

some of their stuff is all kinds of ace, and some of it is just awful

They did Wild Horses with Gram Parsons,

 

[Dubversion]

They did Wild Horses with Gram Parsons,

no.

they let Gram record it first with the Flying Burrito Brothers, then they released it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Sweet Virginia

Thankyou for that link. I've been playing that song an unhealthy amount lately

Street Fighting Man and Rocks Off are also way up there.

Has anyone said 'Satisfaction' yet?

 

[jonH]

no.

they let Gram record it first with the Flying Burrito Brothers, then they released it.

I thought he toured with them in the 1971 Good-Bye Britain Tour,

that's when they first played Wild Horses live, but maybe he wasn't on stage

 

[Dubversion]

it was already recorded by them, without him, by then. Not saying he never played it with them in the end, but he didn't record it with them or anything

 

[Meltingpot]

Probably "Gimme Shelter" is the best Stones track, but a lot of their early ones rock too.

Tracks like Not Fade Away, The Last Time, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Standing In the Shadow.....

Boy what a great band.

P.S. Does anyone else like any of the Satanic Majesties tracks, like 2000 Light Years From Home?

 

[ohmyliver]

Probably "Gimme Shelter" is the best Stones track, but a lot of their early ones rock too.

Tracks like Not Fade Away, The Last Time, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Standing In the Shadow.....

Boy what a great band.

P.S. Does anyone else like any of the Satanic Majesties tracks, like 2000 Light Years From Home?

Yes, Citadel and 2000 light years from home are in my top 10 stones tracks easily.. however the rest of the album is average to embarressing. Especially the track which has Mr Jagger saying 'where's that joyant' in a mockney accent.

 

[Meltingpot]

Yes, Citadel and 2000 light years from home are in my top 10 stones tracks easily.. however the rest of the album is average to embarressing. Especially the track which has Mr Jagger saying 'where's that joyant' in a mockney accent.

I'll take your word for that. I only know the tracks that are on the "Through the Past Darkly" compilation. i.e. "2000 Light Years" and "She's A Rainbow".

 

[jonH]

it was already recorded by them, without him, by then. Not saying he never played it with them in the end, but he didn't record it with them or anything

i wish he had

 

[ohmyliver]

oh yes She's Like a Rainbow is on there too, reminds me of an ex who used to see colours when she, erm, came, thats also a top track

 

[yardbird]

Is Ian McLaggen still alive?

Ian's okay

Gimme Shelter

And the best Stones track that wasn't
Memo From Turner.