Five best Rolling stones tracks

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....follwoing on from the similar Beatles thread last year, appropiate with exile on main st being re-released

The Stones never had the brilliance and scope of the Beatles (who did?) and after Goats head soup, lot of stuff was pretty dull for me. But here goes

1. Sympathy for the devil (their greatest moment...stunning even now)
2. Tumbling dice
3. Wild Horses
4. Mothers little helper (aftermath is a great underrated album)
5. Bitch (closet they got to real funk/soul)
 
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The Stones never had the brilliance and scope of the Beatles (who did?)

Led Zeppelin :p

could do with a thread on them I reckon :whistle:

tough one Clive..never a massive fan..but.

1. Hony Tonk Women...really love the intro :cool:
2. Brown Sugar
3. You Can't Always Get What You Want
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Sympathy For The Devil
 
I was a Beatles fan, and only came to like The Stones in later life (like my 30s!). Prefer anything by wonderful old Creedence Clearwater Revival, the defunct Cream or Pink Floyd, but these get me pretty animated, even in my dotage:

JUMPIN' JACK FLASH (it's a gas, gas, gas)

SATISFACTION (Ah cain't git no)

BROWN SUGAR

SFTD

Not fussed after that!
 
krizon said:
I was a Beatles fan, and only came to like The Stones in later life (like my 30s!). Prefer anything by wonderful old Creedence Clearwater Revival, the defunct Cream or Pink Floyd, but these get me pretty animated, even in my dotage:

JUMPIN' JACK FLASH (it's a gas, gas, gas)

SATISFACTION (Ah cain't git no)

BROWN SUGAR

SFTD

Not fussed after that!
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Cream..one of my favourites Kri..what a band..especially live
 
It's one of my life's smallish regrets (come to think of it, they're all small!) that I wasn't in the UK when so many bands were performing and available to be seen, or that if I was, I was squirrelled away in some badly-needed job, with no spare dough. I enjoyed the 60s, but wasn't a hippie, so the prospect of nights sleeping rough and nicking people's milk off their doorsteps didn't appeal enough to see me backpacking to the concerts.

Watched a fabulous documentary a week or so ago featuring the original line-up, dear old Ginge speaking very eloquently and describing the way he played, Clappers showing us how he just upped the twang on his guitar from the more standard playing of the time, and so on, all inter-shot with clips from their concerts. I had a Cream LP for years, but over so many moves, it just got lost. Their stuff is still so very listenable, even after the intervening decades.
 
krizon said:
It's one of my life's smallish regrets (come to think of it, they're all small!) that I wasn't in the UK when so many bands were performing and available to be seen, or that if I was, I was squirrelled away in some badly-needed job, with no spare dough. I enjoyed the 60s, but wasn't a hippie, so the prospect of nights sleeping rough and nicking people's milk off their doorsteps didn't appeal enough to see me backpacking to the concerts.

Watched a fabulous documentary a week or so ago featuring the original line-up, dear old Ginge speaking very eloquently and describing the way he played, Clappers showing us how he just upped the twang on his guitar from the more standard playing of the time, and so on, all inter-shot with clips from their concerts. I had a Cream LP for years, but over so many moves, it just got lost. Their stuff is still so very listenable, even after the intervening decades.
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I got hooked on Cream before Zep really..got all their stuff..and I have a copy of the farewell concert that was broadcast on Omnibus BBC 2 show in 1969..the camera shots are as bad as the film version of this ..same footage of course...but the actual picture/sound quality is better than the official DVD releases..Pete Drummond does the narration..remember him?

Most of the concerts I went to were between 1971-73..saw all the bands I really liked in that time..Free/Floyd/Tull /Zeppelin/Wishbone Ash/Focus..and a few others..still got all the concert stubs..average price about 75p..nice
 
Shes a Rainbow is awful....bloody hell. Ruby Tuesday?...well..whatever

Would swap Bitch for Lets Spend the night together ...thinking about it now

Never a big fan of Satisfaction myself
 
Their stuff is still so very listenable, even after the intervening decades.
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Im not much of an out and out rock music fan, to say the least, but it is strange how some stuff really lasts and other stuff dates badly

Was thinking about this the other day, when driving around listening to one of those classics stations. A lot of late seventies/eighties soul/jazz/funk has aged very well... Still sounds fresh. But David Bowies stuff sounds gruesome these days (to these ears). My cat sings better

Then there are tracks you know you always liked but suddenly sound wonderful once again

thinking of The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkul and love and affection - Joan armatrading
 
Also got to put the datedness (?) in the context of time - LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER and SATISFACTION were the epitome of raunch (helped by Ole Fish Lips's not very sexy gyrations) at the time, shocking to ye olde generation, in the way that SLAP MY BITCH UP and some of the Goth offerings (cue Euronymous with his 10-mile list of Nordic Death Cult favourites) did in its day. By the time the human race is burnt to a cinder by an imploding Sun, we'll be back to ONE MAN WENT TO MOW!
 
I like some of the really early stuff like Stupid Girl.

Yeah, I know, VERY anti women and all of that but a great dance song nonetheless. You have to watch the Ellen Foley video of her version of the song.

Sympathy For The Devil which is a bit of an anthem for me. I was at Altamont when Mick kept trying to do that song and all hell was basically breaking loose around him. End of an era, or at least all the love and peace stuff.

Paint It Black, Brown Sugar. Give Me Shelter, Midnight Rambler ......

I do not have an opinion one way or the other but amongst the peeps I worked for in the music scene it was oft repeated that Otis Redding actually wrote Satisfaction, not Jagger/Richards and in fact I did see Otis doing it about the same time as the Stones. Who knows?
 
Isinglass said:
Sympathy For The Devil which is a bit of an anthem for me. I was at Altamont when Mick kept trying to do that song and all hell was basically breaking loose around him. End of an era, or at least all the love and peace stuff.
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As someone who has only seen Altamont via the Gimme Shelter doc, that's pretty impressive!
 
Only saw them once, in concert at Wembley Stadium, but had all their singles EP's and albums at one time. Keep meaning to visit the grave of Brian Jones here in Cheltenham sometime but haven't got round to it yet.

Anyway in no particular order


Street Fighting Man

Gimme Shelter

You Better Move On

The Spider And The Fly

Little Red Rooster
 
Gimme Shelter
She's A Rainbow
Sympathy For The Devil
2000 Light Years From Home
Love Is Strong (seriously)
 
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