# Best Rolling Stones Album? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130 "2010-03-20T13:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130/21 "2010-03-20T21:29:25Z")
I had to listen to _Let it Bleed_ and _Beggars Banquet_ to be certain, but LiB wins it for me. I really want the rest of _It’s Only Rock 'n Roll_ to be as good as the title song, but it just isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130/22 "2010-03-20T21:54:19Z")
Let it Bleed wins by a nose over Beggars Banquet. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Medlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hi\_Medlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Medlo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130/23 "2010-03-20T22:19:30Z")
My favorite wasn’t among the choices, either…the live “Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out”. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130/24 "2010-03-20T23:10:35Z")
It’s a real toss-up for me between _Sticky Fingers_ and _Exile on Main Street._ I chose _Sticky Fingers_ because it got me into the Stones straight away, whereas it took me a while to fully appreciate _Exile._ I’d place _Let It Bleed_ very closely behind, then _Beggar’s Banquet_, then _Aftermath._ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130/25 "2010-03-21T14:26:29Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > When I clicked on ‘Satanic Majesties’, I had a funny feeling that I’d be the only one. Well, I wasn’t going to vote at all, since I consider the whole run from _Aftermath_ through _Exile_ to be perfect tens and it’s silly to choose from among them. But _Satanic_ always has been a particular favorite of mine, and I can’t stand seeing it limp away with only a single vote. It’s a hugely underrated album, mainly, I think, because it doesn’t meet the preconceptions of what a Stones record should be. It’s certainly their least “Stonesy” album. If the same release had been made by some unknown band, it wouldn’t have _sold_ like a Stones album, but I’m sure it would have ended up a cult favorite, heralded as a masterpiece of the psychedelic period. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130/26 "2010-03-21T14:59:47Z")
Another Stones album that I like a lot - and, so far, hasn’t had a single vote - is **It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll**. Mick Taylor, a very under-rated guitarist IMO, plays some mighty fine guitar, and it includes some their best songs, like Time Wait For No-One. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130/27 "2010-03-22T13:12:56Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Another Stones album that I like a lot - and, so far, hasn’t had a single vote - is **It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll**. Mick Taylor, a very under-rated guitarist IMO, plays some mighty fine guitar, and it includes some their best songs, like Time Wait For No-One. Hey, I mentioned it! The title song is my favorite Stones song, bar none. “Short n Curlies” and their version of “Aint too Proud to Beg” both rock, but “If you Can’t Rock Me” oddly enough, does not. It also does not measure up as an album opener compared to the openers between Beggars Banquet and Exile. If they’d made it a really short record, left off the opener and left out “Luxury” and “If You Really Want to Be My Friend”, then I’d have considered it more carefully. As it is, it has at least 4 songs I regularly skip, and BB and LIB have none. It’s good, if it were my only record ever, I would not cry. But to me, it signals the beginning of the aging of the band, and the end of my ability to drop a needle on one side of a Rolling Stones record and leave it there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-album/533130.md?page=1)