# Best Rolling Stones Cut. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215 "2004-03-09T01:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/21 "2004-03-09T15:52:31Z")
“I’ve got to give it to Gimme Shelter, for the tension and release in the intro… All t’he sparks and glass and chaos all just sort of fall into place.” Yeah, but you left out the best part - Merry Clayton’s vocals behind Jagger. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/22 "2004-03-09T16:55:26Z")
If I had to pick one… “Shine a Light” My List: Honky Tonk Women Jumpin’ Jack Flash Wild Horses Beast of Burden Tumbling Dice Sympathy for the Devil Miss You Under my Thumb(My favorite for the longest) I’m weird though, I actually like most of Goat’s Head Soup. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/23 "2004-03-09T17:44:55Z")
“Can I at least offer Little T&A as a contender (and honestly that was early 80s - although not as early 80s as Emotional Rescue “She’s so Cold”).” Actually, “Little T&A” was written and nearly finished before “Emotional Rescue.” All but two songs on “Tattoo You” were written well before its release (1981). Some of the material goes back to 1972 and has Mick Taylor playing guitar. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/24 "2004-03-09T17:49:17Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > I’ll throw my vote to…“Stray Cat Blues”… Ditto. It’s gritty, raw, Stones, cut and dry. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/25 "2004-03-10T02:09:57Z")
> [@kevja](#): > > Paint It Black > Monkey Man > Bitch > Let’s Spend the Night Together > Jumpin Jack Flash > Brown Sugar > Gimme Shelter > Shattered > Satisfaction > Sympathy for the Devil I was composing my list and Lo, here it is – amazing! ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/26 "2004-03-10T02:29:37Z")
> [@plnnr](#): > > “Can I at least offer Little T&A as a contender (and honestly that was early 80s - although not as early 80s as Emotional Rescue “She’s so Cold”).” > > Actually, “Little T&A” was written and nearly finished before “Emotional Rescue.” All but two songs on “Tattoo You” were written well before its release (1981). Some of the material goes back to 1972 and has Mick Taylor playing guitar. Heh, no wonder that album sounds good - apparently the Stones of the 80s and later can’t even approach their earlier work of the 60s and 70s - Come on, “Undercover of the Night”, “Harlem Shuffle”, “One Hit (to the Body)”? I guess there really is a reason my Rolling Stones CD collection peters out after Undercover… ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/27 "2004-03-10T05:37:45Z")
I too cast my vote for “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”. It’s the first one I thought of when I read the thread title. I just don’t think the Stones ever topped this particular track. Rumor has it that it was improvised at the ending somewhere. Anybody care to venture a guess where? I _think_ I can hear it but I’m unsure. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/28 "2004-03-10T06:06:47Z")
**plnnr** , glad I’m not the only one who thought “Rip This Joint.” That’s my favorite, with “Prodigal Son” as a close second. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/29 "2004-03-10T06:24:19Z")
Torn between Honky Tonk Women and Let it Bleed. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/30 "2004-03-10T06:51:02Z")
Has anyone mentioned “Waiting on a Friend”? ---
**Author:** ![x27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7993a0/32.png) [@x27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x27)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/31 "2004-03-10T06:54:27Z")
Man, I am all about some late 70’s/early 80’s Stones. My Current Favorites (for a few years now…I liked the Stones’ 60’s sound much better when I was younger.): Only Rock and Roll (but I like it) has this amazing strange time that absolutely rocks. (Charlie Watts is slapping out some seriously funky drums.) And lyricly it is Classic Stones, talking about a boy and a girl, but really nothing at all, sympathy for being under her thumb. _If I could stick this pen in my heart/ bleed it all over the page…_ Hell yes! Emotional Rescue has some of the best singing ever. That falsetto is sublime rock. But really, so much of what they have done is so wonderfully good, it is hard to choose. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/32 "2004-03-10T07:41:37Z")
I’m not a Stones fan, but I’d give a tie to Gimme Shelter and Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’. Paint it Black in third, I think. Great songs. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/33 "2004-03-10T07:46:52Z")
Not in any order Sympathy for the Devil Paint it Black Gimme Shelter Bitch (for the solo) Amanda Jones ---
**Author:** ![Renob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@Renob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renob)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/34 "2004-03-10T16:12:25Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > . . . **You Cain’t Always Git What You Want**. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with _The Big Chill._ Sorry, but I simply had to quote the words of wisdom from _High Fidelity._ Though that statement is so true. I used to love that song until I saw _The Big Chill._ Now, while I still like it, I can’t listen to it without thinking of those damn selfish yuppies. Back to the topic at hand – I think Loving Cup and Tumbling Dice are two of their best, though I’m also partial towards Start Me Up, Beast of Burden, and Miss You. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/35 "2004-03-10T17:13:59Z")
I’m partial to “Gimme Shelter”, “Brown Sugar”, “Tumblin’ Dice”, “Paint It Black”, “It’s Only Rock And Roll” and the 12" single mix of “Miss You”. But I also really like “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)”, “Shattered”, “She’s So Cold” and “One Hit (To The Body)”. My favorite Stones tracks are “Downtown Lucy” (aka “Downtown Suzie”) and “Family”, from what used to be the “Metamorphosis” bootleg before they issued a commercial version with remixes on it. I’m sure I could list lots of other Stones songs that I like very much, but you see it’s also impossible to pick just one. Too many gems. How is one more brilliant than the next? ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/36 "2004-03-11T01:16:32Z")
> [@x27](#): > > Man, I am all about some late 70’s/early 80’s Stones. > > My Current Favorites (for a few years now…I liked the Stones’ 60’s sound much better when I was younger.): > > Only Rock and Roll (but I like it) has this amazing strange time that absolutely rocks. (Charlie Watts is slapping out some seriously funky drums.) That’s not Charlie Watts on that track. That’s Kenny Jones from the FACES. It’s a Ron Wood song that the Stones “appropriated” as a Jagger-Richards song. It was done at Woody’s house for one of his solo albums (“I Got My Own Album To Do”) and Jagger dug it so much, he traded Woody a different song for it. Woody’s guitar parts were wiped in favor of Keith Richard’s playing. I think David Bowie’s background vocals survived but I could be mistaken. Charlie Watts has made this song a sticking point in a couple of interviews because he didn’t play on this song. This and “Happy” off of Exile. That’s Jimmy Miller their producer from the glory years (68-72’). Man, I LOVE the Stones!!! ---
**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 11, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/37 "2004-03-11T01:32:31Z")
Off the top of my head: Paint it Black Angie Sister Morphine Ruby Tuesday Don’t Stop Moonlight Mile Wild Horses SFtD Sway Angie ---
**Author:** ![x27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7993a0/32.png) [@x27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x27)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/38 "2004-03-11T02:00:01Z")
Hey, great information, Cholo! I always thought those were just layers of Mick. And it _did_ strike me that Watts sounded different than I had ever heard before! ---
**Author:** ![Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mott_the_Hoople)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/39 "2004-03-11T06:27:18Z")
when the Golden Stone,Brian Jones passed away,the stones changed… With Brian… 1. Tell Me 2. Heart of Stone 3. Play with Fire 4. Out of Time 5. The Singer not the Song 6. She Smiled Sweetly 7. Going Home…The Best Long Song of all Time! ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215/40 "2004-03-11T07:26:35Z")
Another vote for “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin?” I always wondered why this wasn’t on _Hot Rocks_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-cut/233215.md?page=3)