# Best Rolling Stones Song - Multiple Choice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468 "2010-09-12T03:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/1 "2010-09-12T03:06:28Z")
Choose as many as you like… ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/2 "2010-09-12T03:27:40Z")
In addition to choices from the poll, “Dandelion” “My Obsession” “No Expectations” “Factory Girl” “Salt of the Earth” All the rest of _Sticky Fingers_, especially “Dead Flowers” No doubt a few others I’m not recalling just now ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/3 "2010-09-12T03:32:26Z")
I’m going to stick with my choice from the original poll, _“Get Off Of My Cloud”_ from **Love You Live** (mashed up with _“If You Can’t Rock Me”_). ---
**Author:** ![Jilaad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jilaad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jilaad)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/4 "2010-09-12T03:37:48Z")
You forgot “Out of Time” ---
**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:** [September 12, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/5 "2010-09-12T04:08:05Z")
Nice to see “Rough Justice” on the list. But you left off possibly the greatest Stones song of all, “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.” ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/6 "2010-09-12T04:10:58Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Nice to see “Rough Justice” on the list. I figured that was a trick to catch somebody who was checking every box, or something. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/7 "2010-09-12T04:16:50Z")
“Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” was a Temptations song. A good cover by the Stones though. I think “The Last Time” should be in the list. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/8 "2010-09-12T04:44:31Z")
> [@Jilaad](#): > > You forgot “Out of Time” Also “Moonlight Mile”. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/9 "2010-09-12T05:26:26Z")
> [@mambocrow](#): > > “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” was a Temptations song. A good cover by the Stones though. I think “The Last Time” should be in the list. Actually, it was a Whitfield/Holland song; the Temps covered it too. 😃 Good call on ‘The Last Time’, though. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/10 "2010-09-12T05:27:29Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Nice to see “Rough Justice” on the list. But you left off possibly the greatest Stones song of all, “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.” Good catch. Agreed. mmm ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/11 "2010-09-12T05:55:08Z")
Rocks Off should be on the list too. Best opening track in rock and roll. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/12 "2010-09-12T07:07:38Z")
Mother’s Little Helper is my favourite. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/13 "2010-09-12T07:30:44Z")
I think we already had this thread a year or two ago. Gimme Shelter won, IIRC, buy my vote went to Sympathy For The Devil. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/14 "2010-09-12T07:34:00Z")
Sympathy for the Devil got my vote. My pet favorite that is absent from the choices is “Dead Flowers.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/15 "2010-09-12T08:38:05Z")
I voted Gimme Shelter. If Marty Scorsese is gonna use it in three of his best films (Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed) it is a strong choice. The list did not include “Saint of Me” ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/16 "2010-09-12T10:08:08Z")
One personal favourite is New Faces from “Voodoo Lounge”. That album never seems to get mentioned, but I’d say it’s the best post-Exile. I may be biased as it’s the first one that I bought new, as opposed to hearing from my parents. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/17 "2010-09-12T16:05:36Z")
i find a poll like this difficult for two reasons. i find it hard to identify a best song with a major long lived group, especially when they were always good-to-great and changed styles/got better. the Stones, Floyd, Dead, Who all did this. also hard is when a song choice was part of a album suite. those albums were almost always listened to in their entirety, you played it when you had time for both sides. the above groups and CSNY (and individuals from them) all had those. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/18 "2010-09-12T21:01:16Z")
My favorite is “Paint It Black” and I’m a bit surprised I’m not, for once, all alone. That song is so… different. Not only in the Rolling Stones oeuvre, but in the history of R&R. I can’t think of any other song by anyone that’s like “Paint It Black”. ---
**Author:** ![poker\_in\_the\_rear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dc4da7/32.png) [@poker\_in\_the\_rear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poker_in_the_rear)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/19 "2010-09-12T23:37:36Z")
Mother’s Little Helper Play With Fire ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468/20 "2010-09-12T23:55:10Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > My favorite is “Paint It Black” and I’m a bit surprised I’m not, for once, all alone. That song is so… different. Not only in the Rolling Stones oeuvre, but in the history of R&R. I can’t think of any other song by anyone that’s like “Paint It Black”. Not only my favorite Stones tune, but my favorite R&R. How is it different? I just find it very good. His lover has died, “If I stare hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes.” Wow. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rolling-stones-song-multiple-choice/553468.md?page=2)