# Favorite Stones song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830 "2017-08-16T22:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/21 "2017-08-17T01:37:07Z")
You Can’t Always Get What You Want Rocks Off Sympathy for the Devil Shattered Satisfaction ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/22 "2017-08-17T01:51:01Z")
Happy. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/23 "2017-08-17T01:56:48Z")
I’d have to say Miss You. Wild Horses is up there. The outro from Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ is as good as anything they’ve done. Favorite deep cut is probably Sweet Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/24 "2017-08-17T02:01:48Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I guess for me it is “Sympathy for the Devil”. All my favorite Stones songs are from 1973 or before. This. Both the song choice and the observation. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/25 "2017-08-17T02:03:34Z")
Honky Tonk Woman ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/26 "2017-08-17T02:14:59Z")
There’s many great Stones songs, but none better than Gimme Shelter. That’s the natural order of the universe. ---
**Author:** ![Graymalkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@Graymalkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graymalkin)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/27 "2017-08-17T02:19:06Z")
Brown Sugar then the Carol on the Ya-Yas album, and then about two dozen others, or more! ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/28 "2017-08-17T02:39:18Z")
Tough choice. “In Another Land” from the _Their Satanic Majesties Request_ album is my favorite for the moment. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/29 "2017-08-17T02:48:19Z")
Brown Sugar is my favourite, but Sympathy for the Devil is good too. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/30 "2017-08-17T02:51:38Z")
Gimme Shelter, and It’s Only Rock and Roll. \*If I could stick a knife in my heart Suicide right on stage Would it be enough for your teenage lust Would it help to ease the pain? \* ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/31 "2017-08-17T02:56:29Z")
I swing between “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” and “Happy” as my favorite. If for some reason I can’t have those, I’d like “Sympathy for the Devil”, please. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/32 "2017-08-17T04:03:15Z")
31 responses in and no Jumpin’ Jack Flash??? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/33 "2017-08-17T04:12:21Z")
Moonlight Mile ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/34 "2017-08-17T04:18:20Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > As a parallel to the current fave Beatles song thread… > > I’ll start with She Smiled Sweetly, from Between the Buttons. Great, great song. I included it on the CD mix I put together for my wedding celebration. A rare 6/8 song for them (also the contemporaneous “Backstreet Girl,” and their gorgeous reworking of Robert Johnson’s “Love in Vain.”) Jagger’s low-pitched vocal performance is utterly sincere (amidst all that 1966 misogyny, in “Ride On Baby,” etc). ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/35 "2017-08-17T04:30:41Z")
Angie, and it’s not close. ---
**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/36 "2017-08-17T04:36:44Z")
\*\*Brian Jones Era: \*\* Citadel Dandelion Get Off My Cloud Satisfaction The Last Time 2000 Light Years From Home I Wanna Be Your Man Street Fighting Man Get Off My Cloud Paint It, Black My Obsession Jigsaw Puzzle Out of Time Under My Thumb Gimme Shelter \*\*Mick Taylor Era \*\* Can’t You Hear Me Knockin? Brown Sugar Winter Dancin’ With Mr. D Dance Little Sister Short and Curlies 100 Years Ago Rocks Off \*\*Ronnie Wood Era \*\* Too Much Blood Shattered Winning Ugly Back to Zero Miss You Mixed Emotions Rock and a High Place Highwire ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/37 "2017-08-17T04:48:50Z")
“No Expectations” is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/38 "2017-08-17T05:06:55Z")
Honky Tonk Woman. But I ain’t much of a Stones guy. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/39 "2017-08-17T05:54:38Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Either _Angie_ or\* Ruby Tuesday\*… I’m not even familiar with several Stones’ songs, but these two are among my favorites. My #1 favorite? [Watching Lisa Fischer co-star in _Gimme Shelter_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLx4xJdCcZ4). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/40 "2017-08-17T09:49:41Z")
Can’t You Hear Me Knockin - best opening lick ever, and my favorite long end bit. Gimme Shelter So much great music. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830.md?page=3)