# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/41 "2017-08-17T10:34:42Z")
Gonna have to go with _Sympathy For the Devil_, because the first time I heard it I didn’t know what it was about and it drew me in until I finally guessed his name. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/42 "2017-08-17T11:40:36Z")
So many it’s hard to choose, but I like Honky Tonk Women. But they are so prolific that it’s impossible to name one today that I won’t come back tomorrow and think I like something else more. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/43 "2017-08-17T11:50:14Z")
> [@Reddy\_Mercury](#): > > \*\*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 Now I’m curious. What is your 32nd favorite Stones song? 🙂 **Gimme Shelter** is hard to top, but I would like to also add the previously unmentioned and generally underrated **She’s So Cold**. mmm ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/44 "2017-08-17T11:53:26Z")
I’m not a huge Stones fan, but my favorites are probably… We Love You Lady Jane The Last Time Gimme Shelter ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/45 "2017-08-17T12:38:43Z")
I’m a bit surprised by the (relative) lack of love for Between The Buttons. I think it’s their best album. She Smiles Sweetly (apart from being a lovely tune) is fascinating in that it has the protagonist leaning on a woman for help (as opposed to berating her for being a Stupid Girl or bragging that she’s Under His Thumb). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/46 "2017-08-17T13:22:10Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > 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. Pretty much what I was going to post. Tie for first between “Happy” and “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”, tie for second between “Sympathy For The Devil” and “Gimme Shelter”. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/47 "2017-08-17T13:27:29Z")
Gimmie Shelter because it sounds greasy and thick. Sympathy for the Devil is a close second. ---
**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, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/48 "2017-08-17T13:59:16Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > I’m a bit surprised by the (relative) lack of love for Between The Buttons. I think it’s their best album. Agreed. (Nice how we independently made the same observation about “She Smiled Sweetly.”) I was obsessed with “Ruby Tuesday” when I was nine years old. “My Obsession” is utterly unique – it would sound fresh and daring even today. Even the unassuming “Miss Amanda Jones” is interesting, just for setting the template for the basic Stones sound through the 1970s and 1980s (alas). ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/49 "2017-08-17T14:14:24Z")
Paint It Black ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/50 "2017-08-17T15:10:38Z")
_Satisfaction_. #2 is the live version of _Midnight Rambler_. ---
**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, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/51 "2017-08-17T15:28:34Z")
50 in and I’m the only Jumpin Jack Flash here? I didn’t even think it was controversial that it was about their best and one of the biggest. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/52 "2017-08-17T16:14:01Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > 50 in and I’m the only Jumpin Jack Flash here? > > I didn’t even think it was controversial that it was about their best and one of the biggest. I don’t remember that _500 Greatest Songs Of All Time_ bit a little while ago getting any controversy for placing FLASH (which, near as I can tell, never hit #1 in the US) behind HONKY TONK WOMEN and YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT and GIMME SHELTER and SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL and, of course, SATISFACTION. Not that any of that is _proof_ that you’re wrong about it being the best, just that it casts doubt on the “controversial” part. (I mean, you’re still _wrong,_ but you’re wrong because the right answer is WILD HORSES. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/53 "2017-08-17T16:36:27Z")
“Sway” “Stray Cat Blues” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/54 "2017-08-17T16:59:31Z")
It begins and ends with “Gimme Shelter.” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/55 "2017-08-17T17:06:24Z")
Satisfaction - that opening line is just fantastic, the song works on levels of materialism, sexual satisfaction so well that its almost zen. Paint it Black Sympathy for the devil Angie Gimme Shelter However there are plenty more, tomorrow it might be differant ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/56 "2017-08-17T17:52:49Z")
I have another vote for Gimme Shelter, I also really like Sympathy for the Devil. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/57 "2017-08-17T18:00:35Z")
Mother’s Little Helper Nineteenth Nervous Breakfast Paint It Black She’s A Rainbow Country Honk Love in Vain Gimme Shelter Wild Horses ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/58 "2017-08-17T18:06:25Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Nineteenth Nervous Breakfast This is a pretty obscure track, only available on underground bootlegs, and I expect most of you will be unfamiliar with it. Damn you, autocorrect ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/59 "2017-08-17T19:26:46Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > “Dead Flowers” and “Before They Make Me Run.” Dammit. Now I wish I also put “She’s A Rainbow” on this list. Ever since reading this thread yesterday (or was it two days ago), I’ve had that song stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830/60 "2017-08-17T19:51:00Z")
Another vote for “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” with “Brown Sugar” a close second… …and a very close third: “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-stones-song/793830.md?page=4)