Agreed.
My five-
1: Between The Buttons
2: Some Girls
3-4-5:
12x5
Now
Out Of Our Heads
And don’t forget “Worried About You”. One of my top 5, but partially because I related it to my broken heart about a girl. And hell, now that we are talking about individual songs, “Memory Motel.” The most underated Stones song. Is there another Stones song with alternating lead vocals with Mick and Keith?
I am going to listen to both of those now, loud.
Yes, Salt Of The Earth from Beggars Banquet.
Of course. And I call myself a Stones fan. My face is still red.
thank you for that link, I didn’t know some of those lyrics until now
It’s a great track, a real deep album cut. I always see it as a precursor to “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, an epic crescendoing ballad.
you get what you need! Cranking it. But ya know they partially stole it from the Beatles, using the classical strings. Or so I have heard. Beatles - Sgt Pepper. Stones - Satanic Majesties.
Again, should be another thread - how much did the Stones influence the Beatles and vice versa
Sorry to nitpick, but you forgot Time Fades Away and On The Beach from the “ditch trilogy” (together with Tonight’s The Night that had been recorded in 1973 and only released in 1975) after Harvest. But that doesn’t change the good run of albums.
Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, Bringing It All Back Home, Nashville Skyline.
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Yes, I was going to add “Worried About You”! I love that song.
Replace Nashville Skyline with Freewheelin’, and that’s what I would have posted in a Dylan thread ;):D.
Beat me to it!
“What kind of drug is this?”
John McMillan’s book Beatles vs. Stones is a fun read.
Great hint! I put it on my wish list.
It’s well researched.
Loved the book. It was fascinating.
Most interesting was finding out the act Decca chose over the Beatles (Brian Poole and the Tremolos, who did have a couple of UK hits) and the reason why (they were from London, nearer to Decca’s offices).
As for the OP:
Let It Bleed
Beggar’s Banquet
Sticky Fingers
Steophan nailed it in one.
Only thing missing is the El Macambo side of Love You Live. Gateway blues that one is.
Tattoo You is highly under-rated. Wait a second… “highly under-rated”… Does that make sense?
It’s similar to another world-weary Keith ballad, “Slippin’ Away” (1989), one of the very few post-Tattoo You songs with any staying power for me.