# Stones **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529 "2000-05-25T18:25:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/1 "2000-05-25T18:25:28Z")
I was hoping for this category. Was just thinking about the Rolling STones songs the other day. What is your absolute favorite? My choices, and it has to be a tie: Are Honky Tonk Woman She’s My Little Rock&Roll ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/2 "2000-05-25T19:25:49Z")
1. Heartbreaker (Doo Doo Doo Doo) 2. Paint It, Black 3. (tie) Monkey Man Sympathy for the Devil The Stones could have kicked the Beatles’ asses any day of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Snark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Snark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snark)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/3 "2000-05-25T20:13:58Z")
I like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” but only because I liked the movie with that title. I’m not much of a Stones fan. ---
**Author:** ![X-files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/76d3ee/32.png) [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/4 "2000-05-25T20:24:04Z")
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road (White Album). Stones are lame. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/5 "2000-05-25T20:26:19Z")
> [@](#): > > **The Stones could have kicked the Beatles’ asses any day of the week.** But they didn’t. Nice of them. Not Fade Away, for now. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/6 "2000-05-25T20:26:27Z")
Hmmm. Probably Gimme Shelter. Or maybe Sympathy for the Devil. Scratch that. You can’t always get what you want. Or Paint it, black. The hell with it. Too many to choose from. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/7 "2000-05-25T20:47:23Z")
Not too many songs by the Stones that I don’t like, but I’d have to say Honky Tonk Women, Brown Sugar, Satisfaction are among my top favs. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/8 "2000-05-25T21:13:00Z")
Sympathy For The Devil Without a doubt. IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/9 "2000-05-26T01:31:53Z")
Snark said > [@](#): > > I like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” but only because I liked the movie with that title. Oh! So **you’re** the one! And then Snark said > [@](#): > > I’m not much of a Stones fan. And then X-files said > [@](#): > > Stones are lame. And then Milo knocked Snark’s and X-files’ heads together, Three Stooges style. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/10 "2000-05-26T16:23:20Z")
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, but I like 19th Nervous Breakdown and Shattered,and their cover of Not Fade Away is great (tho not as good as the original). ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/11 "2000-05-27T21:16:34Z")
Wild Horses and Gimme Shelter ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/12 "2000-05-28T10:34:58Z")
‘Sympathy for the Devil’ All other Stones songs suck. I wish they would retire already. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/13 "2000-05-28T16:42:20Z")
Hey, X-files I know what you mean….gees, that Keith Richards – some overrated arse.! And Charlie, average drummer, very average. And Jagger !, couldn’t put a lyric together to save his life. Now, if they wrote a few tunes about aliens invading earth, now your talking. Maybe about unexplained events, wow. Even the same song, maybe about a conspiracy theory – that would be great – and just keep doing the same thing time after time, after time, after…… ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/14 "2000-05-31T01:38:09Z")
Gotta go with Sassy - Wild Horses and Gimme Shelter, definitely. I’ve always loved the Stones (Beatles - blah, puke, ralph :() Sadly, they now hold bittersweet memories. One of my best friends (yeah, a guy whom I’ve never had sex with but thought about - snicker, yeah you know what thread I am talking about. . . .) jumped through hoops and called up his connections (he was a newspaper featured reporter) to get us floor seats at their last Utah concert (Feb 1999). We went and had a great time! I’ll always associate him with the Stones. He died last March. Another pointess and mundane piece of Diane trivia - I was missing an English credit my senior year of highschool. English was my first period class and I really enjoyed pot and shrooms back then, if you catch my drift. I flashed my baby-greens at the teacher and convinced him to let me make up the credit (thus saving my life from the wrath of my parents had I not graduated.) He gave me an assignment of a 5000 word essay on a subject of my choosing. I chose the Stones, got an “A”, and came away with more knowledge of the band than they themselves probably know. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/15 "2000-05-31T01:48:23Z")
My vote for semi-neglected gem is “Hang Fire.” I thought I’d heard all the “good” Stones songs on the radio, and then I heard that one. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/16 "2000-05-31T05:02:48Z")
My favorite would have to be Angie. For some reason, that song just gets to me. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/17 "2000-05-31T23:42:46Z")
Awright! Stones fans! (Ignore those Beatle-fan wusses.) My top ten: [list=1] [li] **Gimme Shelter**. Best rock song ever written in my view.[/li][li] **Waiting on a Friend**.[/li][li] **Paint it, Black** [/li][li] **Sympathy for the Devil** [/li][li] **Moonlight Mile** [/li][li] **Beast of Burden** [/li][li] **Street Fightin’ Man** [/li][li] **Dead Roses** [/li][li] **Satisfaction** Great song. Would be higher, but it’s been over-played.[/li][li] **Play with Fire**. Not sure that’s the correct title…[/li][/list=1] ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/18 "2000-06-01T04:59:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Awright! Stones fans! (Ignore those Beatle-fan wusses.) Hey! Some Beatles fans can like Stones music…probably because they are secure in the knowledge that the Beatles are superior to the Stones in every way…but at any rate \*\* You Can’t Always Get What You Want Wild Horses Paint it Black Missing You (I think. “…Cuz I’ve been missing you. I’ve been walking after dark, walking in the park…people think I’m crazy” Or something like that) Get Off of My Cloud As Tears Go By \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/19 "2000-06-01T05:12:10Z")
Phewy on all of you. The Beatles AND the Stones are kicking. Fave songs: 1. Paint It Black 2. Wild Horses 3. She’s A Rainbow 4. Mother’s Little Helper 5. Let’s Spend the Night Together All of these (except for Wild Horses) are on Rolling Stones Big Hits Vol. 2, a must-buy. Also, if you like Dave Matthews Band too, there is an excellent duet between DMB and the Stones for Wild Horses, floating around Napster. Good luck finding it though! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones/20529/20 "2000-06-01T07:09:05Z")
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