STUDIO
Can’t You Hear me Knockin’
Sway
Memo from Turner
LIVE (from the Mick Taylor era)
Stray Cat Blues
Sympathy for the Devil
Midnight Rambler
Reading this thread I almost said “same here” to half of the posts, then I’d read a post that usurped the previous one… This is a very difficult question!
Sympathy for the Devil
Paint it Black
Miss You
Those are close to the only songs by the Stones I like, although I wouldn’t skip or change the channel if Gimme Shelter came on.
Sway
Torn and Frayed
Gimme Shelter
Hard, hard choices, those. The best rock band that ever was, despite being musically irrelevant for 40 years.
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Dandelion (somehow I knew I would be the first to mention this one. I have an irrational affection for 1967 British psychedelia.)
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash. (Simply one of the best classic rockers ever, up there with the Who’s “Happy Jack” and the Kinks’ “Victoria.”)
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She’s So Cold (it came out just before I left for college, so it’s inextricably connected with being 17-18 and all the delightful things about that age.)
Favorites as of today:
If You Can’t Rock Me/Get Off Of My Cloud (from Love You Live)
Happy
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
As of this moment:
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[li]Waiting On A Friend[/li][li]Satisfaction[/li][li]Hang Fire[/li][/ul]
Gimme Shelter
Rocks Off
Shattered
Memory Motel
Happy
Time Waits For No One
At this moment
Brown Sugar
Sway
19th Nervous Breakdown
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Sympathy for the Devil
Heartbreaker
Moonlight Mile
Beast of Burden
Ruby Tuesday
I love many of the rockers, but it’s interesting that my top 3 turn out to be mellow numbers. Even my “honorable mention” – the live (Ya Yas) version of Love in Vain – is mellow. Other faves include She Smiled Sweetly, Child of the Moon, Gimme Shelter, and Gotta Get Away. ETA: Dropo, the live version of Stray Cat Blues was what first turned me on to the Stones, at age nine!
My long-time Top Two are easy- for the past 40 years they’ve been:
It’s All Over Now and Beast Of Burden
Gimme Shelter for the mix of vocals I have heard that this is Mick Jagger’s favorite.
Paint It Black
Brown Sugar
Only by a little. I almost put this one down. It’s probably my #4.
Gimme Shelter
Wild Horses
Moonlight Mile
Dead Flowers and Out of Time could make the cut but I’ll put The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Ramones versions, respectively, on another list.
(Sticky Fingers would be such phenomenal album if it wasn’t for that Brown-Sugar-beginning-of-the-decline song.)
It’s Only Rock and Roll
She’s A Rainbow
Tumbling Dice
You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
Sympathy for the Devil
Ruby Tuesday
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
She’s So Cold
Brown Sugar
(On a different day, Dead Flowers or Honky Tonk Women may have made the list. :))