top ten Stones songs

[low_delta]

1. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
2. 2000 Light years from Home
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. Paint It, Black
5. Jumpin Jack Flash
6. Satisfaction
7. Street Fighting Man
8. Bitch
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want
10. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Comments

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Great list! Is it in order, with #1 being your favorite?

Let me try this, although it's going to have to be alphabetical:

Angie
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Gimme Shelter
Love in Vain
Moonlight Mile
No Expectations
Sister Morphine
Street Fighting Man
Sympathy for the Devil
Wild Horses

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's in order. Except the last four are all kinda tied. Damn, why didn't Gimme Shelter get on the list? That would be at 3, 4 or 5.

I thought about including Angie, but I decided that even though it's one of their best songs, it doesn't make my list of favorites. I'd put it in my top 20, though.

Memo from Turner is pretty cool, but I guess that one's a Mick solo tune.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Angie blows me away, every time. It's one of those rare songs that I can remember when I heard it for the first time. I was a teenager in St. Paul, driving my mom's car up the street from my house, when I heard it on the radio. I thought it sounded amazingly like Mick. Then I knew it had to BE Mick and the Stones. I had to pull over to the side of the street and let the song wash over me. It was a
real WHOA moment.

I must repeat that any Stones song is a zillion times better live. When they performed "No Expectations" for the first time in maybe decades during one of their last two tours (I'd have to look it up to be sure), a shocked hush came over the venue and we old-time fans pretty much held our breaths for the rest of the song. Another WHOA moment.

[northernsnokat.livejournal.com]

Tom will love this! I am not a Stones fan and maybe it is because I hear their CDs over and over on trips!

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

They're absolutely amazing live.

[seamusd.livejournal.com]

Exactly, except I'd put "Dead Flowers" somewhere in there. The point is that they haven't put out a decent record worthy of their name and reputation since _Exile on Main Street_, over 30 years ago.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

I like half of the cuts on their latest album, especially Rough Justice, but a couple of the songs are really bad. Really.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

My favorite record of theirs is Let it Bleed, and that or Sticky fingers was their peak. They trailed off pretty quickly after that.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Sticky Fingers is my personal favorite.

[(Anonymous)]

They make up for it during their incredible live performances.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me, Serendipity.

[i.livejournal.com]

what a bunch of doo doo.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

You're such a heartbreaker.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

painmaker

[i.livejournal.com]

it's true, just ask angie

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Some hearts were meant to be broken.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Some girls hearts were meant to be broken.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I like those choices, but I also like pretty much the entire Sticky Fingers album too.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

me too

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

If we were ever on a long road trip together, I don't think we'd argue over the CD player.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

me neither

[kingseyeland.livejournal.com]

I wanna play!

1. Under My Thumb
2. Gimme Shelter
3. Street Fighting Man
4. Paint It, Black
5. Satisfaction
6. She's A Rainbow
7. Play With Fire
8. Beast of Burden
9. Wild Horses
10. 2000 Man

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

There are a whole bunch of those early psychedelic tunes that I like, like "She's A Rainbow." "Mother's Little Helper," "19th Nervous Breakdown," etc.

I also like their earlier blues records, but none of the songs stand out enough to make it onto a list.