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Clarkie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:23 AM
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What is the greatest Rolling Stones Song?
The Rolling Stones are in my hometown. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to one of the shows, but it has me thinking...what is the greatest Stones song of all time? What song best represents the essence of the Stones?

For me, only two songs are even in competition....Can't Get no Satisfaction and Sympathy for the Devil. I choose Sympathy for the Devil because I think it's more refined, and dare I say, tasteful....
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:26 AM
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1. Well, I must thank them for Satisfaction.
Without which, Devo couldn't have deconstructed it.

Having said that, I kinda like Emotional Rescue.
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:35 AM
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2. For sheer infectious groove
and loose pocket playing that is a good part of their "essence" for me, I'd say Tumblin Dice.

Can't Always Get What You Want is a pretty kick ass arrangement of a solid song.

But putting it all together my fave is probably still Gimme Shelter.
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mokawanis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:39 AM
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4. Agree with darkstar
Gimme Shelter still sounds great after all these years.
2nd choice for me is Sympathy for the Devil.
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painted_black Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:39 AM
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3. I caught their show!!
I was at the Tampa show and it fuckin rocked. People of all ages came out for a night of timeless rock n roll

As to the greatest Rolling Stones songs, here are the top ten in this order

1. Paint it Black

2. Moonlight Mile

3. Jumping Jack Flash

4. Gimme Shelter

5. Sympathy for the Devil

6. Wild Horses

7. Miss You

8. Shattered

9. Satisfaction

10. Coming Down Again
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:43 AM
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7. So did I!
I was at the Anaheim Stadium show a few days ago. It kicked ass, easily THE best concert I've ever been to. I mean after the Stones, how is it possible to top that?
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painted_black Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:44 AM
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8. only one band can top them.....
the Stones make a big bang, but the band I'm thinking of will give you vertigo
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:47 AM
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10. Ah of course! U2
U2, while I dont have a lot of their studio stuff, is one band that's WAY high on my list of bands to see live.

But... the only thing that could top THAT would be Paul McCartney. And I did get to see him last Friday!
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painted_black Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:53 AM
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11. speaking of which
I'm actually gonna be seeing U2 in about 16 hours from now.

As for Sir Paul, his solo stuff is way too MOR for my tastes
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:31 PM
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51. I love "Coming Down Again"
It's good to see somebody else actually mention that one. Some of my other favorites are "Out of Time", "Sway", "Wild Horses", "Street Fighting Man", "Gimme Shelter", "Heart of Stone", "Tell Me", "No Expectations", "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Dandelion", "I Got the Blues", "Under My Thumb", and "As Tears Go By." (And those are just off the top of my head, so I'm sure I'm leaving out some obviously great ones.)
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:42 AM
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5. Sympathy for the Devil and Honky Tonk Woman



(more cow bell)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:25 AM
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6. 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'
Not only the greatest Stones' song, the greatest rock 'n' roll song in history.

And don't argue with me. :spank:
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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:18 AM
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17. No argument from me... I LOVE that song!
JoBeth Williams playing it at the funeral at the beginning of "The Big Chill" is one of the great moments of movie history.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 12:23 PM
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42. Great song, not a great rock and roll song
Does it make folks want to shake their hips and knock boots? I think not. Numerous songs do that better, like Chuck Berry's Oh Carol.
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ernstbass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 12:42 PM
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44. That gets my vote
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:46 AM
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9. Sympathy For The Devil is my personal fav
Hell it's one of my favorite songs period.

Some of my other picks:

- Let It Bleed
- Paint It Black
- Street Fighting Man
- When The Whip Comes Down
- Gimme Shelter
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:25 AM
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20. That + anything from "Exile" + 19th Nervous Breakdown
Okay that is three.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:37 AM
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30. Agreed :) n/t
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:55 AM
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12. You Can't Always Get What You Want

specifically the live version from the Mick Taylor era
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:23 AM
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19. I absolutely love love love that song
:D
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 11:56 AM
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40. AGREED!!!
I LOVE that song!!!
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Parrcrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:56 AM
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13. I can only speak of my favourite
and that can always change. I must admit a special affection for 'She's Like a Rainbow'
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 06:55 AM
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14. It is difficult to narrow it down to one song.
I like Sympathy For the Devil
Mother's Little Helper
Jumpin Jack Flash
Gimme Shelter.


:-)
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 07:28 AM
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15. tumblin dice, jumpin jack flash and satisfaction
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:01 AM
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16. My personal faves....Start Me Up and Miss You....
...but love 'em all! :headbang:
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:21 AM
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18. Satisfaction or Jumping Jack Flash...
... Satisfaction is one of the coolest lyrics ever written, JJF the coolest guitar texture. :)

"he can't be a man cuz he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me".

20 years ahead of its time !
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:41 AM
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21. Gimme Shelter.
So many great songs, though, and I'd say Exile on Main Street is their best album.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:31 AM
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27. gets my vote too
I also like "Brown Sugar"
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 11:55 AM
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39. I'll third that
I love that song.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:57 AM
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22. All Down the Line
from Exile on Main Street, with Rocks Off, and Tumbling Dice.

The whole Beggars Banquet record, one of their very best.

Honky Tonk Women
Jumping Jack Flash
19th Nervous Breakdown
Time is on My Side
Paint It Black
Satisfaction
Sympathy for the Devil
Monkey Man
Brown Sugar
Connection
Under My Thumb, as politically incorrect as it might be
Get Off of My Cloud
Route 66, their version.

I could go on, and on.
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:28 AM
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26. Man, I didn't need to hear that.
I only own a few Stones CDs, and almost all of them are live-recorded albums: Flashpoint, Steel Wheels, and Live Licks. Love 'em. Beggar's Banquet is the only studio-made Stones album I have, and I hate it. It sounds like they took a bunch of cool songs and remixed them for playing in a dentist's office. If that's how they always play when they're not in front of an audience, I'm not buying any more of their CDs.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 10:28 AM
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36. You just don't truly appreciate the Stones yet ....
It really is one of their very best albums, at the peak of their artistic career.
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:58 PM
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54. What?! No "Love You Live'? n/t
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 11:51 AM
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38. I forgot 19th Nervous Breakdown.
That is another good one. :thumbsup:
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:58 AM
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23. Street Fighting Man
:bounce:
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:59 AM
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24. Street Fighting Man is my favorite
Satifaction is pretty much generally recognized as their "greatest"
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:44 AM
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32. I'd say it's my favorite too. nt
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:59 AM
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25. She's a Rainbow. eom
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:33 AM
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28. "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" is a fave of mine...
Just wanted to give it some props here... "Sympathy", "Satisfaction", and "Shattered" are also big time faves.

Have a weird affection for "Far Away Eyes" too...
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:33 AM
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29. SFTD. Undoubtedly.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:38 AM
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31. Not sure about the greatest, but my favourite is definitely "I Am Waiting"
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:55 AM
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33. "Time Is On Our Side"
That just about says it all, doesn't it?
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 10:21 AM
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34. Gimme Shelter or Monkey Man
Gotta be one of those two...
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 10:23 AM
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35. Shattered
Edited on Wed Nov-16-05 10:23 AM by Richardo
Absolutely.

"Some Girls" is the only Stones record (and I DO mean record) I own, and it's because of that song. :thumbsup:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 10:29 AM
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37. Every. Single. One.
The Stones Rock.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 12:08 PM
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41. Under My Thumb or Heart of Stone
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 12:26 PM
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43. I really like Sweet NeoCon, the newer one
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regularguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 12:54 PM
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45. Midnight Rambler. Rocks Off.
And a shitload of others. Worlds Greatest Rock-n-Roll Band!
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:07 PM
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46. "I Can't Get None ('Cause I'm in Traction)"
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chaska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:10 PM
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47. Paint it Black.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:10 PM
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48. Satisfaction
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:15 PM
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49. "Slave"
Love the drum/bass line. And the part near the end with the drum fill and then the organ and the horn....ahhhh.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:19 PM
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50. Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Loving Cup, Tumbling Dice
Edited on Wed Nov-16-05 01:20 PM by Jara sang
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:34 PM
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52. Gimme Shelter IMHO,
but the whole Mick Taylor period (Let It Bleed through It's Only Rock 'n' Roll) is so rich in great songs that it's hard to say. I also love "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'", "Time Waits for No One," "Monkey Man," "Brown Sugar" and so many more. The loathesome "Angie" is a minus, though. Mick trying to sing cloying and romantic is enough to make me blow cookies.

Of the earlier stuff, "Paint It Black", "Satisfaction" and "She's a Rainbow" are plenty cool.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 02:53 PM
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53. "Silver Train" is the most undervalued Stones song.
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HuskerDU Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 03:13 PM
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55. My favorite has been 'Rip this Joint' for a very long time
now. The epitome of RnR IMO.
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 03:14 PM
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56. I love Dead Flowers and Moonlight Mile
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