DUers' favorite ROLLING STONES song!

Earlier today I took nominations, since I wasn't going to wade through all those records and try to winnow out 9 songs. Here's the results, in case you're curious (Yes I AM anal-retentive!):
19th Nervous Breakdown xx
Angie xx
Beast of Burden xxx
Bitch x
Can You Hear Me Knockin' x
Citadel x
Connection x
Dandelion xx
Dead Flowers x
Emotional Rescue x
Faraway Eyes x
Get off of my cloud x
Gimme Shelter xxxxxxxx
Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadows xxx
Hide Your Love x
I am Waiting x
It's All Over Now xx
Jumpin Jack Flash xxxxxx
Lady Jane x
The Last Time x
Let It Bleed xx
Midnight Rambler x
Miss You x
Monkey Man x
Moonlight Mile x
Mother's Little Helper x
Paint it Black xxxxxxxx
Ruby Tuesday xxx
Satisfaction xxxxx
Shattered x
Sister Morphine x
Street Fightin' Man xxxx
Sway x
Sweet Virginia x
Sympathy for the Devil xxxxxxx
Time Is On My Side x
Tumblin' Dice xxx
When the Whip Comes Down x
Wild Horses xx
You Can't Always Get What You Want x

I didn't limit folks to one nominated song, and only about one or two people could limit themselves to just one. This indicates that one possible reply to this poll would be to answer the question: How many of the above could you not decide from? Just a thought.

Of the four songs that got three votes, only three would fit. I cut "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby?" on the grounds that it's a little less familiar to most folks and that the Stones need to be punished for that dang mariachi horn section. Cool tuba part, though.

Unbelievably, nobody said "Brown Sugar." It has a special place in my heart as the only song ever that made even me dance. Ah well.

Everybody knows that "Other" is going to win; let's do it!

Great riff!

"Honky Tonk Women" Mick Jagger (or Ry Cooder)
"Jumpin'Jack Flash" Bill Wyman
"Brown Sugar" Mick Jagger
"Start Me Up" Mick Jagger

Hell, maybe Mick Taylor showed Keith "Monkey Man"

..and probably wasn't in the band when it was written. Though "Let It Bleed" was the first Stones album with Mick Taylor, he actually only played on two songs "Country Honk" and "Live With Me".

And Keith definitely wrote "Bitch". There's no question about that one.

For the record, my favorite Stones song of all time (if I could narrow it down to one) would be the live version of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" from the Mick Taylor era. And the version of "Tumbling Dice" on Brussels Affair 1973 runs a very close second.

and he is apparently responsible for a good half dozen Rolling Stones songs. Drink is not the only thing that Keef soaks up like a sponge.
The authorship of a lot of the material from the golden period will always remain shadowy. Ex: Did Parsons "give" the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses"? Who knows? Their version still smokes the Burritos version.

Just perfect in every way.

while the guy was getting knifed at Altamont.
Talk about not considering the energy you are giving off from stage.
That's why I voted for Gimme Shelter.

Go ahead, flame me, I probably deserve it.:evilgrin:

Link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stones

It's right at the end of Under My Thumb. Though the band, Mick in particular, thought that the violence in the crowd started to get out of hand during "Sympathy for the Devil", and as a result, the Stones wouldn't play the song live again until 1976.

In reality, the tension was high at the Altamont show from the beginning. As also seen in the movie, one of the Hell's Angels punched Marty Balin in the face in the middle of Jefferson Airplane's set. The Grateful Dead, who were one of the scheduled acts, refused to even play due to the negativity.

always liked that line
"Please don't dominate the rap Jack if you've got nothing new to say"
from New Speedway Boogie
"in the heat of the day, men died from cold"

:7

Tumblin' Dice's lyrics sound like a rap song. I think it's a great song and I don't ususally listen to rap, but I give them credit for kind of pioneering a whole genre of music with that song. It's awesome anyway, though.

then you're going to have to call Subterranean Homesick Blues by Dylan (from 1965) a rap song too.

Rap is just the most recent manifestation of signifying and the dozens which has been around for a thousand years in African culture.
here's a big book on the subject --
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ok, lecture over:)

:P

:o

:D

..in tatters!

that so many other people liked Gimme Shelter! It's particularly appropriate for the times we are living in now....

but all these selections are kewl...who could ever pick Paint it Black over Gimme Shelter or even Sympathy...

But some I am surprised didn't get mentioned...

Rocks Offs, Stray Cat Blues, We Love You (the cell door slamming is too kewl), Fool to Cry, etc...

And choosing Faraway Eyes over Undercover of the Night...um...well

But I am surprised that no one here at DU!!! didn't nominate Salt of the Earth!!

I probably should have kicked the nominations thread rather than go ahead and make the poll, but it seemed like a pretty representative selection. As a couple of extremely strung-out philosophers once said, "You can't always get what you want..."

I always rank them higher than the Beatles...

Even though their output isn't what it was after 1972...their stuff is always interesting and their early London stuff is actually quite innovative...
They don't get the credit IMHO

Has anyone ever heard Michael Hedges version of that one?
It gave me chills when I first heard it.

"Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing In The Shadows," for my money, is hands-down the coolest Stones tune, period, I will brook no argument on the point. (Which really, why argue it anyway since it's a matter of preference, but I digress.) The mariachi horn section MAKES it; I'm very disappointed in you, undisclosedlocation.

Whew - deep breath taken; OK, I'm over it. Who wants pie?

One of the noisiest singles ever!

Also, the first record I ever bought as a wee child.

called brownie tiramisu that makes a nice alternative.

I was just teasing about "Have You Seen Your Mother?"; needed an appropriately goofy reason to cut one song from the poll.

However, my other several Stones favorites are:

"Bitch" -- if I could get a horn section on my cell phone, this would be the tune
"Tumblin' Dice"
"Mixed Emotions" (or, "Almost Hear You Cry")
and "She's So Cold"

Julie

Whoopi Goldberg as Terry Dolittle in Jumpin Jack Flash.

I love the smoothness of the groove and guitar riffs.

As much as I adore "Sympathy for the Devil", "Wild Horses" can still make me cry. So there's my vote.

It's crappily recorded (as is much of the 60s Stones material), Mick is unintelligible, but damn, whenever that song comes on, I cannot stop my feet from getting happy!

That is all.

but it just barely edges out "Jumpin'Jack Flash", "No Expectations", and "Let It Loose"

Recorded December 18, 1969 with Eric Clapton on slide guitar.

although that is Clapton's best playing

followed closely by the entire "Their Satanic Majesties Request" album. I adore the Stones! :D

I'm bad.:(

Followed by Sympathy for the Devil

I actually had the pleasure to see the Stones live last July in Toronto, definetly an experience.

Dandelion'll do tho.

I've always been especially fond of that one.

. . .that other Du'ers may incinerate me if i gave my actual view on the question.
The Professor

off the album Black and Blue is one of my favorites. Otherwise, "Let's spend the night together" and "Beast of Burden"

First song on their best album.

I always play it when my fundie neighbors pop in for a snoop....