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    Greatest Stones song

    Well it's been talked about on the Beatles thread so why not.

    For me Honky Tonk Women will always be top but honourable mentions for a few ballads, Angie, Moonlight Mile, Wild Horses and Memory Motel.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Hiber-nation View Post
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    Well it's been talked about on the Beatles thread so why not.

    For me Honky Tonk Women will always be top but honourable mentions for a few ballads, Angie, Moonlight Mile, Wild Horses and Memory Motel.
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    Not the biggest Stones fan but do like them. Preferred their early R&B sound and got the albums from Decembers Children - Between The Buttons.

    As for their best song, got to be either Gimme Shelter, Paint It Black or Sympathy For The Devil. Although I like the simplicity and pop-iness of something like Connection or Under My Thumb.

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    Sympathy For The Devil
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    Big fan of Out of Time although also like the Chris Farlowe version.

    I was recently given a box of vinyl that had been gathering dust in a friends parents attic. Most of it was rubbish 50s stuff tbh but there was a mint copy of “Let it Bleed”. Virtually perfect condition and probably worth about £200, not that I’d sell it. That kinda got me back into the Stones and been listening to that and Sticky Fingers from time to time.

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    Not bad band - Tumbling Dice for me ...

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    Slightly off topic - only a casual fan and was taken along to the Murrayfield gig in 2018. What a fantastic live band, even in their seventies. Would have loved to have seen them when they would have been at their peak.


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    I really liked their early stuff like Oh Carol, Route 66 and I’m a King Bee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeeJay View Post
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    Not bad band - Tumbling Dice for me ...
    Glad to see my suggestion of a Stones thread was taken up, I think that makes me an ‘influencer’ but to be honest I’m not really sure what that actually means . But if I can monetise it then I’m not complaining........

    Once again, I agree with you on music. Great song and great album. The Stones do a couple of standard types of song. There is the laconic tune, sometimes slow, sometimes quicker, and ‘Tumbling Dice’ fits into that category perfectly.

    They are also the masters of the up-tempo, driven track and for me ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’ is the epitome, loaded up with a catchy hook. I heard a show on Radio 3 the other day about ‘popular’ music explaining the appeal of a backing chorus and how we are almost tuned to respond to it. One of the examples they used was the backing chorus in ‘California Dreamin’’ by the Mamas and the Papas, everyone sings along to the backing chorus not to the lead vocal. ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’ is similar, where one feels obliged to sing the ‘Bada-bada-ba-ba-bah-ba-ba’ rather than Jagger’s vocals.

    I agree with shouts for ‘Gimme Shelter’, Surely one of the most iconic intros in the history of rock.

    Final shout would be for ‘Wild Horses’, it just stumbles its way along in this beautiful, elegiac fashion. More than the sum of its parts.
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    Too many great songs, we decided years ago that it has to be a best album for The Stones.

    If pushed for a single Gimme Shelter today a different answer tomorrow.

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    I'm not actually a massive Stones fan, but Gimme Shelter is up there with the best songs of all time imo. That intro, the backing vocals....

    I'm assuming most folk on here will have seen 20 feet from stardom but I just love the bit where the backing singer talks about how her part in this song comes about. The look of pride on her face, Jagger's wee smile.

    A masterpiece.


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    Beast of Burden

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    Jumpin’ Jack Flash, top Keith riffing.

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    Most of the above but also like It's the Singer Not the Song.

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    Sympathy for the Devil for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye View Post
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    Once again, I agree with you on music. Great song and great album. The Stones do a couple of standard types of song. There is the laconic tune, sometimes slow, sometimes quicker, and ‘Tumbling Dice’ fits into that category perfectly.
    I read somewhere that Jagger wanted the song speeded up as he felt it was too slow, but Keef stuck to his guns and forced through the "laid-back groove" I think they got it spot on - Wyman wasn't on bass, strangely, Taylor did the duties for some reason ... for me, it was their last great album? A wee while ago now ...

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    Another hige catalogue to choose from. My fav justnow is you got me rockung...live @ copacabana in 2006
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    Some Girls is probably my favourite Stones LP.

    Miss you, Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me), Beast of Burden. All brilliant tracks

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    Wild horses is epic.

    Sympathy for the devil is superb.

    Brown sugar

    There's too many they are just amazing

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    It’s hard to pick one, but I’ll go for time on my side. There was a film that used that song all the way through, but I can’t remember what it was called.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lord bunberry View Post
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    It’s hard to pick one, but I’ll go for time on my side. There was a film that used that song all the way through, but I can’t remember what it was called.
    If it’s the one about the serial killer who is executed but then there are copycat murders, and Denzel Washington plays the cop who had arrested him, it was called ‘Fallen’.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye View Post
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    If it’s the one about the serial killer who is executed but then there are copycat murders, and Denzel Washington plays the cop who had arrested him, it was called ‘Fallen’.
    That’s the one, I loved that film. Every time he moves to another body he either sings or whistles that song.

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    Under My Thumb, Gimme Shelter, She's A Rainbow are all belters. Sympathy For The Devil is near perfection.

    Even think Doom & Gloom is a spectacular song for a band who had been around for so long at the time.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Northernhibee View Post
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    Slightly off topic - only a casual fan and was taken along to the Murrayfield gig in 2018. What a fantastic live band, even in their seventies. Would have loved to have seen them when they would have been at their peak.
    I saw them at the Usher Hall when they were in their prime. Emphasis in the word "saw" as you couldn't hear them for the screaming (… and no, I wasn't screaming)

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    All Down The Line.
    I thought the Mick Taylor years were their best musically. They became a hard-edged rock band and started filling stadiums.

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    Sitting here in the sunshine (of Lanzarote) listening to a lot of these "classic" Stones tracks after reading this thread, I love the pop hits but really lose myself in the earlier R&B tracks that Jagger & Richards curated together.

    Anyways, as modern tech would have it, I'm listening to the tracks on Deezer and my Google assistant pops up and lets me know the Stones will be performing in Florida when I'm over there for my summer hols,,,,5 minutes later I've got myself 3 tickets for the boys in Tampa on the 5th of July, so thanks to Hiber-nation and the rest of you contributing,,,,

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    Quote Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales View Post
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    Sitting here in the sunshine (of Lanzarote) listening to a lot of these "classic" Stones tracks after reading this thread, I love the pop hits but really lose myself in the earlier R&B tracks that Jagger & Richards curated together.

    Anyways, as modern tech would have it, I'm listening to the tracks on Deezer and my Google assistant pops up and lets me know the Stones will be performing in Florida when I'm over there for my summer hols,,,,5 minutes later I've got myself 3 tickets for the boys in Tampa on the 5th of July, so thanks to Hiber-nation and the rest of you contributing,,,,
    Awesome! Seen them at Hampden as part of the Bigger Bang tour. Unbelievable show & spectacle. Some spot to see them too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales View Post
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    Sitting here in the sunshine (of Lanzarote) listening to a lot of these "classic" Stones tracks after reading this thread, I love the pop hits but really lose myself in the earlier R&B tracks that Jagger & Richards curated together.

    Anyways, as modern tech would have it, I'm listening to the tracks on Deezer and my Google assistant pops up and lets me know the Stones will be performing in Florida when I'm over there for my summer hols,,,,5 minutes later I've got myself 3 tickets for the boys in Tampa on the 5th of July, so thanks to Hiber-nation and the rest of you contributing,,,,
    Sounds like a great place to see them. Don't go to Busch Gardens on the 4th as some clown did a few years ago, fast pass sold out and park filled to capacity.

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    Paint it black
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