Favorite Rolling Stones song.

[peruban]

Poll question: Favorite Rolling Stones song.

I know, there are dozens, but it's a poll so let's see what gets what.

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. I don't know.

I can't pick just one! Good god man!

[redqueen]

2. Heartbreaker

Or maybe Beast of Burden, or Waiting on a Friend... too hard to pick one.

[MrSlayer]

3. Sway - Track 2 on Sticky Fingers.

Hard to pick anything over Sympathy but Sway just barely trumps it for me.

[gblady]

4. Get off my cloud!

nt

[Mudoria]

5. Tumbling Dice

[LeftyMom]

6. Beast of Burden. nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I've said this many times before

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is the greatest Rock 'n' Roll song in history. :thumbsup:

[zanne]

26. They're also words to live by. nt

[flvegan]

8. "Start Me Up" was my intro to the Stones

so I have to go with that one.

But, were I standing at a jukebox, I'd pick Sympathy for the Devil to play.

[greenbriar]

9. Start me up

is my fav too

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. Nearly impossible to narrow it down to one song

But if I had to go with one, it would be "You Can't Always Get What You Want" - specifically the live version as it was played when Mick Taylor was in the band....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0RZSoUj9wc

[MilesColtrane]

11. Shattered

Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
and look at me - i'm in tatters, yeah
I've been battered, what does it matter
Does it matter, uh-huh
Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm uh shattered

[rppper]

12. sympathy for the devil as far as the list goes...but....

"waiting on a friend" is probably my favoite...love the sax at the end...

ever heard janes addiction's version of sympathy? better than guns and roses....

[Tuvok Obama]

13. "If You Need Me"

from the album 12 X 5 (United States release)

[AzDar]

14. " Bitch". The horns are freaking awesome, and any song that can manage to work Pavlovian

theory into its lyrics is righteous by me...:applause:

[taterguy]

15. WTF? No "Under-Assistant West Coast Promo Man"

Your poll is incomplete.

[JVS]

16. Emotional Rescue

[bluesbassman]

17. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

One of the all time best hooks in rock. Bobby Keyes' sax solo in the middle, then Mick Taylor's Guitar solo to finish it off. One of my favorites from any band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzKczV_k6I4

[Guava Jelly]

18. Waiting on a friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuHYmQ9Fo1A

Watching girls go passing by
It aint the latest thing
Im just standing in a doorway
Im just trying to make some sense
Out of these girls go passing by
The tales they tell of men
Im not waiting on a lady
Im just waiting on a friend

A smile relieves a heart that grieves
Remember what I said
Im not waiting on a lady
Im just waiting on a friend
Im just waiting on a friend

Dont need a whore
I dont need no booze
Dont need a virgin priest
But I need someone I can cry to
I need someone to protect
Making love and breaking hearts
It is a game for youth
But Im not waiting on a lady
Im just waiting on a friend

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

19. Gotta be "Gimme Shelter"

because it still raises the hair on the back of my neck in fear after 40 years. "Can You Hear Me Knockin'" stands with it as the essence of Stonesness and has the greatest (Mick Taylor) guitar solo in the entire Stones canon.

#2. Time Waits for No One. Everlasting proof that the Stones, at least with Mick Taylor, could be world class elegant and gracefully chilling. Bowie wishes this song was one of his, and someone as totally cool as David Bowie never worries about things like this. Except for this song.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

29. The 1995 KILLER version with Lisa Fischer that Martin Scorsese used in "Casino"...

...to be precise, he used the part of the song where it "blows up real good" (Lisa's high note)...the look on Keith's face after she hits it is priceless.

I love the original, but Lisa, in this performance, nails it like Tina Turner on the best night 0f her life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JePvjyZ9K0A

The video was in the Stones film "Stripped"...the performance appeared on the Japanese EP of the Stripped performance of "Wild Horses" and also a later U.S. EP (don't remember which one).

It is NOT on the "Casino" soundtrack album...a common gripe among Scorsese's fans is that his amazing soundtracks for "Casino" and "Goodfellas" are not "complete," but c'est la vie, it's in the movie, and it's well-placed and memorable.

All due respect to Claudia Lennear, but Lisa...wow.

:toast:

[Deja Q]

20. The same one Microsoft used during the August 24, 1995 launch of Windows 95:

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

[hippywife]

21. Other: Sweet Virginia or maybe You Got To Move

I was a real Jagger Junkie back in the day and there aren't too many I didn't like, actually. :hi:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

22. Rip this joint!

2 minutes and 22 seconds of pure Rock n Roll! If I knew how to hot link to You Tube I would... :shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

23. Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown (mother's little helper)

[Inchworm]

24. Fool to Cry and Far Away Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzstjZiDk0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4

FOOL TO CRY
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

When I come home baby
And I've been working all night long
I put my daughter on my knee, and she say
"Daddy what's wrong?"
I put my head on her shoulder
She whispers in my ear so sweet
You know what she says?
"Daddy you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why."

You know, I got a woman
And she lives in the poor part of town
and I go see her sometimes
And we make love, so fine
I put my head on her shoulder
She says, "Tell me all your troubles."
You know what she says? She says
"Daddy you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
and it makes me wonder why."

Daddy you're a fool to cry
Oh, I love you so much baby
Daddy you're a fool to cry
Daddy you're a fool to cry, yeah
She says, "Daddy you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why."

She says, "Daddy you're a fool to cry
Daddy you're a fool to cry
Daddy you're a fool to cry
Daddy you're a fool to cry

Even my friends say to me sometimes
And make out like I don't understand them
You know what they say
They say, "Daddy you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why."

I'm a fool baby
I'm a fool baby
I'm a certified fool, now
I want to tell ya
Gotta tell ya, baby
I'm a fool baby
I'm a fool baby
Certified fool for ya, mama, come on
I'm a fool
I'm a fool
I'm a fool

:hi:

[old mark]

25. We had a pianist instead of a band at our wedding party, and

we got her to play "Sweet Virginia" as part of the ceremony before the party.
Personally, my favorite is "Can You Hear Me kknockin'", but I liked most of the Mick Taylor era and before.
Not a great fan if Woodie - he's just a fill-in, a place holder, a pal for Keith.

mark

[TZ]

27. What? No mention of Satisfaction?

Its worthy just cause I have this wonderful memory of going to a stones concert with my mother in the eighties and watching her jump up and down and yell like a teeny bopper when they played Satisfaction....

[Deja Q]

28. You do realize I'm going to go and cry now?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8279554&mesg_id=8279866

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[rucky]

30. Monkey Man

and 2000 Lightyears from Home

[datasuspect]

31. cocksucker blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFhuvg1SEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVVpAAQ1eWc

2000 light years from home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIGdWzXhqlo

[LibDemAlways]

32. Top of my list would be "Salt of the Earth" and "Miss You." n/t

[Iggo]

33. Paint It Black.

I wasn't aware they did anything good after that.

[derby378]

34. There needs to be an honorable mention for ANGIE

One of those lay-down-your-head breakup songs sung from the perspective of a guy who knew when to throw in the towel.

[Iggo]

39. You're right.

Who played piano on that one?

[ghostsofgiants]

35. "I Am Waiting"

[mitchum]

36. Brown Sugar (a history lesson that rocks)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

37. "Some Girls"............

I'm naughty.

[Dystopian]

38. Other...

Can't get better than Sympathy or Gimme Shelter...
But I've loved this one since forever...when it came out.

Spider & the Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSBYbyfTDxQ

peace~

[elkston]

40. Not a fan of the Stones, but I LOVE 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking'

One of the most addictive guitar riffs I've ever heard. I first heard it in the Johnny Depp flick "Blow", and I HAD to know where it came from!!!