Rolling Stones

They are

 

Gimme Shelter
Sympathy For The Devil
Mixed Emotions
The Last Time
You Got Me Rockin
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)

 

Not the biggest Stones fan, but I'll gladly listen to just about everything on Let It Bleed and Exile on Main Street. If I had to pick one song it would probably be Paint It Black.

 

I'm amused that Shoeless Joe and buckweaver have three of the same top 4/5.

Although it changes regularly, tonight I'll go with:

Paint It Black
Sympathy for the Devil
Wild Horses
Gimme Shelter
You Can't Always Get What You Want

And like others said, I really enjoyed Saint of Me live (and the whole "Bridges to Babylon" tour, for that matter.)

 

Gimme Shelter is great. But this, my friends, is the definitive version. Played over the end credits to the movie. As the inside of the Let It Bleed album says, "This music is meant to be played loud." The bass changeover at :18 is one of the greatest things I've heard.

Raw as a motherfucker. Thank God for Mick Taylor, the greatest Stones guitar player.

 

1. Jumpin' Jack Flash

2. The Last Time

3. Ruby Tuesday

 

The wide stereo version of "Honky Tonk Women," played loudly, is as good as it gets, with Charlie Watts playing rollicking strip-joint drums and the saucy guitar riffs.

<i>"I laid a divorcee in New York City."</i>

The Stones have always been full of lines only they could get away with ("You make a dead man come") and instantly-recognizable riffs -- Satisfaction, Start Me Up, Brown Sugar...

Unless they have something up their sleeves at this late date, the last great Stones single was "Mixed Emotions."

<i>"Get off the fence now/You're creasing your butt."</i>

 

The Stones are the better band, by leaps and bounds in my opinion, but I will concede that it's tough to overstate the clear impact that Zeppelin has on current bands like the Black Keys.

Where does Mick Jagger rank as a rock lyricist? Behind Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, maybe Bernie Taupin, and ... not too many others, right?

 

Or this one:

"Black girls just wanna get fucked all night
I just don’t have that much jam"

 

1. Tumbling Dice





2. Shattered
3. I'm So Hot for You'
4. Beast of Burden
5. Get Off My Cloud

 

Behind the Beatles, Stones and who else? I certainly wouldn't bitch too much about Zep being No. 4 all-time, but I think they're way better than the Stones and I love the Stones.

 

My guess is he was probably including Bob Dylan, i.e. an individual artist.