Top Five Rolling Stones Songs of All Time (This Week)

[Jaguär]

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[Jaguär]

In no order:
 
 1. Monkey Man
 2. Star Star
 3. 2000 Light Years From Home
 4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
 5. (Too many other good older songs fighting for this one.)

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Start Me Up
 Hang Fire
 Little T&A
 Black Limousine
 Miss You

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by muschi:
 
 radio overplaying them is what probably ruined them for me. they were no beatles i'll tell ya that.
 
 there. ya glad u asked me?! now go away b4 i taunt u a SEC-ond tim-a       :p  

Ah, but that's the key, many of the best Stones songs are the ones that never or hardly ever made it to radio!

[grotty]

This week:
 
 Wild Horses  
 
 because of this last week:
 
  http://www.tokyoheights.com/images/Pictures%20of%20my%20trip/America/Pittsburgh/videos/eddieandmick.AVI
 
 [has a rough start but gets pretty cool - good thing for the big vid screen]

[bearman🐻]

1) Wild Horses
 2) Sympathy For the Devil (from Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out)
 3) Gimme Shelter
 4) I Am Waiting
 5) Sway
 
 (I would include the live version of Love in Vain, but they didn't write that song.)

[Bombay Chutney]

Monkey Man
 Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
 Shattered
 Sympathy For The Devil
 If You Can't Rock Me

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by The Artist Formerly Known As grotty:
  This week:
 
 Wild Horses  
 
 

Hey which PJ shows did you see in Canuck land? I rather enjoyed myself in London and Hamilton...
 
 I see that Robert Plant came out to play with the lads at that benefit concert in Chicago, if only the tickets weren't $1000 clams

[chaz]

No order....
 
 It's All Over Now
 Gimme Shelter
 Pain it Black
 Have Mercy
 Under My Thumb
 
 Shit they gotta lotta good songs..5 is impossible...

[grotty]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
   

Originally posted by The Artist Formerly Known As grotty:
  This week:
 
 Wild Horses  
 
 

Hey which PJ shows did you see in Canuck land? I rather enjoyed myself in London and Hamilton...
 
 I see that Robert Plant came out to play with the lads at that benefit concert in Chicago, if only the tickets weren't $1000 clams [/b]

ola Kosmo -
 
 I only got to see Kitchener - was really good (you do that one?) - Had to rush home for a family emergency so I missed London. Hamilton was maybe my favorite set list of the Canadian shows.
 
 Made up for it tho by catching the Pittsburgh Rolling Stones gig & then going to Philadelphia on Monday night. What a treat. Check out this set list - tons of rarities:
 
 PHILADELPHIA 10/5/05
 Set: Wash, Hail Hail, Brain Of J, Spin The Black Circle, Given To Fly, Sad, Alone, Even Flow, Green Disease, Faithfull, Whipping, Not For You, Leatherman, Betterman, Nothingman, Once, Bleed For Me, Blood
 
 Encore 1: Around The Bend, Harvest Moon (w/Sleater-Kinney), Hard To Imagine, Crown Of Thorns, Crazy Mary, Alive
 
 Encore 2: Last Kiss, In My Tree, Do The Evolution, Sonic Reducer, Little Sister (Elvis Presley cover), Leaving Here (w/Sleater-Kinney), Rockin' In The Free World (w/Sleater-Kinney), Yellow Ledbetter
 
 It's almost worth $1k to see them sing Thank You & Fool in the Rain with Robert Plant. Almost.

[kosmo vinyl]

only caught London and Hamilton... the guy who bought my extra ticket said the Kitchner show was the second best PJ show he'd ever been too...  The Hamilton show was a good setlist for me as well!

[grotty]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  only caught London and Hamilton... the guy who bought my extra ticket said the Kitchner show was the second best PJ show he'd ever been too...  The Hamilton show was a good setlist for me as well!

Kitchener was incredible - I'm letting it sit for awhile before I figure out exactly where it fits on my list - but, wow: tiny venue & still the loudest crowd I've ever heard. PM me your addy & I'll send you the boot. I've got London too for your listening pleasure.
 
 *************
 
 Back on topic        my real top 5 Stones songs are:
 
 Sway
 Stray Cat Blues
 Monkey Man
 Paint It Black
 Tumbling Dice
 Dead Flowers
 Gimme Shelter
 
 [I know that adds up to 7 but what can you do?...sophie's choice]
 
 Once upon a time this was a VERY good band.

[bryronic]

1) jigsaw puzzle - brunch buzz on a sunday morning & this song will make or break you
 2) (i can't get no) satisfaction - anthem if you decide you are broken
 3)wild horses - great sing along with strangers
 4) paint it black - i know i have had my black period
 5) sympathy for the devil - great sing along if home alone

[Arlette]

Saw the Stones last night in Charlottesville. About an hour in, Mick says, "uhh, we have to take  a 10 minute break.  (crowd goes boo hiss).  But the authorities are forcing us, it's  a technical issue. We'll be back."  Then....the bomb sniffing dogs come out on stage.  Then they cleared all of us off the first section floor seats (def like trying to herd cattle, it was a bit of chaos).  Yup, a bomb threat.  Not fun.  Show was delayed an hour while they checked the stage.  They didn't tell us any of this, but it was clear that they were looking for something on the stage.  Anyway, they came back out, Mick said "Thanks for your patience.  The police made us leave."  And the show continued.  Very weird to be there while you knew some crackpot had called in a bomb threat.  
 
 Anyway, fantastic stage, fantastic sound, but they are OLD.  Everytime the Jumbotron showed a closeup up Mick, Ron, or Keef I cringed.  They are very, very OLD and their faces looks like masks.

[Sage 703]

Yeah, I was at the show in Charlottesville too.  The bomb threat was nervewracking.
 
 I also thought they looked old; I think the Stones have sort of resorted to absolute spectacle to distract from the fact that they aren't as tight as they used to be (well, of course not, but you know what I mean).  I was blown away by Jagger's energy, however.  The band just didn't sound very tight - particularly noticable during Paint It Black.
 
 But all in all, a blast.  Glad that I was able to see them.