Greatest Rolling Stones Song of All Time?

[red dog 1]

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Since I am limited to only 10 choices for this poll, I will certainly not be able to list all the great songs the Rolling Stones have recorded; so don't get mad if your favorite is not among the ones listed.
(My favorite isn't listed either)

16 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Ruby Tuesday
	1 (6%)
	Brown Sugar
	1 (6%)
	Dead Flowers
	0 (0%)
	Gimme Shelter
	5 (31%)
	Jumpin' Jack Flash
	1 (6%)
	Paint It Black
	0 (0%)
	Satisfaction
	1 (6%)
	Sympathy For the Devil
	4 (25%)
	Can't You Hear Me Knocking
	1 (6%)
	You Can't Always Get What You Want
	2 (13%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Tobin S.]

1. I think it's "Ruby Tuesday"

Something totally out of character for them and we haven't seen a comparable song since then. It's my favorite by them anyway.

[red dog 1]

2. Great choice!

I love "Ruby Tuesday" as well.

I may insert it as one of the choices, depending upon how the poll goes.

[lastlib]

17. ^ ^ ^ THIS!! ^ ^ ^

("Satissfaction" is probably their ultimate song, but I love "Ruby Tuesday" and "Angie"!!)

("All the dreams we held so close, seem to all go up in smoke" -- WOW, what a line! )

[red dog 1]

21. I just added "Ruby Tuesday" to the list of options

Let's see how many votes it gets.

[BlueJazz]

25. Lady Jane

[Tom Ripley]

3. Brown Sugar: So wrong, but so right

[Skittles]

4. The Last Time

and All Over Now.......yes indeed

[melman]

5. Get Off of My Cloud

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. From the options, I'm good with Sympathy,

but I think Complicated, Angie, or Can't you hear me knocking, would be up there for me.

[Major Nikon]

7. My favorite

[lame54]

10. love the Keith songs

[Iggo]

8. Of the available options, Paint It Black.

I also like their hippy dippy songs like Ruby Tuesday and especially As Tears Go By.

But my all-time favorite is Angie.

[red dog 1]

22. I love their version of "As Tears Go By"

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I love Maryanne Faithful's version too.

[cwydro]

9. As Tears Go By

Love that song.

[WinkyDink]

15. Likewise---but by Marianne Faithfull.

[kwassa]

12. All Down the Line

[Doc_Technical]

13. "Bitch"

[tinymontgomery]

14. For me

For me, it's really hard to pick just one song from a group like the Stones, Beatles, Moody Blues, Airplane or any
group from 60' and early 70's. Depending on my mood depends on which song or group I'll listen to.

[red dog 1]

23. Moody Blues are almost in a class by themselves

I especially love "Tuesday Afternoon"

As far as The Jefferson Airplane", I saw them many, many times at the old Fillmore, before and after Grace Slick replaced Signe....I really liked Signe's voice...She quit the band to have a baby.

[Generic Brad]

16. "Just A Shout Away"

There are so many, it is impossible to list. They have a great catalogue of superb music.

[red dog 1]

24. "Just A Shout Away" is another truly great Rolling Stones song.

[betsuni]

18. I like the Stones' cover of "Down Home Girl"

[PassingFair]

19. Tough choice! I have to go with "Out of Time"

Reminds me of me!

[raccoon]

26. I love that one too. But I don't think I can name a favorite. nt

[Enrique]

20. Tumbling Dice

[pokerfan]

27. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Big fan of this song. As Rolling Stone magazine explains:

It's the Stones' greatest guitar extravaganza – brutal but wide-open and a rare moment of on-the-rec­ord, long-form jamming from a band that rarely indulged in sprawling musical explorations popular during the early Seventies. Maybe it isn't surprising, then, that the recording came about almost entirely by chance. The first third of the song is an elemental blues rocker rooted in a vintage fist-in-your-chops Richards riff and a funky, tight-coiled groove from Watts and Wyman. The extended instrumental section that comes in at the 2:40 mark happened because the band thought the song was over: "Toward the end of the song, I just felt like carrying on playing," Taylor recalled later. "Everybody was putting their instruments down, but the tape was still rolling, and it sounded good, so everybody quickly picked up their instruments again and carried on playing. It just happened, and it was a one-take thing." The results feature Taylor at his most fluid, playing Latin-tinged lines that wrap around Richards' bracing staccato shots. Saxophonist Bobby Keys adds a blues-wailing solo. "He was a very fluent, melodic player . . . and it gave me something to follow, to bang off," Jagger said of Taylor.

[red dog 1]

38. Thanks for that!

Great little story!

[LWolf]

28. 5 of those

and some more that aren't on the list.

[Miles Archer]

29. Prior to "Jumpin' Jack Flash," they'd NEVER done a song like that. NEVER.

That one was the game changer, in the same way "Revolver" was the game-changer for The Beatles.

I loved the radio hits like "Satisfaction," "The Last Time," and the rest...but JJF entered whole new, uncharted realms.

[Tom Ripley]

50. Thatt video invented everything that was cool about cool 70s rock

[PeteSelman]

30. Sympathy.

Possibly the greatest song ever by anyone.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Satisfaction for me

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Having turned into a teenager (and a guitarist) when the Rolling Stones just became popular, I remember Satisfaction putting them on a whole new level in people's minds. I think it turned them into the superstars they became. I don't see any other tune by them having such a dramatic effect on young people of the era.

Most of their hits were great and it would be hard to list them in order of preference, But I love Satisfaction, Ruby Tuesday, Paint It Black, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Last Time, Time Is On My Side for starters.

Here are some not listed that were also faves:

Really rockin fast version of Under My Thumb (from album Got Live If You Want It)

[musette_sf]

32. Interesting to see that "Angie" is tanking

never liked it anyway

[red dog 1]

36. I never liked "Angie" much either, so I'm replacing it with..

..Can't You Hear Me Knocking"

An outstanding Rolling Stones song...off their great "Sticky Fingers" album

[Ron Obvious]

33. Other: Time is on my side...

And I am unanimous in that.

Time... Time... Time... (pause) is on my side...

[Art_from_Ark]

34. 19th Nervous Breakdown

[Initech]

35. Incredibly difficult to narrow down to a top 10 but I'll take a stab at it:

- Satisfaction
- Street Fighting Man
- 19th Nervous Breakdown
- Time Is On My Side
- 2000 Light Years From Home
- Sympathy For The Devil
- Ruby Tuesday
- Tumbling Dice
- It's Only Rock N Roll
- You Can't Always Get What You Want

[red dog 1]

44. "Gimme Shelter" isn't in your top 10?

n/t

[Initech]

46. That's why I said it's incredibly difficult.

[red dog 1]

47. I know what you mean

I wish DU would allow more than 10 options in their polls.

[Cheese Sandwich]

37. Beast of Burden

deserves a mention here

[red dog 1]

39. I agree.

[The Second Stone]

40. Gimme Shelter

and for me its not close. How many movies has Scorsese used it in the soundtrack?

[red dog 1]

45. All of them?

(Except for "No Direction Home" of course.)

[Enthusiast]

41. I'm partial to this one right now. There are too many great ones.

[CrawlingChaos]

42. Easily Gimme Shelter. Not even close.

Even though I've developed a distaste for them over the years (based on what I consider their overall asshole-ishness) I still have to admit Gimme Shelter is a great song. I also love Tumbling Dice.

[red dog 1]

43. "Not even close" is right

"Gimme Shelter" is sure as hell leading the pack in this poll.

[kwassa]

48. My favorite live version of "Gimme Shelter"

with a phenomenal vocal and performance by Lisa Fischer in the middle of it all.

[olddots]

49. who can forget ....

Fred Rodger's version of Satisfaction ?

[KeepItReal]

51. Sympathy for the Devil... But I also like Under My Thumb

Eom

[red dog 1]

53. "Under My Thumb"....I love it too!

(Off their 1966 "Aftermath" album)

[rurallib]

52. Ask me tomorrow and the answer will be different - voting for Ruby Tuesday but.......

Mother's Little Helper holds a place in my head for the lyrics.

[red dog 1]

54. "What a drag it is getting old"

Ain't that the truth?

Like "Under My Thumb", "Mother's Little Helper" is off their great "Aftermath" album

[Throd]

55. Midnight Rambler

[red dog 1]

56. Outstanding song!

Off of their "Let It Bleed" album

[ghostsinthemachine]

57. Flip the Switch!