[Closed] Best Stones Track

Turn To Stone?

I'd go with Gimme Shelter too.

deffo Sympathy

Jumpin jack flash

Street Fighting Man or You Can't Always Get What You Want for me.

When sober, Sympathy.

When drunk, Brown Sugar. I love to leap around to songs about heroin..!

How can a band produce so much quality work, then overnight lose all apparent musical ability and go on to produce relentless, unfettered garbage?

Oh... and either BTW

Brown Sugar. I love to leap around to songs about heroin..!

all the best songs are about skag it seems.

Gimme Shelter.

+1 for binners

Honky Tonk Woman when in a club, You Can't Always Get What You Want when at home...

gimme shelter ..... song has it all

gimme shelter

Gimme Shelter

Not just the best Stones track, but one of [i]the[/i] best tracks of all time.

Sympathy,Can't always get what you want. and agree with binners although Saint of me was a brief highlight in all the pish since whenever

Paint it black

Gimme Shelter, but occasionally I'll say Can't You Hear Me Knockin' has a bit more to it.

gimme shelter but I also really like paint it black.

I did like the new one, "No Spare Parts" although very much like "Can't always get what you want" but if asked (I wasn't) I would have said 1970ish, not 2011

2nd best Stones' track = Miss You

Sleazy, seventies, lounge lizard perfection

Shine a light..

Really there is no better..

Apart from maybe Wild Horses that is..or maybe Street Fighting Man..damn its not easy is it?

Gimme shelter

Or my second choice would be under my thumb, love the way it drives along.

Bitch, Live With Me, Tumbling Dice, Ventilator Blues etc - Christ, when the Stones were on it they were [i]really[/i] on it.

& Dead Flowers for something a bit different

Walking alone at night or coming into an empty flat after a hard day, can't beat Sister Morphine

Misogynistic maybe, but Under My Thumb is a cool track.

Gimme Shelter is immense. The intro gives me goosebumps 🙂
19th Nervous Breakdown is another favourite.

Sympathy for the Devil. Those guitar solos never get old.
Gimme Shelter is just as great though. Can't choose.

Hate to agree with someone stupid enough to [i]prefer(s) the Thunder version[/i]

TandemJeremy - Member

Jumpin jack flash

my god, I agree with TJ?! ...

although to be fair, arent all of the above tracks just amazing?
ive got the Stones embedding deep in my soul...even got this lot signed up to play at my wedding next year! 😆 :

http://www.nottherollingstones.com/watch.php

If pushed, and I had to choose one above JJF... Midnight Rambler (live). The solo is like liquid ecstasy.

Play with Fire

Can I change my mind?

I really like "I cant get no satisfaction.." right now..

If a had to pick one ... Brown Sugar

But I like the early stuff, Not fade way especially

cant believe no ones said it yet - rocks off is their best song, off their best album....

She's a Rainbow.

Paint it Black

I've never really got in to the Stones. Got a spotify playlist of the best bits now, cheers!

Don't be silly, you can't pick one. Satisfaction, 19'th nervous breakdown, jj flash, sf man, sympathy, dead flowers, shelter, cag what you want, etc etc etc

not enough uumph to Gimmie Shelter? you're not listening to it right

best albumn has to be beggars though

Best album's exile on main street (get it right)

Don't be silly, you can't pick one. Satisfaction, 19'th nervous breakdown, jj flash, sf man, sympathy, dead flowers, shelter, cag what you want, etc etc etc

not enough uumph to Gimmie Shelter? you're not listening to it right

best albumn has to be beggars though

Amen brother!

Although my desert island disc would be Exile on Main St.

For me it sympathy followed by street fighting man, I also have a thing for paint it black as its the song that got me in to listening to the stones.

Anything by the beatles...

Tbh the stones were a great rock n roll band but a little one dimensional. Red Rooster would be my favourite.

But even that pales into insignificance next to something like 'being for the benefit of mr kite' or 'come together'.....

Is it time for an 'obvious troll is obvious' pic?

Beatles and Stones are different bands, different music. equal but different

Get off of my Cloud, for me, although I know the Stones didn't rate it.

On the Beatles vs the Stones. Again IMHO; the Stones were on it from the start, their early stuff still sounds amazing (almost anything listed above could have been a pick for me), but then they probably should have disbanded / died before they became a bit Dad rock.

The Beatles would have been amazing at the start but purely for the novelty that no-one was making 2 minute pop songs like that. Now others also do it while the Beatles are still quite good, they don't stand out in quite the same way as they would have done in 1962. Whereas their later stuff, the George Martin backlooped tapes and the drug / mystical influenced stuff is still jaw droppingly good now.

So there you have it - early Stones / later Beatles.

Difficult, it should be Gimmee Shelter but I just love the swagger of Under My Thumb.