Mick Jagger Turns 60 Today So Name Your Favorite Stones Song

[DemBones DemBones]

I'll go with "Satisfaction," one of the great rock songs.

[Journeyman]

1. Street Fighting Man. . .

though I've never been much of a Stones' fan.

[Ishoutandscream]

25. Same here. Look at my board name

"I shout and scream, I kill the king, I rail at all his servants."

[sasquatch]

34. Me too

That song is great. Reminds me of political rally's

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Hmmmmmm so many songs

Gotta go with Girl With Faraway Eyes

[MinnFats]

"Gimme Shelter" is the greatest Rock song of all time.

listening closely to the opening guitar licks, the vibrato turned way up, and you can positively see the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse riding toward you...


But today I heard "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," turned it up real loud, and for a few minutes THAT was the greatest rock song of all time.

Stones had four records come out consecutively without a single bad song on them:
Beggar's Banquet
Let it Bleed (a clever smackdown to "Let it Be")
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street.

All four are towering achievements. No other band has done so well in four consecutive outings...

[JackSwift]

5. I'll second only Sticky Fingers

The whole album is great, and is among my favorite 10. Every song a winner and builds on what came before. I agree that Gimme Shelter is awesome. That song alone is worth the $75 I paid to see them a few years ago. Go see them live. Beast of Burden should be mentioned here too.

[MinnFats]

3. "Gimme Shelter" is the greatest Rock song of all time.

listening closely to the opening guitar licks, the vibrato turned way up, and you can positively see the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse riding toward you...


But today I heard "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," turned it up real loud, and for a few minutes THAT was the greatest rock song of all time.

Stones had four records come out consecutively without a single bad song on them:
Beggar's Banquet
Let it Bleed (a clever smackdown to "Let it Be")
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street.

All four are towering achievements. No other band has done so well in four consecutive outings...

[ChillEB]

9. NO other band?

Those four are truly a towering achievement, but THE ONLY? That's a pretty bold statement, my friend...

How'z about:

Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles
Abbey Road

or
Bringing it on Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde
John Wesley Harding
Nashville Skyline

or
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Houses of the Holy
Physical Graffitti

or
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall

or
The Head on the Door
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Disintegration
Wish

or
Fables of the Reconstruction
Lifes Rich Pageant
Document
Green
Out of Time
Automatic for the People

or
Boy
October
War
The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree
Achtung Baby

But back to the matter at hand...

I hate to just go along with the majority on threads like this one, but I gotta pick "Gimme Shelter" as well. Honorable mention to "Miss You"...

[Must_B_Free]

4. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing In The Shadows)

is a little better than The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man

[jpgray]

6. Sympathy for the Devil

Great one.

[Exultant Democracy]

29. yep n/t

[jus_the_facts]

7. You Can't Always Get What You Want.......

.....but if ya try sometimes you just might find....ya get what ya need!

[argyl]

8. "Gimme Shelter"

xx

[Maccagirl]

10. Waiting On A Friend

and many, many others...

Happy Birthday Mick!

:party:

[Algorem]

11. Right now,"Time Waits For No One".

60.Crikee.

[MuseRider]

12. Love many but

Paint it Black is my all time favorite.

[leftist_rebel1569]

19. same here

[Punkingal]

13. Hard to pick just one.....

but I will say "Ruby Tuesday."

[maxanne]

14. Gimme Shelter

Keith Richards was at his peak of guitar god-dom then.

[Zorro]

15. Too Many Great Songs to Pick Only One

I'm quite partial to a couple of their more obscure songs, though.

Monkey Man and Parachute Woman are great to play guitar along with. Monkey Man in particular gets me hopping around the room.

[Ashes]

16. What a Drag it is Getting Old

la la la
la la la
la la la la la la la

[jenk]

36. it's called "Mothers Little Helper"

.

[mitchum]

17. "Brown Sugar" written completely by Jagger (okay, maybe a little...

help from Ry Cooder)

[LWolf]

18. One????

Here's a few, in random order:

Out of control
sympathy for the devil
Far away eyes
You can't always get what you want
Mother's little helper
Beast of burden
saint of me

[Skittles]

20. it's all over now

baby used to stay out, all night long; she made me cry, she done me wrong.......

[Elidor]

21. I'm not a big fan, but Richards is the quintessential rhythm guitar player

I'd never really noticed just how good he was until a bad connection in one of my speakers dropped out half the stereo mix and I was left with mostly his rhythm guitar work on Honky Tonk Women. The man is a genius. I can't pick just one.

Miss You
Heartbreaker
Gimme Shelter
Monkey Man
Honky Tonk Women
Brown Sugar
It's Only Rock'n'Roll
Midnight Rambler
Shattered
Time is on My Side

[TheBigGuy]

22. Angie....didnt like it when it first came out...

...but I really like it now. Its probably my favorite 'Stones tune.

[cosmicdot]

23. Let's Spend the Night Together

the bad thing about Mick turning 60 is ... I'm only 7 years behind him

what's strange is Mick is the same age as my older sister, and she's, like, 2000 light years behind Mick in coolness

Through the Past Darkly


1. Paint It, Black
2. Ruby Tuesday
3. She's a Rainbow
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash
5. Mother's Little Helper
6. Let's Spend the Night Together
7. Honky Tonk Women
8. Dandelion
9. 2000 Light Years from Home
10. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing in the Shadow?
11. Street Fighting Man

[AbbieLives]

24. I'll have to go top 5...

1. Monkey Man
2. Torn & Frayed
3. Stray Cat Blues
4. Rocks Off
5. Rip This Joint
with apologies to Shattered & Before they Make Me Run.
Also, Exile is the greatest album I've ever heard.

[Algorem]

26. "Hey you,get off my bedpan"

"2000 light years since my last viagraless boner","Angina"

[mac56]

27. Top five:

1. Satisfaction
2. Heart Of Stone
3. Beast Of Burden
4. Get Off My Cloud
5. Stupid Girl

[NotesFromAnIntrovert]

28. My favorite remains: "Start Me Up".

n/t

[Alexander]

30. Mick and Keith treated the greatest Stone like shit.

Brian Jones was his name. He formed the Rolling Stones in 1963 and was their original leader, until Andrew Loog Oldham turned up and decided he hated Brian and that Mick and Keith should be the leaders.

Brian and Keith co-wrote "Ruby Tuesday" (Actually it was mostly Brian who wrote it, and Keith wrote a bit of the music), and who got credited? Jagger/Richards. Not Jones/Richards, or Jagger/Richards/Jones, or even Nanker Phelge (that credit was the band's way of saying they all wrote parts of the song).

And I remember reading in Bill Wyman's new book that Mick and Keith, on the "Flowers" album cover, thought it would be hilariously funny to give Brian's flower no leaves on the stem. "Truth is, I never got the joke", said Wyman.

And I will never forgive Richards for stealing Brian's girlfriend Anita Pallenberg away from him. Wyman even called that a "betrayal" and said that "the band would never be the same again".

They mind-fucked Brian, the musical genius that he was (he had an astronomically high IQ and played about 30 different instruments with the Stones).

And now, someone is trying to make a film about their horrible treatment of him, called "The Wicked World Of Brian Jones". Mick and Keith are asking Allen Klein, who holds the rights to the earlier songs, not to let the producer use these songs in the movie, so that they can cover their asses and not let the world know that they are a couple of truly disgusting human beings.

By the way, any time you see or hear Jagger play the harmonica, remember who taught him how to do it. Brian Jones. And his payment? Well, he was thrown out of the Stones in 1969 and drowned (probably murdered) in his pool a month later.

My favorite Stones song used to be "Time Is On My Side", but recently I've decided I like "Ruby Tuesday" better. Note that Jagger didn't write either of these songs.

So sure, happy birthday, Mick, you're 60. And happy birthday to Keith, when he turns 60 on December 18th (although his 10-year heroin addiction makes him look closer to 70).

Brian would have been 61 had he been alive today, on February 28th. I'll save my biggest birthday wishes for him.

[mitchum]

33. They certainly did (and it's a goddamn shame)

He also essentially taught Keith how to play. When they were sitting around Edith Grove, it's pretty obvious who was giving the guitar lessons.
But to be fair, Brian was also a prick (holding back money, beating Anita, going along with the sacking of Ian Stewart, etc..) All three of them were amoral individuals who just happened to form the greatest rockandroll band in the world.

[peterh]

31. the greatest song to be played at a wedding reception….

“under my thumb”……without question

uhhh….ducking :evilgrin:

[Christian73]

32. For me, it's

"Angie." I have always loved that song. Since I was a little kid.

[jenk]

35. Monkey Man

and probably "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" at #2