best rolling stones ever

Satisfaction for me, The Dragon.

Sympathy for the Devil.

19th Nervous Breakdown

Respectable

Has to be before Altamont.
For me, Satisfaction but Jumping Jack Flash was pretty powerful too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RA4JRbNUM

paint it black
little red rooster
mothers little helper
last time

classics by the best band ever.

Get off of my Cloud for me. Maybe cos it brings back quite a few memories.

MEMO FROM TURNER


If you have to Google that, you're not a Stones fan.

If you're not a Stones fan and haven't heard it, go listen now -  it could easily turn you into a Stones fan.

They are in Las Vegas for a one-night show in Oct. at the new T-Mobile Arena (17,500 seats). Ticket prices up to £575 ($750), a very small limited number of cheap seats at £57 ($75) but average prices around £200 to £575.

Tickets sold out the following day but some are available on the resale market, higher than face value of course ! I know it's Las Vegas and all that, but when did concert tickets suddenly become this expensive. I'm a big fan of The Stones but not sure I'd pay those prices to see four 70-year-olds trying to look interested as the play Satisfaction for the millionth time !



The Rolling Stones
Wed, Oct 19, 2016 - 8:00PM
 
Event Info
Price: $75.00 - $750.00
Onsale: Fri, Jun 17, 2016 - 10:00AM PDT


Best Stones song for me, got to be Satisfaction.

That is pertinent and terrible info, Hound Dog. Shame on them.

For all I'm a Stones fan, Lennon crushes them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-b3fRisu50

Not in the same class, music wise or power wise, and Mick got jealous.

Even his first and second record, we wrote for him.

Out this month Rolling Stones In Mono Box Set, £120, 15 discs.

Those ticket prices are absolutely outrageous. Do the Rolling Stones need money so badly they rip off their most faithful fans. The $75 tickets were nowhere in sight, average price available £200 up to £575. Amazing that they sold out in 2 days ! On the resale market now average prices being asked $480 to $800 (£368 to £600+).

^ Heard that Lennon interview before and it's true what he is saying. And when the Stones first started they didn't really have any direction, just look at first few singles, Come On, and the old Buddy Holly song Not Fade Away, and the Beatles song I wanna Be Your Man. There was no shape to that early music. When Jagger and Richards started writing their own songs and when they done The Last Time, that was really the start of their musical evolution.

As Lennon says Satanic Majesties album was their copy of Sgt Pepper, but the Stones were not about Flower Power and it was all a bit wishy-washy and they were really only half-hearted hippies and got out of that very quickly.

For The Rolling Stones to be still going now in their 70's and to be able to sell out a 17,500 seat arena in 2 days - at those kind of prices !  Bloody amazing !

Time is on my side.
wild horses
angie
love in vain
sympathy for the devil
you can`t always get what you want
under my thumb
the last time
gimme shelter

sftd has to be up there

Just a "Phenomenal Band" ...but I love most their early stuff !

Miss You

Just about everything on the 'Aftermath' album.

Its common knowledge that they did covers in the early years including the Beatles "I Wanna Be Your Man". The Beatles also did covers before they got started, most bands do. But The Stones version absolutely blows the Beatles version to smithereens. Not many would argue that the Beatles were better musicians, and I wouldn't disagree either. Musically speaking The Beatles were way better than almost every band you can think of. But the Stones were way better performers, far better live and had far more presence about them. Their lyrics were menacing, edgy and controversial and although I can appreciate lots of great Beatles songs, very few of them would get in my all time fav tracks. Whereas I'd have at least 20 tones tracks in my top 100 of all time. But the whole Stones v Beatles clash is b0l10cks anyway - they weren't really rivals, that was just media spin, their music was very different and they were in fact great mates during the sixties in particular.

I think Brian Jones was the most talented musician out of both bands, he could learn anything without lessons. I'd go for Little Red Rooster being a blues fan.

The Rolling Stones were better musicians than the Beatles, even the Beatles themselves would have said that.

Brian Jones may have been the most talented musician, but he couldn`t write songs.

Jagger and Richards could, after the Beatles every group had to be able to write songs

They didn't write Love in Vain though       

i know salmon

its an old blues song from let it bleed, too good to leave out

I assumed you did but other less-knowledgeable types could have been misled by your earlier post.

Funnily enough I am not really a Stones fan but was listening to Let it Bleed in the car whilst on holiday. When Love in Vain came on I thought " I know this from somewhere else ". It's usually credited to Robert Johnson.
Personally I still consider them essentially a singles band. There's a fair bit of filler on all their albums imo.

yes loads mention Brian Jones and his songwriting but he did a very well received soundtrack to a movie which Pallenberg starred in. I've not long finished his biography and Loog Oldham's treatment of him was diabolical as was that of Jagger & Richard.

the thing that the Beatles did was invent the very idea of a group that was completely self contained.
they did everything themselves including writing the songs, they did not have a lead singer and 3 of them wrote the songs, and all were musicians.
this was the template for the future of rock music

yes BB Jones was badly treated, he became sidelined a little from the group that he started. he was much more talented as a musician in many ways, naturally gifted.
but the most difficult thing to do is write a song

A tenplate which has led to all sorts of rubbish over the years. A lot of good musicians can't write songs of any worth.

It is template.

the mystery is the terrific explosion of talent in the US and Britain that saw hundreds, thousands of people being capable of writing new songs.
it lasted for 30 40? years.
but how it happened is something strange.

The theory goes that most of those with artistic talent born in the 40s and to a lesser extent the 50s tended to turn to pop/rock/soul music as being their most natural outlet ( a lot of British musicians went to art school.) Later generations turned more to visual media as the marketplace for that expanded.

one good story in the book is about the sitar. Jones had heard George Harrison playing it on an album track and was fascinated by the sound so he ordered one for himself. George had been having loads of lessons off Ravi Shankar and did struggle to master it despite being a great guitar player himself, when Jones got his he basically taught himself within 1 hour then wrote the sitar part for Paint It Black.

"...."I Wanna Be Your Man". The Beatles also did covers before they got started.... But The Stones version absolutely blows the Beatles version to smithereens"

That was a throwaway song really from The Beatles, they even choose to let Ringo loose with that one on their second album With The Beatles.

" Their lyrics were menacing, edgy and controversial "

A lot of their lyrics don't make sense, and they wouldn't be half as good if they did make sense.

MEMO FROM TURNER


If you have to Google that, you're not a Stones fan.

If you're not a Stones fan and haven't heard it, go listen now -  it could easily turn you into a Stones fan. Cool


If you're stones fan you would have known that was a Mick Jagger solo, backed by Ry Cooder, even though it appears in some Stones compilations

But I do agree it was a great record

You're spot on, Percy. The version I'm referring to is from the Performance movie soundtrack, and only features Mick Jagger. There was a bit of internal politics going on at the time with some of the other Stones members (esp Keith) who didn't want anything to do with the movie so they didn't take part in that recording (and that turned out to be a great move because Ry Cooder's incredible slide guitar and Gene Parson's hypnotic drumbeat were mesmerising). But it remains a Stones song since it was written by Jagger/Richards, so I'm still counting it.

Fair Enough, Platini,

Brilliant Song

"best Rolling Stones ever" was for me the 1976 Granby Hall Leicester one where there was a 9 piece band playing (were 8 on stage then Clapton walked on & plugged his guitar in to join in the fun)

https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/07/50-best-rolling-stones-songs.html

imo

so many good songs

My favourite - As Tears Go By
.
http://youtu.be/lQlmywY_qEM

ive got an album by the stones which must be one the most drug infused pieces of music ever written " satanic majesties request "..


supposed to be worth a few bob now as well which helps.

Let It Loose

Off Exile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k_KfvxBW8

My favourite - 2000 light years from home.

I don't do drugs but when ever I listen to this song I feel as though I've taken something good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvc4xyHOB7Y

"ive got an album by the stones which must be one the most drug infused pieces of music ever written " satanic majesties request ......supposed to be worth a few bob now as well which helps."


Probably about £50 or a bit less depending on condition of record and sleeve. However the 1st pressing in mono with the 3-D gatefold sleeve could be worth up to £200 with no major deterioration, or in Good/Very Good condition probably between £60 - £100.

Prices in Record Collector are only a guide, because basically they are worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it.

Satanic Majesties Request was The Rolling Stones answer (or copy) to Sgt Pepper.

Big fan of the Stones but have to say nearly all their best stuff was in the Sixties. 53 years on and the old fcukers just won't quit, and they can still do a sell-out arena tour.

Saw a normal Satanic in a shop in Sydney a few weeks ago for $35.

I've got quite a lot of their albums. At least a dozen. If only I had a record player!

thanks hound dog, ive got the 3d gatefold sleeve, but its a stereo recording, not worried about selling...  yet.

I've never been a huge Stones fan but my favourite song of theirs is "Can't always get what you want"

Connection

Have about 13 or 14 of their 25 or so studio albums, 'Can't you hear me knocking' , a wonderful track. 'Heartbreaker' another cracker with a lot more depth than first seems. One of those tracks that you don't tire of.

'Heartbreaker' is classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIGk_VFUbE

Under my Thumb ~ Ready Steady Go! Great performance.

https://youtu.be/OezHRns06-8

Got it eye r gree

The big Stones exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery ends in early September.  Well worth a visit if you are in London or close. Worth seeing Richard Wilsons 20-50 too - used sump oil as Art.

DC r better, imo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzkh-jI