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Best Rolling Stones song?
« on: February 07, 2017, 12:10:18 am »
What'll it be?

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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2017, 12:17:45 am »
Other as in the Stones suck, period.

No seriously, they do.

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« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2017, 01:04:58 am »
Wild Horses?  Like A Rainbow? Gimme Shelter?  Paint it Black? All Over Now? Honky Tonk Woman?

Beats me.  I could probably name ten more.

Edit>  Sorry, I didn't see the choices list.

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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2017, 03:49:21 am »
I prefer Turkish music.

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« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2017, 08:01:47 am »
Merry Clayton, who sang backup vocals on "Gimme Shelter," sang (screamed more like it) so hard that her voice actually cracks in final stanza (if you listen closely you can hear it). She was pregnant at the time and allegedly miscarried a couple days later from straining so hard on the vocal.

There was an interesting documentary that I saw where Mick Jagger says that he felt bad that they got her up at 2am, her friend and producer literally dragging her out of bed, to sing what at the time were pretty controversial and raunchy lyrics:  "****, murder, it's just a shot away!" Singing about **** and murder, bullets and semen, like that in the 1960s was more or less unheard of.

Gimme Shelter is literally a moment in rock history and her vocals are a shining example of an approach to rock music that has long since died. The Great Gig in the Sky is another example of a classic rock song with amazing backup vocals by Clare Torry. It's a lost art.

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« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2017, 08:23:38 am »
I cannot pick just one ...

Wild Horses, as a love-struck teenager
Paint it black, as a deeply depressed young mother
Honky Tonk woman, cause I can sing along and feel better
Brown Sugar, to dance to (and feel better)

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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2017, 09:14:39 am »
Merry Clayton, who sang backup vocals on "Gimme Shelter," sang (screamed more like it) so hard that her voice actually cracks in final stanza (if you listen closely you can hear it). She was pregnant at the time and allegedly miscarried a couple days later from straining so hard on the vocal.

Thanks, that will haunt my memory next time I hear the song.  :(

The backing vocal definitely makes the song, I can't think of anything else like it. At one point during her solo you can faintly hear someone exclaim "YEAH!" in the background after a particularly powerful note... I have to imagine that someone in the studio was just too blown away to keep quiet.

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« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2017, 09:20:42 am »
Thanks, that will haunt my memory next time I hear the song.  :(

The backing vocal definitely makes the song, I can't think of anything else like it. At one point during her solo you can faintly hear someone exclaim "YEAH!" in the background after a particularly powerful note... I have to imagine that someone in the studio was just too blown away to keep quiet.

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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2017, 01:34:22 pm »
Here's the isolated vocal:



This is the most touching and powerful Stones song out here, hands down!

Fun Fact: "You often hear the cliche of rockers sleeping with the guitars, but engineer Andy Johns says he found Richards doing just that during the sessions for 1973’s ‘Goat’s Head Soup.'"

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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2017, 07:21:09 pm »
Miss You needs to be on that list.

From the list I'd say Sympathy for the Devil and Gimme Shelter tie for me.

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« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2017, 07:37:07 pm »
I have to say Paint It Black.

My favorite keith moment is the guitar solo/licks near the end of Sympathy for the Devil.
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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2017, 12:48:19 am »
I think the poll results are flipping me the bird.

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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2021, 08:22:05 am »
I have been thinking about this for 1682 days since it was postedd - which is 29 squared times 2. 

I took exactly that amount of time because the guy who introduced me to the Stones in the 1970s lived at number 29 on our street.

My answer:


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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2021, 10:09:02 am »
I have been thinking about this for 1682 days since it was postedd - which is 29 squared times 2. 

I took exactly that amount of time because the guy who introduced me to the Stones in the 1970s lived at number 29 on our street.

My answer:



This was a great old tune for picking around the parking lot....sounds really sweet along with a banjo and dobro.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Best Rolling Stones song?
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2021, 10:12:37 am »
Maybe the best song for a late night drunk group caterwaul