I'm ashamed to say that I really don't know "Exile On Main Street" too well...I was listening to it and although I know all the songs on there...I had trouble guessing what song was next...or sometimes even what song was playing! Terrible, I know.

In actuality, it's the one album I don't know that closely compared to others like "Some Girls" or "Sticky Fingers" where I can probably recite the track sequence by heart.

How good are you guys? Can you name all the songs off each album....the song order?

i wouldn't say i know them in the biblical sense (well, maybe sticky fingers)...but....

I don't know the sequence of between te buttons, their satanic majesty request. otional rescue and Undercover. I can't even remember if i listened to those albums from begnning to the end. It took me a long time before I listened to Tattoo You from begin to end but fortunately i did. All the others i know basicly by heart.

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Wuudy

It may be OCD, but I pretty much know everything from Beggars to Voodoo Lounge in the intimate way you describe.

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How good are you guys? Can you name all the songs off each album....the song order?

of course. come on that ain't that challenging.

While in most cases I can recite the track order from memory -- certainly up until Steel Wheels. More to the point for me is that when a song ends I naturally go into the first few notes of the next one -- whether I can name the song or not.

I used to be able to with Led Zeppelin and Cream, but their catalogs are much smaller...and the American Beatle releases thru Sgt Pepper...but at a certain age, one must choose what he wants to remember.

I don't study the Stones. Sometimes I don't even know what stones's song is on what record let alone in what sequence.

Know the Stones albums?...

Can recite all the bar-codes up ta Bridges To Babylon...



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"What album is it from, Bill? He doesn't know, he doesn't know... Beggars Banquet someone said." Mick Jagger, Flashpoint.

"We're gonna do a song for you... we've never played this song onstage before... I don't remember which CD this is from, but it's called Sway." Mick Jagger, Columbus, 2005.

I'm thinking about that now and then. Sometimes I'm doing it as a memory excersise and it's quite fun.The problem is with all the pre-Satanic majesties albums and their different track listings. You know, the Decca / London thing. Well I got in touch with Stones music through LPs and that was up to 'Voodoo Lounge'. From then on I only have Cds. So it was much easier for me to remember album tracks refering to 'Side 1' and 'Side 2'. It doesn't work the same with cds.Interesting topic.

I meet them occasionally on social basis.

Should be a basic requirement to post here; to know every track in sequence from "Hitmakers" through ABB.

Well, for Exile, I can probably list the songs in order, with track times, and most of the credits from the inner sleeves.

"GyyO" in reverse.

I know perfectly most of them, except for 80s and some early stuff. I listen to the Stones mostly using iTunes so I stare at the song listings half an hour a day so it's pretty automatic ;-)

> "We're gonna do a song for you... we've never played this song onstage before... I don't remember which CD this is from, but it's called Sway." Mick Jagger, Columbus, 2005.

thanks! made my day.
I think it's Charlie who said he never listen to the Stones albums?

Then you did Between the Buttons. What do you think of that album?

Frank Zappa used to say he really liked it. It's a good record, but it was unfortunately rather spoiled. We recorded it in London on four-track machines. We bounced it back to do overdubs so many times, we lost the sound of a lot of it.

Does that record mean a lot to you?

No. What's on it?

"Connection."

It's nice. "Connection" is really nice.

"Yesterday's Papers."

Yeah, the first song I ever wrote completely on my own for a Rolling Stones record. "My Obsession," that's a good one. They sounded so great, but then, later on, I was really disappointed with it. Isn't "Ruby Tuesday" on there or something? I don't think the rest of the songs are that brilliant. "Ruby Tuesday" is good. I think that's a wonderful song.

Why?

It's just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it. But I agree with you about the rest of the songs — I don't think they're there. I don't think I thought they were very good at the time, either.

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Harm
I don't study the Stones. Sometimes I don't even know what stones's song is on what record let alone in what sequence.

It's not a matter of studying for me. It's a matter of an involuntary self-programming by listening to the damn things so much over the decades!

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Pretty good up to Tattoo You.....

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Palace Revolution 2000
Should be a basic requirement to post here; to know every track in sequence from "Hitmakers" through ABB.

Joke of the day,palace

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Palace Revolution 2000
Should be a basic requirement to post here; to know every track in sequence from "Hitmakers" through ABB.

i have trouble remembering my password every time i log on here

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Justin
I'm ashamed to say that I really don't know "Exile On Main Street" too well...I was listening to it and although I know all the songs on there...I had trouble guessing what song was next...or sometimes even what song was playing! Terrible, I know.

there's really no excuse for this. You need to start listning to Exile at least one per day for the next two weeks.

Shows you how good Sticky Fingers is in the mind of the band - not even worthy of remembering what songs are on it. Mick can remember a show when he said Throw me your shoes and so...but he can't remember what album a song is on. In 1994 he said This one is from Black And Blue it's called Duh Duh Doot Doo Doo.

And he had the nerve to put Let's Work on his best of album.

mick likes to goof around - he's just toying with ya when he says stuff like that. charlie, now...that's another story....

... The Stones have albums?

I always view that bit when Mick doesn't know what album it's on as him trying to make it seem like he doesn't cares THAT much about the Stones history... proving he's not a Stones nerd like us.

I struggle with the song names on Exile as well, and I must say that pre-Beggars Banquet, I don't really know what's on which album at all (and even Beggars I'm struggling with at the moment). Those 60's albums - except for Flowers and the US Aftermath are the least played of all.

Given the amount of vodka I drink when it is Stones-time, I know them all quite well. Instead what always embarrasses me is that the only lyrics I know by heart from a to z are the ones of Stoned ...

C

It's not important to KNOW the albums. I think listening to them should be higher up.

I lost it when Dirty Work came out

I'd be pretty hot up to Tattoo You.