it's been a thread like this before but as I can't find it and there's still something to talk about, let's give it a try.

Jumpin' Jack Flash - the definitive tune of mighty rock and roll. huge uptempo track with a great riff, creative solo part and one of the best Mick's vocals.
also, pretty optimistic lyrics... "it's all @#$%& up but it's all right now!"
I've been waiting for many years for someone to sing it "I'm jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a @#$%& gas!"

so, once we know that... my 3 favorite versions:

3 STUDIO VERSION
such a cool groove on that one... just perfect sound & cool production.
2 2002/2003 LICKS VERSION
completely redone song. hard rocking tune and just awesome use of horn section!

1 ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS
bluesy, starting slow and then getting faster... Mick's vocals are top of the world here.

I never quite got it what's so good about 1969 version. OK, they were playing miracles then, it's a great opener, but they used to play it better! Groovier.

honorable mention to Chuck and the stuff he did to this song on SAL performance.
and also, let's kill anyone who puts "g" in the title of this song

Correct - there is no 'g' in Jumpin' Jack Flash as there is in Tumbling Dice.

I think the genius behind the 69 version is it wasn't so lumpy, as it is now. Now it's played as a cinder block where as 69 and into the early 70s,of course, it was more fluid and steady.

Johnny Winter at 4th place?

yep. and Mick Taylor solo is not that bad! ("Stranger In This Town", 1990)

studio
hyde park
gimme shelter version

Whilst its always good live nothing comes close to the studio version. That record is as close as you get to rock and roll heaven.

Where is the "Hey! Hey! Hey! "-soundtrack available?
Only at rthe promo video or at some outtake?
I dont recall it from the Black Box .. ?
(has a harddrive crash last year & lost all my copies of all
my Stones material, some 5,500 tracks.....)

Studio version is the first .
Then ,I would say the GYYYO 's one.
For the third one,I have to check .



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Hyde Park remains my fave.

"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone

I'm Yours & I'm Hers -> Jumpin' Jack Flash -> Mercy Mercy
I loved that sequence
I don't fancy MM too much but the 1969 version is a real treat.

bremen 1998. urban steel has a video of the song on you tube. very slow version for set closer.

yes bremen 98 is amazing! watch it!

studio
YAYA'S
opener of No Security

Studio version
1972 live version
love you live version

I agree with the Circus version.
It's sounds so relaxed in the beginning

-TomR

I love it when it is early in the set. As long as they don't turn it into a 8 minute variety number. Yes 69, R&R Circus Same thing with "Brown Sugar" Don't make the 'Whoo" a crowd thing LOL

Studio first
Ya-Ya's second
Flashpoint - third
Johnny Winter - fourth

I'm pretty fond of Aretha Franklin's version.

- Ya-Ya's
- RnR Circus
- Brussels Affair

there was a funny movie accompanying Aretha's version.
Keith played on it.

I've often wondered about JJF on Brussels Affair. It just doesn't seem to capture that song like Gimme Shelter and SFM did. Those were great versions. JJF doesn't seem to let loose in the same way. I would love to have a great 1973 JJF version. I've never heard it - yet.

I still like the studio version the best....such a fantastic song to be played as loud as your neighbors could take it.

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I'm pretty fond of Aretha Franklin's version.

I bought this when it came out on 7" vinyl. Gave it to a girl I thought I was in love with. Damn. Loved it then for Keiths superior riffage. And it rocks compared to Micks solo stuff and helped to fire Keith up for Talk is Cheap. So in a roundabout way we have this to thank for the Stones regrouping for Steel Wheels.

NickB

You can't always get what you want.....

www.myspace.com/thesonkings

I think they performed it very well on the voodoo tour.

With the plethora of live albums and live bootlegs there are some tunes that have this sort of evolution about them.

JJF - already noted

Street Fighting Man - the studio version is excellent, of course. GYYYO is outstanding as is the Licks - not exactly the live album but the MSG show is outstanding...Stripped is great too. All around, excellent.

SFTD - GYYYO is my fave, followed by LYL and then the studio version. I liked the SW/UJ version but it's still lacking - and they haven't improved on it since, keeping it to that disco Casio keyboard version that just SUCKS.

Start Me Up - Flashpoint, studio and I guess...Still Life. Since SW/UJ I think they've just destroyed it but that's just me.

Brown Sugar - LP version, I really like the energy of the Live Licks version...dunno about any other live version. I guess It's Getting Hot Up Here is pretty good.

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Studio and Ya-Ya's in a dead heat...love them both

Studio
GYYYO
Breman

Damn. I forgot that by even 1972 they started playing it in that chunky way.

So fast though! Damn!