What songs do you consider being able to carry over from one decade to the next until the present and still manage to not sound dated?

One of mine would be Tumbling Dice. I actually think it sounds better now than it did on Exile on Main Street.

What do you think?

Paint it Black

everything they perform - that's why/because (take your pick) they perform them.

one or two of the ones they don't perform might sound a little dated now -
Cool Calm & Collected comes to mind. but that's just why/because they don't play it. :E


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

Just an example - Gimme Shelter - that's timeless, it's so much (true) dignity in that song, you can never just wave it off.

Sparks Will Fly...that's kinda dated ain't it
......esp with those lyrics...

Ooh, I want to step on the gas
I want to get there real fast
I want to fvck your sweet ass

Sparks will fly
Sharks will cry



ROCKMAN

Symphaty- "please to meet you", it always scared the shit out of me when they play it live.UHHHH

Paint It Black, Gimme Shelter - Eternally dark songs which resonate across the decades.

Satisfaction - Every boy/girl/man/woman that ever lived at one stage in their lives can identify with the lyric 'I can't get no satisfaction'

Respectable, for one. Hell - the line about the "easiest lay on the White House lawn" sounds more '90s than '70s! Really, though - as far as the instrumentation, arrangement, the recording, and the structure of the song itself, it could be from almost any part of their career.

The organ dates JJF a tiny bit, otherwise, I'd put that one in. Same with the horns on HTW.

Tattoo You is probably their most timeless sounding album taken as a whole.

As for their most dated albums . . . well, Satanic Majesties would be too easy.

Exile doesn't sound dated at all, but the drugged-out early '70s vibe is definitely of a certain time and place.

I'd go with Goat's Head or IORR - Exhibit A: excessive wah wah and clavinet abuse.

JuanTCB Wrote:
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> Respectable, for one. Hell - the line about the
> "easiest lay on the White House lawn" sounds more
> '90s than '70s! Really, though - as far as the
> instrumentation, arrangement, the recording, and
> the structure of the song itself, it could be from
> almost any part of their career.


Who plays the second solo on Respectable? One of the Stones' best guitar solos ever.

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