LET IT BLEED
STICKY FINGERS
BEGGARS BANQUET

in that order

Voodoo Lounge
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers

I know so many people go crazy over the Mick Taylor era, but there is no way this list can't have Some Girls on it. Here is the list:

Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street
Some Girls

* I really think you got to have Tattoo You also. Again the Mick Taylor era was obviously so special, but I love that late 70's/early 80's weave with Ronnie on top of his game. And I think Bill is at his best on those quick numbers from that era.

"You'll be studying history and you'll be down the gym. And I'll be down the pub, probably playing pool and drinking."

If you want to go into the bootleg realm, I would say Bedspring Symphony.

Love You Live-Get yer Ya Yas out-Got live if you want it...Lively up yourself...

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Only 3?

Let it Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street (2010 Universal deluxe edition with 10 extra tracks)

But, please, listen

Out of Our Heads
Aftermath
Beggars Banquet
Some Girls
Tattoo You
Voodoo Lounge
Stripped

Hot Rocks 1964-1971
More Hot Rocks
Jump Back (The Best of The Rolling Stones '71-'93)

Rolled Gold (the original)
Love You Live
Exile On Main Street

Rolled Gold (for the big early hits)
Get Yer Ya Yas Out (if you liked Ladies & Gentlemen you'll like this)
Let It Bleed

....and then all the rest.

find some boots on Hot Stuff

start with Stripped companion

handsome Girls

Bedsprings symphony

many others, they're fun

Sticky Fingers
Some Girls
Hot Rocks

I really think EOMS is too dense for a newbie, and that all the pre-Beggar's albums might be too obscure/dated for most new (and I'm guessing, young) fans. If he's seen L&G, he can live a while longer without delving into the live albums. If we suggest too many compilations, he/she wouldn't get the feel of a real RS release on its own, just a mishmash of singles/tunes he could download from itunes. Some Girls and Sticky Fingers are probably the best power-packed discs for newbies, and Hot Rocks or one of the other mentioned compilations gives them some history. It's always a tough call on these because you just never know what the age/tastes/sonic expectations are of someone.

Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
Let It Bleed
Exile on Main Street

A Bigger Bang


Voodoo Lounge


Sticky Fingers

HOT ROCKS
GET YOUR YA YA's' Out
SOME GIRLS

With these 3 gems you can now go off to a small island and be happy for the rest of your life!!

You can't go wrong with any 3 albums from their 1964 debut until Tattoo You (maybe Emotional Rescue is the exception).

classical choice:
Let it bleed
exile
beggar's banquet

rest of the album:
black and blue
tattoo you
some girls

Hot Rocks
40 Licks
Ya Ya's

Help
Rubber Soul
Revolver


John George Paul Ringo

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Dirty Work
A Bigger Bang
Goat's Head Soup

Everything about the Rolling Stones is contained in these three discs. NOT!

Quote
Come On
Help
Rubber Soul
Revolver


John George Paul Ringo

Not "three albums that would make someone want to harm themselves"!!

Many thanks all, I've been ill for a few weeks an unable to answer. The popular choices seem to be Exile On Main Street & Hot Rocks. Seems a good line up to me, a singles collection and two other of the greats. I think I'll start with these as Hot Rocks seems to cover their early stuff first and Exile... is an all-time classic.

Thanks all.

Rolling Stones No.1
Aftermath
Exile on Main Street

Enjoy.

IF you are only going to get 3 Stones albums for your collection, and want to have a broad, wide-ranging scope of their work, then I would go with this:

1. The London Years - the singles collection. This 3 cd set is all of their big hits and B-Sides from the start thru Brown Sugar and Wild Horses.

2. Jump Back. This is a greatest hits set of pretty much all of their hits since The London Years.

3. Voodoo Lounge. This is the quintessential Stones album that represents all that they are about, released some 30+ years after they had formed. It's dirty, bluesy, rock at its finest, with a vast array of songs and instrumentation. An immediate classic from the first note allll the way thru to the end.


...After all that, if you feel so inclined to continue to branch out, let your ears wander wherever you want. They do have some truly great albums - Sticky Fingers, Some Girls, Let It Bleed, Tattoo You, Goats Head Soup, Beggars Banquet, Stripped, Black and Blue, Flashpoint, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Aftermath (US version), A Bigger Bang, but some of their early albums are hardly ever played by me....I would definitely reiterate what others here have said, and not start with Exile on Main Street. While one of their best albums, it is not the place to start. If this is the first album that you heard by the Stones, I'm not overly confident that you'd be swayed toward thinking so highly of them. It is something that one must approach after absorbing much of their other output.

Whatever you decide, best of luck to you, and enjoy!!

1. Brussel affair
2. L.A. friday night
3. Hampton 81

Hello everyone

I'm new to getting high, and was hoping you guys could recommend me three albums that I could buy to give me a good taster of what getting stoned is all about.

Thanks

Peter Tosh with Legalize it
Iggy and The Stooges with debutalbum
Jimi Hendrix with Electric Ladyland

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King Tubby Presents The Roots Of Dub .... That'll put ya right in ya place



ROCKMAN

Revovler
Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles (White Album)
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Days of Future Past
In the Court of the Crimson King
Larks Tongue in Aspic
Wish You Were Here
Meddle
Ummagumma
Mother's Invention We're Only in it for the Money
The Who Quadrophenia
Who's Next
Black Sabbath Vol. 4
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Led Zep Physical Graffiti
David Bowie Low and Heroes
Bowie Hunkey Dory
T Rex Slider

Pack a bowl and enjoy!

The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow. Psychedelic beyond belief. It'll take you out to where the buses don't run. But be careful, things could get a little freaky on the way. Made the journey many times but always got home OK.

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

It's the best album ever made. You would love it if you love the Stones, and you would love it even more if you love to get high.