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I still think if they had chosen SAINT OF ME as the lead single off BTB, it would have been huge. A good lead off single always propels great sales, and further interest in other cuts. While having the lead off single as a dud i.e. ANYBODY SEEN MY BABY, it pretty much kills the enthusiasm from the mainstream for giving other tracks a try IMHO. I think they made big mistakes on their lead off singles since Tattoo YOU.
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I still think if they had chosen SAINT OF ME as the lead single off BTB, it would have been huge. A good lead off single always propels great sales, and further interest in other cuts. While having the lead off single as a dud i.e. ANYBODY SEEN MY BABY, it pretty much kills the enthusiasm from the mainstream for giving other tracks a try IMHO. I think they made big mistakes on their lead off singles since Tattoo YOU.
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Bashlets
I still think if they had chosen SAINT OF ME as the lead single off BTB, it would have been huge. A good lead off single always propels great sales, and further interest in other cuts. While having the lead off single as a dud i.e. ANYBODY SEEN MY BABY, it pretty much kills the enthusiasm from the mainstream for giving other tracks a try IMHO. I think they made big mistakes on their lead off singles since Tattoo YOU.
Good points.
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Love Is Strong at #14 and Like A Rolling Stone at #12, as well as Anyone Seen My Baby at #23 are clearly hits, no doubt about that.
Man, it is THE ROLLING STONES we speak here!
Do you know what this series is:
21-12-3-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-5-3-8-1-1
Well, that's the UK chartings of all the Rolling Stones singles from "Come On" to "Honky Tonk Women".
- Doxa
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"Super Deluxe Box Set" Including What??
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DandelionPowderman
Love Is Strong at #14 and Like A Rolling Stone at #12, as well as Anyone Seen My Baby at #23 are clearly hits, no doubt about that.
I'd like to see some real proof of Going To A Go Go being a bigger hit in the UK than Love Is Strong as well
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"Super Deluxe Box Set" Including What??
A rare German porno movie - very kinky stuff - just read the link.
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Was 'Don't Stop' really one of their greatest hits?
I think this calls the integrity of this project into question...
If we're concerned about the integrity or literal accuracy of what constitutes a 'greatest hits' record, there'd be very little on it after 1969.
...and nothing on it after 1981
That's revisionism at best.
From Wikipedia :
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1981 "Start Me Up" The Billboard Hot 100 # 2 [citation needed]
1981 "Start Me Up" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 1 [citation needed]
1981 "Start Me Up" UK Top 75 Singles # 7 [citation needed]
1981 "Start Me Up" Club Play Singles # 14 [citation needed]
1981 "Little T&A" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 5 [citation needed]
1981 "Hang Fire" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 2 [citation needed]
1981 "Waiting on a Friend" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 8 [citation needed]
1981 "Waiting on a Friend" UK Top 75 Singles # 50 [citation needed]
1982 "Waiting on a Friend" The Billboard Hot 100 # 13 [citation needed]
1982 "Hang Fire" The Billboard Hot 100 # 20 [citation needed]
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1982 "Going to a Go-Go" The Billboard Hot 100[3] # 25
1982 "Going to a Go-Go" Mainstream Rock Tracks[4] # 5
1982 "Going to a Go-Go" UK Top 100 Singles[5] # 26
1982 "Time Is on My Side(Live Version)" UK Top 100 Singles # 62 [citation needed]
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1983 "Undercover of the Night" The Billboard Hot 100 # 9 [citation needed]
1983 "Undercover of the Night" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 2 [citation needed]
1983 "Undercover of the Night" Hot Dance Music/Club Play # 9 [citation needed]
1983 "Undercover of the Night" UK Top 100 Singles # 11 [citation needed]
1983 "Too Tough" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 14 [citation needed]
1984 "Too Much Blood" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 38 [citation needed]
1984 "She Was Hot" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 4 [citation needed]
1984 "She Was Hot" The Billboard Hot 100 # 44 [citation needed]
1984 "She Was Hot" UK Top 100 Singles # 42 [citation needed]
1984 "Think I'm Going Mad"
B-side of "She Was Hot"
Mainstream Rock Tracks # 50 [citation needed]
1985 "Too Much Blood" Hot Dance Music/Club Play # 44 [citation needed]
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1986 "Harlem Shuffle" The Billboard Hot 100 # 5
Mainstream Rock Tracks # 2
Hot Dance Music/Club Play # 4
Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single Sales # 5
UK Top 100 Singles # 13
"Winning Ugly" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 10
"One Hit (To the Body)" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 3
The Billboard Hot 100 # 28
UK Top 100 Singles # 80
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1989 "Mixed Emotions" The Billboard Hot 100 [5] # 5
1989 "Mixed Emotions" UK Top 100 Singles [6] # 36
1989 "Mixed Emotions" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 1
1989 "Mixed Emotions" Modern Rock Tracks # 22
1989 "Sad Sad Sad" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 14
1989 "Terrifying" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 8
1989 "Rock and a Hard Place" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 1
1989 "Rock and a Hard Place" The Billboard Hot 100 # 23
1989 "Rock and a Hard Place" UK Top 100 Singles # 63
1990 "Almost Hear You Sigh" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 1
1990 "Almost Hear You Sigh" The Billboard Hot 100 # 50
1990 "Almost Hear You Sigh" UK Top 100 Singles # 31
1990 "Terrifying" UK Top 100 Singles # 82
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1991 "Highwire" The Billboard Hot 100 # 57 [citation needed]
1991 "Highwire" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 1 [citation needed]
1991 "Highwire" Modern Rock Tracks # 28 [citation needed]
1991 "Highwire" Hot 100 Airplay # 70 [citation needed]
1991 "Highwire" UK Top 75 Singles # 29 [citation needed]
1991 "Ruby Tuesday(Live Version)" UK Top 75 Singles # 59 [citation needed]
1991 "Sex Drive" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 40 [citation needed]
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1994 "Love Is Strong" UK Top 75 Singles[12] # 14
1994 "Love Is Strong" The Billboard Hot 100 [13] # 91
1994 "Love Is Strong" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 2
1994 "You Got Me Rocking" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 2
1994 "You Got Me Rocking" UK Top 75 Singles[14] # 23
1994 "Out of Tears" The Billboard Hot 100 [15] # 60
1994 "Out of Tears" Mainstream Rock Tracks [16] # 14
1994 "Out of Tears" UK Top 75 Singles[17] # 36
1995 "You Got Me Rocking" Bubbling Under Hot 100 # 113
1995 "Sparks Will Fly" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 30
1995 "I Go Wild" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 20
1995 "I Go Wild" UK Top 75 Singles[18] # 29
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1995 "Like a Rolling Stone" UK Top 75 Singles # 12
1995 "Like a Rolling Stone" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 16
1995 "Like a Rolling Stone" Bubbling Under Hot 100 # 9
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1997 "Anybody Seen My Baby?" Mainstream Rock Tracks[22] # 3
1997 "Anybody Seen My Baby?" UK Singles Chart[23] # 22
1997 "Flip The Switch" Mainstream Rock Tracks[22] # 14
1998 "Saint of Me" UK Singles Chart[23] # 26
1998 "Saint of Me" Billboard Hot 100[22] # 94
1998 "Saint of Me" Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[22] # 23
1998 "Saint of Me" Mainstream Rock Tracks[22] # 13
1998 "Out Of Control" UK Singles Chart[23] # 51
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1998 "Gimme Shelter (Live)" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 29
Singles
Single Chart (2002) Peak
position
"Don't Stop" Mainstream Rock Tracks[27] # 21
UK Top 75 Singles[28] # 36
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
2005 "Rough Justice" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 25
2005 "Streets of Love"/"Rough Justice" UK Top 75 Singles # 15
2005 "Oh No, Not You Again" Mainstream Rock Tracks # 34
2005 "Rain Fall Down" UK Top 75 Singles # 33
2006 "Rain Fall Down" Hot Dance Singles/Club Play # 21
2006 "Biggest Mistake" UK Top 75 Singles # 51
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"Plundered My Soul" is a song by The Rolling Stones featured as a bonus track on the 2010 re-release of their 1972 album Exile on Main St.. It was the first song released by the band from the new recordings, limited-edition copies of the single shelved in independent stores on 17 April 2010, in honor of Record Store Day. The single peaked at #200 in the UK Top 200 Singles Chart, at #2 on Billboard's Singles Sales and #42 on Billboard's Rock Songs Airplay. It also reached #15 on the France Singles Top 100, and remained there for one week. The music video is directed by Jonas Odell.
"Plundered My Soul" features vocal and guitar overdubs from Mick Jagger and Mick Taylor in 2010.
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"No Spare Parts" is a song by The Rolling Stones, featured as a bonus track on the 2011 re-release of their 1978 album Some Girls. It is one of twelve previously unreleased songs that appear on the reissue, and features newly recorded vocals from Mick Jagger. The song reached number 2 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales.
A music video for the song was released on 19 December 2011 and was directed by Mat Whitecross.
Well, let's polish the listing a bit to see what it really says after 1981 - that is to say, let's skip teh marginal chart out and just consider only the main UK/US charts (Billboard Hot 100 & UK TOP 100/75 Singles)
year title Billboard/UK Top Singles
1982 "Going to a Go-Go" # 25 / # 26
1982 "Time Is on My Side(Live Version)" - / # 62
1983 "Undercover of the Night" # 9 / # 11
1984 "She Was Hot" # 44 /# 42
1986 "Harlem Shuffle" # 5 / # 13
1986 "One Hit" # 28 / # 80
1989 "Mixed Emotions" # 5 /# 36
1989 "Rock and a Hard Place" T # 23 / # 63
1990 "Almost Hear You Sigh" # 50 / # 31
1990 "Terrifying" - /# 82
1991 "Highwire" # 57 /# 29
1991 "Ruby Tuesday(Live Version)" - / # 59
1994 "Love Is Strong" # 91 / # 14
1994 "You Got Me Rocking" #113 /# 23
1994 "Out of Tears" # 60 / # 36
1995 "I Go Wild" - /# 29
1995 "Like a Rolling Stone" - /# 12
1997 "Anybody Seen My Baby?" - /# 23
1998 "Saint of Me" # 94 / # 26
1998 "Out Of Control" - /# 51
2005 "Streets of Love"/"Rough Justice" - /# 15
2005 "Rain Fall Down" - /# 33
2006 "Biggest Mistake" - /# 51
Well, as we can see:
- their last "real hits", making top ten, are all from the 80's: "Undercover of The Night", "Harlem Shuffle" and "Mixed Emotions"
- their last single making Top 50 in Billboard is from 1990 ("Almost Hear You Sigh", # 50) - there have been only four appearance in Top 100 ever since; this is to say that there has been no Rolling Stones hits in America for 22/23 yaers
- there is no any top ten hits in UK. Three singles since the 80's, made Top 20 ("Love Is Strong", "Like A Rolling Stone", and "Rough Kustice/"Streets of Love"; those could be called as 'minor hits in compared to the their chart history in UK.
So I would say that it would be highly revisionist to claim that the Stones have been a hit-making band since the 80's, and their record even during the 80's isn't any remarkable compared to their past - namely, this band knows what a real hit song is all about!
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I'd like to see some real proof of Going To A Go Go being a bigger hit in the UK than Love Is Strong as well
Well, if the official chartings are not good enough for you, what can we do...
I guess the hype over the first live performances for six years in UK was enough to push the sales for "Going To A Go-Go". And I suppose still at the time a new Rolling Stones single still might gather some larger interest. They actually were still a rather hot band then.
But what is interesting that even though The Stones toured the States big time at the time, and even played "Love Is Strong" live in MTV show, teh single simply flopped (#91!). But there seemingly happened something in US music business that made it so hard for The Stones to make 'hit singles' any longer. Anyway, even I rememeber the times when the video of the song was circulating in MTV, I can't remember it being any real hit outside of that. It didn't gather some real interest by the people (outside the fan circles).
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I'd like to see some real proof of Going To A Go Go being a bigger hit in the UK than Love Is Strong as well
Well, if the official chartings are not good enough for you, what can we do...
I guess the hype over the first live performances for six years in UK was enough to push the sales for "Going To A Go-Go". And I suppose still at the time a new Rolling Stones single still might gather some larger interest. They actually were still a rather hot band then.
But what is interesting that even though The Stones toured the States big time at the time, and even played "Love Is Strong" live in MTV show, teh single simply flopped (#91!). But there seemingly happened something in US music business that made it so hard for The Stones to make 'hit singles' any longer. Anyway, even I rememeber the times when the video of the song was circulating in MTV, I can't remember it being any real hit outside of that. It didn't gather some real interest by the people (outside the fan circles).
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I remember Love Is Strong being 'all over MTV' (MTV had essentially turned into a cartoon channel at that point; music videos were on VH1) but never ever heard it on the radio. Same with Anybody Seen My Baby - which was a fantastic video I thought. Lately on any FM radio I've never heard anything past Start Me Up.
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Just showed the album cover to my step son, who is 21, and the first thing out of his mouth was "That's stupid".
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Just showed the album cover to my step son, who is 21, and the first thing out of his mouth was "That's stupid".
Just showed the album cover to my daughter, who is 4, and the first thing out of her mouth was "That's stupid".
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Just showed the album cover to my step son, who is 21, and the first thing out of his mouth was "That's stupid".
Just showed the album cover to my daughter, who is 4, and the first thing out of her mouth was "That's stupid".