Some Stones songs just don't make live and sound better on record,for me "Sway","Doom and Gloom" are just a couple of them,any others?

"You know who l am, say it"

You got me rocking
Rough justice
Love is strong
Mixed emotions

Shattered

Bitch
Brown sugar
Rocks off

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john lomax
Bitch
Brown sugar
Rocks off

l agree on Bitch and Rocks off,but some of the live versions of Brown Sugar with Mick Taylor in the 70's are amazing,and sound much better than the record...

"You know who l am, say it"

Gomper

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Bitch
Brown sugar
Rocks off

l agree on Bitch and Rocks off,but some of the live versions of Brown Sugar with Mick Taylor in the 70's are amazing,and sound much better than the record...

Yeah, I agree that some of those 72/73 live versions of Brown Sugar were awesome. Even the 78 version on the Live in Texas DVD is great. But these days something is lacking - perhaps not sleazy or rocky enough?

Songs like Mixed Emotions and Love Is Strong are very much studio creations, and although they have played them live, they have never matched the studio versions.

A song like Streets Of Love is the other way around...

IORR. I have never heard a really satisfying live version.

Yes, good point - I was never a fan of the album version of Streets of Love but it was fantastic live

Tumbling Dice, or is it just for me?

Another one to add to the list is She's so cold. Never a huge fan of this one live but the album version is good.

satisfaction
Under my thumb
Crazy mama
Honky tonk women
Miss you

Waiting on a friend

Honky Tonk Woman is better live - LYL actually.

Any other song is probably better on record than on a live record.

BUT! when we are actually at the gig - any song is better than live on record. Except YGMR.

IF I AM TO MENTION only ONE IT WOULD BE SATISFACTION.

Anybody Seen My Baby just fell apart live.

JJF
SFTD
UOTN
Satisfaction
Rocks Off

Gimme Shelter.

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the stones are better in the studio than they are/were live.

course there is exceptions.

shattered(still life version) being an example.

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the stones are better in the studio than they are/were live.

course there is exceptions.

shattered(still life version) being an example.

On balance, I think the stones have been (and still are, most of the time) probably the best live band I can think of. If only the song selection was less conservative...

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Tumbling Dice, or is it just for me?

Now yes, 1972-1973, absolutely not.

Others:
IORR (terrible live)
Rocks Off
Miss You
Satisfaction (only in 1969 did they do something interesting with it).
Before They Make Me Run (studio version has never been equalled).

Some Girls! None of the live version have this "thing" the studio version has.

And overall I'm appaled by some replies here :
IORR (terrible live), really? There are some insanely rocking versions from 75/76 that grow and grow with each verse until...

Shelter? From Philie'72 to Paradiso'95 you got so many versions to prove you wrong...

"the stones are better in the studio than they are/were live"
You're talking about the Beatles, right?

Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, that's the ones that come to my mind. Others sound different but are well arranged for the big stage. Saw and heard Sweet Virginia (due to an awful sound in the venue) in 2007 in Frankfurt, and this was as close as you can get to the idea of this song. With better sound id probably gone up through the roof...

Nobody said Angie yet? A true studio gem and a very low live number.

Sway
Loving cup
Yesterday's papers (raw live rendition in 1967)

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Bitch

Ladies and Gentlemen says you are wrong.

Gimme Shelter. That sense of doom coming at you hasn't been caught in concert. Live it just sounds like a hard rock song.

I suppose I'll be in the minority here but I prefer live versions of any Stones song. Don't get me wrong, the studio versions are great, but even if they are technically greater than the live versions, there's something about live Stones that just knocks me out; that energy, the roar of the crowd - it all reminds me of what a gas actually being at a Stones concert is all about.

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I suppose I'll be in the minority here but I prefer live versions of any Stones song. Don't get me wrong, the studio versions are great, but even if they are technically greater than the live versions, there's something about live Stones that just knocks me out; that energy, the roar of the crowd - it all reminds me of what a gas actually being at a Stones concert is all about.

I'll go with this.

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HonkeyTonkFlash
I suppose I'll be in the minority here but I prefer live versions of any Stones song. Don't get me wrong, the studio versions are great, but even if they are technically greater than the live versions, there's something about live Stones that just knocks me out; that energy, the roar of the crowd - it all reminds me of what a gas actually being at a Stones concert is all about.

I'll go with this.

Me too!