Shine A Light is better than Live In Texas?

I haven't read it but I already know which one is the number one in the list.

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eduardoacdc
I haven't read it but I already know which one is the number one in the list.

You'll never guess number 2...

The list is a bad joke both in lacking several milestones (Charlie is My Darling, LA 75) and in ranking (Shine a Light on spot 4 or Got Live on 2 admitting that there is nothing to hear what happened on stage).

Their Top-5 live-albums are:

1-L.A. Friday
2-Love You Live
3-Shine A Light
4-Live At Leeds Roundhay Park
5-Live Licks

Also worth mentioning are Havanna Moon, Light The Fuse, Sticky Fingers Live, Get Your Leeds Lungs Out (from SF-Deluxe) and No Security.

L.A. Friday captures pure Rock n Roll, everything The Stones stand for, Shine A Light is their best latter-day live album.

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HMS
Their Top-5 live-albums are:

1-L.A. Friday
2-Love You Live
3-Shine A Light
4-Live At Leeds Roundhay Park
5-Live Licks

Also worth mentioning are Havanna Moon, Light The Fuse, Sticky Fingers Live, Get Your Leeds Lungs Out (from SF-Deluxe) and No Security.

L.A. Friday captures pure Rock n Roll, everything The Stones stand for, Shine A Light is their best latter-day live album.

What is it that makes you prefer SAL to Sticky Fingers Live as the best latter-day album?

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DandelionPowderman
What is it that makes you prefer SAL to Sticky Fingers Live as the best latter-day album?

Well... most of all the setlist, I guess. Sticky Fingers Live is a great performance of an entire album, but as a concert it´s incomplete unfortunately, only 50 minutes... Had they released the complete concert, I´d probably like it better than SAL which more or less represents a full show.

My ranking of live albums changes pretty much every week.

Depends which Stones I'm in the mood for.

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DandelionPowderman
Worst to best (at the moment), assuming this is a ranking of US albums:

A Bigger Bang
12 x 5
Voodoo Lounge
Bridges To Babylon
It's Only Rock'n Roll
Dirty Work
Now!
Steel Wheels
December's Children
Goats Head Soup
Out Of Our Heads
Black And Blue
Let It Bleed
Between The Buttons
Exile On Main Street
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Emotional Rescue
Tattoo You
Undercover
England's Newest Hit Makers
Sticky Fingers
Aftermath
Beggars Banquet
Some Girls

If the first Stones albums were in the worst part, get in mind that there wouldn't got no Rolling Stones. It's by this way, they became famous with their first lps. That's all.

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DandelionPowderman
Worst to best (at the moment), assuming this is a ranking of US albums:

A Bigger Bang
12 x 5
Voodoo Lounge
Bridges To Babylon
It's Only Rock'n Roll
Dirty Work
Now!
Steel Wheels
December's Children
Goats Head Soup
Out Of Our Heads
Black And Blue
Let It Bleed
Between The Buttons
Exile On Main Street
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Emotional Rescue
Tattoo You
Undercover
England's Newest Hit Makers
Sticky Fingers
Aftermath
Beggars Banquet
Some Girls

That surprises me Dandy - to see Let It Bleed so far down and Exile just a bit higher. Wow.

Worst to best:

Dirty Work
England's Newest Hitmakers
Undercover
12x5
Now!
It's Only Rock N Roll
Steel Wheels
Black And Blue
Their Santanic Majestic Request
A Bigger Bang
Emotional Rescue
Decembers Children
Some Girls
Out of our Heads
Exile On Main Street
Voodoo Lounge
Tattoo You
Goat's Head Soup
Aftermath
Bridges To Babylon
Sticky Fingers
Let It Bleed
Beggars Banquet

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DandelionPowderman
Shine A Light is better than Live In Texas?

Never. Love you live not number one? To hell with that list.

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DandelionPowderman

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HMS
Their Top-5 live-albums are:

1-L.A. Friday
2-Love You Live
3-Shine A Light
4-Live At Leeds Roundhay Park
5-Live Licks

Also worth mentioning are Havanna Moon, Light The Fuse, Sticky Fingers Live, Get Your Leeds Lungs Out (from SF-Deluxe) and No Security.

L.A. Friday captures pure Rock n Roll, everything The Stones stand for, Shine A Light is their best latter-day live album.

What is it that makes you prefer SAL to Sticky Fingers Live as the best latter-day album?

Brussels affair doesn't count as a live album!!!!

Updated Best To Worst:

Sticky Fingers
Let It Bleed
Tattoo You
Exile On Main Street
Beggars Banquet
Goats Head Soup
Some Girls
Undercover
Blue And Lonesome
Aftermath
Out Of Our Heads
Black And Blue
December's Children (And Everybody's)
Emotional Rescue
It's Only Rock'N'Roll
Between The Buttons
A Bigger Bang
The Rolling Stones, Now! - The Rolling Stones No. 2
Bridges To Babylon
The Rolling Stones/England's Newest Hit Makers
Steel Wheels
12X5
Voodoo Lounge
Their Satanic Majesties Request

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DandelionPowderman

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HMS
Their Top-5 live-albums are:

1-L.A. Friday
2-Love You Live
3-Shine A Light
4-Live At Leeds Roundhay Park
5-Live Licks

Also worth mentioning are Havanna Moon, Light The Fuse, Sticky Fingers Live, Get Your Leeds Lungs Out (from SF-Deluxe) and No Security.

L.A. Friday captures pure Rock n Roll, everything The Stones stand for, Shine A Light is their best latter-day live album.

What is it that makes you prefer SAL to Sticky Fingers Live as the best latter-day album?

Brussels affair doesn't count as a live album!!!!

What do you mean? Of course it counts.

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DandelionPowderman
Worst to best (at the moment), assuming this is a ranking of US albums:

A Bigger Bang
12 x 5
Voodoo Lounge
Bridges To Babylon
It's Only Rock'n Roll
Dirty Work
Now!
Steel Wheels
December's Children
Goats Head Soup
Out Of Our Heads
Black And Blue
Let It Bleed
Between The Buttons
Exile On Main Street
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Emotional Rescue
Tattoo You
Undercover
England's Newest Hit Makers
Sticky Fingers
Aftermath
Beggars Banquet
Some Girls

That surprises me Dandy - to see Let It Bleed so far down and Exile just a bit higher. Wow.

A snapshot of how I felt two years ago, Mike. I can get tired of the classics, but the good thing is that they keep coming back giving me that urge...

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GasLightStreet
Updated Best To Worst:

Sticky Fingers
Let It Bleed
Tattoo You
Exile On Main Street
Beggars Banquet
Goats Head Soup
Some Girls
Undercover
Blue And Lonesome
Aftermath
Out Of Our Heads
Black And Blue
December's Children (And Everybody's)
Emotional Rescue
It's Only Rock'N'Roll
Between The Buttons
A Bigger Bang
The Rolling Stones, Now! - The Rolling Stones No. 2
Bridges To Babylon
The Rolling Stones/England's Newest Hit Makers
Steel Wheels
12X5
Voodoo Lounge
Their Satanic Majesties Request

There´s one album missing in your list.

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HMS
There´s one album missing in your list.

For a good reason, I guess.

If you think of Dirty Work - it's no real Stones album. It's fake. They cheated us. Jagger was not into it at all. It's in truth a Richards-Wood solo album (New Barbarians so to speak) with Jagger just helping out on vocals, but no emotional involvement or any dedication at all. It was used as a contract filler, nothing more. Therefore also no tour.

I think Jagger´s not less involved than on other albums. On some of the tracks he absolutely leaves his mark. Jagger´s a pro, who would never mess up an album. He delivered very strong vocals, imo. Keith wrote a lot of the stuff (with help from Ronnie) but so he did on other albums. Why didn´t they tour behind that fantastic album? It´s been said that the band was in bad shape, mentally and physically. Charlie most of all. Keith btw wanted to tour Dirty Work but what could the poor boy do when the singer refuses to go on the road. Maybe it was the right decision, with the band in bad shape and Mick/Keith not getting along well the tour easily could have been a disaster.

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HMS
I think Jagger´s not less involved than on other albums. On some of the tracks he absolutely leaves his mark. Jagger´s a pro, who would never mess up an album. He delivered very strong vocals, imo. Keith wrote a lot of the stuff (with help from Ronnie) but so he did on other albums. Why didn´t they tour behind that fantastic album? It´s been said that the band was in bad shape, mentally and physically. Charlie most of all. Keith btw wanted to tour Dirty Work but what could the poor boy do when the singer refuses to go on the road. Maybe it was the right decision, with the band in bad shape and Mick/Keith not getting along well the tour easily could have been a disaster.

All good and well, but they did not tour that album because Jagger was not into the album and therefore a lot lesser into touring it. As you mentioned yourself already, Jagger's a pro, so he could fake very well DW being a "true" Stones album, which in fact it was not because it lacks true soul and devotion from him. He's more like a guest musician on it. The track he most convincingly left his mark is Had It With You and that says all.

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HMS
I think Jagger´s not less involved than on other albums. On some of the tracks he absolutely leaves his mark. Jagger´s a pro, who would never mess up an album. He delivered very strong vocals, imo. Keith wrote a lot of the stuff (with help from Ronnie) but so he did on other albums. Why didn´t they tour behind that fantastic album? It´s been said that the band was in bad shape, mentally and physically. Charlie most of all. Keith btw wanted to tour Dirty Work but what could the poor boy do when the singer refuses to go on the road. Maybe it was the right decision, with the band in bad shape and Mick/Keith not getting along well the tour easily could have been a disaster.

All good and well, but they did not tour that album because Jagger was not into the album and therefore a lot lesser into touring it. As you mentioned yourself already, Jagger's a pro, so he could fake very well DW being a "true" Stones album, which in fact it was not because it lacks true soul and devotion from him. He's more like a guest musician on it. The track he most convincingly left his mark is Had It With You and that says all.

I wrote Had It with You in Ronnie's front room in Chiswick, right on the banks of the Thames. We were waiting to go to Paris, but the weather was so dodgy that we were stranded until the Dover ferry started rolling again. Peter Cook and (my father) were hanging about. There was no heating, and the only way to keep warm was to turn on the amps. I don't think I'd ever written a song before, apart maybe from All About You, in which I realized I was actually singing about Mick.
- Keith Richards, Life (2010)

It is such a sad thing
To watch a love all dry
I've had it up to here, baby
I've got to say goodbye

Cause I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it with you
And I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it with you

Yeah, you loved me in the lean years
Loved you in the fat ones
You're a mean mistreater
You're a dirty, dirty rat scum


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Love you Live
Let It Bleed
Exile On Main Street
Beggars Banquet
Goats Head Soup
Tattoo You
It's Only Rock'N'Roll
Black And Blue
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones/England's Newest Hit Makers
Out Of Our Heads
Aftermath (the singles from this era are among their best of course)
Between The Buttons
Some Girls (Miss you, BoB, Shattered are among their best songs)
The Rolling Stones, Now! - The Rolling Stones No. 2
December's Children (And Everybody's)
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Emotional Rescue (Shes so cold - one of their best songs)
Undercover
12X5
Bridges To Babylon
Steel Wheels
Voodoo Lounge
Dirty Work
A Bigger Bang
Blue And Lonesome



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I'll play...

#1-4 Beggars Banquet / Let It Bleed / Sticky Fingers / Exile On Main St.
-For me, these albums are all tied in to be at the top. Depending on my mood, each of them can serve as being no. 1.

#5 The Rolling Stones (or England's Newest Hitmakers)
#6 Their Satanic Majesties Request
#7 Between The Buttons (both the UK / US versions)
#8 Out Of Our Heads (the US version)
#9 Some Girls
#10 Voodoo Lounge
#11 Aftermath (both the UK / US versions)
#12 Tattoo You
#13 Black And Blue
#14 Out Of Our Heads (the UK version) / December's Children (And Everybody's)
#15 Bridges To Babylon
#16 Goats Head Soup
#17 12X5 / No. 2 / Now!
#18 Steel Wheels
#19 Undercover
#20 It's Only Rock And Roll
#21 A Bigger Bang
#22 Blue And Lonesome
#24 Emotional Rescue
#25 Dirty Work

-If "Flowers" could count as a studio album, it would have made the top 10. I adore that record and I think it's better than both and Aftermath and Buttons.

I don't like lists. I do have a favorite Stones album and that is Exile. I feel they have only made one "bad" album and that would be Dirty Work and even that has some merit because I like One Hit and Harlem Shuffle. SOme are not as good as others but I enjoy all of their other albums.

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HMS
There´s one album missing in your list.

For a good reason, I guess.

If you think of Dirty Work - it's no real Stones album. It's fake. They cheated us. Jagger was not into it at all. It's in truth a Richards-Wood solo album (New Barbarians so to speak) with Jagger just helping out on vocals, but no emotional involvement or any dedication at all. It was used as a contract filler, nothing more. Therefore also no tour.

don't think chuck leavell gets off scott free on this one either!

From best to worse:

Exile On Main Street
Let It Bleed
Beggars Banquet
Tattoo You
Sticky Fingers
Some Girls
Aftermath
Out Of Our Heads
The Rolling Stones (1)
Their Satanic Majesties Request (50%)
Emotional Rescue
Undercover

<a long time nothing>

Black And Blue
Goats Head Soup
Bridges To Babylon
It's Only Rock'N'Roll
Blue And Lonesome
Steel Wheels
Voodoo Lounge
A Bigger Bang

<another abyss>

Dirty Work
Between The Buttons
Their Satanic Majesties Request (the other 50%)

I agree with most. The essentials are always on top and I am glad to see so many ranked Exile there. We all agree those early years were magic. I wasn't born yet and it's my favorite bit of Stones era. I just really can't imagine ANYONE ranking Bridges so low. Second from bottom? Really?

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I agree with most. The essentials are always on top and I am glad to see so many ranked Exile there. We all agree those early years were magic. I wasn't born yet and it's my favorite bit of Stones era. I just really can't imagine ANYONE ranking Bridges so low. Second from bottom? Really?

Agree, Bridges is underrated by most on here when imo it's their best since Undercover. Regards Dirty Work, we all love the Stones and there's plenty to love on at least half the tracks. One thing's for sure, there are no bad Rolling Stones albums.

There are some songs on Bridges that I really like:
Flip The Switch --- great
Lowdown --- very good
Gunface --- great
You Don´t Have To Mean It --- very good
Might As Well Get Juiced --- very good
Too Tight --- very good

How Can I Stop --- ok
Anybody Seen My Baby --- ok

but then:

Already Over Me --- horrible
Out Of Control --- horrible
Saint Of Me --- horrible
Always Suffering --- horrible
Thief In The Night --- horrible

very mixed bag.

I had a listen to Voodoo Lounge (the vinyl edition) all the way through the other day.

I must say that this album is severely underrated by fans on here, including myself. It's much better than we give them credit for.

I had an enjoyable revisit. Felt like checking up on an old friend