All Stones' officially-released music is open for inclusion from 1963 - 2016, including the Vaults' stuff and live stuff like Sticky Live 2015.

You are limited to 20 songs, regardless of length, so this is not a 74 minute thing.

Feel free to give reasons for why this and not that. Chart positions can, but need not, be a factor. They can be in any order, as inclusion, not order is important.

I am simply looking for each of you to pare the catalogue down to what you think are the Rolling Stones' 20 greatest tracks.

Here goes:

1. Route 66 (Live) (from Got Live EP)
2. Satisfaction
3. 19th Nervous Breakdown
4. 2000 Light Years From Home
5. Jumping Jack Flash
6. Sympathy for the Devil
7. Street Fighting Man
8. Live With Me (Live from Ya Yas)
9. Gimme Shelter
10. Honky Tonk Women
11. Brown Sugar (w/ Eric Clapton)
12. Let It Rock (Live at Leeds)
13. Rocks Off
14. I Just Wanna See His Face
15. Sweet Virginia
16. Midnight Rambler (Live at Brussels)
17. Starf--cker
18. Respectable
19. Back of My Hand
20. Rough Justice

WOW - SEVERAL anthems / warhorses missing, I know. No Rooster, Paint It, Black, LSTNT, Ruby, Miss You, Start me Up, Tumbling Dice, Angie, IORR, and yes, 13 are from 1968-1973, and only 2 tracks are after 78, with only 3 after 73.

I expect criticism from many, but if it gets y'all talking, then oh well......

stonesstein

Kick me like you did before
I can't even feel the pain no more
Rocks Off, 1972

1-It's All Over Now
2-Get Off My Cloud
3-19th Nervous Breakdown
4-Satisfaction
5-Paint It Black
6-Sympathy For The Devil
7-Jumping Jack Flash
8-Street Fighting Man
9-Gimme Shelter
10-Midnight Rambler (Ya Ya's version)
11-Brown Sugar
12-Bitch
13-Rocks Off
14-Tumbling Dice
15-It's Only Rock And Roll
16-Beast Of Burden
17-Start Me Up
18-Love Is Strong
19-Rough Justice
20-Doom & Gloom......wow, that was hard and had to leave off too much stuff! The Stones are too great to be condensed to 20 songs!

"Gonna find my way to heaven ..."

Mona
Around And Around
Mercy Mercy
Mother's Little Helper
Paint It, Black
Have You Seen Your Mother
Backstreet Girl
2000 Light Years From Home
She's A Rainbow
Sympathy For The Devil
Street Fighting Man
Gimmie Shelter
Brown Sugar
Tumbling Dice
Beast Of Burden
Start Me Up
Undercover Of The Night
Love Is Strong
Anybody Seen My Baby
Rough Justice



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Stoned
Time is On My Side
I Can't Be Satisfied
Good Times, Bad Times
Satisfaction
Get off My Cloud
Paint it Black
19th Nervous Breakdown
Ruby Tuesday
Dandelion
Street Fighting Man
Stray Cat Blues
Sympathy
Midnight Rambler
Gimme Shelter
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Happy
Rocks Off
Dance Little Sister
Hand of Fate

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

Tell Me (long version)
It's all over now
Off the hook
I'm Free
The Last Time

She Smiled Sweetly
Long Long While
Lady Jane
Under My Thumb
She's a Rainbow

Jig Saw Puzzle
Parachute Woman
Let it bleed
Blue turns to grey
Sittin on a fence

Sister Morphine
Get your rocks off
Shine a light
Memory Motel
Crazy Mama

oooooooooooooooops alreay 20...

2 1 2 0

Beggars Banquet + Let it Bleed

or

Let it bleed + Sticky Fingers

or

Beggars Banquet + Sticky Fingers

or

Exile

1. 19th Nervous breakdown
2. 2,000 Light Years From Home
3. No Expectations
4. Sympathy For the Devil
5. Gimme Shelter
6. I Got The Blues
7. Let It Loose
8. 100 Years Ago
9. Coming Down Again
10. Time Waits For No-one
11. Memory Motel
12. Respectable
13. Waiting On A Friend
14. Harlem Shuffle
15. Continental Drift
16. Thru & Thru
17. Anyway You Look At It
18. Flip The Switch
19. Back Of My Hand
20. Doom & Gloom

My 20 favourite tracks:

She said yeah
Get off of my cloud
Under my thumb
Lets spend the night together
2000 light years from home
Jumpin' jack flash
Sympathy for the devil
Gimme shelter
Midnight rambler
You can't always get what you want (single edit)
Brown Sugar
Let it Rock(live at leeds)
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Its only rock and roll
Fool to cry
Crazy Mama
beast of Burden
Start Me up
How can I stop?

i agree the stones are too good to only consider 20 songs for inclusion but the thread topic is about what we think is the best 20 songs the stones did do, so any left out song didnt make the grade on merit. it would also be good if someone could count the final score and give us the ultimate iorr top 20.

on a survey i came across on the web of the top 50 stones songs beast of burden was no6 and you cant always get was no1. cant see why.

so heres my top 20, which i could contradict tomorrow.

1. she said yeah
2. the last time
3. paint it black
4. ruby tuesday
5. cool calm collected
6. we love you
7. citadel
8. jumpin jack flash
9. no expectations
10.jigsaw puzzle
11. gimme shelter
12. brown sugar
13. let it loose
14. silver train(old grey whistle test youtube version)
15. if you cant rock me(alterate outtake youtube version)
16. shattered(live hampton 1981 version)
17. little t and a(live hampton 1981 version)
18. she was hot
19. like a rolling stone
20. sympathy for the devil(love you live version) as an encore.

i tried to include many of the criteria that made the stones during the brian jones era, so i included songs which show his talent of playing multi instruments and also to include the early r and b rythmns with jagger at his menacing best, and the pysychodelic era, which includes both these features, i moved on to the best ballad i think they did no expectations then to songs recorded during thier greatest era, laterly i included my favourite rock songs from the 70,s and beyond also including the excellent let it loose with jaggers vocals at his best ever in many opinions.

to be honest, its so difficult to pick a top 20, bit would be interesting to see a final result.

1. Crazy Mama
2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
3. Shattered
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Monkey Man
7. 100 Years Ago
8. Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)
9. Hang Fire
10. Rocks Off
11. She's So Cold
12. Neighbours
13. Time Waits For No One
14. 2000 Light Years From Home
15. Slave
16. All Down The Line
17. Tumbling Dice
18. Brown Sugar
19. Street Fighting Man
20. Jumpin' Jack Flash

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GasLightStreet
1. Crazy Mama
2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
3. Shattered
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Monkey Man
7. 100 Years Ago
8. Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)
9. Hang Fire
10. Rocks Off
11. She's So Cold
12. Neighbours
13. Time Waits For No One
14. 2000 Light Years From Home
15. Slave
16. All Down The Line
17. Tumbling Dice
18. Brown Sugar
19. Street Fighting Man
20. Jumpin' Jack Flash

Impressive collection but you omitted the early years and payed no attention to their post-Undercover material. Most of all I miss One Hit To The Body of course. Just as well as Dirty Work, Winning Ugly & Had It With You.

I´ll present my own collection later on. 20 songs only - not an easy task. Almost mission impossible.



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GasLightStreet
1. Crazy Mama
2. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
3. Shattered
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Monkey Man
7. 100 Years Ago
8. Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)
9. Hang Fire
10. Rocks Off
11. She's So Cold
12. Neighbours
13. Time Waits For No One
14. 2000 Light Years From Home
15. Slave
16. All Down The Line
17. Tumbling Dice
18. Brown Sugar
19. Street Fighting Man
20. Jumpin' Jack Flash

Impressive collection but you omitted the early years and payed no attention to their post-Undercover material. Most of all I miss One Hit To The Body of course. Just as well as Dirty Work, Winning Ugly & Had It With You.

I´ll present my own collection later on. 20 songs only - not an easy task. Almost mission impossible.

That's because their early years don't have the musical impact of what I put in and anything post-UNDERCOVER is not worthy with possible exception to You Don't Have To Mean It and How Can I Stop, for which there was not enough room for and have no historical impact regarding how they sound. Including anything from DIRTY WORK is a detriment to their career and is zero representation of The Rolling Stones.

I'm trying to make sense of some of the diverse suggestions made here.

Compilation chat is always compelling, but what are we being asked to produce here?

The 20 songs we feel had the most commercial success?

The ones which had the most critical success?

Simply our personal favourites?


Perhaps the last criteria accounts for some of the tracks included above.

.....

Olly.

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Olly
I'm trying to make sense of some of the diverse suggestions made here.

Compilation chat is always compelling, but what are we being asked to produce here?

The 20 songs we feel had the most commercial success?

The ones which had the most critical success?

Simply our personal favourites?


Perhaps the last criteria accounts for some of the tracks included above.

Huh? Obviously each is making their own list as they see fit.

But using what criteria?

.....

Olly.

Exile on Main Street + 2

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Olly
But using what criteria?

Who cares, you already figured it out but are questioning for who knows what reason ... If it were based on commercial success, would you possibly see Tie You Up or Just Wanna See His Face?

Obviously, the lists are not greatest hits, but personal favourites.
Here is the band's real greatest hits, UK and US top 3 singles, covered up by 4 tracks treated by both band and public as if they were big hits:


Not Fade Away UK #3
It's All Over Now UK #1
Little Red Rooster UK #1
The Last Time UK #1
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction UK and US #1
Get Off Of My Cloud UK and US #1
19th Nervous Breakdown US #2
Paint It Black UK and US #1
Ruby Tuesday US #1
Let's Spend The Night Together UK #3
Jumping Jack Flash UK #1
Honky Tonk Women UK and US #1
Brown Sugar US #1
Angie US #1
Miss You US #1
Emotional Rescue US #3
Start Me Up US #2

And then you can add the 4 extra songs:

Sympathy For The Devil
Gimme Shelter
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Tumbling Dice

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Blueranger
Obviously, the lists are not greatest hits, but personal favourites.
Here is the band's real greatest hits, UK and US top 3 singles, covered up by 4 tracks treated by both band and public as if they were big hits:


Not Fade Away UK #3
It's All Over Now UK #1
Little Red Rooster UK #1
The Last Time UK #1
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction UK and US #1
Get Off Of My Cloud UK and US #1
19th Nervous Breakdown US #2
Paint It Black UK and US #1
Ruby Tuesday US #1
Let's Spend The Night Together UK #3
Jumping Jack Flash UK #1
Honky Tonk Women UK and US #1
Brown Sugar US #1
Angie US #1
Miss You US #1
Emotional Rescue US #3
Start Me Up US #2

And then you can add the 4 extra songs:

Sympathy For The Devil
Gimme Shelter
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Tumbling Dice

Thanks Blueranger.
So the last #1 was Miss You in the US (#3 in the UK), and Start Me Up made it to #2 in the US (#7 in the UK).
That was a loooong time ago....nothing after that made it to #1 or 2?
I'm not really surprised I guess given the output after that.....


*On another note, Honkey Tonk Women was their last #1 in the UK?!!!

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

'Brown Sugar' (Sticky Fingers)
'She Said "Yeah"' (Out of Our Heads)
'Street Fighting Man' (Live Licks)
'Love Is Strong' (Voodoo Lounge)
'Little T & A' (Tattoo You)
'Midnight Rambler' (Let It Bleed)
'Play With Fire' (B-side to 'The Last Time')
'The Last Time' (No Security)
'Slave' (Tattoo You)
'Tumbling Dice' (Exile On Main St.)
'Dead Flowers' (Stripped)
'Gimme Shelter' (Let It Bleed)
'Some Girls' (Some Girls)
'Hand of Fate' (Black and Blue)
'Thief In The Night' (Bridges to Babylon)
'She Saw Me Coming' (A Bigger Bang)
'Torn And Frayed' (Exile On Main St.)
'Sweet Virginia' (Stripped)
'Love In Vain' (Stripped)
'Champagne & Reefer' (Shine a Light)

.....

Olly.

Liked this one until you hit Undercover - (or maybe I should ask the Stones what happened LOL) The last four didn't do much for me.

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DandelionPowderman
Mona
Around And Around
Mercy Mercy
Mother's Little Helper
Paint It, Black
Have You Seen Your Mother
Backstreet Girl
2000 Light Years From Home
She's A Rainbow
Sympathy For The Devil
Street Fighting Man
Gimmie Shelter
Brown Sugar
Tumbling Dice
Beast Of Burden
Start Me Up
Undercover Of The Night
Love Is Strong
Anybody Seen My Baby
Rough Justice

1. Satisfaction- GYYYO delux
2. 19th Nervous Breakdown
3. 2000 Light Years from Home
4. No Expectations
5. Factory Girl
6. Sympathy for the Devil GYYYO
7. Gimme Shelter
8. Midnight Rambler- GYYYO
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want
10 Can't You Hear Me Knockin?
11. Rocks Off
12. Let it Loose
13. Winter
14. Fingerprint File
15. Miss You (12" )
16. Dance Pt. 1
17. Tumbling Dice- Brussels
18. Love in Vain- Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out
19. Shattered
20. Time Waits for No One



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Quickly looking through the Rolling Stones category of the music thumb drive that is plugged into my computer I came up with 20 songs that would make an interesting and a bit different CD.

Sweet Black Angel
Just My Imagination
Hang Fire
Paint It Black
Going To A Go-Go
I Got The Blues
Midnight Rambler
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Black Limousine
Let Me Go
Terrifying
Jig Saw Puzzle
All Down The Line
100 Years Ago
Tops
Dead Flowers
Break The Spell
Miss You
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Winter
Around and Around



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Jumping Jack Flash
Gimme Shelter
Stray Cat Blues
Congratulations
Play With Fire
Street Fighting Man
I Don't Wanna go Home
Sympathy for the Devil
Tumbling Dice
Shine a Light
Some Girls
Love is Strong
It Won't take Long
Crazy Mama
Coming Down Again
Under the Radar
Bitch
Memory Motel
Wild Horses
Salt of the Earth

Rod



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Some pretty nice compilations boys & girls but nothing beats mine when you're in a rush.
1. Stoned
2. Carol
3. Connection
4. Complicated
5. Citadel
6. Gomper
7. Sway
8. Bitch
9. Happy
10. Winter
11. Angie
12. Luxury
13. Melody
14. Lies
15. Claudine
16. Shattered
17. Slave
18. Tops
19. Heaven
20. Gunface



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Olly
But using what criteria?

Greatest Hits.

All the lists above are missing something. Any stones greatest hits compilation
Released over the past 40 years has included new or unreleased
Songs. This is to entice diehard fans (us) by the album even though we all already have 17 different albums with satisfaction, JJF etc on it.

So really the question is what 18 greatest hits plus two previously unreleased tracks should be on the hypothetical album.

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Olly
But using what criteria?

The songs they wanna showcase on a 20 song hit compilation, I guess..

that's tough

1 satisfaction
2 get of my cloud
3 19th nervous breakdown
4 jumpin jack flash
5 sympathy for the devil
6 gimme shelter
7 honky tonk woman
8 brown sugar
9 wild horses
10 angie
11 its only rock n roll
12 miss you
13 beast of burden
14 start me up
15 waiting on a friend
16 one hit to the body
17 mixed emotions
18 love is strong
19 don't stop
20 rough justice

looks good enough to me

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DandelionPowderman

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Olly
But using what criteria?

The songs they wanna showcase on a 20 song hit compilation, I guess..

When I came up with this idea, it was more of a what 20 songs would you select as the Stones' greatest recorded moments? That, and a vague idea that you would thus use this 2LP set or CD to introduce those who might not know the band as well to what you believe are the best 20 trax they ever did. It does not matter if the song was a hit or even released as a single. What matters is that the song(s) you select are more than simply personal favorites; rather, they are the 20 songs which together you believe best capture the Rolling Stones as we know and love them.

It IS a version of mission impossible, but it is really cool to read everyone's choices.

Thanks for playing.....

stonesstein

Kick me like you did before
I can't even feel the pain no more
Rocks Off, 1972