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stonesstein
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 ...

Of course, it was obvious from your inclusion of such tracks as Just Wanna See His Face & Back Of My Hand

Now to critique your list!

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stonesstein
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

First, love the inclusion of Rough Justice. I think it's a great number, but don't think I would have it in my top 20 myself.

I love Respectable as well - that would be close for me, but the Some Girls song would be on the chart, don't 'think' Respectable would make mine either, but it might. Too close to call it.

Midnight Rambler, Brussels -- can't get much better than that!

Brown Sugar - Clapton version is cool, but quality not perfect, original wins!

Are they in order? Gimme Shelter has to be #1! For me I would probably go w/ Sympathy as #2, followed by Honky Tonk Women #3.

Back of My Hand? A nice number for sure but don't even think that one cracks my top 100. For a classic bluesy number, I would throw in a cover, Little Red Rooster.

Maybe it would be nice to create a no-hits but "deep-cuts-collection", albums-songs and B-sides that were rarely or never done live, songs of very good/great quality that usually dont get the appreciation they deserve?

Good idea! Start a best tracks never performed live-thread.

1) Last Time
2) Get off My Cloud
3) Jumping Jack Flash
4) Street Fighting Man
5) Sympathy for the Devil
6) No Expectations
7) Stray Cat Blues
8) Midnight Rambler
9) You Got The Silver
10) Honkey Tonk Women
11) Brown Sugar
12) Sway
13) Wild Horses
14) Can't You Hear me Knockin'
15) Moonlight Mile
16) Rocks Off
17) Torn & Frayed
18) Loving Cup
19) Winter
20) Slave

Route 66
The Last Time
Satisfaction
Get Off Of My Cloud
19th Nervous Breakdown
Paint It Black
Let's Spend the Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
Street Fighting Man
Sympathy For The Devil
Honky Tonk Women
Gimme Shelter
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Midnight Rambler (live)
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
Happy
All Down the Line
Start Me Up
Out of Control



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1. SATISFACTION
2. GET OFF OF MY CLOUD
3. NINETEENTH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
4. PAINT IT BLACK
5. UNDER MY THUMB
6. LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER
7. RUBY TUESDAY
8. JUMPING JACK FLASH
9. STREET FIGHTING MAN
10.SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
11.YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
12.HONKY TONK WOMEN
13.GIMME SHELtER
14.BROWN SUGAR
15.TUMBLING DICE
16.ANGIE
17.IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL
18.MISS YOU
19.BEAST OF BURDEN
20.START ME UP

Four sides of 5 songs.
Rockers first and fifth, ballad in the middle.

A, the early years
Satisfaction
It's All Over Now
Ruby Tuesday
Paint it Black
Get Off my Cloud

B, the classic rockers
Jumping Jack Flash
Honky Tonk Women
Love in Vain
Gimmie Shelter
Sympathy For the Devil

C, more classic era stuff
Brown Sugar
Midnight Rambler, live
You Got the Silver
Wild Horses
Rocks Off or Tumbling Dice

D, 50 years in one side
Beast of Burden
Take it so Hard (Keith solo)
All About You
Mixed Emotions
Flip the Switch

a very personal choice :

a selection of songs that turned me on originally

Around And Around
Little Red Rooster
It's All Over Now
Satisfaction
The Last Time
Under My Thumb

plus the setlist from my first Stones concert (Bern, 1973) :

Brown Sugar
Gimme Shelter
Happy
Tumblin'Dice
StarStar
Dancing With Mr. D
Angie
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Midnight Rambler
Honky Tonk Women
All Down The Line
Rip This Joint
Jumpin'Jack Flash
Street Fighting Man

makes 20 great songs

resotele

Tell Me
It's All Over Now
The Last Time
Let's Spend The Night Together
Sitting On The Fence
She's A Rainbow
Street Fighting Man
Sympathy For The Devil
Honky Tonk Women
Gimme Shelter
Rocks Off
Star Star
It's Only Rock'n'Roll
Emotional Rescue
Start Me Up
She Was Hot
One Hit (to the Body)
Mixed Emotions
Don't Stop
Doom And Gloom

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Olly
'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)

Brilliant collection

1. Satisfaction
2. Get off of my Cloud
3. 19th Nervous Breakdown
4. Paint it, Black
5. Ruby Tuesday
6. 2000 Man
7. She's a Rainbow
8. Sympathy for the Devil GYYYO
9. Street Fighting Man GYYYO
10. Gimme Shelter
11. Live with Me GYYYO
12. Midnight Rambler GYYYO
13. Monkey Man
14. Jumpin'Jack Flash
15. Honky Tonk Woman
16. Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
17. Bitch
18. Rocks off
19. It's Only Rock and Roll
20. Start Me up

The Best List Yet! lol

I started my list but it's extremely difficult............my first selection of all the record left me with 22 songs...and the difficult part is to remove two of them ....so I want to ask the moderator can I add two bonus songs?

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Satisfaction
Jumping Jack Flash
Honky Tonk Women
Brown Sugar
Tumbling Dice

Miss You
Gimme Shelter
Ruby Tuesday
Paint It Black
Start Me Up

Brown Sugar
You Got Me Rocking
Dance Part 1 &2
Street Fighting Man
Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man

Wild Horses
Emotional Rescue
All Down The Line
Time Is On My Side
Love Is Strong
Mixed Emotions

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Olly
'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)

Brilliant collection

It's the 20 tracks that best represent the Stones, to me.

It's interesting to read other lists, although one thing that strikes me is the lack of live tracks in some selections.

It would have been impossible for me to have drawn up a top twenty and not include some of the Stones' finest live recordings, which ended up accounting for a quarter of my list.

.....

Olly.

I don't see that many Rolling Stones Greatest Hits compilations with live versions of the songs; I guess the same criticism is for those albums.

All the more reason to address the imbalance; those live recordings, particularly during the band's best live phase, are amongst their greatest recordings.

.....

Olly.

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BroomWagon
I don't see that many Rolling Stones Greatest Hits compilations with live versions of the songs; I guess the same criticism is for those albums.

There are some. Check out the Selected Compilation Talks for some of them.

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NICOS
I started my list but it's extremely difficult............my first selection of all the record left me with 22 songs...and the difficult part is to remove two of them ....so I want to ask the moderator can I add two bonus songs?

Why not put them as bonus traxx on the first single from the LP?

stonesstein

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