This might be the list to end every other "best of" lists - or at least to start a discussion about why Gomper's rank is so low.

[www.vulture.com]

"Beast of Burden" is their 3rd best song ever? It's not even the 3rd best song on Some Girls.

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117. “Dirty Work,” Dirty Work
The title track to the band’s excellent 1986 album, “Dirty Work” is a nasty-sounding song about exploitation (“let somebody do the dirty work,” yowls Mick). I suspect the glossy production on this song (and the album) has led to people overlooking it. Too bad, because unlike so much of the band’s post-’72 material, “Dirty Work” is intelligent, hungry, and alive.

I'm afraid many users won't like this ranking

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83. “Back to Zero,” Dirty Work
A lyrically nasty, musically spiky, Chic-esque bouncy ball about embracing nihilism.

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61. “One Hit (to the Body),” Dirty Work
It’s funny how good 1986’s Dirty Work is, considering it came at an all-time low in the Mick-Keith relationship. (The band members’ pastel suit jackets on the cover also weren’t promising.) Maybe the tension was helpful, or the guys felt really good in those suits — whatever the reason, Dirty Work is a strong, vital album, the band’s second-best effort of the decade after Tattoo You. “One Hit (to the Body),” the fierce and punchy opening track, has all the album’s strengths, and features a fine solo break from Led Zeppelin guitar wizard Jimmy Page.

No, they definitely won't.



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321. “Rain Fall Down,” A Bigger Bang
Can rain fall up? Titular redundancy aside, “Rain Fall Down” is harmless funk, which probably wasn’t the point.

lol this is gonna be fun.

All 373 Rolling Stones Songs?

The list by [www.vulture.com] counts also Cover-versions, e.g. 'I Gotta Go' from Blue & Lonesome (at #182 as the highest of those).

Including Cover-versions, the Discography on [TimeIsOnOurSide.com] counts 400 songs instead.

I found this "writer's" list so disagreeable that I didn't even bother to memorize the byline.

Can't really argue about number 373, but just about every other line written there was the complete opposite of what I thought.

No surprise then that 10 of the top 11 mirror almost exactly the way the Stones structure the second half of each and every show.

File this list under the general dismissiveness of the casual fan.

Few weeks ago I had an epiphany as far as "Beast of Burden" is concerned; up to that moment i thought Beast was a great song but then one more listen (that after almost 40 years of listening to it) and I fell very deeply in love with it, placing that song in my top 5 rolling stones' songs. So I like that #3 position. For me # uno is Jumping Jack Flash.
Rockandroll,
Mops

ranking songs is bullshit!!
It is impossible to rank things that can't be expressed by numbers / in a mathematical way. You can rank income, size of flats, mountains by heights etc etc. But you can rank songs, cats, etc. There's no way to tell that song A is five times better than songs B or that the difference between songs C and D is the same as the difference between song E and F…
Or is anybody able to tell why Waiting For A Friend is ranked ten ranks above All Down The Line? Does this mean that Waiting For A Friend is in the same way superior to All Down The Line as Shattered is to Soul Surivor (there are the same number of songs ranked between each of those "pairs")
as I said before: RANKING IS BULLSHIT since there are not criteria that cann be expressed in or transfered to numbers

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tatters
"Beast of Burden" is their 3rd best song ever? It's not even the 3rd best song on Some Girls.

Haha, you are probably right, but I have always loved it nonetheless!

After Don't Stop scored higher at 166 than Ride' Em on Down at 290 I stopped reading.....Don't Stop?? ha

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File this list under the general dismissiveness of the casual fan.

Because among others:

"367. 'Key to the Highway', Dirty Work
This 30-second snippet is maybe too marginal to be ranked so harshly. Then again, it’s a wordless 30-second snippet that the Stones seemed to feel was worth appending to the end of one of their better albums of the ’80s, so render under Jagger what is Jagger’s."

The Editor of this list obviously doesn't know that 'Key to the Highway' was included as a memorial to Ian Stewart.


"183. 'It Must Be Hell', Undercover
Keith’s riff is a stepchild to the one that motorvates 'Start Me Up' and the shouted chorus kicks. AC/DC lite, in a good way."

And the Editor of this list has probably not heard the Riff of 'Soul Survivor' ....



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tatters
"Beast of Burden" is their 3rd best song ever? It's not even the 3rd best song on Some Girls.

Is it at least the 3rd best song on side B?

i remember asking the board, how many songs the band had released both officially or otherwise, cover songs too, songs in concert recorded but not released, outtakes to,

i got no answer, seems the topic wasnt important or no none had a clue.

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i remember asking the board, how many songs the band had released both officially or otherwise, cover songs too, songs in concert recorded but not released, outtakes too

400 official released songs -- see here: [TimeIsOnOurSide.com]

Probably 980 recorded Tracks -- see the 'Session List' on: [StonesSessions.com] .

Firstly I knew right going into this that I'd be wildly disagreeing on various rankings; and also that some of the obvious brilliant stuff to me personally, right in line with most everyone else, would be in his top 50, and that probably some of the things I'd pick in my top twenty would be on his last 100. That's the way it always is with such subjective and personal things. For example: almost right off the bat he's waxing undying affection for Jagger's falsetto which almost always shuts me right down no matter when or where it shows up. and etc...
That being said I think this guy is an amazing writer; perspective & thorough familiarity with this music shows he's a fan who loves Mick's voice and appreciates his presence; who hears when things are really working and when he suspects artifice and that's what some of theses guys do.
I am not going to bother to criticize his numerical rankings, they are not mine. it's delightful he's unconcerned about mixing things from "December's Children (and everybodys)" or '...Buttons,' with things from DW, SG, SF or EOMS and etc..it's refreshing. those links to each song are really useful; gettin' me right to the music too. When there's a clip, it is sometimes a surprise to me...he'd pick the official 'Rocks Off' live version w with Lisa (who is ab amazing here!!) i hadn't seen this; it's great. & its the show-band, rather than w Taylor. And he's unafraid to pan Taylor's contribution to one song and criticise another...i liked it; and will go back to it...i have my own songs that i love; hit me hard and still hit me hard from different epochs. pop group comes and goes in a few years if they're good...this is like ridiculously good what they've done.
mick's not solomon burke or sam cooke; sam's a great writer that would have covered a Stones song I bet haha. imo he sees the great! writing and the fun stuff, and the pieced-together product; and i love a lot of those early covers, as much as the soulful stuff that came before it but i liked his piece a lot.



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cheers irix, im just curious. would hate to get to a point where ive heard them all and the vaults have emptied.

anyway having just seen the list of ranked 373 songs, i just dont agree one bit. too many good songs low in the list and vice versa.

jigsaw puzzle at 134 or so. i dont agree, theres few better stones songs.

and no 1 should be either

let it loose
jj flash
brown sugar
paint it black
gimme shelter

"369. “Harlem Shuffle,” Dirty Work." okay, starts off bad.

"Keith Richards is the Rolling Stone everyone loves, the one with whom you could imagine sharing a beer. Mick, not so much. If Jagger were even to deign having a drink with a plebe, I suspect it’d entail something like his sipping a Peter Thiel vampire smoothie while peering at you through jeweled binoculars and having a Slovenian model smooth anti-aging unguents into his wrinkles.

In other words, he’s not cool and Keith is."

and drives straight to Dummassadelphia.

thankfully Mick is the coolest Rolling Stone, and Keith is the Rolling Stone most likely to knife effing' A-hole writers like this.

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tatters
"Beast of Burden" is their 3rd best song ever? It's not even the 3rd best song on Some Girls.

haha absolutley right!

At least Indian Girl is ranked at 372.

I don't like how he's putting down so many early recordings, but all in all that's a fun reading. And reviewing + ranking 373 songs is quiet a feat. But why including the Metamorphosis non Stones tracks?

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tatters
"Beast of Burden" is their 3rd best song ever? It's not even the 3rd best song on Some Girls.

My third or so favorite Stones song, and I've been a fan since the sixties.

"This is the best bad Rolling Stones song." Interesting description for Angie...

Slipping Away is masterful, heck with this. (Also, always kinda liked Hearts for Sale...and, yes, Indian Girl.)

Have You Seen Your Mother Baby higher than Brown Sugar? um, NOPE

Lies at Number 53?? Uggghhh, throwaway track.

Back to Zero in the top 100, ahead of The Last Time, Heart of Stone, Time is On My Side... This dude is just being an idiot on purpose to be "different"

Questioning Keith's authenticity by citing All About You at an uneducated 335 shows you all you need to know about intern page filler David Marchese...(and yes, he googles his name to see what people think of him...)

Very good and well informed list despite the solo on Bitch being Keiths although IYCRM should be higher up on the list, at least around 50 (he describes the song quite accurately though). Hey Negrita too (150) but maybe he is right objectively speaking. Those are favorites among fans who love that sleazy era, both sounds and visuals, that whole framework of their 70s. Rambler is top ten of course but again, objectively speaking it is perhaps just the 1972 and 1973 versions (to me the studio is great). Interesting list. Have you seen your mother was an interesting choice.

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tatters
"Beast of Burden" is their 3rd best song ever? It's not even the 3rd best song on Some Girls.

It is top ten at least, extremely well written and performed.

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Send It To me
Slipping Away is masterful, heck with this. (Also, always kinda liked Hearts for Sale...and, yes, Indian Girl.)

They way he describes Slipping away is spot on. Imo.