Made a playlist of ballads (all LP versions, no edit versions) for some reason, with the mindset being part hits, part deep cuts (or whatever people say about non-hit tracks). It's not ALL of their ballads, that would be a bit too long, seeing that it's quite long as it is already.

I've found it quite interesting, not hearing the roaring tracks like Jumpin' Jack Flash and She Was Hot and Crazy Mama and Brown Sugar and Hang Fire and CYHMK and If You Can't Rock Me etc that are the usual for what I listen to of the Stones.

Worried About You
Through The Lonely Nights
Beast Of Burden
Fool To Cry
Out Of Tears
Till The Next Goodbye
Tops
No Use In Crying
I Got The Blues
If You Really Want To Be My Friend
Loving Cup
Winter
All About You
Memory Motel
Wild Horses
Waiting On A Friend
Almost Hear You Sigh
Laugh, I Nearly Died
Thief In The Night
Coming Down Again
Moonlight Mile
Heaven

No Angie?

Loving Cup is a ballad?? Need Indian Girl

Streets of Love

Infamy

Losing My Touch

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OpenG
Infamy

Do you know what a ballad is?

I guess it's all how you define a Stones ballad:

If You Need Me
Lady Jane
Back Street Girl
That's How Strong My Love Is
Cry To Me
Play With Fire
You Better Move On
As Tears Go By
She Smiled Sweetly
Slipping Away
The Worst
Congratulations

Time Waits For No One

angie
fool to cry
come to mind first for me.
rt sorta a ballad breaks out in the chorus
love in vain is sorta a ballad
i got the blues is a high grade favorite of mine
there are probably easily a dozen or more of slower songs with grooves I love by them.

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Made a playlist of ballads (all LP versions, no edit versions) for some reason, with the mindset being part hits, part deep cuts (or whatever people say about non-hit tracks). It's not ALL of their ballads, that would be a bit too long, seeing that it's quite long as it is already.

I've found it quite interesting, not hearing the roaring tracks like Jumpin' Jack Flash and She Was Hot and Crazy Mama and Brown Sugar and Hang Fire and CYHMK and If You Can't Rock Me etc that are the usual for what I listen to of the Stones.

Worried About You
Through The Lonely Nights
Beast Of Burden
Fool To Cry
Out Of Tears
Till The Next Goodbye
Tops
No Use In Crying
I Got The Blues
If You Really Want To Be My Friend
Loving Cup
Winter
All About You
Memory Motel
Wild Horses
Waiting On A Friend
Almost Hear You Sigh
Laugh, I Nearly Died
Thief In The Night
Coming Down Again
Moonlight Mile
Heaven

i know that those are only ballads but i like them.

no expectations
lady jane
as years go by
winter
memory motel
no use in crying

Down In The Hole hasn't been mentioned yet.

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No Angie?

Uh huh. Too mushy, too familiar.

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Loving Cup is a ballad?? Need Indian Girl

It is on EOMS!

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OpenG
Streets of Love

I said ballads, not garbage.

I left some off. Angie, for one. Who needs to hear that again.

Streets Of Love. Pure garbage.

Ruby Tuesday could be considered a ballad I suppose. But I figured having Beast Of Burden and Wild Horses on the list was warhorsey enough.

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doitywoik
Down In The Hole hasn't been mentioned yet.

That's more a Blues .

[Is a typical slow Blues also a ballad ? A Good question perhaps ? ]



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Down In The Hole hasn't been mentioned yet.

That's more a Blues .

[Is a typical slow Blues also a ballad ? A Good question perhaps ? ]

You might take Already Over Me instead. Definitely a ballad, and not the worst.

Stones ballads...
‘Love In Vain’

‘Already Over Me’ I had to reacquaint myself with- first I read the lyrics which had some killer paragraphs but then I played it.
I didn’t finish. I guess (honestly) it feels not true to me. Jagger the victim doesn’t always play well. Hurt, yes, but scratched up and abused... he doesn’t believe it either while he’s singing it. Sorry.

There^ for anybody who thinks I don’t give bad reviews.

Admittedly, I'm not fully convinced by the song either. The intro and verses are simply great, musically and playingwise, but for me all the atmosphere building up there is then destroyed by the bridge and chorus. They somehow don't fit, different vibe. But I still prefer it to certain other ballads. I never cared much about the lyrics

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doitywoik
Admittedly, I'm not fully convinced by the song either. The intro and verses are simply great, musically and playingwise, but for me all the atmosphere building up there is then destroyed by the bridge and chorus. They somehow don't fit, different vibe. But I still prefer it to certain other ballads. I never cared much about the lyrics

Are we still talking about ‘Already Over Me’ ? What do you mean you never cared much about the lyrics?? That is the first thing I read on a new/ unfamiliar song.
‘Hard to hold on
To a love divine
I'm kneeling in a corner
Praying to your shrine’

Sweet.

I used to have a tape with all ballads that Mick Taylor played on. Tops was on it and I didn't know back then that it's features Mick Taylor.

Tops, Time Waits For No One, Till the Next Good Bye....

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OpenG
Infamy

Do you know what a ballad is?

Please explain.

I had the definition of ballad incorrect. I thought it was mushy declarations of romance examples
She gushed: "He's the most incredible, wonderful, loving father. And, to me, he's the most wonderful man in the world."
The Beatles: “She loves you yeah yeah yeah.”

However DICTIONARY says:
Ballads are often 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Another common form is ABAB or ABCB repeated, in alternating 8 and 6 syllable lines.
In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a self-contained story, often concise, and rely on imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic, historical, romantic or comic.[8] Themes concerning rural laborers and their sexuality are common, and there are many ballads based on the Robin Hood legend.[11] Another common feature of ballads is repetition, sometimes of fourth lines in succeeding stanzas, as a refrain, sometimes of third and fourth lines of a stanza and sometimes of entire stanzas.[4]

So no, I don’t know what is officially Rolling Stones ballads.
It’s Only Rock n Roll but I like it.

back when ballads were ballads there was supposed to be a King Arthur reference too but apparently we’re way past that now.

I know nothing about counting out music as my dictionary explanation of ‘ballad’ alluded
But the song ‘Summer Romance’
has a repetitive structure like described?

More importantly, why does Gas Light Street need a tale of RS ballads?

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35love
I know nothing about counting out music as my dictionary explanation of ‘ballad’ alluded
But the song ‘Summer Romance’
has a repetitive structure like described?

More importantly, why does Gas Light Street need a tale of RS ballads?

It's partially to explore a different way of listening to the Stones.

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back when ballads were ballads there was supposed to be a King Arthur reference too but apparently we’re way past that now.

that was a damn nice bitch-slap...happy new year!