Here is my list of Charlies best solo riffs to open a song. I probably forgot a few but feel free to add them. Remember opening drum riffs only.

1. Slave
2. Get Off My Cloud
3. Hang Fire
4. Stupid Girl
5. 19th Nervous Breakdown
6. When The Whip Comes Down
7. Hand of Fate
8. Lies
9. Neighbours
10. Dance Little Sister
11. Under My Thumb
12. 2120 South Michigan Avenue

Honky Tonk Women
What To Do/ Good Times - same intro
Paint It Black
Child of the Moon
Who's Driving Your Plane

Shattered, 1978 live. Four outrageous bashes on the crash cymbal. Nothing like it. Just launches the song into a different realm.

Ive always been partial to his intro on Get off my cloud. It’s perfect.

I have always enjoyed the drums on Moon is Up and Thru and Thru

I remember the show opener Not Fade Away

JJF during Licks, just 3 snare shots, not 48 hours go by in my life where i dont home that

.....keep on rolling.....

I've always absolutely loved the drum intro to Neighbors with the drum roll, played it on repeat last night...

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Has to be Get Off Of My Cloud.

Best ending / outro: Had It With You.

GOOMC

Flip the Switch

Many are the ones that appeared to be on the wrong beat...some of which could never be replicated thereafter ! ;^)

first LP, first song, first sound :

Route 66 !

Resotele

Let It Bleed - live version

Just My Imagination, studio. Honky Tonk Women.

Start me up. The snare on beat 1 still sounds surprising. I have played with lots of drummers, and they never played that intro right. Is physically wrong, rock and roll snares must be on times 2 and 4, but that's the magic. Only Charlie.

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Charlie's best song opening drum riffs - great Charlie drumming isn't the topic, it's songs that open with drums

Tell Me (Your Coming Back) Especially the part during the knock on the door. Rest In Peace, Charlie

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Charlie's best song opening drum riffs - great Charlie drumming isn't the topic, it's songs that open with drums

I thought I made that point but .... you get it.

Tumbling Dice
CYHMK

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These songs don’t start with Charlie’s drums…

Flip The Switch is it for me.

Extremely influential for the 4 year old me who became a semi professional drummer. (Ive been playing in multiple bands and on most continents since im 13. Im not getting paid enough to call myself "a professional drummer")



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If You Cant rock Me

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These songs don’t start with Charlie’s drums…

Thanks Koen. I didn't want to be the snob since I started the thread.

So that makes me the snob, huh?

I loved it on Suck On The Jugular!

She's So Cold
She Was Hot
Neighbours
Slave
Start Me Up (STEEL WHEELS/URBAN JUNGLE)
Going To A Go-Go
19th

Quite a few others... good grief, what a weird way to think about it.

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CYHMK

These songs don’t start with Charlie’s drums…

Thanks Koen. I didn't want to be the snob since I started the thread.

Whoops, thought I was posting in the best Charlie Watts songs thread. Silly me...

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Rocks Off, the start of Exile, especially that firt symbal crash at the beginning.