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J-J-Flash
Here is mine

Mother's Little Helper
Beast of Burden
Memory Motel
Sweet Virginia

Phew! We caught one! J-J-Flash, could you add another to make it a ‘5’?

My Top 5 "fave"

She Said "Yeah"

Under My Thumb

Sympathy For The Devil

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Out Of Control

My bad, Wild Horses!

There's been two voters since our last count. Can we have a few more, please?

18th update after 114 correct votes.

With 114 members, each with 5 songs, that makes 570 songs in total.

139 different songs

67 songs with only 1 vote
22 songs with only 2 votes

3 votes for
100 Years Ago
Angie
Before They Make Me Run
Dead Flowers
I Got The Blues
Rip This Joint
Ruby Tuesday
She Was Hot
Slave
Tell Me
Torn And Frayed
Waiting On A Friend

4 votes for
Miss You
One Hit
Shine A Light
Sister Morphine
Sweet Virginia

5 votes for
2000 Light Years From Home
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Loving Cup
Star Star

6 votes for
Bitch
Paint It Black
Street Fighting Man
Worried About You
You Can't Always Get What You Want

7 votes for
Hand Of Fate
Stray Cat Blues

8 votes for
Let It Loose

9 votes for
All Down The Line
Beast Of Burden
Rocks Off
Sway
Time Waits For No One
Under My Thumb

10 votes for
Memory Motel
Satisfaction

11 votes for
Start Me Up
Winter

12 votes for
Wild Horses

14 votes for
Monkey Man

15 votes for
Can't You Hear Me Knocking

16 votes for
Sympathy For The Devil

17 votes for
Honky Tonk Woman
Tumbling Dice

18 votes for
Midnight Rambler

22 votes for
Brown Sugar

23 votes for
Moonlight Mile

37 votes for
Jumpin' Jack Flash

44 votes for
Gimme Shelter

Thanks, Nankstone!

I was hoping for a 'new entry' Maybe we'll get one for update number 19!

Keep voting, everyone!

Just a little bump to attract those yet to vote. We know you’re out there

Please pick your five favourite Rolling Stones songs!

1,2,3… Go!

Interesting that their most famous song - Satisfaction, doesn't even make it to top ten...

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Stoneage
Interesting that their most famous song - Satisfaction, doesn't even make it to top ten...

Yes, also that Paint It, Black isn’t there either. Most polls have it near the top. I think our poll, with participants who know the Stones’ discography intimately, is the truest reflection of what fans like. For example: if the BBC conducted a top-50 fans’ vote, I don’t think Moonlight Mile would be where it’s sitting, here.

Keep voting, everyone!

Dance Little Sister....Undercover of The Night.....One hit To The body.....100 Years Ago.....I Go Wild......well, you asked. Practically insisted. We all have our own Stones to do.

Jumpin Jack

Monkey Man

Brown Sugar

Moonlight Mile

2000 Light Years

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J.J.Flash
Jumpin Jack

Monkey Man

Brown Sugar

Moonlight Mile

2000 Light Years

We're crawling towards 120 voters!

1. Paint it, black
2. Midnight Rambler
3. Brown Sugar
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Beast of burden

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Redhotcarpet
1. Paint it, black
2. Midnight Rambler
3. Brown Sugar
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Beast of burden

117 voters! Three to go to reach the magical 120!

120 would be really great

next update sunday

1. Shattered
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Sister Morphine
4. Midnight Rambler
5. Time Waits for No One

I've been avoiding this thread for a long time, because it's too difficult. But OK, I'll give it a try.

STUDIO:
1. Gimme Shelter
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. Brown Sugar
5. Can't You Hear Me Knocking?

For top LIVE tracks I would add Midnignt Rambler, Street Fighting Man and Out of Control.

1 Rocks Off
There's so much in the first thirty seconds and none of it speaks of anything that's pristine. After that they deliver a haze infused with energy. Pity about the wee sweary in the middle that put it beyond the reach of all but the most unwary DJ

2 Sympathy For The Devil
Flabby indulgence being smited and the suggested renewal is invigorating. L Cohen and his Anthem "there's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" gives similar optimism.
Better still and with every whoo whoo, from Roundhay Park to Aintree, I'm part of an epoch straddling two centuries

3 Faraway Eyes
For no other reason than playing it in our car, looking in the rear view mirror and my daughter giving in to the singalong. The treasure of a snapshot of time.

4 Gimme Shelter
The brooding source of the song is dramatic enough for most.
The studio version with doom, noises off and artistic excellence then birthed a thrilling live show. What's not to like about Keith's smile when Lisa was unleashed?

5 Let It Loose
Although I could tell he was authoritative, I didn't know just who he was but what Alexis Korner did in this context was to host a weekly show on BBC Radio 1 in the 1970s. At the end of the song he shared who had produced such an piece. I couldn't quite believe that something so novel to me differed so much to mid sixties sounds.
So started the life journey.

Midnight rambler
Tumblin dice
Jumpin Jack Flash
Gimme Shelter
Wild horses

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Nankstone
120 would be really great

next update sunday

We’ve actually surpassed it!

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Big Al
We’ve actually surpassed it!

I count now 120 votings (MichaelLassen already voted in november)

@ MichaelLassen
You already voted in November.
4 of the 5 songs are identical.

Your 5th song in November was "Depending On You," but now your 5th song is "Wild Horses" — which song should I finally count ?

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Nankstone

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Big Al
We’ve actually surpassed it!

I count now 120 votings (MichaelLassen already voted in november)

@ MichaelLassen
You already voted in November.
4 of the 5 songs are identical.

Your 5th song in November was "Depending On You," but now your 5th song is "Wild Horses" — which song should I finally count ?

Ha! The poll’s being active so long, he forgot!

19th update after 120 correct votes.

With 120 members, each with 5 songs, that makes 600 songs in total.

142 different songs

69 songs with only 1 vote
22 songs with only 2 votes

3 votes for
Angie
Before They Make Me Run
Dead Flowers
I Got The Blues
Rip This Joint
Ruby Tuesday
She Was Hot
Slave
Tell Me
Torn And Frayed
Undercover -- new entry
Waiting On A Friend

4 votes for
100 Years Ago
Miss You
Shine A Light
Sweet Virginia

5 votes for
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Loving Cup
One Hit
Sister Morphine
Star Star

6 votes for
2000 Light Years From Home
Bitch
Worried About You
You Can't Always Get What You Want

7 votes for
Hand Of Fate
Paint It Black
Stray Cat Blues
Street Fighting Man

9 votes for
All Down The Line
Let It Loose
Sway
Under My Thumb

10 votes for
Beast Of Burden
Memory Motel
Rocks Off
Satisfaction
Time Waits For No One

11 votes for
Start Me Up
Winter

12 votes for
Wild Horses

15 votes for
Monkey Man

16 votes for
Can't You Hear Me Knocking

17 votes for
Honky Tonk Woman
Tumbling Dice

18 votes for
Sympathy For The Devil

20 votes for
Midnight Rambler

24 votes for
Moonlight Mile

25 votes for
Brown Sugar

39 votes for
Jumpin' Jack Flash

47 votes for
Gimme Shelter

120?? There were moments when I thought our greatest-ever poll was over, but a little gentle prodding seemingly gets the voters in! I see that our top-ten has really taken shape, and I do suspect that as this wonderful poll continues, a more defined top-20 will eventually take shape. Thank you to Nankstone for faithfully keeping count

Some analytics for the statistical nerds amongst us:

With 51 tracks on our 3-votes upwards list, I have calculated the following percentages:

60’s recordings: 29%
70’s recordings: 59%
80’s recordings: 12%
90’s onwards: ZERO%

It seems like the 70’s is the favourite decade.

Thanks for the statistical analytics, Big Al.

Clearly, the 60s and 70s are the most frequently mentioned and (i think) the best years overall, even though there are excellent songs in every decade.
But, there are also a few songs from 1990 onwards in our voting list, but each only has one vote (except one song with two votes).

1990-1999 - 8 songs
2000-2009 - 4 songs
2010-2019 - 0 songs
2020-2026 - 4 songs (including "Tell Me Straight" with two votes)

Let's see if our voting is really over with the 120 member votes, or if anyone else would like to vote.

If our great poll was launched towards the end of 2023, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Sweet Sound of Heaven made the list, or, at least, was just bubbling under. As the voting hopefully continues - slowly, admittedly! - we may get some unexpected entries. There’s still a quite apparent - and surprising - absence of 60’s hits. Still, the participants in the poll are all big fans, who know their discography intimately; it is only natural that there are many, many, so-called ‘deep-cuts’ throughout the top-50 and, indeed, the top-ten; Moonlight Mile being the glaring standout in that regard,

Keep on voting, everyone!

Gimme Shelter
Can't you Hear Me Knocking
Midnight Rambler
Tumbling Dice
Bitch