I had a conversation the other night in the pub with a mate who is also into The Stones. We had to name our top 5. Only 5.
I can't remember his top 5, but here is mine, in no particular order;

Gimme Shelter
Time Waits For No-one
Thru & Thru
Heaven
On With The Show

I am very interested to hear what people would choose on here. We limited it to official releases (deluxe edition bonus tracks are fine, but no unreleased songs from bootlegs). And (and I must stress this ) you can only choose 5. That's 5, ok? 5.

If you want to, of course.

*edit* I should have said, the original pub-chat was 'favourite' 5 - that may not have been clear.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-10-23 11:31 by Barkerboy2.

Oh, a difficult one.

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Street Fighting Man
Gimme Shelter
Brown Sugar
Bitch

Winter
Memory Motel
Time Waits For No One
Star Star
Moonlight Mile

little Red Rooster
Brown Sugar
Casino Boogie-woogie
100 Year Ago
Tie You Up

Impossible task.

01 Winter
02 Moonlight Mile
03 Midnight Rambler
04 Time Waits For No One
05 Terrifying


On the reserve "Track" bench:
Gimme Shelter
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Coming Down Again
If You Really Want To Be My Fiend
Memory Motel
Tops
No Use In Crying
Waiting On A Friend
Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)
Too Much Blood
Almost Hear You Sigh
Moon Is Up
Sweet Sound Of Heaven

Moonlight Mile
Stray Cat Blues
Gimme Shelter
Slave
2000 Light Years From Home

Best Keith: How Can I Stop

Today, in no order:
Sway
Moonlight Mile
Street Fighting Man
Gimme Shelter
All Down the Line

Tumblin' Dice
Indian Girl
Memory Motel
Hand Of Fate
Start Me Up

There are too many.Maybe you could whittle it down to 25

I forgot Tumbling Dice and quite a few more.

Gimme Shelter
Sympathy for the Devil
Honky Tonk Women
Midnight Rambler
All Down the Line

Down in the Hole
Hand of Fate
Empty Heart
Sittin on a Fence
Blue

sympathy from yayas
doo doo doo doo doo from Brussels
star star from ghs
worried about you
oh no not you again

That’s a big ask so much so that it’s kind of a challenge worth tackling.

[original studio version/in order of release date]
Tell Me
Ruby Tuesday
Gimme Shelter
Brown Sugar
Dance (Pt. 1)

Satisfaction
Midnight Rambler
Brown Sugar
All Down the Line
Shattered

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Gimme Shelter
Brown Sugar
Midnight Rambler
Honky Tonk Women

Tough question to answer. My favourite does not necessarily mean their best.

Midnight Rambler
Gimme Shelter
Jumpin' Jack Flash
All Down the Line
Tumbling Dice

If it was top 10...

Hand of Fate
Before they Make Me Run
Emotional Rescue
Brown Sugar
Angie



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-10-23 02:49 by Jeter1984.

this is an impossible herculeanian task so this is just my top five of what i've been listing to lately

off the hook
miss amanda jones
too much blood
zydeco pas sale
she was hot

Gimmie Shelter
Winter
Loving Cup
Monkey Man
You got the Silver - gotta get a keef tune in there

Gimme Shelter
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Winter
100 Year Ago
Monkey Man

Too hard to answer limited to only 5!

Wild Horses
Gimme shelter
Start me up
Tell me straight
Following the river

With Time waits for no one as a reserve

Brown Sugar
All Down The Line
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Slave
One Hit To The Body

To make it easier for myself, I applied the extra rule of excluding cover versions and max. 1 song per album:

Gimme Shelter
Tumbling Dice
Slave
Tie You Up (Pain Of Love)
Thief In The Night

Jumping Jack Flash
Gimme Shelter
Moonlight Mile
Sister Morphine
Monkey Man

No surprises, attempts at cleverness, or 'cool points' scoring, here.

In release order:

Under My Thumb - oozes 60's cool like no other
Street Fighting Man - revolution, revolution
Gimme Shelter - the apocalyptic end to the 60's
Brown Sugar - quite simply, their finest single
Wild Horses - the iconic ballad

I’ll play :

JJ Flash
All Down the Line
Sympathy
Midnight Rambler ( Ya Yas version)
Paint It Black and Moonlight Mile tied

Yeah, I know. Most are warhorses but they’re great songs and fantastic live

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I’ll play :

JJ Flash
All Down the Line
Sympathy
Midnight Rambler ( Ya Yas version)
Paint It Black and Moonlight Mile tied

Yeah, I know. Most are warhorses but they’re great songs and fantastic live

That doesn't matter. Ultimately, it is the so-called 'Warhorses' that helped to elevate the Stones to the level of respect and fandom, achieved.

Moonlight Mile
Stray Cat Blues
Gimme Shelter
1000 years ago
winter

1) Sway
2) Dandelion
3) Brown sugar
4) Till the next goodbye
5) Loving cup

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