Exactly what I think!
You'rr the boss !

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I haven't listened to any of the remixes, released as B-sides.

As far as I recollect, these are the tracks I have only listened to a mere handful of times, or not all all:

Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - 'Zzzz' (5-minute version)
Going Home - only the first few minutes
Sing This Song All Together (See What Happens) - maybe the first 30 seconds?
Melody - simply not 'my thing'
Emotional Rescue
Continental Drift - maybe the first minute-or-so
Suck on The Jugular - maybe the first 30 seconds?
Might As Well Get Juiced - I'm not even sure how it goes; I just know it's bad.
Thief In The Night - not my cup of tea
Losing My Touch - Zzzz
Infamy - Zzzz
Hurricane - ??

Edit: goodness; what's Keith done wrong?

Here I find both major and minor favourites of mine

From THE ROLLING STONES vol 2 (UK) "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". Wow!
From AFTERMATH "Goin' Home".
On EMOTIONAL RESCUE all songs to me are either very good and some outright great. Then also the title song.
STEEL WHEELS' for me only great song "Continental Drift". Wow again!
" Might As Well Get Juiced" that is one of the triple songs, together with "Saint of Me" and "Always Suffering", which the three of them for me create a quite mighty sequence on BRIDGES TO BABYLON between them with their contrasts.
"Thief in the Night" I find facinating in its kind of soft heaviness

I'd better abstain from commenting on the other posts in this thread as well..

indian Girl I don't like this song

Too many to mention. Some even when once was too much.

The entire Between The Buttons album (the UK version, the US version has some nice songs on it).
Pretty much anything from TSMR except She's A Rainbow, Citadel, The Lantern and 2000 Light Years From Home.
Most of Dirty Work except One Hit, Harlem Shuffle, Winning Ugly (yes, I know, but I like it).

Post DW, most albums don't thrill me much. It's almost easier to name the songs that I *did* listen to more than 4 or 5 times. (Thief In The Night is an all time favorite. There are a few other ones...)

There is no an officially released Stones song that I have only listened once or twice. Unofficial yes (most of bootleg stuff is just curiosity stuff to be listened once or twice).

What goes listing Stones songs I like the least, well.. I have never constructed such a list and feel not like start reflecting such a thing either now. Probably one could go through Rene's Track Talk threads and pick up the ones I seem to like the least. Most likely one might find them on VOODOO LOUNGE and A BIGGER BANG albums.

It is like 'hey, let's discuss The Beatles!'. Sorry, no interest.

- Doxa



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It´s a weird thread. In this actual world with all the stuff going on (there was always something going on in the news in my 64 years on this earth - wars. murders, earthquakes, accidents, child abuse and, and, and) in this world IORR, my love for music and for the Stones is kind of a shelter island where I can dive away from the present and get positive vibes.
So when something appears here with a negative vibe I scroll on. Or criticize it. Like now:
This thread doesn't lead me anywhere unless to bad mood.
Good bye.

I enjoy these discussions, because they show how different our tastes are.

Somme tracks that I don't like are considered by others worthy of a "best since exile" nomination. And many of the songs mentioned in this thread I truly love

Discussions are also usually more interesting when opinions differ and sometimes it is good to know that our personal convictions are not gospel.

Most important, I think that a Rolling Stones fan should be tough enough to be able to hold a heated discussion without tacking it too personal and smart enough to know that it IS only rock and roll after all, and no matter how distant an opinion can be, nothing is so serious that it can't be cured by a beer.

C

For me only the club remixes

None. To test myself I listened to the whole of Dirty Work last night and didn't feel the need to skip any track. I might listen to it again tonight.

I listened to the Blue and Lonesome album once.

There were four songs on a, I don't remember which, comprehensive compilation, that I did not buy. I, who don't buy compilations, if they do not contain new material, felt irritated at the time by having to buy all that stuff to gain four songs. Also hoping for a separate release a little later. (I would have bought the compilation now to obtain the songs). I think I have had a most distracted listening to those songs once during a visit. ( I do not remember even their titles.) Besides, I have remained in the vinyl universe. The original vinyl VOODOO LOUNGE did not include "Mean Disposition". One distracted listening to that as well. I have not rebought the album in a later version, which allegedly features that song. And I have not bought all Vaults releases, not always aware of them, probably may have lost songs thereby. In addition, I have only got the first five solo albums by Ron Wood.

Out of what I have got, I listen to all songs when they are due in my arranged listening order, also "Melody" and "Tops" and the whole album CROSSEYED HEART. When I acquired the latter album, I made myself listen to it 30 times as an introduction. Simply because Keith is one ot the two of Jagger & Richards. It was a relief when I had finished. - But two solo albums by Bill Wyman and the compilation METAMORPHOSIS (not a Stones release, I think) I have stopped to listen to.

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I enjoy these discussions, because they show how different our tastes are.

Somme tracks that I don't like are considered by others worthy of a "best since exile" nomination. And many of the songs mentioned in this thread I truly love

Discussions are also usually more interesting when opinions differ and sometimes it is good to know that our personal convictions are not gospel.

Most important, I think that a Rolling Stones fan should be tough enough to be able to hold a heated discussion without tacking it too personal and smart enough to know that it IS only rock and roll after all, and no matter how distant an opinion can be, nothing is so serious that it can't be cured by a beer.

C

while I agree that anything can be open to discussion I am a bit critical that there can be a fruithful conversation based on songs people don't listen almost at all. Like DandelionPowderman said how can one even have an opinion if one doesn't listen it in the first place?

For me if I skip something after just having one listening or two it means that the music doesn't move me at all. It leaves no tracks. It is not meant for me. What there is to say about it then? Basically nothing else than 'it is not my thing'. I don't see any point or motivation to explore that any further (more than that of hitting my head on wall). Or explicate that to anyone else. But I am keen on talking about the stuff I am listening to and into to.

So I see something odd in the premise of this thread.

- Doxa



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Well, perhaps as credit to us, so far this thread has stayed civilised!
And I agree, it is interesting to see what songs some don't care for - some of which are big favourites of mine.

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liddas
I enjoy these discussions, because they show how different our tastes are.

Somme tracks that I don't like are considered by others worthy of a "best since exile" nomination. And many of the songs mentioned in this thread I truly love

Discussions are also usually more interesting when opinions differ and sometimes it is good to know that our personal convictions are not gospel.

Most important, I think that a Rolling Stones fan should be tough enough to be able to hold a heated discussion without tacking it too personal and smart enough to know that it IS only rock and roll after all, and no matter how distant an opinion can be, nothing is so serious that it can't be cured by a beer.

C

while I agree that anything can be open to discussion I am a bit critical that there can be a fruithful conversation based on songs people don't listen almost at all. Like DandelionPowderman said how can one even have an opinion if one doesn't listen it in the first place?

For me if I skip something after just having one listening or two it means that the music doesn't move me at all. It leaves no tracks. It is not meant for me. What there is to say about it then? Basically nothing else than 'it is not my thing'. I don't see any point or motivation to explore that any further (more than that of hitting my head on wall). Or explicate that to anyone else. But I am keen on talking about the stuff I am listening to and into to.

So I see something odd in the premise of this thread.

- Doxa

Years ago I listened to TSMR a good bit. Then I got ahold of something else and forgot about it. Since then... similar with a lot of their earlier material - after so many spins there's better ways to spend time listening. As heralded as Little Red Rooster is it's not necessary to listen to compared to Stop Breaking Down, for one example.

I listened to Goin' Home a few times years ago and it was boring, a bizarre song on a solid album. Having listened to it again recently it's even more boring.

Here's where there's a twist I suppose: years ago I got BUTTONS and after a few spins I put it away. Two years ago I got the reissue and I like it much more now. Made TSMR into an EP.

Etc. I see people say they don't like BUTTONS because it's too English or too Dylan. OK. That's an interesting way to approach listening to it. Yet Miss Amanda Jones is possibly the first punk song ever. It's a goofy album, a band finding a different direction with various influences coming out, unlike TSMR, which is really good songs with a bunch of noise because they wanted to get rid of Andrew.

Or they were drugged out. Whatever it is, the results are poor compared to BUTTONS except for the good songs.

So threads that offer up different points of view other than THE STONES ARE THE BEST etc can be interesting and sometimes educational depending on how one chooses to approach said song or album that is... of course it's all subjective and only relevant to the listener if it's good, not because it's whatever modern or some era making it "because" - if it's good it's good. The opposite is automatically there with other.

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I enjoy these discussions, because they show how different our tastes are.

Somme tracks that I don't like are considered by others worthy of a "best since exile" nomination. And many of the songs mentioned in this thread I truly love

Discussions are also usually more interesting when opinions differ and sometimes it is good to know that our personal convictions are not gospel.

Most important, I think that a Rolling Stones fan should be tough enough to be able to hold a heated discussion without tacking it too personal and smart enough to know that it IS only rock and roll after all, and no matter how distant an opinion can be, nothing is so serious that it can't be cured by a beer.

C

while I agree that anything can be open to discussion I am a bit critical that there can be a fruithful conversation based on songs people don't listen almost at all. Like DandelionPowderman said how can one even have an opinion if one doesn't listen it in the first place?

For me if I skip something after just having one listening or two it means that the music doesn't move me at all. It leaves no tracks. It is not meant for me. What there is to say about it then? Basically nothing else than 'it is not my thing'. I don't see any point or motivation to explore that any further (more than that of hitting my head on wall). Or explicate that to anyone else. But I am keen on talking about the stuff I am listening to and into to.

So I see something odd in the premise of this thread.

- Doxa

To me listening to a Stones song once or twice has about 3 outcomes:
Either you like it immediately, it's ok-so-so- or you don't like it all.
Their music and pop music in general is no John Coltrane or Stravinsky where you have to get into the harmonies, understand them and let it grow on you. It can take years, or maybe never.

Stones music it too rudimentary and accessible for that.
So yes, this thread makes sense to me, or no sense at all. Whatever.



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Once: Streets Of Love, Sweet Neo Con, Following The River.

Horrible.

Wished it was just once: Sing This Song... both; The Lantern, Gomper, Winning Ugly, Back To Zero, Hold Back, Rock And A Hard Place, Continental Drift, Hold Onto Your Hat, Can't Be Seen, You Got Me Rocking, Sparks Will Fly, New Faces, Sweethearts Together, Gunface, Might As Well Get Juiced, Always Suffering, Keys To Your Love and Stealing My Heart.

I like almost all Stones songs. Dirty work some I don’t care for much. Undercover a few. I like 98% of their stuff. This is a strange thread I must say.

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hello everyone, sorry for starting this thread. If you think it's a bad premise, or weird threat etc, just don't comment, and let the thread die, or perhaps BV can delete it.

Apologies again, BV

Good idea people ....
Cut the fuel-lines to the hate machine .....



ROCKMAN

That zydeco song didn't really do it for me. Never "listened" to it, I only heard it on the radio.

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That zydeco song didn't really do it for me. Never "listened" to it, I only heard it on the radio.

It's incredible but whatever. Maybe give it a "listen".

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I enjoy these discussions, because they show how different our tastes are.

Somme tracks that I don't like are considered by others worthy of a "best since exile" nomination. And many of the songs mentioned in this thread I truly love

Discussions are also usually more interesting when opinions differ and sometimes it is good to know that our personal convictions are not gospel.

Most important, I think that a Rolling Stones fan should be tough enough to be able to hold a heated discussion without tacking it too personal and smart enough to know that it IS only rock and roll after all, and no matter how distant an opinion can be, nothing is so serious that it can't be cured by a beer.

C

Agreed. It's annoying when a bit of critical analysis or differences of opinions or taste on certain songs lead to shut down of threads. We all don't have to like everything they do. It's even interesting to hear why someone doesn't like a song that we love, or vice versa.

We're adults (or at least we think we are), we can handle this.

But But treacle you know not long back that
a rocknroll kid told ya once..went to tell ya twice but BOOM!!!! TTIC



ROCKMAN

Welcome back, Treaclefingers!

In very high respect to Bjornulf I would disagree with him concerning songs that I hardly ever listened to. The most striking example is Midnight rambler. I haven't listened to the studio version more than perhaps twice many, many years ago, and I found it dull and boring. Most probably if I had been old enough to listen to the Let It Bleed album when it was released in 1969 I would never have thought that this song would be one of the greatest live songs of the Rolling Stones. I have listened hundreds of times to hundreds of live versions, and still I never get tired of listening to versions I already know and new ones alike.

Am I a hardcore fan or not? Honestly I don't care very much about it.

Same goes for Love in vain which came to life on stage from 1969 on, and even Ron Wood did a very good job on this one during the 1978 tour. I don't care much for the studio version but the live versions send thrills down my spine.

Disagree with me about what? Did I make a statement?

I just said that it is not natural to list songs, people, birds, or countries or whatever, because dislike is in itself negativity.

I just do not see any reason to announce what songs I do not play much, because that is in disrespect with anyone who just love these songs. Taste is part of life. Making negativity lists makes no sense.

And I am to old to mess around being a moral police closing threads I do not like or support. Still, as long as I live, I will defend the weak from the ones who dislike them. Just do not make that list. Not of songs. Not if people. Not of anything you dislike. Think positive. Then such s list will make no sense.

Bjornulf

I do think this thread has value, because it does show trends and 'blind spots' in what people listen to. I cannot believe some of you don't listen to Buttons or TSMR! But I don't care what you do ;-)

Personally, it's not that I listen only to the Stones, but broadly I'd say I prefer listening to 'bad' Stones songs over 'good' songs by other artists. I love the band, all of it/them, and so even bad songs contribute to my overall sense/enjoyment of what the band is. Even Mick's 80s albums. I understand why most people would think "Let's Work" is awful (it is!) but it's still Mick singing it, so I can find something of value in it.

That said, I have played A Bigger Bang literally two times, and not since the month it came out.

syrel

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Welcome back, Treaclefingers!

Hey, thanks Stoneage!