I am trying to make a cd with just Stones blues songs, any help would be great!

Back Of My Hand
Little Red Rooster
Look What You've Done
Confessin' The Blues
Good Times, Bad Times

There are two sets of Blues tunes that are indispensable:
the leftovers from Vodoo (B sides) - The Storm, Jump on Top of me, I am driving (?) and the leftovers from IBC - Hi Heeled Sneakers, Meet me in the Bottom, Baby what's wrong, Roadrunner, Diddley daddy.
Then too - 32-20 Blues, fancy Man Blues, cook cook Blues, (there s one other one from those times)
- Honest I Do, King Bee, Who's driving your Plane

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Still A Fool
Down In The Hole

Wish I'd Never Met You

also

Love in Vain and Stop Breaking Down, Robert Johnson Covers

Hip Shake Boogie, Slim Harpo cover

Long Black Cadillac

Little Baby, Howlin WOlf Cover on Stripped

Spider and the Fly

I Just Want to Make Love to You, Muddy Waters cover

Mannish Boy, Bo Diddley/Muddy Waters cover

lots more, depending on where you want to draw the line on "blues"

Little Baby is secretly my favourite song on Stripped. Although I would never admit it of course.

The last part of the album is very very strong, probably one of the strongest sequences in their catalogue. Slipping Away, a good version of Angie, Love In Vain, Sweet Virginia, Little Baby... even the silence after Little Baby is great.

Jelle

thats how strong my love is.

love in vain.

i got the blues.

time waits for no one.

laugh i nearly died.

no use in crying.

back of my hand.

already over me.

anybody seen my baby.

love is strong.

brand new car.

break the spell.

down in the hole.

no expectations.

Don't forget "Time Is On My Side".

Black Limousine
Some Girls
Had it With You
Hide Your Love
Parachute Woman
You Gotta Move

Prodigal Son
Tie You Up
Rock Me Baby

and if we're going for bootlegs too: all of the Checkerboard Lounge 81 set
(do recordings by solitary Stones and/or New Barbarians count? Worried Life Blues,
Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me, Cocaine Blues, Still a Fool, Key to the Highway ...)


some surprising inclusions on some of the lists - blues sure is a stretchy genre!
have some popcorn.

C**ksucker Blues

Fancyman Blues

I don't know if I would consider "Tie You Up" and "Jump On Top Of Me" as blues. Cool, blues-based songs, fer sure, but not really blues.

honey, if i started saying all the ones listed here that i don't think are blues,
we would be here a LONG long time. have some popcorn.

Oh yes - Side 3 from "Love you Live" > Especially "Mannish Boy" and "Rooster".
Talkin bout You" off December's Chbildren.
I would also raid the solo output. Jagger's album with the Red Devils that was even considered at one time for official release. "It Hurts me Too" off "Jamming w/Edward. "Stewed and Keefed" from early 60's. "@120 So Michigan Ave", "Grown up wrong", "What a shame", "I can't be satisfied" one of the best Blues they ever did. "Had it with you" from Dirty Work. "Break the Spell" - Steel Wheels.
Stones are one badass Blues band.
Virtually every R&B tune from early days is a must IMO. You get "Mr Spector and Mr Pitney came too" to hear Brian blow some fierce harmonica and Keith play the guitar like a man. Same with "Now I've got a witness".

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."



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with sssoul Wrote:
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> honey, if i started saying all the ones listed
> here that i don't think are blues,
> we would be here a LONG long time. have some
> popcorn.


Yeah, sssoul. The problem is that there is a difference of opinion about what "blues" is. I think most scholars would say blues is a musical form with a pretty concrete definition, or at least that it is composed of certain specific, agreed-upon characteristics. But,in common language, it is also a musical style, with a somewhat more flexible definition.

For sssoul and anyone else that is interested. This is just one of many sources, of course.

[www.bluesforpeace.com]

cool - thank you kindly, Texas Fan!
trying to define genre boundaries has real limited value, but it intrigues me anyway.
meanwhile, this same wide variation in views happens every time people start comparing notes -
i was surprised to learn (right here on iorr!) that "reggae" is now widely used to mean "practically any warm-climate-sounding music";
and it's always fun to try to come up with a definition of r&b that more than about six people would agree on.
smile: one thing we did succeed in settling is: rock & roll swings :E have some popcorn.



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with sssoul Wrote:
> smile: one thing we did succeed in settling is:
> rock & roll swings :E have some popcorn.


Yeah, how could anyone disagree with that?

Shame Shame Shame from 1997 Double Door gig...

The flogging they give to Mr Reed's song 'ill tear ya walls down.....



ROCKMAN

Tie You Up is most certainly a blues song, IMO....not a classic 12-bar structured one. The Stones ripped this one right outta the Lowell Fulsom school of blues - admittedly so, too...

Black Limousine - credits to RONNIE WOOD!!!

Two Trains Running (from Beggars Banquet outtakes).

mona
who's driving your plane
goin' home
parachute woman
midnight rambler
i got the blues
love in vain
ventilator blues
you got to move
fancyman blues

Outside of the band...

Anything Moore & Mick, Mick & the Red Devils, or the 3 tracks of Mick & Keith with Jimmy Rogers. Also, the band & BB King - Paying the Cost to Be the Boss.

Still... surprised no one mentioned Mona yet.

"Two Trains" is AKA "Still A Fool".

I got the Blues. Mentioned only briefly so far. But one of the best blues numbers. Love in Vain. Espicially live. Down in The Hole and I like Back of My Hand a lot off of ABB.