I recently scored tickets to see the Stones in Raleigh on July 1st. I've never seen them live and I'm looking forward to it. Like anyone, I've been listening to the Stones for years, but I'm curious what some of your favorite Stones songs are? I'm a HUGE Beatles fan, but the Stones were never really that big of a deal to me. I love their music, but I didn't fall in to it with the same gusto as I did other bands as a kid.
My favorite Stones tune has always been Sympathy for the Devil:
What about you?
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Beast of Burden is my favorite song but lil's answer is a great answer too. Let It Bleed is legendary, one of the best thrift store record finds I've ever made was that album.
Let's just go with Let It Bleed the full album. Released in late 1969. By September 1970, I was living in a communal house full of radicals in Vancouver. I'd say this album was the soundtrack for those days. But there's so many great songs. Wild Horses has to be a sentimental one for relationship reasons:
Call me old-fashioned, but I think one of their first hits remains the best -