re: Best Rolling Stones Song

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there's just so many to choose from. Heard Paint it Black yesterday and thought of this thread.

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Here is where I'll defend the Stones - for all the credit Zeppelin (whom I personally like more) gets for being innovative - and even the Who is likely to get more props in this area - those 2 bands were more or less in competition with each other.

The Stones were a force of nature and they were competing with the big boys - the Beatles. And they were every bit as innovative and experimental as those other bands. They didn't quite go full "psychedelic" but certainly incorporated that. They were not particularly heavy, but were heavy for their time in the 1960s. They didn't boast a virtuoso (although Keith and Mick Taylor were just right there - oh so close) but they were great songwriters. The appeal is in their songs. They came across as sincere, which the kids loved. They experimented with country - how many British bands even tried to play with country back then.

And they had, arguably, the greatest front man in rock and roll history, along with a huge catalogue of songs. Now, I constantly remind folks that everything the Beatles did was, for all practical purposes, done in 6 1/2 years. But, the Rolling Stones catalogue is full of hits from an almost pure blues foundation.

Almost all of those 1970s AOR bands, American and otherwise, were more influenced by the Stones than the Beatles.

2000 Light Years From Home

Per Spotify:

Black and Blue has a nice little ditty called Hand of Fate

"Under My Thumb"

They recorded some great music in Muscle Shoals no?

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Sister Morphine

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Good song, but I don't think it's best song about morphine:

Gillian Welch, 'My Morphine'

As for the Stones, hard to choose. I think "Dead Flowers" might be my favorite song of theirs, but I much prefer Townes Van Zandt's version. So maybe "Tumbling Dice."

Paint it Black or Gimme Shelter

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Gimme shelter

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Hard to argue with this one. Great song.