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Favorite Stones albums

gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
edited July 2009 in Other Music
This other thread about the Beatles and Stones had me thinking about my favorite Stones work. I don't celebrate their entire library, but I do have Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, and Tatoo You, which makes them all my favorite proper studio albums. I also have their Singles Collection: The London Years which is probably a must have for at least the casual fan. What's everyone else's favorites?

Side note, has any fans really gotten into anything they put out since Tatoo You?
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    Stickey Fingers

    the first three minutes of can you hear me knockin... oh so good
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  • swear by sinswear by sin Austin TX Posts: 73
    agreed. sticky fingers. or beggar's banquet.
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    yeah sticky fingers
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  • jwillmojwillmo Posts: 471
    Some Girls.
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Some Girls is the shit.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Sticky Fingers
    Some Girls
    Exile On Main Street
    Let It Bleed

    ALL superb, classic Stones rock n' roll.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    I just listened to Sticky Fingers this morning, inspired by the other thread, and it's just unbeatable. From beginning to end it's the perfect Stones' album.
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    Sticky Fingers w/ Exile right behind it.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Sticky Fingers
    Some Girls
    Exile On Main Street
    Let It Bleed

    ALL superb, classic Stones rock n' roll.
    Thats about how i would put them as well our taste in music sometimes is scarily similar :shock:

    you obviously have great taste in music :D
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    intodeep wrote:
    Stickey Fingers

    the first three minutes of can you hear me knockin... oh so good
    +1..
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  • jwillmojwillmo Posts: 471
    DewieCox wrote:
    I just listened to Sticky Fingers this morning, inspired by the other thread, and it's just unbeatable. From beginning to end it's the perfect Stones' album.
    It can't be the perfect Stones album! Unlike the other three mentioned, it's a missing a tossed-off, off-key Keef lead singing performance, like You Got the Silver, Happy or Before They Make Me Run. Classic album for sure, but not the perfect Stones album.
  • jwillmojwillmo Posts: 471
    Oh, and even Tattoo You has Little T&A. Sticky Fingers sorely lacks one of those.
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    jwillmo wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    I just listened to Sticky Fingers this morning, inspired by the other thread, and it's just unbeatable. From beginning to end it's the perfect Stones' album.
    It can't be the perfect Stones album! Unlike the other three mentioned, it's a missing a tossed-off, off-key Keef lead singing performance, like You Got the Silver, Happy or Before They Make Me Run. Classic album for sure, but not the perfect Stones album.

    It's perfect. Keef's crappy singing may only make it worse.
  • jwillmojwillmo Posts: 471
    DewieCox wrote:
    jwillmo wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    I just listened to Sticky Fingers this morning, inspired by the other thread, and it's just unbeatable. From beginning to end it's the perfect Stones' album.
    It can't be the perfect Stones album! Unlike the other three mentioned, it's a missing a tossed-off, off-key Keef lead singing performance, like You Got the Silver, Happy or Before They Make Me Run. Classic album for sure, but not the perfect Stones album.

    It's perfect. Keef's crappy singing may only make it worse.
    Obviously, Mick's about a million times better singer, but I like having one an album from him. I like that craggy, weatherd quality in his voice. Couldn't take it for more than a song though. Especially on Happy, I love that song.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    intodeep wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Sticky Fingers
    Some Girls
    Exile On Main Street
    Let It Bleed

    ALL superb, classic Stones rock n' roll.
    Thats about how i would put them as well our taste in music sometimes is scarily similar :shock:

    you obviously have great taste in music :D

    Touche, my friend. I raise my glass to our good taste.

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) - a compilation, I know, but it's a must-have
    Their Satanic Majesties Request - hasn't aged too badly, even though it was seen as second-rate psychedelia back in the day
    Beggar's Banquet - perhaps this is the one flawless Stones album
    Let It Bleed
    Get Your Ya-Yas Out (one of the great live albums, even if it was doctored a bit in the studio)
    Sticky Fingers
    Exile On Main Street (though it's perhaps a little samey and over-long)



    Their output for me after that point becomes a bit patchy. Just as there were great songs and some filler on early albums such as Aftermath and Between The Buttons, there's a lot I can skip on Goat's Head Soup or It's Only Rock and Roll. Tattoo You is probably their best post-peak album.

    After that point? They've had the odd great song, such as Undercover of the Night, but no albums worth owning, in my opinion anyway.
  • UKDaveUKDave Posts: 5,557
    Let It Bleed
    Exile...
    Sticky Fingers
    Beggars Banquet

    Are my favourites but always interested in adding to the collection...
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    Let it Bleed
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    why isn't Can't You Hear Me Knocking on forty licks?
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  • Bushleaguer28Bushleaguer28 Posts: 776
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    why isn't Can't You Hear Me Knocking on forty licks?

    Bitch isnt either

    For me its Sticky FIngers and its not close
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    I'm going with:
    Exile On Main Street
    Let It Bleed
    Sticky Fingers
    Beggars Banquet
    Some Girls
    Get Yer Ya-Yas Out
    Through The Past Darkly
    High Tides and Green Grass
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  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    Exile On Main Street
    Sticky Fingers
    Let It Bleed
    Aftermath
    Beggars Banquet
    Rolling Stones Now!

    bring it all on.. the rolling stones rock!
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    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • MOKELE MBEMBEMOKELE MBEMBE Posts: 53
    Sticky Fingers.
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  • HeavyHandsHeavyHands Posts: 2,130
    My $0.02

    Aftermath
    Between The Buttons
    Beggars Banquet
    Let It Bleed
    Sticky Fingers
    Some Girls

    Don't forget Hot Rocks too.
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