What's the worst Rolling Stones song.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Either "Far Away Eyes" or "Going Home."

[Giuseppe Zangara]

In a similar vein, "Angie" is the most overrated in the canon of classic Stones songs. And sometimes I don't like "You Can't Always Get What You Want," but other times I do. Mostly, I hate the choral opening. (Also, I like "Salt of the Earth," except when the choir comes in at the end. Not that I hate choirs always—though I usually do—I've long enjoyed the Blur song "Tender," for instance.)

[Annabelle]

honky tonk woman

[Henry Spencer]

I don't know about worst, but Wild Horses is the most overrated.

[Slayer]

I've never liked "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

[Epic Reine]

I can't get no...

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

"Wild Horses" is the only one I find unlistenable in the given timeframe.

[Big McLargeHuge]

Ruby Tuesday.

[Guest Ransome]

'I Got the Blues'

[Annabelle]

Ruby Tuesday.

 

you is on drugs, man

[Guest Coffey]

I hate Angie and Wild Horses but I'm not going to look up what year they came out.

[Henry Spencer]

Ruby Tuesday.

 

you is on drugs, man

 

Seconded. Fuck, Ruby Tuesday is one of the best.

[Murmuring Beast]

'Start Me Up' is my favourite Stones song.

[Guest Anticrombie]

I hate Angie and Wild Horses but I'm not going to look up what year they came out.

 

 

Both before 1978, so they count.

[Annabelle]

'Start Me Up' is my favourite Stones song.

 

after '78 & easily the worst stones radio song. made those fuckers dead in my eyes after that shit.

[Red Baron]

Under My Thumb, Honky Tonk Woman, Ruby Tuesday

[Annabelle]

Under My Thumb, Honky Tonk Woman, Ruby Tuesday

 

what?

 

i agree on honky tonk. but ruby tuesday & under my thumb are easily two fo the best. odd. just odd.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

"Ruby Tuesday" and "Under My Thumb" are two of my favorites too. I also like "Honky Tonk Woman," but won't really fight its inclusion here, especially cause I don't really have a vote of my own. I probably should listen to some of the pre-Beggars Banquet albums for that.

 

"Play With Fire" is kinda boring, I guess, and a lot of their better songs achieve the same things in more impressive fashion.

[Annabelle]

the stones were the best with brian jones. i know i am excluding the work from exile & sticky fingers but tis how i feel.

[The Czech Republic]

I thought everyone thought they were never the same after Brian Jones. I'm not certain; the Stones are a band I'm not well-versed in.

[Red Baron]

Under My Thumb has this nice mellow feel, and a groovy bass line, but is boring after the first minute.

 

Ruby Tuesday sounds like a Beatles rip-off song at best.

[The Czech Republic]

"Ruby Tuesday" is a very good song, though.

[Annabelle]

the stones aftermath, between the buttons, & satanic majesties had some weird instrumentalism and such that the beatles didn't have. i read somewhere the list of exotic instruments that jones played during his tenure.

 

and most people, i've always figured at least, have always enjoyed the beggars banquet to exile string of albums with mick taylor

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I love "Under My Thumb" and am indifferent to "Ruby Tuesday."

 

"Paint it Black" is my favorite Stones song.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Goats Head Soup—the album that followed Exile on Main Street—is generally considered where the Stones' decline began. I rather like that album, though, even if it does contain "Angie." Some Girls, from '78, is held as the last great Stones record (hence why I chose that year as the cutoff). It's also their first studio outing with Mick Taylor's replacement and to this day current member Ron Wood, which isn't to say Wood had anything to do with the Stones turn to sucking.

 

For what it's worth, I like "Start Me Up," overexposure aside. 1981's Tattoo You, the album which that song is from, also has "Waiting on a Friend," which is a really, really good song. The rest of the album is chaff aside from maybe "Hang Fire" and "Slave."

[Giuseppe Zangara]

honky tonk woman

I'd like to add I vastly prefer the acoustic redo on Let It Bleed.

[Ravenbomb]

When did they do Prodigal Son? If it's before 78, it's my pick

[Guest Anticrombie]

It's on Begger's Banquet from 1968. I actually like all of Begger's Banquet, but if I had to pick a weak song it would probably be "Factory Girl". I always wished that "Jumpin' Jack Flash" was on the album.

 

As for worst songs, I never thought "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" was all that great of a cover; "If You Really Want to Be My Friend", "Can You Hear the Music?", and "Dance Little Sister" have stupid lyrics and could be improved upon, and at least 7 minutes should be cut from "Going Home".

 

"Sing This All together" can be annoying sometimes, but I think Their Satanic Majesties Request is actually one of the best Stones albums, though I haven't heard Sgt. Pepper's... yet.

[mw679]

Some Girls, from '78, is held as the last great Stones record (hence why I chose that year as the cutoff). It's also their first studio outing with Mick Taylor's replacement and to this day current member Ron Wood, which isn't to say Wood had anything to do with the Stones turn to sucking.

 

I always thought Ronnies first studio album with the Stones was "Black and Blue" which was out before "Some Girls", no?

[Annabelle]

you are correct