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SteveG 
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 14:25 |
I got the Stones on my mind (or Mick Jagger?  ) So what are the best Stones albums?
Edited by SteveG - October 28 2015 at 14:55
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 15:00 |
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Exile Exile Exile
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 15:12 |
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Exile Exile Exile |
Fairly predictable but I'd probably go for that as well.
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 16:12 |
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OK, but what else?
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 16:48 |
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Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street. By far the best period of Stones music, period.
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 17:10 |
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I like some of their singles, but can't sit through a whole album of theirs without getting bored. Let it Bleed is the most tolerable of the ones I heard.
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 17:27 |
My Rolling Stones trilogy has always been Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers. Also, I prefer the Stones before Beggars Banquet compared to the Stones after Sticky Fingers.
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 18:18 |
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Sticky Fingers has always been my favorite.
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 19:39 |
TeleStrat wrote:
My Rolling Stones trilogy has always been Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers.Also, I prefer the Stones before Beggars Banquet compared to the Stones after Sticky Fingers. |
Absolutely .....but I would add Exile to the list. And as you pointed out the early singles and other choice album tracks prior to ' 68 are killer in many instances.
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 19:42 |
Time for a big list:
Aftermath Between The Buttons Their Satanic Majesties' Request Beggar's Banquet Let It Bleed Exile On Main Street Some Girls
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 20:31 |
TeleStrat wrote:
My Rolling Stones trilogy has always been Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers.Also, I prefer the Stones before Beggars Banquet compared to the Stones after Sticky Fingers. |
Pretty much this, with Beggars winning out if I was forced to choose.
I will say, when it comes to their full lengths prior to Satanic Majesties Request, I favor the US releases over the original UK versions in general, and some by a long shot. I mean Between the Buttons without "Ruby Tuesday" and especially "Let's Spend the Night Together"? Ouch, not for me.
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 21:03 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street. By far the best period of Stones music, period. |
Tottaly agree. I actually only hear this ones and the "satanic majestic request".
Edited by GKR - October 28 2015 at 21:05
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 23:00 |
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Aftermath
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main St.
Some Girls
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Posted: October 28 2015 at 23:04 |
LearsFool wrote:
Time for a big list:
Aftermath Between The Buttons Their Satanic Majesties' Request Beggar's Banquet Let It Bleed Exile On Main Street Some Girls |
I just realized that my list was the same but I left off BTB. I considered it but don't feel its quite as strong as the one before it and the one after it. Out of the eight I would consider Beggars and Sticky to be the cream of the crop.
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 06:13 |
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Satanic Majesties by a long shot. At least this one sounds rather 'colourful' compared to others, but most albums after this psychedelic masterpiece all have some very well written tracks. At least, up to and including Tattoo You (Heaven is superb). Side 1 of Goat's Head Soup is quite excellent, especially 100 Years Ago.
Not bad, as far as a straight-up Rock band goes.......
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 06:41 |
the Stones were never really an album band, AFAIAC... Sure from 68's Beggar's Banquet until 78's Miss You (after that, it's mostly garbage, IMHO), most of them are rather acceptable (though none would fletch above 3.5/5), but I actually own none... Nowadays, I only own three compilations: Hot Rocks, Made In The Shade and Sucking in the 70's. I did own once the El Mocambo (LYL) and the Ya-Yas Out live albums, but I lmost likely got rid of them at one point or another If push comes to I must name one, I'd go for Let It Bleed... and the one I like least would be Sticky Fingers After Miss You, if I had to name one, it would be the usually much-disregarded Dirty Work (I actually like it when the Stones go Reggae)
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 09:58 |
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Hard to say, but probably Sticky Fingers. I think Sway and Bitch are among their best songs, though most Stones fans seem to disagree with that ...I think all their studio albums from 1965-1974 are worth listening to. You also need a singles compilation because some songs like Jumpin' Jack Flash (which is their best song in my opinion) never became part of a studio album.
Edited by Skalla-Grim - October 29 2015 at 10:02
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 09:59 |
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Anything between Aftermath and Exile for me.
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 11:44 |
I've always listened to just the Stones compilations with the Satanic Majesties album being the one studio album exception. I will definitely give all of your suggestions a shot in the next few months. Thanks and cheers. 
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 12:38 |
Skalla-Grim wrote:
Hard to say, but probably Sticky Fingers. I think Sway and Bitch are among their best songs, though most Stones fans seem to disagree with that ...I think all their studio albums from 1965-1974 are worth listening to. You also need a singles compilation because some songs like Jumpin' Jack Flash (which is their best song in my opinion) never became part of a studio album.
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I like Sway and Bitch a whole lot (I don't think there's a weak track on the album, although I'm not bonkers about Brown Sugar), but Moonlight Mile and Can't You Hear Me Knocking are the two I like best.
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