What are your dozen favourite tracks by the Rolling Stones?

[Hepcat]

Great song, but a positively bizarre video in the style of the day:

Salt of the Earth

Taken from the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus TV special of 1968.

[Hepcat]

Here's another good one taken from the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus TV special of 1968:

Parachute Woman

[Hepcat]

Here's another good one taken from the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus TV special of 1968:

Jumpin' Jack Flash

[Hepcat]

Here's who's left from the Rolling Stones performing 19th Nervous Breakdown in St. Louis on 26 September 2021:

Rolling Stones - St. Louis

[Hepcat]

Mick Jagger 'Went Unnoticed' at a North Carolina Dive Bar 

Keeping it real at the Thirsty Beaver in the face of modern urban encroachment:





No wonder Mick went there. I mean how could you not?

[Hepcat]

Interesting that Brown Sugar which the Rolling Stones dropped from their concert setlists for their autumn 2021 tour of the States is still the song they've played the second most in concert:

Setlist Totals - Rolling Stones

What interests me more than the top songs though is the ones they've played a dozen times or less right at the bottom of the list. Some of those are the ones I'd now request.

[Hepcat]

Eric Burdon Reviews Between the Buttons

Interesting! Between the Buttons is one of my favourite Stones' LPs.

[Hepcat]

The Stones' most outlandish attempt to offend the straightlaced was probably this LP that they had planned to release in early 1966:





Side A

1. 19th Nervous Breakdown
2. Sad Day
3. Take It or Leave It
4. Think
5. Mother's Little Helper

Side B

6. Goin' Home
7. Sittin' on a Fence
8. Doncha Bother Me
9. Ride on, Baby
10. Looking Tired

Decca took one look at the  Could You Walk on the Water? title though and flatly refused to release any record with that name.



Some of the pictures from that photo shoot ended up on their Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) compilation while many of the tracks intended for the stillborn LP ended up on Aftermath.

[Hepcat]

The Stones' new single:

Angry

[Hepcat]

Here's a good article on the Stones' new LP Hackney Diamonds scheduled for release on October 20th:

Hackney Diamonds - Rolling Stone; 6 September 2023

And here's the interview with Jimmy Fallon wherein the Angry single was launched:

Rolling Stones with Jimmy Fallon

[Hepcat]

So Keith Richards turned 80 on December 18th. With Mick Jagger having reached that milestone five months ago, that leaves only new guy Ron Wood not yet an octogenarian. Ron of course has only been with the band for 48 years so understandably he needs a bit more time to catch up.

Bite My Head Off

Incidentally, tickets for their 2024 spring tour of North America are now on sale.

[Wolfman]

Gimme Shelter
Tumbling Dice
Satisfaction
Get Off Of My Cloud
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Bitch
Wild Horses
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Ruby Tuesday
Honky Tonk Women
Jumpin' Jack Flash
It's All Over Now

[Hepcat]

After two singles, it was sixty years ago this month that the Rolling Stones released an EP entitled The Rolling Stones:



It contained these tracks:

Side One

1. Bye Bye Johnny (Chuck Berry) 2:09
2. Money (Berry Gordy/Janie Bradford) 2:31

Side Two

3. You Better Move On (Arthur Alexander) 2:39
4. Poison Ivy (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) 2:06

Here's the audio:

The Rolling Stones EP

Now over sixty years later the Stones "Hackney Diamonds" tour of the United States is scheduled to kick off in late April.

[Hepcat]

It was just over sixty years ago on 21 February 1964 that the Rolling Stones released the single Not Fade Away which became their first Top Ten hit in the United Kingdom by reaching #3 on the hit charts:

Not Fade Away

On 6 March 1964 it was also released in the United States backed up by I Wanna Be Your Man thus becoming the Stones' first single to be released in the U.S. It got to only #48 on the American Billboard chart though.

But here sixty years later and the Stones are still rolling!

[Hepcat]

It's now been over sixty years since the Rolling Stones released their self-titled first LP in the United Kingdom on 17 April 1964.



Here are the tracks:

Side One

1.   "Route 66"
2.   "I Just Want to Make Love to You"
3.   "Honest I Do"
4.   "Mona (I Need You Baby)"
5.   "Now I've Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)"

Total length:   15:27

Side Two

1.   "I'm a King Bee"
2.   "Carol"   Chuck Berry
3.   "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)"
4.   "Can I Get a Witness"
5.   "You Can Make It If You Try"
6.   "Walking the Dog"

Total length:   17:19

It got to #1 in both the United Kingdon and Australia meaning the Stones were already big time across the waves.

And they just kicked off another American tour two days ago in Houston! They performed this classic from 1966 which they'd never previously done in the States:
 

Next stop for the Stones is on May 2nd at the New Orléans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Too cool!