What are your dozen favourite tracks by the Rolling Stones?

[Hepcat]

I like the outfits the Stones wore for this Ed Sullivan Show performance:

36 The Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow.

Mick Jagger is pictured wearing the same jacket on the cover of the Got Live if You Want It! LP:

[Dr.Cyclops]

A Rare Stones song that reeks of the the classic British invasion.
The Rolling Stones - Fortune Teller

[marsattacks666]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYYTLJ8YHi4

[Hepcat]

Here are mine in chronological order:

The Last Time

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Paint It Black

Mother's Little Helper

We Love You

She's a Rainbow

Child of the Moon

Honky Tonk Women

Gimme Shelter

Harlem Shuffle

Mixed Emotions

Love Is Strong

I'm making a couple of changes since I first posted my list. Here's my new one:

The Last Time

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Paint It Black

Mother's Little Helper

We Love You

She's a Rainbow

Stray Cat Blues

Honky Tonk Women

Gimme Shelter

Harlem Shuffle

One Hit to the Body

Mixed Emotions

[Sean]

1) Sympathy for the Devil
2) Brown Sugar
3) Satisfaction
4) Let's Spend the Night
5) It's Only Rock 'n Roll
6) Paint It Black
7) Jumpin' Jack Flash
Wild Horses
9) Start Me Up
10) Get Off My Cloud
11) Under My Thumb
12) She's So Cold

[Mord]

1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. Get Off My Cloud (my personal anthem..."Two's a crowd, on my cloud")
3. Rocks Off (starts "Exile" with a bang)
4. Gimme Shelter
5. When the Whip Comes Down
6. Under My Thumb (greatest sexist song ever)
7. Before They Make Me Run (best Keef song)
8. Live With Me (Let it Bleed was my first Stones record...probably my favorite)
9. Time is on My Side
10. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

[The Batman]

This is hard as I love them so much. Sometimes I base my answer about which songs I want to play along with my bass or guitar.

Shattered
Wild Horses
Ruby Tuesday
Paint it Black
Time Waits for No-one
Beast of Burden
Waiting on a Friend
Miss You
Monkey Man
and so many more, I could go on and on - 

[Hepcat]

The Stones just released this album of early live recordings from appearances on BBC programs:

[Sean]

I'd recommend any of these compilations to younger fellows just now getting into the Stones:

Hot Rocks was my first dip as far as buying a Stones album.

[Mord]

Hot Rocks is definitely the "go to" album for anyone just starting on The Stones. It has an incredible amount of classics without becoming overwhelming.

[marsattacks666]

 Monkey Man is one my absolute favorite STONEs' songs

[Mord]

Monkey Man is one my absolute favorite STONEs' songs

Let it Bleed was my first (and favorite) Stones album. It has such a down to earth vibe to it. The only '60s  Stones album I didn't care for was Satanic Majesty's Request. It was so pretentious, even Keith Richards calls it "a pile of sh*t". Everything else was pretty much godlike.

[Hepcat]

The only '60s  Stones album I didn't care for was Satanic Majesty's Request. It was so pretentious, even Keith Richards calls it "a pile of sh*t".

Keep in mind though that artists themselves are not often very good judges of their own material. Keith Richards himself didn't like Satisfaction as recorded. He wanted to replace the fuzz box enhanced lead guitar with brass of all things! Keith was opposed to releasing Satisfaction the way it was recorded as a single but was outvoted by the other Stones.

[Wolfman]

Too lazy to list 12, but my #1 song is Tumbling Dice.

JP

[Mord]

Keep in mind though that artists themselves are not often very good judges of their own material. Keith Richards himself didn't like Satisfaction as recorded. He wanted to replace the fuzz box enhanced lead guitar with brass of all things! Keith was opposed to releasing Satisfaction the way it was recorded as a single but was outvoted by the other Stones.

He was right about this. The Stones didn't have to follow the Beatles into the putrid psychedelic era. Pretentious, soulless, lacking in balls...what else? Sgt. Pepper itself was extremely overrated. "A Day in the Life" was the only song that rang true. Gimme "Exile on Main St." anytime.