The Rolling Stones

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When talk of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time comes up names like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Yes, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones are all bandied about. What interesting is that some of the greatest heavy metal and hard rock styles were built on the African American Blues influence, but hail from Britain. Throughout the 1960s British rock tuned its ear to the blues. The Stones were a lead figure in the movement and have often referred to Muddy Waters’ as their model. The band included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood. Jagger and Richards would go on to forge one of the most artistically fruitful relationships in all of rock and roll.

British Invasion

Americans were brought up close and personal with the Rolling Stones in 1964 when the band first toured here. Already the Stones were remarkable back in their native England and had toured there under the wing of some American R&B and rock musicians. But in 1964, Americans latched onto their signature blues/rock jam style and Mick Jagger’s theatrics.

The first studio album to hit American audiences was titled The Rolling Stones in Britain, but renamed England’s Newest Hit Makers in the States. The tracks were ordered differently but the hits were the same: “I Just Wanna Make Love to You” and “Route 66.” The Stones’ signature single “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” came off of their third UK album, Out of Our Heads.

The Stones have one of the longest running careers of any rock and roll band to date and still outsell and outperform many of their much younger protégés. Over the years top hits have included: “Honky Tonk Women,” “Brown Sugar,” and “Start Me Up.”

England’s Newest Hit Makers (1964):

1. Not Fade Away
2. Route 66
3. I Just Want to Make Love to You
4. Honest I Do
5. Now I’ve Got a Witness
6. Little by Little
7. I’m a King Bee
8. Carol
9. Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)
10. Can I Get a Witness
11. You Can Make it if You Try
12. Walking the Dog

12 x 5 (1964):

1. Around and Around
2. Confessin’ the Blues
3. Empty Heart
4. Time Is On My Side
5. Good Times, Bad Times
6. It’s All Over Now
7. 2120 South Michigan Avenue
8. Under the Boardwalk
9. Congratulations
10. Grown Up Wrong
11. If You Need Me
12. Susie Q

The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965):

1. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
2. Down Home Girl
3. You Can’t Catch Me
4. Heart of Stone
5. What a Shame
6. I Need You Baby (Mona)
7. Down the Road Apiece
8. Off the Hook
9. Pain in My Heart
10. Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin’)
11. Little Red Rooster
12. Surprise, Surprise

Out of Our Heads (1965):

1. Mercy, Mercy
2. Hitch Hike
3. The Last Time
4. That’s How Strong My Love Is
5. Good Times
6. I’m All Right (Live)
7. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
8. Cry to Me
9. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
10. Play with Fire
11. The Spider and the Fly
12. One More Try

December’s Children (And Everybody’s) (1965):

1. She Said Yeah
2. Talkin’ About You
3. You Better Move On
4. Look What You’ve Done
5. The Singer Not the Song
6. Route 66
7. Get Off My Cloud
8. I’m Free
9. As Tears Go By
10. Gotta Get Away
11. Blue Turns To Grey
12. I’m Moving On

Aftermath (1966):

1. Paint It, Black
2. Stupid Girl
3. Lady Jane
4. Under My Thumb
5. Doncha Bother Me
6. Think
7. Flight 505
8. High and Dry
9. It’s Not Easy
10. I Am Waiting
11. Going Home

Between the Buttons (1967):

1. Let’s Spend the Night Together
2. Yesterday’s Papers
3. Ruby Tuesday
4. Connection
5. She Smiled Sweetly
6. Cool, Calm and Collected
7. All Sold Out
8. My Obsession
9. Who’s Been Sleeping Here?
10. Complicated
11. Miss Amanda Jones
12. Something Happened to Me Yesterday

Flowers (1967):

1. Ruby Tuesday
2. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing in the Shadow?
3. Let’s Spend the Night Together
4. Lady Jane
5. Out of Time
6. My Girl
7. Backstreet Girl
8. Please Go Home
9. Mother’s Little Helper
10. Take It or Leave It
11. Ride on Baby
12. Sittin’ on a Fence

Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967):

1. Sing This All Together
2. Citadel
3. In Another Land
4. 2000 Man
5. Sing This All Together
6. She’s a Rainbow
7. The Lantern
8. Gomper
9. 2000 Light Years from Home
10. On With the Show

Beggars Banquet (1968):

1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. No Expectations
3. Dear Doctor
4. Parachute Woman
5. Jigsaw Puzzle
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Prodigal Son
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Factory Girl
10. Salt of the Earth

Let It Bleed (1969):

1. Let It Bleed
2. Love In Vain
3. Midnight Rambler
4. Gimmie Shelter
5. You Got the Silver
6. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
7. Live with Me
8. Monkey Man
9. Country Honk

Sticky Fingers (1971):

1. Brown Sugar
2. Sway
3. Wild Horses
4. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
5. You Gotta Move
6. Bitch
7. I Got the Blues
8. Sister Morphine
9. Dead Flowers
10. Moonlight Mile

Exile on Main Street (1972):

1. Rocks Off
2. Rip This Joint
3. Shake Your Hips
4. Casino Boogie
5. Tumbling Dice
6. Sweet Virginia
7. Torn and Frayed
8. Sweet Black Angel
9. Loving Cup
10. Happy
11. Turd on the Run
12. Ventilator Blues
13. I Just Want to See His Face
14. Let It Loose
15. All Down the Line
16. Stop Breaking Down
17. Shine a Light
18. Soul Survivor

Goats Head Soup (1973):

1. Dancing With Mr. D.
2. 100 Years Ago
3. Coming Down Again
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Angie
6. Silver Train
7. Hide Your Love
8. Winter
9. Can You Hear the Music
10. Star Star

It’s Only Rock’n Roll (1974):

1. If You Can’t Rock Me
2. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
3. It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It)
4. Till the Next Goodbye
5. Time Waits for No One
6. Luxury
7. Dance Little Sister
8. If You Really Want to Be My Friend
9. Short and Curlies
10. Fingerprint File

Black and Blue (1976):

1. Hot Stuff
2. Hand of Fate
3. Cherry Oh Baby
4. Memory Motel
5. Ney Negrita
6. Melody
7. Fool To Cry
8. Crazy Mama

Some Girls (1978):

1. Miss You
2. When the Whip Comes Down
3. Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
4. Some Girls
5. Lies
6. Far Away Eyes
7. Respectable
8. Before They Make Me Run
9. Beast of Burden
10. Shattered

Emotional Rescue (1980):

1. Dance (Pt. 1)
2. Summer Romance
3. Send It to Me
4. Let Me Go
5. Indian Girl
6. Where the Boys Go
7. Down in the Hole
8. Emotional Rescue
9. She’s So Cold
10. All About You

Tattoo You (1981):

1. Start Me Up
2. Hang Fire
3. Slave
4. Little T & A
5. Black Limousine
6. Neighbours
7. Worried About You
8. Tops
9. Heaven
10. No Use in Crying
11. Waiting on a Friend

Undercover (1983):

1. Undercover of the Night
2. She Was Hot
3. Tie You Up (The Pain of Love)
4. Wanna Hold You
5. Feel On Baby
6. Too Much Blood
7. Pretty Beat Up
8. Too Tough
9. All the Way Down
10. It Must Be Hell

Dirty Work (1986):

1. One Hit (To the Body)
2. Fight
3. Harlem Shuffle
4. Hold Back
5. Too Rude
6. Winning Ugly
7. Back To Zero
8. Dirty Work
9. Had It With You
10. Sleep Tonight
11. Untitled

Steel Wheels (1989):

1. Sad Sad Sad
2. Mixed Emotions
3. Terrifying
4. Hold On To Your Hat
5. Hearts for Sale
6. Blinded By Love
7. Rock and a Hard Place
8. Can’t Be Seen
9. Almost Hear You Sigh
10. Continental Drift
11. Break the Spell
12. Slipping Away

Voodoo Lounge (1994):

1. Love Is Strong
2. You Got Me Rocking
3. Sparks Will Fly
4. The Worst
5. New Faces
6. Moon Is Up
7. Out of Tears
8. I Go Wild
9. Brand New Car
10. Sweethearts Together
11. Suck On the Jugular
12. Blinded By Rainbows
13. Baby Break it Down
14. Thru and Thru
15. Mean Disposition

Bridges to Babylon (1997):

1. Flip the Switch
2. Anybody Seen My Baby?
3. Low Down
4. Already Over Me
5. Gun Pace
6. You Don’t Have to Mean It
7. Out of Control
8. Saint of Me
9. Might As Well Get Juiced
10. Always Suffering
11. Too Tight
12. Thief in the Night
13. How Can I Stop

A Bigger Bang (2005):

1. Rough Justice
2. Let me Down Slow
3. It Won’t Take Long
4. Rain Fall Down
5. Streets of Love
6. Back of My Hand
7. She Saw Me Coming
8. Biggest Mistake
9. This Place is Empty
10. Oh No, Not You Again
11. Dangerous Beauty
12. Laugh, I Nearly Died
13. Sweet Neo Con
14. Look What the Cat Dragged In
15. Driving Too Fast
16. Infamy