Ranking the Studio Albums: The Rolling Stones
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2020
- Join host Pete Pardo as he ranks the studio albums of the legendary British rock 'n' roll band The Rolling Stones. #therollingstones
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I don't get why "Memory Motel" doesn't get more love. One of my VERY favorite Stones songs. Just so emotional and gorgeous.
Beautiful song. "Memory" and "Hand of Fate" get overlooked.
@@Morcaiden hand of fate👌🏼one of my favs☝🏻
@@poitor5915 It's one of those that stays with you forever!
@@Morcaiden on the strength of that and crazy mama turns black and blue from a average album into an outstanding one☝🏻
I agree with you! It had to grow on me just like the rest of Black n Blue but I end up playing that album more and more these days. I love it since it has more of a jammy feel
Sway from Sticky Fingers one of the best Rock tunes of all time.
My very favorite
A completely grimy song of exactly where the Stones were at at that very moment. Demon life has gotcho in its sway!!! Utterly fantastic!!!
@@mikemonchuk7087 ally cats anthem☝🏻
Could be mostly by Mick Taylor.
Aftermath and Between The Buttons are two of the most underrated Stones' albums. Great songs there.
Totally agree! Aftermath is in my opinion their best album. It was busting out of the norm and had outstanding writing and Brian Jones was at his peak!
Yo también lo pienso así.
Prof. Stoned did the most amazing mono vinyl rip of Aftermath after years of searching for the best pressing he could find. I heartily recommend it. The Stones sounded best in Mono and that is the best sound I have ever heard from a Stones album. Visit the good Prof.'s web site.
Buttons has too much filler. Prefer Flowers.
@@13THBEATLE Flowers!
Exile is a masterpiece.
Top five album of all time.
Especially the original version. The remix doesn't work for me.
Yes, no question. Wether by accident or design, probably a bit of both, this is one of the very few studio recordings that captures a rock band and that feel and edge that is nearly always lost by over polishing and enhancing techniques, even Zeppelin did this on many tracks. Strong songs and Jagger sings with emotion and soul.
Overrated
Not even the best rolling stones album
Satanic Majesties is a fun listen, and better than most people give it credit for...
I totally, heartily agree, it's actually a very good album.
Yes. The most freaking out Stones Album and one of her finest.Brian Jones for ever !!!🎸🔊🌅R.i.p
That was Brian Jones’ album, very underrated.
Keith himself says in "Live" he find the album bad ... To me, Satanic is Rolling Stones top 10 maybe top 5 ...
You need a good tab of acid...."they are naked and they dance!"....
Mick Taylor era. 👍
Ron Nelson let it bleed is my favorite but all of the others are from "the other Mick" period
That's my favorite era as well but The London Years Singles Collection which is mostly Brian Jones era is excellent too and I have a soft spot for the first three 80's albums cause I think that's the last time The Stones really lived up to their dangerous reputation.
@@ChromeDestiny Brian Jones era was a singles band and the Mick Taylor era was an albums band..
All great albums excluding the occasional whiny country tracks
Amen!
This was a big project! I like the way you did it and included all the albums! Very fun to watch. Thanks!
Great show, thanks.
1. Exile
2. Let it bleed
3. Sticky fingers
4. Beggars banquet
5. Out of our heads
The top 4 constantly change, depending on what I’m into, or if I’ve been playing the songs myself. But, Exile is never number one on my list, simply because there are multiple songs I could live without on it.
You forgot black and blue,
I agree completely and notice that all 4 were produced by the late great Jimmy Miller.
@G*man Yup. It should be number five. Still one of the best live albums ever.
@@theartfuldodger935 yup!
Holy shit Pete! What a tremendous undertaking! Thanks for your service man. I know...it's only rock and roll but I like it. 😉
I bought Emotional Rescue and Hot Rocks on the same day in the summer of 1980 and it changed my life. ✌️❤️🎸🇨🇦
Summer '80! I bonded with "the new Stones album" that summer...Summer Romance and it's ovah!
Just discovered your videos a few days ago and I can’t stop watching and learning! Thank you Pete
1. Sticky Fingers
2. Exile
3. Let it Bleed
4. Beggars Banquet
5. Goats Head Soup
6. Some Girls
7.Tatto You
8.Its only RnR
9. Black and Blue
10. Emotional Rescue
You have a good rating system.
sticky no. 1 agreed. it's hard but that's the definitive album.
At least someone else appreciates black and blue! What have they all got against it?
Let it bleed
Tattoo you is a hidden gem.
Slave!
Way up on my list - top 4 maybe.
@@avid2112 Yes. Slave is brilliant. The rest of the album is not, though.
Tattoo You is their last great masterpiece. Especially the 2nd side with all those neo-soul tunes.
All these songs were laying around in the vaults since the Exile to Some Girls era. Amazing playing from all members. Its a top 5 pick in their category.
Exile may be better,but too scattershot, in a great way,of course. Tattoo You has more consice tracks and still manages to throw a great blues track in the middle and a 50s style rocker like Hang Fire. Little T and A alone is worth the admission.
I would definitely have Tattoo You higher in that list. Easily in their top 5 and one of their best outside the Mick Taylor era. It was their last really great album IMO and for the trivia buffs, it was their last US No. 1 album.
Absolutely love your Videos Pete you have awesome taste in music keep em coming
Love this stuff. Thanks for posting.
I go with:
1. Let It Bleed
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Exile
4 . Some Girls
5. Beggars Banquet
Any order.
There it is..... Never knew it was a compilation , learn something new every day👍😎 thanx Petey
Exile is THE definitive album. A masterpiece, an amazing hybrid of country, blues, rock that only the Stones could have produced. There are other good albums, but Exile is an absolute distillation of everything they do well. Don't get me wrong--there's great stuff on other albums. But Exile is just transcendent.
Yep. "Exile..." IS the bomb!
Just the whole story behind that record is legend. Miracle it ever got finished, never mind turn out like it did.
A lot of people were involved in it, not just the 5 Stones. Still, it has to be Keith who brings it all together.
They never flew so high again, though Tattoo You was very good.
Disagree - Sticky Fingers and Let it Bleed are 1A and 1B - Both have more awesome songs than the four sides of Exile. Exile is notable that Jagger and Richards finally gave Mick Taylor writing credit on Ventilator Blues
yes a very strong album.
Yep you got it in a nutshell Mike ....if you are a Stones fan into your core ..then Exile is up there ....there are no Duff Tracks ...it raw and powerful probably one of the best albums out there
Those first three early albums are some of the greatest pure Rock and Roll/Blues albums ever recorded. So much better than their later attempts at that genre.
yeah the mick taylor era is my favorite - my ranking would be similiar
Mick Taylor was good, but he was very lucky to be around when Keith was peaking.
Love your videos Pete !! I hope you're ok with all this mess and feeling well.
Love from Spain.
Ed
I’ve been looking forward to this. And I’m predicting you have Exile first followed by Let it Bleed. That’s my call and I stand by it.
Thanks for this Pete. I’ve been nodding off to your lists at night because they are so relaxing and help to take my mind off it all. That’s a very valuable thing you’re doing for so many of us now.
Nope.
Definitely. Greetings from a brazilian living in Belgium.
Dave's Pizza Joint 50% right. Partial nope , non?
My All-Time favorite band---been waiting for this for a while and you did a great job---appreciate the love for Goats Head Soup--Mick Taylor SHINES on that record, Winter is one of the greatest songs ever recorded imho. awesome video, thanks Pete!!!
Huge video Pete. Memorable. Thanks very much
Thank you, Pete so much for your varied and insightful breakdowns. I know of most of the artists you talk about and usually agree with your asssements. Sometimes I learn of one I need to check out more (Trapeze) or you remind me of one that I need to rediscover (Queensrÿche). And you’ve kept me afloat during this strange time, reminding me to Keep Calm and Crank it Up. I hope in the future you can do an album ranking of Voivod (many!), Watchtower (only three), and The Aristocrats (only four, but mabye too early in their career). I was always a Beatles (Wings) and Zeppelin guy, but I need to give the Stones more ear. Not just the things I’ve heard a million times. Best for now.
Undercover has some of the catchiest grooves they ever made. Pretty Beat Up, Too Much Blood, Pain of Love, so underrated.
Absolutely....I love every track....Tie You Up and Pretty Beat Up are probably at the top.....
agree
Couldn't agree more! I overlooked this for years due to the bad reviews and now its one of my absolute favourites
I bought this album to see if there was anything I had missed. There was not.
Plus the closer "It Must Be Hell" is a weirdly groovy dystopian rocker. Overlooked.
My favourite Stones era is 1968-78 so the albums from those years are my favourite. Great video. Keep them coming.
Really going out on a limb there Jeff
Very good, both choice and the way you've presented. From England, I got into them in 76, so you're binge would have been at a larger table. I enjoyed buying a load of albums in my teens in the late 70s. I'll do my selection for my own fun. I plan to reply about the different releases UK/US.
We would have been at the same gig at Shea, if it was the Saturday night. A first for me as it was my first trip to the US. Seen the boys on three continents (by chance in Australia while backpacking). Been US resident since 97, fell in love with a girl from Detroit, fell in love with The States at that gig in NYC.
Thanks for the upload Pete. A fabulous start to the week here in Motown. (Back, after following the diplomat spouse for 15 years on our own tours.)
I’m always mesmerized by Pete’s wall of shelves of CD’s. It reminds me of my CD collection but he might have even more than I own lol. Thanks for the great content, Pete.
Tough to rate; props up for you Pete doing them all. My Top ten;
1.Sticky Fingers
2.Let it Bleed
3.Exile on Main St.
4.Beggers Banquet
5.Some Girls
6.Tattoo You
7.Goats Head Soup
8.Its only Rock and Roll
9.Black and Blue
10.12×5
I loved the albums with Mick Taylor; Thank you Pete as always, and to bad you dont have a month just to rate the Zappa studio albums. Take care.😎
keith o'day i like You list, Think mine would look like yours
keith o'day Excellent rankings!
I’m on-board with this list! ✌️
Sticky fingers is no doubt their best, just top class. I would have put emotional rescue a bit higher
Excellent!!
I would rank "Black and Blue" higher. I love "Crazy Mama" and "Hand of Fate." But pretty spot on with the top 5 alums.
Same here,
how can he not mention "Melody"!!
agreed, I listen to black and blue all the time.
I wanna be your slave!
I agree I think both black and blue and dirty work don't get the love they deserve especially when you consider the history of the recording sessions for black and blue. Most of the album was recorded in a short period of time after Mick Taylor left the band but before Ronnie joined as the lead guitarist. Mick and Keith wrote and recorded almost the entire album by themselves in a 2 week span of time, which is nuts especially considering how great it sounds
I enjoy watching your rankings. Thanks man!
Was pleased to see you give "Blue and Lonesome" the love it deserves. Aside from the 70's classic era stuff, it may be the one I currently listen to the most.
"Undercover" = Most underrated Rolling Stones album.
Hey Pete, I might not agree 100% on your rankings, I do respect your knowledgeable opinion on all of your videos. You have turned me onto other bands too. Over our lives, our musical tastes change so it is refreshing to revisit an album and realize that some songs that we didn’t care for, now we like.
Great to hear you are a Stones fan. They have been my number one band forever
Awesome video, Pete! Glad you tackled the Stones albums! Great ranking too! I would also put Sticky Fingers at the top of my list.
Their version of Carol is blistering and the version on Get yer ya yas out is earth shattering. Ya yas is crucial music to know about if you are really into The Stones.
Yes the Mick Taylor years are my favourite, although Keith is such a strong player and can come up with the most amazing stuff by himself.
So here's my Top 5:
1. It's only rock'n'roll
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Exile on main street
4. Black'n'Blue
5. Some Girls
Obviously all the hits of the 60s are classics, some of the early songs are magic and so well recorded.
And Their Satanic Majesties Request is just so outlandish ans a unique piece of work. Good back in the day.
Steel wheels and voodoo lounge are very underrated. Not in their top 5, but both in my top 10.
First, great job Pete; I'm pretty much in agreement with your rankings and comments. You have very good taste. The Stones are far and away my favorite band for lots and lots of reasons, some of which you touched on. I'm older than you so I grew up with them and the Beatles, watching and listening to each grow, stretch out and become the biggest and most influential bands in the world - what a fantastic time to be a teenager. And you very briefly touched on something that always struck me about Stones albums - even their weaker ones have at least one or two killer tracks. That's one reason millions of people of varying ages love them so passionately. Thanks for the posting - it was fun.
Doing 10 out of 30 studio albums!!! Awesome Pete!!
1. Their Satanic Majestys Request
2. Emotional Redcue
3. Aftermath
4. Beggars Banquet
5. Steel Wheels
6. Exile On Main Street
7. Some Girls
8. It's only Rock N Roll
9. Between The Buttons
10. Goats Head Soup
12. Tattoo You
Great lists everyone!
Very interesting top 10, love that number one pick!
Thanks for doing this one Pete! I haven't heard them all but my top ten would look like this:
1. Exile on Main Street
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Let it Bleed
4. Some Girls
5. Beggar's Banquet
6. Goat's Head Soup
7. Between the Buttons
8. Aftermath
9. Tattoo You
10. It's Only Rock N' Roll
Basically my top ten with a few small changes
Great review, thank you very much !
Wow. Quite an Endeavor to take on this Mega group. Thank you great job.
MAJESTIES is so amazing; it's kinda like the guys said to themselves -- "Let's make a BEATLES ALBUM. Who wants to do that?" And everybody said yes. Love it.
Yeah their objective was to make their own Sgt Pepper album and try to do psychedelic music. I think it's pretty good.
It's written off as a Sgt. Pepper's knock-off, but it's a really great drug album of its time, and the whole work operates on a different psychedelic wavelength from the Beatles albums they were supposedly copying
Sister Morphine sends chills down my spine.
I stumbled across your channel today (and subscribed) and loved seeing you rank all of the Stones' albums. I can't do a similar ranking (I'm not that familiar with most of the stuff after Bill Wyman left) but I rank Black and Blue higher than you do - it grew on me over the years - and I do love some of their very early records - even back then, when they were doing mostly covers, they were a fantastic group, possibly the best all around group of the early sixties. But to each his own when it comes to ranking almost anything!
Watching for the second or third time since I'm barreling through their whole discography now. Currently listening to December's Children.
Another good ranking, Pete! Seeing as I'm lazy today, I'll just do a top fifteen (based upon the British catalog, so some albums like December's Children won't make the cut):
1 Let it Bleed
2 Beggars Banquet
3 Aftermath
4 Between the Buttons
5 Their Satanic Majesty's Request
6 Goats Head Soup
7 Exile on Main Street
8 Sticky Fingers
9 Some Girls
10 It's Only Rock'N'Roll
11 Out of Our Heads
12 Tattoo You
13 Emotional Rescue
14 Bridges to Babylon
15 Steel Wheels
The run of 3 albums from Let It Bleed to Exile on Main Street explain why the Mick Taylor era is so revered. If you add in the live recordings of the time, from Ya-Ya's to The Brussels Affair, you can see just how great this band were at their very peak. The best rock band in the world? Hard to say because The Who, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Deep Purple etc were all really strong in those early 1970s. What a fantastic time for rock music.
Thanks for this. So great. Was a Stones fan from the beginning. Have all the albums. I was 11 years old 65'. My favorite among many - Beggars Banquet.
Great, just discovered your channel time to watch some videos!
I agree Gimme Shelter is the best Rolling Stones song......very atmospheric and somehow relevant in these troubled times.
Gimme Shelter has been the ringtone on my phone for years!
I agree. Something about Gimme Shelter. Great minds think alike.
@@rpaustex I set mine to Ventilator Blues recently. Seemed appropriate.
It think it's the best one I've heard from them. It's fantastic :-)
Rocks Off.
My favorites: Gimme Shelter, Sympathy For The Devil, Monkey Man, Jumpin Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man. Best albums: Aftermath, Out of our Heads, Let it Bleed, Baggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers.
This to me is your best review. I couldn't agree with you more on your top 5. Thanks for sharing Pete.
Really enjoyed that Pete thanks a lot, my favourite album is, Exile on Main Street.
I can’t argue, but I would put Undercover and Tattoo You higher.
Tattoo you was one of their biggest albums.
Clevelandsux It includes my favorite Keith Richards song, “Little T&A”.
Tattoo you that's my pick
I love both those album. Lots of great guitar work and energy to both albums. ✌️🇨🇦❤️
I love Emotional Rescue...Tattoo You and Undercover....Rescue has Let Me Go...Send it to Me...Undercover has Tied Up in Love...Pretty Beat Up.....and Tattoo You had Slave....Black Limousine....phenomenal albums....
Exile on Main Street for me is top five all time albums ever. Have the whole catalog prefer the Mick Taylor era. Agree Goats Head Soup is very underrated.
Yes! Soup is great
For me, if they'd combined the best songs from both _Goats Head Soup_ and _It's Only Rock 'n' Roll_ (and put everything else on a separate album), they'd have had one last hands-down stellar album.
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy dancing dancing dancing somewhere dancing with mr. Déeeeeee.
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy Totally disagree....I wouldn't edit a thing out of either album...both are fantastic.....
Wow I never thought I'd see a comment from the 1 and only Jethro Tull!!
Silver Train Has got to be 1 of their best
Great review man! I really enjoyed your list and reasons behind it
Excellent ranking you did, Pete. I can't say that my personal ranking of Stones albums would be much different. I'm glad you brought up Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock& Roll. I'm going to revisit those two since it's been a long time.
I just did that this past week and so glad I did! My opinion went up on both but without going into detail it really does depend on HOW you listen to thse 2 or any others for that matter. Still cannot get "If you Really Want to be My Friend" out of my head 5 days later!!!! And forgot how cool "Luxury" is
I agree with you that the late sixties and early seventies music of the Stones has more hits per disc, but they always managed to put at least one or two gems on their other ones. I missed an opportunity to see them live my senior year in high school, which I regret because I think one has to seem them live to really understand their musicianship. "Angie" is one of those songs that struck an internal chord with me for some reason. No idea why, really.
Love Angie...There is something about that song similar to the led zeppelin that's the way it's just hits a deep emotional chord it's truly a beautiful song as is That's the way
How about “Heartbreakers (Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo)”? Would’ve been the year before “Angie” was a single, I think.
@@SneedyKetler Same album for both songs 1973
1. Get Your Yaya's Out 2. Aftermath 3. Exile on Main Street 4. Goatshead Soup 5. Now!
I’m glad I came across this channel. 👍
Thank you for your ranking the Rolling Stones.🎤🎸🎵🥁
"Their Satanic..." is massively interesting album, I like it the most. And the songs are brilliant.
Right on Margus -- someone who gets the Stones!
It's definitely underrated.
Oh really...I always considered it their absolute worst album....the Stones pathetic and dismal attempt to parrot the Beatles overblown Sgt.Peppers was not only an epic failure....it was downright horrible..a soundtrack for an opium den.....clearly targeted to acid and hallucinogen users ...Brian Jones had a field day making all sorts of strange noises on it with weird instruments..an effort that was so poor even Wyman does a "vocal"....no thanks....that fiasco put the nails in the coffin of that psychedelic eastern sounding crap era for the Stones and instead Jagger and Richards returned to a more American blues rock country roots sound with their own original compositions which led to a block of their best music...with Richards doing almost all of the guitar parts on Beggars Banquet and Let it Bleed...right into Sticky Fingers and Exile with Jagger and Richards most incredible song writing and bringing in the gun for hire session lead player Mick Taylor...and then later Ron Wood....these albums all bury Satanic Majesties...I listen to all Stones albums on a regular rotation but have a hard time sitting through Majesties since I don't indulge in hallucinogens...(...actually I couldn't stand it when I did ) and instead listen to the official bootleg release Jamming with Edward in it's place....
@@larrynolletti4594 And many other great rock albums came out of opium dens. You gave a nod to Exile and I would be willing to bet you that was more drug infused than Satanic. Yes, it is a kinky crazy album but that's what makes it great. I'm glad they put that one out there--we all got more of our fill of the southern rock style that was to come in the next 5 albums so SMR is well worth the listen. I want to say that I don't know how a Stones fan like yourself has such disdain for this one but then again I hate Black and Blue and think it was an effortless shrug while the group was falling apart. Now that I re-read your post though maybe this is all about you not getting the 'good stuff' back in the day and therefore always hated this album? just a thought. And thank God for Brian Jones by the way. The Stones were infinitely more interesting with him around despite his reputation as a not-so nice guy.
@@xaspirate8060 yes....my sarcastic opium den statement refers to the target audience and setting for listening to said noise fest....not as to the state they were in while recording....I think albums like Exile and yes...one of my favorites...Black and Blue...are a lot better off for being conceived on heroin...alcohol and cocaine...as opposed to LSD and "tripping ".....in other words...enhancing reality or going a million miles away from it...sometimes you don't make the return trip...as for the overworship of Brian Jones and the romanticism of his " legacy "....yes he formed a blues cover band kicking around in England with a host of other bands and named it after a Muddy Waters song...and if it wasn't for Jagger and Richards meeting at the train station ....a monumental moment in rock history....that's all Brian Jones ever would have been...he got to ride on the coattails of the songwriting genius of Jagger and Richards...it was Jagger and Richards who put them on the map and made them famous....yes...in the beginning he was a competent blues and harmonica player....by the end of the decade he was a fried space cadet...the Stones got bigger and better without him....the greatest Stones is from Beggars Banquet on....there is no comparison between the psychedelic sludge of Satanic Majesties and the greatness that came after...
Good fun! For me, however, I’d rank “Aftermath” much, much higher: in the top 3. But I’m an old timer! Totally agree that “Let it Bleed” and “Beggars Banquet” are top choices. I also agree that Sticky Fingers and Exile are great too.
Bang on man ! I agree with your top four. What a catalogue of great albums
Thanks Pete for doing a stones ranking a close friend who just Passed away on wednesday loved the Stones and this was almost like a triubte to him thanks so much he would have loved this
Love the Stones. As you say, it's all subjective. My own top ten would be:
1) Exile on Main St.
2) Sticky Fingers
3) Beggars Banquet
4) Let It Bleed
5) Their Satanic Majesties Request
6) Aftermath
7) Between the Buttons
8) Goats Head Soup
9) It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
10) Some Girls
Aftermath & Between the Buttons are very underrated rated. Both are better than any beatles album.
Love the cover of Between the Buttons. What were they thinking ?!
No 80s ?
@@keredsilloc4095 I enjoy some of their 80's output but no album from that era can compete with the ones I listed, in my opinion.
@@johnfielding5004 I love Bills bass playing on Tattoo you and emotional rescue...their 2 best 80s albums in my opinion
@@keredsilloc4095 Can't disagree with you there. Bill's bass playing was always spot on and they're the two best Stones albums from the 80's. However, Keith plays bass on All About You and Ronnie plays bass on Dance, Summer Romance, Where The Boys Go and the title track on Emotional Rescue. However, Bill plays bass on all of Tattoo You except for Little T&A.
LET IT BLEED,my favourite album of all time. Mixing country blues and rock,and Keith Richards playing all the guitar work. This is the album in which he found his signature malevolent sound. Plus it has Monkey Man and Gimmie Shelter…enough said
Love the fact you spelt 'Gimmie Shelter' the right way.
Agreed, although I'd argue that he round his signature sound on Beggars.
Mick Taylor appears on Let it Bleed.
I'm looking forward to checking out their discography. I know a handful of songs. I'd like to know more. This evaluation will take a bit.
Thanks Pete- awesome video! I agree with your assessment that your age when you discovered the Stones has big impact on one's favorite albums. I was 6 when "Tattoo You" came out and thanks to my older aunts and uncles, that record made an indelible mark on me at a young age. I think side 2 of that record may be the most underrated side 2 of any record (save for maybe side 2 of "The Joshua Tree") - "Worried About You" --> "Tops" --> "Heaven" --> "No Use In Crying" --> "Waiting On A Friend". Just Awesome. And to think, this is basically an album of outtakes... Find me another band that could create such a monster record out of stuff that basically got swept up and pieced together off the cutting room floor! From there I got broader exposure to the Stones catalog through the "Rewind" and "Hot Rocks" compilations. "Steel Wheels" came out when I was in high school and was the first Stones record I ever bought with my own money. "Almost Hear You Sigh" is awesome as are Keef's "Can't Be Seen" and "Slipping Away". "Voodoo Lounge" was a huge part of my college years and was the first tour I saw the Stones live (Foxboro '94). I have a particular soft sport for Keef songs because I love "Thru and Thru" and "The Worst" but my favorites on this LP are "Baby Break It Down" and the ballad "Out of Tears". Beyond that, the three legs of the stool are absolutely "Sticky Fingers", "Let It Bleed" and "Exile on Main Street". Just an incredibly fertile period from '69-'72. Can't add much that hasn't already been said about these, except that most bands would kill to produce one record this good and they ran three in a row! If they had done nothing else, their legacy would be secure. I would also give a shout-out to the quasi-live album "Stripped". I feel like this release capitalized on the whole "Unplugged" craze better than most at that time and did a ton to bring recognition of the early-70's era Stones to my generation. Most of my friends had yet to discover anything pre-"Some Girls" aside from the big radio hits and I credit "Stripped" with giving songs like "Dead Flowers" and "Love In Vain" a new audience.
For the most part, I agree with much of your rankings. However, I think you ranked Black and Blue much too low. "Fool to Cry", "Hand of Fate" and "Memory Motel" are classic tunes. Yes, some of the other tunes are just basically jams; but enjoyable nevertheless.
Totally agree Keith( great name by the way) one of my favorite Stones albums because it was a special time in my life.
Did you not listen to what he said. Its his opinion. Some thick headed people in this world.
She’s got a mind of her own and she uses it well she’s mighty fine she’s one of a kind ....
@@bksherm A bit harsh don't you think. I was just giving my opinion. Jeez, calm down dude
I would put it even lower. I hardly ever listened to it.
It takes balls the size of Jupiter to rank these albums, frankly. I love the catalog from the 60s to the 90s (or like it in some areas I should say). I appreciate your rankings and agree with most of them. Great job!
For me, their golden era was from Beggars Banquet to Exile On Main Street. Those four albums!
Thanks for takeing your time and makeing your list Pete, helps past the time in what’s going on these dayz. This is mine which was gut wrenching hard lol , you should do a Sabbath.
#1 Black and Blue
#2 Beggars Banquent
#3 Let it Bleed
#4 Goats Head Soup
#5 It’s only Rock and Roll
#6 Sticky Fingers
#7 Some Girls
#8 Tattoo You
#9 Exile
#10 Emotional Rescue
Sabbath was done quite some time ago.
Thanks Pete! I'll be breaking out Exile On Main Street today!
My dad is a huge Stones fan... really all I've ever been exposed to... and all I ever need! It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but I like it. Of course I appreciate other great groups like The Beatles, but the Stones will always be what’s ingrained in me. Very thankful to have seen them live with my dad in Buffalo in 2015, still kickin' ass. And so hyped another album is in the works right now… off to a solid start with Living In A Ghost Town... Here are my top 10 Stones albums ranked... just my opinion, what I like the most!
1. Sticky Fingers... FAVORITE SONG: Wild Horses. FAVORITE SLEEPER: Sway.
2. Exile On Main Street... FAVORITE SONG: Shine A Light. FAVORITE SLEEPER: Shake Your Hips (cover).
3. Goats Head Soup... FAVORITE SONG: Angie. FAVORITE SLEEPER: 100 Years Ago.
4. Let It Bleed... FAVORITE SONG: Gimme Shelter. FAVORITE SLEEPER: You Got The Silver.
5. Some Girls... FAVORITE SONG: Miss You. FAVORITE SLEEPER: Far Away Eyes (Stones can do country with the best of 'em).
6. Steel Wheels... FAVORITE SONG: Mixed Emotions. FAVORITE SLEEPER: Can't Be Seen (Watch Keith absolutely kill it in on his birthday at "Terrifying" live in 1989 Atlantic City during the Steel Wheels tour. First live Stones performance my Dad ever showed me).
7. Tattoo You... FAVORITE SONG: Waiting On A Friend. FAVORITE SLEEPER: Little T & A.
8. Aftermath... FAVORITE SONG: Paint It, Black. FAVORITE SLEEPER: I Am Waiting (used in film "Rushmore").
9. Beggars Banquet... FAVORITE SONG: Sympathy For The Devil. FAVORITE SLEEPER: Stray Cat Blues.
10. Between The Buttons... FAVORITE SONG: Let's Spend The Night Together. FAVORITE SLEEPER: Ruby Tuesday.
Thanks for the video! I love everything Stones. Stay well.
Too many to pick do like tattoo stick fingers
Sway and stray cat blues are sleepers?? Hot take lol
@robowizard6132 just based on what the hits were on those albums. Sticky Fingers being loaded with classics like Brown Sugar, Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, and Moonlight Mile makes Sway a sleeper in comparison. Same thing goes for Stray Cat on Beggars… up against the likes of Street Fighting Man.
Looking forward to this! Exile, Let it Bleed, Sticky fingers my flip flopping top 3!
those 3 back to back to back...quite possibly the greatest 3 record output in rock history
Same here
rob paxson no doubt!
@@robpaxson4455 add Beggar's for the Grand Slam
That was excellent! I got into the Stones later in life also, although I was fortunate enough to catch them on the Steel Wheels and Voodoo Lounge tours. I've been working on assembling their discography. I read somewhere that Aftermath was a good place to start (I have the UK version) so I picked that up. I still have some essentials to get so this video was really useful. Exile is my favorite by far. So gritty and bluesy and country fried.
Thanks Pete, great work. For me it's 1. Exile 2. Aftermath 3. Sticky 4. Let it Bleed 5. Between the buttons 6. Beggars banquet 7. Out of our heads 8. December's children 9. Now! 10. 12 x 5
I’m the same as you Pete.. never really got into the Rolling Stones until late 90s as I was always more towards Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. My brother had a copy on vinyl of a compilation album “Made in The Shade” which had the tunes Angie..Wild Horses and Heartbreaker on it. They got my attention so I purchased 40 licks which pretty much covers what I like. I added Heartbreaker to it as that track was missing. May look into some studio albums and some of the songs I’m not familiar with having seen this. 👍🏻
For me it was the other way round, early 70s I was into Beatles,Stones, Who, Rod Stewart, then started to get into Purple, Zep, Floyd & later UFO, Scorpions, Rainbow.
The Stones' catalog is so vast and deep that no compilation can do it justice. To really know the Stones you have no choice but to listen to the individual albums because some of their greatest songs were not hits: "2000 Light Years From Home," "Let it Loose," "100 Years Ago," "Salt of the Earth," "Monkey Man," "Sway," "Ventilator Blues," "Sister Morphine," "No Expectations," "Hand of Fate," "Respectable," "Child of the Moon"... the list goes on...
In my opinion, the Stones have more great songs than the Beatles, though that's only due to the fact that the Beatles broke up.
All of the compilation albums have the same songs from through the past darkly to more hot rocks and 40 licks
The best stones Albums are sticky fingers exile on main Street some girls black and blue it's only rock and roll goats head soup paint it black flowers between the buttons and get yer ya yas out
I saved my pocket money up and started with Darkly Through The Past Big Hit Vol 2, and High Tides Green Grass.. Made In The Shade..Eventually graduating to buying the stand alone albums.Simon F U.K
My top five: 1- Aftermath, 2- Beggars Banquet, 3-December's Children, 4- Between the Buttons, 5- Out of our heads
Excellent fkg list dude!!!
Going through the Rolling Stones huge catalog is not an easy task for me because of the sheer number of albums and all the different releases of their early material, well done! I couldn't do it that's for sure. I agree with your top five btw.
Sticky Fingers! Yes, finally that great album gets some love.
I'm glad you mentioned two of my favourite songs - Blinded by rainbows and Time waits for no one.
I'm going to speak up for Undercover..always loved every track, full of humour, I've liked the stones since 82 when l was 17. With you on Gimme Shelter as arguably their finest song.
I agree with you completely....Undercover is fantastic...
My top 5 ranking:
1) Let It Bleed
2) Sticky Fingers
3) Some Girls
4) It's Only Rock n Roll
5) Exile on Mainstreet
My dad and I were digging through his vinyl collection and found Steel Wheels. Looking at the track list, neither of us had recognized any songs at all. My dad is a hits-only kind of guy so we were trying to figure out why he had that one, haha. I keep meaning to tackle their entire catalogue but it's so massive. Gotta get in the right mood.
Another super solid performance so thank you so much!! I may say though that The Rolling Stones have at least 5 albums that one could argue for #1 spot so you did an amazing ranking indeed!!
5 or more.
Exile on Main St (My Desert Island Disc)
Sticky Fingers
Let It Bleed
Beggars Banquet
Aftermath
Some Girls
Tattoo You
Voodoo Lounge
Out of Our Heads
Black and Blue
The only surprise was to see Tattoo You ranked as low as it was. I know some people have an issue with the second half being comprised of all ballads but I feel it's one of the strongest album sides the Stones have ever done. #1 for me is Exile, Sticky, Banquet, Bleed, Some Girls, Goat's Head Soup, Aftermath, Tattoo You...BEST Stones compilation is Rolled Gold. Most underrated is Black and Blue - Hand of Fate/Memory Motel/Hot Stuff/Hey Negrita/Fool To Cry/Crazy Mama - blast THIS one at your next backyard BBQ.
Great list. I was glad to see you put 'Black and Blue' where you did. With the release of this album we knew that the truly great era had ended.
But there was more great music to follow years later>>>> But you're right BnB sucked. 1 or 2 good ones, the rest bad faux-Soul or some shit.
Pere, excellent job you did on a band with more music than just about everyone. ***** 👍
1/2/3/4 In any order: Beggars, Let it, Sticky and Exile, 5 Goat’s Head Soup, 6 Aftermath, 7 Between the Buttons, 8 Some Girls, 9 Tatoo you, 10 Their Satanic Majesties Request
Great list. Spot on, with one exception. I would replace 'Tattoo You' with 'Its Only Rock n Roll.'
"It's Only Rock and Roll" is so underrated. I don't know why. It is a great album.
Absolutely....Short and Curlies....Fingerprint File....If You Can't Rock Me....Luxury....one of my favorite albums...
Yes but don't forget the epic Time waits for no one...incredible
Thanks Pete! Keep on rockin'!
My Top 10 List: The first 6 LPs I ever bought in the mid-70s were Stones albums and they are all in my top 10. I don't listen to the Stones as much now but the one I've pulled out the most in the last few years is #4 on my list. Always preferred the Mick Taylor era best.
1. Exile on Main Street
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Let It Bleed
4 Goats Head Soup
5 Beggars Banquet
6 Some Girls
7 It's Only Rock 'n Roll
8 Steel Wheels
9 Black and Blue
10 Their Satanic Majesties Request
The Stones, as we all know, are pretty much three distinctive bands, each which had something great going for them. As group entities, I favor the Brian Jones era Stones for aggressive, youth eats world songs played by wide-eyed kids with the whole candy store at their disposal. The Mick Taylor era has them playing their best live and the Ronnie Wood era turns them into The Faces with all of the inebriated hi jinks that went with the live sets from his former band. Keith finally had a partner whom he considered a friend. The mid era segment produced the best played albums, the early era the most snarling rockers ('Get off of My Cloud', 'Satisfaction', The Last Time, etc.) and the present day Stones are special because they have kept the fire burning. For that, this fan is eternally grateful.
5) Some Girls (1978)
4) Beggars Banquet (1968)
3) Sticky Fingers (1971)
2) Exile On Main St (1972)
1) Let It Bleed (1969)
let it bleed is so good, but exile isn’t the most nostalgic, and most story filled album of all time, being addicted to heroin and tax exiles is the most rock n roll thing ever..
Between The Buttons, Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock n' Roll are the most underrated albums of The Stones in my opinion. Brilliant stuff in those great records.
Although my three favourite Stones albums are Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street.
Jose, not sure they are so underrated... you , and most put SF, Bleed, Exile, Beggars on top of your 3 yet in most polls your 3 are in Top 10 more often than not ... at lesast that is what I have seen and Ive been to many RS type sights in past 25years. With all due respect to PeteP, the posters here defy convention a little bit with the 5 thru 8 selections. Go to other sites and yo will see your 3 Top 8 in most cases. That has been my experience at least. I just gave this a little thought in my un-sober mind and my browsing history would say that the typical order of ranking would go Exile/Sticky 1 and/or 2, Beggars/Let it Bleed 3 and/or 4, then 5 Aftermath, 6 GoatHeadSoup, 7. It's Only ROck&Roll, 8. England's Newest Hitmakers, 9. Tatoo You (which pains me to report), 10 Between the Buttons 11. December's Children
Obv not empirical data here but I think this holds up with your avg RS fan. Esp those who went to same website I wnet to sine those rip-roaring days of Windows95 hahaha
My favorite band thanks for doing this one. 1. Let It Bleed 2. Beggar’s Banquet 3.Exile 4.Some Girl’s 5. Tattoo You 6.It’s Only Rock and Roll 7. Goat’shead Soup 8.Between The Button’s 7.12x 5 8.Sticky Fingers 9.Aftermath 10. Steel Wheel’s.
Wow, mind blowing how many.. Saw the Stones in either 74 - 75 promoting Goats Head Soup. The concert was in a bicycle racing stadium in Mannheim Germany.. Billy Preston God rest his soul, opened for them, and played keyboards with them.. An amazing show, I will never forget.. Would have been interesting to hear which albums went Gold or Platinum.. Thanks for the memories...