My Top 5 ROLLING STONES Albums : 5. Some Girls (1978) 4. Beggar's Banquet (1968) 3. Sticky Fingers (1971) 2. Let It Bleed (1969) 1. Exile On Main St (1972)
The Stones are my absolute favorite of all time! I started my journey with Tattoo You. I'm 52 and my current list is...1) Goat's Head Soup 2) Exile on Main St 3) Beggars Banquet 4) Tattoo You 5) Emotional Rescue
What I found interesting is that of the three of you, between 15 picks there are 9 different records mentioned. That just goes to show how great the band was, and they have something for everyone. Such a deep catalogue!
Twenty or thirty years ago I would have chosen Sticky Fingers as my favorite. But over the years my love for the Brian Jones era Stones has only grown while Mick Taylor's is the one I go to the least. Probably because I listened to those albums so many times that they hardly move me anymore. Anyway, making a ranking I still feel obliged to keep some of them for everything they meant to me as a teenager: Aftermath (UK version) Between The Buttoms (UK version) Beggar's Banquet Let It Bleed Sticky Fingers
Always loved the Brian Jones era, because I started with the compilation "Flowers" from 1967. I feel that between 66 and 68 they sounded more "english", a swinging sixties band from London making baroque pop psychedilic rock, and I have an affinity for that particular sound. Whereas in the Mick Taylor era, which I love as well, they americanized their sound and became more country blues americana (and even a little bit of funk on "It's only rock n roll").
Great show. I also was at the Shea Stadium show. I was just getting into them at the time. It was a sold out stadium. Yeah the 90’s mob movies got me into the stones. Martin’s books are great. All of them.
My top 7: 7. Goats Head Soup 6. Metamorphisis 5. A Bigger Bang (2005) 4. Sticky Fingers (1971) 3. Tattoo You (1981) 2. Let It Bleed (1969) 1. Beggars Banquet (1968) My top 5 WORST Stones albums" 5. Steel Wheels 4. Decembers Children 3. Dirty Work 2. Black & Blue 1. Its Only Rock & Roll
Good show Hack. A lot like Pete I really didn’t care for the Stones much til the late 90’s when a guy I worked with turned me on to them. Real appreciation for all the different types of music they do. 5. Exile on Main Street 4. Goats Head Soup 3. Tattoo You 2. Some Girls 1. Sticky Fingers
@@GuitarHack66 thanks but I watch all the time and have been a subscriber for most of the year. Not sure what that user number/letters is. My name is if you recognize it as Starman 2112 of Kings
Finally heard Live at El Mocambo, their Toronto club gig in '77. Good stuff but nothing from my #5 from following year: Some Girls. Top 4 the grand slam from Beggar's Banquet to Exile. And always a great idea to Get Your Ya-Ya's Out!
As a person that was born in the 50's I am with Pete. I absolutely love the Mick Taylor era and like Martin I have a fondness for Black and Blue. Great show.
just an awesome fuckin' episode Hack!! and i really love when you have Mr. bad ass Pete Pardo and the reverant Mr. Popoff on your show for countdowns, rankings,etc.,etc. it makes the show a total package and total enjoyment so thank you brother for your love & passion for the music and the time you put into it!!! I comment on Pete's show quite often but i never say much about Martin but i do always try to thank him when commenting on SOT, well, i want to thank Martin again,especially for the books he's published over all these years, i have many of the older ones that have been around with what seems like forever but i have to say one of my absolute favorites is the Heavy Metal price guide he published years ago, i actually have collected vinyl records for jesus-40+ years? since i was a pre-teen, i'm 55yo so yeah-a good 40+ years and that book is one of my ultimate go-to resource books for looking up very rare and hard to find metal albums which just aren't in regular issues of Goldmine price guides, but one of the best parts of his Metal priceguide in his little band descriptions for each band-VERY cool and often reflect Martins awesome sense of humor, i HIGHLY recommend that book for any record collector and just music fans in general!! thanks Martin, and thank you again hack!! and you too brother Pete!!! all you gentlemen rock!!! \m/ \m/
The Brian Jones era,was well served by such iconic compilations like High Tide Green Grass & Darkly Through The Past. Perhaps not one solid album but if you took the best of Aftermath,Between The Buttons and Satanic Majesties Request..
One of the first albums I bought- Out of Our Heads. I still have it- it’s a frequent visitor to the turntable. Satanic on cassette - played that hundreds of times. Sticky Fingers, Exile, Let it Bleed and Goats Head Soup- a tossup for number five.
I grew-up during the 80s so Start Me Up was my first introduction to The Rolling Stones. The Stones are also one of the few bands that's been around forever. It's one of the reasons I like them. One problem I have w/The Stones is that they've could've made fewer albums; therefore, they could have more that were killer and less filler. Some Girls is one Stones album that happens to be multi-platinum. I'm not sure about the rest. Anyway, it funny you have your top five because there are only five Stones albums I like. I've tried Beggars Banquet, Exile On Main St., Voodoo Lounge and Bridges to Babylon and I couldn't get into any of them. However, here are the five I do have and can listen to at least half or more: 1. Some Girls - Part of a three album stretch that I call their New York period. I happen to like every song on this album, even the goofy country one. The standouts for me are When the Whip Comes Down, Miss You, Shattered and Beast of Burden. 2. Steel Wheels - This is the first Stones album I liked and owned. I like almost every song on this album. The standouts for me are Mixed Emotions, Terrifying, Rock and a Hard Place, Sad, Sad Sad and Break the Spell. 3. Tatoo You - Three of my favorite Stones songs are on this album, Start Me Up, Hang Fire and Waiting on a Friend. It took me awhile to like about half of this album. 4. Emotional Rescue - Someone described this as Some Girls B-Sides and they're correct. It's not as good but still enjoyable. 5. Sticky Fingers - I like it but I don't love it. It's one of the few classic Rolling Stones albums I can listen to all the way through w/out skipping a song. BTW Pete: It's too bad you weren't a Stones fan in '89. It's the one concert I regret missing partly because I was a fan of the Steel Wheels album and partly because I wanted to see Living Color. At least you weren't too drunk to appreciate Living Color🤣🤣
I love the mick taylor stuff. I just can never get into Goats Head. Some stuff is really good but its not what i listen to from the Stones. I love Black and blue more then most people. Heres my 5 . 1) Exile 2)let it bleed 3) black and blue 4) sticky fingers 5) tattoo you . Honerable mentions .1) beggars banquet 2) its only rock and roll . Tied with Some Girls
What I never understood in these rankings, especially of bands with such a huge catalogue: is it allowed to pick your top 5 if you just know half of the albums? Sometimes I think I am the only stupid one not knowing all albums well enough to have an opinion on them or not knowing them at all. Great video, great band!
@@GuitarHack66 Sure, if you are really familiar with the whole catalogue you can do that and it will become a true and honest ranking. But let‘s say you don’t really know an album and have listened to it only once right before such a show I don‘t think you can have an opinion on it that matters and shouldn’t include it in a ranking cause it is nothing but a first impression. Gotta invest A LOT of time to do this properly, really appreciate that.
Yeah, Mick Taylor was so freaking good with ‘em boys. I really like this live version of Heartbreaker from 1973. In fact, everyone should listen to the Brussels Affair bootleg. I’ve never listened to a better live recording than that one. Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) live: ruclips.net/video/VKBqw2bT63A/видео.html
I never "got" the Exile thing. Such a disappointment when it came out, especially after the previous 5 or 6 records, and then the 4 or 5 that followed. I'll put it at #11, (and it might slip to #12 after a few more listens to Hackney).
I agree that Black n' Blue may be the best sounding Stones album, but to suggest that Beggars Banquet, Goats Head Soup or It's Only Rock n' Roll have great sound quality makes me wonder what you're listening on. The acoustic songs on Beggars are overly compressed (especially Parachute Woman and Jig Saw Puzzle), and Goat's and It's only R n' R have a dull lifeless sound throughout (listen to the drums - they have no snap, the cymbals have no ring). These albums always sound like my speakers are covered with towels.
Tragic how forgotten the real leader of early Stones is, a travesty - Brian was a brilliant musician and musical mind, it was said he could pick up any instrument and learn to play it in minutes!
@@wernermoritz882 back in black is brilliant aswell I think. And I fully believe that bon had most of it written before he died, it has his lyric style all over it and they went totally down hill after that.
5- Between The Buttons ( UK)
4- Some Girls
3- Let It Bleed
2- Sticky Fingers
1- Exile On Main Street
Some Girls- I wore that record out! When you pulled out the insert the faces moved.
1. Get yer ya ya´s out
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Exile on main st.
4. Let it bleed
5. Beggars Banquet
6. It´s only rock n roll
( 5 + one live album)
1 - Exile On Main Street
2 - Sticky Fingers
3 - Goats Head Soup
4 - Tattoo You
5 - Steel Wheels
Interesting that Goat‘s Head Soup is so beloved. I guess I need to listen to the album again.
The critics hated Goats Head Soup! Loathed it. I love about half of it. It is surprising to see it getting all the praise nowadays.
my top 5
TOdaY!!!
1- Exile
2- Let it Bleed
3- Sticky Fingers
4- Beggars Banquet
5- Some Girls
My Top 5 ROLLING STONES Albums :
5. Some Girls (1978)
4. Beggar's Banquet (1968)
3. Sticky Fingers (1971)
2. Let It Bleed (1969)
1. Exile On Main St (1972)
Sticky Fingers & Let It Bleed can`t get mutch better than that. The Rolling Stones what a great band & they still are...
The Stones are my absolute favorite of all time! I started my journey with Tattoo You. I'm 52 and my current list is...1) Goat's Head Soup 2) Exile on Main St 3) Beggars Banquet 4) Tattoo You 5) Emotional Rescue
What I found interesting is that of the three of you, between 15 picks there are 9 different records mentioned. That just goes to show how great the band was, and they have something for everyone. Such a deep catalogue!
Some Girls. Black and Blue.
1. Exile on Main Street (1972)
2. Sticky Fingers (1971)
3. Between the Buttons (1967)
4. December’s Children (1965)
5. Let it Bleed (1969)
5. Exile On Main Street
4. Beggars Banquet
3. Aftermath
2. Let It Bleed
1. Sticky Fingers
Twenty or thirty years ago I would have chosen Sticky Fingers as my favorite. But over the years my love for the Brian Jones era Stones has only grown while Mick Taylor's is the one I go to the least. Probably because I listened to those albums so many times that they hardly move me anymore.
Anyway, making a ranking I still feel obliged to keep some of them for everything they meant to me as a teenager:
Aftermath (UK version)
Between The Buttoms (UK version)
Beggar's Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Always loved the Brian Jones era, because I started with the compilation "Flowers" from 1967. I feel that between 66 and 68 they sounded more "english", a swinging sixties band from London making baroque pop psychedilic rock, and I have an affinity for that particular sound. Whereas in the Mick Taylor era, which I love as well, they americanized their sound and became more country blues americana (and even a little bit of funk on "It's only rock n roll").
1=Beggars Banquet 2=Aftermath 3=Exile In Main Street 4=Let it Bleed 5=Sticky Fingers! LUVV Les Stones!!!!
BB is just so raw and powerful. Their guitar-work is so bluesy and also some of their best lyrics. My favorite Stones album by far!
Great show. I also was at the Shea Stadium show. I was just getting into them at the time. It was a sold out stadium. Yeah the 90’s mob movies got me into the stones. Martin’s books are great. All of them.
Sorry I missed you boys live. Catching the replay!
Always a great show when these 2 HOFs join Great show HACK 👍💯
Glad you enjoyed it. They're always a good time. Cheers
My top 7:
7. Goats Head Soup
6. Metamorphisis
5. A Bigger Bang (2005)
4. Sticky Fingers (1971)
3. Tattoo You (1981)
2. Let It Bleed (1969)
1. Beggars Banquet (1968)
My top 5 WORST Stones albums"
5. Steel Wheels
4. Decembers Children
3. Dirty Work
2. Black & Blue
1. Its Only Rock & Roll
Good show Hack. A lot like Pete I really didn’t care for the Stones much til the late 90’s when a guy I worked with turned me on to them. Real appreciation for all the different types of music they do.
5. Exile on Main Street
4. Goats Head Soup
3. Tattoo You
2. Some Girls
1. Sticky Fingers
Thanks for watching and welcome to the channel. Cheers
@@GuitarHack66 thanks but I watch all the time and have been a subscriber for most of the year. Not sure what that user number/letters is. My name is if you recognize it as Starman 2112 of Kings
@@Starman2112ofKings I appreciate it. Thanks
My fav is "It's Only R'n'R". And what a great cover! Same guy (pun!) did "Diamond Dogs" (Guy Peellaert). Cheers.
Finally heard Live at El Mocambo, their Toronto club gig in '77. Good stuff but nothing from my #5 from following year: Some Girls. Top 4 the grand slam from Beggar's Banquet to Exile. And always a great idea to Get Your Ya-Ya's Out!
Great show brother. I'm going with Sticky Fingers.
As a person that was born in the 50's I am with Pete. I absolutely love the Mick Taylor era and like Martin I have a fondness for Black and Blue. Great show.
1 - Goats Head Soup
2 - Exile on Main Street
3 - Sticky Fingers
4 - Let it Bleed
5 - Black and Blue
Had to hear Jigsaw Puzzle after Hack mentioned it. Absolute classic track.Great ranking guys!
Thanks for watching and welcome to the channel. Cheers
Never was really a Stones fan however always learn from you guys and gain new perspective. Great show guys cheers!
Thanks for watching. Cheers
Love this channel…this is a great team. My number 1 is ….Dirty work! 😂 that was awesome. Great video.
Glad you like the channel. Cheers
What's cool is that Mötley Crüe's 'Too Fast for Love' album cover was inspired by the Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' album cover!
Wow. I never thought of that. Lol
@@GuitarHack66 Same! But that explains why I always got the two album covers mixed up lol.
just an awesome fuckin' episode Hack!! and i really love when you have Mr. bad ass Pete Pardo and the reverant Mr. Popoff on your show for countdowns, rankings,etc.,etc. it makes the show a total package and total enjoyment so thank you brother for your love & passion for the music and the time you put into it!!! I comment on Pete's show quite often but i never say much about Martin but i do always try to thank him when commenting on SOT, well, i want to thank Martin again,especially for the books he's published over all these years, i have many of the older ones that have been around with what seems like forever but i have to say one of my absolute favorites is the Heavy Metal price guide he published years ago, i actually have collected vinyl records for jesus-40+ years? since i was a pre-teen, i'm 55yo so yeah-a good 40+ years and that book is one of my ultimate go-to resource books for looking up very rare and hard to find metal albums which just aren't in regular issues of Goldmine price guides, but one of the best parts of his Metal priceguide in his little band descriptions for each band-VERY cool and often reflect Martins awesome sense of humor, i HIGHLY recommend that book for any record collector and just music fans in general!! thanks Martin, and thank you again hack!! and you too brother Pete!!! all you gentlemen rock!!! \m/ \m/
Thanks so much!
My top 5
5. Let It Bleed (1969)
4. Exile On Main St. (1972)
3. Steel Wheels (1989)
2. Sticky Fingers (1971)
1. Some Girls (1978)
Love Dead Flowers. And Bitch is so good that even Hack‘s band covered it!
Also in agreement w/Pete : the Mick Taylor era is my favorite, (still love the many other records but....)
1. Sticky fingers
2. Some girls
3. Let it bleed
4. Exile
5. Tattoo you
The Brian Jones era,was well served by such iconic compilations like High Tide Green Grass & Darkly Through The Past. Perhaps not one solid album but if you took the best of Aftermath,Between The Buttons and Satanic Majesties Request..
Awesome , check out the boys from the 5150 show they rank all the tracks on a few Stones albums
Exile On Main St...... Imo, it's the best album ever by anybody. What a band overall.
5) Let It Bleed
4) Some Girls
3) Sticky Fingers
2) Exile On Mainstreet
1) It’s Only Rock n Roll
1. Sticky Fingers
2. Let It Bleed
3. It's Only Rock N Roll
4. Beggars Banquet
5. Some Girls
One of the first albums I bought- Out of Our Heads. I still have it- it’s a frequent visitor to the turntable. Satanic on cassette - played that hundreds of times. Sticky Fingers, Exile, Let it Bleed and Goats Head Soup- a tossup for number five.
5 Satanic Majesties
4 Beggars Banquet
3 Some Girls
2 Let It Bleed
1 Sticky Fingers
Exile is the alternate #5.
Everything before Goats Head Soup . Goats Head Soup album is also good . Aftermath is my favourite.
I grew-up during the 80s so Start Me Up was my first introduction to The Rolling Stones. The Stones are also one of the few bands that's been around forever. It's one of the reasons I like them. One problem I have w/The Stones is that they've could've made fewer albums; therefore, they could have more that were killer and less filler. Some Girls is one Stones album that happens to be multi-platinum. I'm not sure about the rest. Anyway, it funny you have your top five because there are only five Stones albums I like. I've tried Beggars Banquet, Exile On Main St., Voodoo Lounge and Bridges to Babylon and I couldn't get into any of them. However, here are the five I do have and can listen to at least half or more:
1. Some Girls - Part of a three album stretch that I call their New York period. I happen to like every song on this album, even the goofy country one. The standouts for me are When the Whip Comes Down, Miss You, Shattered and Beast of Burden.
2. Steel Wheels - This is the first Stones album I liked and owned. I like almost every song on this album. The standouts for me are Mixed Emotions, Terrifying, Rock and a Hard Place, Sad, Sad Sad and Break the Spell.
3. Tatoo You - Three of my favorite Stones songs are on this album, Start Me Up, Hang Fire and Waiting on a Friend. It took me awhile to like about half of this album.
4. Emotional Rescue - Someone described this as Some Girls B-Sides and they're correct. It's not as good but still enjoyable.
5. Sticky Fingers - I like it but I don't love it. It's one of the few classic Rolling Stones albums I can listen to all the way through w/out skipping a song.
BTW Pete: It's too bad you weren't a Stones fan in '89. It's the one concert I regret missing partly because I was a fan of the Steel Wheels album and partly because I wanted to see Living Color. At least you weren't too drunk to appreciate Living Color🤣🤣
Exile
Girls
Sticky
Beggars
Bleed
Would have included Let It Bleed somewhere in top 5
AFTERMATH=Brian Jones Epic Era!!!
I love the mick taylor stuff. I just can never get into Goats Head. Some stuff is really good but its not what i listen to from the Stones. I love Black and blue more then most people. Heres my 5 . 1) Exile 2)let it bleed 3) black and blue 4) sticky fingers 5) tattoo you . Honerable mentions .1) beggars banquet 2) its only rock and roll . Tied with Some Girls
1. Exile On Main Street 2. Sticky Fingers 3. Beggars Banquet 4. Let It Bleed 5. Tattoo You
1. Exile
2. Voodoo
3. Some Girls
4. Tattoo You
5. Beggars
What I never understood in these rankings, especially of bands with such a huge catalogue: is it allowed to pick your top 5 if you just know half of the albums? Sometimes I think I am the only stupid one not knowing all albums well enough to have an opinion on them or not knowing them at all. Great video, great band!
I go back and listen to the entire catalog for all these shows. Thanks for watching. Cheers
@@GuitarHack66 Sure, if you are really familiar with the whole catalogue you can do that and it will become a true and honest ranking. But let‘s say you don’t really know an album and have listened to it only once right before such a show I don‘t think you can have an opinion on it that matters and shouldn’t include it in a ranking cause it is nothing but a first impression. Gotta invest A LOT of time to do this properly, really appreciate that.
@@wernermoritz882 Yes. It definitely takes a lot of time and multiple listens.
Yeah, Mick Taylor was so freaking good with ‘em boys. I really like this live version of Heartbreaker from 1973. In fact, everyone should listen to the Brussels Affair bootleg. I’ve never listened to a better live recording than that one. Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) live: ruclips.net/video/VKBqw2bT63A/видео.html
I never "got" the Exile thing. Such a disappointment when it came out, especially after the previous 5 or 6 records, and then the 4 or 5 that followed. I'll put it at #11, (and it might slip to #12 after a few more listens to Hackney).
I agree that Black n' Blue may be the best sounding Stones album, but to suggest that Beggars Banquet, Goats Head Soup or It's Only Rock n' Roll have great sound quality makes me wonder what you're listening on. The acoustic songs on Beggars are overly compressed (especially Parachute Woman and Jig Saw Puzzle), and Goat's and It's only R n' R have a dull lifeless sound throughout (listen to the drums - they have no snap, the cymbals have no ring). These albums always sound like my speakers are covered with towels.
It’s only rock and roll is self produced I believe and it is pretty thin sounding to me. Lacks punch and bite.
1. Sticky Fingers
2. Let It Bleed
3. Some Girls
4. Black and Blue
5. Aftermath
that's my top 5
aftermath between the buttons let it bleed sticky fingers some girls
I think Brian jones is the best musician the stones ever had
Tragic how forgotten the real leader of early Stones is, a travesty - Brian was a brilliant musician and musical mind, it was said he could pick up any instrument and learn to play it in minutes!
That intro is way too long...Get on with it!!
One of the most overrated bands in my opinion but millions disagree with me. They do deserve credit for there longevity though.
They've been around as long as I've been alive so they definitely deserve credit for that.
What is the best Rock‘n‘Roll band in your opinion? Serious question
@@wernermoritz882AC-DC or led zeppelin. But I prefer AC-DC especially the bon era and back in black.
@@martymartin2894 same with me, love the bon era, don‘t like the rest.
@@wernermoritz882 back in black is brilliant aswell I think. And I fully believe that bon had most of it written before he died, it has his lyric style all over it and they went totally down hill after that.
1. Exile on Main St.
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Beggars Banquet
4. Let It Bleed
5. Black and Blue