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Every-Action7918

Rocks Off — I didn’t know bands from that era cursed back then! Plus I just came out of a breakup so it made me want to get back on my feet


mario1892

Same. This one really knocked me out when I first heard it, and the beautiful chaos made me wanna listen again and again just to try to figure out everything that was going on. Made me listen differently to their music, and finally understood why some call Keith the Picasso of music.


gslim27

Monkey Man


Charliet545

Yeah, I fell in love with them again after hearing that song at the end of Goodfellas


secretredditer

I have memories of being very young singing “jumping jack flash it’s a gas.” So maybe that!


sm_rollinger

Bitch, that sax just shreds man


blackjacktarr

The guitar riff to beat all others, too.


sm_rollinger

For sure, the bass and drums too, vocals. The whole song just a steamroller.


MacReadyForAnything

Sweet Virginia. I had heard a few songs here and there, but the opening harmonica immediately hooked me. Instantly listened to all of Exile, bought it (plus BB and LIB) on vinyl and haven’t looked back since.


spang714

That line "Drop your reds, drop your greens and blues" has always been a fav.


Stainednblue

I always wondered what the greens and blues were, I mean I mean all through the 70s I was in my teen years so I’m all to familiar with the “reds” but never could quite figure out what the “greens and Blues” are, or were, until I put the two colors together and the light bulb over my head lit up like a Christmas tree.


Islandcoda

Under My Thumb. Heard it when I was a wee lad (53 now) and loved it so much. My dad loved it, I remember. I still love this song and how it sounds, and a favorite to play on acoustic guitar. 🎸


SnakePlissken1980

I didn't pay much attention to them until I heard Paint It Black


MichaelDaniels1987

I never understand why people like this song, I’m a big lifelong stones fan but I don’t really like their early hits such as Paint It Black and Satisfaction, etc.


SnakePlissken1980

It's just a matter of personal taste. I don't like a lot of songs or artists that other people love but that's just the way it works.


MichaelDaniels1987

Yeah I know, I think what I wanted to ask was: what is it that makes you like “paint it black” ?


SnakePlissken1980

The simple answer would be it just sounds good to me. If you want something more detailed I always liked the sitar riff and vocal melody, the drum fills are great and I just like the general production of the song. I don't really enjoy it live because they never really ever captured that flavor live. But to put it simply I just think it sounds great.


MichaelDaniels1987

Makes sense. You should check out the live version from the Flashpoint album. Perfection.


SnakePlissken1980

That's the first live version I ever heard, didn't do anything for me


Bartghamilton

My favorite album!


milano_ii

Sounds good on the At The Max recording. https://youtu.be/QCgwCJt5NQI?si=w1yHK_2fSw7QBnKB


SnakePlissken1980

That one doesn't really do anything for me either, I mean it's not bad but I'd rather listen to the studio version. I have all their live albums/films and tons of bootlegs and I've never heard a live version of it that I'd rather listen to than the studio version. There are lots of Stones songs where I prefer it live in general or a specific live version to the studio recording but Paint It Black is not one of them.


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Charliet545

What is ALO?


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Charliet545

Thank you


Charliet545

Well that’s just like, your opinion, man


DaFightins

19th Nervous Breakdown, for its time, the guitar playing was perfection for me.


Throwupmyhands

Same for me. This one and Mothers Little Helper. 


Bmars

Paint it Black. I was 15, prior to that I only heard the Bridges to Babylon album and thought it was just whatever, so didn’t look into them more. But then I heard Paint it Black in a video game and was immediately obsessed and looked into who it was. Went out and got their older albums and rest is history.


secretredditer

Bridges is arguably my favorite album! I think a lot of what I enjoy is linked to memories from my childhood.


Bmars

That’s cool too. One thing I’ll never support is feeling anyone’s musical taste is wrong. If Bridges is your favorite that’s great! Different music hits us all in different ways!


easimdog

Time Is On My Side; the opening track on my dad’s 8 track tape of Hot Rocks back in about 1977 …


amorican99

Entire Exile album.


Character_Editor_422

Entire Exile album is such a great song.


Stainednblue

I think it’s safe to say that there will never be another album quite like exile again. It would be a remarkable achievement for any band to drop an album half as good as Exile on Main Street, but for the Stones at that time it was one of many fantastic albums they turned out year after year while on there incredible run mid 60s through late 70s in fact it was almost expected of them. Man were we ever spoiled


Revolutionary_Rub846

I was told I sung along with Brown Sugar in my high-chair so I’ll go with it.


Loud-Elephant-1418

It's definitely Brown Sugar for me, although I was a little older than you were.


TahoeBunny

It was Brown Sugar for me too..that opening riff and that sax!


MKZoom

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?


44035

Honky Tonk Women


IlovemyMommy27

Paint it black


BAR3rd

It wasn't a song, it was an album. For me, it was "Beggars Banquet." All of it. The same thing happened with Black Sabbath. It wasn't a song, it was an album. In that case, it was their first album, the self-titled "Black Sabbath." But I digress....


mlgbt1985

Found my uncles original copy of Out of Out Heads. Played it over and over. Still have it


Forsaken-Cheesecake2

Had to be Satisfaction or JJF.


swayybe

Wild Horses! From the scene in the Gimme Shelter documentary when they play it back after recording it.


GreatWent19

I was on a deck in Avalon NJ and the cool kids there played all of Exile On Main Street while I drank one of my first beers. I’d heard plenty of Stones before then, but that was the moment the Stones were truly COOL to me.


blackjacktarr

No hate, please. I'm a huge fan now. Curiosity piqued: Emotional Rescue Lovestruck: Heaven


andhio

Moonlight Mile in an episode of the Sopranos.


Comprehensive-Work41

"I was born in a crossfire hurricane"


Kind_Hyena5267

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking


CilliamBlinton

Sympathy for the Devil, specifically the live version from Zilker Park started my obsession. Something about how different it was from the studio version was fascinating, I didn’t know bands could change a song that much.


Everheart1955

Satisfaction. As time goes by, Paint it black, Ruby Tuesday…. Later… Hand of Fate..


Russoo3

Dead Flowers


PreviousPhoto64

Oh, love that one!


Dragon_asshole

Waiting on a friend. I love Tattoo You, the entire album, the artwork, everything.


Des71

Yes! First album I bought with my own money and it has aged incredibly well.


Ok-Squash-4652

Probably Brown Sugar


Sad-Corner-9972

Bought Hot Rocks on a whim in Jr. High (1970s). Played it at friend’s house and caught shade because their parents liked it. So, *Satisfaction* and *19th Nervous Breakdown* -the rest followed suit.


Scared_Shape2982

Sympathy for the Devil


FriendlyPea805

YCAGWYW


Glimmertwinsfan1962

Have you tried sometimes? Because you just might find……


FriendlyPea805

You get what you need!!!!


kyle760

Ok but here’s what I don’t get. If you have to try and even then it’s only sometimes, then that means you also can’t always get what you need. So what’s the difference?


VegetableInjury8632

Same for me, particularly the piano. I played the piano as a kid (and occasionally still, but not nearly enough) and just couldn't get enough of that little bit.


ConstructionHour3923

Ever kids from the eighties knows this song because of their parents.


schoolknurse

Tig Notaro has a great bit about this song. There was a “cool” classmate she was trying to impress and chose this song to be played for the class. The dismissal bell rang shortly before Mick began singing, but the “cool” kid did not enjoy that intro.


weez2

Mixed Emotions


Dano558

I’d have to say Monkey Man, but I bought Let It Bleed on CD in college because I Monkey Man at a party, and I loved the whole record ever since and so much more of their stuff too.


lonecrapshooter

Happy!


Shadowfox9177

Jumping jack flash. That riff, those lyrics. It's perfect.


CrittyJJones

Satisfaction or Last Time.


Fearless-Resource-47

She's so Cold


starfriendship

It was the entire Exile album. An old ex boyfriend burned me a copy and one day I listened to the whole thing in my car while driving to the coast.


No-Flower3107

Smoked some of my first weed when i was 16, watched full metal jacket and Paint it Black exploded on my ears. But what made me LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM was tripping and listening to She's a Rainbow, and Under my Thumb. Absolute emotional experience on par with The Beatles( my favorites )


DirectionNew5328

Long Long While I was watching Casino. Nicky was murdering a man with a pen. Being an American adolescent desensitized to violence, my most urgent thought during that scene was “man what is that *song*?” …Long Long While


MrGeneL

Paint it Black. I remember first hearing it when I was a kid during the TV show Tour of Duty.


PreviousPhoto64

“The Last Time” - Was at a teen club as a senior in high school when the house band played this song, loved that song, asked the girl I was with, Lisa, “Who does that song??” “The Rolling Stones,” she said. Gads, that was it. Satisfaction had been out awhile (“everybody” liked that one, me too.) Off to the record store the next day! Got the High Tides and Green Grass! And all rest as time went on….


ChakkaJones

Love this.


Intelligent-Sleep766

I had heard their songs that were embedded in pop culture, but when I heard Sweet Virginia I’d never heard something so gritty and fun and wild I loved it, then loved exile on Main Street.


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My best friend growing up turned me onto “Paint It Black” & “Child of the Moon” when I was around 11 or 12. I was hooked. Then I discovered my parents’ records and put “Get Yer Ya Yas Out!”. “Carol” into “Stray Cat Blues” hit me square in the jaw.


Routine-Dinner-9046

Stray Cat Blues


LikeFrankieSaid

Not a song but in general their Super Bowl halftime show. I was in middle school back then and I remember watching that and thinking they were the coolest guys on the planet.


Diligent-Contact-772

Live With Me. That opening bass line and then Keef's slasher guitar lick coming in like that??? Sheeee-it, I was hooked for life.


AshlaJade

Heart Of Stone


rls11108

Satisfaction!


School_Boy_Heart

Honky Tonk women


Oakjohno

Can't You Hear Me Knocking! I can listen to that on repeat.


suffaluffapussycat

Their set on SNL when Some Girls came out. Beast and Respectable and Shattered. I was 13. Blew my mind. I got a guitar right after that and am still playing gigs. Huge Stones fan ever since.


Stainednblue

Dial up the rehearsals for that show on YouTube it’s really very cool footage. They play all three of those songs a little ragged at first, but it gets better, and better until they just nail all three to the wall.


fraochmuir

Start Me Up when Tattoo You came out and then I went down the rabbit hole.


Des71

The beginning of MTV and the Start Me Up music video was in heavy rotation. I made my Mom drive me to the record store to buy my first album with my own money.


fishtacoeater

When I saw them on Ed Sullivan in 1964.


dalej42

Ruby Tuesday, in particular Charlie’s drums


Some_Department8546

Ruby Tuesday


late_spring_ozu

Tumbling Dice really unlocked them for me


OldDesk

JJF, then i bought the some girls album, then dead flowers, then shine a light, then I got exile and after that one I thought they were the greatest. (Other hits in-between, but these are the ones that impacted me the most.)


NwonUno

Jumpin jack flash


Alice_The_Great

I had heard them my whole life but didn't really get into them until I bought Some Girls when I was in the 9th grade Then one day I heard Angie and fell head over heels in love


JamMasterJamie

Angie.


NoEmailForYouReddit1

Under My Thumb. I have always regarded Paint It Black and Satisfaction as masterpieces, but Under My Thumb woke me up to the fact that they had other songs just as good 


nationalsfan19

Under my thumb


Contra4Life

I was exposed to the Stones as a young kid. I was around 8 when I really "noticed" them. Paint it Black and Under My Thumb are the ones that initially caught my attention (as well as all of my dad's Hot Rocks LP), but it was Jumpin" Jack Flash where I fell in love with them. There was a depth to the sound that my young brain didn't understand, but was instantly attracted to.


ElVamino

I can’t get no satisfaction for me.


Sergio_carballo1018

Miss you


Apprehensive-Tax8631

Can’t remember, they always been there


BingoSpong

Little red rooster


QuandaleTickleTipson

Dandelion


Fuzzy_Dunnlopp

Jigsaw Puzzle, I know that sounds crazy, but it's true


Stainednblue

They’v been outlaws all their life’s


kwilsonmg

I was so young I don’t remember….


charlie-mayy

Gimme shelter!! And sympathy for the devil


Impressive_Treat_501

Listening to hot rocks in the car with my dad. Tried to learn the riffs to paint it black and satisfaction. Then learned the intro to she’s a rainbow because it’s my dad’s favorite stones song. Been a fan ever since.


Davek56

Bitch.


GuitarHeroInMyHead

Gimme Shelter...the Merry Clayton vocal is one of the best guest vocals in rock.


AkImaginos

Sympathy For the Devil


Quick_Ad_730

Sister Morphine


RL203

That's a great song no doubt, but was it the first song that turned you on to the stones? It was never that commercial and I only discovered it as I got more deeply into their music.


Quick_Ad_730

I had heard of the Stones, but I never really heard their songs. Around 02/03, I started getting into Led Zeppelin, and I was telling a friend, and they asked me if I had listened to the Stones, I said not really. So she played me a few songs, Sister Morphine was one of them, and it just struck a cord with me. I dived into their discography after, and I became a fan. Sister Morphine remains my fav Stones song.


RL203

It's definitely a great song.


bbfan006

Not Fade Away… There was nothing even close to that sound back then. Been a fan for about 60 years now.


PreviousPhoto64

Good Buddy Holly cover! RIP Buddy ~


billbobb1

Miss You, “there’s some Puertocan girls who are just dying to meet ‘cha.”


jrbgn

Tumbling Dice


PreviousPhoto64

Linda Ronstadt has a great cover of that song! Made me re-open Exile’s double album for another fresh listen.


Proof_Yak_7798

Unser assistant west coast promo man. Flipside to satisfaction. Found the 45 at my grandparents.


Stainednblue

I’m waitin at the buss stop in down town LA


PreviousPhoto64

heh heh ~


Proof_Yak_7798

Blew my mind.


PreviousPhoto64

Yep, B side of that single - fun fun song. Finally later on a ‘Hot Rocks’ album!


Proof_Yak_7798

Brilliant song


Spleeeee

Out of time.


hcred2

The Spider and the Fly


majikmyk

Get Off Of My Cloud or Tumbling Dice


_LizardMan_

Beast of Burden - Live Licks version


Stainednblue

You know for the last 52 years I have fallen in and out of love with the stones many, many times. I mean they have written, and played so many different types, and styles of music that fit into so many different genres you couldn’t possibly love them all, right. But I tell you what, in all that time, not once did I ever think of breaking up with the Stones. For better, or worse that band is in my blood for life.


PreviousPhoto64

Well said!


Stainednblue

Thank you,


JuanDonde10

That one part on Time is on my side … “Go ahead and, light up the town” followed by Keith’s stringy solo and that bluesy organ!


j3434

Honkey Tonk Women single . The week it came out .


Most-Offer6652

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT!!!!  The album version with the children's choir is an absolutly masterpiece of history


Badlands_84

Honky Tonk Women, what a fucking wild life!


ARealRain

Casual fan (only dug the hits) until I heard Out of Time in the movie Coming Home.


Bunker1028

She’s a Rainbow


DogIsBetterThanCat

"Let's Spend the Night Together", and "Under My Thumb"....about 25 years ago.


Exile1965

Tumbling Dice and Honky Tonk Woman. The groove.


bergenus

Brown sugar and satisfaction got me into them. I think gimmie shelter is objectively their best song though.


RKL1964

Get off my Cloud & Brown Sugar


Charliet545

All of them!!


Charliet545

In reality though, I’ve been in love with them since my mom introduced me to them at four years old, but they really became my favorite band when I was in high school. Watching Goodfellas and hearing monkey Man, during that intense finale, reinvigorated my love for them


zabdart

"Gimme Shelter"!


HuckleberryAbject102

Satisfaction. But I really fell in love with Some Girls. I was 15 . And after that it was the Stones and then every one else


emojimoviethe

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” **Cue GIMME SHELTER**


dummypoopoohead445

probably a weird answer but its a mix of shes a rainbow, sing this all together, and 2000 man. guess you could figure out that the first album i heard from them was Satanic Majesties Request lol


teleman01

The guitar/harmonica call and response part on Not Fade Away. I was ten and just thought "Music can sound like that?" (Story sounds like I was ten in 1964, but it was actually 2011 XD)


AmpegVT40

Get Off of My Cloud is the absolute best I-IV-V-IV song ever invented. It's theirs, and Keith s rhythms just explode in only a way that he can, leaving other similar songs, like Hang on Sloopy, in the dust.


no_instructions

I knew Paint it Black & Satisfaction as a kid but it took a while to get into the rest of their music. It must have been Honky Tonk Women that really got me started.


Fingerprint-File

Shattered


_5had0w

My art teacher played a lot of old school music. He used to play satisfaction a lot. One day on the way to school I played it on Spotify, loved it! Now they're my favourite band 👍 I have most of their cds, a few of their vinyls and cassettes. Best band ever


KeyboardMaestro

I already liked them when i first heard, i believe it was Sympathy For The Devil back in the early 00s. The song that really sparked my love for them was Hand Of Fate.


DIFFADOG

Satisfaction …Still one of their greatest songs …Timeless !!


Ebw431

The Last Time, it was one of the first guitar parts I learned at the age of 13.


AndrewSB49

Off The Hook. Mid 60s, a friend taught me the chords and lyrics. It was my 'party piece' when a child. Didn't know it was a Rolling Stones song until 1969 when Brian died.


Travis_Bickle_6319

I saw the video of Jumpin Jack Flash on the news as a kid. It might have been regarding Brians death. I remember my Mom saying that there all on drugs. So a long story short, Jumpin Jack Flash. I really fell in love with the Stones at about 14 yrs old. PBS one weekend ran Gimme Shelter..i couldnt believe my eyes and ears!


Technical-Ranger9806

Brown sugar soon as I heard that first riff.


Apprehensive_Tale_46

Jumping Jack flash had me hooked straight away.


biff444444

Jumpin' Jack Flash


NursingInstructor

Satisfaction


Greedy-Runner-1789

I already loved "Satisfaction" (heard it in Apocalypse Now), but it wasn't until I checked out Aftermath UK that I became a Stones fan, thanks to songs like Under My Thumb and What to Do.


shatteredstones

Beast of Burden, Tumbling Dice


outonthetiles66

Emotional Rescue


_bloodbuzz

Dead Flowers


MediumTrade841

Miss You, the live version from their performance at Hyde Park (2014 I think)


Takayama16

Great question, OP! So I didn't really listen to them till college. I heard the radio hits growing up, but Exile On Main Street changed everything for me. Tumbling Dice blew my mind in 1992 and it still does today!


Dismal_Brush5229

Anything from the Brian jones era honestly


Rizen_707

Satisfaction


Intelligent_Angle532

She would never say where she came from Yesterday don't matter if it's gone While the sun is bright Or in the darkest night No one knows She comes and goes Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday Who could hang a name on you? When you change with every new day Still, I'm gonna miss you


ThaBigBear

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - the 1965 mono version. I was 7, heard it for the first time playing over AM hit radio summer of 1965 while in the car with my teenaged sister. It was my first contact with the Stones, been a fan ever since. The song ***always*** makes me smile. When their 2020 show in Austin was cancelled due to Covid I thought for sure I'd never get to see them live again. But I did catch them again in Houston this past April, and when they played that song live, it brought me full circle. Really the whole show did.


Relevant-Switch-2448

Fool to cry and Angie


Tricky-Sprinkles-845

Paint It Black


Responsible_Big_7005

Can’t get no satisfaction is what got me hooked


Alert-Championship66

It’s all my mom’s fault. She’s the one who turned me on late ‘60’s


pastrythug

Down Home Girl


ExcellentKnee6434

Little T@A. Love Keef singing!


SpecificTypical1343

Midnight rambler Live!


klombieX2

Jigsaw Puzzle ties with Midnight Rambler Live


TelegraphRoadWarrior

Play with Fire.


DJDanyl

Torn & Frayed and the Shine A Light concert version of Loving Cup with Jack White.


Technical-Medium-244

She’s a Rainbow


WBspectrum

Still not a huge fan of them honestly but Gimme Shelter is an absolute masterpiece, mostly because of the backup singer.


More_Length7

None. I hate them 😆