1494 - Rolling Stones Rocks Off 1972

"Exile on Main St." has become generally regarded as the Rolling Stones' finest album. Part of the reason why the record was initially greeted with hesitant reviews is that it takes a while to assimilate. A sprawling, weary double album encompassing rock & roll, blues, soul, and country, "Exile" doesn't try anything new on the surface, but the substance is new. Taking the bleakness that underpinned "Let It Bleed" and "Sticky Fingers" to an extreme, "Exile" is a weary record, and not just lyrically. Jagger's vocals are buried in the mix, and the music is a series of dark, dense jams, with Keith Richards and Mick Taylor spinning off incredible riffs and solos. "Rocks Off" is the opening track. Written and recorded at Villa Nellcôte, a house Keith Richards rented in the south of France during the summer and autumn of 1971. Overdubs and final mixing for the song were later done at Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, California between December 1971 and March 1972. The lyrics to the song are wide-ranging, harsh and brutally frank at times; as in Richards obviously referring to an injection of heroin: “I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed. Plug in, flush out and fire the fuckin' feed. Heading for the overload, Splattered on the dirty road, Kick me like you've kicked before, I can't even feel the pain no more". ” The song features a sudden divergence near the two minute fifteen second mark into what has been called a psychedelic jam of sorts, with Jagger's vocals electronically distorted and the guitar chords stretched: “Feel so hypnotised, can't describe the scene. It's all mesmerised all that inside me”. Allmusic critic Jason Ankeny claims that the song "perfectly sets the mood for what's to follow -- murky, gritty, and menacingly raw, its strung-out incoherence captures the record's debauched brilliance with marble-mouthed eloquence."

1279 - The Rolling Stones Bitch 1971

"Bitch" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones from their 1971 album "Sticky Fingers". One of the more popular numbers on Sticky Fingers, "Bitch" had more than enough hooks to make it as a hit single, though it was only used as a B-side (to "Brown Sugar"). It has one of the catchiest, most powerful, and tightest riff ever conceived.

1123 - Rolling Stones I Just Want To Make Love To You 1964

The Rolling Stones recorded the song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters, with slightly modified lyrics, for their 1964 debut album The Rolling Stones (titled England's Newest Hit Makers in the US) and released the song as the b-side to "Tell Me" in America.

1090 - Rolling Stones Hot Stuff 1976

"Hot Stuff" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones off their 1976 album Black and Blue.
"Hot Stuff", written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, was recorded in March 1975 during the Black and Blue sessions, and is heavily influenced by the disco/funk sounds of the day, with Charlie Watts laying down a heavy drum pattern accompanied by Ollie Brown on percussion, Bill Wyman adding a funky bassline, and extensive use of the MXR Phase 100 pedal by both Keith Richards and the Wah-wah pedal by guest guitarist Harvey Mandel, formerly of Canned Heat. Mandel plays the lead guitar parts on the song and was one of the guitarists in consideration for replacing the departed Mick Taylor's slot as the Stones' lead guitarist, a position eventually filled by Ron Wood. Billy Preston plays piano on the recording.

996 - Rolling Stones Wild Horses 1971

"Wild Horses" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1971 album "Sticky Fingers", written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Jagger states, "Everyone always says this was written about Marianne but I don't think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally".

926 - Rolling Stones Connection 1967

"Connection" was featured on the band´s 1967 album "Between the Buttons". It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (but mostly Richards) and featured vocals by both of them and is said to be about the long hours the band spent in airports. The lyrics contain much rhyming based on the word "connection." The lyrics also reflect very heavily the pressures the band was under by 1967:

“My bags they get a very close inspection,
I wonder why it is that suspect on,
They're dying to add me to their collection,
And I don't know, If they'll let me go"

888 - Rolling Stones Under My Thumb 1966

The song´s first appearance was as an album track on 1966's "Aftermath", and though it was never released as a single, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the period, appearing frequently on best-of compilations. It was also recorded by The Who in 1967. Jagger's lyrics celebrate the satisfaction of finally having controlled and gained leverage over a previously pushy, dominating woman. The lyrics, which savor the successful "taming of the shrew" and compare the woman in question to a "pet", a "cat" and a "squirming dog" provoked negative reactions among some listeners.

853 - Rolling Stones Paint it Black 1966

The release "Aftermath" in the late spring of 1966 was the first Rolling Stones album to be composed entirely of Jagger/Richards songs. Jones' contribution was also at its all time height, with his command of exotic instruments greatly adding to the band's sound. The American version of the LP included the chart-topping, Middle Eastern-influenced "Paint It Black".

834 - Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash 1968

The Rolling Stones spent the first few months of 1968 working on material for their next album. Those sessions resulted in the song "Jumpin' Jack Flash", released as a single in May. The song, and later that year the resulting album, "Beggars Banquet", marked the band's return to their blues roots with and the beginning of their collaboration with producer Jimmy Miller.

664 - Rolling Stones Angie 1973

In November 1972, the Rolling Stones began sessions in Kingston, Jamaica for their follow-up to Exile, "Goats Head Soup". The album spawned the worldwide hit "Angie
This is a rare ballad for the band. Most of their material at the time was hard and aggressive. In the US, this was the only ballad that hit #1 for The Stones. Jaggercommented: "People began to say that song was written about David Bowie's wife but the truth is that Keith wrote the title. He said, "Angie". And I think it was to do with his daughter. She's called Angela. And then I just wrote the rest of it".