Top 10 Rolling Stones Singles

Street Fighting Man

Street Fighting Man took the hard-driving, dangerous sound of Jumpin’ Jack Flash to a new level and raised the stakes with lyrics that do more than just allude to the political turmoil of the late 60s. It’s one of those Stones songs that somehow sounds like its time, and it makes the tame offerings from their contemporaries sound childish by comparison.

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Over the first half of 1968, the Stones set aside their psychedelic hijinks and, picking up on dark real-world developments, got dangerous again. Jumpin’ Jack Flash was recorded during the Beggar’s Banquet sessions, and it was a powerful preview of that great album—all fire, social turbulence, and hard blues.

She’s a Rainbow

The Stones’ psychedelic era, defined by the album Their Satanic Majesties Request, is usually given short shrift by rock historians, but I’m particularly fond of it. There are tons of great unheralded songs off that album (my favorite being the lyrically evocative “2000 Man”), but the main single, She’s a Rainbow, is one of the most beautifully orchestrated pieces of the mid-60s era.

Tumbling Dice

Both powerful yet laid-back boogie-woogie blues creation about gambling and women.

Journey to the centre of the earth

Angie

Heartbreaking tale of the end of a romance.

Get Off Of My Cloud

An anthem for mid-60s rebellion

Moonlight Mile

Atmospheric string-laden ballad from Sticky Fingers.
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