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Title: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by BrianRollingJones on Apr 6^th, 2017 at 9:37pm

What are Stones songs you feel deserve more recognition by the general public/more radioplay?

My picks:

Dance Little Sister (how this tune wasn't a hit is beyond me)
Play With Fire
Jigsaw Puzzle (loved by fans, not really recognized by the general public)
Hand of Fate
We Love You
Too Much Blood

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Edith Grove on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 6:20am

Has this ever been played live?:

https://youtu.be/q95DApyvm0Y

Anthony R. did a great job on this:

https://youtu.be/_Ms3Tvf7eLY

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by andrews27 on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 8:25am

Miss Amanda Jones. There's a whole TV show in those lyrics. Tell Dawn French I get points as a finder's fee.

"Crashing...but never a bore. The world of Amanda Jones." Send CV requests and showrunner offers through this website. (Gazza, if they bite, I'll send a donation.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j_VKkAYuCo

Down and down she goes
Our Amanda Jones
I said down and down and down and down
She'd look really lovely at home
Til somebody gonna come up and ask her
To live happily ever after, Miss Amanda Jones

On and on she goes
Little Miss Amanda Jones
I said on and on and on and on
Just watch her as she grows
Don't want to say it very obviously
But she's losing her nobility, Miss Amanda Jones

Hey girl don't you realize
The money invested in you
Hey girl you just got to find
Someone who'll really pull your family through

Up and up she goes
Our Amanda Jones
I said up and up and up and up
She looks quite delightfully stoned
She's the darling of the discotheque crowd
Of her lineage she's rightfully proud, Miss Amanda Jones

Hey girl with your nonsense nose
All pointing right down at the floor
Hey girl your suspender shows
And the girl behind you looks a bit unsure

Round and round she goes
The world of Amanda Jones
I said round and round and round and round
The balls and the dinners and shows
The little girl she just wanders about
Til it's time for her coming out, Miss Amanda Jones

Round and round and round
Round and round and round...

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Gazza on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 8:55am

You Can't Catch Me
Torn & Frayed
Almost Hear You Sigh
If I Was A Dancer

But most of all, this....because they didnt even put it on an album....the cynic in me believes it was probably because (for the first time) Ronnie would have had to be given a third of the royalties - which turned out to be a lot less on a US-only b-side than it would have been on album that sold about 10 million copies....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeccUuvp-qc

Never forget that the Stones are more than a great rock n roll and blues band. When they turn their hands to something funky, they're hard to touch.

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Gazza on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 8:57am

Edith Grove wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 6:20am:

Has this ever been played live?:

https://youtu.be/q95DApyvm0Y

Anthony R. did a great job on this:

https://youtu.be/_Ms3Tvf7eLY

No. It hasnt. Its a song that seems to divide opinion very much. A lot of fans seem to really hate it. I think its the best song on that album and one of my favourite songs of theirs.

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Voodoo Child in Wonderland on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 9:10am

Let it loose

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by gimmekeef on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 1:06pm

It Aint Easy
Backstreet Girl
Think
Flight 505
Loving Cup
Gimmeshelter (yes it's that good to still be underrated)
Stray Cat Blues
Its All Over Now

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Paranoid Android on Apr 9^th, 2017 at 2:47pm

Winter (perfect in too many ways to describe)
Down In The Hole ( Always a fave...always thought this would be cool in an arena or club show)
Pretty Beat Up (as "funky" was mentioned earlier)
Sweet Black Angel
Cocksucker Blues
Ventilator Blues
and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRKAWWs8hUY

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Paranoid Android on Apr 10^th, 2017 at 6:17pm

Forgot to mention
HEY NEGRITA!
and Fingerprint File...Mick Taylor on bass is AWESOME!!

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Some Guy on Apr 10^th, 2017 at 6:38pm

I love you, dirty fucker
Sister and a brother
Moaning in the moonlight
Singing for your supper
Cause I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it I had it I had it with you
You always seem to haunt me
Always try to haunt me
Serving out injunctions
Shouting out instructions
But I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it I had it I had it with you
And I love you with a passion
In and out of fashion
Always got behind you
When other tried to blind you
But I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it I had it I had it with you
It is such a sad thing
To watch a good love die
I've had it up to here babe
I've got to say goodbye
Cause I had it I had it I had it with you
And I had it I had it I had it with you
Loved you in the lean years
Loved you in the fat ones
You're a mean mistreater
You're a dirty dirty rat scum
I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it I had it I had it with you
I had it with you
I had it with you
I had it with you

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Paranoid Android on Apr 10^th, 2017 at 6:44pm

What SomeGuy said

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Mr. Yeats on Apr 12^th, 2017 at 6:51pm

Tell Me
Mona (tops Bo's original. not easy to do)
We Love You/Dandelion (both match the Beatles for that era)
I Got the Blues
Hide Your Love (such a heavy groove; Jagger's piano is first rate and Taylor's guitar brings out his best blues instincts)
Dance Little Sister
Memory Motel
Summer Romance (better than the similar rockers on 'Some Girls')
All the Way Down (shoulda been a classic: nastiness, pathos, jaunty rhythm)
Jump On Top of Me (shoulda been on 'Voodoo Lounge'; like All the Way Down - pathos, a cold look at time & mortality, and instead of nastiness, a sweetness and honest longing)

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Voodoo Child in Wonderland on Apr 12^th, 2017 at 7:09pm

Paranoid Android wrote on Apr 10^th, 2017 at 6:44pm:

What SomeGuy said

That he had it with you PA! Enough is enough LOL

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by The Wick on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 11:00am

Paranoid Android wrote on Apr 9^th, 2017 at 2:47pm:

Down In The Hole ( Always a fave...always thought this would be cool in an arena or club show)
Pretty Beat Up (as "funky" was mentioned earlier)

Love both and, true, they are both hugely underrated. Interestingly, both appear to be Ronnie Wood songs. He does an absolute monster version of Pretty Beat Up on one of his live albums from the Slide on This tour with Bernard Fowler singing. Actually, I think this is it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxB9f1V6b78

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Voodoo Child in Wonderland on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 3:50pm

We have so far 40 underrated songs and only two of them mentioned twice

2 Dance Little Sister (how this tune wasn't a hit is beyond me)
2 We Love You/Dandelion (both match the Beatles for that era)
1 All the Way Down (shoulda been a classic: nastiness, pathos, jaunty rhythm)
1 Almost Hear You Sigh
1 Backstreet Girl
1 Cocksucker Blues
1 Down In The Hole ( Always a fave...always thought this would be cool in an arena or club show)
1 Everything is turning to gold
1 Fingerprint File...Mick Taylor on bass is AWESOME!!
1 Flight 505
1 Gimmeshelter (yes it's that good to still be underrated)
1 Hand of Fate
1 HEY NEGRITA!
1 Hide Your Love (such a heavy groove; Jagger's piano is first rate and Taylor's guitar brings out his best blues instincts)
1 Hip Shake (Shake your hips)
1 I Got the Blues
1 I had it with you
1 If I Was A Dancer
1 It Aint Easy
1 Its All Over Now
1 Jigsaw Puzzle (loved by fans, not really recognized by the general public)
1 Jump On Top of Me (shoulda been on 'Voodoo Lounge'; like All the Way Down - pathos, a cold look at time & mortality, and instead of nastiness, a sweetness and honest longing)
1 Let it Loose
1 Loving Cup
1 Memory Motel
1 Miss Amanda Jones
1 Mona (tops Bo's original. not easy to do)
1 Play With Fire
1 Pretty Beat Up (as "funky" was mentioned earlier)
1 Stray Cat Blues
1 Summer Romance (better than the similar rockers on 'Some Girls')
1 Sweet Black Angel
1 Tell Me
1 Think
1 Too Much Blood
1 Torn & Frayed
1 Ventilator Blues
1 Where the boys go
1 Winter (perfect in too many ways to describe)
1 You Can't Catch Me

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Voodoo Child in Wonderland on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 3:51pm

BTW... that could be a great compilation

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Voodoo Child in Wonderland on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 3:54pm

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 1:06pm:

Gimmeshelter (yes it's that good to still be underrated)

Agree 250% that sould be the anthem of rock

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by The Wick on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 4:42pm

In addition to many of those mentioned:

1. Plundered My Soul
2. Let Me Go
3. No Use In Crying
4. The Worst
5. Sleep Tonight
6. Yesterday's Papers
7. Continental Drift
8. Highwire
9. Indian Girl
10. Wish I'd Never Met You/Fancyman Blues/ Cook Cook Blues

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Paranoid Android on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 5:50pm

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 12^th, 2017 at 7:09pm:

Paranoid Android wrote on Apr 10^th, 2017 at 6:44pm:

What SomeGuy said

That he had it with you PA! Enough is enough LOL

;D ;D ;D ;D

And Yes!
A great compilation...a true "rarities" and off beat...the name of this collection?

The Rolling Stones
Torn & Frayed!

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Mr. Yeats on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 6:17pm

The Wick wrote on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 4:42pm:

In addition to many of those mentioned:

1. Plundered My Soul
2. Let Me Go
3. No Use In Crying
4. The Worst
5. Sleep Tonight
6. Yesterday's Papers
7. Continental Drift
8. Highwire
9. Indian Girl
10. Wish I'd Never Met You/Fancyman Blues/ Cook Cook Blues

Two excellent calls there, mate.

"Sleep Tonight" is probably my fave Richards ballad (must have the Ian Stewart piano bit at the end though), and I can't imagine why "Highwire" wasn't a big hit. That mofo's got serious teeth. Should be re-released with every new war - that way it'd be permanently in the charts.

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by sirmoonie on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 8:52pm

Think I'm Going Mad - just a beautiful song. Most of us probably didn't even know it existed until we spent some time on Stones boards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyurmoSsiSw

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Mr. Yeats on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 10:45pm

sirmoonie wrote on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 8:52pm:

Think I'm Going Mad - just a beautiful song. Most of us probably didn't even know it existed until we spent some time on Stones boards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyurmoSsiSw

Nice one, Moonie. A really great track, should've been on 'Emotional Rescue'.

I discovered it in '83 as the b-side of "She Was Hot" (another great underrated tune) on this groovy lil piece of plastic:

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by leonid on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 11:12pm

Through The Lonely Nights is a good one. Should have been on the album.
:smilemick

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Mr. Yeats on Apr 14^th, 2017 at 12:50am

leonid wrote on Apr 13^th, 2017 at 11:12pm:

Through The Lonely Nights is a good one. Should have been on the album.
:smilemick

Another fave of mine; it would have been the best ballad on 'IORR' or even 'Goats Head Soup' (it was recorded during those sessions, with Jimmy Page on acoustic).

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by gimmekeef on Apr 14^th, 2017 at 7:13am

I'm Goin Down

https://youtu.be/GfUQeVfT7dI

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 14^th, 2017 at 9:18pm

Start Me Up. They never play that one.

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by WaiteringOnAFiend on Apr 15^th, 2017 at 12:35am

Gotta Get Away
Hey Kneegrater
Think I'm Goin' Mayd
and

Presumably they are - individually or otherwise - in studios currently / at this very mo, conjuring up further palatable groove-concoctions.
Any information on what sort of trousers Keith was wearing in Germane Studios recently?
Is it flat-out and testicles to the carpet?

Title: Re: Most underrated Stones songs?
Post by Heart Of Stone on Apr 15^th, 2017 at 5:21am

It's Not Easy.
Winter.
Look What You've Done.
The Under assistant West Coast Promotion Man.
19th Nervous Breakdown.
Just a few, there's so many.