Hey yall! I used to post a bit on this forum 4 or so years ago, and have lost my log-in info so I made a new account. (I was involved in a CD exchange of sorts I remember, where I was a seed, and kind of messed it up a bit) Either way, LONG time stones fan.

Anyway, I'm doing a little personal project and would love some input from you guys. Basically I'm organizing my favourite stones songs into four categories, of which I believe pretty much every single stones songs can be placed into. The categories are a bit broad but they go something like this: Love Songs, Songs about Girls, Stones and the World Outside, and Stones Within. VERY broad I know, but hear me out.

Distinction between love songs and girl songs may seem a bit unclear, but I believe its there. Songs about girls are mainly Mick Jagger influenced, semi-sexist, womanizing, badass tunes about girls, and how they "come and go" into his/the band's life. Song's ive put into this category are:
1.        Lets Spend the Night Together
2.        Honky Tonk Women
3.        Stupid Girl
4.        Factory Girl
5.        Stray Cat Blues
6.        She’s So Cold
7.        Out of Time
8.        Star Star
9.        Mona
10.        Carol
11.      Some Girls
12.      Brown Sugar
13.      She Said Yeah
14.      Miss Amanda Jones
15.      Complicated
16.         Dead Flowers
17.         Under My Thumb

Love songs are different because I believe they focus on the relationship between the two people. Things I've put here are:
1.      Connection
2.      Angie
3.      Dear Doctor
4.      Ruby Tuesday
5.      Anybody Seen My Baby
6.      Let It Loose
7.      Winter
8.      Aint Too Proud To Beg
9.      Love in Vain
10.       Mercy Mercy
11.       Honest I Do
12.       Miss You
13.       Beast of Burden

Stones and The World Outside are simply a collection of songs about current culture, history, their lives growing up, their experiences, their take on life, things like that. Lots of Keith Richards influence here:

1.      Time Waits for Noone
2.      Sympathy for the Devil
3.      Street Fighting Man
4.      Salt of The Earth
5.      Mother’s Little Helper
6.      Gimme Shelter
7.       Paint it Black
9.      Ventilator Blues


And the last category is Stones Within, basically songs about the band, their lives, touring, drugs, things like that:

1.      Prodigal Son
2.      Fool To Cry
3.      Moonlight Mile
4.      Shine a Light
5.      Sister Morphine
6.      YCAGWYW
7.       Out of Control
8.      Waiting on a Friend
9.      Monkey Man
10.    Before They Make me Run
11.    Wild Horses
12.    Moonlight Mile


I'm just looking for input from you experts, to see what you think I should adjust, if maybe I'm way of in some places, or things I can add. What I'm doing is introducing a friend to the stones, and because listening to albums (although the best method) is an overwhelming way to dive into the stones, I figured I'd make my own 4 CD set. I pretty much hate all the stones collections out there, and how they categorize their music. it's very amateur most of the time.

Bitch wrote on Jan 9^th, 2011 at 5:45pm:


'Worried About You', like several songs, is written as a man/woman song, but is multi-layered in that it's also probably written about Mick and Keiths own relationship - a la 'All About You', 'Party Doll', 'Waiting on a Friend', 'Sweethearts Together' .

Nice to see you postin' again, Branko. Welcome back.

So how is this project going, I find your concept very interesting.
And since we have no Tour to talk about I personally, I starting thinking about this and  hope to give you my ideas soon.
Would love to keep this thread going................

stonedinaustralia wrote on Jan 19^th, 2011 at 12:36am:


Now that the kind of analyzing, I was talking about...and yes this makes sense it's not all Love, sex, etc., songs!
Songs about boy meets girl, they do the deed and fall in love, are pretty boring.......the Stones are not boring!
When you take away the music and strip the song down to the words.....you got mental illness! That's great! I love this place.

I think you've got something there, B!

I imagine you've been thinking about this for a while now.