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The Rolling Stones – Rolling Stone Blues
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[Verse 1] / Well, I wish I was a catfish swimming in the deep blue sea / I'd have all you good looking women fishin' after me / Fishin' after me, fishin' after me / Oh well, oh
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Muddy Waters – Rollin' Stone
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[Verse 1] / Well, I wish I was a catfish swimming in a oh, deep, blue sea / I would have all you good looking women fishing, fishing after me / Sure enough, a-after me, sure enough
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The Rolling Stones – Like A Rolling Stone (Live 1995)
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[Spoken Word: Mick Jagger] / Thank you very much indeed. We're gonna do a song that Bob Dylan wrote for us. And we're very pleased to be doing it. This is, again, the first time we
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Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
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Dylan’s 1965 single “Like a Rolling Stone” is widely considered one of the greatest songs ever recorded. In 2004 the critics at Rolling Stone magazine (whose name was partly Dylan-
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The Rolling Stones – Miss You
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“Miss You” was released in 1978 as a single from the Some Girls album and peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Penned by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, this hit has been
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The Rolling Stones – Stray Cat Blues
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In this song, Mick seems to be inviting an underage girl to his place for fun and a potential threesome with her friend.
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The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
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“Gimme Shelter” is the opening track of the Rolling Stones’s 1969 album Let It Bleed (where it was actually spelled “Gimmie Shelter”, but the more accurate spelling was adopted
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The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
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Originally, Keith wrote “Wild Horses” as a simple lullaby for his son, finding it more and more difficult to part from Marlon to go on tour.
The song then took on a different
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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Rolling Stone is one of the leading music magazines today, and their list of the 500 “Greatest Songs” of all time is considered by them to be “the definitive list”. It was
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The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black
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From their 4th album, Aftermath. Per pophistorydig, the song is about the funeral of a girl from her lover’s viewpoint, and he wants the color of everything to match his mood.
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The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
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Recorded in 1969 in Muscle Shoals studios, Jagger wrote the riff to this one while filming Ned Kelly in Australia. The song appeared on Sticky Fingers and is a staple of the Stones
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The Rolling Stones – (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
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Despite the countless number of rock songs about lust, this one seems to stand out the most among critics and fans alike. Known for its timeless riff (which Keith Richards
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2012)
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This list was published online on May 31, 2012. It is a followup to the 2003 list of the same name.
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The Rolling Stones – Angry
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[Intro] / One, two, one, two, three, go / [Verse 1] / Don't get angry with me / I never caused you no pain / I won't be angry with you / But I can't see straight (Yeah) / It hasn't
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The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
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This song is sung in first person form, with Mick Jagger playing no one else but Satan himself. He documents events through history that could be seen as “works of the devil.” The
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Dion – I Read It (In the Rolling Stone)
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Well I've been shaking down the new style / For a word to use my song / Treatin' with the new man / I need to read my role / Man that's too hard / But I know I'm not alone / Yeah I
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003)
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Though a little outdated (created in 2003) and “weighted toward testosterone-fueled vintage rock,” Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of top 500 albums is a great start in documenting
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The Rolling Stones – Goin' Home
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[Verse 1] / Spending too much time away / I can't stand another day / Maybe you'd think I've seen the world / But I'd rather see my girl / [Chorus] / I'm going home / I'm going
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The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man
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Featured on the Beggars' Banquet album, “Street Fighting Man” was in part inspired by the riots on the Left Bank in Paris of 1968. “Sleepy London Town” was Jagger commenting how
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Rolling Stone – 100 Greatest Country Songs Of All Time
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Taken from the June 2014 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine
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The Rolling Stones – Schoolboy Blues
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Well, I'm a lonesome schoolboy / And I just came into town / Yeah, I'm a lonesome schoolboy / And I just came into town / Well, I heard so much about London / I decided to check it
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The Rolling Stones – Rocks Off
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“Rocks Off” is the opening track from Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stone’s seminal 1972 album.
The song has diverse lyrics, including allusions to heroin use and inability
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003)
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Though a little outdated (created in 2003) and “weighted toward testosterone-fueled vintage rock,” Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of top 500 albums is a great start in documenting
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The Rolling Stones – I Got the Blues
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Mick Jagger sings of the despair of a man recalling his time with the woman he loved, who has now abandoned him.
Jagger’s recent breakup with Marianne Faithfull may have provided
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The Rolling Stones – The Spider and the Fly
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The B-side of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
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The Rolling Stones – Let It Loose
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“Let it Loose” is Exile on Main St.’s longest song, at 5:18. A gospel blues ballad that has never been played live by the band, some of the lyrics were ‘lifted’ from A Man of
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The Rolling Stones & Lady Gaga – Sweet Sounds of Heaven
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[Part I] / [Verse 1: Mick Jagger] / I hear the sweet, sweet sounds of Heaven / Fallin' down, fallin' down to this earth / I hear the sweet, sweetest sounds of Heaven / Driftin
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The Rolling Stones – Sweet Virginia
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“Sweet Virginia”, is a sweetly clamoring acoustic number reflects both the country music influence Gram Parson imparted upon Keith at the time and the drug-induced atmosphere at
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The Rolling Stones – Goin' Home
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[Verse 1] / Spending too much time away / I can't stand another day / Maybe you'd think I've seen the world / But I'd rather see my girl / [Chorus] / I'm going home / I'm going
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The Temptations – Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
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The Temptations' “Papa Was A Rollin' Stone” was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and produced by Whitfield. Released as a single on the Gordy label in late September
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The Rolling Stones – Whole Wide World
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[Verse 1] / The streets I used to walk on / Are full of broken glass / And everywhere I'm looking / There's memories of my past / The filthy flat in Fulham / The smell of sex and
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The Rolling Stones – Play with Fire
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“Play With Fire” describes the seemingly classless society of London in the mid-sixties that owed nothing to lineage and everything to talent.
The song is heard in its entirety in
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The Rolling Stones – Heart of Stone
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[Verse 1] / There've been so many girls that I've known / I've made so many cry and still I wonder why / Here comes the little girl, I see her walking down the street / She is all
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Don Walser – Rolling Stone From Texas
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Well I'm a rolling stone from Texas / Rolling stone from the plains / I'm a rolling stone from Texas, boy / I long to be back there again / To say are you from Texas / That's what
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The Rolling Stones – Get Off of My Cloud
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One of the earliest #1 hits of The Rolling Stones, “Get Off My Cloud” was released in November 1965 as a 7-inch single; in December of that year, it appeared on the Stones' fifth
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The Rolling Stones – Dreamy Skies
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[Verse 1] / Well, I got to take a break from it all / 'Cause the wind and the wilderness calls / And I just need some peace from the storms / I got to take a break from it all / [
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The Rolling Stones – Jumpin' Jack Flash
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This Stones 1968 hit that marked their return to their Blues roots (from their psychedelic phase) and re-start the their streak of classic hits.
“Jumpin Jack Flash” was initially
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The Rolling Stones (Ft. Paul McCartney) – Bite My Head Off
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[Intro] / One, two / One, two / [Verse 1] / Why you bite my head off? / Why you bite my head off? / Why you get so pissed off? / Why you bite my head off now? / Yeah, c'mon / Why
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