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The Rolling Stones’ Top 100 Songs/Studio Albums Ranked

The Rolling Stones

Top 100 Songs/Studio Albums Ranked

Revered as the world’s all-time greatest rock and roll band. Formed in London, England in 1962. Singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards became childhood friends in 1950 and reconnected in 1961 over their shared interest in Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. The two of them and Dick Taylor (bass: 1962-63), who had been in a garage band with Jagger, started playing together. They connected with Blues Incorporated members Brian Jones (guitar: 1963-69), Ian Stewart (keyboards: 1963-85), and Charlie Watts (drums: 1963-2021). They formed a band focused on playing covers of Chicago blues, naming themselves after a Muddy Waters’ song. They were managed by Andrew Loog Oldham (1963-67) who promoted them as bad boys in contrast to the Beatles.

Other members included Mick Avory (drums: 1963), Nicky Hopkins (keyboards: 1967-82), Darryl Jones (bass: 1994-95), Chuck Leavell (keyboards: 1982-), Ian McLagan (keyboards: 1978-81), Jack Nitzsche (keyboards: 1965-71), Billy Preston (keyboards: 1971-81), Mick Taylor (guitar: 1969-75), Ronnie Wood (guitar: 1975-present), and Bill Wyman (bass: 1962-92).

Two of their songs (“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “Honky Tonk Women”) are featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999. Four of their albums – Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main St. (1972) – are featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Albums of All Time.

Awards:

Top 100 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists as well as chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to charts.)

DMDB Top 1%:

1. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (1965) #1 US, CB, UK, AU
2. Paint It Black (1966) #1 US, CB, UK, CN, AU
3. Honky Tonk Women (1969) #1 US, CB, UK, AU
4. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1968) #1 CB, UK
5. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
6. Brown Sugar (1971) #1 US, CN
7. Start Me Up (1981) #1 AR, AU
8. Gimme Shelter (1969)
9. Angie (1973) #1 US, CB, CN, AU
10. You Can’t Always Get What You Want (1969) #1 AU

11. Miss You (1978) #1 US, CB, CN
12. Get Off of My Cloud (1965) #1 US, CB, UK, CN
13. Wild Horses (1971)

DMDB Top 2%:

14. Ruby Tuesday (1967) #1 US, CB
15. Tumbling Dice (1972)

DMDB Top 5%:

16. Beast of Burden (1978)
17. It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) (1974)
18. 19th Nervous Breakdown (1966)
19. Street Fighting Man (1968)
20. Mother’s Little Helper (1966)

21. The Last Time (1965) #1 UK
22. Let’s Spend the Night Together (1967)
23. Time Is on My Side (1964)
24. It’s All Over Now (1964) #1 UK
25. She’s a Rainbow (1967)
26. As Tears Go By (1965) #1 CN
27. Emotional Rescue (1980) #1 CN
28. Waiting on a Friend (1981)
29. Under My Thumb (1966)
30. Happy (1972)
31. Shattered (1978)
32. She’s So Cold (1980)
33. Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) (1973)
34. Fool to Cry (1976)
35. Mixed Emotions (1989) #1 CN, AR

DMDB Top 10%:

36. We Love You (1967)
37. Undercover of the Night (1983)
38. Harlem Shuffle (1986)
39. Heart of Stone (1964)
40. Dead Flowers (1971)

41. Midnight Rambler (1979)
42. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows? (1966)
43. Love Is Strong (1994)
44. Rock and a Hard Place (1989) #1 AR
45. Far Away Eyes (1978)
46. 2000 Light Years from Home (1967)
47. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1974)
48. Bitch (1971)
49. Lady Jane (1966)
50. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (1971)

51. Let It Bleed (1969)
52. Tell Me (You’re Coming Back) (1964)
53. Not Fade Away (1964)
54. Play with Fire (1965)
55. Anybody Seen My Baby? (1997) #1 CN
56. Out of Tears (1994)
57. Hang Fire (1981)
58. Little Red Rooster (1964) #1 UK
59. Out of Time (1966)
60. Dandelion (1967)

61. You Got Me Rocking (1994)
62. One Hit to the Body (1986)

DMDB Top 20%:

63. High Wire (1991) #1 AR
64. Saint of Me (1997)
65. Going to a Go-Go (live) (1982)
66. Like a Rolling Stone (live, 1995)
67. Almost Hear You Sigh (1989) #1 AR
68. Monkey Man (1969)
69. Moonlight Mile (1971)
70. She Was Hot (1983)

71. All Down the Line (1972)
72. I Wanna Be Your Man (1963)
73. Living in a Ghost Town (2020)
74. Hot Stuff (1976)
75. Get Your Kicks on Route 66 (1964)
76. Don’t Stop (2002)
77. Memory Motel (1976)
78. Rough Justice (2005)
79. I’m Free (1965)
80. No Expectations (1968)

81. I Go Wild (1994)
82. Rocks Off (1972)
83. Plundered My Soul (1972/2010)
84. Respectable (1978)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

85. I Don’t Know Why I Love You (1969)
86. Come On (1963)
87. Doom and Gloom (2012)
88. Rain Fall Down (2005)
89. Sister Morphine (1971)
90. Terrifying (1989)

91. Sparks Will Fly (1994)
92. Sway (1971)
93. Little T & A (1981)
94. Just Your Fool (2016)
95. When the Whip Comes Down (1978)
96. Good Times, Bad Times (1964)
97. Shine a Light (1972)
98. Just My Imagination Running Away with me (1978)
99. Dance Little Sister (1974)
100. Rip This Joint (1972)