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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

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.

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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)

The Rolling Stones: Studio Albums Ranked

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by album’s appearances on best-of lists as well as chart success, sales, critics’ ratings, and awards. Also factored in are the status of each album’s songs in Dave’s Music Database for songs.

1. Exile on Main Street (1972)
2. Sticky Fingers (1971)
3. Let It Bleed (1969)
4. Beggars Banquet (1968)
5. Some Girls (1978)
6. England’s Newest Hit Makers (aka ‘The Rolling Stones’) (1964)
7. Aftermath (UK version, 1966)
8. Aftermath (US version, 1966)
9. Tattoo You (1981)
10. Between the Buttons (1967)

11. Goats Head Soup (1973)
12. Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)
13. Voodoo Lounge (1994)
14. Emotional Rescue (1980)
15. Out of Our Heads (US version, 1965)
16. Black and Blue (1976)
17. A Bigger Bang (2005)
18. Steel Wheels (1989)
19. 12 x 5 (1964)
20. Bridges to Babylon (1997)

21. It’s Only Rock and Roll (1974)
22. December's Children…and Everybody's (1965)
23. Blue & Lonesome (covers, 2016)
24. Undercover (1983)
25. No. 2 (1965)
26. Out of Our Heads (UK version, 1965)
27. Dirty Work (1986)
28. Now! (1965)

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First posted 7/26/2013; last updated 10/25/2023.

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

The Top 100 Songs of All Time

Dave’s Music Database: Top 100 Songs All-Time

There are over 116,000 songs in Dave’s Music Database. Songs are ranked based on chart peaks, sales, radio airplay, streaming figures, and video plays. Also factored in are multiple music awards and appearances on best-of lists. These are the cream of the crop – the top 100 songs of all time according to Dave’s Music Database.

1. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
2. The Police “Every Breath You Take” (1983)
3. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
4. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
5. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982)
6. Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
7. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
8. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
9. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
10. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)

11. The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
12. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
13. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
14. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
15. Eagles “Hotel California” (1977)
16. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977)
17. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
18. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
19. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
20. Guns N' Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1988)

21. Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
22. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
23. Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
24. Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (1991)
25. Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
26. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
27. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
28. Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
29. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
30. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)

31. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1990)
32. Glenn Miller Orchestra “In the Mood” (1939)
33. Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002)
34. The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
35. Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
36. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
37. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
38. Derek and the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
39. The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
40. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)

41. Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
42. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)
43. Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
44. The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
45. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
46. Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
47. Prince “When Doves Cry” (1984)
48. Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” (1997)
49. Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (1997)
50. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)

51. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
52. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
53. Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer” (1986)
54. Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
55. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
56. Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (1979)
57. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)
58. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
59. Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975)
60. Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)

61. Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
62. U2 “With or Without You” (1987)
63. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
64. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
65. Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
66. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
67. Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
68. Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
69. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
70. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)

71. Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (1967)
72. Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
73. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
74. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017)
75. Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)
76. Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)
77. Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2011)
78. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
79. Chubby Checker “The Twist” (1960)
80. Elton John “Your Song” (1970)

81. Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (1967)
82. Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960)
83. The Who “My Generation” (1965)
84. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981)
85. Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” (1946)
86. Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
87. Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
88. Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” (1982)
89. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
90. Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (2003)

91. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
92. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)
93. Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
94. Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (2008)
95. Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (2004)
96. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
97. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
98. Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)
99. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
100. Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (1995)

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First posted 5/28/2008; last updated 9/5/2023.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

50 years ago: Otis Redding’s Otis Blue released

First posted 4/7/2008; updated 12/1/2020.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

Released: September 15, 1965

Charted: October 16, 1965

Peak: 75 US, 11 RB, 6 UK

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: R&B

Tracks:

Song Title (Writers) [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. Ole Man Trouble (Otis Redding) [2:55]
  2. Respect (Redding) [2:05] (9/4/65, 35 US, 4 RB)
  3. A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke) [4:17]
  4. Down in the Valley (Bert Berns, Solomon Burke, Babe Chivian, Joe Martin) [3:02]
  5. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Redding, Jerry Butler) [3:10] (5/15/65, 21 US, 2 RB)
  6. Shake (Cooke) [2:35] (5/20/67, 47 US, 28 UK, 16 RB)
  7. My Girl (Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) [2:52] (11/25/65, 11 UK)
  8. Wonderful World (Cooke, Lou Adler, Herb Alpert) [3:00]
  9. Rock Me Baby (B.B. King) [3:20]
  10. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) [2:45] (3/5/66, 31 US, 33 UK, 4 RB)
  11. You Don’t Miss Your Water (William Bell) [2:53]

Total Running Time: 32:22

Rating:

4.398 out of 5.00 (average of 18 ratings)

Quotable: “A virtual template for soul music.” Blender Magazine

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

“Otis Redding never made a bad album. Hell, Otis Redding never cut a bad song. But most of the LPs released in his tragically short career were, in the manner of the times, patched and cobbled together. Otis Blue is the Big O’s one album that most plays like an album.” TL When he recorded it, he “had a vocal maturity beyond his mere 24 years.” CS “The self-proclaimed Mr. Pitiful sang of longing and civil injustice like a man who had suffered them for at least 50 years.” CS

“Recorded in just three days, it’s a virtual template for soul music,” BL It “presents his talent unfettered, his direction clear, and his confidence emboldened, with fully half the songs representing a reach that extended his musical grasp.” BE

“More than a quarter of this album is given over to Redding’s versions of songs by Sam Cooke, his idol, who had died the previous December, and all three are worth owning and hearing. Two of them, A Change Is Gonna Come and Shake, are every bit as essential as any soul recordings ever made, and while they (and much of this album) have reappeared on several anthologies, it's useful to hear the songs from those sessions juxtaposed with each other, and with Wonderful World, which is seldom compiled elsewhere.” BE

“Two originals that were to loom large in his career, are here as well.” BE “The pain of love was one of Redding’s favorite subjects, and he expresses that torment brilliantly on” CS “soul-stirrer I’ve Been Loving You Too Long,” TL in which he is “seemingly about to implode.” BL Meanwhile, Respect, “a classic long before Aretha Franklin made it immortal, is a musical call to arms” CS in which Redding “channel[s] the energy of the civil rights movement.” CS

There’s also “Redding’s spellbinding renditions” BE of the Temptations’ My Girl and William Bell’s You Don’t Miss Your Water. Most notable is his cover of the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction, “a song epitomizing the fully formed Stax/Volt sound and which Mick Jagger and Keith Richards originally wrote in tribute to and imitation of Redding’s style.” BE “Using horns and bass guitar on the infamous riff, …[Redding] mines a conviction about which Mick Jagger only dreamed.” CS

“Among the seldom-cited jewels here is a rendition of B.B. King’s Rock Me Baby that has the singer sharing the spotlight with Steve Cropper, his playing alternately elegant and fiery, with Wayne Jackson and Gene ‘Bowlegs’ Miller’s trumpets and Andrew Love's and Floyd Newman’s saxes providing the backing.” BE In fact, throughout the album “the Stax house band – Booker T and the MGs, augmented by Isaac Hayes and the Mar-Key horns – crackles and Redding’s voice was never better. Which is truly saying something.” TL “Redding’s powerful, remarkable singing throughout makes Otis Blue gritty, rich, and achingly alive, and an essential listening experience.” BE He “was never more sweatily persuasive.” BL

Notes: A 2008 Collector’s Edition added live tracks from the Whisky a Go Go, alternate versions of tracks, a stereo version of the album, and selections from Live in Europe on a 2-disc version.

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