Pitchfork’s “The Best Rolling Stones Songs That Don’t Really Sound Like the Rolling Stones” (a poll)

Nice call.

Woody's '75 was insane: that Stones tour was bookended by the final tours by the Faces!

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, June 2, 2019

Fortunately, Woody was a sober enough person to finish two tours without destroying his body.

Hmmm I might not be much of a Stones fan because most of these are amongst my favorite songs in their respective albums. Yeah even “I just want to see his face”

Shattered might be my favorite song from them in the 70s even... and too much blood for the 80s.

'I Just Want To See His Face' - that song had a big impact on me, particularly learning how to sing in that high falsetto, the way Jagger does. When he sings like a girl, I go crazy. I said, 'I've got to learn how to do that.' I couldn't really do it until I stopped smoking. That's when it started getting easier to do. [Waits's own] 'Shore Leave' has that, 'All Stripped Down', 'Temptation'. Nobody does it like Mick Jagger; nobody does it like Prince. But this is just a tree of life. This record is the watering hole. Keith Richards plays his ass off. This has the Checkerboard Lounge all over it.

(Tomn Waits, 2005)

Ah yeah it does seem to be a very “tom waits” sounding kind of song, doesn’t surprise me it had a strong influence on him.

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I would vote for Bitter Sweet Symphony but not listed.

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A worthy winner. 'Heaven' and 'Time Waits For No One' both underrated as hell.

Surprised that no-one in the thread mentioned the Lennon & McCartney vocals on 'We Love You', actually!