Top 5 Stones Songs

In response to a friendly challenge to list my top five Rolling Stones songs (up through the album Some Girls (1978), I had to resort to extreme measures to get it done. Mainly this involved creating what I called a "megahit omnibus" to take the top spot. These are the major rock hits that the group is famous for, to wit:

1. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965)
2. "Honky Tonk Woman" (1965)
3. "Street Fighting Man" (1968)
4. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968)
5. "Gimme Shelter" (1968)
6. "Midnight Rambler" (1970)
7. "Brown Sugar" (1971)

These lucky seven songs clogged up my works because:

1. Uniqueness: no rock group has ever put out a list of massive power songs of this size.
2. Indiscernibility: my inability to discern quality differences between these songs.
3. Dominance: these songs are so huge I would be unable to get to all the rest of the great things the group did.

On this basis, I argued that I would make my number one choice this megahit omnibus* (essentially a seven-way tie). So, my list went as:

1. Megahit Omnibus (1965-71)
2. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (1969)
3. "Wild Horses" (1971)
4. "Angie" (1973)
5. "Faraway Eyes" (1978)

HONORABLE MENTION: "Out of Time" (1966)

COVER: "Love In Vain" by Robert Johnson (1969)

BONUS TRACKS: "Time Is On My Side" (1964); "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" (1967)

PRO TIPS: "Waiting on a Friend" (released in 1981; started in 1972) and "Start Me Up" (1978/1971)

All in all, I included 17 songs when the challenge was to limit it to five. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

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*granted absolution upfront for my dalliance, I was later chided as not having really completed the assignment at all (imagine that).