This week we shared some of our favourite second-best Rolling Stones songs to see which ones are the most popular and make the Top Ten.
The voting is closed now, thanks for taking part. The results are below.
If they’re in the list below they’re banned because they are the classics and that would be too easy.
| Banned Songs | Banned Songs |
| Angie | Honky Tonk Women |
| You Can’t Always Get What You Want | Beast of Burden |
| Jumpin’ Jack Flash | Brown Sugar |
| Wild Horses | Miss You |
| (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | She’s a Rainbow |
| Paint It, Black | Get off of my Cloud |
| Sympathy for the Devil | It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It) |
| Gimme Shelter | Tumbling Dice |
| Start Me Up | Ruby Tuesday |
And these are the Second-Best Rolling Stones Songs as voted by you.
I’ve created a Spotify Playlist of all these songs, which I thought I’d share here:
Second-Best Rolling Stones Songs – Spotify
Top Ten Second-Best Rolling Stones Songs
| Songs | Votes |
| 1. Street Fighting Man | 11 |
| 2. 19th Nervous Breakdown | 9 |
| 3. Dead Flowers | 8 |
| 3. Midnight Rambler | 8 |
| 5. Waiting on a Friend. | 7 |
| 6. Loving Cup | 6 |
| 6. Fool To Cry | 6 |
| 7. Shine a Light | 5 |
| 7. Let’s Spend the Night Together | 5 |
| 7. Happy | 5 |
Other Songs Voted For:
| Song | Votes |
| Memory Motel | 4 |
| Can’t you hear me knocking | 4 |
| Sister Morphine | 4 |
| Emotional Rescue | 4 |
| Under my Thumb | 3 |
| Moonlight Mile | 3 |
| Shattered | 3 |
| Star Star | 3 |
| Sweet Virginia | 2 |
| Come On | 2 |
| Dear Doctor | 2 |
| Rocks off | 2 |
| Rip this joint | 2 |
| Goin’ Home | 2 |
| Yesterday’s Papers | 1 |
| Stray Cat Blues | 1 |
| Carol | 1 |
| The Last Time | 1 |
| It’s all Over | 1 |
| I’m a King Bee | 1 |
| Let It Loose | 1 |
| Bitch | 1 |
| Sway | 1 |
| Livin’ in a Ghost Town | 1 |
| Little Red Rooster | 1 |
| Far Away Eyes | 1 |
| Play with Fire | 1 |
| Monkey Man | 1 |
| Time is on my side | 1 |
| As Tears Go By | 1 |
| Live with me | 1 |
| Heart of Stone | 1 |
| Too much Blood | 1 |
| Love Is Strong | 1 |
| Out Of Control | 1 |
If you want to leave a comment below about any Rolling Stones song, then please do.
Thank you for taking part in the survey.
Take care and all the best,
Ian
Top Ten Second Best Rolling Stones Songs
The song Time is on my side is in the Denzel Washington film … Fallen …. And fits into the theme perfectly
I wasn’t familiar with that one, great song Phil
Good fun and not as easy as you’d think! I remember when Ready Steady Go! Episodes were repeated in the early 80’s seeing them do ‘Off The Hook’ which stuck with me and probably my favourite Stones track. I Forgot how much I loved the early Stones so thanks!
Thanks for taking part Paul, and glad it took you down memory lane a little.
Carol was my late wife of 43 years together i lost 2020 .i had that record on an album in the 60s before we met in 70s .
Sorry to hear about your wife, David. Hope it brought back some good memories
Apparently Jagger altered the lyrics so as to aim it at the Vietnam war which it was subsequently boycotted & banned by a lot of American radio stations
Still a cracking song though 👍
Definitely a great song
Surprised Route 66 is not on the banned list, surely THE Rolling Stones classic.
Yes, it’s a classic, but becasue they didn’t write I thought I’d leave it off. Sorry.
Been a Stones fans for decades seen them a few times but as the years went by I found myself listening to them less and less, they released Blue & Lonesome in 2016 and it was the best thing they’ve done in years ,a phenomenal album. Hopefully they can squeeze another visit to Scotland soso this old pensioner can rock and roll once more before they finally….. Fade Away 😆 see what I did there
Haha, I see what you did there 🙂 I’m sure they’ve got at least one more trip up to Scotoalnd in them, so don’t sorry
Jump on top of me baby. Really should be somewhere here. The most rolling stones song that you’ve never heard.
Sorry Bob, no one voted for it. Just listened, and you’re right about it being classic Rolling Stones
Never voted, as, with Rush, I couldn’t think of one. But, now that it’s all over now Baby Blue, (Oh hang on, wrong artists) bit surprised nobody thought of Undercover of the Night, which, if I remember correctly, once again got them told off by the grown ups, as it references “shady goings on” in Central America, which was a bit of a hot topic at the time. DID YOU KNOW, that they were actually forced to alter the Lyrics of Let’s Spend the Night? Once again the Moral Guardians of the US’s soul got themselves in tizzy over the lyrics, they were utterly disgusted at the “very implications” the Chorus of of the song, so the band had to re-record the song & insert the line “let’s spend SOME TIME together”
I agree Undercover of the Night was a good one, maybe just a bit too naughty for Skwiggles customers
I missed the vote and agree with all those listed but mine would have been Time Waits For No One. If for no other reason than Mick Taylor’s guitar solo and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Of course Mick’s lyrics rounds it out.
Yes, thanks Sam, another good one