How Would You Rank "The Big Four" From The Rolling Stones?

[Intelsucks]

It's no secret that the majority of hard-core Rolling Stones fans usually list these four records as the climax of the band's recording career:


Beggars' Banquet

Let It Bleed

Sticky Fingers

Exile On Main Street




Rank these four records from your 'most favorite' to 'least favorite'. I would rank them as follows:



1) Beggars' Banquet

2) Exile On Main Street

3) Let It Bleed

4) Sticky Fingers



I am not prepared to back up my choices with anything other than what I think I listen to the most and least often, out of the bunch. I LOVE all of these records.

[GOPisEvil]

1. I would swap the order of the first two. The other two are fine.

Basically, in terms of Stones records, I'd rank them 1 a-d. :-)

[Political_Junkie]

4. I definitely agree

Exile On Main Street was their best.

[INTELBYTES]

2. Let's see...

The song they did was David Bowie, I think "dancing in the streets", the song they sang with Run DMC - no, wait that was Aerosmith. I don't think they have two more "big ones" do they?

[INTELBYTES]

3. OK, just as a disclaimer....

I know the Rolling Stones have a lot of great music. I am a fan, but not quite the enthusiast though that my work partner intelsucks is. I just posted the above message to tweak him.

[MrSlayer]

5. Man that's a toughie.

1. Beggar's Banquet (Has Sympathy on it, greatest RnR song ever)
2. Sticky Fingers (Excellent Blues Rock, Sway rules.)
3. Let It Bleed (We all need someone we can cream on.)
4. Exile on Main Street (Rock's Off, Tumbling Dice, All Down the Line)

They are all excellent, really no point to this. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d wouldn't be inappropriate.

[Carni]

7. Speaking of "sympathy"

Were those lyrics written about the bush contingent or what?

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

6. Let It Bleed has always been my personal favorite

I like that shit-kicking redneck stuff, and hearing British people copy it is both amazing and hilarious. :) Ry Cooder on Love in vain and the title track, love that stuff.

[Intelsucks]

8. I never cared much for the song "Live With Me"

I alwaysthought it was filler. Just my opinion...

[vi5]

9. Sticky Fingers is first for me...

1)Sticky Fingers
2)Beggars
3)Exile
4)Let It Bleed

Each one has some classic tunes on it but for overall sound and vision this has gotta be my order.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Exile, Bleed, Banquet, Fingers. Exile is one of the two greatest rock

recordings ever.

[Whitacre D_WI]

11. Goat's Head Soup.

Okay, out of those:

1) Sticky Fingers
2) Exile on Main Street
3) Beggar's Banquet
4) Let It Bleed

[mitchum]

12. "Let It Bleed"...

"Beggars Banquet"
"Exile"
"Sticky Fingers"

I have to agree with Simon LeBon. Let It Bleed is the perfect album. In terms of strength of material, sequencing, length,etc. So, thats three areas where I agree with LeBon (cocaine and sex with models being the other two)
Beggars Banquet is where they first showed promise of their majesty. They gave notice that they were capable of being far more than just another British pop group.
Exile- it's general air of fucked up-ness is both its glory and its weakness
Sticky Fingers is where marginal filler starting creeping back in. Yes, it does contain "Brown Sugar" and "You Gotta Move", but there are also time wasters like "Sister Morphine"