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Song of the Day #5,557: ‘Loving Cup’ – The Rolling Stones

I’m not a big fan of quoting myself, but it’s been more than a decade since I wrote about The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street as one of my favorite albums of the 70s, so I figure I’ve earned the right. Here’s what I had to say at the time:

“The best albums are always greater than the sum of their parts. Sometimes that’s just a matter of putting certain songs in a certain order and tying it together with the right title and right cover and — bam! — you have a consistent, unified experience that works as an album.

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Song of the Day #5,556: ‘I Got the Blues’ – The Rollings Stones

A year and a half after releasing two albums considered their very best work, The Rolling Stones delivered a classic that might be better than both of them. Sticky Fingers is a masterpiece of emotional blues rock, the sort of record you feel in your gut.

The best-known songs on Sticky Fingers are opening track ‘Brown Sugar’ and the country rock stunner ‘Wild Horses.’ Also featured are the glorious ‘Sister Morphine’ and ‘Moonlight Mile,’ songs less popular with casual fans but essential for followers of the band.

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Song of the Day #5,555: ‘Let It Bleed’ – The Rolling Stones

When an album starts with ‘Gimme Shelter’ and closes with ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want,’ you know you’ve got something special on your hands.

Let It Bleed, released in 1969 less than a year after the triumph of Beggars Banquet, is a popular choice for The Rolling Stones’ best album. In addition to those two stone-cold classics, the album features the epic ‘Midnight Rambler,’ a staple of the band’s live shows, and a slew of under-appreciated gems.

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Song of the Day #5,554: ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ – The Rolling Stones

It took five years and 11 albums for The Rolling Stones to truly hit their stride. All of their output prior to late 1968 was very good, and included moments of true greatness, but Beggars Banquet was the band’s first masterpiece.

The Stones responded to the lukewarm reception of their psychedelic rock effort Their Satanic Majesties Request not just by returning to basics, but by churning out their most memorable batch of songs yet. Instant classics ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ and ‘Street Fighting Man’ lead the charge but this is an album full of gems.

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Song of the Day #5,553: ‘She’s a Rainbow’ – The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones’ desire to keep up with the Joneses bit them in the ass with their second release of 1967.

Their Satanic Majesties Request was a foray into psychedelic rock spurred by the ecstatic reaction to The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Even the cover art seemed like a nod to, or a knock-off of, their counterpart’s groundbreaking concept album.

But while Sgt. Pepper was a smash hit, this album left both fans and critics scratching their heads.

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