I rarely ever list them as one of my top three or four favorite bands, but in reality they are. I have, over the years, collected every single album (it's over 50 now) by them, and I find that for the most part I enjoy something from every era (even the recent stuff).
For this offering:
Sympathy For The Devil (one of those songs you have to see live)
Start Me Up (that INTRO!)
Angie
Gimme Shelter (one of my favorite songs of all time, by any band, ever)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Street Fighting Man (check out Oasis' cover)
I'd add:
Monkey Man,
One Hit To The Body
Under My Thumb
Emotional Rescue (I love that song)
Two things come to mind: One, Jagger is his own worst enemy; he's a REALLY good singer, and he's one of the very few vocalists that have never had any serious problems, or significant change of tone (even McCartney is starting to sound his age; listen to his new single). If it wasn't for his nonsense, he'd have a lot more respect as a musician. He IS the Stones, even if Keef gets credit for that more often than not. Two, they were dark as fuck. I get it, "Alice In Chains. Dirt." Forget that; there's some stuff, especially in that Beggars Banquet - It's Only Rock'n'Roll run, that is bleak, man. Really bleak.
Oh, trivia: the video for "Waiting On A Friend" was shot on the stoop of the same building that was the cover of Physical Graffiti, in New York City.