The Friday Canon: THE ROLLING STONES

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They're still not dead yet! Mick & Keef and the boys are still very much alive and kicking, despite the best efforts of various illicit pharmaceuticals, Mars Bars, Winnie The Pooh statues, Hells Angels, falling coconuts etc. Out of their 43 UK Top 40 hits, you get to pick your favourite FOURTEEN! Well go on then!

[Poll #952249]


NB I only realised that Satisfaction was on the front page of Wikipedia after I'd typed out the poll! Spooky!

Comic Relief: (link)
1. "Mama/Who Do You Think You Are" - The Spice Girls
2. "Living Doll" - Cliff Richard and the cast of The Young Ones
3. "Absolutely Fabulous" - Absolutely Fabulous (Pet Shop Boys, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley)
4. "Help!" - Bananarama & La Na Nee Nee Noo Noo (French and Saunders with Kathy Burke)
5. "Is This the Way to Amarillo" - Tony Christie & Peter Kay

Comments

Re: US but not UK singles, Wiki sez

[koganbot]

Checking with allmedia.com: "Play With Fire" scraped into the Hot 100 as the B-side of "The Last Time." "Lady Jane" got to 24 as the flip of "Mother's Little Helper." "In Another Land" was the first U.S. single from Their Satanic Majesties, climbing all the way up to 87 on the Hot 100 (I'm damned if I ever heard it on the radio). I definitely remember "2,000 Light Years From Home" getting airplay as a double-A with "She's A Rainbow," though apparently it didn't make the charts.

Of songs released in both Britain and the U.S. that only went Top 40 in the U.S., "One Hit (To The Body)" is the most significant. Also, "Dance Pt. 2" was a small hit on the rock charts without ever having been a single as far as I know, and "Little T&A" was a much bigger rock hit as the flip of "I'm Waiting On A Friend." (Of course, if Billboard had been compiling statistics for FM radio play in the late '60s, "Sympathy For The Devil" and "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" would have registered as huge hits, probably, and "Monkey Man" and "Live With Me" as minor hits.)