All of these lists were complied from the results of polls which Rolling Stones fans have been voting on since 1999 at this site’s polling booths; including both Weekly Polls (which are all final results), and  the current results from the On Going Polls. In some cases you will see Top Five Favorites, other times just the Top Pick for that week. To view the full, final results from each weekly poll, you can visit the Poll's Archive Page and then check out each week's Poll's Archive - or, visit the Poll Menu to join us either in the current voting - or to check out the current results from any of the On-Going Polls. The date(s) in the parentheses next to each list shows you on what day the poll was started on, and you can look up the full results by using that info.

Albums & Songs  

The Favorite Songs on each of The Stones’ albums (From 27 different weekly polls that ran for several years starting in 1999)  

Moonlight Mile - Sticky Fingers
Tumbling Dice – Exile On Main Street
Sympathy for the Devil - Beggars Banquet
Gimme Shelter - Let It Bleed
Angie - Goats Head Soup
Saint Of Me - Bridges To Babylon
Beast Of Burden - Some Girls
Paint It Black - Aftermath
It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) - It's Only Rock 'n Roll
Ruby Tuesday - Between the Buttons
Not Fade Away - England's Newest Newest Hit Makers
It's All Over Now - 12x5
Love Is Strong - Voodoo Lounge
Memory Motel - Black and Blue
Start Me Up - Tattoo You
2000 Light Years from Home - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Mixed Emotions - Steel Wheels
She's So Cold - Emotional Rescue
(I Can't Get No) - Satisfaction - Out Of Our Heads
One Hit (To the Body) - Dirty Work
Undercover Of the Night - Undercover
Get Off Of My Cloud - December's Children
Heart of Stone - The Rolling Stones Now
Jiving Sister Fanny - Metamorphosis
Rough Justice - A Bigger Bang
Don't Stop - 40 Licks (new songs only)
Plundered My Soul - Exile On Main Street Bonus CD 2 (new songs released in 2010)

Of the 27 Favorite Songs listed above, the one fans dig the most (Voted on week of 7/5/2010)

Gimme Shelter (from Let It Bleed)

The Least Favorite Songs on each of The Stones' Albums (taken from different weekly polls that ran for several years starting in 2004 and ending in 2010)                  

Country Honk - Let It Bleed
Dear Doctor - Beggars Banquet
You Gotta Move - Sticky Fingers
Lies – Some Girls
I Just Want to See His Face - Exile On Main Street
Can You Hear the Music - Goats Head Soup
How Can I Stop - Bridges To Babylon
Going Home - Aftermath
If You Really Want To Be My Friend - It's Only Rock 'n Roll .
This Place Is Empty - A Bigger Bang
Suck On The Jugular - Voodoo Lounge
My Obsession - Between the Buttons
You Can Make It If You Try - England's Newest Hit Makers
Under The Boardwalk - 12x5
Hey Negrita - Black and Blue
Heaven - Tattoo You
Sing This All Together (See What Happens) - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Hearts For Sale - Steel Wheels
Indian Girl - Emotional Rescue
One More Try - Out Of Our Heads
Back to Zero - Dirty Work
Feel on Baby - Undercover
The Singer Not The Song - December's Children
Surprise Surprise - The Rolling Stones Now
Each And Every Day Of The Year - Metamorphosis
Losing My Touch- 40 Licks (new songs only)
Soul Survivor (Alternate Take) - Exile On Main Street Bonus CD 2 (new songs released in 2010)

Of the 27 Least Favorite Songs listed above, the one fans like the least (Voted on week of 7/12/2010)

Back to Zero  (from Dirty Work)

Best 5 Kick-Off Songs on a Stones Studio Album (Voted on week of 9/20/2009)

Rocks Off - Exile On Main Street
Gimme Shelter - Let It Bleed
Brown Sugar - Sticky Fingers
Start Me Up - Tattoo You
Sympathy for the Devil - Beggars Banquet 

Best 5 Songs to Close-out a Stones Studio Album (First voted on week of 2/21/2000)

You Can't Always Get What You Want - Let It Bleed
Moonlight Mile - Sticky Fingers
Starfucker - Goats Head Soup
Waiting on a Friend - Tattoo You
Salt of the Earth - Beggars Banquet 

Best 5 Songs to Close-out a Stones studio album (Second vote on 3/17/2003)

Moonlight Mile - Sticky Fingers
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Let It Bleed
Shattered - Some Girls
Starfucker - Goats Head Soup
Salt of the Earth - Beggars Banquet 

Worst Kick-Off Song on Any Stones Studio Album (Voted on 9/27/1999)

Dance (Pt.1) - Emotional Rescue 

Worst Song to Close Out any of the Stones Studio Albums (Voted on 3/24/2003)

Sleep Tonight - Dirty Work 

Best Opening and Closing Songs on a Stones Studio Album (Voted on 11/1/2004)

Gimme Shelter & You Can't Always Get What You Want - Let It Bleed 

Songs Only 

Top 5 Favorite Rolling Stones Songs (From an On-Going poll started on 7/19/1999, last updated 2/15/09)

Sympathy for the Devil
Gimme Shelter
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Paint It Black 

Best Cover Song the Stones have recorded (Voted on 10/18/1999 and again on 4/21/2008)

Time Is On My Side  

Best released Stones Song from 1963 (Voted on 7/21/2008)

I Wanna Be Your Man 

Best released Stones Song from 1964 (Voted on 7/28/2008)

It's All Over Now

Best released Stones Song from 1965 (Voted on 8/4/2008)

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Best released Stones Song from 1966 (Voted on 8/11/2008)

Paint It Black

Best released Stones Song from 1967 (Voted on 8/18/2008)

Ruby Tuesday

Best released Stones Song from 1968 (Voted on 8/25/2008)

Sympathy for the Devil  

Best released Stones Song from 1969 (Voted on 9/1/2008)

Gimme Shelter (aka Gimmie Shelter)

Best released Stones Song from the 1960s (Voted on 10/6/2008)

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

Best released Stones Song from 1970 till 1974 (Voted on 9/15/2008)

Brown Sugar (1971)

Best released Stones Song from 1975 till 1979 (Voted on 9/22/2008)

Best of Burden (1978)  

Best released Stones Song from the 1970s (Voted on  9/29/2008)

Brown Sugar (1971)  

Best released Stones Song from 1980 till 1984 (Voted on 10/13/2008)

Start Me Up (1981)  

Best released Stones Song from 1985 till 1989 (Voted on 10/20/2008)

Mixed Emotions (1989)  

Best released Stones Song from the 1980s (Voted on 10/27/2008)

Start Me Up (1981)  

Best released Stones Song from the 1990s (Voted on 11/3/2008)

Saint of Me (1997)

Best released Stones Song since 2000 (Voted on 11/10/2008)

Rough Justice (2005)

Most Favorite Stones Song out of the Top Songs picked from each decade (Voted on 11/17/2008)

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)  

Top 5 Favorite Singles Put Out By the Stones (Voted on 1/24/2000)

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Paint It, Black
Tumbling Dice
Angie, Honky Tonk Woman & Ruby Tuesday (all tied for 5th) 

The Stones have 13 US/UK Number 1 Singles, the Fans’ Favorite is: (Voted on 4/2/2001)

Jumping Jack Flash  

The Stones Best B Side off a Single (Voted on 1/17/2000)

You Can't Always Get What You Want  

Top 5 Favorite Stones Ballads (Voted on 2/11/2002)

Wild Horses
Angie
Ruby Tuesday
Moonlight Mile
Beast Of Burden tied with Dead Flowers for 5th 

Top 5 Favorite Stones Country Songs (Voted on 2/18/2002)

Dead Flowers
Sweet Virginia
Far Away Eyes
Torn and Frayed
No Expectations

Top 5 Favorite Stones Hard Rock Songs  (Voted on 2/25/2002)

Jumpin´ Jack Flash
Brown Sugar tied with Paint It Black for second place.
Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
Rocks Off

Most Underrated Stones Song (Voted on 6/26/2000)

Loving Cup 

Most Overrated Stones' Song (Voted on 5/14/2001)

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction  

Best Guitar Riff/Solo in a Stones Studio Song (Voted on 1/15/2001)

Keith Richards' solo in Sympathy for the Devil

Best Slide in a Stones Studio Song (Voted on 1/22/2001)

No Expectations - Slide guitar by Brian Jones 

Stones Song with the Best Guitar Weaving (Voted on 3/18/2002)

Wild Horses (by Keith Richards & Mick Taylor)

Favorite Acoustic Guitar heard in a Stones Song (Voted on 3/25/2002)

Street Fighting Man – by Keith Richards  

The one Unreleased Stones Song that should have been released (Voted on 1/30/2006)

Claudine 

Top 5 Best Unreleased (bootleg) Stones Songs (Voted on 5/3/2004)

Cocksucker Blues (aka School Boy Blues)
I Don't Know the Reason Why (aka Hillside Blues)
Andrew's Blues
Travellin' Man
Claudine

Stones Song which would have been better if it had no lyrics and had just been an instrumental (Voted on 3/6/2006)

Continental Drift  

Two Best Stones Songs to dance to (Voted on 11/4/2002)

Brown Sugar*
Miss You

*Both songs tied for first the first time we voted, then in a runoff poll held the week of 8/3/09, "Brown Sugar" was picked first.

Best Stones Deep Cut Song (Voted on 4/14/2003)

Moonlight Mile  

Favorite Nanker/Phelge Stones Song (Voted on 4/21/2003)

Play With Fire  

Best Stones Song with 3 Part Harmonies (Voted on 5/24/2004)

Ruby Tuesday – Harmonies sung by Brian, Keith & Mick  

Best Duet or Lead and Backing Vocal in a Stones Song (Voted on 6/7/2004)

Wild Horses – sung by The Glimmer Twins  

Of the Stones Songs that Mick Jagger sings solo on, the one he sang best (Voted on 5/31/2004)

Moonlight Mile  

Stones Song which features the best Guest Vocal (Voted on 6/14/2004)

Gimme Shelter – Guest vocals by Merry Clayton   

Best Drug or Drinking Song done by the Stones (Voted on 2/5/2001)

Sister Morphine  

The most loved Stones Love Song (Voted on 2/12/2001) &  (Voted on 2/11/2008)

Wild Horses  

Best putdown Song done by the Stones (Voted on 2/19/2001)

Stupid Girl  

The rudest Stones Song (Voted on 9/20/2004)

Starfucker 

The most sexual Song done by the Stones (Voted on 1/29/2001)

Stray Cat Blues  

Stones Song which is the nastiest/dirtiest (Voted on 10/21/2002)

Cocksucker Blues   

The Rolling Stones angriest Song (Voted on 1/7/2008)

Street Fighting Man  

The Stones most heavy or haunting Song (Voted on 1/10/2005)

Gimme Shelter 

The creepiest Stones Song (Voted on 3/3/2008)

Midnight Rambler (At first tied with Too Much Blood [vote on 2/18/2008], and won in runoff)

Stones' Song you would like played at your funeral (Voted on 3/14/2005)

Moonlight Mile  

The most perfect Rolling Stones Song (Voted on 11/13/2006)

Sympathy for the Devil

Stones Song with the most effective use of strings (violins, fiddle, etc.) (Voted on 11/17/2003)

Moonlight Mile 

Rolling Stones best instrumental Song (Voted on 8/30/2004)

2120 South Michigan Avenue  

Favorite Reggae Song by The Stones (Voted on 2/5/2007)

Sweet Black Angel (aka Black Angel)

The most unusual Stones Song ever recorded (Voted on 3/12/2007)

In Another Land

Rolling Stones Song with the most captivating introduction (Voted on 11/5/2007)

Gimme Shelter

The most overplayed Stones Song on the radio (Voted on 11/12/2007)

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

The Stones Song not played enough on the radio (Voted on 11/19/2007)

Moonlight Mile 

The Stones best adrenaline Song (Voted on 3/10/2008)

Jumpin' Jack Flash  

Stones Song with the best falsetto (Voted on 5/5/2008)

Worried About You (Falsetto sung by Mick Jagger) 

The Stones Song which was ahead of its time when released (Voted on 9/17/2007)

Fingerprint File (1974) - Rap like before there was Rap, and written years before the George W. Bush administration would do just about everything noted in the song.

Top 2 Stones Songs with the best harp (Voted on 4/7/2008)

Midnight Rambler (Mick Jagger)
Not Fade Away (Brian Jones)

The Top 5 most beautiful Stones Songs (Voted on 9/27/2004)

Wild Horses
Moonlight Mile
Ruby Tuesday
Angie
Winter  

Top 5 favorite Rolling Stones Groupie Songs (Voted on 4/7/2003)

Ruby Tuesday tied with Stray Cat Blues for first  
Starfucker
Little T&A
The Spider and The Fly 

5 years later we asked for the Favorite Groupie Song from the two top picks (Voted on 2/25/2008) 

Top 5 Best Political Stones Songs (Voted on 5/7/2001)

Street Fighting Man
Gimme Shelter & Sympathy for the Devil – tied for second
Salt of the Earth
Blinded By Rainbows & Highwire - tied for fifth 

Political Song by the Stones which works best lyric wise in making a statement (Voted on 12/11/2006)

Gimme Shelter
Street Fighting Man
Fingerprint File
Highwire & Sweet Neocon tied for 4th 

Top 5 Stones' songs with the most politically incorrect lyrics (Voted on 5/21/2001)

Some Girls
Brown Sugar
Under My Thumb
Stray Cat Blues
Starfucker

The Stones Top 5 traveling Songs (Voted on 10/7/2002)

Moonlight Mile
No Expectations
Before They Make Me Run
2000 Light Years from Home
Far Away Eyes

Five favorite Stones Songs about woman (Voted on 10/14/2002)

Honky Tonk Women
Ruby Tuesday
Angie
Under My Thumb
Can't You Hear Me Knockin' & Wild Horses - tied for fifth

Top 5 favorite Jagger/Richard Blues Song (Voted on 5/14/2007)

Midnight Rambler
No Expectations
Let It Bleed
Moonlight Mile
Sway

Top 5 favorite Stones covers of a Blues Song (Voted on 5/21/2007)

Love in Vain
Little Red Rooster
Stop Breaking Down
Prodgial Son
You Gotta Move

Top 5 favorite overall Stones Blues Songs (Voted on 4/8/2002)

Midnight Rambler
No Expectations
Little Red Rooster
Love in Vain
Let It Bleed & Ventilator Blues - tied for fifth

Top 5 all time favorite Stones riff in a Song (Voted on 10/29/2007)

Can't You Hear Me Knocking & Jumping Jack Flash - tied for first
(I can't get no) Satisfaction
Brown Sugar
Gimme Shelter

Seventeen months later we asked for the Favorite Stones riff in a Song between the two top picks (Voted on 3/30/2009) 

Top 5 Rolling Stones Songs less than 2 minutes, 40 seconds long (Voted on 5/12/2008)

Rip This Joint (2:23)
As Tears Go By (2:33)
Play With Fire (2:14)
Not Fade Away (1:48)
Hang Fire (2:21)

Top 5 Stones Songs over 5 minutes and 30 seconds long (Voted on 5/19/2008)

Sympathy for the Devil (6:27)
Can't You Hear Me Knocking  (7:15)
You Can't Always Get What You Want  (7:30)
Midnight Rambler  (6:57)
Wild Horses (5:44)

Which Stones Song is too long? (Voted on 1/2/2006)

Can't You Hear Me Knocking 

Which Stones Song is too short? (Voted on 1/9/2006)

Play With Fire

Top 5 most shocking or outrageous Stones Songs (Voted on 6/12/2000)

Cocksucker Blues
Starfucker
Some Girls
Stray Cat Blues
Too Much Blood

Top 5 favorite Psychedelic Stones Songs (Voted on 10/16/2000)

2000 Light Years from Home
Paint It Black
She's A Rainbow
Ruby Tuesday
We Love You 

Top 2 saddest Stones Songs (Voted on 4/17/2006) & (Voted on 12/10/2007)

No Expectations
As Tears Go By 

Top 5 most upbeat Stones Songs (Voted on 4/24/2006)

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Brown Sugar
Happy
Let's Spend The Night Together
Rocks Off

Top 5 Piano playing in a Stones Song (Voted on 4/5/2004)

Let It Bleed - Ian Stewart
She's a Rainbow - Nicky Hopkins
Angie - Nicky Hopkins
Lets Spend The Night Together - Jack Nitzsche
Sympathy for the Devil - Nicky Hopkins 

Top 5 Keyboards (other than Piano) played in a Stone's Song (Voted on 4/12/2004)

2000 Light Years from Home - Mellotron by Brian Jones
She's A Rainbow - Mellotron by Brian Jones
I Got the Blues - Organ by Billy Preston
100 Years Ago - Clavinet by Billy Preston
Heaven - Synthesizer by Bill Wyman -&- Paint It Black - Organ by Bill Wyman – tied for 5th 

The most unusual appearance by a member of the band in a Song (Voted on 12/4/2006)

Bill Wyman singing lead vocals on both “In Another Land” and “Downtown Suzie”

The Stones have never released a Xmas Song, should they? (Voted on 12/18/2006)

Top 5 favorite Stones Songs (non-instrumental) where the title isn't in the song (Voted on 9/10/2007)

Sympathy for the Devil
Let it Bleed
Little T&A
Ventilator Blues

The Top 5 Stones Songs with the hardest to understand lyrics (Voted on 5/25/2009)

Rocks Off
Get Off Of My Cloud
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Gimme Shelter
Citadel

Of the Stones songs where the Song's title does not appear in its lyrics, pick the one where the title fits its song best? (Voted on 7/14/2008)

Sympathy for the Devil  

Which studio version of “Time Is On My Side” by the Stones, do fans like better? (Voted on 7/30/2001)

The most uplifting Stones Song (Voted on 7/19/2010)

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Top 5 Stones lyrics that makes for best pick up lines (Voted on 7/29/2002)

“Please allow me to introduce myself; I'm a man of wealth and taste”

“There will always be a space in my parking lot if you need a little coke and sympathy”

“Give me little drink from your loving cup”

“I know you're no scare-eyed honey, there'll be a feast if you just come upstairs”  &

“I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none” – tied for 5th 

Top 5 favorite lyrics from Stones Song (Voted on 2/4/2008)  

“The sunshine bores the daylights out of me, chasing shadows moonlight mystery, headed for the overload, splattered on the dirty road, kick me like you've kicked before, I can't even feel the pain no more”

“I was 'round when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain, made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate”

“Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac, making bets on Kentucky Derby Day, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon, and another girl can take my pain away”

“Gonna find my way to heaven, 'cause I did my time in hell”

“Dying all the time, lose your dreams and you will lose your mind, ain't life unkind” &

“I was born in a cross-fire hurricane, and I howled at my ma in the driving rain” – tied for 5th

Top 5 favorite one line lyrics from Stones Songs (Voted on 1/12/2004)

“The sunshine bores the daylights out of me”

“I just can't seem to drink you off my mind”

“I was born in a cross-fire hurricane”

“It's a gas! gas! gas!”

“You'd make a dead man cum” 

The Stones most sexually explicit lyric (Voted on 11/29/2004)

“Oh where can I get my cock sucked, where can I get my ass fucked?” (from Cocksucker Blues) 

Top 5 Artists who covered a Stones Song best (Voted on 3/1/2004)

Otis Redding - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses
Guns N Roses - Sympathy For The Devil
Aretha Franklin - Jumpin' Jack Falsh
The Who - Under My Thumb 

Top 5 Songs by a band or artist that sounds like a Stones Song (Voted on 3/13/2006)

Jealous Again by The Black Crows
Rebel Rebel by David Bowie
Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham
Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Dirty Water by The Standels  

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