Last Updated on 30 May 2025
The following list is a snapshot of society’s current opinions of the 200 best songs by The Rolling Stones.
I found 28 different ranked lists online of “best Rolling Stones songs” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 28 lists that were averaged.
- Gimme Shelter
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash
- Paint It Black
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Wild Horses
- Brown Sugar
- Beast of Burden
- Honky Tonk Women
- Tumbling Dice
- Street Fighting Man
- Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
- Start Me Up
- Ruby Tuesday
- Miss You
- Angie
- Let’s Spend the Night Together
- She’s a Rainbow
- Midnight Rambler
- Waiting on a Friend
- Get Off of My Cloud
- Moonlight Mile
- 19th Nervous Breakdown
- Dead Flowers
- Under My Thumb
- Shine a Light
- Rocks Off
- It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It)
- The Last Time
- Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
- Mother’s Little Helper
- Happy
- Sway
- Loving Cup
- All Down the Line
- Sweet Virginia
- Time Is on My Side
- Shattered
- As Tears Go By
- 2000 Light Years From Home
- No Expectations
- Play with Fire
- Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
- Emotional Rescue
- Monkey Man
- Fool to Cry
- Let It Bleed
- It’s All Over Now
- Bitch
- Sister Morphine
- Memory Motel
- Not Fade Away
- Out of Time
- Salt of the Earth
- I Am Waiting
- Stray Cat Blues
- Torn and Frayed
- Undercover of the Night
- Love in Vain
- Lady Jane
- We Love You
- Heart of Stone
- Rip This Joint
- Let It Loose
- Live with Me
- Mixed Emotions
- Star Star
- Before They Make Me Run
- Sweet Black Angel
- Hot Stuff
- Dandelion
- Soul Survivor
- Child of the Moon
- Time Waits for No One
- You Got the Silver
- Winter
- She’s So Cold
- Far Away Eyes
- Love Is Strong
- I’m Free
- Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
- Hang Fire
- When the Whip Comes Down
- Rock and a Hard Place
- One Hit (To the Body)
- Harlem Shuffle
- She Was Hot
- Little Red Rooster
- Little T&A
- Worried About You
- Back Street Girl
- Jigsaw Puzzle
- Heaven
- Shake Your Hips
- Respectable
- Tell Me
- 100 Years Ago
- Route 66
- Citadel
- Fingerprint File
- Dear Doctor
- If You Really Want to Be My Friend
- Tops
- Thru and Thru
- Ventilator Blues
- Hand of Fate
- Anybody Seen My Baby?
- If You Can’t Rock Me
- Dancing with Mr. D
- Slave
- 2000 Man
- She Smiled Sweetly
- Memo from Turner
- Factory Girl
- I Just Want to See His Face
- Sittin’ on a Fence
- You Gotta Move
- Luxury
- Almost Hear You Sigh
- Around and Around
- Parachute Woman
- How Can I Stop
- Till the Next Goodbye
- Going to a Go-Go
- Stop Breaking Down
- You Got Me Rocking
- I’m Free
- Rough Justice
- Dance (Pt. 1)
- Casino Boogie
- She Said Yeah
- Goin’ Home
- Lies
- Just My Imagination
- Carol
- Highwire
- Some Girls
- Cherry Oh Baby
- Out of Tears
- Out of Control
- Connection
- Long Long While
- Slipping Away
- Sleep Tonight
- Prodigal Son
- Too Much Blood
- The Spider and the Fly
- Ride On, Baby
- Plundered My Soul
- Cry to Me
- That’s How Strong My Love Is
- Coming Down Again
- Neighbours
- Silver Train
- Let Me Go
- Too Rude
- No Spare Parts
- Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)
- Imagination
- Doom and Gloom
- Sad Sad Sad
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- Last Time
- Stupid Girl
- I Don’t Know Why
- Saint of Me
- Turd on the Run
- Short and Curlies
- Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
- The Worst
- I Got the Blues
- Who’s Been Sleeping Here?
- Back to Zero
- Yesterday’s Papers
- Backstreet Girl
- Just Another Night
- Like a Rolling Stone
- No Use in Crying
- Make No Mistake
- In Another Land
- Country Honk
- Moon Is Up
- You Win Again
- Angry
- Crazy Mama
- Do You Think I Really Care
- Just Your Fool
- Tallahassee Lassie
- Under the Boardwalk
- My Obsession
- I Think I’m Going Mad
- Claudine
- Jiving Sister Fanny
- Who’s Driving Your Plane?
- I’m Moving On
- Thief in the Night
- Good Times, Bad Times
- Miss Amanda Jones
- Champagne & Reefer
