Your Top Five Charlie Watts-Driven Stones Songs...

Satisfaction
Paint it black
Ruby Tuesday
Honky Tonk Women
Midnight Rambler

 

Flip The Switch
Paint It Black
Honky Tonk Women
Slipping Away
Can't You Hear Me Knocking

 

Time Waits for One. Charlie’s timing impeccable of course.

For me long one of my favourite Stones records and probably their most beautiful and poignant song. So fitting to play this loud in my house this evening. My eyes got watery! Been a part of my life since I first became a Stones nut at 10 in 1974.

 

Get Off Of My Cloud
Honky Tonk Women
Paint It, Black
Midnight Rambler live
Miss You

 

sway is the one for me ! my favorite rolling stones song ( i know keith is not playing on it) and charlie just rules on this tune.

 

He does! Complete speculation on my part, but it sounds like Charlie is hearing the song for the first or second time as he's playing through it. Like he's still trying to feel his way around the changes, and hasn't yet decided where the fills go. The whole song has an off-kilter hungover feel to it, and the drums are perfect.

 

Play With Fire



just kidding. I’m partial to She’s So Cold with that Chinese cymbal.

 

Oh!....DUH!!

"She said yeah"

The first "double time" Punk-Rock shuffle song ever recorded!

 

Oh....my...God......

.....Charlie is gone?.......Oh wow......this is HUGE...

.....We've lost a true Rock n' Roll KILLER.......

......I'm speechless.....my best to his family.......God Bless..

 

Indeed he is... Hard to fathom for me still. I think it is just sinking in sum 24 hours later, for me.

(Sway just came on and these lyrics hit me deep inside... "did you ever wake up to find a day that broke up your mind, destroying your notion of circular time...")

GUTTED...

Still, this picture drags my heart from the abyss,
knowing he had such a fabulous with his wife
and his family and his mates...
doing what he loved to do and doing it so well,
so smoothly,
his Heart my be gone,
but his Beats will go on Forever...

 

My Obsession
Monkey Man
Sway
Jigsaw Puzzle
Love Is Strong

 

Yeah.

 

Sway
Bitch
Monkey Man
Cloud
If You Can't Rock Me

 

Satisfaction
She's A Rainbow
Honky Tonk Women
Get Off Of My Cloud
Heartbreaker

 

Y'all have Swayed me... You and playing "Sway" first thing this morning in mourning and really hearing Charlies" part for the first time. (Funny how different and yet perfectly the same their songs can be when you listen to them focused souly on Charlie's drumming...)

So I am replacing "Can You Hear Me Knocking" with "Sway" on my tribute set (see bottom of the last page). This is a shorter song so I might be able to add one. I'm thinking of "Pass The Wine" that gorgeous Exile Outtake.

Thanks to One and All for sharing their "Charlie-Centric" faves. I 'like' them all.

Peace!

 

Not 5 songs, but here goes:

1. In recent touring years, during the drum loop at the start of Sympathy For the Devil, Charlie had started playing a little jazzy solo, mostly on snare, before he kicked off the famous beat and the piano came in. It was short, and subtle, but it was a real jazz drum solo, on top of the drum loop, tastefully done.

2. Who can forget Charlie's shambolic drum fills after Keith's introduction, leading into Keith's set? Shades of vaudeville and British comedy.

3. Think about the diversity of "Tumbling Dice" over the years -- it's been played over the years as a boogie, with hints of reggae, a country tinge, fast, slow, with horns, in a Stax style -- they did practically everything to it over the years

4. Those wonderful chaotic endings of live Stones songs, got longer and longer over time, stretching out, becoming more and more outlandish and elaborate -- Charlie had a lot of Elvin Jones in his endings, adding that flair of the last accent or punctuation mark at the very very end, after everyone else. It was one of Elvin's signature things, to pop a little snare and kick fill at the very very end of a tune, getting in the last word, and Charlie did the same.

5. In later years, Daryl Jones would take a bass solo during "Miss You" -- Mick would say, "Sometimes I wish I could play the bass like Daryl Jones" and he'd take a solo. During that solo, Charlie would accompany him on hi-hat, bouncing ideas back and forth, it was like a clinic on how to play the hi hat cymbal.

 

I am surprised that I have not seen "Brown Sugar" on anyone's list ( please forgive me if I missed it on someone's list ). I use this song as one of my reference songs when I audition new gear. While I listen for many things in how the song sounds when I am auditioning new gear, Charlie's drumming on this song is certainly one of them.

 

Emotional Rescue
When the Whip Comes Down
Shattered
Slave
Miss You

 

Many mentions upthread of tracks on Between The Buttons. Listening to the UK SACD.
Charlie is a tour-de-force, just realizing he's a major reason I love this album. And others when
I listen with a "Charlie" ear. Bill leaving was a big loss (no knock on Daryl), but this is devastating.

What a lovely man, and a great drummer. A gentleman, when that term meant something.

 

which Charlie liked !

 

Ah! "If you can't Rock me!"

A HIGHLY underrated song!

But don't worry Charlie.....You ROCKED us.

 

So did David Bowie and Ron Wood if I remember correctly.

It was Mick and some friends he was partying with.