Rolling Stones - Rocks Off (1972)

[@ChrisMythMusic]

Possibly the most overlooked Stones masterpiece Truly embodies everything that is them

[@roberthart5435]

🎯

[@Lunatic4Bizcas]

¡ Absolutely ! ☝

[@shavingdave1]

Agree!

[@jkbenedict]

Agreed along with Jigsaw Puzzle of Beggars Banquet.

[@ronfreeman5857]

Got the raw, Stones sound..

[@mikeroby1313]

"The sunshine bores the daylight out of me" is one of the most sublime, perfect verses in the general idiom of pop or rock-n-roll music.

[@karlbuch1114]

It's a great line

[@chipzigrossi]

Chasing shadows moonlight mystery………fantastic✌

[@kilgoretrout6136]

Finally someone who sees this!!!! It's a brilliant verse.

[@MJ-ix7wm]

I guess we ain't alone in our thinking, cause I agree as well!!!!!!

[@thinhtran3424]

Their verses are so open to interpretation

[@ianaldridge1702]

Exile on main Street is the best album of time,it's a masterpiece.There,s 7.8 billion of you out there,somebody must agree with me.

[@jamesscanlon5969]

We're at seven, out of seven billion. Clearly, we have superior taste. If I had to choose one album in the world, this would be it.

[@michaelward9880]

I totally agree with you. After Exile, everything else they did was a disappointment. Every song on that album is worth a listen! The last Stones album that I care about.

[@eduardomota2429]

The best Stone album is the first Stone Roses...sorry.

[@pattijarozynski7798]

Oh F yes

[@douglaskirkland8271]

Greatest musical master piece ever made on earth.

[@tylergann5]

Rest in Peace Charlie Watts. Your 80 years on Earth were well lived.

[@Scott_Silver]

RIP Charlie, least flashy but maybe best rock drummer ever

[@jeffryhammel3035]

Wow. Thanks. The Stones have been my favs for over 50 years; but sometimes I'd just put on a song (like this) to listen to Charlie.

[@paulhoward6165]

Fucking right. Over 50 years being a rolling stoned

[@bryanfreeman5239]

Good ol' Charlie Watts. I remember on the '89 tour a reporter marveled something like, you and the Stones have been working together and hanging out for 25 years, etc. "Yeah, 5 years of work and 20 years of hanging out" ha ha.

[@vincerizzo7284]

in 0

[@steveweiss2081]

This has got to be the strongest opening song on any album ever. Sloppy, loose, loud rock and roll perfection.

[@iliasmess]

Well said... It's really difficult to isolate why this track is so good, but it's one of those very rare things that after you hear it, it lives in your body and brightens your existence for the rest of your life.. 🤸

[@BeefheartLynch]

Can't argue with that. Dirty, gritty sloppy, nasty rock and roll by the masters.

[@reuireuiop0]

Love the Stones, but for album opening, I'd go for Break on Thru, which not only kicked off their first album, but launched the Doors as well

[@younggrinch2826]

Agreed

[@charlesschwartz307]

I made a Spotify playlist of opening songs from great albums. This and Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” from LZ1 were my first two picks. Brown Sugar, Silicone Grown from The Faces Ooh La La and BaBa O’Reilly were on it as well.

[@timhuguet2221]

Everyone talks about Brown Sugar, Satisfaction, Jumping Jack Flash etc etc but this my friends, THIS is the greatest Rolling Stones song in the entire damn catalogue. It's just an absolute blitzkrieg of Rock 'n Roll heaven, a 4 minute and 33 second explosion of pure bliss. For some inexplicable reason, they have never properly been able to re-create Rocks Off live, then or now, and nor have they been able to reach this zenith in the studio since. What's it about? Who bloody knows, but one thing for damn sure, it could not have been made sober!! Long live the Boys!! EXILE forever baby!!!!!

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

What's it about, it's about being strung out on junk! It's also about the best song on one of the best albums ever made! The Stones actually are responsible for some remarkable works, even though this entire album is great, Some Girls is another great album too.

[@jackgrattan1447]

Just the opening riff alone, what I always referred to as "Chuck Berry goes to Hell", could be put on a tape loop and played at my funeral. I can't even feel the pain no more, indeed.

[@broadband0118]

Tim Huguet Yes, it is great for sure. They have probably never attempted it live as there is just too much going on. Jagger could never sing like this now, and Bobby Keys, Jim Price and Nicky Hopkins are all dead!

[@bradleymcgivney5305]

Tim Huguet Couldnt have been said better. As soon as it comes on, in my head it feels like i just got started up and nothing else can quite bring that same satisfaction

[@amc987654321]

broadband0118 Jim Price is not dead, is he?

[@margo8469]

Everybody's talking about the song, which is undoubtedly a gem, but let's take a moment to appreciate the masterpiece that this video is!

[@Girl-so7yk]

Yes! I can Watch it 10 times in row

[@Staylogical]

I@@Girl-so7yk I think it's video out-takes from Robert Frank's documentary.It has an obscene title.I'm sure it's findable here somewhere,despite the lawsuits.

[@brentdey2244]

One of the best music videos I've ever seen. Maybe Brian Eno's King's Lead Hat is even better, but this captures the whole vibe of the Stones and the whole vibe of the seventies. I think you could show it to an anthropologist a hundred years from now and say "that was New York City in the seventies."

[@blakeantoniuk5299]

Where's Keith?

[@adamfleischman8080]

@@blakeantoniuk5299he’s wearing shades.

[@jeffryhammel3035]

Once again, Charlie set the groove on this classic. R.I.P. CHARLIE.

[@klimtklavier]

Yeah my uncles loved this album when it came out, Jeffry...

[@gheevinzxirvanka3230]

Yup.

[@joebrone4972]

Couldn't have said it better myself... Damn right... R.I.P Charlie... ☹️😢... One KICK-ASS DRUMMER... ONE OF THE BEST...

[@jeffryhammel3035]

@@klimtklavier There's something about the whole album. Like the Mona Lisa, you just can't explain it. Exile started out with 2 jams like this one and "Rip This Joint", then veered into a virtual encyclopedia of every original American type of music. Charlie loved jazz and bebop, but took those skills into rock. Your Uncle could explain it better. I'd bet his own musical tastes are very diverse.

[@perlofgren5089]

Not sure, but I think that's actually Jimmy Miller on drums. Not 100% on that though

[@09keef]

“I’m always hearing voices on the street, I want to shout but I can hardly speak,”; video courtesy of the great Robert Frank who captured the seediness of the 70’s here.

[@jplew138]

You can almost SMELL NYC in this vid...

[@carolynzaremba5469]

I loved the 70s. I was in my 20s. Much better time than now.

[@joealomar-cu3qb]

now Frank would be stabbed and beaten with the perps out on bail by noon

[@jacobmrley]

Charlie Watts was the engine that drove this machine. He is stunning on this track. RIP

[@jmacdowell]

That’s why I’m here! The way he opens this song never fails to make me smile. RIP KING

[@ClaptonDennis]

Yes and on the whole Album, Charlie was so good, so important, I realised that specially 2020 when listening to Sticky Fingers and Exile a lot. The Stones are an important Band, a Part of Music History, really awesome. And Exile is my new no.1! So many groovy Songs!

[@samuelthrower7444]

The heartbeat of the band!!!

[@michaelkearney2186]

Was it Charlie or Jimmy Miller who played drums on this? I thought it was JM, I could be wrong…

[@jplew138]

@@michaelkearney2186 It's Charlie 😉

[@didioliveira8466]

Rocks Off is one one of the best rock and roll songs ever made!!!!!!!!!

[@francoisdesnoyers3042]

Rip this Joint was great too!

[@patriciascully2293]

❤❤❤

[@brianschaefer9182]

it's my freaking theme song.

[@ivanbrousse6805]

@@francoisdesnoyers3042 SWEET BLACK ANGEL !

[@mjp96]

Loving Cup and this song - the best

[@davehuneck2937]

This is possibly the best album ever made!

[@Fredro11111111111]

not possibly. definitely!

[@foureyedchick]

@@Fredro11111111111 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@vjfperez]

Imagine a song so wild that it still packs the same punch after 50 years

[@EBABE9061]

F I F T Y. 5 - OH. F I F T Y (EFFING) Y E A R S. ABSOLUT LEGEND. EXILE HAS TOPPED MY 'DESERT ISLE LP LIST' FOR AS LONG. A MASTERPIECE

[@jjstratford]

So shambolic; feels like it will fall apart at any moment; ragged; sharp; PERFECT.

[@paulhoward6165]

Man that jive Turkey washing windows on the street was my grandpa who got five dollars from Robert Frank to be in the film.

[@brentdey2244]

Seriously? Wow. He's my favorite part of the video.

[@O_Towne_Bear]

Can never hear this enough, loud enough...makes want to dance, bop around, smile, drink, smoke, quit my useless job and roam..LOVE this song!!!

[@dannyorgera5038]

I totally agrss!

[@huckroger]

Ohh yeahhh

[@patricksullivan7140]

Yeah baby

[@ourlakehouse116]

Someone like me, this is in our souls, it’s away of life👍

[@carlos32359]

Call me along

[@SkeebWilcox]

If I had to pick one Rolling Stones song to represent their ENTIRE career, this would be it...

[@TheCornishCockney]

Starfucker from Goats Head Soup for me.

[@heathhamby]

Worried about you from tattoo you

[@twitchtrix3087]

And tumbling dice Keith's personal anthem

[@ericnelson5825]

Cant You Hear Me Knocking...Mick Taylors guitar Solo in the Middle is SICK!

[@KK-zw6es]

YES

[@gd73]

This song should be the kickoff to every weekend.

[@GCOUNDOU]

especially if dating a dancing friend lol

[@strat8333]

Serious wonderful perfect rock n roll. I think

[@angel1329us]

It's 8 pm on Friday night. That's why I am here.

[@kimberlyjennings5160]

right on!

[@williamleiva3966]

Pedrp

[@andrewlangridge2345]

Not only the groove, but the lyrics are genius «The sunshine bores the daylights out of me». Pure rock ‘n roll.

[@Fredro11111111111]

How's about, "I was makin' love last night/ to a dancer friend of mine/ I can't seem to stay in step cause she comes every time that she pirouettes over me"

[@garystoltzenberg7551]

On par with memo from Turner

[@Jay_R_S]

You’ve always gotta interpret Mick’s lyrics through the prism of a man who’s had more p**sy than he knew what to do with. They make much more sense that way

[@puplover7991]

😂😂😂​@@Jay_R_S

[@crimsonwhiteandindigo]

Nothing will ever touch this. The Holy Grail of albums.

[@nunya1738]

Few things in life kick ass like this song. "The sunshine bores the daylights out of me".

[@nunya1738]

***** Ba-da-dada, dunt-dunt-da-dunt--OH, YEAH!

[@hoilace]

Nun Ya Ha. Didn't realize that's what he was saying. Mick is looking INCREDIBLY cute! Not my favorite video by far...but am lovin' Mick :))

[@nunya1738]

Daisee .Tatum One of my favorite Stones lyrics.

[@hoilace]

There are SO many good lyrics by them!

[@hoilace]

I can't get past the intrusive window washer ;))

[@DaveAnchovies]

Stones wrote some fantastic lyrics which they are seldom given credit for. Really really great lyrics to really really great songs.

[@fantasypgatour]

A lot of their lyrics were truly awful too though I think that's why they don't get the credit they otherwise would have, inconsistency is the story of their careers honestly.

[@petemartin295]

Nicky Hopkins on the piano holds the whole song together. One of the best opening songs to an album ever.

[@stephencampbell2115]

That horn section..... Awesome and Charlie just laying it down

[@qhoffa9568]

The mixing on this song is truly astonishing!! Every vocal and instrument clashes so perfectly!!

[@markkickmark]

there was never and will never be another band that approaches the significance of this band. they are the greatest, period.

[@shawnfoxfirth9684]

mark alan G. the soundtrack to our lifetime......

[@theMcWOPPER]

What about the beetles

[@ihvha29]

@@theMcWOPPER They made pop music

[@jaimelannister1797]

Haab Saab no they didn’t, just because they were popular doesn’t make their music pop.

[@ihvha29]

@@jaimelannister1797 They're not really rock either. Maybe just barely.

[@jeremygerard3951]

BEST OPENING TRACK TO ANY ALBUM, EVER.

[@michaelsieger9133]

Back in the USSR, Come Together, Wouldn't It Be Nice and Like A Rolling Stone too!

[@N92Milan]

What about Start me up? :)

[@peteormond3565]

Suspect Device is an amazing starting track, too

[@MrBrownstone531]

Gimme Shelter wasn't too shabby. Brown Sugar and maybe Sympathy for the Devil also. There's too many to name by any band but these boys set the tone. The greatest rock and roll band in the world period!!

[@ep9229]

Good Times Bad Times...

[@Philmoscowitz]

"The sunshine bores the daylights out of me. Chasing Shadows, Moonlight Mystery." I love those lines!

[@vinorama58]

No doubt in my mind. This is the Stones' masterpiece.

[@cooleydbt]

I think, I'm my humble opinion, that this is the greatest rock and roll song of all time. PERFECTION!

[@sisoldi]

The best album kickoff song ever, full stop, fully appropriate for the masterwork the Exile is. Sets the entire tone for the tapestry of sound that follows.

[@bagintree]

Right from the start and Mick's "Oh yeaahhh" this tune rocks! Everything from the vocals, guitars, drums, horns and overdubbed piano, is perfect.

[@MrTheHillfolk]

When he goes ohhhh yeaaa you know its gonna get rowdy.

[@markbrophy554]

It's fuckin brilliant....that's what it is.. musical genius. Could no agree with you more!!!!

[@mikehand9698]

Rolling Stones - Rocks Off ( 1972 ) This is one great song so underrated and one of there best songs !!

[@laureljune7561]

Oh yeah!!

[@montgomerydenzer8805]

+Mike Hand And Mick Taylor just rockd

[@rickyasadoorian7235]

I hear you! the stones have a portfolio of amazing songs. this one is very high up there.

[@thoban1724]

how could anyone overrate Rocks Off?

[@frankcalisi7637]

this video is so early 70s New York

[@bernadettehendrix9243]

Driving my 69 Marina Blue SS Chevelle with this song cranking man that was living. I remember playing trumpet in the band in school and when I first heard this song it hooked me immediately. Still loving it all these years later.

[@taratownsend6408]

That is brilliant! I am in awe watching this for the first time. They were completely incognito walking around downtown Los Angeles in September of 1971. I had been on the French Riviera in July/Ausgust of that year hoping to catch a glimpse of them and they ended up coming round to Los Angeles where I lived, and I was clueless to the fact. In(bloody)credible.

[@johnborylo6567]

These lyrics are Profound! They fully describe a state of being. a emotional state and is thus comforting to realize others have been there too! Sometimes we are tempted to forget how very wise and smart the Stones truly are!

[@thomashealy9998]

The Rolling Stones in all their hedonistic, decadent glory!

[@eBrigid]

My Lordy, this is fantastic! So gritty, the Stones never failed to bring the grit, the down and durty, the hardcore view of life.

[@EBABE9061]

ABSOLUT BAD.ASS

[@brentdey2244]

until the eighties and nineties... then they released some overproduced crap. 'Blue and Lonesome' was a nice reprieve, but I wish they'd get back to this.

[@geebud1880]

Last years of my high school... Jeeeezz. Nothing has changed - still the same old song - this energy - the lyrics - the tempo - the team - the piano - the drums - the feel and (what not) ahhh the trumpets in da end

[@willmiddleton9199]

Dude you NAILED it The Stones from '69 to '78 was as good as it gets (aside from the Allman Brothers). I am 65 and it's still the best music I've ever heard

[@Rick-pn1pp]

I remember getting Exile on Main Street as a teen and being blown away and Rocks Off is such a great example of The Rolling Stones " sound " they embodied in their awesome music.

[@johnnythunders3757]

Finding videos like this on KZbin makes me think KZbin is the best invention since the wheel. Whoever posted this, God Bless You!

[@katherinedupoise4604]

Multiple KZbin channels are talking about KZbin being discontinued in the 2020’s. Permanently. I agree with your comment so please just let the whole discontinuing KZbin just be a rumor.

[@johnscialfa7391]

agree

[@kendalllaughon9664]

Johnny Thunders Really this song is appropriately named....it Rocks. 🎸✌️😎

[@annbugbee5623]

@@katherinedupoise4604 TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENT, Walter B.Memphis.

[@311tim311]

Good morning children, and welcome to Rock & Roll 101. We'll be starting the course off with this piece by the Rolling Stones- well, actually, this is the only song we'll be listening to this semester, all day every day. And the homework is- yes- go home and listen to this song every night. It will not be that hard to get a grade of 'A'+ in this class.

[@311tim311]

ooh yrah

[@matthewsims9469]

😂😂😂

[@Fattness123]

Grew up listening to the Stones and I've never found a band that I like more! 23 now and I plan on playin their music until the day I die, then hopefully someone plays it at my funeral.

[@Grendelmonster8u]

What song would you want played at your funeral? Write up a will, if not through a lawyer, write it up on paper, have a witness sign with you (preferably a family member), and get it notarized. It would be kind of funny because funerals are so boring and one might as well celebrate the life of a person rather than their death. I want to be cremated, no open casket seeing me dead, and have a party out of it--people dancing and what not. I'll make a setlist. Lol. As it is, my family's church has a memorial service, then what's called a repast afterward that's a luncheon, and everybody's social (since usually you see people you haven't seen in a while, and most now show slide shows of photos of the person's life, and some music playing along with it--for you it could be the Rolling Stones. (:

[@Fattness123]

***** It'd have to be "moonlight mile". I don't want people to cry or make a big deal over my death; this world belongs to the living, not to the dead.

[@Grendelmonster8u]

I agree with you, and interesting choice. Cheers.

[@UmadBRO1999]

***** why get cremated when you can have your brain preserved in a freezer and then re-attached to either a body or a virtual cognitive stimulation device? you all have this romanticized view of funerals... but the truth is you probably won't exist during the funeral so it would be nice to come back into existence 100 years later and meet up with all the other people to tell you all about it :)

[@Grendelmonster8u]

That is a weird reply. I'm getting cremated so, no, I won't exist except in carbon form. I'd like to revisit in a 100 years so I can see what music remained popular and if I was right.

[@cathielouparker2807]

RIP Mr.Watts. The world is less without you. Thanks for helping us rock!

[@jeffryhammel3035]

Wow, thanks! Charlie always helped me, too. It's amazing how he made every great song even greater.

[@larrypowers4200]

Maybe once bitten twice shy by Ian Hunter is close

[@thomashenderson5047]

Perfect album to open up a case of beer on a warm summer night in your garage

[@chevycamarowoman6428]

Mick Taylors years with the Stones were the best songs!!!

[@kilgoretrout6136]

Agreed

[@MrRockyko]

Absolutely

[@hewitc]

Nicky Hopkins was the best. Underpaid fro great work

[@wolfgangkiesteiner6560]

Tooooo less credits…

[@johncollins2699]

No doubt about it!

[@Tsubakiee]

Exile is my fav album, hands down. I've probably listened to it thousands of times and still can't stop

[@TheCornishCockney]

That brass section,marvelous.pure good time rock n roll that you can go wild to,and there are dozens of other Stones belters the same.Greatest band ever? must be up there.

[@setondriveable]

I love seeing this because I didn't grow up on them. You get to see that they were actually the coolest thing out in their era. From the haircuts and clothes to them just chilling with black people. They were the truth. I see why people held on to them so long. I'm glad I discovered their music

[@JEANNEBOLEYN]

Sums up the good time decadence of the greatest musical outfit in history. The flanging in the middle just adds to its sublime brilliance. Fantastic job, guys

[@michaelgarner4200]

yeah, that was considered a step into a psychedelic sound back in the day. Also the line" I'm so mesmerized" is a reference to hypnosis. Altogether, the song is letting us know that we're in for a real head trip of an album!

[@sukie584]

This is the greatest video for one of the greatest songs by the greatest rock band..

[@Tubemanjac]

The solid-as-a-rock drum-beat legend has ascended to the heavens. R.I.P.

[@williamwinn9160]

Back when the horns you hear were actually musicians playing horns. Great stuff.

[@DaveAnchovies]

Listen to the Saints "Know Your Product" immediately!!

[@mikeallmon6437]

Ok boomer

[@siebkelderart7599]

Check out Oh Lord by Foxy Shazam, you'll be amazed!

[@konajinx]

@Ben Johnston r/lewronggeneration

[@konajinx]

Yeah because no one ever plays real horns anymore. They all died out after 1972.

[@scottmorrow9794]

I graduated high school in 72...driving my friggen new vw beetle with this double casste cranking with huge bose speakers...still listening to it 46 years later...lol

[@ElBote54]

Scott Morrow right with you, dude - same age, too

[@joeydiaz5615]

I bought a 73 2 door Continental in 93 for 1000 dollars-faded paint,no rot-and it had an 8 track installed with Exile on Main Street and The Superfly Soundtrack in the glove. My 2nd car.

[@archishmangoswami5011]

I'm graduating this May...can't wait to be doing exactly that once I get my licence

[@steved5501]

crew of 72 R Cray was in our Class at LHS

[@dcon1231]

Graduated 75 and my black VW Beetle and this was the bomb. Yep, still listening.

[@vidiaugrafree]

I'm only 26, been a little Stones fan since 2012. Heard this for first time recently. Best Stones song in my current "book", if not best song ever. The lyrics many of us young men can relate to. I love Rocks Off because it's an unusual Stones song; "Is he gonna close the door on me?" (Is this about coming of age to being kicked out?). But those TRUMPETS come in to declare that everything is OK even when strung up on heroin in 72!

[@TheCornishCockney]

magnificent as usual.NOBODY has rocked as hard and for as long as The Rolling Stones.Legends doesnt do them justice.

[@billkalivas9750]

This is one of the best rock and roll songs ever!

[@arejayseeottawa]

I got this album when it was released in 1972. At the time, I was growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I did not realize back then that Robert Frank was also living in Nova Scotia! Robert Frank, R.I.P. P.S. I still have my vinyl copy of that album!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Handsome gorgeous talented musical men! The black~white videography in LA and NY is superb; gritty feeling ~ just like the Stones music…Love the song!! 💖

[@Rdlwolfff]

I can't believe this was released back in the 70s, it sounds so fresh and unique.

[@ed52369]

This is it. Everyone should listen to this. Pure rock and roll.

[@jeffnarup4276]

One of the best Stones song. EVER

[@jamesogrady6612]

Jeff Narup Stones must have liked Buffalo, NY they played here 6 times. Yes that Buffalo that still gets 10 feet of snow every winter from Lake Erie

[@notaclue822]

Love the music and the images. Keith's teeth!! Nobody was plastic or concerned about being picture perfect, and that was a big part of the charm.

[@vcmg1253]

I was out of the country when this album was released during the summer, 1972. When I returned and listened to the first side, I was hooked and remain convinced to this day that side one of this album, starting with this song, is the single best album side ever recorded.

[@omeara4726]

The greatest opening song for any album ever. Bar none.

[@larryronkq586]

THE BEST OF TIMES Were in the 70s ,,, 1972 WRIGHT HERE

[@cowboysfan782008]

This is one of my all time favorite videos along with another guys "Time waits for no one" vid about his hometown in 74' and all the characters in it. This vid is like a Stones home movie of their trip to the south circa 1972. I'm from So CA but have been to New Orleans 5 times, and we drove through Alabama one of the trips then back to N. O. This was 1997 and it was my buddy and I and our 2 cute blondes. We stopped at the hickest bar we could find in our rented Lincoln Town Car. Out of place but after drinking and broing down with the locals it ended up being a great time. They still love their Lynard Skynard down there!

[@FernandoGarcia-ge6mp]

....one of my favorite stones songs hands down. And the drummer, mercy!!

[@vcmg1253]

It simply does not get any better than this.

[@jackiejones1341]

One of the best opening songs for an album. The Stones in their prime. Memories!!!

[@stardust_memories2260]

RIP Mr Watts, you kept the beat of the universe for generations. ⚡🤘🥁🌹🙏😞

[@glarange72]

And the sunshine blows the daylight out of me. geez how inspired was this, incluing Keef's backing vocals, brass section and Stu's boogie woogie

[@Fredro11111111111]

Except it's, "The sunshine bores the daylights out of me/ Chasing shadows moonlight mystery" and it's Nicky Hopkins on piano on this and most of Exile. Ian only appears on 3 cuts - Hip Shake, Sweet Virginia, and Stop Breakin Down. Oh yeah, and Keith plays piano on Just Wanna See His Face

[@robertguatelli9178]

When you read Keith's autobiography, it's amazing they did what they did on this album. Truly their best

[@universallanguage59]

Certainly a high point in a career of many of them, and quite possibly one of the most brilliant. Deserves many kudos to all who were involved for making it happen how and when it did...

[@scottbarror1641]

When I was in the US Naval boot camp, Great Lakes, I'll, sep- Nov, 1977, isang myself to sleep with this song, every nite, could not wait to get it on the turntable when I got out on leave after, don't think I've ever jonesed to hear a song that bad ever, been kinda my mantra ever since.

[@rebeccawagner4167]

I love this song and the Stones. The Stones just keep on making amazing music 🎶 🎵. It's just unique and original and sounds incredible. I love their style .I love this video. The Stones are the epitome of rock and roll. I'm blessed to grown up with them. There is no one else like them. Keep rockin and rolling boys.

[@msorrenti]

Damn Charlie makes you waiting for his boom on the drums....that is why the song is always a pleasure to hear. THIS IS ROCK'N ROLL. Joie de vivre.

[@kbbluesgreens74]

Great video, great song, great album… they sounded sooo good during this period and they looked really cool

[@jeffhart1271]

Definitely greatest album. This,tumbling ,sweet Virginia,loving cup,shine a light, ventilator & on & on. Whole album

[@nickmerrick18]

it does not get much better than this, many thanks

[@walterpewen7903]

The Stones HAVE performed "Rocks Off" live. It's online, look around you will find it. It does not come even near the record. No big deal. The song in that respect is like most later Beatles pieces--they are masterpieces of the studio and really were never intended for live. This song is so dense and brilliant it's just in a class by itself. Almost cannot be compared to anything but the rest of the Exile album. And we all know what that's about. Endless rock and roll without peer.

[@bryang1105]

Except that it's not endless Rock'n Roll. A lot of it is great country. The Stones' three best albums have a share of country, those being *Sticky Fingers*, *Exile* and *Let it Bleed*. While *Sticky Fingers* will always be my favorite album, Exile was one of those albums that grew on me. I bought it when I was 14 or 15 (1975 or '76), with hard earned cash, and was somewhat disappointed in just how country so much of the album was, but it had a few songs that I found stunning, such as *Rocks Off*, *Tumbling Dice* and *Loving Cup*, and while Taylor and Jagger had melded so beautifully on *Sticky Fingers*, the guitars of Richards and Taylor really came together on *Exile*. The Taylor-Richards magic pretty much vanished after that, and the next two albums seemed to me to be filled with too many weak songs. The Stones only put out one more good album, and that was *Some Girls*, and by then I had realized just how good *Exile* really was--every single song.

[@aljustal6554]

The first time I saw the Stones (February 1, 2003 at what was then called the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO), they played this song fifth (After Street Fighting Man, You Got Me Rocking, Start Me Up, and Don't Stop). For a bunch of guys pushing 60 (at that time, although Charlie was 61), I was floored by how good they were and I flipped when they played this seldom-performed gem.

[@ecb2]

Still the baddest boys in rock & roll. Farewell Charlie Watts.

[@rupertmay304]

GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME HANDS DOWN!!!!!!!!

[@anthonyivankovic6625]

this guy who did the edits is fucking mad brilliant. here he has captured footage of life in an era of revolution and endless potential. The social experiments of the 60's have failed. I've learned my moves as a young kid in the 70's growing up in urban/suburban NJ, watching crazy fukers walk and carry on. Trips into Manhattan had shaped and molded me into being the soetime cynical soul I am today. I yearn for a much healthier time- when our food wasn't poisonous, we didn't have synthetics which fuck up the molly and other entheongenic vehicle. The Stones were'nt always coke and herion, booze. They were into psychedics in their early stage. They saw the golden 60's ended at Altamont and it was time to get down to business and secure their own foturnes. Be an opportunist and work on your skills.

[@travisrlel2]

Robert Frank I believe.

[@darega03]

maybe...but those "shits" have thrown the most creative works in humankin...call it Rock artist, painters, writers, etc. Drugs have been helping artists far way before music industry or rock music kicked in: Dali, Gaugain, Baudelaire, O Wilde...

[@darega03]

mi channnal mate I have taken/I still take drugs when I want and I´m fine with my life, I´m more functional than most...If someone has an adictive personality...call it drugs, booze, sex, gambling, eating that person is gonna be trapped regardless whether they listen to rock or not.

[@fredrowan2477]

Shit yeah!

[@spenzerwright5693]

Slow down, Tiger.

[@tpp5151]

This album just feels like its a bunch of guys sitting in a house covered in mold, doing drugs most of the day and playing some music. Which is exactly what it is... And it still sounds awesome.

[@jackflash5659]

I love the video as much as the song. Pure 70's

[@mardelste]

one of the best grooves ever by the one and only Charlie Watts. May your soul rest in peace.

[@jeffryhammel3035]

Very sad, but he graced us and The Stones a looong time. My Dad said 50 years ago that The Stone's would just die off. Man, he was wrong. Charlie may have passed away, but he'll live on and on.

[@didierlegoffic5208]

🙏😞🌠 Charlie miss us

[@doorswhofan]

The dude you see in the shades with the big afro was the late great Tony Funches, who served as security chief for the Stones, the Doors, and countless other bands from the late 60s through the early 80s. You can also see him in the GIMMEE SHELTER movie, as well as in numerous old obscure Doors film clips. I never met him in person, unfortunately, but we had a great friendship -- often filled with much debate -- on Facebook for a few years. As you might well imagine, boy did he ever have some stories to tell about those days. :-)

[@derekmurchie257]

A top 5 Rolling Stones song for me. Absolutely rocks from start to finish!

[@tjlisson2816]

This song and the one that follows it, "Rip this Joint," are the greatest one-two punch in music history - especially this one. Properly placed right at the beginning.

[@tomeverett865]

Best Stones song! The singing, drumming, horns, piano, everything! RIP Charlie!

[@masswellwilliamson]

I’ve watched this a lot, but never knew if it was a fan edit? It’s fucking amazing.

[@Mytyay_ShostaIV]

I think,that the best times of stones were with Mick Taylor: Sticky Fingers,Exile on main st. ,Let it bleed,It's only Rock'n Roll !

[@miguelosvaldofloresdomingu8911]

I agree

[@miguelosvaldofloresdomingu8911]

My three favorite Rolling Stones albums were recorded while Mick Taylor were in the band.

[@nicogeez]

@@miguelosvaldofloresdomingu8911 ...and Jimmy Miller producing.

[@mjg263]

Yep, I’ve always said the same!

[@mikezikfogg510]

Amen to that. But don't forget Goats Head Soup and Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out

[@chi69201]

Holy Crap!!! You can see in the footage where some of the pix from the "Exile" album cover came from!!! My aunt got to go see them that summer at the Amphitheatre but I didn't!!! I was in 6th grade when this album was released and I wore it out!!! Some may disagree with me but, in my opinion, it was ever so slowly downhill after "Exile". Regardless, I will worship them forever!!! This is yet another song to be played at my funeral, this vid blew my mind!!! Thanks for posting!!!

[@robertwiesler381]

Fantastic song Best album of all time Greatest Band on this planet Thank you for uploading this GREAT video Greetings from Austria, my friend

[@c.w.miller3024]

Bought this on the day it was released. This being the opening song of the 2 record set, I was like okay this is the Stones doin' it. 52 years later, it's still the greatest album ever.

[@espdemon]

Goddamn man...love me some effin' Stones!!! That grimy, slimy guitar and the perfect vocals to match it... Just the best!!!!!

[@micktaylorisgod7828]

You’re right Tim. It’s a mind f--k of an intro to the greatest rock n roll album ever made.

[@lostinfflood]

Heading for the overload. Love the shots of Charlie and Mick are so cool. What a great video.

[@batmanrobin8310]

Perhaps the most overlooked classic Stones song ever. I just wish MT's lead at the end was featured throughout...

[@Meterman13]

Mick Taylor was the best thing that happened to The Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Band,ever nuff said !!!

[@peturdobrev1196]

❤👍 There was the good times...with the Rolling Stones. BEAUTIFUL SONG! I'VE BEEN A ROLLING STONES FAN FOR MANY YEARS/1964/. THE R.S.IS THE GREATEST ROCK BAND ON EARTH! CHARISMATIC SINGERS. AMAZING, TALENTED, LEGENDARY. GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬