Rocks Off (track)
by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1972
From the album Exile On Main St. (track #1)
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Rocks Off appears on the following album(s) by The Rolling Stones:
- Exile On Main St. (track #1) (this album) (1972)
- Live Licks (track #14) (2004)
- Grrr! (track #30) (compilation) (2012)
- Voodoo Lounge Uncut (track #5) (2018)
- Honk (track #3) (compilation) (2019)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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90/100  | 10/13/2025 18:56 |  Superunknown | | 86/100 |
95/100 | 08/25/2025 20:13 |  ExTeaSea | | 86/100 |
80/100 | 08/22/2025 17:48 | machiaj | | 74/100 |
50/100 | 07/27/2025 14:21 | wizardalien | | 72/100 |
85/100 | 06/13/2025 11:00 | stareaterogni0n | | 74/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 89.6/100, a mean average of 89.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.2.
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Up beat intro track to a great album.
My favorite Rolling Stones song
One of the best album-openers in the history of music. A real kick-in-the-balls way to kick off the best album of the 70s.
Amazing song...
Sandrof1969 02/11/2018 15:20
Rock poetry
One of the Stones's most underrated songs, the riff is perfect and it's a powerful hard rock classic.
Probably the second best opening track in the whole of the Rolling Stones cannon(after Sympathy for the devil). It's a rollicking good track that leaves the listener utterly breathless. A brilliant start to a brilliant album.
VitorHugoP 07/28/2015 21:06
Best Rolling Stones Music
This is really one of the Stones greatest achievements. Everything from the smile-inducing lyrics ("The sunshine scares the daylights out of me") to the bellowing brass parts, this song is one of their finest moments as a band and (in my opinion) the finest on the album.
Good beginnin. I'm still trying to understand the Stones.
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