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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| 02/22/2026 17:44 | Spartakist | 1,538 | 79/100 | |
| 02/08/2026 13:14 | Robert_fripp | 823 | 86/100 | |
| 01/22/2026 21:01 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,498 | 100/100 | |
| 01/04/2026 22:40 | SammyC33 | 720 | 88/100 | |
| 12/10/2025 09:05 | plasmicmist | 7,586 | 91/100 |
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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 89.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.
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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 | #207639
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 | #146641
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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