When The Whip Comes Down (track)
by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1978
From the album Some Girls (track #2)
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When The Whip Comes Down appears on the following album(s) by The Rolling Stones:
- Some Girls (track #2) (this album) (1978)
- Live Licks (track #19) (2004)
- From The Vault: Hampton Coliseum (Live In 1981) (track #2) (2012)
- Sucking In The Seventies (track #7) (compilation) (1981)
- Some Girls: Live In Texas '78 (track #5) (2011)
- Live At Leeds (track #2) (2012)
- Bridges To Buenos Aires (track #14) (2019)
- From The Vault: Sticky Fingers Live At The Fonda Theatre 2015 (track #2) (2017)
- Licked Live In NYC (track #19) (2022)
- "Still Life" (Wembley Stadium 1982) (track #2) (2024)
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| ! | 12/08/2025 06:31 | Exist-en-ciel | 51,138 | 71/100 |
| ! | 11/08/2025 16:07 | Siromynian | 15,342 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/27/2025 10:10 | mash | 4,190 | 92/100 |
| ! | 08/25/2025 20:19 |  ExTeaSea | 12,264 | 85/100 |
| ! | 08/19/2025 08:20 | Bjartmar03 | 2,889 | 80/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.0/100, a mean average of 81.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.2.
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Fischman 04/04/2017 16:31 | #188650
Somehow the Stones manage to fuse the punk ethos with a super cool groove on this one and it works to perfection. Great vocal as well.
With the disco laced Miss you kicking of the Some girls album, the second track sits firmly in punk category. Dripping with New York references, as pretty much the whole album is, this a gritty and sleazy piece of rock'n'roll, and although slightly repetitive, it still is full of energy and it has an edge about it that the Stones hadn't displayed for a few years. Rocking good number.
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