Beast Of Burden (track)
by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1978
From the album Some Girls (track #9)
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Beast Of Burden appears on the following album(s) by The Rolling Stones:
- Some Girls (track #9) (this album) (1978)
- Forty Licks (track #24) (compilation) (2002)
- Jump Back: The Best Of The Rolling Stones (track #14) (compilation) (1993)
- Live Licks (track #18) (2004)
- Grrr! (track #36) (compilation) (2012)
- Rewind (1971-1984) (track #9) (compilation) (1984)
- From The Vault: Hampton Coliseum (Live In 1981) (track #9) (2012)
- Sucking In The Seventies (track #10) (compilation) (1981)
- Some Girls: Live In Texas '78 (track #6) (2011)
- Live At Leeds (track #12) (2012)
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| ! | 03/16/2026 16:57 | Christian889 | 200 | 93/100 |
| ! | 02/21/2026 17:45 | Spartakist | 1,949 | 80/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2026 21:02 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,920 | 100/100 |
| ! | 12/08/2025 06:31 | Exist-en-ciel | 140,604 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/27/2025 10:10 | mash | 4,530 | 92/100 |
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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 87.4/100, a mean average of 87.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.3.
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hoyquarlow 05/27/2019 02:47 | #236766
I'll never pee, if your feets were burning !
Fischman 04/04/2017 16:37 | #188657
The Stones at their finest. Cool riff, emotive vocal, and tons of attitude.
A true Rolling Stones classic. One of the best tracks on the album, it's also one of their best singles. A melodicly beautiful song but with enough grit to keep it on the right side of cool. Brilliant song.
Romanelli 03/23/2013 19:19 | #69653
One of the last of the truly great Stones songs.
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