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Where to start with The Rolling Stones
Start with All Down The Line — Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered), 1972. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 26 The Rolling Stones tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 26 The Rolling Stones tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 26 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 18 of the 26 tracks come from Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) alone.
The density knob swings 55 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
All Down The Line — Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered), 1972. Of the 26 The Rolling Stones tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the sparse end
As Tears Go By — December's Children (And Everybody's), 2004. The lowest density reading of any The Rolling Stones track in the room (35 out of 100). This is as far towards sparse as the collection goes.
If you want the wall end
Paint It, Black — Aftermath, 1966. The highest density reading here, at 90 out of 100 — a 55-point swing across the collection towards wall.
Where The Rolling Stones sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are The Rolling Stones's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 56 | 28–80 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 64 | 28–80 | ambient → driving |
| density | 63 | 35–90 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 64 | 22–73 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 | 18 |
| Aftermath | 1966 | 2 |
| Let It Bleed | 1969 | 1 |
| Flowers | 2005 | 1 |
| Goats Head Soup | 1973 | 1 |
| December's Children (And Everybody's) | 2004 | 1 |
| Exile on Main St. | 1972 | 1 |
| Sticky Fingers (Remastered) | 1971 | 1 |
Every The Rolling Stones track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Paint It, Black | Aftermath | 1966 |
| Under My Thumb | Aftermath | 1966 |
| Gimme Shelter | Let It Bleed | 1969 |
| Can't You Hear Me Knocking - 2009 Mix | Sticky Fingers (Remastered) | 1971 |
| Sweet Virginia | Exile on Main St. | 1972 |
| All Down The Line | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Casino Boogie | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Happy | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| I Just Want To See His Face | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Let It Loose | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Loving Cup | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Rip This Joint | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Rocks Off | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Shake Your Hips | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Shine A Light | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Soul Survivor | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Stop Breaking Down | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Sweet Black Angel | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Sweet Virginia | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Torn And Frayed | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Tumbling Dice | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Turd On The Run | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Ventilator Blues | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972 |
| Winter | Goats Head Soup | 1973 |
| As Tears Go By | December's Children (And Everybody's) | 2004 |
| Out of Time | Flowers | 2005 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to The Rolling Stones's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Les Claypool — rock, 12 tracks
- Where to start with Weather Report — jazz, 14 tracks
- Where to start with Amherst — vaporwave, 14 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists The Rolling Stones as a group, from London, the United Kingdom and formed in 1962. Its contributors tag the artist rock, blues rock, classic rock and psychedelic rock. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many The Rolling Stones tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 26, across 8 albums. 26 of them carry a date, running from 1966 to 2005. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 26 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 26 of these 26 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.