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“All Down The Line” by The Rolling Stones
From the album Exile on Main St. (1972)
“All Down The Line” by The Rolling Stones appears on 10 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1982 and 2020. It was first released in 1972 on the album Exile on Main St.. Its best result is #248 on the KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,366 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Side four of Exile on Main St. comes barreling out of the gate with "All Down the Line", Jagger and Richards at full gallop, and for a while it was lined up as the album's first single before it ended up on the flip of "Happy". The song went back a ways: the Stones had tried it acoustic in 1969, in the early sessions that became Sticky Fingers, before plugging it in for good at Nellcôte, Keith's rented villa in France, and at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles.
Jimmy Miller produced and bashed the percussion himself, Bill Plummer thumps a double bass under the racket, and Kathi McDonald hollers along on backing vocals. The band liked it enough to hand a demo to a Los Angeles radio station just so they could cruise around town hearing it on the air, and Record World called it the Stones at their best.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 248 | 95.5 KLOS | KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) | 499 |
| 2001 | 1248 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2010 | 440 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2011 | 872 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 914 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 956 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 749 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 752 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) | 885 |
| 2015 | 965 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2020 | 770 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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