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“Dancing With Mr. D” by The Rolling Stones
From the album Goats Head Soup (1973)
“Dancing With Mr. D” by The Rolling Stones appears on 10 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1999 and 2019. It was first released in 1973 on the album Goats Head Soup. Its best result is #229 on the KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,658 alternative song of all time.
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"Dancing with Mr. D." is the first thing you hear on Goats Head Soup, the Rolling Stones' 1973 album, and it sets the mood right away: murky, funky and faintly sinister. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it, Jimmy Miller produced it, and Richards drives the whole thing with one riff that he hammers again and again until it sounds like a curse.
Jagger's words flirt with a graveyard lover who might be a succubus or might be Death himself, and they turn inward more than his old devil-baiting in "Sympathy for the Devil". Against that, the band's backing vocals and the steady chug of the chorus keep the dance going. After the sprawl of Exile on Main St., it's a sharp preview of the tighter, studio-bound Stones of the years to come.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1178 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1180 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1177 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1176 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1161 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1161 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2004 | 229 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) | 923 |
| 2005 | 1161 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2019 | 571 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 571 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
Also listed as: Dancin' With Mr. D; Dancing with Mr. D.
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