My Top 1000 Songs #59: You Can't Always Get What You Want

I realize some Stones fans blanch at the song's excesses, but for me, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" was the band's first true epic, the song that confirmed that, like the Beatles, they could operate in a sphere far beyond mere mortals.

Yes, by the time of 1969's Let It Bleed--the first of their incomparable Mick Taylor era--the Stones already had an astounding run of perfect singles. And the (underrated) psychedelic lark Satanic Majesties Request showed the band pushing at the boundaries o...