Love Painted Black, but that\'s probably because it was in every Vietnam movie or tv show ever made - and that\'s all I watched as a kid. I personally don\'t hate them, I just can\'t stand Jagger\'s voice after 30 seconds. And I don\'t understand how people put them on the same level as The Beatles...it\'s not even close.
Paint It Black is a fantastic song, but Eric Burdon & the New Animals did the definitive version of it - they take it to planes the Stones couldn\'t even dream about.
I have to admit to liking a lot of the Stones\' hits, but the actual albums drag and Jagger\'s voice, as has been said, is irritating, so I\'ve never replaced any of my vinyl and cassette copies from 25 years ago, other than buying the greatest hits on CD.
Now the Pretty Things on the other hand, they were (and are) still all about real rock \'n\'roll and their antics in the day made the Stones look like the Take That of the r\'n\'b scene. Then, when they went psychedelic and produced \'SF Sorrow\' and then \'Parachute\', they eclipsed everything the Stones ever did. And to think that Dick Taylor left the Stones to go to college because he thought they weren\'t going anywhere... he may have lost the chance of fame and fortune, but at least retained his artistic integrity.