The ENTIRE Rolling Stones discography

Now that the Stones' mono box set is imminent -- rounding up (nearly) their entire pre-1970 output -- I went ahead and put together a list of EVERYthing (officially released) by The Stones you might ever want.  This does not include the bonus tracks on the recent deluxe editions of "Sticky Fingers," "Exile On Main Street" or "Some Girls," the live archival releases that have come out in the past several years, nor videos and bootlegs.  I am also not taking into account most alternate mixes (i.e. mono v. stereo, or the weird mix of "Ruby Tuesday" that cropped up on the 2002 SACD reissues, or the elusive stereo "Have You Seen Your Mother...").  This is simply the most expedient way to get their entire, officially released output.

-These songs from the 1965 UK EP Got Live If You Want It are missing from the new mono box: a snippet of crowd chanting ("We Want The Stones"), a snippet of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," and the song "Pain in My Heart"

-"Tell Me": there's actually two versions of this song, one without piano (2:52, briefly released) and one with (4:06, but edited down significantly -- or faded differently -- on certain releases).  Early pressings of the UK debut album mistakenly included the 2:52 version; all subsequent releases have featured the long version with piano. The long version also appeared on second pressings (and beyond) of the UK LP after the mistake was corrected. Most versions of this tune contain an edit of the long version, which fades out around 3:48 on the new mono box.

-"Schoolboy Blues" (aka "C--ksucker Blues"), "Tell Me Baby," "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Memphis Tennessee": These are outtakes that somehow were released on various foreign compilations (such as the German “The Rest of the Best: Rolling Stones Story Part 2,” which attempted to do what “Stray Cats” has done). "Tell Me Baby" was recorded at Chess Records in Chicago, and is an entirely different song than the one from the band's debut album (profiled above)... but it's still listed as "Tell Me" in some places.  "Memphis" and "Da Doo" are pretty weak early recordings.  "Schoolboy Blues" was on a bonus 45 in the set.  The Stones quickly had the set reissued without the 45.

-"Memo from Turner"/"Natural Magic": Two songs from the 1970 film “Performance,” starring Mick Jagger.  The A-side is essentially a Stones+Ry Cooder recording (and was included on the 1990 London Singles box), but was originally released as a Mick Jagger solo single.  The b-side is a brief, modern-sounding instrumental by Jack Nitzsche.  These likely weren’t included in the new mono boxed set because they were released only in stereo.

-Metamorphosis (1975): An officially released collection of Decca-era outtakes.  (Note that this includes a completely different recording of "Memo From Turner."  Also, the original US version had 14 tracks, while the UK had 16.  The 2002 SACD's contains all 16 tracks).

-Live albums: Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (1970; released as a deluxe boxed set in 2009), Love You Live (1977), Still Life (1982), Flashpoint (1991), Stripped (1995), No Security (1998)

-The Rolling Stones Singles 1971-2006 features all the b-sides and remixes you could ever want (except, inexplicably, the 1996 "Wild Horses" single from "Stripped," which features several bonus cuts)... highlights include Let It Rock (live, 1971), Sway (single mix, 1971), All Down the Line (single mix, 1972), Everything's Turning To Gold (1978), Highwire (1991), Jump On Top of Me (1994).

-The Rolling Stones 1971-2005 boxed set features all the band's albums from Sticky Fingers through A Bigger Bang.

-Two compilations feature new songs: 2002's Forty Licks ("Stealing My Heart," "Don't Stop," "Keys to Your Love," "Losing My Touch") and 2012's GRRRR ("Doom and Gloom" and "One More Shot")

-The deluxe edition of GRRRR also includes a bonus CD of IBC demos from 1963 ("Diddley Daddy," "Road Runner," "Bright Lights, Big City," "Baby, What's Wrong," "I Want to Be Loved") and a bonus 7" vinyl EP of 1964 BBC sessions ("Route 66," "Cops and Robbers," "You Better Move On," "Mona (I Need You Baby)").  The 1981 book "Symphony For the Devil" by Philip Norman includes details on these cuts.

-The 1981 compilation "Sucking in the Seventies" includes edits of many b-sides and hit singles, plus two "new" songs: a smoking "When the Whip Comes Down" (live in Detroit, 6 July 1978) and "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" (this song is also on the 2003 "Rarities" album; it's a remixed version of the opening cut from "Emotional Rescue").

Or you might just decide this is still too much, in which case you could probably get the cream of the crop by purchasing "The London Singles Collection," "Beggar's Banquet," "Let It Bleed," "Sticky Fingers," "Exile On Main Street" and the hits compilation "Jump Back."  The live "Brussels Affair 1973" isn't a bad investment, either.

NOTE: There's some discussion going on at AnalogPlanet about the "deluxe" edition of the mono box, which includes 9 vinyl singles.