No. 3: ‘Paint It, Black’ – Top 100 Rolling Stones Songs

Coming in at No. 3 on our Top 100 Rolling Stones songs list is a tune we all can't help but love, one set in chromatic-minor that was released as the first single off the US version of the album 'Aftermath.'

'Paint It, Black' is a great song blessed with a signature guitar riff, great bass, tremendous lyrics and a sitar which makes it stand out from other Stones tunes... to no complaint of ours.

Being about a girl's funeral, Paint It Black's sound is heavily attributed to two things: the bass pedal, played by Bill Wyman -- who decided to play it with his fists in order to 'fatten' up the bass sound -- as well as the sitar used by Brian Jones.

Watch The Rolling Stones Perform 'Paint It, Black'