'Gimme Shelter'

Rock and roll fans have been terribly mislead. We've fallen victim to the assumption that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were the two coolest Rolling Stones. Jagger I'll give you. But Richards? Please. He was a cartoon character, all hype and little payoff.

The Rolling Stones cool rankings:

1. Brian Jones

2. Charlie Watts

3. Mick Jagger

4. Mick Taylor

5. Keith Richards

6. Ron Wood

7. Bill Wyman

Watts is especially interesting to watch. In fact, it's kind of his and Jagger's film. And Watts was always the quiet one, but it's clear now that he's one of the coolest. And he's also a really good drummer, which is evident in the concert footage.

Wyman's bassline in "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is glorious.

Jagger is just great. He is perpetually jerking off the crowd trying to get them off one at a time and only stops when the show's over. This is epitomized in the footage of Ike and Tina Turner when the latter is literally stroking the microphone like it's a phallus.

The film also chronicles the death rattle of the hippie era, the 1960s: Altamont. They're a very interesting, over stereotyped subset of people. Clearly, they didn't have their shit together. Not that a ton of people did in the 1960s, but just saying.