Oh yeah, definitely, I agree with you that their best work was with Mick Taylor. I have a really bizarre affinity for Emotional Rescue, though; I think it was because it was the first record I was ever given as a gift.
The two Stone's songs that usually get suck in my head are Tumbling Dice and Brown Sugar. Catchy riffs.
I love Emotional Rescue too - I can recall Dad putting on a falsetto and singing 'You could be mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, all mine
You could be mine, could be mine, could be mine, all mine' and spinning me round theroom like an idiot. I can hear him now.
Yeahhhhh I hear Tumbling Dice a lot as well!!! And now you mention Emotional REscue I'm having a bit of a listen again - She's So Cold! Funny thing I would have been singing my heart out to this as a kid with no idea of what the lyrics meant lol!
When my Dad was super ill and we thought he was going to die I remember my sister saying irrationally, in tears 'I'll never be able to listen to the Rolling sTones ever again' and us both laughing in a kinda black way. But whenever I listen to them they kinda cheer me up so I reckon even when he does pop his clogs I'll just smile and remember him. Besides, it's been a while since he's listened to them, as he said the other day!