Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! — The Rolling Stones’ peak live album, recorded at Madison Square Garden

Most fans and critics point to Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! as the definitive document of the Stones at their live peak. It was recorded over two nights in November 1969 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during the tour that followed Let It Bleed and just before Altamont. The shows captured a band that had morphed from blues-obsessed kids into a swaggering, unstoppable rock machine — raw, loud, and dangerous.

The album includes what many consider the definitive live version of “Midnight Rambler,” stretched into a seven-minute blues noir epic. It was also the first official Stones live LP with Mick Taylor on guitar, whose fluid solos gave the band a new kind of fire. The title came from an old blues phrase, and the cover photo — a shot of the band’s stage banner — cemented the album’s unpretentious, in-the-trenches vibe.