The Rolling Stones "Wild Horses" is one my favorite songs in general. It's just one of those songs that's hard to explain to others why you like it so much :)
It's hard to see the Stones as anything other than a parody of themselves these days, but when the history of this era is written I think it will be said that Mick Jagger knew how to sing a song. Besides being a very good blues singer, he had the ability to put himself in a character while singing and this emotion/feeling call it what you will translated very well through the recording process. The whole phenomenon might be roughly equated to what an opera singer does, not in a technical voice sense but in a sense where there is a sort of a coming together of both acting and singing in a way that gets under the skin of the listener.
No question you hear this in Wild Horses as well as many other of their better songs.
Some of the more recent Stones stuff is still damn good.
"Almost Hear You Sigh" is a good power ballad by the Stones. :)
Like the *Flying Burrito Brothers* version better. But the Stones and Mick were great in their day. I would never waste my money seeing them in concert these days. Though I would see Van Morrison, Neil Young, Dylan, Eric Clapton especially Cream
There are great concert bootlegs of the Stones during the Mick Taylor years