# Best single song representation of these four groups **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 8, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282 "2024-02-08T02:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/21 "2024-02-08T09:12:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Rolling Stones > Queen > The Who > The Beatles Satisfaction Champions Baba Sgt. Pepper ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/22 "2024-02-08T09:20:58Z")
The Rolling Stones - _Can’t You Hear Me Knocking_ Queen - _Don’t Stop Me Now_ The Who - _Pinball Wizard_ The Beatles - _Eleanor Rigby_ Predictably, it was an easy choice for The Who and The Rolling Stones (the songs I picked are pretty much the only ones I like), a more difficult one for Queen (I considered half a dozen possibilities), and a nearly impossible one for The Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/23 "2024-02-08T09:57:02Z")
The Rolling Stones - **Sympathy for the Devil** Queen - **A Kind of Magic** The Who - **Baba O’Riley** The Beatles - **Penny Lane** ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/24 "2024-02-08T10:24:18Z")
Paint It, Black Somebody To Love Won’t Get Fooled Again A Day in the Life ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/25 "2024-02-08T11:26:25Z")
Gimme Shelter Tie Your Mother Down Go to the Mirror Strawberry Fields ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/26 "2024-02-08T11:37:35Z")
(I can’t get no) Satisfaction Bohemian Rhapsody Who are you Yesterday ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/27 "2024-02-08T11:47:57Z")
Skipping over all other posts to give an uninfluenced answer. The Rolling Stones - Heartbreaker Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now The Who - Bargain The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/28 "2024-02-08T11:57:25Z")
Honky Tonk Women Seven Seas of Rhye Won’t Get Fooled Again Eleanor Rigby ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/29 "2024-02-08T12:22:24Z")
First impulse answers: The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody The Who - My Generation The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand mmm ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/30 "2024-02-08T12:25:55Z")
Satisfaction Bohemian Rhapsody Won’t Get Fooled Again I Feel Fine The first three popped into my head instantly. The Beatles not so much. Hard to choose just one. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/31 "2024-02-08T13:02:05Z")
The Rolling Stones - Live with Me Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls The Who - Anyone, Anyhow, Anywhere The Beatles - Rain (Also, for the Stones, check out the little-known “Miss Amanda Jones,” off the Jan.1967 album _Between the Buttons_. It’s the first song to have that trademark Stones style that they still have even today.) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/32 "2024-02-08T13:17:53Z")
Stones - Shattered Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now Who - Substitute Beatles - I Feel Fine ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/33 "2024-02-08T13:18:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > what single song from these four groups best represents them over all Some of you must be interpreting this differently from me. I’m thinking “best represents them over all” would mean that if you played that song for someone who had never heard anything by the group, it would give them a reasonably good idea of what the group sounds like, what their music is in general. And, with the possible exception of The Stones, these are groups with a specific lineup, whose members all make important contributions, so I would want to pick a song that all members made significant contributions to. Off the top of my head, Satisfaction Bohemian Rhapsody Won’t Get Fooled Again A Day In the Life seem like reasonable choices, but if I thought longer I might change my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/34 "2024-02-08T14:15:24Z")
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil Queen - Fat Bottom Girls The Who - Won’t Be Fooled Again The Beatles - Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/35 "2024-02-08T14:22:25Z")
The Rolling Stones: **Sympathy For The Devil** Queen: **Bohemian Rapsody** (Easiest one) The Who: **Baba O’Reilly** (Pretty easy choice) The Beatles: **Impossible to pick just one.** Sorry. Hell that might be the whole genius of the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/36 "2024-02-08T14:27:36Z")
Stones - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking Queen - The Prophet’s Song The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again Beatles - Get Back ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/37 "2024-02-08T14:27:41Z")
The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter Queen: Killer Queen The Who: Baba O’Reilly (“Teenage Wasteland”) The Beatles: A Day in the Life ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/38 "2024-02-08T14:36:59Z")
Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction This song has all the “attitude” that you expect in a Stones song Queen - We are the Champions Highlights Freddie Mercury’s vocals as well as any song, plus the guitar of Brain May Who - Behind Blue Eyes - The emotion and pathos of the voice and the virtuosity of the guitar and drum parts Beatles - Strawberry Fields - I can’t really articulate why I chose this, but it just seems the most Beatle-like song. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/39 "2024-02-08T14:51:29Z")
Scanning through the thread, I see songs like Yesterday, Hey Jude, and Eleanor Rigby. Perhaps I’m reading the OP wrong but I don’t get how songs that are almost 100% the work of Paul McCartney can be the best “representation” of the Beatles. This isn’t a “best” or “favorite” song poll, is it? @zimaane ’s post above this is the kind of analysis I thought the OP was looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282/40 "2024-02-08T15:18:10Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Scanning through the thread, I see songs like Yesterday, Hey Jude, and Eleanor Rigby. Perhaps I’m reading the OP wrong but I don’t get how songs that are almost 100% the work of Paul McCartney can be the best “representation” of the Beatles. This isn’t a “best” or “favorite” song poll, is it? I was thinking the same. So, let me start with the Rolling Stones. I’m looking for a song that has… - some blues progression - Nicky Hopkins on his iconic piano - greasy slide guitar - Mick Jagger yelling, plus suggestive lyrics - Keith Richards with a one, four, five chord progression somewhere in the song - the band slurring behind the beat somewhere I mean, there are a million Stones songs that don’t match that philosophy, but that’s what I’m going with as representative, and the song that I think contains all of that is [Monkey Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8uVSzVY8kQ) from “Let It Bleed.” But I admit I was also tempted by Midnight Rambler. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-song-representation-of-these-four-groups/997282.md?page=3)