What is the Signature Song by the Rolling Stones?

[scabpicker]

@John_Mace

Word, man! California Deamin’ all the way!!!

That thing! You did it there!
Just so I can be totally wrong in the metaphysical sense, Dedicated to the One I Love. Short, sweet, and dynamic.

But while I’m disagreeing agreeably with WordMan, and want to continue my wrong streak: Zep’s definition is Ramble On (It’s got the acoustic work, really rocks out, and references Tolkien pretty directly. Zep trifecta.)

[Uosdwis_R.Dewoh]

@Happy_Lendervedder

CCR, Bad Moon Rising

It has to be Fortunate son. It’s pretty much the signature song for an entire war. You can’t have a Vietnam movie without it.

[Johanna]

@buddha_david

On the other side of the spectrum, there’s bands like Genesis – do they even have a signature song???

I think so. Genesis is the name of two or three completely different bands, so it needs 2 or 3 answers. Genesis[sub]1[/sub] had Peter Gabriel. Genesis[sub]2 being the two albums that Steve Hackett stuck around for; this brief interval harked back to the Gabriel era mostly, but then was transitional to Genesis[sub]3[/sub], the trio which is the only Genesis most people know of.

Genesis[sub]1[/sub]: definitely “The Carpet Crawlers,” which over time emerged as the most beloved song of that era. It was the song that got Gabriel to reunite with them.
Genesis[sub]2[/sub]: probably nothing; maybe “Squonk.”
Genesis[sub]3[/sub]: I don’t know, I never listened to them after they were three. You tell me?

[buddha_david]

@Johanna

Genesis[sub]1[/sub]: definitely “The Carpet Crawlers,” which over time emerged as the most beloved song of that era. It was the song that got Gabriel to reunite with them.
Genesis[sub]2[/sub]: probably nothing; maybe “Squonk.”
Genesis[sub]3[/sub]: I don’t know, I never listened to them after they were three. You tell me?

There is NO Genesis[sub]3[/sub]. They never existed. Oh, sure, there was some horrible Marillion-clone band in the late 90’s that sang songs about Shipwrecks in the Congo and had a remarkably similar name, but they had NOTHING to do with the real Genesis, uh-uh, no way.

Hmm, for Genesis[sub]2[/sub] it could be “Turn it on Again” or “Abacab”, or maybe even “Invisible Touch” (loathe as I am to admit it.)

[Lobot]

Johanna was referring to the fourpiece as Genesis[sub]2[/sub]. I’d say “Los Endos”.

For Genesis[sub]3[/sub], I’d say “Invisible Touch”. I mean, the Duke suite is their artistic peak as a threepiece, but that’s not the question.

[elbows]

The Who: My Generation!
(Hope I die, before I get old!)

[alted315]

@scabpicker

Hmm, Satisfaction is a good song, but I’ve always considered Can’t You Hear Me Knocking to be the song that says “Stones” to me.

Here here I agree most wholeheartedly it’s got every aspect they make the stones the greatest band in the world[/]

[blondebear]

I don’t think there can be much debate about Deep Purple’s signature song. Do I have to even write it down?

[Johanna]

@blondebear

I don’t think there can be much debate about Deep Purple’s signature song. Do I have to even write it down?

Nope. Funky Claude can tell you all about it.

[Mangosteen]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

Here’s a tough one: Lynyrd Skynyrd. Is it “Free Bird” or “Sweet Home Alabama”?

Gimme Three Steps

[Wallaby]

@buddha_david

AC/DC –> wow, tough one. Call it a 3-way tie between “Back in Black”, “Dirty Deeds” and “Heaven and Hell”.

Sorry - from the Aus perspective (and we have a lot of say in this) - it’s ‘Long WaY To The Top’.

It wasn’t always - but it’s become synonomous with AC/DC due to a variety of factors.

[Lobot]

@Wallaby

Sorry - from the Aus perspective (and we have a lot of say in this) - it’s ‘Long WaY To The Top’.

It wasn’t always - but it’s become synonomous with AC/DC due to a variety of factors.

The iconic Countdown video, for one.

[K364]

@Happy_Lendervedder

Stones is definitely Satisfaction.

CCR, Bad Moon Rising

@Uosdwis_R.Dewoh

It has to be Fortunate son. It’s pretty much the signature song for an entire war. You can’t have a Vietnam movie without it.

I would say Proud Mary

[the_diego]

I don’t even know a Nazareth song beside “Love Hurts.”
Beach Boys - I get Around
The Four Seasons - Cherry
America - I Need You
The Zombies - Time of the Season
Cascades - Rhythm of the Rain
Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand (first hit in North America)
The Association - Windy
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
Everly Brothers - I’ll Do My Crying in the Rain
Don Maclean - American Pie
Jim Croce - I Got a Name
Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Barry Manilow - I Can’t Smile Without You
Donny and Marie - I’m a Little Bit Country/Rock and Roll
Andy Williams - Moon River
John Denver - Leaving on a Jet Plane

[syncrolecyne]

“Satisfaction” is the one Stones’ song that everyone instantly recognizes, its usually the closing or encore number at the shows (Jumping Jack Flash often opens it), its their most quoted, covered, and parodied song. Whether it is the best representative of their work is another story (I’d personally pick “Let It Bleed” as the quintessential Stones song).

To me, signature songs represent the defining work of a solo vocalists rather than a band. With the Beatles, I’d say “Yesterday” for Paul. John is trickier as he had a defining signature song after the Beatles with “Imagine.” George is probably “Something.” Ringo, “With a Little Help From My Friends.” I suspect most Americans of the 1960s generation tend to see “I Want to Hold Your Hand” as a signature song, in the UK, “She Loves You” may be their signature song together. Perhaps in other countries, their first big epic hit is the song…did the Beatles break through with other singles elsewhere?

[drad_dog]

You guys are trippin…

Creedence is Proud Mary
Deep Purple is Highway Star
Genesis is Suppers Ready.
Genesis2 would be with Steve Hackett, but no Gabriel. They don’t have one.
The Beatles must be an early song before the division between Lennon and Mccartney set in.

[drad_dog]

@pulykamell

For Talking Heads, it surely would be “One in a Lifetime,” no? I guess, for my definition of “signature song” it would be.

It is “Psycho Killer”

[pulykamell]

@drad_dog

It is “Psycho Killer”

:smack: How did that one slip my mind? I agree.

[Cyros]

@drad_dog

It is “Psycho Killer”

Qu’est-ce que c’est?

[ISiddiqui]

@buddha_david

Green Day –> “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” is probably the one, if only because 90% of people don’t know the real title. I’d personally pick “Longview” or “Jesus of Suburbia”.

You are probably right, but “Basket Case” gives “Good Riddance” a run for it’s money, IMO.