Many of you have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Stones, their music, and their lives. Some of you are musicians who may play many Stones songs at your gigs. But can you honestly say you could recognize a brand new Stones song, after having heard only a few opening chords(not hearing Jagger's distinctive voice)? I believe I could do so with 100% accuracy. If you think you could do it, say so, and tell us how you would be able to do it.

Yup!
because I know

Nope can't recognize a thing till the DJ reads back the play list ........



ROCKMAN

Always...though I am sometimes fooled by MJ solo stuff, because I never bought them. I have to remind myself there aren't any Stones releases I have never heard.

I'll hum a few bars of something: "Hmm Hmm Hm Hm-hm hmmhmm-hmhmm"

Anyone got it yet?

The very first time I heard Brown Sugar, on the radio, I thought "holy shit, it's the new Stones tune!!!"

most of the time. take this new release, i dont think anyone would recognize following the river as a stones song, but the other tracks, definitely.

No sweat

Go Dawgs!

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I'll hum a few bars of something: "Hmm Hmm Hm Hm-hm hmmhmm-hmhmm"

Anyone got it yet?

That sounds like Loving Cup....... Am I right?

You got the Sun, You got the Moon,
and you've got
The Rolling Stones

flilflam..yea..I think I could recognize a Stones song..but need a wee bit more time than a few seconds.

yes, I think I could

I'am in let the games begin
Hit me...

If the intro is done by Jagger and/or Richards it's probably easier to guess quickly. If the intro is played by the keyboard player(Chuck,Nicky,Bill, Ian) that could be more tricky. But Mick's voice and Keith's guitar have a Pavlov's dog effect on us!!! It's in us, that's what 10000 hours (or more) of listening to Stones music does to someone; we can't help it.
Rock and Roll,
Mops

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schillid
I'll hum a few bars of something: "Hmm Hmm Hm Hm-hm hmmhmm-hmhmm"

Anyone got it yet?

That sounds like Loving Cup....... Am I right?

No... it was Satisfaction

I don't think I would have recognised tracks like Aladdins Story or maybe Heaven

I would recognize nr 5

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Yup...I can name that band in 4 notes....

A few years ago I heard this song for the first time on tne radio and was able to identify it as a Stones song. My wife was impressed. The first ten seconds, before Jagger begins singing, is pure Stones. It is impossible to put it into words, but I knew after the first ten seconds it was the Stones. No doubt about it.

No, I consider myself hardcore, but the truth is if it is not the typical Keith guitar, the typical Charlie snare, how would anyone recognize it? Without Jagger's voice how would anyone know "Continental; Drift" is the Stones?
I would think it horrible if they were so predictable.
On the other hand, and this has happened to me several times, I have heard a brand new track that I did not know was the Stones, and I immediatley dug it! This has proven to me that the Stones love is for real: when I love it without even knowing it is the Stones. I will never forget hearing "Emotional Rescue" the first time> I am in a car in Holland with my brother, and he is talking, talking, and I am trying to concentrate on this new funky sound that is grabbing me, and pulling me in. Then Jagger's "real" voice comes in and I jump up "It's the new Stones!". And I was a kid at that time.