I have seen the Stones numerous times in concert over the years and I am really hoping for a 2012 tour announcement. Today while thinking where I wanted to go to see them in 2012 I started thinking about the set list I would want to hear. I know the Stones always have an opening act, but in 2011 I saw "Sir Paul' perform in Chicago without an opening act and he did about 35 songs. So I thought what would be my dream set list of 35 songs (assuming no opening act) that I would want to see the Stones perform. What a hard task but this is what I came up with as you can see I went with 37 songs and had to leave a bunch of songs off the list.

Not all of these songs are favorites of mine but wanted a good mix of 50 years of music. This is my set list, now tell me yours.

01. Sympathy For The Devil
02. 19th Neverous Breakdown
03. Can't Always Get What You Want
04. Jumpin Jack Flash
05. Bitch
06. Star Star
07. She's So Cold
08. Let's Spend The Night Together
09. Shattered
10. Brown Sugar
11. Paint It Black
12. Ruby Tuesday
13. Waiting On a Friend
14. Happy (Keith on vocals)
15. Before They Make Me Run (Keith on vocals)
16. Tumbling Dice
17. Memory Motel
18. Gimme Shelter

19. Continental Drift/Start Me Up
20. Get Off My Cloud
21. Mother's Little Helper
22. Out Of Tears
23. It's Only Rock n Roll
24. Miss You
25. Saint Of Me
26. Mixed Emotions
27. Love Is Strong
28. Out Of Control
29. Beast Of Burden
30. Angie
31. Just My Imagination
32. Satisfaction
33. You Got The Silver (Keith on vocals)
34. Thief In The Night (Kieth on vocals)
35. Time Is On My Side
36. Honky Tonk Women
37. Salt Of The Earth

*** Honorble mentions I had to leave off ***

Midnight Rambler
Sweet Virginia
Undercover
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Sweet Black Angel
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
Fool To Cry
No Spare Parts
Sway
Can't Yo Hear Me Knocking
Thru And Thru (Keith on vocals)
Black Limousine
Respectable
Worried About You
Jive sister Fanny
Too Tough
I Go Wild
Poison Ivy (Coasters cover)
Drift Away (Dobie Gray cover)

A 35-song set would take them over three and a half hours.

Never mind what songs I want them to play, I'll just be glad they're all still alive at the end of the night.

Mine would be:

1. Not Fade Away
2. Carol
3. I Just Wanna Make Love to You
4. Down The Road Apiece
5. The Last Time
6. Satisfaction
7. Paint It, Black
8. She Smiled Sweetly
9. Jumpin Jack Flash
10. Gimme Shelter

11. You Got The Silver
12. Happy

13. Honky Tonk Women
14. Brown Sugar
15. Can You Hear Me Knockin
16. Tumbling Dice
17. Shine A Light
18. Angie
19. Silver Train
20. It's Only Rock'n'Roll
21. Fingerprint File
22. Memory Motel
23. Miss You
24. Sart Me Up
25. Waiting On A Friend
26. One Hit
27. Already Over Me
28. Saint of Me
29. Rough Justice
30. Let Me Down Slow

Encore: Salt Of The Earth

My suggestion:

.1 come on
.2 not fade away
.3 it's all over now
.4 meet me in the bottom
.5 jumpin'jack flash'
.6 jig saw puzzle
.7 2000 man
.8 brown sugar
.9 travellin'man
.10 coming down again
.11 winter
.12 through the lonely nights / angie
.13 when the whip comes down
.14 claudine
.15 do ya think I really care?
.16 dead flowers
.17 all about you (keith)
.18 sing me back home (keith)
.19 shattered
.20 around and around
.21 she said yeah / satisfaction
.22 miss amanda jones
.23 reelin and a rockin'
.24 you can't always get what you want
.25 moonlight mile (reworked version with Ron on Pedal Steel instead violins...)

Like your choices - i thought about putting "Not Fade Away" on my cover list, because they do a great job with that one, but honestly I have to say The Dead covers that one the best. I decided to leave all covers out of my set list which was a hard decision since a lot of the R&B cover material they did was fantastic.

Also to Gazza - yes it would take that long but McCartney did it in 2011 and the concert just flew by and I had a 2.5 hour drive afterwards. That's why you can't have an opening act. BTW, that was my first McCartney show. I didn't even want to go but the wife did. I was glad I went it was very good so if you get a chance to go I would recommend it. The light show around Live and Let die was amazing.

Nice to give Midnight Rambler an honorable mention, but without it you get no support from me.

I'd love to. but he plays nowhere near me!

Paul's playing with younger and healthier musicians, though. A 4-piece band doesn't have that luxury.

Ok, I'll play along as all of us have done on numerous "fantasy" set lists threads. I'll keep mine to 20 since I don't think the band can play more than 20 in one night anymore. I will not include any tracks from the Exile outtakes or the Some Girls outtakes. Sorry, it will still lean heavily on hits as well songs I have never heard them play live and would like to see and hear performed.

1. Start Me Up (still the best opener)
2. Respectable
3. Shattered
4. All Down the Line
5. She Was Hot
6. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
7. No Expectations
8. Sweet Virginia
9. Dance Little Sister
10. Before They Make Me Run (only one Keith song this time)
11. Paint It, Black
12. Gimme Shelter
13. Sympathy For the Devil
14. Brown Sugar
15. Jumpin' Jack Flash
16. Street Fighting Man
17. Satisfaction
18. Sway/Time Waits For No One (my dream for Taylor to walk on and play it well)
19. Honky Tonk Women
20. Midnight Rambler

Child of the Moon

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Gazza
A 35-song set would take them over three and a half hours.

Never mind what songs I want them to play, I'll just be glad they're all still alive at the end of the night.

Amen brother.

Lets be realistic. Its gunna be 17-18 songs.

I think they might throw in a few Exile outtakes and one some girls outts.

Make sure Dork Matthews doesn't ruin Memory Motel like in St Louis 1997 and Bono (pronounce BONO like Sonny BONO) doesn't ruin IORR like in Chicago 2002!

always wondered why the stones included extra long live versions of songs like you cant always get what you want when they could chuck in 3 or 4 short versions of early classic hits and in the process increase the set list, compressing the length of some of their songs and replacing with other songs and shorter songs could easily see a 30+ set list instead of 19 or 20 songs. would give more variety to the tour and keep us moaning stones fans happy