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In this thread I rank my favorite Rolling Stones songs: 204-1: Four Musketeers Get Their Ya-Yas Out (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Dr. Octopus
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
The picket fence in front of my house is made entirely of elevens...........You know how I feel about 11. It is the right number for this. Nice!
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
Oh yeah, to your fellow Dr.!
I like the country Mick - hated country Paul.
Wadin' through the waste stormy winter
And there's not a friend to help you through
Tryin' to stop the waves behind your eyeballs
Drop your reds, drop your greens and blues
The 3 primary colors. Nice catch!
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
i'll be away from comps all next week and just realized that might collide with the Top 10 here 
otb_lifer
Footballguy
das' ok ... your 2 aliaiiiiiii (me and MoCS) will do our best to bust Doctopus' ballsi'll be away from comps all next week and just realized that might collide with the Top 10 here
no, but, srsly - your input will be missed very much - hope all is well.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
more than well - it's the semi-annual week my sis switches out w me to care for the peeps and i leave this tomb for her digs on the shore. i go comp-free cuz that makes it the most refreshingly opposite
otb_lifer
Footballguy
i wanna fly up, put my tootsies in the sand, and hoist a few with ya
glad to hear it's a vacay for you ... enjoy, relax, refresh, recharge!
you deserve it - we'll leave a light on for ya
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
25. Sway
Year: 1971
US Album: Sticky Fingers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“It’s just that demon life that’s got me in its sway”
This song grabs you by the throat right from the start and holds on. This song epitomizes my love for the Mick Taylor era as his bottleneck slide guitar through the bridge is only bettered by his virtuoso outro solo.
However, it’s also the deep lyrics that capture you:
“Did you ever wake up to find, a day that broke up your mind. Destroyed your notion of circular time.”
Mick plays rhythm guitar on this song, his first electric guitar performance on a recording. Keith does not play guitar but adds his typical great backing vocals joined by Pete Townsend, Billy Nichols and Ronnie Lane.
Year: 1971
US Album: Sticky Fingers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“It’s just that demon life that’s got me in its sway”
This song grabs you by the throat right from the start and holds on. This song epitomizes my love for the Mick Taylor era as his bottleneck slide guitar through the bridge is only bettered by his virtuoso outro solo.
However, it’s also the deep lyrics that capture you:
“Did you ever wake up to find, a day that broke up your mind. Destroyed your notion of circular time.”
Mick plays rhythm guitar on this song, his first electric guitar performance on a recording. Keith does not play guitar but adds his typical great backing vocals joined by Pete Townsend, Billy Nichols and Ronnie Lane.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
24. Let's Spend the Night Together
Year: 1967
US Album: Between the Buttons
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Don't you worry 'bout what's on your mind (oh my)
I'm in no hurry I can take my time (oh my)
I'm going red and my tongue's getting tied (tongues' getting tied)
I'm off my head and my mouth's getting dry.
I'm high, but I try, try, try (oh my)
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together now”
Can you imagine a time where lyrics as innocent as “Let’s spend the night together” were too dirty for the masses?
From wiki:
As far as the song goes, this is a perfect pop song. A catchy melody, Nitzsche’s piano and Jones’ hammond organ driving the song along, Charlie's glorious rolling drum fills and harmonious backing vocals. I can listen to this on a loop all day.
Year: 1967
US Album: Between the Buttons
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Don't you worry 'bout what's on your mind (oh my)
I'm in no hurry I can take my time (oh my)
I'm going red and my tongue's getting tied (tongues' getting tied)
I'm off my head and my mouth's getting dry.
I'm high, but I try, try, try (oh my)
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together now”
Can you imagine a time where lyrics as innocent as “Let’s spend the night together” were too dirty for the masses?
From wiki:
As far as the song goes, this is a perfect pop song. A catchy melody, Nitzsche’s piano and Jones’ hammond organ driving the song along, Charlie's glorious rolling drum fills and harmonious backing vocals. I can listen to this on a loop all day.
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
When i think of Gram Parsons influence on the the Stones, it's the upcoming song which many said he wrote and Sway that i think of. I dont necessarily consider that a good thing. But the lesser Mick is the greater Mick in this'n and that's fo sho.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Hipple away when you get back. I'll do my best to drag it out a little. Enjoy your downtime.wikkidpissah said:i'll be away from comps all next week and just realized that might collide with the Top 10 here
otb_lifer
Footballguy
it's arguably their greatest pure pop song - i'm sure i'll change my mind once "Rainbow" pops up, because Jonesy and the toy piannerDr. Octopus said:
but, yeah ... in all their glory all through this one, glad it cracked the top 25 - im'ma loop this during my afternoon run - pending a "Rainbow" slotting, natch ...
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Can't help but think about Sullivan steppin on this when i think of it.Dr. Octopus said:
But the song has a new life in my mind now. In my favorite go-nowhere project that i've referenced before - my movie sequel of Breakfast at Tiffany's - Holly Golightly's daughter is a Chelsea Hotel girl who sings angry piano-bar versions of 60s rock songs at NY cabarets and is just hot & original enough to get away with it. One night, she does a rough job on another yet-to-be-listed Stones song and an offended businessman gets up to leave in disgust. Tiffany quickly switches to Let's Spend the Night Together in a mocking attempt to get him to sit back down and ends up chasing him out da bar, yelling "now i need you more than ever, oo-oo-oo' and catching him and rubbing him up on the way out. This chick is the best thing i ever wrote and i can't do a blasted thing with it...
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Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
23. Winter
Year: 1973
US Album: Goats Head Soup
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“It sure been a hard, hard winter
My feet been draggin' 'cross the ground
And I hope it's gonna be a long hot summer
And a lotta love will be burnin' bright
And I wish I been out in California
When the lights on all the Christmas trees went out
But I been burnin' my bell, book and candle
And the restoration plays have all gone 'round”
Like “Moonlight Mile” a few songs back this one was credited to Jagger/Richards when, in reality, it was the two Micks that put this one together. Keith Richards doesn’t even appear on this track – Jagger plays rhythm guitar.
Ironically a song that paints the perfect picture of a cold dark Winter was recorded in sunny Jamaica.
Such a beautiful song. While the tone, lyrics and Mick's soulful delivery portray despair a closer look offers a celebration of the beauty of the season.
Mick Taylor recorded a cover version of the song with singer Carla Olsen that is very beautiful as well: Winter - Olson has a better singing voice than Mick but she can't capture the despair like Mick can - but Taylor really gets to let loose on this 11 plus minute version.
Year: 1973
US Album: Goats Head Soup
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“It sure been a hard, hard winter
My feet been draggin' 'cross the ground
And I hope it's gonna be a long hot summer
And a lotta love will be burnin' bright
And I wish I been out in California
When the lights on all the Christmas trees went out
But I been burnin' my bell, book and candle
And the restoration plays have all gone 'round”
Like “Moonlight Mile” a few songs back this one was credited to Jagger/Richards when, in reality, it was the two Micks that put this one together. Keith Richards doesn’t even appear on this track – Jagger plays rhythm guitar.
Ironically a song that paints the perfect picture of a cold dark Winter was recorded in sunny Jamaica.
Such a beautiful song. While the tone, lyrics and Mick's soulful delivery portray despair a closer look offers a celebration of the beauty of the season.
Mick Taylor recorded a cover version of the song with singer Carla Olsen that is very beautiful as well: Winter - Olson has a better singing voice than Mick but she can't capture the despair like Mick can - but Taylor really gets to let loose on this 11 plus minute version.
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
New one for me. Nice.
And:
... takes me waaaay back to this:
So - how do I join this Christmas tree bulb cabal?
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
There was a car dealership on Rte 114's car dealership row in the next town that went out of business. Since it was empty, the owner of the building let it out for the xmas season to a seller of Christmas implements & decorations. I was driving down this road with my house's denmother, Crazy Carol, and she was interested in some of the pieces in the window cuz she had a 13 room house to xmasize. She talked me into pulling in - i think she was a Salem witch cuz once she whispered into my ear a spell and i turned into a motel - and there was a bunch of plastic light-up Santas & reindeers dirt cheap so i bought em up. We hauled em up to the 2nd floor ballroom - the only place they wouldnt be in anyone's way and plugged em all in when it got dark and it was quite a site so we left em in there. When xmas was over, we put the tree lights along the wall. Some of the area's best musicians jammed in that room - late Boston drummer & The Rock's father-in-law Sib Hashian used to giggle with glee behind his kit in the Christmas Room.
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
OK - there's the 1st issue. Crazy Carol is bad enough, but on Christmas? That's one Crazy Christmas Carol!
You trip'n dude ...
... what does it feel like to be a motel? Cheap?This is actually very cool. I had my upstairs pool room done up with holiday lights & decorations for a few years. I still have a few strings hanging, but I took down the other decorations about 2 years ago.
krista4
Footballguy
Good god this was hideous. And Mr. krista and I had the temerity to criticize Paul McCartney for his "Rocky Raccoon" voice!
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
OK now - Paul is nowhere near as good as Mick in countrifing!
I think you need some wine and cheese.
krista4
Footballguy
Two I've always liked a lot.
One I didn't know and find intriguing.
And then we're at what I thought was my favorite Stones song, until this countdown. Now I have others in the mix.
rockaction
Footballguy
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
OK - there's the 1st issue. Crazy Carol is bad enough, but on Christmas? That's one Crazy Christmas Carol!
Carol was great. One of the few people i tried to look up when i came east earlier this decade but found out she had passed. She'd been a call girl but had gotten a little too old & chubby for any of the carriage trade but her older regulars (still had a buncha judges & GE execs who liked to be spanked, diapered & such). She was a reg @ local rock clubs and just had a motherly way with the boys. She seemed a natural for running my practice/party house and it cut her living expenses so she didn't have to get a square life for a few more years, so we shared the top floor til i moved west. Couldnt have kept it going as long & well without her - she sensed trouble a mile away and always headed it off w good humor. Great gal.
You trip'n dude ...
My bed has never been turned down so often...
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
I am sorry to hear about Carol. I think that I recall some other stories she appeared in. She was a really free spirit.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
To be fair, I do see that song as somewhat of a parody.
There's other times he uses the "country voice" in a far less over the top nature and other times where they do a country tune (like "Sweet Virginia") where he plays it pretty straight.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
22. Happy
Year: 1972
US Album: Exile on Main St.
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Always took candy from strangers,
Didn't wanna get me no trade.
Never want to be like papa,
Working for the boss ev'ry night and day.”
This is the most well known Stones’ song featuring Keith vocals with good reason. It’s a fun song with great hooks from the brass section (Bobby Keys and Jim Price) with Mick happily engaging on the backing vocals. It’s the only Keith song to have charted in the Hot 100.
It’s also another song that did not feature Bill or Charlie, as Keith played lead guitar and bass and producer Jimmy Miller played drums.
Keith once spoke as to how quickly this song came together: “At noon it never existed. At four o’clock it was on tape.” This isn’t entirely accurate as Mick Taylor’s guitar, Mick Jagger’s backing vocals, Nicky Hopkin’s piano and the horns were added later to Keith’s basic track of him on guitar, bass and vocals, Miller on drums and Bobby Keys on maracas.
Year: 1972
US Album: Exile on Main St.
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Always took candy from strangers,
Didn't wanna get me no trade.
Never want to be like papa,
Working for the boss ev'ry night and day.”
This is the most well known Stones’ song featuring Keith vocals with good reason. It’s a fun song with great hooks from the brass section (Bobby Keys and Jim Price) with Mick happily engaging on the backing vocals. It’s the only Keith song to have charted in the Hot 100.
It’s also another song that did not feature Bill or Charlie, as Keith played lead guitar and bass and producer Jimmy Miller played drums.
Keith once spoke as to how quickly this song came together: “At noon it never existed. At four o’clock it was on tape.” This isn’t entirely accurate as Mick Taylor’s guitar, Mick Jagger’s backing vocals, Nicky Hopkin’s piano and the horns were added later to Keith’s basic track of him on guitar, bass and vocals, Miller on drums and Bobby Keys on maracas.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
can do entirely without this. understand the place of Keefsongs, but me boyo fronting a Stones song is a waste of resources, as a guitar solo from Wyman would be
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
21. Brown Sugar
Year: 1971
US Album: Sticky Fingers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
Hear him whip the women just around midnight”
Both Mick and Keith have said that although this was credited to Jagger/Richards it was almost 100% Mick’s song.
Rock critic Robert Christgau wrote:
This one is a pure rocker lead by Keith and Mick Taylor guitars and another stellar performance by Bobby Keys on sax.
Year: 1971
US Album: Sticky Fingers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
Hear him whip the women just around midnight”
Both Mick and Keith have said that although this was credited to Jagger/Richards it was almost 100% Mick’s song.
Rock critic Robert Christgau wrote:
Mick has called the lyrics “ambiguous” but there’s surely at least a stanza or two that deals with a slave owner having sexual relations with one or more of his slaves.
This one is a pure rocker lead by Keith and Mick Taylor guitars and another stellar performance by Bobby Keys on sax.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
undying love for this one - man, did GHS blow my mind ... and i was least taken with the two "hits" - not that i dislike "Angie" or "Heartbreaker", but rather it shows the depth of the pure goodness they laid down for that platter.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
LOVE IT.
a gorgeous piss take, camp as ####, and played as such - great fun, and the lads are tight in the back.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
BRASS ####### BALLS
at their swag best - impossible to not love the living #### outta this one. impossible.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
20. 19th Nervous Breakdown
Year: 1966
US Album: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“You were still in school when you had that fool who really messed your mind
And after that you turned your back on treating people kind
On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind
But after a while I realized you were disarranging mine”
Keith starts this one off with one of his signature riffs but them Brian takes over the lead playing in a bass-note style derivative of Bo Diddly. Bill is the star of this one however with booming bass-line.
There’s some really heavy lyrics in this one written by Mick dealing with a spoiled rich kid that was never quite right in the head.
This song is pure chaos lyrically and musically – what a trip.
Year: 1966
US Album: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“You were still in school when you had that fool who really messed your mind
And after that you turned your back on treating people kind
On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind
But after a while I realized you were disarranging mine”
Keith starts this one off with one of his signature riffs but them Brian takes over the lead playing in a bass-note style derivative of Bo Diddly. Bill is the star of this one however with booming bass-line.
There’s some really heavy lyrics in this one written by Mick dealing with a spoiled rich kid that was never quite right in the head.
This song is pure chaos lyrically and musically – what a trip.
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otb_lifer
Footballguy
Brian births a punk staple git style - this is a sloppy, rollicking mess of a masterpiece!
if this were released in the summer of '76 it would've rivaled the Pistols/Clash/Damned/Ramones - they blow the ####### lid OFF
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Never had the writer urge. Because i speak in an original fashion, folks always thought i did so they kept asking me to write stuff for em and sometimes i did. A youth-minister friend asked me to help him write a revue for his youth group to perform, a parent asked me to turn it into a play for their community theater. Then they solicited another play and a Boston company glommed onto that & vroomp, i was a playwright. My gf asked me to produce commercials for her radio station, i wrote some parodies of the ads i did for her podunk clients, the DJs liked em and asked me to write blackouts for em & vroomp, i had a syndicated radio comedy show and had written over 2000 pgs of performed comedy before i was 25. But soon as people stopped asking i stopped writing.Dr. Octopus said:
Move ahead 20 years. My wife dies, i detox from meth in my uncle's hunting cabin in NH, ain't nothing to do. I'd seen a TV show on this 18th C con man who ended up being a factor in the American & French Revolutions and putting Catherine the Great (without an ounce of Russian blood) on the throne. When i went to do some research @ nearby Dartmouth, it turns out the French were prolific letter-writers and Baker Library had a LOT of it. I could read French (my dad's people are from the VT/Que border) with a dictionary at hand and this guy turned out to be a real cool subject - tricky & profound. Vroooomp, I'm a novelist.
No, i'm not. Screenplay guy? Turns out, no. The connections & transitions that longform required used skills i didn't have, i'd been lucky that my youthful enthusiasm got me to the end of one str8ahead play, but that was it. Got a second idea from the same era (which i love - the Enlightment-to-Romantic period is a great metaphor for today's issues) chased that down for over a year, couldnt hump it.
What does this all have to do w Brown Sugar?! wtf do you care - read me or dont.
Then i got an idea for a play. For crissakes, i'd done a play. I saw somewhere that the germ of our two greatest horror figures, Frankenstein & Dracula, were the product of a ghost-story telling contest between poets Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Shelley's wife Mary and Byron's physician, all summering together on Lake Geneva but forced inside by bad weather. If there's as natural a framework for a play than the Jim Morrison & John Lennon of their time telling stories and puzzling how a 17yo girl could come up with both the first great science-fiction AND horror novel, i dont know what it could be.
Thing is, they're poets. They talk like poets, Byron extravagantly so. I read a Robert Frost poem once - i think it was 1962. Started reading their poetry, found out that poets reference each other like a mofo, so had to chase down all the epics & sonnets & awful crud they cited. What's worse, it turned out i can only understand poetry if i read it aloud in a a British accent so i did that. Paradise Lost is like 230 pgs of verses, some of the older stuff even longer. All of it ickickick to me until i read Dante. I'll save you the trouble of explaining why but Dante plugged me in. I read up from him and starting getting that stuff and, soon, i could write Byron sub-referencing Shakespeare, Southey & Donne like he was the Dennis Miller of 1816. It really is some stuff, altho it'll probably die w me cuz i cant finish anything, i showed it to my best pal 10 yrs ago and he still stares @ me like i'm an alien, like no other living human could write that just from 40 pgs.
But i figured out a very significant thing - where comedy writers come from. 200 years ago, you couldn't swing a dead raven over your head without hitting a poet. Now there's none - those heartsick saps & dark angry wimmens who think they're poets are merely identifying themselves as reefed egos looking for hostages. Nowadays, everybody thinks they got the funny by the tail. Back then, there were very few humorist and no yuksters. Same people, different times - the poetic gene is alive & well but has been co-opted into the shortforms of modern media entertainment, mostly comedy because both odes & jokes require highly tight, evocative patterns of wordplay.
I further proved this to myself, and came full circle on the entire process, when i tried writing a musical (elsewhere explained) and found out that songs (esp those for musical theater, the function of which Sondheim says, is to show that the world is a different place at the end of a song than at the beginning) are shaped just like jokes . Same setups, same beats, similar payoff.
Once i understood this i could explain why, at his best, Mick Jagger is far & away the best lyricist of the rock era.
Syllables.
For generations, lyrics followed melody in a gracious form of logic, free to be cleverclever as they wanted to be. When Keef & Mick heard the delta blues, that heard those rhythms of men showing their power in a powerless world by chopping their words into syllables and stackin' em in yo face. But the words themselves weren't much (goin' down to the station & such) and they didn't lend themselves to singing along because of the rhythms & anger within.
Sir Michael comes along, hears Stew & Keef break those rhythms down, fuse R&B structures upon them and, while the Beatles will always be better, the Stones will be more important because they wrote and played their best things at the same speed that testosterone courses thru the body and thereby took Rock & Roll and made it ROCK, which is what everybody has been playing since. At the same time, Jagger took the oo-baby-you out of it lyrically and showcased worlds and sitches in which the anger & power of rock could manipulate attitude & behavior. And the world was manipulated by postwar wills-to-power beginning to play on the AM radio til young idiots pounded dashboards then guitars to find their statement. And the Liverpuds can go str8 to hell cuz they didnt even get that. Gimme a beer.
That's enough for me and more'n enough for you. I'll break down the Brown Sugar lyrics - the culmination of the phenomenon and, as Christgau said, "a rocker so compelling that it discourages exegesis" - another time.
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
You're usually so right about things, that I guess it's only fair when you are 100% wrong on something. This is one of those things.wikkidpissah said:
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
19. Let It Bleed
Year: 1969
US Album: Let It Bleed
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“She said, my breasts, they will always be open
Baby, you can rest your weary head right on me
And there will always be a space in my parking lot
When you need a little coke and sympathy”
I love the opening to this song with the Ry Cooder slide moving into some Keith on acoustic with a light boogie woogie piano by Ian Stewart.
The lyrics cleverly deal with drugs, sex and co-dependency. Mick is real solid here vocally and you can almost hear the smirk on his face.
This is the Stones making sloppy work for them.
Year: 1969
US Album: Let It Bleed
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“She said, my breasts, they will always be open
Baby, you can rest your weary head right on me
And there will always be a space in my parking lot
When you need a little coke and sympathy”
I love the opening to this song with the Ry Cooder slide moving into some Keith on acoustic with a light boogie woogie piano by Ian Stewart.
The lyrics cleverly deal with drugs, sex and co-dependency. Mick is real solid here vocally and you can almost hear the smirk on his face.
This is the Stones making sloppy work for them.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Well, my Brown Sugar breakdown will have to wait cuz i'm out the door and this is my first & last comment of the week, but Let It Bleed is only about all that stuff because its about being a rocker. We all wanted to run away and join the circus (as i've told before, i actually was a carnival barker for The Ape Girl during my runaway period) when i was a kid and rock & roll came along to save some of us that way. But the picking up & putting down, the loading & unloading, the waking up in a motel (next to God knows who) and having to look at the phone book to know what town you're in is a dizzying enough way to live. When you match that with the greatest experience a human being can have - leaving blood on the stage and transfusing that space with cheers, so vibrant an experience that sex is how you chill, well there aint nothing left, man. When Chris Cornell killed himself, all i could think was memories of the performers i worked with coming off the stage just as empty as a player can be (even more than athletics). I always took special care with my people, not only because it was my job to make sure they didnt take off with the first person they could bleed on, but because i knew how exposed they were. Bonnie Raitt was a type who always instantly felt she'd faked it up there, buyer's remorse, most others felt like everything else was fake but, whichever it was, everyone needed a mommy at that point. Not to "great show" em, but to sink into and be inhaled & headpatted and to feel the glow of what they'd just achieved. And let it bleed....
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
18. Child Of The Moon
Year: 1968
US Album: More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies)
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“The wind blows rain into my face
The sun glows at the end of the highway
Child of the moon, rub your rainy eyes
oh child of the moon give me a wide0awake crescent shaped smile”
This one has Brian Jones fingerprints all over it. It’s a psychedelic number that could have fit onto Satanic Majesties but was recorded during the Beggars Banquet sessions and was released later as the B-side to Jumpin’ Jack Flash after it was deemed to not fit in with the country-blues sound of Beggars.
It’s a dreamy song lead by Jones’ hypnotic saxophone and Charlie’s rain like beat.
The lyrics are said to be a love letter by Jagger to Marianne Faithfull laced with riddle and mystery.
The linked video was a promotional video released in conjunction with the single and is pretty trippy sci-fi/horror movie.
Year: 1968
US Album: More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies)
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“The wind blows rain into my face
The sun glows at the end of the highway
Child of the moon, rub your rainy eyes
oh child of the moon give me a wide0awake crescent shaped smile”
This one has Brian Jones fingerprints all over it. It’s a psychedelic number that could have fit onto Satanic Majesties but was recorded during the Beggars Banquet sessions and was released later as the B-side to Jumpin’ Jack Flash after it was deemed to not fit in with the country-blues sound of Beggars.
It’s a dreamy song lead by Jones’ hypnotic saxophone and Charlie’s rain like beat.
The lyrics are said to be a love letter by Jagger to Marianne Faithfull laced with riddle and mystery.
The linked video was a promotional video released in conjunction with the single and is pretty trippy sci-fi/horror movie.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
17. Sister Morphine
Year: 1971
US Album: Sticky Fingers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards/Faithfull
“Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong”
Mick’s girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, was given song writing credits on this one, one of the most haunting songs ever written. It deals with drug addiction in a stark and realistic way that had not been done before.
Faithfull also recorded a very good alternate version (with additional lyrics) with Jagger on acoustic guitar, Ry Cooder on slide and bass guitar, Jack Nietzsche on piano and organ and Watts on drums. She doesn’t sing with the pain that Jagger shows but her vocals are interesting and haunting in their own way. Sister Morphine - Faithfull version
The Stones version also features Cooder on slide guitar, Nitzche on piano and Watts on drums, but has Keith on acoustic guitar and Wyman on bass.
The original single gave Faithfull song writing credit, but when Sticky Fingers was first released her name did not appear. After a legal battle she regained her credit and the reissue of Sticky Fingers acknowledges her.
Year: 1971
US Album: Sticky Fingers
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards/Faithfull
“Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong”
Mick’s girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, was given song writing credits on this one, one of the most haunting songs ever written. It deals with drug addiction in a stark and realistic way that had not been done before.
Faithfull also recorded a very good alternate version (with additional lyrics) with Jagger on acoustic guitar, Ry Cooder on slide and bass guitar, Jack Nietzsche on piano and organ and Watts on drums. She doesn’t sing with the pain that Jagger shows but her vocals are interesting and haunting in their own way. Sister Morphine - Faithfull version
The Stones version also features Cooder on slide guitar, Nitzche on piano and Watts on drums, but has Keith on acoustic guitar and Wyman on bass.
The original single gave Faithfull song writing credit, but when Sticky Fingers was first released her name did not appear. After a legal battle she regained her credit and the reissue of Sticky Fingers acknowledges her.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
16. Street Fighting Man
Year: 1968
US Album: Beggars Banquet
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Hey ! Said my name is called disturbance
I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king, I'll rail at all his servants”
The basic track for one of the Stones hardest rocking songs is an acoustic guitar and a toy drum kit.
Said Charlie:
This is also their most politically charged song which Jagger wrote after attending a 1968 anti-war rally outside of London’s US embassy during which the police attempted to control a violent crowd of over 25,000 people.
The song was banned on some US radio stations most notably in Chicago where the 1968 Democratic National Convention was taking place due to the worry of inciting violence. Mick was nonchalant about the ban stating “I'm rather pleased to hear they have banned (the song). The last time they banned one of our records in America, it sold a million." He also lashed out at those that called the song subversive saying, "Of course it's subversive! It's stupid to think you can start a revolution with a record. I wish you could."
Bruce Springsteen who would perform the song live during the encores of his Born in the USA tour stated about the song: "That one line, 'What can a poor boy do but sing in a rock and roll band?' is one of the greatest rock and roll lines of all time ... [The song] has that edge-of-the-cliff thing when you hit it. And it's funny; it's got humour to it."
Year: 1968
US Album: Beggars Banquet
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“Hey ! Said my name is called disturbance
I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king, I'll rail at all his servants”
The basic track for one of the Stones hardest rocking songs is an acoustic guitar and a toy drum kit.
Said Charlie:
The song also features the versatile Brian Jones on sitar and tamboura, Richards on the acoustic guitar and bass (the only electric instrument on the song) Nicky Hopkins on piano and Dave Mason on the Shehnai (a double reed wind instrument).
This is also their most politically charged song which Jagger wrote after attending a 1968 anti-war rally outside of London’s US embassy during which the police attempted to control a violent crowd of over 25,000 people.
The song was banned on some US radio stations most notably in Chicago where the 1968 Democratic National Convention was taking place due to the worry of inciting violence. Mick was nonchalant about the ban stating “I'm rather pleased to hear they have banned (the song). The last time they banned one of our records in America, it sold a million." He also lashed out at those that called the song subversive saying, "Of course it's subversive! It's stupid to think you can start a revolution with a record. I wish you could."
Bruce Springsteen who would perform the song live during the encores of his Born in the USA tour stated about the song: "That one line, 'What can a poor boy do but sing in a rock and roll band?' is one of the greatest rock and roll lines of all time ... [The song] has that edge-of-the-cliff thing when you hit it. And it's funny; it's got humour to it."
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
That Faithfull version is powerful. Plaintive and vulnerable in a way Mick couldn't pull off. Made me weep, a little.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
15. Stray Cat Blues
Year: 1968
US Album: Beggars Banquet
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“You say you got a friend, that she's wilder than you
Why don't you bring her upstairs
If she's so wild then she can join in too
It's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime”
What’s a little statutory rape between friends? This is a song told from the perspective of the narrator lusting after a 15 year old groupie and trying to talk her (and himself) into it.
It’s an extremely cool sounding song with the music sounding as sleazy as the lyrical content. Charlie has some great drum fills using a hi hat beat. Keith plays all electric guitars including the slide and bass, Brian plays the mellotron and Nicky Hopkins a droning piano.
Mick oozes slime from his lips while trying to sweet talk his prey – while Keith screeches on the guitar.
Year: 1968
US Album: Beggars Banquet
Songwriter: Jagger/Richards
“You say you got a friend, that she's wilder than you
Why don't you bring her upstairs
If she's so wild then she can join in too
It's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime”
What’s a little statutory rape between friends? This is a song told from the perspective of the narrator lusting after a 15 year old groupie and trying to talk her (and himself) into it.
It’s an extremely cool sounding song with the music sounding as sleazy as the lyrical content. Charlie has some great drum fills using a hi hat beat. Keith plays all electric guitars including the slide and bass, Brian plays the mellotron and Nicky Hopkins a droning piano.
Mick oozes slime from his lips while trying to sweet talk his prey – while Keith screeches on the guitar.
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