wall socket Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 does anyone know when the rolling stones came out with that song satisfaction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 does anyone know when the rolling stones came out with that song satisfaction? USA: June 6th 1965 UK: Aug 20, 1965 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wall socket Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 cool thanks again steve. do you happen to know what that song is about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleNecker Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 It's simple. He couldn't get no satisfaction! Some say that the song was taken from another, but I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wall socket Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 k ypu probably have but have you ever heard the story of how keith richards "wrote" satisfaction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 cool thanks again steve. do you happen to know what that song is about? As with most songs, it's open to interpretation by the listener. It's one of my favorites and my basic interpretation is Mick can't get no sexual satisfaction because the girl he desires is having her period "she said baby maybe come back later next week, you see I'm on a losin' streak"). There is also anti-establishment undertones to reflect the times. Here's some wiki-wisdom: The song opens with a guitar riff, launching straight into Jagger's vocal line: "I can't get no satisfaction". The title line is an example of a double negative resolving to a negative, a common usage in colloquial English. Jagger sings the verses in a tone hovering between cynical commentary and frustrated protest, and then leaps half singing and half yelling into the chorus, where the guitar riff reappears. The lyrics outline the singer's irritation with the increasing commercialism of the modern world, where the radio broadcasts "useless information" and a man on television tells him "how white my shirts can be - but he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me." Jagger also describes the stress of being a celebrity, and the tensions of touring. The reference in the verse to not getting any "girl reaction" was fairly controversial in its day, interpreted by some listeners (and radio programmers) as meaning a girl willing to have sex. Particularly shocking to some people was a reference to a girl having her period (being "on a losing streak").The song closes with a fairly subdued repetition of the song's title, followed suddenly by a full shout of the line, with the final words repeated into the fade-out. In its day the song was perceived as disturbing because of both its sexual connotations and the negative view of commercialism and other aspects of modern culture; critic Paul Gambaccini stated: "The lyrics to this were truly threatening to an older audience. This song was perceived as an attack on the status quo". When the Rolling Stones performed the song on Shindig! in 1965, the line "trying to make some girl" was censored.[20] Forty years later, when the band performed three songs during the February 2006 Super Bowl XL halftime show, "Satisfaction" was the only one of the three songs not censored as it was broadcast. Similarities have been noted between the melody of the song's pre-chorus ("and i try, and i try, and i try, and i try") and the chorus melody of Bob Dylan's 1962 song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" ("and it's hard, and it's hard, and it's hard, and it's hard").[citation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleNecker Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 k ypu probably have but have you ever heard the story of how keith richards "wrote" satisfaction? Of course. Keith was sleeping one morning and he woke up a bit and had a riff in his head, so he went over to a tape recorder and played the riff out and then went back to sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 k ypu probably have but have you ever heard the story of how keith richards "wrote" satisfaction? He said he came up with the guitar riff for the song in his sleep, waking up in the middle of the night, recording the riff and the words "I can't get no satisfaction" on a casette recorder and fell back to sleep. He would later describe the tape as: "two minutes of 'Satisfaction' and 40 minutes of me snoring." He and Jagger finished writing the song at the Jack Tar Harrrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, in May 1965. Jagger wrote most of the lyrics - a statement about the rampant commercialism that the Rolling Stones had seen in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleNecker Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 *isn't here* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wall socket Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 wows! that certainly was a wealth of information. I certainly appreciate it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wall socket Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 I'm doing a report on the seventies thats the reason for the questions in case you might be wondering. And do you by any chance know of any songs that came out in the seventies that may have had to do with civil rights or any other controversial topic at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suz Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I'm doing a report on the seventies thats the reason for the questions in case you might be wondering. And do you by any chance know of any songs that came out in the seventies that may have had to do with civil rights or any other controversial topic at the time? What's Goin On- Marvin Gaye is the best I can think of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wall socket Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 k thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtazy Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Post your report here after you've finished it. I'm just curious . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Keith also said in an iterview that the Satisfaction-riff was played as a slow blues in the beginning, but they later on speeded it up to the now famous version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marolyn Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I'm doing a report on the seventies thats the reason for the questions in case you might be wondering. And do you by any chance know of any songs that came out in the seventies that may have had to do with civil rights or any other controversial topic at the time? not sure if the release dates fit your time frame but you should check out "universal soldier" by buffy ste-marie... pretty sure it was banned from the radio by nixon for a while also another favorite... "eve of destruction" by barry mcguire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I'm doing a report on the seventies thats the reason for the questions in case you might be wondering. And do you by any chance know of any songs that came out in the seventies that may have had to do with civil rights or any other controversial topic at the time? Please don't take this the wrong way but it appears you're having members of the board do your research for you. Wouldn't you actually learn more about the subject if you were to do the legwork yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I'm doing a report on the seventies thats the reason for the questions in case you might be wondering. And do you by any chance know of any songs that came out in the seventies that may have had to do with civil rights or any other controversial topic at the time? Listen to "Four Way Street" : CSN&Y. Just about every song on it has got something to say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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