When The Whip Comes Down
The band releases their song, When The Whip Comes Down, from the album, Some Girls. Jagger:
I don’t know why I wrote it. Maybe I came out of the closet (laughs). It’s about an imaginary person who comes from L.A. to New York and becomes a garbage collector.
Some Girls
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Respectable
The band releases, Respectable, from the album, Some Girls. Jagger:
I was banging out three chords incredibly loud on the electric guitar, which isn’t always a wonderful idea but was great fun here. This is a Punk meets Chuck Berry number. The lyric carries no fantastically deep message, but I think it might have had something to do with Bianca.
Shattered
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Where The Boys Go
0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-11-30 21:07:472014-12-28 18:20:09Where The Boys Go
Start Me Up
The band releases, Start Me Up, from, Tattoo You. Richards:
The story here is the miracle that we ever found that track. I was convinced – and I think Mick was – that it was definitely a Reggae song. And we did it in 38 takes – ‘Start me up. Yeah, man, cool. You know, you know, Jah Rastafari.’ And it didn’t make it. And somewhere in the middle of a break, just to break the tension, Charlie and I hit the rock and roll version. And right after that we went straight back to Reggae. And we forgot totally about this one little burst in the middle, until about five years later when somebody sifted all the way through these Reggae takes. After doing about 70 takes of Start Me Up he found that one in the middle. It was just buried in there. Suddenly I had it. Nobody remembered cutting it. But we leapt on it again. We did a few overdubs on it, and it was like a gift, you know? One of the great luxuries of The Stones is we have an enormous, great big can of stuff. I mean what anybody hears is just the tip of an iceberg, you know. And down there is vaults of stuff. But you have to have the patience and the time to actually sift through it
Worried About You
The band releases their song, Worried About You, from the album, Tattoo You.
Black Limousine
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Waiting On A Friend
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Hang Fire
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Going To A Go-Go
0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-11-29 17:55:272014-12-28 18:21:31Going To A Go-Go
Undercover Of The Night
The band releases their song, Undercover Of The Night, from the album, Undercover. Jagger:
I’m not saying I nicked it, but this song was heavily influenced by William Burroughs’ Cities Of The Red Night, a free-wheeling novel about political and sexual repression. It combines a number of different references to what was going down in Argentina and Chile. I think it’s really good but it wasn’t particularly successful at the time because songs that deal overtly with politics never are that successful, for some reason.
Too Much Blood
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I Wanna Hold You
0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-11-30 21:08:022014-12-28 18:20:08I Wanna Hold You
Harlem Shuffle
The band releases their song, Harlem Shuffle, from the album, Dirty Work. Richards:
I’ve been trying to get Harlem Shuffle on an album, without actually telling Mick, for 5 or 6 years. I thought that was a natural number for him to sing – it was made for him. I’ve been giving him cassettes with Harlem Shuffle stuffed in the middle somewhere for a long time, but I never got any real response. One night we were in the studio and Woody and I started plunking away at it. We were amazed at how simple the song was – about 2 chords. The band was just warming up on it, jamming, when Mick walked in and started singing. We realized, YEAH. And we did it in 2 takes. So it paid off eventually, though it cost me a fortune in cassettes.
One Hit (To The Body)
0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-11-29 14:36:472014-12-28 18:22:48One Hit (To The Body)
She’s So Cold
0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-11-29 14:36:462014-12-28 18:22:48She’s So Cold
Slipping Away
0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-11-30 21:08:002014-12-28 18:20:08Slipping Away
Mixed Emotions
The band releases their song, Mixed Emotions, from the album, Steel Wheels. Richards:
I think we cut that in Montserrat, an island that no longer exists. That smoldering heap of volcanic eruptions. And we were the last guys to cut there. That was the last record anybody cut there. It’s what happens when you work with The Stones. They got a hurricane and then it erupted. It was a pretty island once. With Mixed Emotions I think I had the music and I went to Mick and said, bring your bit to it. Because it’s a two-way street a lot of the time. I mean there was a time when Mick and I used to write face-to-face all the time. But we were on the road then. Now we can bring ideas to each other and sometimes it’s strange – we hadn’t seen each other for maybe 5 or 6 months and we get together and funny enough, we’d each have written a piece of music that actually fits together even though we haven’t been in communication with each other.
