My innocent mind just learned a new vocabulary term - a switch is someone who...well, you can probably figure it out.

Mick, Mick, Mick, you kinky fellow.

always thought it was about being afraid of the dark...

............................................Keith Richards 1997



ROCKMAN

never really got into that one. mebbe try again someday. seems stones-lite upon first hearings imho.

Hmmm, never even thought about the subject matter of the song. Thanks for the interview excerpt, Rockman.Not really a great song per se, but nice musical elements - I dig the guitars, bass line, drums, and it has a good Mick vocal.

Indeed, the upright bass jumps out on the recent remix of B2B.

and the drums, full and upfront. an incidental part of that song that I always enjoy is the 'oh yeahs'...for some reason.

"Pain OF Love" is probably about S & M.

What about One Hit To The Body?

S&M or intravenous drug use?

Many thanks for the article Rockman, always loved the song but never thought of it that way.

Pleasure Hillside ....
It's always good ta get the goss from the guy who penned it ain't it .....



ROCKMAN

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baxlap
Indeed, the upright bass jumps out on the recent remix of B2B.

Bridges To Babylon got a remix? That's news to me!

Yeah, for sure.

The actual track was supposed to be about 25 min. long according to timeisonourside.com. I bet Charlie must have gotten a good night sleep after that one.

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baxlap
Indeed, the upright bass jumps out on the recent remix of B2B.

Bridges To Babylon got a remix? That's news to me!

You haven't heard about it? It was Anybody Seen My Baby With Kanye West, Gunface with Lady Gaga, and Saint of Me with Bono, Jay-Z, AND Chris Martin from Coldplay!

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Send It To me
My innocent mind just learned a new vocabulary term - a switch is someone who...well, you can probably figure it out.

Mick, Mick, Mick, you kinky fellow.

Its about a guy about to be executed....and Keith wrote it.

And that Hale-Bopp ordeal.

I always thought it was clearly about a Death Row convict.

And yes, duke richardson, I totally agree - those "oh yeahs" really make it for me too. Funny how little things like that make the difference!

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"Pain OF Love" is probably about S & M.

If you really stop and think about it their are probaly more than a few Stones songs about S&M...Hell most of their songs are about sex one way or another.lol

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

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Send It To me
My innocent mind just learned a new vocabulary term - a switch is someone who...well, you can probably figure it out.

Mick, Mick, Mick, you kinky fellow.

Thought it meant "a sudden change of heart"



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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What about One Hit To The Body?

S&M or intravenous drug use?

When I first heard the lyrics of this song ,the only idea that came onto my mind was Keith & Mick jabbing at each other, as a kind of allegory for their fights & misundertandings .

I.V ?
Yes,why not because of "a sweet addiction/I can't clean you out of my veins"

"One punch and you knocked me down/tore my defenses apart/One round took me out of the game/you did me some permanent harm "
It really seems to me he's talking about heroin ...or something else that needs to be taken to a 2d degree.



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

sales & marketing? sex & money? smoke & mirrors? what?

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I always thought it was clearly about a Death Row convict.

And yes, duke richardson, I totally agree - those "oh yeahs" really make it for me too. Funny how little things like that make the difference!

yes..seems obvious.


IORR............but I like it!

Almost any Stones song can be about sex or drugs or both if you are really determined to believe that it is - but one or two of them are about other things...

I think I believe Keith on this one.

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Rockman


............................................Keith Richards 1997

One thing I find interesting about this is that Keith wrote the lyrics

Edited because I've posted on the wrong thread .



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2010-02-10 10:52 by SwayStones.

..........AHHHHHHHH Flip the connection .....



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..........AHHHHHHHH Flip the connection .....

[www.iorr.org]





Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2010-02-09 23:09 by SwayStones.

Ahhhhhhh I been there and had a devil of a time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!



ROCKMAN

I've always thought it was about someone on death row never thought of S&M

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I've always thought it was about someone on death row never thought of S&M

I didn't know the song was about a capital punishement.I thought it had a double meaning (in French IT HAS a double meaning )

Rockman
Thanks for the Keith interview .Check your inbox



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .