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"On the song, Richards said in 1971, "I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up. We were in L.A., and it was time for another single. But how do you follow-up "Satisfaction"? Actually, what I wanted was to do it slow like a Lee Dorsey thing. We rocked it up. I thought it was one of Andrew Loog Oldham's worst productions."

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GasLightStreet
From Satisfaction:

When I'm watchin' my TV and a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be

From Get Off My Cloud

Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up just like a Union Jack
And says, "I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack"


Mick had an issue with cleaning clothes I guess. They were filthy liggers.

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GasLightStreet
From Satisfaction:

When I'm watchin' my TV and a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be

From Get Off My Cloud

Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up just like a Union Jack
And says, "I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack"


Mick had an issue with cleaning clothes I guess. They were filthy liggers.

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rollmops
Starting at 31:13.

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Rockandroll,
Mops

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Palace Revolution 2000

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rollmops
Starting at 31:13.

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Rockandroll,
Mops

This is very interesting because the main guitar we hear seems to be Ronnie's Strat in standard. Every once in a while an infernal racket cuts though, and it is Keith's open G guitar.
During a guitar solo both guitars start to co-xist in good balance.
Good solo by Keith. Who was that misguided soul who was claiming it was impossible to solo in Open G in another thread?

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WeLoveYou
Great song. The stereo (studio) version is interesting as the two guitars become separated...rough rhythm guitar and that thin repeated lead line. Only knowing the mono version all these years I have always wondered what the high-pitched notes were, almost bell-like or a little like a harmonica or something. Only in stereo (or "true stereo") do you realise it's a guitar.

Listen to the track I posted on the Tracking Cookie - live in Honolulu, 1966, and that lead guitar line stands out a mile. Brian?

That's Brian on lead. The official 1965 video for this track clearly shows Brian playing the lick.

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Doxa
One can imagine it wasn't the easiest task to make a follower to "Satisfaction". The song was an anthem of the times, and since it was not based on any determinate, matured song-writing, but more that of happy incident of lucky amateurs, in which every star happened to be in a right place, repeating that would make anyone a bit nervous. Like Keith described.

The choice with "Get Off of My Cloud" they did was that of: let's add a bit more straight-forward angst, frustration and anger, and some more energy, and see what happens. To an extent, one can here there a bit over-trying, where as "Satisfaction" flowed so naturally, but that doesn't really matter: "Get Off of My Cloud" works in terms of its own. It is a song so wonderfully capturing the zeitgeit, that of the Stones expressing the hidden, rebellious sentiments of the youth not The Beatles or even Dylan were able to do, at least so aptly. The Stones never been so relevant, hitting the nerve of the times than they were in 1965. Of course, it was a number one hit. It needed to be.

Musically, "Get Off of My Cloud" belongs to the great sequence of four big singles released within a year - "The Last Time", "Satisfaction", "Get Off of My Cloud" and "19th Nervous Breakdown" - with which The Stones made their claim for originality, that of being able to interpret the American black rhythm&blues by their own fresh, contemporary British touch. A helluva acievement and statement, one of the greatest ever in the history of rock music. That was also their first golden run - something equal in greatness to the Golden Era albums and in terms of groundbreaking even more important. That set the style and blueprint of the Stones sound for ever since, despite them doing in the following years their adventures into musical experimintalism and 'progression' like any ambitious English band, until, having matured and experienced enough, would make a return into it in BEGGARS BANQUET.

"Get Off of My Cloud" is a funny coctail of some Wilson Pickettian R&B meeting Dylanisque lyrics, Beatlesian "Twist & Shout" with that extra chord, but, however, it is the energetic 'proto-punk' delivery that makes it memorable. Raw as hell, no hostages. Pure attitude. That bloody 'chorus' - what it really says, like the whole damn song at bottom: just 'FVCK OFF!', a middle finger statement. That's music for young and angry men, and it's natural that they in their latter, more mature days were not able to do justice for it. In 1975/76 they were clever enough and transformed the song to the sleazy funk themes of the times (great versions). The 2012/13 'one-to-one' versions, let's be frank, were rather embarrassing. There is not enough Viagra in this world to get them do that right.

Oh man, there is something very cool in this very track. Topping charts with a song like this - the bad-assiest of all these four singles I mentioned - was equal that of getting "Not Fade AWay" or "Little Red Rooster" there. Surely not typical 'pop music' then or ever. That's their 'anti-Beatles' stance at the time wonderfully laid in music, not just in image. Taken its rawness, noisy, even chaotic nature, it must've been a shocking song in its context - especially for elder generations who had doubts about the musicality and morality of pop music of its time, similar like rock generations decades later would bash rap ('this is no music, man'). But still even today there is still to be heard a lot of that natural, ever-lasting rebellous youthful attitide full of passion, vitality, anger and energy, with the impression of threat and danger, which makes some "Anarchy In The UK" or "Smell Like Teen Spirit" sound artificial theatrics and posing.

The Rolling Stones in 1965 - the best Stones ever!

- Doxa

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Can I please ask, by the way who is doxa.? He always writes really well and I enjoy reading the entries.