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I Got The Blues
(Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)

Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Unit, Stargroves, Newbury, Berkshire, UK &
Olympic Sound Studios, London, UK, March - May 1970

Mick Jagger - lead vocals
Keith Richards - electric guitar, harmony vocals
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass
Mick Taylor - electric guitar
Billy Preston - organ
Bobby Keys - saxophone
Jim Price - trumpet

As I stand by your flame
I get burned once again
Feelin' low down and blue

As I sit by the fire
Of your warm desire
I've got the blues for you, yeah

Every night you've been away
I've sat down and I have prayed
That you're safe in the arms of a guy
Who will bring you alive
Won't drag you down with abuse

In the silk sheet of time
I will find peace of mind
Love is a bed full of blues

And I've got the blues for you
And I've got the blues for you
And I bust my brains out for you
And I'll tear my hair out
I'm gonna tear my hair out just for you
If you don't believe what I'm saying
At three o'clock in the morning, babe
Well, I'm singing my song for you

Produced by Jimmy Miller

First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “Sticky Fingers” LP
(Rolling Stones Records COC 59100) UK, April 23, 1971

OOooh that sticky organ-solo....

2 1 2 0

The Stones´s best soul ballad, imo.

Kill me, but for me it's a boring song. Weakest on SF.

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Kill me, but for me it's a boring song. Weakest on SF.

I wouldn't go that far, but it's too similar to Love In Vain to be a true classic (they should've put I Don't Know Why on the album instead).

It's the Stones doing Otis Redding, and doing it remarkably well, IMO.

IMO one of Mick's best vocal performances ever.

One of the first songs I fell in love with when first getting into the Stones. One of the many magical nuggets I found as I bought every album I could and took in all the songs. Very soulful, heartfelt and amazingly performed.

The song smokes with all the intensity that love sickness brings. You all remember that lovestruck feeling from your youth don't you - love's gone wrong and you can't eat, sleep, think about anything else. You're up in the early hours going over and over again what went wrong.
Well Mick's lyrics capture that perfectly to the backdrop of a southern soul scorcher - and man, when that hammond organ comes in don't your hair just stand on end. Electrifying.

...Horn section lights some fire, too...

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

Keith´s harmony vocals, too

it would be a highlight on any album except for Sticky Fingers, which is a highlight itself, the only 100% perfect rock and roll album in the whole wide world.
this song sure lights some fire x)

The organ solo on the album fitted the song a bit better than the sax solo during the live
version at the Marquee. At least, that's my humble opinion, based on my taste and nothing but
my taste.
Was this the first time Billy Preston played on a Stones song? (And on Can't you hear me knocking)?
Anyway it was not the first collaboration between Keith and Billy, since Keith already played
bass on That's the way god planned it.

Here's the live version from the Marquee.






Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

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Silver Dagger
The song smokes with all the intensity that love sickness brings. You all remember that lovestruck feeling from your youth don't you - love's gone wrong and you can't eat, sleep, think about anything else. You're up in the early hours going over what went wrong.

Isn't this the truth.

Like many other Stone's numbers. This one sucks me in. Turns off the outside world and takes me for a ride. The end is very orgasmic too!

I absolutely, unequivocally, love this song. I agree with Eirik about the vocal performance.

I Got The Blues is a song that makes you fall in love with the Stones all over again....over and over and over.

Loved it from the day that it was released and still do, as some mentioned Mick's vocal is great

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I rather like the sax-solo version (the organ is not my favourite instrument) but by the time they did it live again in 1999 the organ solo was back: and Mick always seems to deliver a good vocal on this one. He mentions Otis Redding in the intro, and this is a really good attempt at soul, even if that guitar intro is a bit too close to Love In Vain for comfort.

One of their greatest tunes, its gotta be played on my funeral i told the missus
byeee
jeroen

Great song.

nicely constructed verse

..Great version by Salomon Burke....remind me Otis...

this is definitely in my top 10 of all-time stones tunes

my fav. on sticky fingers

that song can bring a man to tears

A beautiful and dirge-like love song, with lovely guitars, horns, and keyboards, great lyrics, and an outstanding vocal performance from Mick. Excellent production by Mr Jimmy. Better than Love in Vain, IMO.

And yet, and yet ... it doesn't exactly throb with energy, does it? Not something I listen to when I need a lift.

Drew



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011-06-22 14:54 by drewmaster.

>> And I'll tear my hair out -
I'm gonna tear my hair out just for you
If you don't believe what I'm saying
It's three o'clock in the morning
And I'm singing my song for you <<

soul ballads aren't my natural habitat,
but the Rolling Stones hit it out of the ballpark with this hair-raisingly heartfelt thing

... but the Hammond grates on me. i know i know - it's authentic as all get out,
but that tone always sounds cheesy to me

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Silver Dagger
The song smokes with all the intensity that love sickness brings. You all remember that lovestruck feeling from your youth don't you - love's gone wrong and you can't eat, sleep, think about anything else. You're up in the early hours going over and over again what went wrong.
Well Mick's lyrics capture that perfectly to the backdrop of a southern soul scorcher - and man, when that hammond organ comes in don't your hair just stand on end. Electrifying.

unfortunately it's not a feeling that can only hit you when you're young...
fantastic song!

Actually I think that it's the organ takes it up a notch, they can't help but sound a bit unauthentic on this one for me, a bit too much like Otis, they do it great, but Jagger's not Otis. The live Love In Vain (particularly in 1972) which sounded very similar, is miles above this one.