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and a lot of the words (the refrain and outro, for example) are just silly.

I agree with sssoul. The first time I heard it was when Tattoo You came out and I figured it was a new song on the album, and as he's doing the monkey bit at the end i thought it was stupid and I was actually kind of embarrassed.

I don't mind it anymore.

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that's very forgiving of you...most people never recover from their embarrassing teenage moments....

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that's very forgiving of you...most people never recover from their embarrassing teenage moments....

it was a lot easier to forget things back then since you didn't post all your stupid shit on Facebook.

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didn't you hear that facebook is for losers? oh...oops...sorry....

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The first time I heard this song is actually one of my more vivid memories from my youth. Not so much because hearing the song was some revelation or anything, although I did love it. I know it was either '97 or '96, because when I saw them at Texas Motor Speedway on B2B tour Monkey Man was on my wishlist for the set so I had heard it by then. Anyway, I was driving around smoking a joint with a few friends in my car listening to Let It Bleed, and we pulled into Taco Bell. We went inside and ate as teenagers with the munchies are prone to do at Taco Bell (I think teenagers with the munchies keep Taco Bell in business), and afterward we just sort of hung out in the parking lot cranking some tunes as high teenagers are also prone to do. Anyway, I had never listened to the album front to back, I was more of a skip around to songs I like person and hadn't discovered many tracks yet that aren't greatest hits. So Monkey Man comes on, and I wasn't really paying attention and one of my friends was like "Hang on...this song kicks ass", and the rest of us stopped for a minute and listened, we all agreed, and the next thing I know we're all dancing in the parking lot to The Stones. And I'm not a dancer, even as a kid. I think my dancing was mainly air guitar. Whenever I hear that song now it always reminds me of a bunch of teenagers back in the 90's smoking crap weed and dancing like idiots in a Taco Bell parking lot.

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didn't you hear that facebook is for losers? oh...oops...sorry....

says the man who quit facebook because he only had 10 friends.

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I'm cool with humour when it fits, but Gimme Shelter for example would have been vastly inferior had it had humour lyrics.

The music of Monkey Man is as powerful and deep as the music of Gimme Shelter, only reason Monkey Man is mostly just seen as an album track is down to the throw away lyrics.

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I'm cool with humour when it fits, but Gimme Shelter for example would have been vastly inferior had it had humour lyrics.

The music of Monkey Man is as powerful and deep as the music of Gimme Shelter, only reason Monkey Man is mostly just seen as an album track is down to the throw away lyrics.

Throw away lyrics? This is about the best match Ive ever heard when it comes to Jagger's voice and a Stones' backing track. The lyrics are just the plain truth, imo.

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I'm cool with humour when it fits, but Gimme Shelter for example would have been vastly inferior had it had humour lyrics.

The music of Monkey Man is as powerful and deep as the music of Gimme Shelter, only reason Monkey Man is mostly just seen as an album track is down to the throw away lyrics.

Throw away lyrics? This is about the best match Ive ever heard when it comes to Jagger's voice and a Stones' backing track. The lyrics are just the plain truth, imo.

if that's the case - are all his friends junkies or not? we've been wonderin and scratchin our heads over this for 40-odd years now....

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I'm cool with humour when it fits, but Gimme Shelter for example would have been vastly inferior had it had humour lyrics.

The music of Monkey Man is as powerful and deep as the music of Gimme Shelter, only reason Monkey Man is mostly just seen as an album track is down to the throw away lyrics.

Throw away lyrics? This is about the best match Ive ever heard when it comes to Jagger's voice and a Stones' backing track. The lyrics are just the plain truth, imo.

if that's the case - are all his friends junkies or not? we've been wonderin and scratchin our heads over this for 40-odd years now....

I might be wrong, but my guess would be that the lyrics are about the human species basically being apes.

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His Majesty
I'm cool with humour when it fits, but Gimme Shelter for example would have been vastly inferior had it had humour lyrics.

The music of Monkey Man is as powerful and deep as the music of Gimme Shelter, only reason Monkey Man is mostly just seen as an album track is down to the throw away lyrics.

Throw away lyrics? This is about the best match Ive ever heard when it comes to Jagger's voice and a Stones' backing track. The lyrics are just the plain truth, imo.

if that's the case - are all his friends junkies or not? we've been wonderin and scratchin our heads over this for 40-odd years now....

I might be wrong, but my guess would be that the lyrics are about the human species basically being apes.

matthew harrison brady objects!

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I just love this. Not sure where I got it, but it's the isolated right speaker only. I'm sure from some generous fellow IORRer (Erik maybe?).

The guitar sound here is FANTASTIC!!! Groovy and totally dirty.

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