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Neighbours
(Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)

Pathé Marconi Studios (EMI Studios), Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France,
October 11 - November 12, 1980 and
Atlantic Studios, New York City, New York, US, April - June 1981

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, backing vocals
Keith Richards - electric guitar, backing vocals
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass
Ron Wood - electric guitar
Ian Stewart - piano
Sonny Rollins - saxophone
Jennifer McLean - backing vocals
Susan McLean - backing vocals

Neighbours, neighbours, neighbours
Neighbours, have I got neighbours
Have I got neighbours, all day and all night
Neighbours, have I got neighbours
Ringing my doorbells, all day and all night
Ladies, have I got crazies
Screaming young babies, no piece and no quiet
I got T.V.'s, saxophone playing
Groaning and straining, with the trouble and strife

Is it any wonder, is it any wonder, is it any wonder that we fuss and fight
Neighbours, do unto strangers, do unto neighbours
What you do to yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself

Is it any wonder, is it any wonder, is it any wonder that we fuss and fight
Neighbours, do unto strangers, do unto neighbours,
What you do to yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself
Neighbours, neighbours, neighbours, neighbours

Neighbours, neighbours, neighbours, neighbours
Neighbours, do yourself a favour
Don't you mess with my baby, when I'm working all night
You know that neighbours
Steal off my table, steal off my table
And doing alright, alright, alright, alright
Neighbours, do unto strangers, do unto strangers
What you do to yourself, yourself, yourself
Your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, alright

Produced by The Glimmer Twins

First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “Tattoo You” LP
(Rolling Stones Records COC 16052) US, August 18, 1981



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This is more like it - a loud, snotty in your face rocker that just spits attitude and defiance. Just when you thought the old rock and roll rebels were growing and becoming, er, respectable up we get this delicious punk inspired slice of adult delinquancy.

And yes, I've resorted to putting my speakers against walls of various places I've lived in to vent my feelings. A classic!

Funny Video to so so song....---...---uuu

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About the only cut in TATTOO YOU I would call a filler, but without it the album would have been weaker. It suits there, it needs to be there. That's the funny function of "good" fillers. A bit like "Lies" in SOME GIRLS. Or, say, many EXILE cuts.

The melodic idea of "Send It To Me" re-circled with a punk attitude?

Anyway, they don't do such beautiful, crazy noise any longer these days... Damn those drums are upfront... "Get Off of My Cloud" meets Pathe Marconi? Charlie Watts and His Rolling Stones..

- Doxa



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And yeah, we have to remember that it is seemingly one of Bob Dylan's favourites... and there is not just Mick, Keith, Ron and Charlie, but the "bass player" as well...

- Doxa

Perfection, simply amazing! One of their best. The lyrics are timeless (and so many times represent perfectly my thoughts on what happens around me!). The chorus has THAT punk wtf attitude. The guitarwork is stellar, from Keith's heavy rhythm, Ronnie's counter rhythm and MONSTER solo. Watts rules, Bill swings, Ian is a wild boogie man and as if one MONSTER solo was not enough, here we have a second MONSTER SOLO by no one else than mr SONNY ROLLINS!!!

C

Send It To Me sped up...

Listen to those slinky bass lines!
Man, I miss Bill!

Average songwriting from a good Stones era.

Great song: the live versions from Live Licks, Hampton, and Roundhay are also pretty good too.

PS: the video based on Rear Window is excellent.

Snare sound gets a bit annoying to mine ears.

Love the take on Live Licks good fun song as well. MEZ

One of my favorites from TY.

The video was worse than Let's Work.

A rollicking track that (along with Hang Fire) somehow doesn't quite attain the brilliance and majesty of the rest of Tattoo You. Still, it fits in perfectly... a last burst of adolescent rowdiness before a stunningly transcendent Side 2.

Drew

Really fun, hyper RnR track of the type they were doing during that era--fits really well with "Where The Boys Go," "Lies," "Hangfire" and "Summer Romance."

The best version ever done was opening night in 2002. Wish they would release a pro mix of that performance.

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Doxa
About the only cut in TATTOO YOU I would call a filler, but without it the album would have been weaker. It suits there, it needs to be there. That's the funny function of "good" fillers. A bit like "Lies" in SOME GIRLS. Or, say, many EXILE cuts.

The melodic idea of "Send It To Me" re-circled with a punk attitude?

Anyway, they don't do such beautiful, crazy noise any longer these days... Damn those drums are upfront... "Get Off of My Cloud" meets Pathe Marconi? Charlie Watts and His Rolling Stones..

- Doxa

Dead on. Not the strongest track....and that's the point. Charlie is way up in front, kind of pushing it.

Hard to beat Sonny Rollins. He played on multiple tracks on TATTOO YOU and I saw him live a few years ago and he was great, but he doesn't get much of a nod on this board (the above post praising him excepted). I'd trade him for Gram Parsons any day.

When Rollins overdubbed his parts, Mick asked him, "Do want me to do anything?" Rollins said, "Dance." So Mick danced in front of Rollins as he played sax. Mick said, "When I'd move my shoulder or whatever it maybe gave Rollins an idea of what to play." I wish the Stones had video cameras capturing that recording session, like they have many since, because I'd love to see footage of that duo: Mick dancing + Rollins playing.



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Least favorite track on TY. Didn't care for Black Limousine until I heard it stretched out on stage on the Hampton DVD. Same with Dancing With Mr. D after hearing it on Brussels bootleg. (The real bootleg). There's something unappealingly throw away about it, like Lies from Some Girls.

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24FPS
Least favorite track on TY. Didn't care for Black Limousine until I heard it stretched out on stage on the Hampton DVD. Same with Dancing With Mr. D after hearing it on Brussels bootleg. (The real bootleg). There's something unappealingly throw away about it, like Lies from Some Girls.

Hate to thread cross here, but, aren't you glad you heard live BL and DWMD? You got turned on. Would you realy trade that experience for TD,SMU,HTW,Satifactiom.....etc.

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Title5Take1
Hard to beat Sonny Rollins. He played on multiple tracks on TATTOO YOU and I saw him live a few years ago and he was great, but he doesn't get much of a nod on this board (the above post praising him excepted). I'd trade him for Gram Parsons any day.

When Rollins overdubbed his parts, Mick asked him, "Do want me to do anything?" Rollins said, "Dance." So Mick danced in front of Rollins as he played sax. Mick said, "When I'd move my shoulder or whatever it maybe gave Rollins an idea of what to play." I wish the Stones had video cameras capturing that recording session, like they have many since, because I'd love to see footage of that duo: Mick dancing + Rollins playing.

Say that again......You would trade the man who invented the Country Rock genre for Sonny Rollins? Wow

None of those "if you like that, you will like this" arguments ever work on me. I hate Lies, but I love Neighbours.

For non-Londoners, "trouble and strife" is Cockney rhyming slang for "wife". Adds an extra level of meaning to that line.

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24FPS
Least favorite track on TY. Didn't care for Black Limousine until I heard it stretched out on stage on the Hampton DVD. Same with Dancing With Mr. D after hearing it on Brussels bootleg. (The real bootleg). There's something unappealingly throw away about it, like Lies from Some Girls.

Hate to thread cross here, but, aren't you glad you heard live BL and DWMD? You got turned on. Would you realy trade that experience for TD,SMU,HTW,Satifactiom.....etc.

Well, both BL and DWMD were played as part of the albums being promoted at the time. I like hearing certain songs at a Stones concert, especially JJF and I like the way they're playing Satisfaction this go round. Tumbling Dice is tired and not a major war horse to begin with. But SMU and HTW can still be pretty cool live. I tell you where they can make an adjustment is SFTD. I'm telling you, the audience is tired of it. I felt that when I was there. They're almost forcing us to listen to it. (It must be in Mick's contract).

Of course I'd like more variation. What's wrong with Rocks Off? How about turning the crowd on by sitting down on pillows and performing Heaven? (Never done live?) They don't have the swing (Bill) to play Hey Negrita. (Which is ironic. How did the Rolling Stones find the only black bass player on earth without swing?) There's a ton of songs that shouldn't be that hard for them to work in. And they always have the foolproof audience pleasers to bookend them with.

Rocks Off is great, but like HTW and TD, the horn vamp at the end is very, very Vegas. I know HTW isn't going anywhere, ever. Negrita would be awesome. Nailed it on SFTD. The post 89' "studio re-creation" is horrible. About the only guitar you hear is Keith screwing up the solo.....EVERY TIME.

Oh my God, I've just noticed that Sue and Jenny McLean are doing backing vocals. Sue and Jenny were two pretty posh London sisters I used to see at parties around 1973-74 and went to the same school as my 1st proper girlfriend.

They got to know the rock star crowd such as The Who and were known for having affairs with the likes of Bryan Ferry and Eric Clapton. They then started a catering company for the the rock and roll fraternity. Never knew they made it onto a Stones song though.

Some info about Jenny and her affair with Eric Clapton here.

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

Not much of a song but great video and to this day I still absolutely love it when Charlie comes rollicking in!

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bustabutton
Listen to those slinky bass lines!
Man, I miss Bill!

Darryl is technically thousand light years from Bill. OK.

Darryl played with Miles Davis. Ok.

But the deep, hot, lecherous, enigmatic, spicy, deep,lewd,slinky, sinuous sound of Bill is missing.

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Thrylan

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Doxa
About the only cut in TATTOO YOU I would call a filler, but without it the album would have been weaker. It suits there, it needs to be there. That's the funny function of "good" fillers. A bit like "Lies" in SOME GIRLS. Or, say, many EXILE cuts.

The melodic idea of "Send It To Me" re-circled with a punk attitude?

Anyway, they don't do such beautiful, crazy noise any longer these days... Damn those drums are upfront... "Get Off of My Cloud" meets Pathe Marconi? Charlie Watts and His Rolling Stones..

- Doxa

Dead on. Not the strongest track....and that's the point. Charlie is way up in front, kind of pushing it.

i agree with these assessments. am i the only one who thinks that this also slightly foreshadows a number of tracks on the Undercover album?

Pretty fun foray into party boy rock. Love the sax solo and hate the drum sound. Not one of my favorite Stones tunes but somehow one I don't mind. I smile thinking that if this tune was on Keith's new record it would be more widely accepted.