This one gets better the more you listen to it. . Just noticed that John Mellencamp covered it...so I thought I'd post it. (SW's is the original)

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Rolling Stones: [www.youtube.com]

John Mellencamp: [www.youtube.com]


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



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Interesting choice for a Stones song to cover, I always thought it sounded somewhat unfinished.

Great cover payed it till dead..................

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Thank You. I had never heard it b4.

The Stones version is so beautiful.
Have loved it to bits for years.
Great song, great music.
Wonderful
Jeroen

That is one sweet song.......

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35love
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Thank You. I had never heard it b4.

Me neither. Thanks for posting, sweet neo con.

Supposedly the song that the band were working on at Olympic on the night of July 2, 1969 when they got THAT fateful phone call.

Nice track. Taylor owns it.

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Gazza
Supposedly the song that the band were working on at Olympic on the night of July 2, 1969 when they got THAT fateful phone call.

Nice track. Taylor owns it.

Yes, and along with Jiving Sister Fanny my two favorite tracks from Metamorphosis (how can someone never have heard this before?).

I like Stevie's version the best though - and this version is supreme:

Stevie Wonder - I Don't Know Why - Hollywood Palace 1969

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

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Gazza
Supposedly the song that the band were working on at Olympic on the night of July 2, 1969 when they got THAT fateful phone call.

Nice track. Taylor owns it.

Yes, and along with Jiving Sister Fanny my two favorite tracks from Metamorphosis (how can someone never have heard this before?).

I like Stevie's version the best though - and this version is supreme:

Stevie Wonder - I Don't Know Why - Hollywood Palace 1969

Yeah, i asked myself the same question Hairball.
jeroen

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corriecas
The Stones version is so beautiful.
Have loved it to bits for years.
Great song, great music.
Wonderful
Jeroen

^^^^

yesss

me too

Jagger's vocals are awesome on Metamorphosis with the Andrew's band and some stones with jagger/Richards compositions except for Stevie on I don't Know Why and Andrew Oldham and Keith on I much rather be with the boys.

If You Let Me is awesome, Heart Of Stone with Jimmy Page I think? and Taylor's solo on Jivin Sister Fanny just explodes from the get go.

It is a very listenable record and love jaggers vocals.

The (in)famous Jagger-Richard-Taylor composition.




"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Stevie's original is such a beauty, a classical late-60's sounding soul track starting there from where Otis Redding had left us. A perfect recording as it is.

The Stones version, on the other hand, sounds very different.. so dark and threatening, the way they did sound like during that BEGGARS/BLEED era. There's nothing sweet there. A raw blues-based rock band with their wicked matured sound. And now with that added weapon in lead guitar. Jagger's vocals sound non-finished, but still there is that natural color of his at the time.

That said, I find it natural that they left it off from LET IT BLEED; there's probably something missing there to make it really memorable (and they had so much from where to choose from). But still it sounds strong, the guys at the peak of their powers. I just love the way they sounded back then.

- Doxa

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Gazza
Supposedly the song that the band were working on at Olympic on the night of July 2, 1969 when they got THAT fateful phone call.

Nice track. Taylor owns it.

Yes, and along with Jiving Sister Fanny my two favorite tracks from Metamorphosis (how can someone never have heard this before?).

I like Stevie's version the best though - and this version is supreme:

Stevie Wonder - I Don't Know Why - Hollywood Palace 1969

Great version and he still was 18 when it was recorded.

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The interplay between Taylor and Richards hadn't matured yet, sound and timing wise, but the idea and individual playing was great.

The chord progression is just right up the rolling stones' alley. I don't know if Stevie Wonder was on the same musical wave that the stones were on at that time, my guess is probably yes. Both the stones and Stevie's versions are fantastic; Mick's interpretation is heartbreaking and the band's musical arrangement is Gimme sheltering it; awesome cover.


Rockandroll,
Mops

I Don't Know Why is listed as a Jagger / Richard composition published by ABKCO on the BMI.com music website catalogue. So is Don't Lie To Me.
I'm not sure how that's possible. Surely both should have been corrected by now or a note inserted with a correction.

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mighty stork
Interesting choice for a Stones song to cover, I always thought it sounded somewhat unfinished.

It actually is. The released version is spliced together: the part starting at the second slide solo is a copy of the first slide solo.

Mathijs

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The chord progression is just right up the rolling stones' alley. I don't know if Stevie Wonder was on the same musical wave that the stones were on at that time, my guess is probably yes. Both the stones and Stevie's versions are fantastic; Mick's interpretation is heartbreaking and the band's musical arrangement is Gimme sheltering it; awesome cover.


Rockandroll,
Mops

I think Keith listened to this in 1968. Chord progression is more or less the same including the hammer ons. I dont think he took it from Under my thumb.

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mighty stork
Interesting choice for a Stones song to cover, I always thought it sounded somewhat unfinished.

It actually is. The released version is spliced together: the part starting at the second slide solo is a copy of the first slide solo.

Mathijs

"While the Stones’ were recording this Stevie Wonder cover, they received a 2am call telling them Brian Jones had died. The band – a new boy guitarist and Jones’ replacement Mick Taylor in tow – were stunned to silence, which perhaps explains the tracks somewhat forced-sounding fade out"

My favourite version of that amazing song is performed by Bernard Fowler - together with Stevie Salas on Nicklebag´s "12 Hits And One Bump" from 1996. The most aggressive one among the versions I know, but I have loved it since that record came out.

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Fillmore

I think Dramarama also covered it. They were always big Stonesfans.