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| The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Someone on a message board elsewhere mentioned that people used to believe a red door would protect them from evil.
Also, just found this quote:
Mick wrote it. I wrote the music, he did the words. Get a single together... What's amazing about that one for me is the sitar. Also, the fact that we cut it as a comedy track. Bill was playing an organ, doing a takeoff of our first manager (Eric Easton) who started his career in show business as an organist in a cinema pit. We'd been doing it with funky rhythms and it hadn't worked and he started playing it like this and everybody got behind it. It's a two-beat, very strange. Brian playing the sitar makes it a whole other thing.
- Keith Richards, 1971 |
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| The Rolling Stones – 100 Years Ago Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Ugh, my post made no sense. Please disregard the part about the "bad red wine". But I do think this song is about Marianne, I think it was written in 1969 or so but was never used until "Goat's Head Soup". |
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| The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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There is an alternate version of the song with the lines, "Strollin' on the boulevards of Paris/Naked as the day I will die/The sailors, they're so charming down in Paris/But I just can't seem to sail you off my mind" in place of the second verse. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Turd On The Run Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I always think this song is about some guy from Mick's youth. If it is about someone specific, I can't tell who, but I've always liked the deliberate high/low contrast in the lyrics. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Shine A Light Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song is about Brian Jones. It was written in that time period around his death, but wasn't released until "Exile" came out. Specifically, the parts about the flies, jewelry, and the eyes (it's hard to tell in the studio version, but when Mick sings it live it's "bloodshot eyes") all sound like Brian. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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So...who actually wrote the lyrics to the song? I always thought it was Mick, but I was a little thrown off by pkjun's post. Personally, I think I agree with Mr. Mojo rising... |
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| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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The girlfriend was Marianne Faithfull, Mick wrote the lyrics in an attempt to get her to stay with him. Unfortunately it didn't work...I think it was originally a Keith song, and he came up with the line "wild horses couldn't drag me away". |
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| The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think killingFloor makes a good point...it reminds me of some other Stones songs like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "Rocks Off" which may also be mainly drug-inspired, but are too ambiguous to tell for certain. Also...for what it's worth, I remember reading Entertainment Weekly describe the song as a "paradoxical bondage fantasy", which I can see too. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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There was a discussion on Keno's GasX3 message board, and one of the theories was that troubadours travelling East along the Silk Road during the 11th-13th centuries in search of gold were often ambushed before they were able to reach their destination. I've heard another theory that says the line is about the Beatles (not too sure about that one. :P). |
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| The Rolling Stones – 100 Years Ago Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I don't think it'd be stretch to say this song is about Marianne... :P I wonder if there's a relation between the "bad red wine" line and the "bleeding man" from YCAGWYW... |
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