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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get me no satisfaction and I try and I try and I try t-t-t-t-try try
I can't get no I can't get me no
When I'm riding in my car
And a man comes on the radio
He's tellin' me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I can't get no
uh no no no
hey hey hey
That's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get me no girly action
When I'm watchin' my tv
And a man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts could be
But he can't be a man 'cause he does not smoke
The same cigarettes as me
I can't get no
uh no no no
And when I'm flying around the world
And I'm doin' this and I'm tryin' that
And I'm trying to make some girl
Tells me baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
Baby better come back later next week can't you see I'm on a losing streak
I can't get no
uh no no no
hey hey hey
That's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no

Submitted by

bouncing Soles On Dec 22, 2001

Whip It

Mongoloid

Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)

Freedom Of Choice

Jocko Homo

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

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2001-12-22 16:59:33

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by UglinessMan

21y ago

This song serves to explain, without explaining in plain language, what Devo is. They took a song, a legendary rock song, and broke it down into a basic, quirky skeleton of a song, thereby "de-evolving" it, and creating something totally new and somewhat disturbing. That's Devo.

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by empoprises 10y ago

@UglinessMan Young teenage girls of the mid 1960s could not understand why Mick Jagger couldn't get any satisfaction. Many young teenage girls of the late 1970s could understand why Devo couldn't get any satisfaction, since they were the antithesis of coolness.

by infamous branmuffin

18y ago

BRILLIANT!

a great cover of a great song... this is how covers are supposed to be done. what makes this awesome is that DEVO has taken an already popular song and really made it their own. otherwise what would be the point? I don't even feel like i'm listening to a cover as this is DEVO through and through.