The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” is a hit riff-driven rock song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham.
Rolling Stone magazine ranks the song as #2 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Lyrics

I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
’cause i try and i try and i try and i try
I can’t get no, i can’t get no

When i’m drivin’ in my car
And that 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, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that’s what i say

I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
’cause i try and i try and i try and i try
I can’t get no, i can’t get no

When i’m watchin’ my tv
And that man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
But he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarrettes as me
I can’t get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that’s what i say

I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no girl reaction
’cause i try and i try and i try and i try
I can’t get no, i can’t get no

When i’m ridin’ round the world
And i’m doin’ this and i’m signing that
And i’m tryin’ to make some girl
Who tells me baby better come back later next week
’cause you see i’m on losing streak
I can’t get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that’s what i say

I can’t get no, i can’t get no
I can’t get no satisfaction
No satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction

The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Review and Song Info

Jagger later credited “Satisfaction” with popularising The Rolling Stones, and suggested that its success was due to its reflection of the “spirit of the times”. The song’s themes included sexual intercourse and anti-commercialism, causing it to be “perceived as an attack on the status quo”.

The song has since become a staple at Rolling Stones live shows, and has been included on the live albums Got Live if You Want It!, Still Life (American Concert 1981), Flashpoint, and Live Licks. It has been performed on nearly every tour. The most unusual versions, only available on bootlegs, are from the 1972 tour, in which the song is performed as the second half of a medley with opening act Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight” (both the Rolling Stones and Wonder’s band performed the song together).

There was renewed interest in the song after it was featured in the Francis Ford Coppola movie Apocalypse Now.

The song’s lyrics were extremely controversial in their day; one critic stated that “the lyrics to this were truly threatening to an older audience. This song was perceived as an attack on the status quo”. Although the song’s sexual connotations were perceived as troubling, “Satisfaction” also contained negative references to aspects of commercialism and other aspects of modern culture.
The part where Jagger addressed his romantic troubles was particularly perceived to be overtly sexually suggestive; when the Rolling Stones performed the song on Shindig! in 1965, the line “trying to make some girl” was censored.
Forty years later, when the band performed three songs during the Super Bowl XL halftime show, “Satisfaction” was the only one of the three songs not censored as it was delay broadcast.

Released 6 June 1965 (USA), 20 August 1965 (UK)
Recorded 12 May 1965, RCA Studios, Hollywood
Genre Rock and roll
Length 3:44
Label London 45-LON 9766 (USA), DeccaF12220 (UK)
Writer Jagger/Richards
Producer Andrew Loog Oldham; Engineer: Dave Hassinger

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