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Fifty years ago this past December, the Rolling Stones solidified the bluesy rebirth they had begun on Beggars Banquet with Let It Bleed. In the third verse, Jagger, running an errand for someone “to get your prescription filled” runs into “Mr. It’s also notable that the song tacked on to the end of a decade where much of the younger generation’s idealism had ended in frustration and disillusion. “Now you also can’t get what you want,” he said at the time of the song’s release. The real shock was the opening verse, sung unaccompanied by the London Bach Choir -- it sounds like a straight classical recording, not a rock one, let alone a Rolling Stones one. The classical mood is continued by the stately piano and brief, sad French horn solo (played by Al Kooper) on the following instrumental section. ), Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service. He’s a songwriter and, as such,... Jerry Jeff Walker, the singer-songwriter who wrote “Mr. After Al Kooper’s mournful French Horn, Jagger comes on and repeats those opening lines, only after the choir, he sounds somehow lonelier than he otherwise might have. My copy is a US on the London label and it credits the London Bach Choir. Mick Jagger was the song’s primary writer, and if he was trying to sum up the zeitgeist, well, he’s far too coy to cop to it. Don't remember the source for that but it's a pretty good story! Articulated differently and quite poignantly as a matter of fact. Go figure. At a society reception, he meets a woman waiting to score drugs with an ineffectual “footloose man” tethered to her side. Jimmy,” who seems to be a victim of the decade’s excess: “And, man, did he look pretty ill.” After sharing a soda, the narrator sings him a song and gets the cryptic response “dead” in return, the song again scraping the dark side without quite succumbing to it. In the final verse, he returns to the reception, which has now taken a turn for the macabre, the socialite with “blood-stained hands” trying to hide the fact that she has disposed of her hanger-on. Listen to You Can't Always Get What You Want by Choir of Hard Knocks, Jonathon Welch, Jimmy Barnes, Louis Macklin, Pete Satchell, Gavin Campbell, Shan Vanderwert, Pat Bourke & Tim Spicer, 23 Shazams. If anything, it might be the path to true contentment. Listen to You Can't Always Get What You Want by Choir of Hard Knocks, Jonathon Welch, Jimmy Barnes, Louis Macklin, Pete Satchell, Gavin Campbell, Shan Vanderwert, Pat Bourke & Tim Spicer, 23 Shazams. It's a philosophical rumination, such as the one the Beatles offered around the same time (in "The End") about the love you make being equal to the love you take, that's simple but enduring. Plus, Nanette Workman's surname is also wrong there. And yet, the LBC's opening chorus was cut out entirely on the 45 issue which went straight to the first guitar chord, as on the flip of "Honky Tonk Women." Much has been made of the lyrics reflecting the end of the overlong party that was the 1960s, as a snapshot of Swinging London burning out. Here's some info on the UK pressings. First it was covered up and hidden by a black box, and then omitted entirely, at least on UK vinyl pressings. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" was recorded on November 16 and November 17, 1968 at London's Olympic Sound Studios. Many of us go wildly awry in search of some personal achievement that is only bound to bring heartbreak. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Benjamin Edge, May 11, 2014. The real shock was the opening verse, sung unaccompanied by the London Bach Choir -- it sounds like a straight classical recording, not a rock one, let alone a Rolling Stones one. But the Stones weren’t content to let it be an acoustic lament. You Can't Always Get What You Want MP4, Steve Harley, Ricky Wilson, David Gray & KT Tunstall December 16, 2016 Rock ℗ 2016 Arts Media Worldwide Limited under exclusive licence to Chrysalis Records Limited “You can’t always get what you want/ But if try sometimes, you might find/ You get what you need.” The wisdom of those lyrics is quite stunning, all the more so because of how matter-of-factly Jagger tosses them off. It was not lost on people that the man who once sang “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” had now come to the conclusion that “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” When Jagger was confronted with this, he referenced the different perspective in the lyrics as being the key. As with "Hey Jude," "You Can't Always Get What You Want"'s endless fade manages to be hypnotic rather than boring, as the London Bach Choir reenters and the organ improvises nicely, adding an appropriate varnish of grandeur to a great song and performance. The closing track, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” tries to make sense of it all, and it turned out somewhat more ambivalent yet no less anthemic than those other songs.

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