The Stones' previous single "Satisfaction" had maybe the most recognizable guitar intro in rock history - this could be the most recognizable drum intro. The second #1 single in the States and the fifth #1 in the UK for Mick and the boys. Suffice it to say this is a 60's signature song.
Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud
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Wasn't the intro to SATISFACTION played on a saxophone?
Nope. Guitar + fuzz box. Keith Richards wanted to replace his intro with a horn section but was outvoted.
If true, then it was brilliant on Richards' part.
I never thought of The Rolling Stones as being among the class of "inventive" type performers, but this revelation might give me some second thoughts.
You know what this song's actually about don't you?
It's a commentary about how "violating others" is a two-way street.
In verse two lead singer Mick Jagger role-plays a group of "party animals" living in a high-rise freely partying on, just "having a good time" when the resident who lives above them calls them up, angrily decrying "Just because YOU feel so good you have to drive me out of my head!"
Of course the "party animals" feel "violated" for having their fun ruined like that.
In the third (and final) verse Jagger role-plays the tenant living above them who, also feeling "violated" by not being able to get needed sleep due to the late-night noise, takes a drive downtown where it's "so very nice and peaceful and quiet" and parks on a "deserted" street where he can finally catch a few winks.
However, upon waking up a couple hours later he finds numerous parking tickets all over his windshield, which also makes him feel "violated" as he wouldn't have come downtown and parked had it not been for the rowdy party crowd living below him.
A further irony, of course, being that the reason he got ticketed is due to his "violating" city parking ordinances.
The "victim mentality" syndrome dictates a designated "culprit" and designated "victim", as if each person has a some kind of mono-personality---as if each person has the same mindset at all times as opposed to ever being moody or able to be influenced by circumstance or other outside elements.
GET OFF OF MY CLOUD insinuates the opposite. That we constantly take turns at being violators and being violated.
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