No offence to Mick but "Ned kelly" was clearly  the second worse Aussie movie ever made.Second only to a movie called "Bullamakanka"..
ps--If you have never seen "Bullamakanka"--then you havent lived..--Its and absolute classic...Its so bad it just has to be watched...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087007/

This is written from the viewpoint of a person who is depressed. He wants everything to turn black to match his mood.
The song seems to be about a lover who died:
"I see a line of cars and they're all painted black" - The hearse and limos.
"With flowers and my love both never to come back" - The flowers from the funeral and her in the hearse. He talks about his heart being black because of his loss.
"I could not foresee this thing happening to you" - It was an unexpected and sudden death.
"If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes" - This refers to her in Heaven.
(thanks, Daryn - Mays Landing, NJ)
The Rolling Stones wrote this as a much slower, conventional Soul song. When Bill Wyman began fooling around on the organ during the session doing a takeoff of their original as a spoof of music played at Jewish weddings. Co-manager Eric Easton (who had been an organist), and Charlie Watts joined in and improvised a double-time drum pattern, echoing the rhythm heard in some Middle Eastern dances. This new more upbeat rhythm was then used in the recording as a counterpoint to the morbid lyrics.
Jagger got the line "I turn my head until my darkness goes" from James Joyce's Ulysses. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)
Stones guitarist Brian Jones played the sitar on this. He made good television by balancing the instrument on his lap during appearances.
Keith Richards: "We were in Fiji for about 3 days. They make sitars and all sorts of Indian stuff. Sitars are made out of watermelons or pumpkins or something smashed so they go hard. They're very brittle and you have to be careful how you handle them. We had the sitars, we thought we'd try them out in the studio. To get the right sound on Paint It Black we found the sitar fitted perfectly. We tried a guitar but you can't bend it enough." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
This was used as the theme song for Tour Of Duty, a CBS show about the Vietnam war which ran from 1987-1989.
On the single, there is a comma before "Black" in the title. Some people thought this was a racial statement.
Mick Jagger: "That was the time of lots of acid. It has sitars on it. It's like the beginnings of miserable psychedelia. That's what the Rolling Stones started - maybe we should have a revival of that." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
U2 did a cover of this for the 7" B-side of "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses," and used some of it in live versions of "Bad." Other artists who have covered it include Deep Purple, Vanessa Carlton, GOB, Tea Party, Johnny Lang, Face to Face, Earth Crisis, We Are Sex Perverts (W.A.S.P.), Rage, Glenn Tipton, Elliott Smith, Eternal Afflict, Anvil, and Risa Song. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada) (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)
Jack Nitzsche played keyboards. Besides working with The Stones, Nitzsche arranged records for Phil Spector and scored many movies. Nitzsche had an unfortunate moment when he appeared on the TV show Cops after being arrested for waving a gun at a guy who stole his hat. He died of a heart attack in 2000 at age 63.
The Stones former manager Allen Klein owns the publishing rights to this. In 1965, The Stones hired him and signed a deal they would later regret. With Klein controlling their money, The Stones signed over the publishing rights to all the songs they wrote up to 1969. Every time this is used in a commercial or TV show, Klein gets paid.
This is featured in the closing credits of the movie The Devil's Advocate (thanks, Kurt - Downers Grove, IL). It is also heard at the end of Stanley Kubrick's movie Full Metal Jacket, where it serves as an allegory of the sorrow of the sudden death in the song relating to the emotional death of the men in the film, and of all men in war. (thanks, Joseph - Taree, Australia)
"Paint It Black" was referenced in the second verse of the song "Thirteen" by Big Star: "Won't you tell your Dad get off my back? Tell him what we said 'bout Paint It Black. Rock 'n' Roll is here to stay. Come inside where it's OK. And I'll shake you." (thanks, John - Tipperary, Ireland)
This song was used in the movie Stir Of Echoes with Kevin Bacon. In the movie, Bacon's character hears the first few chords of it in a memory, but could not think of the song. It drives him crazy through most of the movie. (thanks, Mary - Phoenix, AZ)
Talking on his Absolute Radio show, Stones' co-guitarist Ronnie Wood disclosed that Keith Richards has trouble remembering how to play this song. He revealed, "We always have this moment of hesitation where we don't know if Keith's going to get the intro right."

One of my favs Roy


What about sympathy for the devil as an Easter link

lovely work again roy ... top thread and links for a daily 'fix'

and lol crow re sympathy

Best Fred. Have been down and re invested, Goats Head Soup and Some Girls. will get others later. Brings back great memories ..... Thanks

A classic album Roy - and a stones country classic


The king of Bakersfield was Buck Owens.   One of Owens biggest hits was Cryin' Time.   He didn't have much of a hit with it but Ray Charles did.

The chorus goes, "It's cryin' time again you're gonna leave me.   I can see that far away look in your eyes."

Far Away Eyes is an homage to the Bakersfield sound and I'm pretty sure that's the reference. It also fits with Keith's wry sense of humor; the idea that he's taking up with Buck's girl.   It also explains why Mick said that she was a real girl because she was real in the sense that she exists in a quintesential Bakersfield song.

- Rocket, New Orleans, LA

(Rolling Stones)-1964-The Rolling Stones-02-I Just Want To Make Love To You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swuWRQhzE0A

cheers for that kamikaze ... another great addition to this thread

Mick Jagger (1995): "That's Brian (Jones) playing steel guitar. We were sitting around in a circle on the floor, singing and playing, recording with open mikes. That was the last time I remember Brian really being totally involved in something that was really worth doing. He was there with everyone else. It's funny how you remember - but that was the last moment I remember him doing that, because he had just lost interest in everything." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

info obtained from ...

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=510

wow roy ... classic pick up .. another i had forgotten all about

probably one of the best stones song of its genre ... the "sticky album" was indeed a ripper

i'll let the guys play out the "meaning" behind the song ... ive found about 5 genuine possibilities

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Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away

Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

(Rolling Stones)-1986-Dirty Work-03-Harlem Shuffle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOkIU8BCxgU

another loved song roy, cheers ...


That's jazz legend Sonny Rollins on saxophone.
- Joe, Clifton, NJ songfacts

(Rolling Stones)-1972-Exile On Main St-04-Casino Boogie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXaqbdwI3Dc

(Rolling Stones)-1997-Bridges To Babylon-08-Saint Of Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv9nhWxYG84

(Rolling Stones)-1986-Dirty Work-08-Dirty Work


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA6QmcTcuzY

(Rolling Stones)-1974-It's Only Rock'n'roll-02-Ain't Too Proud To Beg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFshYgyTrd4

CITADEL  1967


Album Their Satanic Majesties Request

UK No 2

USA No 3

Fairly straightforward rock song based on a heavy guitar riff.Said to be inspired by the film 'Metropolis'.

I've never quite been able to make out some of the lyrics - until they invented lyrics websites!

(Rolling Stones)-1972-Exile On Main St-09-Loving Cup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex1nxuM1fU8


One of my faves

(Rolling Stones)-1969-Let It Bleed-09-You Can't Always Get What You Want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toiM1B6E2ww&feature=related

another sweet one roy ... cheers for this

i hadn't ever heard it lol

did a check cause i thought maybe they got little walter to do the harp part

(did you see the movie "cadillac records" which was somewhat about a chess records though a bit harsh maybe - beyonce was brilliant as etta james - and i mean brilliant s@xy - great voice etc)

however, it was brian jones doing the great harmonica work - well done brian

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