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23 November 2007

You Can’t Always Get What You Want It just seemed like a good soundtrack for Black Friday, y’know what I mean? →[More:]

As good as the studio version is (and it’s a fucking masterpiece, I tells ya), I have to say that lately I find myself preferring this bootleg version, recorded February 26, 1973 at the Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. As much as I love the London Bach Choir taking the whole thing up into heaven at the end of the official cut, there’s something about the stripped-down live take that does it for me. I think maybe its Keith’s perfectly ragged (and raggedly perfect) harmonies, or the way Mick Taylor lights a fire under his ass, guitar-wise. (It’s certainly not Mick’s laughable attempt at a southern accent – “Ya CAIN’T always GIT whatcha wownt” – which he wisely drops after the first chorus.)

What do you think?

Bootleg via That Truncheon Thing.

post by: bmarkey at: 20:33 | 7 comments

...and producer Miller -- "Mr. Jimmy" in the Jagger lyric -- subbed on the trap kit for the usually unerring Charlie Watts when the Stones drummer had difficulty mastering the tricky groove.

And I believe Watts stormed off the stage pissed off. And Miller never produced for the Stones again? But kinda made his place in rock history? Weird. That drum line sure ain't brain surgery. There's a great interview with Miller floating around out there somewhere in NPR's files.

posted by shane 23 November | 20:42

Yeah, that's always seemed weird to me as well. I suspect that something else was going on, although I don't know what.

posted by bmarkey 23 November | 20:46

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

But if ya try sometimes
Ya just might find
Ya get what ya need

It just seemed like a good soundtrack for Black Friday, y’know what I mean?

LOL, are you referring to the latest legal version of "bait and switch," like all the people flocking to Walmart at 4:00 or 5:00 this morning, most of them finding the bargain-priced flat screen TV they wanted sold out, then buying something else (they didn't really need) whilst they were there?
;-)

posted by shane 23 November | 20:51

Wikipedia says Miller produced their records through to Goat's Head Soup, which I think would make it '72 - '73 when he left.

On preview: It just seemed appropriate for the biggest shopping day of the year.

posted by bmarkey 23 November | 20:54

Wikipedia says Miller produced their records through to Goat's Head Soup, which I think would make it '72 - '73 when he left.

I wondered about that, but the interview I heard made it seem like there was much bad blood after You Can't....

posted by shane 23 November | 21:16

Now that I think of it, I believe that Uncut recently ran an article that Miller wrote about the time he spent with the Stones. I'll see if I can't find it when I get home.

posted by bmarkey 23 November | 21:27

Given the slack jawed hordes I saw shuffling aimlessly around the aisles of a Super Target where I stopped briefly for dog food today, I'm going to nominate Joe Jackson's You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) as a contender for the Black Friday theme song. Thousands of people, out and about, burning gas and daylight, with not a clue what they wanted and didn't need.

And many zoning out to iPod tunes, open mouthed and vacant eyed, heads nodding in independent zombie rhythm, all the while. Made me nostalgic for cheery "shopping season" Muzak of days gone by, I tells ya...

posted by paulsc 23 November | 21:48

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