{"id":422875,"date":"2025-09-14T05:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422875\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:06:12","slug":"the-best-early-rolling-stones-song-according-to-neil-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422875\/","title":{"rendered":"The best early Rolling Stones song, according to Neil Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Neil<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Analog Originals \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

Sun 14 September 2025 4:00, UK <\/p>\n

There are a rarefied few songs, maybe 50 or so, that you simply couldn\u2019t imagine the world without. The Rolling Stones<\/a> delivered one of the most fierce with \u2018Satisfaction\u2019.<\/p>\n

Keith Richards came up with the riff in a dream. He may well have been dreaming of the Motown hit \u2018Dancing in the Street\u2019 because it\u2019s awfully similar, even by his own admission. But the brutal attitude of the band made it distinct and different, sliding seamlessly into the angst of the zeitgeist and becoming a mega-hit.<\/p>\n

But the times were moving so fast that if you weren\u2019t sprinting forward, you were falling behind. If The Beatles could be seen as the rivals of, well, all of their peers, then everyone had to keep pace with a group that released 213 songs in eight years. So, while the Stones might have entered the studio satisfied with \u2018Satisfaction\u2019, they knew they had to follow it up.<\/p>\n

In a flash, Richards had gone from dreaming about an enigmatic song to the track being number one within a month. And as they bundled into the studio to record, they figured a follow up single would be required, too. They may well have mused, \u2018What\u2019s hip?\u2019, because the sentiment of their next song was the perfect hippy soundbite: \u2018Get off My Cloud\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, while its outlook might have been dreamy, its production was rudimentary, thrown together in a sudden flurry of activity. That might give the final cut a real warts-and-all feel, but Neil Young figured it was all the better for it. He was a folk star looking for something real<\/a>, and it didn\u2019t get much realer than the Stones noticeably fluffing their lines, and throwing those blemishes into he final mix anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were all young, goin\u2019 through a lotta changes real fast,\u201d he reflected on their vital energy, \u201cBrian [Jones] didn\u2019t make it. \u2018Satisfaction\u2019 was a great record. \u2018Get Off My Cloud,\u2019 even better record. Looser, less of a hit. More of a reckless abandon,\u201d Young told the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

The song would go on to reach number one as well, but its pop and fizz faded faster from public consciousness. Young, however, even admired that element. \u201c\u2018Get Off My Cloud\u2019, I know it\u2019s not as good of a song, and I know that the performance is probably not as good as the \u2018Satisfaction\u2019 performance, maybe it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It carries the spirit of the blues in its slapdash wake, and Young saw that as a definitive flourish of the band. \u201cThe thing about it is it\u2019s obviously just such a fuckin\u2019 throw-together song that they came up with on the way to the studio or the night before, y\u2019know,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThat\u2019s what I liked about it. It really sounded like the Rolling Stones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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