Does it get any better than this?

on this one, you feel their pure joy to rock & roll, brilliant

 phlattop wrote:


Me too!

 Sweet_Virginia wrote:

It's because of them guitar rifts. 

I never realized until now just how hard Mick is selling the monkey thing on this one.

 newbolddrive wrote:

Man, if that's true, I'm so old, lol.

Shock the Monkey, Man.

Def in my 4 favorite stones albums. The whole thing rocks.

I only discovered this song a few months ago (via RP of course) and it is one of my favourite Stones songs now.

Could ONLY be the stones.

 eileenomurphy wrote:


I miss WNEW.

Prob the MOST underrated Stones song.   Thanks for playing!

 kenbelanger wrote:

Ohhh The Monkey Man !!!!

Nothing special here. I like good hooks and melodies. And if not, something at least with an interesting atmosphere. This is just barroom filler.

 uksminas wrote:

Is that better than a monkey on your back?

EXCELLENT!!! ICONIC!!!

 cbhutchinson50 wrote:
HEAVEN FORBID!!!

 uksminas wrote:

Cant stop staring.

 On_The_Beach wrote:


I agree! When it first came out in 1969, they played it a lot on WNEW FM 102.7 NYC! ...totally cool!

&ct=g

… and I hope we’re not too messianic, or a trifle too satanic … Yes pls, I’d like to be

Loved this song from the first time I heard it.
It's tons of fun and kicks ass at the same time.

52 years young. Sounds so fresh.

Always loved this song in high school when you'd get so frustrated with all the bullshit that you wanted to flip off the whole world. This is the soundtrack for that adrenalized Monkey Man rage.

 iloveradio wrote:
 
Was there for the first gig and would add Beast of Burden which was mindblowing!

 bluefrog wrote:  
Woah.....
The direction my life was on has now changed.

meh. there are plenty of stone's songs i like better...

 Edweirdo wrote:

I'm with you, mate.   I suspect you and I could talk shop for hours.

I wasn't a big fan of the Stones while growing up but this one's a solid '8'

🤘

This album, with The Beatles' Abbey Road, was my introduction to popular music and remains in my top 5 albums of all time.

 bentonian wrote:
 

Who is Robert Plant?

Let it Bleed. An all-time great album. 
Great track.
Gimme Shelter an all-time great track.

 SkidMarx wrote:
 
i doubt that more than a handful of those dumb-ass Yanks know who Delia Smith is?

 DanFHiggins wrote:
 

Yes but please tune your guitar, Keith!

In case anyone's interested the cake's Delia Smith's creation

 lizardking wrote: 
Heh, we called it crank back in the days of this album.  And yes, say no to crank / meth.  As is the old Canned Heat song Amphetamine Annie, Speed Kills !!  True then, true now.  Keep all those monkeys off yer back ...

That said, I still find that much of my favorite music from this era came from those under the influence of smack.  Something about the love / hate struggle that inspired so much great music.

 bentonian wrote:
 
Probably; the "lemon squeezer" trope goes back to old-time blues guys like Robert Johnson and Blind Boy Fuller at least.

As I'm ready to head out of the office for a (too) brief respite for lunch, I'm reminded about how I played this tune a couple weeks ago while making the trip to my favorite lunch place.   One of the fun parts of working in Everett, WA, is people watching; in this case, it's the "junkies" that I'm referring to, or "tweakers" to be exact, there's a growing population of meth heads here, and most are harmless enough, though some do get a bit pissed off about "no, you can't get high in our bathroom" or whatever....and I've grown kinda fond of them.  So the opening lines of this are extra funny to me.  I'd go +1 if I wasn't already at a 9 on this one....Long Live RP!!  And say no to Meth....trust me....it's not how you want to end up.

 bentonian wrote:
 
HAHAHA....I'm sure they are.  

Might the lemons that Mick mentions be the same lemons that Robert Plant talks about?

Have a love/hate relationship with the Stones since day one. This tune reaffirms the hate aspect.

Damn that's some fine rock and roll!

 sfyi2001 wrote: 
I'm still here baby!

ROLLING STONES European Tour begins next month, (May- July of 2018).
What's Stephan Phillips (below) up to these days, besides photo-shopping himself to Mr. Richards head? 
 

 Stephen_Phillips wrote: 
Ack, now there's a disturbing image I won't be able to shake for about 50 years.  ; )

 h8rhater wrote: 
Cool, you're in a gang.... maybe that's why you go by h8rhater

From
"Opp is a slang word meaning opposition; it is often used by criminals to refer to their enemies, such as rival gang members. This slang isn't considered a nationwide slang, it's mostly used in places Pittsburgh, California, and Chicago. Opps is often considered to be the plural of the word"

Where you looking oops?

interjection

Classic Richards riff! Good song.

Puts me right back in my cousin's 69 Chevelle SS 396 with this on the eight track blastin. Very cool.

       

Mick, YOU'RE the one who is a "trifle too satanic".

What is Keith doing these days?

Still monkeying around...

 

Monkey woman: she's lean, she's mean...she not too far in between. 

 coloradojohn wrote: 
YES!  "mad guitar" indeed, such wicked music man party on!  : )

 Skydog wrote: 
The Stones never took Wood over Taylor.  Taylor left the band and Wood was selected as a successor.

Keith is in the studio with the rest of the band working on an album of all new material. 

You could easily have figured this all out for yourself if you weren't so busy spouting rubbish.  Opps!

Let It Bleed is one of the great albums of the 1960s and beyond. The Stones live performance of Gimme Shelter in 2014 at Hyde Park was spine chilling.

 primm wrote: 
not on this song but i get your drift
big mistake taking Wood over Taylor
.......and keeping Richard for that matter
opps, i dissed Keith
btw, what's he doing now?
from comments i hear him making lately he sounds like he wants to be the music critic for FOX News 

Some of the best mad guitar of the times on this one, for sure. Simple, catchy as hell; wicked jam! They hit it again with Some Girls too

Sounds soooo goood on vinyl!

12! This song is  a 12!

MICK TAYLOR ERA SOOOOO GOOOOOD

 WonderLizard wrote: 
Sticky Fingers??

Bill, I like this song but you should know that the Stones have many others, there is no need to overplay this one.

 hempmandan wrote: 
IMHO, their "best" is a toss up among Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet, and Exile on Main St. Some Girls and Tattoo You are close behind.

yeah, umm .. I quoted a statement from idiot_wind (a sharp sarcastic fellow), I didn't write that stuff     love the Stones 
now 'scuse me while I indulge in a teeny toke of pleasent cannabis and watch the snow-fall,  Peace 

Hayduke was saying that Rock is dead, and that if all we have are Foo Fighters, Kid Rock, and Linkin Park, then indeed it's dead.
Well, I'd agree with you ... IF that was all there was, as all three of them suck big time.
But RP turns us on to new cool stuff all the time. 

Get up and dance all you primates, you.

Keef's guitar is so raw on this track, absolutely love it. 10++

One of their best for sure...so hard to pick one! This album, Get Yer Ya Ya's Out and Tatoo You are the best! Though I do like Undercover In The Night...

Hey orb, this is an old comment from idiot_wind that I reposted, sorry, their name isn't all that discernable at the bottom.

idiot_wind has got a wicked sense of humor

 hayduke2 wrote: 
Hayduke2, you mean to tell me that you don't think that any of the newer rock bands Bill plays here on are any good? YOUR brand of rock may be dead, but there is plenty of good, NEW music out there to listen to.
I discover something new every time I turn on RP.
 

In '69, all of Mick's friends were junkies. 

I bet that made poker night a little tough to get more than a couple hands in before the whole table nodded off...

the opening coda to this song always gets a +20% volume adjustment out of me


i'm glad you are a monkey woman too . . .

the instrumental parts here are really groovy! 

 idiot_wind wrote:  Quote:
"Foo fighters. Way, way, way over rated,

They are part of the post Nirvana, "thud and drone" school of rock n roll. 

No soul, no hooks, no great instrumentals, no melodics, no harmonics, no cryptic lyrics. 

Just the PAAD principle: every freakin song must express: Pain, Angst Anger, or Despair. 

Sorry Generation X or Y.  Rock n Roll is DEAD, when all you got is Foo Fighters, Kid Rock, and Linkin Park. "  unquote.

Had to quote some gas passed by idiot_wind  a while ago 
 

 rharvey658 wrote: 
Keith Richards played electric and slide electric guitar on Monkey Man.  Mick Taylor did appear on 2 tracks on Let It Bleed:  Country Honk and Live With Me

 idiot_wind wrote: 
 - Good one

and who is this Nicky Hopkins playing piano?

Boy oh boy...these guys need some better guitar players...you know like the Foo Fighters.

 trailhead wrote: 
I think this was recorded before Taylor joined the band. Great tune, though, and Richard's guitar work is excellent on this track.
 

I'm nuthin but a mon-key 
m-m-m-m-m-mon-key! 

Mick's momma-momma monkeying is ultra fuckin cool, surrounded by some of the damn coolest slammin music (imo above most Beatles stuff), so way cool its timeless

 bobzane wrote: 
Yeah, and they had Mick Taylor playing for them!

What a classic into and riff - loving it

I assume that this is a joke? Excellent guitar, inspired vocals, downright weird and super cool lyrics. Great beat. Play this MORE OFTEN.  

idiot_wind wrote: 

Boy oh boy,


Weak guitar playing, souless vocals. Boring lyrics. Rythm section can't keep a beat.


You should play newer rock n roll.     Gosh...get with it! 

Best album in rock and roll history.  Therefore, best album in history.

I bought this LP the week it was released.
When I got home, I quickly realized that I had
a copy with two side As pressed into the vinyl.
Indignant, I returned it to the store for a copy
with both sides.

As the third founder of Apple said years after he
quit the company after working for 22 days, ''I made
the best decision with the information available to
me at the time.'' He would now have tens of billions of dollars 
if he had kept his shares.

love the slideshow

Monkey Man seeks Monkey Woman.  Must have lemon squeezer, and you know what I mean, baby.

It turns out that I, too, am a monkey man.

ran out breath

musicmz   must dnce

 Hannio wrote: 
You're right, it doesn't really make sense in the context of the song.  Who knows with those crazy, old Stones?

 Proclivities wrote: 

That makes no sense within the context of this song.  A monkey man that is glad you are a monkey woman too.  Why would he want a geezer?  Menage a trois?  I don't think Mick was that kinky.  But I could be wrong.

Add this to the pile of great albums released that year

This is good played very loud.

In many ways, this song foreshadowed the fabulous dirt and grime that makes Exile on Main Street what many consider to be the Stones piéce de résistance.

 bachbeet wrote: 
It is, in fact, the now deceased Nicky Hopkins .

 Hannio wrote: 
Wait. I wasn't there? I thought that was Woodstock, cuz I sure as hell remember getting this album for my uh, 12th birthday....

Fifty Years!  Reviews I read  of their recent NJ shows were "as good or better than ever"  Way to go.
Couple of dozen iconic songs in R&R history along with another 30 or so of simply outstanding.
Soundtrack to my life.  I was 16 when Satisfaction was released—changed me in ways I still feel today.

Sure, they love the money and some members may have huge egos.  So what?  Fifty years of excellence. And in the end it was The Music that counted for them..

 bobzane wrote: 
Yes, it was.  But as has been said, if you can remember it you weren't really there.

 TJS wrote: 
Well, yes. But, how many reference more than one? Have you done the research? How would you go about it?

 Papernapkin wrote: 
PSD there nappy... Sounds fresh to me despite the years.

It was a golden age when all Stones albums were great

It's a good song, but it's been played enough over the past 40 years. Give it a rest for 40 years and then it will be fresh again.

 bachbeet wrote: 
Let's turn it up!

I seem to remember them doing a good live version on "get your ya-ya's out." Oh, ya-ya's, lemons; Am I seeing a trend here?

A great song from one of their best albums.  I think that's Nicky Hopkins on the piano.

 Otomi wrote: 
I know that Led Zeppelin was "inspired" by those lyrics, but I had also heard that the use of the term "lemon squeezer" in this song was a reference in Cockney rhyming slang: lemon squeezer = geezer.  It could be wrong.

 emh wrote: 

it is solid from start to finish. but i disagree - exile on main street, beggars banquet...also no fillers. and good for you, too.

back when I was a lad I had a friend who would yell "All my friends are junkies." Memories 

 TJS wrote: 
Hoo hoo!

 emh wrote: 
Completely Agree.....

 

 grant wrote: 

Actually, most songs are about primates.

GOODFELLAS!!! 

Fifty years!  I hope they still have the chops, not to mention the desire, to perform this year.  They are literally the sound track to my life.
I am flea-bit peanut monkey.........