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Yeah, you got plastic boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed-freak jive
Can't you hear me knockin' on your window
Can't you hear me knockin' on your door
Can't you hear me knockin' down your dirty street, yeah
Help me baby, ain't no stranger
Help me baby, ain't no stranger
Help me baby, ain't no stranger
Can't you hear me knockin', ahh, are you safe asleep?
Can't you hear me knockin', yeah, down the gas light street, now
Can't you hear me knockin', yeah, throw me down the keys
Alright now
Hear me ringing big bell tolls
Hear me singing soft and low
I've been begging on my knees
I've been kickin', help me please
Hear me prowlin'
I'm gonna take you down
Hear me growlin'
Yeah, I've got flatted feet now, now, now, now
Hear me howlin'
And all, all around your street now
Hear me knockin'
And all, all around your town
Them two guitar players sure can play together.
I'd love to see a list of songs that equal this tune as greatest rock song ever...
come on listeners!!
Top five would have to include Lou Reed's Sweet Jane, live version.
Gee. When you're not high, that ending seems to go on FOREVER
And if you are high it does go on forever
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
I'd say that about many of the other tracks of this album, as well as from Let it Bleed, Beggar's Banquet, and Exile on Main St...
While people gush all over the opening riff (which is great) they seem to forget that the iconic guitar solo at the end interplayed with the sax is the genius of Mick Taylor. Keith is a riff guy, but was never an iconic lead soloist.
Yeah you’re definitely right
come on listeners!!
My favorite tune on this album!!! ...definitely a "10"! ....the entire album is great!
Agreed - 100% !
uhhmmm .. and I was impressed by the real zip on the vinyl album sleeve lol
- little things please little minds I guess.
where the come from
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
I Agree completely! Thanx RP!
NEW STONES!!!
you're right William - Keith does know how to start a song really, really well.
one of my favorite beginnings.
YES! Also, the jam at the end, is one of my FAVORITE ENDINGS!!!
one of my favorite beginnings.
Amen, brother. Mr Richards' guitar licks will last for years and years.
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
mattenuttall wrote:
There is a brief pause - kind of a missing note - after Keith's "open-G tuned" intro to this song. Jagger just can't resist, and he lets out a barely audible grunt right where the missing note should be.
I had to listen to this song LOUD several thousand times before I noticed this, but it was time well spent.
A brief pause, yes.
But there is no missing note, bud.
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
Quite a lot of 'em, if Bill and the RP fans are any judge. 1967-1971 contained more Rock and roll kick-assedness than any other 5-year period.
None.
Satisfaction had quite the impact.
Oh yeah, and Keith and Mick and Charlie at their best!
Genius of Mick Taylor's guitar playing, he really played on all of their best albums, sadly under-rated guitar player.
Big 10 for this one.
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
The greatest.
nobody else comes close
Could be wrong, but I doubt it!
This was my first album ever. I remember getting it as a present from a good friend. I was perhaps all of 12 or so. My parents were SHOCKED at the album cover. Mine had the actual fly built into the thing, and the cover flipped out to reveal the tighty whities. I regret very little in life, but not hanging onto that damn LP is one of them. One of the best albums ever.
I was a little bit young to understand the album cover, but remember as a pre-teen undoing the zipper in the local Kresge's store. I was quite fascinated
World's most over-rated singer. Second-best average band of all time (behind U2).
So says someone with the handle "ppopp". Long live Justin Bieber.
This particular song is way up there in my regard, perhaps even my all-time favorite by them... There is something so raw, so wild here, even just the way the guitar commences to SHRED so early on -- and it only gets wilder! That sensational sax part, wow -- even when I was just a little kid and heard that on the radio, I was like, Whoah...cool... Thanks, RP, for playing another quintessential, timeless, rocking JAM!
I Agree!! On ALL counts!!
I Agree!! Same here!!
Great impromptu, unplanned jam at the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU BET!!!!!
Big thanks to BillG for having a FLAC feed so I can really appreciate how delicate Mr. Watts' cymbal strokes were on the outro; that and the sense of space.
It's like two songs, the first RnR, Mick Jaggar strut, then the jazzy ending that seems to last longer then the verses.
RIP Charlie.
I Agree!!
It's like two songs, the first RnR, Mick Jaggar strut, then the jazzy ending that seems to last longer then the verses.
RIP Charlie.
I see on MTV that they are a "legendary" band!!!!
Too bad the Rolling Stones don't receive such well-qualified accolades.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
3074 songs rated...36 rates 10...this is one of them.
Oh how I wish there was a live 20 min version where they just jam!
so disappointed to read the lyrics as:
Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
I always heard it as "nasty boots" not plastic boots.
That visual works much better for me :)
I''ll be damned. I thought all these years that it was "...nasty boots" too. I like our version better. If only Mick and Keith had our input all those years ago...
They mighta' really gotten somewhere. :-)
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
"Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Tiny Tim?
It took me a while, but I got there as soon as I could ...
--Radiotoe
So sad for you pbouchar. You seem to be all by yourself - have fun by yourself in the corner ... I’m with the rest of the gang, esp. KudaRey - this is one of the greatest RnR songs. Ever. Period
100% agree w/Montreal_Mort. Also, if I could give it a 25 I would!!!
Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
I always heard it as "nasty boots" not plastic boots.
That visual works much better for me :)
How many people have gotten off over the album cover?
Don't get me wrong, I love horns but the charts for this tune kind of miss the mark. Too much sax, needs some trumpet punch ala the Memphis horn section at Stax Records as masterfully used by Booker T and the MG's.
A tsunami if you will indulge me
that helped to sweep me up off the ground
in the middle of my youth
and send me soaring to heights undreamed of
Kinda wonder how such a short time (song duration) can be so long
Long Live Rock and Roll
This song has always demonstrated for me, with the best lead guitarist in place that the Stones ever had, the epitome of what the Stones were, are, and will be.
Bobby Keys, Died 2014.
Greetings from Bavaria to all the listeners outside. Stay safe.
It's all good brother...cuz it's that good! LLRP!
I noticed this too. Perhaps BBC is giving a nod to "This is Spinal Tap"?
I had to listen to this song LOUD several thousand times before I noticed this, but it was time well spent.
long live the Stones !
Dave's not here man ....
if I hit the forward key it will move on but than I miss the really good song that's waiting in the Q.....Seems to always happen when a really great song comes up......hummm
Outstanding album, Outstanding track, used in great movies as well. Memories of the album at the record store, the zipper tearing the cellophane - Classic Stones.
One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. And I do not say that lightly. If the Stones brought this song out today, it would still kick ass. How many 47 year old songs can you say that about?
The ending… one of the best jazz jams ever. That’s how I hear it now after all these years. Perhaps to get us ready for Black and Blue, to come later. Maybe some day William will play a cut from that album…