(I can't get no) Satisfaction : Satisfaction in the capital world (OK!)

16-05-2019

By Phaojao Kamlangjaidee


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  • What makes "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" so successful today Not just the melodies and spirits of Richards' rock and roll. But it also includes the sarcastic lyrics of Jagger that satirize the modern capitalist world.

In the 60s-70’s, the music world was occupied by two rock bands from England.
That one is surely the Beatles. No one can be apart from The Rolling Stones, the successful rock band from London side by side and alongside The Beatles causing a phenomenon in the music industry known as 'British invasion' (The first one, before the 2nd, three decades later with bands like Oasis and Blur.)


Look at the distance The Beatles may hold this exclusive musical world. John Lennon and the band make the whole world sing their song, song after song. But if considered each other completely, the music produced by the Rolling Stones band has won the hearts of people equally. The difference is that The Rolling Stones may have fewer hits than The Beatles.


But this number is not an indicator of quality and success. Among the fewer hits of The Rolling Stones, they still have a wonderful song, and it looks like this one song should be enough to create such a miracle: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. "
 

"(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" included in the album "Out of Our Head" in 1965. Which is the third album in England and fourth in America. Previously, The Rolling Stones made quite a name in England and America. ut at once the single "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" was released. Their status also changed. Because this is a hit song that truly created the phenomenon of madness in the rock band. But at once the single "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" was released, their status also changed. Because this is a hit song that truly created the phenomenon of madness in the rock band. 


Keith Richards, the band's guitarist, composed the melody. One night while he was sleeping in a hotel room in Florida. After a long day came to play with the concert, he suddenly woke up with the Riff, the guitar that appeared in his dreams, with the lyrics of "Can’t Get No Satisfaction". Richards immediately recorded the piece of music in the middle of the night.

After that, Keith Richards brought the incomplete song to the band Mick Jagger, the front man, to listen to the remaining lyrics. Shortly it took the musicians to transform the song "Can’t Get No Satisfaction" into a song that critically criticized American product advertisements that they experienced throughout their American tour. By using the tactic of writing sarcastic lyrics because the sentence "I Can’t Get No Satisfaction" is grammatically incorrect. Because there are conflicting words between themselves 'can’t get' and 'no', "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" has a meaning that is not different from "I can satisfaction"."Definitely ... Not forgetting to include the band's unique implications “sex” in that song.


Jagger said of this song that "When we first composed this song It sounds like folk music and Keith didn't really like it. He doesn't want it to be single. He didn't believe it will work. I thought Keith still didn't listen enough. Maybe it's because he's too close to it. And didn’t feel how great his Riff guitar is. 


Richhards, Jagger and his bandmates recorded the song for the first time in Chicago. Before recording again in Hollywood two days later.


When released, "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" remained on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for 14 weeks and ranked No. 1 for four consecutive weeks. The singles have received a gold record with sales of over five hundred thousand copies in America and it is also the first gold record they have received in America as well. In addition, it crosses the continent to become the number one hit in Europe. Not except England, their home country and after that, it became a song that changed the world completely.


​"(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" in 1979. In addition, it is also ranked in the music rankings of many times. Whether it is one of the 100 songs that shook the world of Vox Magazine, one of the 100 best rock songs of VH1 channel, the number one in Rolling Stone magazine's top 500 songs, and the list of the best songs of all time, Q Magazine and more.


Many later artists have reworked "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". One of them is the 80's Sinclaward Devo, Otis Redding, Diana roark, even Britney Spears.


What makes "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" so successful today, not just the melodies and spirits of Richards' rock and roll. But it also includes the sarcastic lyrics of Jagger that satirize the modern capitalist world.

In reality, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is another product in the consumer world where capital seeks every way to publicize or propagate its products in order to maintain a way of maintaining That capital, The Stones, could not deny this fact.

But as the shakers broadly shout of him crying.
 

Regardless of which we may not be satisfied or avoid this capital world. Therefore, can be satisfied (!!)

 

Lyrics for "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction"

satisfaction, satisfaction.

'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.

I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm drivin' in my car and a man comes on the radio

he's tellin' me more and more about some useless information

supposed to fire my imagination.

I can't get no, oh no no no.

Hey hey hey, that's what I say.

I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no satisfaction.

'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.

I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm watchin' my TV and a man comes on to tell me how white my shirts can be.

Well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarrettes as me.

I can't get no, oh no no no.

Hey hey hey, that's what I say.

I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no girly action.

'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.

I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm ridin' round the world and I'm doin' this and I'm signing that

and I'm tryin' to make some girl who tells me baby better come back later next week

'cause you see I'm on losing streak.

I can't get no, oh no no no.

Hey hey hey, that's what I say.

I can't get no, I can't get no, I can't get no satisfaction,

no satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction.

 

Listen to “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0

 

Column: Miracle Song

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