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The Rolling Stones – Sweet Black Angel
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This song from The Stones' iconic 1972 album, Exile on Main Street, is about Angela Davis, a political activist, scholar and author from Alabama. Jagger and Richards' lyrics, in a
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The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black
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From their 4th album, Aftermath. Per pophistorydig, the song is about the funeral of a girl from her lover’s viewpoint, and he wants the color of everything to match his mood.
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The Rolling Stones – Sweet Virginia
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“Sweet Virginia”, is a sweetly clamoring acoustic number reflects both the country music influence Gram Parson imparted upon Keith at the time and the drug-induced atmosphere at
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The Rolling Stones – Shine a Light
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“Shine a Light” is featured on The Rolling Stones' tenth British and 13th American studio album, Exile on Main St., released in May of 1972.
Lead singer, Mick Jagger, began
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The Rolling Stones – Angie
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“Angie” is a track from the Rolling Stones' album Goats Head Soup. It was written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards.
The song is about the end of a romance with a girl named Angie
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The Rolling Stones – Casino Boogie
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With seemingly abstract lyrics, “Casino Boogie” is a difficult song to interpret, however in an interview with Uncut Magazine in April 2010, Jagger gave some insight:
That song
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The Rolling Stones – Loving Cup
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From the 1972 work of art, Exile on Mainstreet, “Loving Cup” was originally conceived and attempted in London’s Olympic Studios during the Let it Bleed recordings, but found it’s
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The Rolling Stones – She's a Rainbow
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Issued in 1967, at the height of the psychedelic rock era, and was one of their last non top charting hits before they came up the following year with “Jumping Jack Flash”.
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The Rolling Stones – Stop Breaking Down
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“Stop Breaking Down” is the second of two cover songs on Exile on Main Street originally recorded by Robert Johnson in 1937, the other being Shake Your Hips.
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The Rolling Stones – Rocks Off
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“Rocks Off” is the opening track from Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stone’s seminal 1972 album.
The song has diverse lyrics, including allusions to heroin use and inability
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The Rolling Stones – Ventilator Blues
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The only song in the Rolling Stones' backcatallogue on which Mick Taylor had a writing credit; the rest of the Exile on Main St. was credited to solely Jagger/Richards.
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The Rolling Stones – I Just Want to See His Face
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“I Just Want To See His Face” is unusual in that it has a fade-in and fade-out, leaving the listener wondering what was left out, in the recording.
As it has never been played
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The Rolling Stones – All Down the Line
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Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “All Down the Line” is a straight ahead electric rock song which opens side four of Exile on Main St..
It was the first song to be
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The Rolling Stones – Turd on the Run
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[Verse 1] / Grabbed hold of your coat tail but it come off in my hand / I reached for your lapel but it weren't sewn on so grand / Begged, promised anything if only you would stay
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The Rolling Stones – Soul Survivor
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[Verse 1] / When the waters is rough / The sailing is tough / I'll get drowned in your love / You've got a cutthroat crew, yeah / I'm going to sink under you, oh / I got the bell
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Don McLean – American Pie
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Don McLean released this groundbreaking song on the album American Pie in 1971. It is full of pop-culture references. An entire website has been created by Jim Fann to explore the
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The Rolling Stones – Torn and Frayed
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[Verse 1] / Hey, let him follow you down / Way underground wind and he's bound / Bound to follow you down / Just a dead beat right off the street / Bound to follow you down / [
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The Black Crowes – She Talks to Angels
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The eighth track on The Black Crowes‘ 1990 album Shake Your Money Maker, and one of the singles from the album. Written by vocalist Chris Robinson, “She Talks to Angels” is an
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The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
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“Bitter Sweet Symphony” is perhaps the most ambitious Britpop hit of the late 90s. It is now absolutely everywhere. It’s lyrically opaque, and it is six minutes long, but that hasn
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System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
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Rick Rubin, who produced Toxicity for System of a Down, cites this song as one of his most important projects. He told Rolling Stone:
This song was originally going to be called “
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The Rolling Stones – Ruby Tuesday
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“Ruby Tuesday” was first released in 1967 as the B-side of “Let’s Spend the Night Together”, the lead single to promote Between the Buttons.
While it was first released as the B-
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Santana – Black Magic Woman
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[Verse 1] / Got a black magic woman / Got a black magic woman / I got a black magic woman / Got me so blind I can't see / That she's a black magic woman / She's tryin' to make a
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The Rolling Stones – Shake Your Hips
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One of two songs on Exile on Main Street that was a cover version, “Shake Your Hips” was originally written by blues harmonica player Slim Harpo, so named because of his mastery of
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Audioslave – Like a Stone
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[Verse 1] / On a cobweb afternoon in a room full of emptiness / By a freeway, I confess I was lost in the pages / Of a book full of death, reading how we'll die alone / And if we'
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