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  • that breakdown in the middle is pure SEX

  • DOWN WITH THE FALSE HUMAN IDENTITY!!!

  • Hersheysquirts187 is all right. This and Black and Blue are by far tied for best Stones LP - Fred Out.............

  • I'd curb stomp Billy Bats to this song...

  • EELLL

  • all my friends are junkies

  • Broadband0118,Your right in the fact that the Stones released thier version first,I'm not sure about the chance meeting though but I won't argue over that I wasn't there.But thier mananger had wanted to meet with John & Paul.Both Paul & John wanted to meet them as well & they did offer it to the Stones because they did need material to record at the time.You were right that they finished the in front of the the Stones at studio.Please take care Broadband0118

  • This Stones album along with Forty Licks...They're both awesome.

  • My Bonnie for Tony Sheridan & The Beatles only went to 21 on UKcharts that kind of song lending was happening alot back then.It was a way of one band helping out a favorite band that might be stuggling or just could write hits.It happens today too.Please research it if I'm wrong or right so you'll for sure Okay!Thanks for your time boardband0118

  • Hi broadband0118, Brian Jones & Mick were around during only a day or two of those sessions but I don't think the other Stones were there.As for Keith comment to John I did state it might have been a rumor but he wasn't happy about how the group was doing in the charts at the time. I Wanna be Your Man was given to them to help them as a B-side to Not Fade Away a Buddy Holly song the feeling was it that The Beatles did well with the song so they figured the Stones would too.It went 12 on UKcharts

  • @clifbuel Hi Clifbuel. I accept what you say about the Get Back sessions, but you are well wide of the mark re. I wanna be your man. The recording by the Stones came about after a chance meeting by John and Paul with Andrew Oldham in Denmark Street. They had not actually finished writing it until they got in the studio with the Stones on that afternoon. The Beatles didn't release it until after the Stones version.

  • Another British masterpiece!!!!

    Best British band of all time.

  • I just found out this song comes in How I Met Your Mother, awesome. :)

  • They were also followers of Carl Perkins,Buddy Holly,Motown artists too & were able to get hits from them. I not out to belittle anyone so please forgive me if I've offended you in any way. You do make a valid point about John I'd forgotten thanks for the reminder. Please take care & have yourself a great day.

  • Thanks Dubbly1 for your reply on my comment I'm glad I gave someone a giggle even when I was trying to open thier eyes to a fact.I'm glad you knew about Mick sitting in on the Get Back/Let it Be sessions Brian jones did the saxaphone part on You Know my Name(Look up The Number).Keith confided to John Lennon during The Rock & Roll Circus period of The Stones career they would have been another blues/rock in London going nowhere fast without John & Paul's help with that song.Probably just a rumor.

  • @clifbuel Lennon gave a very bitter interview (in 1970) regarding Jagger and the Stones.

    I love John, but I find that he was, ahem, a very "Jealous Guy."

  • @clifbuel A couple of points. I wanna be your man was not a big hit, in fact it flopped (Brit slang). Also, I'm not at all sure that any of the Stones "sat in" on the Get Back sessions, although i will stand corrected. They were there, of course, during the recording of All you need is love and a bit of PR for Pepper. Your last comment is very dubious indeed.Highly unlikely that Richards ever said that. Anyway, I love both groups equally! All the best.

  • @broadband0118 I love them both two....But there is one thing to consider. Which group was more successful? Well the Beatles released their material in a span of 7 years ( 1963 - 1970), and they've out sold every other rock band in history. That's damn good if you ask me. I don't know what the Stones have sold but I know they've been around since the same time as the Beatles and never stopped releasing albums and came back like a bunch of titanic survivor.....And they've still sold less.

  • @dubbly1 Yes, I agree with you 100%. The Beatles were unique and without doubt the best band ever. The Stones should have called it a day in 1972. As for record sales, I imagine the Beatles have outsold the Stones four or five to one. Incidentally, the Beatles output was from 1962 rather than 1963. However, despite all that, you must admit that the Stones' catalogue from '68-'72 is fucking brilliant!

  • @broadband0118 Yeah, the Stones were at their best at that time. I especially love their Forty licks album too.

  • @broadband0118 "The Beatles......without doubt the best band ever"? Don't think so, not by a mile.

  • i was in this bar one night and this awsome blues band played monkeyman ,put me on cloud 9 frickin great

  • Nobody knows just how much was stolen in a daring predawn raid on the Lufthanza Airport cargo terminal....

  • Top 10 best album cover ever.

  • The Rolling Stones: The Only Band that Still Matters.

  • @KellyGreen5555 To bad it took The Beatles to give them first big hit I Wanna be Your Man in future please keep that though in mind. They're a great group but even the great ones need help now & then.I know this is my opinion but it's still the fact of the matter just though you'd like to know. Thanks for your time & God Bless!

  • @clifbuel Haha, yeah. They even sat in during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions and Mick Jagger said that they were inspired by them. Actually, this song sounds very similar to the Beatles' sound at that time.

  • @clifbuel Well, if you wanna play that game, without Elvis Presley there would be no Beatles, so just keep that in mind.

  • @KellyGreen5555 How exactly does that work then? Why would there be no Beatles if it wasn't for Elvis Presley? I know the Beatles were fans of Elvis Presley, I just don't understand your rationale. The Beatles didn't start out because of Elvis Presley, and Elvis Presley didn't invent Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll, Pop, etc. Now please Mr Bubble and Squeak: Enlighten me...

  • @KellyGreen5555 Or are you trying to say that Elvis Presley was in fact the biological father to all 4 of the Beatles? Because that would make just about as much sense as what you are trying to say. I know and I even think that you yourself know that if there hadn't been an Elvis Presley, we would have still had the Beatles as we know them.

  • @boi187 Try reading the post I replied to and pump your brakes, you fucking knob.

  • Does youtube allow you to play a video over and over again? They should

  • @13Ghostwriter  HELL YEAH rock on !

  • Mr.Lif samples this .. "Madness in a Cup" ;D Dopeeee!

  • Insanity!!

  • The opening ascending "piano riff" is Wyman on vibes. Keith and Bill double tracked alot of instrumnets on let it bleed

  • Rhythm guitar at its darkest, most dangerous, sharpest and best.

  • @jacleafy good comment!

  • I'M A MONKEY!

  • Awesome song, monkey man.

  • just danmn good song......

  • top band no one is close

  • @drummingmonkey123 NO one? Not even The Beatles??? Not startin nothin, just askin...........

  • @estyle40 I'm with you. My favorites are the Beatles and the Stones and Zep are pretty much tied for 2nd in my book. I will say that from Beggar's Banquet through Exile, the Stones did it about as good as anybody could.

  • @ToddSweeneyOnce Very much agreed...........

  • @estyle40 Thanks man, I appreciate it! To be honest though, when I hear songs like this, I can almost give them # 1. This is great stuff. It's just that the Beatles never made a bad album to me and neither the Stones or Zep can make that claim, in my opinion. I didn't like Presence and I can't listen to anything after the Undercover album, except for "One Hit To the Body", but hell, they had nothing else to prove by then anyway! Take care.

  • @ToddSweeneyOnce Very impressively put!! You musta written theories about this very thing: nice goin!!! See ya around.........

  • @ToddSweeneyOnce u hit the nail on the head, but remember ther Stones have many more years to cover! What if the Beatles had fifty years of music to answer for?

  • @carrier3232 You have a good point. A couple of days ago I was talking with someone and I said who knows what the Beatles might have done if they hadn't broken up? I like to think they would have kept on doing great stuff, but who knows? The Stones haven't always done great music, so maybe the Beatles wouldn't have either. Like you said, 50 years is a long time to consistently make great music! Peace.

  • @estyle40 apart from The Beatles.

  • @drummingmonkey123 OK, just checkin. lol..............

  • music from the renaissance of rock; no other band can pull off this kind of stuff.

    flat awesome!

  • 2:35 and on is just beautiful

  • this song is so awesome, it's beyond description (although i will admit to usually cutting off the last minute with mick's yelping lol)

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  • Let it Bleed is just a dope ass record, the way music should be..I love all kinds of music, and this is just grate,

  • I'm a fleabit peanut monkey All my friends are junkies That's not really true I'm a cold Italian pizza I could use a lemon squeezer Would you do? But I've been bit and I've been tossed around By every she-rat in this town Have you, babe? Well, I am just a monkey man I'm glad you are a monkey woman too
  • Goodfellas

  • I love this.

    I used think it was "..all my friends are junkies, that's Bob Dylan too."

  • I used to play a tape of this full blast giving my mom a ride to work on my way to high school ...

  • Dancing my ass off at my best friend's party, 1982, wishing I could get in his pants.

  • The Rhythm Guitar tone/sound is just wonderful in this; the 5 string open G tuning really shines.

  • the intro is soooo freakin cool.

  • Like Gimme Shelter, guitars on this are all Keef, overdubbing parts.

  • I loooooove the guitars in this!

  • a trifle too satanic ! naaaaah...this and the next 2 albums made it a trifecta

  • hahahaha love all the drug refernce comments...I love this song because Mick Jagger is just pure sexual energy!

  • this is mabey the best album of all time.

  • imma' flea bit,peanut monkey.. all my friends are junkies! thats not really true!

  • Thumbs up if you survived the Bong a few lines of Weasel Dust and an Ice cold Heineken or Two in the early 80's...........then your a Monkey Man !!!

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  • you tell 'em swiggy. a masterpiece rock # for sure..for a "ballad" i put sister morphine up there with this anthem.

  • DAMN! Can this Wonderful MUSIC really be 42 years old ?!!?

    Keith Richards isn't just a "guitar player".

    He is a "Composer".....no less so than Bach or Beethoven.

    This is a fully realized Piece of "MUSIC". Dreamed and schemed about for AGES....before it was finally committed to "tape".

    Simply AMAZING!

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  • Back in the day, when a junkie was sick, it was the monkee man. ( cold italian pizza)

  • @goodthing52 and a lemon squeezer is what?

  • @ericwyatt100 Dont know. Ask Mick or Keith.

  • @goodthing52 it is a syringe.

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  • intense!

    

  • That opening piano. Shivers down the spine, man.

  • Yeah Baby!!!!

    

  • In the popular motion picture "Goodfellas", (directed by Martin Scorsese depicting real life gangster Henry Hill's rise and fall after turning state's evidence against the Gambino family) the song played during the scene where they find all the bodies of suspects in the infamous Lufthansa heist WAS in fact Eric Clapton and Derek and the Dominoes, (featuring the late great Duane Allman on guitar) "Layla" The sound track to the movie is littered with Stones music because Scorsese is an avid fan.

  • EVERYONE IM ROBBIN THE AIRPORT WHOS WITH ME

  • To all you young people....Some of the best rock & roll you will ever hear.

  • great memories . One of their very best albums . I was in a basement apartment with my girl friend in Colorado Springs when I brought this album home . It was so cold . We listened to this album and held each other to keep warm as we drifted off

  • Great song. Great album.

  • This song reminds me of GOODFELLA'S, My favorite movie.

  • @THEATREofPAIN270 They play it in the movie, just before Ray Liotta gets busted

  • @MrTunedin Are you sure that wasn't layla by derrick and the dominos ?

  • @jimmykudo23 That was when they found carbone in the meat freezer (His body was frozen so stiff it took three days to thaw him out for the autopsy)

  • weather you like it or not YOUR A MONKEYMAN TOO

  • I hope I'm not too messianic or a trifle too satanic...

  • @13Ghostwriter Haha! I crank The Stones WITH my parents!!

  • @otispitbull I did crank with the 'Stones

  • @st8laise

    didnt we all ? :)

  • madflavor

  • "I'm a fleabit peanut monkey,..all my friends are junkies,...that's not really true.."

  • Damn helicopters been chasing me all day.

  • @imaneenjalol good observation good fella. I was wondering where I heard this recently. Thanks

  • @imaneenjalol you wanna see helicopters?

  • Baboons and macaques according to Mamlton and Kempf will attempt to couple with all sorts of cage-mates-with apes or monkeys of other species, with dogs, cats, nd foxes, even with snakes. Zoo attendants moreover report affairs between IIamas and goats mouflons and domestic sheep,elk and cattle, dolphins and marine turtles.Male rats that have mated with females in a particular observation cage write Ford and Beach attempt copulation with almost any animal of appropriate size.Ha now what are you!

  • IM A MONKAYYYYYYYYYYY

  • Rather than listen to all their music, skip to 3:40. It pretty much sums them up.

  • Satanic Majesties didn't really sound like them, and Beggar's Banquet was ok, but then when they came out with Let It Bleed it was like they got back to being The Rolling Stones again. Great album!

    (ps: show the back cover)

  • @mjazzguitar Beggar's Banquet is at least as good as Let it Bleed

  • Or a trifle too satanic. Brilliant!

  • I'm a cold Italian pizza, I could use a lemon squeeza......This line makes me smile every time. That's good songwriting.

  • @kiteman58

    Ahhh..the good ole daze of china white and the use of the lemon squeezer lol..joking..

  • @kiteman58 You do know what the lemon squeeza is right?? Perhaps you do...

  • @kiteman58 i was bitten by a boar, i was gouged and i was gored... but i pulled on through . that line makes me smile. they all do. yep, some tricky lyric writing!

  • 1 listener doesn't like monkeys

  • Ahhhh 2:38 just takes me there.....

  • COCAINE

  • @gusthepugisownt everything goes better with coke

  • @gusthepugisownt heroin

  • pretty sure its about heroin lol

  • Greatest song the Stones ever did!

  • anybody else notice the bass line intro is the almost the same as Ozzy no more tears???

  • @huguenot40 don't blame the stones this is from 1969 =p

  • @TheWallGuitar i dont blame them at all even Ozzy,no more tears is a great tune!We gotta give credit to Ian Stewart,he was so creative!

  • I'm a motherf**kin' monkaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I'm a monkaaaaayyyy!

  • Si sente benissimo, congratulazioni!

  • GREATH GROUP, GREATH SONG, ONLY ROLLING FOREVER, SINCE MEXICO CITY, PD GERMAN

  • Awesome Song and Awesome Quality !

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