Get Off of My Cloud

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I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up. We were in L.A. [Los Angeles, where "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was recorded], and it was time for another single. But how do you follow-up "Satisfaction"? Actually, what I wanted was to do it slow, like a Lee Dorsey thing. We rocked it up. I thought it was one of Andrew Loog Oldham's worst productions. [7]

In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone , Jagger said, "That was Keith's melody and my lyrics ... It's a stop-bugging-me, post-teenage-alienation song. The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress." [8]

I was sick and tired, fed up with this and decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful, there was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like flags stuck on my windscreen [5]

The song opens with a drum intro by Charlie Watts and twin guitars by Brian Jones and Richards. [3] Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci called this Watts' best drumming performance, saying that it has "one of the most unconventional drum structures ever employed in a Top 40 hit" in which Watts basically :plays the same 4/4-beat-fill-4/4-beat-fill pattern throughout the song" and does not break the beat even once. [9]

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, [10] except where noted:

The Rolling Stones

Additional musicians

Release

The 1965 single release was a major success for the Rolling Stones. In the US, the single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 6 November 1965, and remained there for two weeks. [13] The song was included on the band's next American album, December's Children (And Everybody's) , released in December 1965. [14] The song stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November that year. [15] Billboard described the song as a "wild, far out beat number which will have no trouble topping their 'Satisfaction' smash." [16] Cash Box described it as a "rollicking, fast-moving blues-soaked thumper with an infectious danceable beat" that should be another success after "Satisfaction." [17] Record World said that "The Rolling Stones dispense some more of their very thick and funky rock." [18]

Appearances on later Stones releases include:

Chart history

"Get Off of My Cloud"
Get Off of My Cloud cover.jpg
US single picture sleeve
Single by the Rolling Stones
B-side
  • "I'm Free" (US)
  • "The Singer Not the Song" (UK)
Released
  • 24 September 1965 (1965-09-24) (US) [1]
  • 22 October 1965 (UK) [2]
Recorded6–7 September 1965
Studio RCA, Hollywood, California
Genre Blues rock [3]
Length2:55
Label
Songwriter(s) Jagger/Richards [4]
Producer(s) Andrew Loog Oldham [4]
Rolling Stones USsingles chronology
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
(1965)		"Get Off of My Cloud"
(1965)		"As Tears Go By"
(1965)
Rolling Stones UKsingles chronology
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
(1965)		"Get Off of My Cloud"
(1965)		"19th Nervous Breakdown"
(1966)

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