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"(I
Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is a hit riff-driven rock
song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for
The Rolling Stones
and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Rolling Stone magazine
ranked the song as number 2 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time, while VH1 placed it at number 1 on its "100 Greatest
Songs of Rock & Roll" list. In 2006 it was added to the
Library of Congress National Recording Registry.
The song was first released as a single in the United States
in June 1965 and was also featured on the American version
of the Rolling Stones album Out of Our Heads, released in
July of the same year. "Satisfaction" was a smash hit,
giving the Stones their first number one in the United
States. In Europe, the song initially played only on pirate
radio stations because its lyrics were considered too
sexually suggestive.In Britain the single was released in
August 1965, and shot to number one in the United Kingdom;
it was the Rolling Stones' fourth UK number one. (The
British version of Out of Our Heads, released in September
1965, did not feature "Satisfaction"; it was not standard
practice in the United Kingdom at that time to include
previously-released singles on albums.)
The lyrics of the song include references to sexual
intercourse, and the theme of anti-commercialism caused the
song to be "perceived as an attack on the status quo".
Otis Redding, Devo, Gloria Trevi, Alejandra Guzmán, Vanilla
Ice, Britney Spears, The Residents, The Supremes, and Cat
Power are among the artists who have covered the song. |
