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"
Get off of My Cloud" is a song by the
British rock band
The Rolling Stones. It was written as a follow-up single to the successful "
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". The song topped the charts in the
US and the
UK in the weeks following its release in the autumn of
1965.
Written by
Mick Jagger and
Keith Richards, the song was recorded in early
September of
1965. The song is noted for its drum intro by
Charlie Watts and twin guitars by
Brian Jones and
Keith Richards. The lyrics are defiant and rebellious, which was common practice for the Rolling Stones around that time; they were beginning to cultivate their infamous "bad boy" image. The Stones have said that the song is written as a reaction to their sudden popularity after the success of "Satisfaction". The song deals with their aversion to people's expectations of them.
On the song, Richards said in 1971, "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., 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 [LoogOldham]'s worse productions." 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." In the 2003 book
According to... The Rolling Stones, Richards says: "'Get off of My Cloud' was basically a response to people knocking on our door asking us for the follow up to 'Satisfaction'... We thought, 'At last. We can sit back and maybe think about events.' Suddenly there's the knock at the door and of course what came out of that was 'Get off of My Cloud'."
The song is in E
major and is a variation on the
Louie Louie riff: I-IV-V-IV, in this case E A B A.
Release history of song
Rolling Stones releases
December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965)
Got Live If You Want It! (1966)
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (1966)
Love You Live (1977)
Forty Licks (2002)
The Biggest Bang (2007)
Cover versions
Get Off My Cloud by Cary August (1994)
Get Off My Cloud by Alexis Korner (1975)
UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff, as Hot Rocks Polka by "Weird Al" Yankovic (1989)
Get Off of My Cloud by The Meteors has partially the same lyrics and tune.
Get Off My Cloud by The Flying Pickets recorded live at the Albany Empire (1982), and also released on The Best of the Flying Pickets (Only You) EMI 1991Further Information
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