(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction#Devo
{{short description|1965 single by the Rolling Stones}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
| cover = Satisfaction-us.jpg
| caption = US picture sleeve
| type = single
| artist = the Rolling Stones
| album =
| B-side = * "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (US)
- "The Spider and the Fly" (UK)
| released = * 4 June 1965 (US)
- 20 August 1965 (UK)
| recorded = 12 May 1965
| studio = RCA (Hollywood, California)
| genre = * Rock{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-mt0004466934|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801193753/https://www.allmusic.com/song/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-mt0004466934|url-status=live}}{{cite book|first=Quentin James|last=Schultze|title=Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|year=1991|isbn=0802805302|page=[https://archive.org/details/dancingindarkyou0000unse/page/150 150]|url=https://archive.org/details/dancingindarkyou0000unse/page/150}}
| length = {{Duration|m=3|s=45}}
| label = * London (US)
- Decca (UK)
| writer = Jagger–Richards
| producer = Andrew Loog Oldham
| prev_title = The Last Time
| prev_year = 1965
| next_title = Get Off of My Cloud
| next_year = 1965
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|A4CX4YKvQ2g|"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"}}}}
}}
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' songwriting partnership, it features a guitar riff by Richards that opens and drives the song. The riff is widely considered one of the greatest hooks of all time. The song's lyrics refer to sexual frustration and commercialism.
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' fourth studio album, Out of Our Heads, released that July. "Satisfaction" was a hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially was played only on pirate radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive.{{cite book|last=Nuzum|first=Eric|title=Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|year=2009|isbn=978-0-06-197673-5}} It later became the Rolling Stones' fourth number one in the United Kingdom.
It is one of the world's most popular songs, and was No. 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2021. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. The song was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006, the first and so far only Rolling Stones recording to be included in the Registry.
Recording
Keith Richards wrote "Satisfaction" in his sleep and recorded a rough version of the riff on a Philips cassette player. He had no idea he had written it.{{Cite book|title=Life|last=Richards|first=Keith|date=2010|publisher=Little, Brown and Co|others=Fox, James|isbn=9780316034388|edition=1st|location=New York|pages=176|oclc=548642133}} He said when he listened to the recording in the morning, there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes".{{cite book|title=Keith Richards – In His Own Words|first=Mick|last=St Michael|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=1994|page=[https://archive.org/details/keithrichardsinh00rich/page/24 24]|isbn=0-7119-3634-X |url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/keithrichardsinh00rich/page/24}} Sources vary as to where this story happened. While they make reference to a hotel room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida,{{cite news|title=Know Your Stones|quote=Keith Richards woke up in the Fort Harrison Hotel, Clearwater, Florida, having dreamt the riff, chorus and title of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=6 September 2003|url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T9111896628&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=301&resultsUrlKey=29_T9111896631&cisb=22_T9111896630&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=142626&docNo=310|access-date = 18 April 2010}} a house in Chelsea, and the London Hilton,{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Rich|author-link=Rich Cohen|date=2016|chapter=Satisfaction|title=The sun & the moon & the Rolling Stones|edition=1st|location=New York|publisher=Spiegel & Grau|page=127|isbn=9780804179232|oclc=921425141}} Richards wrote in his most recent autobiography that he was in his flat in Carlton Hill, St. John's Wood. He specifies that Mick Jagger wrote the lyrics by the pool in Clearwater, four days before they went into the studio, hence the confusion.
The Rolling Stones first recorded the track on 10 May 1965 at Chess Studios in Chicago, Illinois,{{cite web|last=Zentgraf|first=Nico|title=The Complete Works of the Rolling Stones 1962–2008|url=http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/works1.htm |access-date=23 February 2008 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080227031309/http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/works1.htm| archive-date= 27 February 2008}} which included Brian Jones on harmonica. The Stones lip-synched to a dub of this version the first time they debuted the song on the American music variety television programme Shindig!{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVc0UpK3Z8| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211109/FJVc0UpK3Z8| archive-date=2021-11-09 | url-status=live|title=I Can't Get No Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones|date=18 December 2011|access-date=15 January 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} The group re-recorded it two days later at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California, with a different beat and the Maestro fuzzbox adding sustain to the sound of the guitar riff.{{cite web|last=McPherson|first=Ian|title=Track Talk: Satisfaction|url=http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOSatisfaction.html|access-date=13 April 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206012938/http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOSatisfaction.html|archive-date=6 December 2012|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last=Wyman|first=Bill|title=Rolling With the Stones|publisher=DK Publishing|year=2002|isbn=0-7894-9998-3|page=187}} Richards envisioned redoing the track later with a horn section playing the riff: "this was just a little sketch, because, to my mind, the fuzz tone was really there to denote what the horns would be doing." The other Rolling Stones (Jones, Watts, and Wyman), as well as producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham and sound engineer David Hassinger eventually outvoted Richards and Jagger so the track was selected for release as a single.{{cite web |title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones |url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-rolling-stones/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction |website=SongFacts |access-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-date=31 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831094025/https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-rolling-stones/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction |url-status=live }} The song's success boosted sales of the Gibson fuzzbox so that the entire available stock sold out by the end of 1965."[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/satisfaction.shtml Sold on Song: '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115035902/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/satisfaction.shtml |date=15 January 2009 }}". BBC. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
Like most of the Stones' pre-1966 recordings, "Satisfaction" was originally released in mono only. In the mid-1980s, a true stereo version of the song was released on German and Japanese editions of the CD reissue of Hot Rocks 1964–1971. The stereo mix features a piano (played by session player Jack Nitzsche, who also provides the song's iconic tambourine) and acoustic guitar that are barely audible in the original mono release (both instruments are also audible on a bootleg recording of the instrumental track). This stereo mix of "Satisfaction" also appeared on a radio-promo CD of rare stereo tracks provided to US radio stations in the mid-1980s, but has not yet been featured on a worldwide commercial CD; even later pressings of the German and Japanese Hot Rocks CDs feature the mono mix, making the earlier releases with the stereo mix collectors' items. For the worldwide 2002 reissue of Hot Rocks, an alternative quasi-stereo mix was used featuring the lead guitar, bass, drums, and vocals in the center channel and the acoustic guitar and piano "split" left and right via a delay effect.{{cite web|url=http://lukpac.org/stereostones/|title=The Rolling Stones in Stereo|publisher=Lukpac.org|date=27 August 2002 |access-date=27 February 2011}}
Lyrics and melody
File:Satisfaction riff.pngThe song opens with the guitar riff, which is joined by the bass halfway through. It is repeated three times with the drums and acoustic guitar before the vocal enters with the line: "I can't get no satisfaction." The key is E major, but with the 3rd and 7th degree occasionally lowered, creating – in the first part of the verses ("I can't get no ...") – a distinctive mellow sound. The accompanying chords (i.e. E major, D major and A major) are borrowed from the E mixolydian scale, which is often used in blues and rock.
The title line is an example of a negative concord. Jagger sings the verses in a tone hovering between cynical commentary and frustrated protest, and then leaps half singing and half yelling into the chorus, where the guitar riff reappears. The lyrics outline the singer's irritation and confusion with the increasing commercialism of the modern world, where the radio broadcasts "useless information" and a man on television tells him "how white my shirts can be – but he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me", a reference to the then ubiquitous Marlboro Cowboy style advertisement. Jagger also describes the stress of being a celebrity, and the tensions of touring. The reference in the verse to not getting any "girl reaction" was fairly controversial in its day, interpreted by some listeners (and radio programmers) as meaning a girl willing to have sex. Jagger commented that they "didn't understand the dirtiest line", as afterwards the girl asks him to return the following week as she is "on a losing streak",{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,835889-2,00.html|url-access=limited|title=Rock 'n' Roll: Going to Pot|date=1 July 1966|magazine=Time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014022141/http://time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C835889-2%2C00.html|archive-date=14 October 2007|url-status=live|access-date=13 April 2022|quote=But, gloats Jagger, "They didn't understand the dirtiest line." That is the one where the girl pleads: "Baby, better come back later next week 'cause you see I'm on a losing streak."}} an apparent reference to menstruation. The song closes with a fairly subdued repetition of the song's title, followed suddenly by a full shout of the line, with the final words repeated into the fade-out.Unterberger, Richie. "[{{AllMusic|class=song|id=t2770677|pure_url=yes}} Song review: '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction']". Allmusic. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
In its day the song was perceived as disturbing because of both its sexual connotations and the negative view of commercialism and other aspects of modern culture; critic Paul Gambaccini stated: "The lyrics to this were truly threatening to an older audience. This song was perceived as an attack on the status quo." When the Rolling Stones performed the song on Shindig! in 1965, the line "trying to make some girl" was censored,{{cite episode|title=Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny & Cher, Jackie DeShannon|series=Shindig!|air-date=26 May 1965|season=1|number=37|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/shindig/show-37-may-26-1965-rolling-stones-howlin-wolf-sonny-and-cher-jackie-deshannon-99960/|access-date=13 April 2022|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225150215/http://www.tv.com/shows/shindig/show-37-may-26-1965-rolling-stones-howlin-wolf-sonny-and-cher-jackie-deshannon-99960/|url-status=dead}} although a performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on 13 February 1966 was uncensored. Forty years later, when the band performed three songs during the February 2006 Super Bowl XL halftime show, "Satisfaction" was the only one of the three songs not censored as it was broadcast. The censored songs were "Start Me Up" and "Rough Justice".{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/abc-has-no-satisfaction-stones-lyrics-wbna11193993|title=ABC has no 'Satisfaction' with Stones' lyrics: Network says NFL enforced 5-second delay on group's halftime show|date=6 February 2006 |access-date=13 April 2022}}
Release and success
"Satisfaction" was released as a single in the US by London Records on 4 June 1965, with "The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" as its B-side.{{cite book|last=Elliott|first=Martin|title=The Rolling Stones: Complete Recording Sessions 1962–2002|publisher=Cherry Red Books|year=2002|isbn=1-901447-04-9|page=69}} The single entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart in America in the week ending 12 June 1965, remaining there for 14 weeks, reaching the top on 10 July by displacing the Four Tops' "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)". "Satisfaction" held the number one spot for four weeks, being knocked off on 7 August by "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am" by Herman's Hermits.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071116062846/http://www.wwwk.co.uk/music/hit-singles/years/1965.htm "No. 1 UK Hit Singles of 1965"]}}. Retrieved 15 January 2011. While in its eighth week on the American charts, the single was certified a gold record award by the RIAA for shipping over a million copies across the United States,{{cite certification|region=United States|type=single|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=(I Can_t Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=15 January 2011}} giving the band their first of many gold disc awards in America. Later the song was also released by London Records on Out of Our Heads in America. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 3 song of 1965.{{cite web|url=http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/songoftheyear/|title=Number One Song of the Year: 1946–2014|work=Bob Borst's Home of Pop Culture|access-date=3 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420175438/http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/songoftheyear/|archive-date=20 April 2018|url-status=dead}} Billboard said of the single that a "hard-driving blues dance beat backs up a strong vocal performance."{{cite news|newspaper=Billboard|access-date=2021-03-12|date=June 5, 1965|page=35|title=Singles Reviews|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard%201965-06-05.pdf}}
"Satisfaction" was not immediately released by Decca Records in Great Britain. Decca was already in the process of preparing a live Rolling Stones EP for release, so the new single did not come out in Britain until 20 August, with "The Spider and the Fly" on the B-side. The song peaked at number one for two weeks, replacing Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe", between 11 and 25 September, before being toppled by the Walker Brothers' "Make It Easy on Yourself".
In the decades since its release, "Satisfaction" has repeatedly been acclaimed by the music industry. In 1976, Britain's New Musical Express listed "Satisfaction" 7th among the top 100 singles of all time. There was a resurgence of interest in the song after it was prominently featured in the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now. In 1991, Vox listed "Satisfaction" among "100 records that shook the world".{{cite web|title=VOX Magazine's 100 records that shook the world|work=VOX Magazine, January 1991|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/vox.html#100 |access-date=15 January 2011|url-status=usurped| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110104211803/http://rocklistmusic.co.uk/vox.html| archive-date= 4 January 2011}} In 1999, BMI named "Satisfaction" as the 91st-most performed song of the 20th century. In 2000, VH1 listed "Satisfaction" first among its "Top 100 Greatest Rock Songs";{{cite web|title=100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll (20–1)|work=VH1|url=http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/62161/episode_about.jhtml|access-date=8 March 2008|archive-date=13 August 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030813211403/http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/62161/episode_about.jhtml|url-status=dead}} the same year, "Satisfaction" also finished runner-up to "Yesterday" in a list jointly compiled by Rolling Stone and MTV.{{cite web|title=Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Pop Songs|work=Rolling Stone Magazine, December 2000|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rs200.html |access-date=15 January 2011|url-status=usurped| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110105063902/http://rocklistmusic.co.uk/rs200.html| archive-date= 5 January 2011}} In 2003, Q placed the song 68th out of its "1001 Best Songs Ever". Newsweek magazine has called the opening riff "five notes that shook the world".
The song and its opening riff are widely considered both iconic and one of the greatest musical hooks of all time.{{Cite web|last=Perry|first=Kevin EG|date=2013-12-18|title=Keith Richards' 12 Most Kick Ass Riffs|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/keith-richards-12-most-kick-ass-riffs-762999|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-04|website=NME|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506070518/http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/keith-richards-12-most-kick-ass-riffs-762999 |archive-date=6 May 2017 }}{{Cite web|last=Bodner|first=Brett|date=7 May 2017|title=A look at how the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards created the riff for one of the most iconic rock songs|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/keith-richards-created-satisfaction-riff-article-1.3139874|url-status=live|access-date=4 October 2021|website=New York Daily News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507231951/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/keith-richards-created-satisfaction-riff-article-1.3139874 |archive-date=7 May 2017 }}{{Cite web|last=Murray|first=Michael|date=6 May 2010|title='(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction,' 45 Years Later|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WN/rolling-stones-satisfaction-released-45-years-ago/story?id=10577661|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-04|website=ABC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509032342/http://abcnews.go.com:80/WN/rolling-stones-satisfaction-released-45-years-ago/story?id=10577661 |archive-date=9 May 2010 }}{{Cite magazine|last=Richin|first=Leslie|date=6 June 2015|title=Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction' Turns 50: Celebrate With 50 Face-Melting Guitar Riffs Playlist|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/rolling-stones-satisfaction-anniversary-6583102/|access-date=2022-04-13|magazine=Billboard}} "Satisfaction" was ranked number 2 on both Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2004,{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/the-rolling-stones-i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-38617/|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction ranked #2 on Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=11 December 2003|access-date=20 June 2020}} and the magazine's list of the band's best songs.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-rolling-stones-songs-40475/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-1965-98705/|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction ranked #2 on 100 Best Rolling Stones Songs List|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=15 October 2013|access-date=20 June 2020|archive-date=22 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622203910/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-rolling-stones-songs-40475/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-1965-98705/|url-status=live}} A 2021 update ranked the song number 31.{{Cite magazine|date=2021-09-15|title=The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/|access-date=2021-09-16|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|archive-date=15 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915162053/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/|url-status=live}} In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/hall-of-fame#i|title=Grammy Hall of Fame Letter I|work=Grammy|date=18 October 2010|access-date=20 June 2020|archive-date=29 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129130441/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/hall-of-fame#i|url-status=live}} It was added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" in 2006.
Jagger commented on the song's appeal:
{{blockquote|It was the song that really made the Rolling Stones, changed us from just another band into a huge, monster band{{nbsp}}... It has a very catchy title. It has a very catchy guitar riff. It has a great guitar sound, which was original at that time. And it captures a spirit of the times, which is very important in those kinds of songs{{nbsp}}... Which was alienation.}}
The song has become a staple at Rolling Stones shows. They have performed it on nearly every tour since its release, and concert renditions have been included on the albums Got Live If You Want It!, Still Life, Flashpoint, Live Licks, Shine a Light, Hyde Park Live, and Havana Moon. One unusual rendition is included in Robert Frank's film Cocksucker Blues from the 1972 tour, when the song was performed by both the Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder's band as the second half of a medley with Wonder's "Uptight".
Personnel
According to authors Andy Babiuk and Greg Prevost:{{sfn|Babiuk|Prevost|2013|pp=168, 170–171}}
The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger{{spaced ndash}} vocals, harmonica
- Keith Richards{{spaced ndash}} backing vocals, fuzz guitar, electric lead guitar, acoustic guitar
- Brian Jones{{spaced ndash}} electric rhythm guitars, acoustic guitar, harmonica, piano, organ
- Bill Wyman{{spaced ndash}} bass
- Charlie Watts{{spaced ndash}} drums
Additional personnel
- Jack Nitzsche{{spaced ndash}} piano, organ, tambourine
- Ian Stewart{{spaced ndash}} piano, organ, marimba
Charts
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=Weekly charts=
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| style="width:20em;"|Chart (1970)
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| {{single chart|Dutch100|16|artist=The Rolling Stones|song=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=17 June 2016|refname=Dutch1002}} |
| style="width:20em;"|Chart (1976)
!Peak |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|25|artist=The Rolling Stones|song=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=17 June 2016|refname=Dutch1003}} |
| style="width:20em;"|Chart (1990)
!Peak |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|13|artist=The Rolling Stones|song=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=17 June 2016|refname=Dutch1004}} |
| style="width:20em;"|Chart (2015)
!Peak |
| {{single chart|France|168|artist=The Rolling Stones|song=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=17 June 2016}} |
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=Year-end charts=
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| align="left"|Chart (1965)
! style="text-align:center;"|Position |
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| South Africa{{cite web|title=Top 20 Hit Singles of 1965|url=http://www.rock.co.za/files/sahits_1965.html|access-date=2 September 2018|archive-date=5 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005181804/http://www.rock.co.za/files/sahits_1965.html|url-status=live}}
|align="center"|17 |
| UK{{Cite web|url=http://www.sixtiescity.net/charts/65chart.htm#top100|title=Sixties City – Pop Music Charts – Every Week Of The Sixties|website=Sixtiescity.net|access-date=2 June 2021}}
| style="text-align:center;"|4 |
| US Billboard Hot 100{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1965.htm|title=Top 100 Hits of 1965/Top 100 Songs of 1965|website=Music Outfitters|access-date=2 June 2021}}
| style="text-align:center;"|3 |
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Certifications
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=single|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=1965|certyear=2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Brazil|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=1965|certyear=2024|access-date=3 June 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|type=single|relyear=1965|award=Gold|certyear=2022|id=11710|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=27 September 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|title=|artist=|type=single|relyear=1965|award=Gold|certyear=1965|certref={{cite book|first=Günter|last=Ehnert|title=Hit Bilanz – Deutsche Chart Singles 1956–1980|edition=1|publisher=Verlag populärer Musik-Literatur|location=Norderstedt|year=2000|isbn=3-922542-24-7|page=446}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|type=single|award=Gold|relyear=1965|certyear=2023|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|note=reissue|access-date=10 June 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|type=single|relyear=2004|award=Platinum|certyear=2019|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=19 February 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|type=single|relyear=1965|award=Platinum|number=2|certyear=2024|source=radioscope|artist=Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=24 March 2025}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|artist=The Rolling Stones|type=single|award=Platinum|certyear=2024|id=the-rolling-stones-i-cant-get-no-satisfaction|accessdate=18 February 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|relyear=2004|award=Platinum|certyear=2023|id=14149-44-1|artist=Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=10 February 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|relyear=1965|award=Gold|certyear=1965|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|access-date=19 February 2021}}
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Other versions
=Otis Redding=
Otis Redding recorded a rendition of "Satisfaction" for his album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, released in 1965. Redding claimed that he did not know the lyrics of the song. "I use a lot of words different than the Stones' version," he noted. "That's because I made them up."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598060/74_otis_blue|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060316133859/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598060/74_otis_blue/|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 March 2006|title=Music News|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=15 January 2016}} Of that session, Steve Cropper said, "...if you ever listened to the record you can hardly understand the lyrics, right? I set down to a record player and copied down what I thought the lyrics were and I handed Otis a piece of paper and before we got through with the cut, he threw the paper on the floor and that was it."{{cite magazine|last=Wenner|first=Jann|date=24 August 1968|title=The Rolling Stone Roundtable: Booker T & the MGs|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/booker-t-the-m-g-s-189099/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220413064153/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/booker-t-the-m-g-s-189099/|archive-date=13 April 2022|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=13 April 2022|url-status=live}} Music writer Robert Christgau described it as an "anarchic reading" of the Stones' original.{{cite journal|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bl/redding-08.php|title=Otis Redding: Otis Blue—Otis Redding Sings Soul|first=Robert|last=Christgau|journal=Blender|access-date=12 August 2013|date=May 2008|archive-date=18 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018013037/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bl/redding-08.php|url-status=live}} Redding's soul-style arrangement featured horns playing the main riff,{{Gilliland|https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19832/m1/ |Show 51 – The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 7] : UNT Digital Library}} as Keith Richards had originally intended. In 2003, Ronnie Wood noted that the Rolling Stones' later concert renditions of the number reflect Redding's interpretation. Redding performed the song in June{{nbsp}}1967 at the Monterey International Pop Festival.{{cite web |last1=Cowie |first1=Del |title=Monterey Pop at 50: the day Otis Redding became a legend |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/monterey-pop-at-50-the-day-otis-redding-became-a-legend-1.4162924 |website=CBC.ca |date=June 16, 2017}}
=Bubblerock / Jonathan King=
English singer-songwriter Jonathan King released his version in 1974 under the name Bubblerock, reaching No. 29 on the UK Singles Chart.{{cite web | url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/14935/bubblerock/ | title=BUBBLEROCK | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company | website=Official Charts | access-date=21 June 2022 | archive-date=21 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621002159/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/14935/bubblerock/ | url-status=live }}
=The Residents=
The American avant-garde/experimental collective the Residents recorded and released their own performance of "Satisfaction" as a single in 1976. Originally released in an edition of only 200 copies, the cover quickly became a cult sensation, thanks in part to the success of Devo's cover the following year, necessitating a re-press in 1978 of 30,000 copies. Brad Laner, writing for Dangerous Minds, stated the cover "is nearly everything the better known version by Devo from a year later is not: Loose, belligerent, violent, truly fucked-up. A real stick in the eye of everything conventionally tasteful in 1976 America."{{Cite web|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_residents_deconstructed_satisfaction|title=The Residents deconstructed Satisfaction before Devo|date=4 October 2010|website=DangerousMinds.net|access-date=2 June 2021}}
=Devo=
{{Infobox song
| name = (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
| cover = Devo - Satifaction.jpg
| type = single
| artist = Devo
| B-side = Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')
| album = Be Stiff EP and Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|1977|09}}
| recorded = July 1977
| genre = {{hlist|New wave|reggae rock{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/17-rock-reggae-crossovers-that-work-and-three-that-don-t|title=17 rock-reggae crossovers that work... and three that don't|first=Tom|last=Bryant|date=25 June 2014|website=Louder Sound|access-date=12 June 2022|archive-date=17 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917032445/https://www.loudersound.com/features/17-rock-reggae-crossovers-that-work-and-three-that-don-t|url-status=live}}}}
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=40}}
| label = * Booji Boy
| writer = Jagger/Richards
| producer = * Brian Eno
- Chuck Statler
| prev_title = Mongoloid
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = Be Stiff
| next_year = 1978
}}
American new wave band Devo released their rendition of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as a single in 1977, initially in a self-produced version on their own label Booji Boy Records.{{Cite book |last=Padgett |first=Ray |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/978537907 |title=Cover me : the stories behind the greatest cover songs of all time |date=2017 |isbn=978-1-4549-2250-6 |publisher=Sterling |location=New York |pages=130–138 |oclc=978537907}} The song was re-recorded with Brian Eno as producer for their first album, and that version was also released as a single in 1978, this time by Warner Brothers Records, after it was played for Mick Jagger's approval.{{Citation|last=Padgett|first=Ray|title=The Story Behind Devo's Iconic Cover of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction"|newspaper=New Yorker|date=25 September 2017|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-story-behind-devos-iconic-cover-of-the-rolling-stones-satisfaction | access-date = 25 September 2017}} The band filmed a video for the song that would later feature regularly on MTV, while a performance on SNL gave them a national profile. Decades after its release, Steve Huey of AllMusic would write that the cover version "reworks the original's alienation into a spastic freak-out that's nearly unrecognizable".[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r5601|pure_url=yes}} Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! review]. AllMusic. Retrieved 9 April 2009. This version of the song was featured prominently in the 1995 Martin Scorsese epic crime film Casino. Devo's version also featured in Netflix's series Sex Education.
Devo's version arose from the group's jam sessions, starting with a guitar part from Bob Casale, joined by a drum beat by Alan Myers and a bass part by Gerald Casale. At first, the band tried the lyrics to "Paint it Black," switching to "Satisfaction" when it didn't fit the music.
The quirky music video for the song and several others from this album received significant airplay on the upstart MTV. A notable feature of the video was dancer Craig Allen Rothwell, known as Spazz Attack, whose signature dance move, a forward flip onto his back, drew him significant attention.{{IMDb name|0970071|Craig Allen Rothwell}}
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!Chart (1978) !Peak |
| align="left"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|first=David|last=Kent|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|page=88|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}
|align="center"|98 |
| UK Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center;"|41 |
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=Britney Spears=
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| album = Oops!... I Did It Again
| released = {{Start date|2000|05|03}}
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| studio = * Pacifique (Los Angeles)
| genre = Pop
| length = 4:23
| label = Jive
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American singer Britney Spears recorded the song with producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins for her second studio album, Oops!... I Did It Again, on 24–26 February 2000 at Pacifique Recording Studios in Hollywood. The song was remixed into a dance-pop and R&B style.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1434390/britney-wants-older-fans-to-get-satisfaction/|last=Moss|first=Corey|title=Britney Wants Older Fans to Get "Satisfaction"|website=MTV|date=23 February 2000|access-date=13 April 2022|archive-date=13 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413064834/http://www.mtv.com/news/1434390/britney-wants-older-fans-to-get-satisfaction/|url-status=dead}}
Spears' version received mixed reviews from critics. While reviewing Oops!, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic selected the song as Track Pick, describing "the clenched-funk revision of the Stones' deathless 'Satisfaction'" as emblematic of a "bewildering magpie aesthetic" on Spears' early albums.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/r478679|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|date=16 May 2000|access-date=27 August 2011|title=Oops!... I Did It Again|website=Allmusic|archive-date=25 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225041231/http://www.allmusic.com/album/r478679|url-status=live}} Robert Christgau declared the song a 'choice cut,' meaning a good song on an otherwise lackluster album,"{{cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=britney|title=CG: Britney|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=16 May 2000|access-date=27 August 2011|publisher=Robert Christgau| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604203429/http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=britney| archive-date=4 June 2011}} while New Musical Express gave the cover a negative review, saying, "the long-awaited [...] [Spears'] cover of the Stones' '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' is a letdown".{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-2330-336350|date=29 May 2000|access-date=13 April 2022|title=Oops!... I Did It Again|work=New Musical Express|archive-date=9 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009212343/http://www.nme.com/reviews/britney-spears/2330|url-status=live}}
Spears first performed the song on her 2000's Oops!... I Did It Again Tour. The performance ended with a dance sequence set to the familiar Richards guitar lick that was omitted from her recorded version (played here by her guitarist "Skip").{{cite news|url=https://www.thepitchkc.com/britney-spearsmikaila/|title=Britney Spears/Mikaila|date=20 July 2000|access-date=13 April 2022|last=Miller|first=Andrew|work=The Pitch|publisher=Village Voice Media|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220412160603/https://www.thepitchkc.com/britney-spearsmikaila/|archive-date=12 April 2022|url-status=live}} Spears also performed "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on a medley with her song "Oops!... I Did It Again" at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2000/|title=MTV Video Music Awards of 2000|date=6 September 2000|access-date=27 August 2011|website=MTV|quote="Satisfaction," which Skip ended by pounding out the familiar riff while Britney and the dancers frolicked.|archive-date=28 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828092653/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2000/|url-status=dead}}
=Other notable versions=
- Frankie Ruiz recorded a 1999 salsa version that peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay chart.{{cite web|url=https://allmusic.com/album/leyenda-r400814/charts-awards|title=Frankie Ruiz: Leyenda Charts & Awards|work=Allmusic|publisher=Rovi|access-date=31 October 2011|archive-date=25 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225041228/http://allmusic.com/album/leyenda-r400814/charts-awards|url-status=live}}
- In 2023, Dolly Parton teamed up with Pink and Brandi Carlile to record a cover of the song. The track was included on Parton's album titled Rockstar released in November.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/dolly-parton-girl-power-satisfaction-rolling-stones-rockstar-cover-mick-jagger-unavailable-8402385|title=Dolly Parton Wanted to 'Get Some Girl Power' on Her 'Satisfaction' Cover When Mick Jagger Wasn't Available|work=People|access-date=11 December 2023|archive-date=11 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211184702/https://people.com/dolly-parton-girl-power-satisfaction-rolling-stones-rockstar-cover-mick-jagger-unavailable-8402385|url-status=live|first1=Sadie|last1=Bell|date=15 November 2023}}
References
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- {{cite book |last1=Babiuk |first1=Andy |last2=Prevost |first2=Greg |author1-link=Andy Babiuk |title=Rolling Stones Gear: All the Stones' Instruments from Stage to Studio |date=2013 |publisher=Backbeat Books |location=Milwaukee |isbn=978-1-61713-092-2}}
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External links
{{Spoken Wikipedia|En-(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction-article.oga|date=20 April 2005}}
- {{YouTube|nrIPxlFzDi0|"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" official lyric video}}
- "[https://web.archive.org/web/20071013131920/http://blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=852 The Greatest Songs Ever! Satisfaction]" at Blender
- {{YouTube|96I2CWHa_-A|"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Devo version)}}
- "[https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-keith-richards-dream Origin of 'Satisfaction' (2020 article)]"
- {{YouTube|wyd9dP78s7M|"[I Can't Get No] Satisfaction"}}
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