Get Off of My Cloud
{{Short description|1965 single by The Rolling Stones}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2010}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Get Off of My Cloud
| cover = Get Off of My Cloud cover.jpg
| type = single
| caption = US single picture sleeve
| artist = the Rolling Stones
| B-side = *"I'm Free" (US)
- "The Singer Not the Song" (UK)
| released = *{{Start date|1965|09|24|df=y}} (US){{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Rolling+Stones&titel=Get+Off+Of+My+Cloud&cat=s|title=Rolling Stones singles}}
- 22 October 1965 (UK){{cite web|url=https://www.timeisonourside.com/chron1965.html|title=1965 timeline}}
| recorded = 6–7 September 1965
| studio = RCA (Hollywood, California)
| genre = Blues rock{{cite web| url =http://www.allmusic.com/song/get-off-of-my-cloud-t2770679|title=Rolling Stones: Get Off of My Cloud – Song Review|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger |publisher=AllMusic|access-date=15 June 2007}}
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=55}}
| label = *London (US)
- Decca (UK)
| writer = Jagger–Richards
{{cite book| first= Jo| last= Rice
| year= 1982
| title= The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits| edition= 1st| publisher= Guinness Superlatives| location= Enfield, Middlesex| pages= 96–7| isbn= 0-85112-250-7}}
| producer = Andrew Loog Oldham
| chronology = Rolling Stones US
| prev_title = (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
| prev_year = 1965
| next_title = As Tears Go By
| next_year = 1965
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Rolling Stones UK
| type = single
| prev_title = (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
| prev_year = 1965
| title = Get Off of My Cloud
| year = 1965
| next_title = 19th Nervous Breakdown
| next_year = 1966
}}{{Extra album cover
| header = Alternative cover
| type = single
| cover = Rolling_Stones_-_Get_Off_Of_My_Cloud_-Single-.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption = UK single
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"Get Off of My Cloud" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for a single to follow the successful "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Recorded at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California, in early September 1965, the song was released in September in the United States and October in the United Kingdom.
It topped the charts in the US, UK, Canada, and Germany and reached number two in several other countries.
Composition
The Stones have said that the song is a reaction to their suddenly greatly enhanced popularity and deals with their aversion to people's expectations of them after the success of "Satisfaction". Richards commented: "'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{{'"}}.According to the Rolling Stones (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003) In 1971 he added:
{{blockquote|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.Greenfield, Robert. "Keith Richards – Interview". Rolling Stone (magazine) 19 August 1971.}}
In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, "That was Keith's melody and my lyrics{{nbsp}}... 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."{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mick_jagger_remembers/page/3 |title=Jagger Remembers |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=14 December 1995 |access-date=12 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714055247/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mick_jagger_remembers/page/3 |archive-date=14 July 2007 |url-status=dead }}
{{poemquote|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{{Gilliland |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19797/m1/ |title=Show 38 – The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. [Part 4]}}}}
The song opens with a drum intro by Charlie Watts and twin guitars by Brian Jones and Richards. 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.{{cite web|title=Top 10 Charlie Watts Rolling Stones Songs |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/charlie-watts-rolling-stones-songs/|author=Gallucci, Michael|publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock|accessdate=2022-06-02|date=August 24, 2021}}
Personnel
According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon,{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2016|p=124}} except where noted:
The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger{{snd}} vocals
- Keith Richards{{snd}} rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Brian Jones{{snd}} twelve-string electric guitar,{{sfn|Babiuk|Prevost|2013|pp=186, 239}} lead guitar,{{sfn|Babiuk|Prevost|2013|p=186}} acoustic guitar{{sfn|Babiuk|Prevost|2013|p=186}}
- Bill Wyman{{snd}} bass, backing vocals
- Charlie Watts{{snd}} drums
Additional musicians
- Ian Stewart{{snd}} piano
- Unidentified musician(s){{snd}} hand claps
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.{{Cite book |title=The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits |last=Bronson |first=Fred |author-link=Fred Bronson |year=2003 |publisher=Billboard Books |location=New York City|isbn=0823076776 |page=186 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgGqNrqfrsoC&pg=PT195 |access-date=8 July 2012 }} The song was included on the band's next American album, December's Children (And Everybody's), released in December 1965.{{allMusic |id=R16820 |label=December's Children (And Everybody's )}} The song stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November that year.{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 184
}} Billboard described the song as a "wild, far out beat number which will have no trouble topping their 'Satisfaction' smash."{{cite news|newspaper=Billboard|accessdate=2021-03-09|date=October 2, 1965|page=16|title=Spotlight Singles|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard%201965-10-02.pdf}} Cash Box described it as a "rollicking, fast-moving blues-soaked thumper with an infectious danceable beat" that should be another success after "Satisfaction".{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=October 2, 1965 |page=12 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-10-02.pdf |magazine=Cash Box}} Record World said that "The Rolling Stones dispense some more of their very thick and funky rock."{{cite magazine|title=Single Picks of the Week|magazine=Record World|date=October 2, 1965|page=1|accessdate=2023-07-19|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/60s/65/RW-1965-10-02.pdf}}
Appearances on later Stones releases include:
- Got Live If You Want It! (live album, 1966)
- Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (compilation album, 1966)
- Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (compilation album, 1971)
- 30 Greatest Hits (compilation album, 1977)
- Singles Collection: The London Years (compilation album, 1989)
- Forty Licks (compilation album, 2002)
- The Biggest Bang (live DVD-set, 2007)
- GRRR! (compilation album, 2012)
Chart history
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| Chart (1965)
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| US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual){{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |date=1999 |title=Pop Annual |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |publisher=Record Research Inc. |isbn=0-89820-142-X}}
| style="text-align:center;"|13 |
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References
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=Sources=
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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}}
- {{cite book |last1=Margotin |first1=Philippe |last2=Guesdon |first2=Jean-Michel |title=The Rolling Stones All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track |date=2016 |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers |location=New York |isbn=978-0-316-31774-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5eTCwAAQBAJ}}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165331/http://www.rollingstones.com/discog/index.php?v=so&a=1&id=43 Complete Official Lyrics]
- {{YouTube|1sWqmMAvmdU|Rolling Stones - Get Off of My Cloud}}
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