Under My Thumb lyrics as sung by Mick Jagger

vanity | 3/30/14 | Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

[Albion Wilde]

I was out earlier tonight and heard Mick Jagger over a store loudspeaker singing "Under My Thumb." Given the very tragic suicide of his lover of 13 years, fashion designer and stylist L'Wren Scott, who was buried earlier this week amid rumors that Mick's unfaithfulness was one contributory factor, I hope he never, ever performs that song again...

[Albion Wilde]

...ungrateful. Even in collapse of a business, she had a lifestyle that many can only dream of, and millions in the bank. And she threw away the one most precious thing a human can possess. Her life as a “failure” would be a pampered lifestyle for most people.

Depression is a really terrible illness. Some people do not survive it. Many, many artists suffer from it. I've lost several artist friends to suicide, in that I worked in the arts for decades and knew many artists in lots of mediums. Perhaps that's why this incident hurts me a lot. It is a shattering loss.

Those trying to say, "Well, tough!" may not betaking Mick's broken heart into account. Rock star though he is, it will be difficult if not impossible for him to replace the depth of her whom he called his "best friend" any time soon, if ever in the rest of his lifetime. He is hurting. He is committed to performing again soon. It's a nightmare for him, too.

[Steve_Seattle]

Depression is insidious, because it is often undetected. I think I have a mild version of it - the world often seems flat and lifeless. I can actually FEEL the depression, as a sensation. But I have a sense of humor, and I cope.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I thought their last great album was the double album with “Rip This Joint,” “Hip Shake,” and a few other little-known classics. I’ve been drinking a bit, so I forget the name of the album . . . It was in the Mick Taylor era."

It just came to me - "Exile on Main Street."

[TigersEye]

Ridiculous.

[wardaddy]

Good lord the sanctimony in this thread

Roar gals roar.

[Albion Wilde]

Vitamins, exercise, proper diet, 8 hours sleep per night.
Never let yourself get too tired, too sad, too lonely or too hungry.

[Albion Wilde]

Suicide is ridiculous?

[TigersEye]

Your idiot idea that he shouldn’t sing a song written in the ‘60s is ridiculous. Sentimental tripe worthy of the liberal Victim Society crowd.

[Albion Wilde]

I know you to be a man’s man who is in love with his wife. Are you saying you could perform a lady-bashing song in the month after your wife died and not be roiled up by it?

[Albion Wilde]

Don’t read the thread, then. It’s not posted in News; it’s a vanity in General/Chat.

[TigersEye]

That’s ridiculous too. Can’t unread what I’ve already read. Can’t know what it’s about until I read it. Do you ever have a rational thought?

[wardaddy]

You’re not a bad girl...hear hear

This thread though is tailor made for Freeper customary male and wealth and culture pop bashing

I bump your sentiments

Precious few here really know Stones music

Mick and Keith have far far tougher on gals songs than Thumb

” I hear the click clack of your feet on the stairs........”

“Bet your momma don’t know you scratch like that....( his back)...bet your momma don’t know you can scream like that.”

Stray Cat Blues....about a 15 year old groupie....on beggars banquet and ya yas

Johnny Winter did a decent job with it too as did Jimi on a bootleg I think

And many others

Any woman didn’t know what she was getting with Mick was daft.....she could have just left him....not axed herself so some Freeper chicks and hate the rich types here can blame him cause she hanged herself....from a door knob....how does one do that at six three?

Again

I salute you!

My wife said same as you....do folks here not know he bought her fancy digs for her and that she left all she had...9 million estate....to him

[9YearLurker]

After their first couple of albums they were something of a guilty pleasure.

[wardaddy]

Play with Fire.....Some Girls

Many many stones songs about women...sex....drugs etc

It is rock and roll...pretty much some of it is premier type of its now dormant genre

It ain’t Handel....

[Hugin]

Oh well, can’t say Mick didn’t warn her...

I got nasty habits, I take tea at three
The meat I eat for dinner must be hung up for a week
My best friend, he shoots water rats and feeds them to his geese
Don’t you think there’s a place for you in between the sheets?

Come on now, baby
We can build a home for three
Come on now, baby
Don’t you wanna live with me?

A score of harebrained children they’re locked in the nursery
They got earphone heads they got dirty necks they’re so 20th century
They queue up for the bathroom ‘round about 7:35
Don’t you think we need a woman’s touch to make it come alive?

You’d look good pram
Pushing down the high street
Come on now, honey
Don’t you wanna live with me?

The servants they’re so helpfull now, the cook she is a whore
The butler has a place for her behind the pantry door
The maid, she’s French, she’s got no sense, she was found at the Crazy Horse
And when she strips, the chauffeur flips, the footman’s eyes get crossed

And don’t you think there’s a place for us
Right across the street
Don’t you think there’s a place for you
In between the sheets?

Yeah, come on now, baby
We can build a home for three
Come on now, baby
Don’t you wanna live with me?

[Rodney Dangerfield]

I like this version the best:

Under My Bus

[Steve_Seattle]

Thank you. I do have a girlfriend, so I am not alone, and she also has some of the same issues. But neither of us are suicidal types; as for myself, I am way too much of a coward for that! I see it as much as a spiritual problem as a physical one, of coming to terms with mortality and coming to terms with God. I do get the necessary sleep, but exercise is a good idea. Gardening will commence soon.

I retired last year, and I have noticed that my years of working now seem to be very much like a dream. When I imagine my former workplace, and the people still there, it seems like a dream, kind of unreal.

[SamAdams76]

"Bittersweet Symphony" was one of my favorite songs from the 1990s and I never connected it with the Rolling Stones "The Last Time" until the lawsuit happened.

It was really petty for the Rolling Stones to take songwriting credit and 100% of the royalties from The Verve just because they borrowed a bass line or a melody or whatever it was about the song deemed to be similar to "The Last Time".

These plagiarism suits are getting out of hand. There are only so many notes on the musical scale and eventually you are going to have to repeat some of them to come up with new material. "Bittersweet Symphony" is a totally different song. Just like George Harrison's "Sweet Lord" was totally different than The Chiffons "He's So Fine" yet the ex-Beatle lost that lawsuit as well.

[Texicanus]

My advice is keep moving and don’t look back. You’re entering the “twilight zone”.

BTW, Ol’ Mick,probably like many old codgers from the sixties, is getting used to wearing depends and crapping his pants a dozen times a day. I don’t want to even think about his groupies or where they are today.

That’s the price he must pay for surviving the “27” curse.

[Scoutmaster]

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote "As Tears Go By."

The Stones' manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, is credited with giving the song to Marianne Faithfull to record.