Posted on 10/13/2021 6:12:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Rolling Stones are now four shows into their 2021 No Filter Tour, and they have yet to play “Brown Sugar” a single time. The tune has been a staple of their live show since it came out 50 years ago, and it’s the second most played song in their catalog with 1,136 known performances.
Jumpin Jack Flash is #1.
During a conversation with the L.A. Times, guitarist Keith Richards and singer Mick Jagger have confirmed the band is taking its 1971 classic “Brown Sugar” off the setlist for the upcoming tour dates.
“I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it… At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this shit. But I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track.”
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1972 Live Brown Sugar
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1971 Top of the Pops
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1981 Live — RIP Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones have removed "Brown Sugar" from their tour's setlist: "I don’t want to get into conflicts" https://t.co/bs836L02hG pic.twitter.com/KymPxisahO
— Consequence (@consequence) October 10, 2021
Good song; too bad they folded and dumped it.
The Rolling Stones
“Brown Sugar”
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he’s doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should
Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin’ where it’s gonna stop
House boy knows that he’s doing alright
You shoulda heard him just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now
Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, got me feelin’ now, brown sugar just like a black girl should
I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like
You shoulda heard me just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah
I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
How come you... how come you taste so good?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
Just like a... just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight
OK on Brown Sugar ... but just keep playing Honky Tonk Woman ...
Revisiting the 15 Most Controversial Rolling Stones Songs
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Sticky Fingers" by looking back at "Brown Sugar" and their other contentious songs
BY BONNIE STIERNBERG @AAHREALBONSTERS
If, for some reason, you weren’t able to pick up on the, uh … imagery behind its title, Sticky Fingers hits you over the head with it with its Andy Warhol-designed cover featuring a close-up of a man’s bulge and a working zipper that could be pulled down to reveal an image of cotton briefs. The Rolling Stones’ 1971 classic — which celebrates its 50th anniversary today — lets you know what the vibe is before you even pull it out of the sleeve, so in many ways it makes sense that it’s also the record that houses the band’s most controversial track, “Brown Sugar.”
What’s fascinating about “Brown Sugar” is that despite its clumsy lyrics and blatant fetishization of Black women, it remains one of the band’s most beloved tracks, a staple in their live shows. Fans who know better dance to it in spite of themselves. Maybe they laugh nervously at its lyrics, but they don’t turn it off. Like a lot of the Stones’ catalog, it’s a relic from another time, full of racism, sexism and other questionable lyrics that have aged poorly. But like the Stones themselves, it has endured.
Half a century later, Sticky Fingers stands as a microcosm of the Stones’ complicated legacy. On the one hand, it’s got some extremely regrettable moments like “Brown Sugar” and “You Gotta Move,” a blues number on which Mick Jagger puts on an embarrassing accent that has been described as “aural blackface.” But it also came smack dab in the middle of the group’s unparalleled run from 1968 to 1972 which saw them release Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. in quick succession, and while its low points are extremely low, it’s also full of undeniable classics like “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” “Wild Horses,” “Dead Flowers” and “Moonlight Mile.”
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Stones go woke.......
> “The Rolling Stones are now four shows into their 2021 No Filter Tour”
Well it appears there is a filter after all. <
It’s only Wednesday. But I’m now declaring your comment the Post of the Week.
Nope. Honkies will be offended......................
This is truly a mirthless, soulless age.
Stones go woke……
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Yes but at their age it’s only for a couple of hours a day.
Liberals have no sense of humor, history or culture at all.
ALL they know is emote......................................
LOL
The Rolling Stone have been wimps since the Ed Sullivan show. Pretend bad boys.
I read about this several days ago. They want to play the song but decided after getting some feedback that they might have protests. Mick doesn’t understand why people find it offensive especially since it was played for 50 years. However Keith was against the decision to not play it. But they stopped it anyways. Also the song is about slavery which is something I never knew about. I just figured it was about a man who fell in love with a black woman. That said some publication asked Mick about it because it was not being played anymore.
I thought it was about a bordello in New Orleans.....................
Also cancelling Under My Thumb and Paint it Black? I never realized how racist and misogynistic the Stones were.
I wonder when SOME GIRLS will vanish. Black girls just wanna get ****** all night.
“Sticky Fingers” just rocks. My favorite Stones record. Oh, and we used to open with “Brown Sugar” back in the day. ;-)
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