Great response, African lady, I really like your videos, you're always so enthusiastic about the music, just fun to watch. .and it looks like you're having fun, too also, your comments make sense, ...what else can I say ? It's the Rolling Stones...Greetings from Germany !
Lovely response to the song. It’s about pain relief. It’s also the Rolling Stones exploring their new direction with Mick Taylor’s guitar after the expulsion followed two weeks later by the death of a founder member Brian Jones. Ironically because he was taking too much pain relief. You can abuse any drug, the commercially successful manufactured ones as well as the naturally occurring ones we make illegal.
Sticky Fingers is easily one of the best rock and roll albums ever made. The vinyl record came packaged in a outer cover made with an actual zipper. The album hardly needed the gimmick, but the extra touch reflected the artistic indulgences rock stars were afforded in 1971. From what I understand, the zipper pulled back to reveal boxer shorts signed by pop artist Andy Warhol. But the cover was kind flimsy and nearly every copy of the album I came across as a kid was torn around the zipper and the boxer shorts were long gone. "Sister Morphine" is the third song on the second side and the song always gives me ice vibes, like a desolate winter day when a storm is brewing. The next song on the record is "Dead Flowers". You reacted to a live version of that at the start of the year. The ballad "Moonlight Mile" follows that to close out the album. It features an unguarded Mick Jagger singing about the weariness of maintaining a public persona as a sex-drugs-and-rock & roll star. It's an underappreciated classic more than worthy of a reaction.
You make some very keen observations about specific lyrics, particularly for a first listen. Morphine is an opiate, derived from heroin, actually. Basically, the song is a horrific account of a person's last visions and thoughts before dying of a drug overdose. The electric slide guitar part was contributed by Ry Cooder, whom Keith Richards supposedly learned about open tunings from. He was also supposedly the one who came up with the riff for "Honky Tonk Woman" (1969). It's been said that the "Jamming With Edward" album from 1972 of impromptu jams with Ry Cooder was released so that he wouldn't sue them for failing to give him proper credit.
It’s not explicitly said, but the song is basically about a man that has been in a horrible car accident and feels like he js dying once in the hospital. He has been given morphine to deal with the pain and he is begging for more. It is implied that this person was also a cocaine addict.
I just subscribed, and I'm lookin at your previous reaction history and it looks like you've done some Led Zeppelin in the past, but mostly live videos. To get a true feel for the magic within Led Zeppelin songs, it truly is better to hear their studio recordings first before delving into live videos. Led Zeppelin were very improvisational, and sometimes its hard to truly get the song by starting with their live videos. I'm gonna recommend revisiting the song "Stairway to Heaven", but this time, listen to the official audio studio recording (off of the album Led Zeppelin IV). It will be an eye opener for you. For a second song, I recommend listening to the studio recording of the song "Since I've Been Loving You" off of the album Led Zeppelin III. Peace
Morphine is an incredibly strong opiate made from poppies, it’s basically a more refined version of heroin. The withdrawal symptoms from morphine are quite horrific.
I love you my sista... What do I have to do, to have you play a request for me??? I'll do it, MY REQUEST: ARTIST: JOHN LEE HOOKER... SONG: BLUE BIRD...
I was learning this song on guitar, the rhythm part and vocals, but I stopped because the lyrics are too damned depressing to sing over and over, but I absolutely love the lyrics and music. That slide guitar is very effective, giving the song a sloppy “druggy”, but cool kind of sound.
Great response, African lady, I really like your videos, you're always so enthusiastic about the music, just fun to watch. .and it looks like you're having fun, too also, your comments make sense, ...what else can I say ? It's the Rolling Stones...Greetings from Germany !
Lovely response to the song. It’s about pain relief. It’s also the Rolling Stones exploring their new direction with Mick Taylor’s guitar after the expulsion followed two weeks later by the death of a founder member Brian Jones. Ironically because he was taking too much pain relief.
You can abuse any drug, the commercially successful manufactured ones as well as the naturally occurring ones we make illegal.
Sticky Fingers is easily one of the best rock and roll albums ever made. The vinyl record came packaged in a outer cover made with an actual zipper. The album hardly needed the gimmick, but the extra touch reflected the artistic indulgences rock stars were afforded in 1971. From what I understand, the zipper pulled back to reveal boxer shorts signed by pop artist Andy Warhol. But the cover was kind flimsy and nearly every copy of the album I came across as a kid was torn around the zipper and the boxer shorts were long gone. "Sister Morphine" is the third song on the second side and the song always gives me ice vibes, like a desolate winter day when a storm is brewing. The next song on the record is "Dead Flowers". You reacted to a live version of that at the start of the year. The ballad "Moonlight Mile" follows that to close out the album. It features an unguarded Mick Jagger singing about the weariness of maintaining a public persona as a sex-drugs-and-rock & roll star. It's an underappreciated classic more than worthy of a reaction.
You make some very keen observations about specific lyrics, particularly for a first listen.
Morphine is an opiate, derived from heroin, actually. Basically, the song is a horrific account of a person's last visions and thoughts before dying of a drug overdose. The electric slide guitar part was contributed by Ry Cooder, whom Keith Richards supposedly learned about open tunings from. He was also supposedly the one who came up with the riff for "Honky Tonk Woman" (1969).
It's been said that the "Jamming With Edward" album from 1972 of impromptu jams with Ry Cooder was released so that he wouldn't sue them for failing to give him proper credit.
Fay, why do you like the album cover? Please explain.
It’s not explicitly said, but the song is basically about a man that has been in a horrible car accident and feels like he js dying once in the hospital. He has been given morphine to deal with the pain and he is begging for more. It is implied that this person was also a cocaine addict.
I just subscribed, and I'm lookin at your previous reaction history and it looks like you've done some Led Zeppelin in the past, but mostly live videos. To get a true feel for the magic within Led Zeppelin songs, it truly is better to hear their studio recordings first before delving into live videos. Led Zeppelin were very improvisational, and sometimes its hard to truly get the song by starting with their live videos. I'm gonna recommend revisiting the song "Stairway to Heaven", but this time, listen to the official audio studio recording (off of the album Led Zeppelin IV). It will be an eye opener for you. For a second song, I recommend listening to the studio recording of the song "Since I've Been Loving You" off of the album Led Zeppelin III.
Peace
Morphine is an incredibly strong opiate made from poppies, it’s basically a more refined version of heroin. The withdrawal symptoms from morphine are quite horrific.
Marianne Faithful was a writer on this song and has an amazing version of this, imo, it’s actually better.
I’ve never heard her version. I’ll check it out for sure!
I love you my sista... What do I have to do, to have you play a request for me??? I'll do it, MY REQUEST: ARTIST: JOHN LEE HOOKER... SONG: BLUE BIRD...
Great choice. John Lee Hooker is my favorite Blues player. I love his song “I’m Bad Like Jesse James”!
@@lewstone5430 Jesse James is 1 of my Top man songs by John lee hooker...
I claim to be a big John Lee hooker fan but I never heard blue bird. That album he does with canned heat is crazy good
@@GG-ox3oq Bluebird is a song that reminds me of a lady I'm currently feeling... So it's a song to dedicate to someone...
I was learning this song on guitar, the rhythm part and vocals, but I stopped because the lyrics are too damned depressing to sing over and over, but I absolutely love the lyrics and music. That slide guitar is very effective, giving the song a sloppy “druggy”, but cool kind of sound.
He OD's.