I think it's about grief. His love has died...the row of black cars, the flowers, his love never to come back. Everyone turns their head when they see him. He's consumed by the weight of the emotions he's feeling and deep in mourning.
Yes, definitely about grief. The speaker is even contemplating suicide. He says "If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes." The setting sun has long been associated with death in mythology and literature, and to "look hard enough into the setting sun" is, I believe, a metaphor for committing suicide as a means of reuniting with the loved one he has lost. This is a great rock and roll song, but it is an incredibly sad song when you figure out everything he is saying.
I get this song...when my 17 year old son passed away my heart turned black...he’s talking about the line of black cars at the funeral...flowers, his friends turning away from his grief and how angry it makes him 🖖🏻🇨🇦💔😢
What’s amazing to me about this song is they just keep playing the same riff over an over again with very little variation and you still never get tired of it. Just a cool groove.
My favourite part in the song is the playing of the Indian stringed instrument, the sitar. Brian Jones, RIP, played it beautifully. He was such a talented instrumentalist. He was also the founder of the group
This song has also been used in many movies about the Vietnam War. Just about during that time period and could relate to the feelings of grieving for a loved one. The lyrics are very simple, but are incredibly powerful!
One of my top favourite RS songs, with its description of the elusive Ms Tuesday so redolent of that particularly 60s itinerant gypsy attitude/ lifestyle.
Raw dirty angry depressed. .Paint. it black. these three words says so much and truly represent myself in dark times ♥ "i see the girls walk by in their summer clothes, but i have turn my head..." Man...i been there.. life is like the painting "The scream", you know where you are but nothing comes thru that sheild of sadness/confusion... eventually time will help you find yourself again. oh shit, love you guys and your reactions
I was lucky enough to see them do this live during the Steel Wheels tour. Before that, they hadn't done it live in decades. It was such a rush to hear Charlies drums coming in. The crows went crazy.
There's a really good live performance of Paint it Black from 2006 on TH-cam. The video is called Rolling Stones - Paint it Black 2006 Live Video - might be worth checking out, guys. It's got over 16m views! There's also a good one called The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black (Live at Tokyo Dome 1990). Incidentally, it's good to have you both back, I've missed seeing your reactions - cheers!
So many great songs. I recommend Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Miss You, Brown Sugar, Bitch, Loving Cup...LOL...I could go on all day!
This is one of my all time favourite Rolling Stones songs!! I have it in the car and listen to it often. Amazing to think it's from 1966 but all their songs were brilliant. The lyrics are maybe a bit dark but it is called Paint It Black after all! Such a great song, fab vibe and as I said one of my favourites. Many thanks for doing this reaction, guys, very much appreciated.
Ahhh yes. WELCOME BACK. We missed y'all 💓🤘🏼 RS's one of my top 2 bands!! Oldie but goodie 👍🏼👍🏼 ✅ out these .. "You can't always get what u want", "Wild Horses", "It's only Rock & Roll (but I like it)", "Jumping Jack Flash" .. to name a few. Thnx guys, b safe & well .. peace out✌🏼🤘🏼💓
A. Love the yellow/black plaid. B. One of first rock song to use an electric sitar. (Brian Jones) C. Their best stuff was around 1969-1972. Several great albums (the Mick Taylor years). You want the best, go to the Sticky Fingers album. D. Best live album: Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! Mick does a super job on harmonica on Midnight Rambler on that album.
Whoa - road trip back to 1966; remember my older brother had this in his collection. Prefer Stones' more melodic stuff - still waiting for you guys to do 'Wild Horses' - glad you're back;)
And now the question.....was Brian the first western rock musician to use the sitar? Or is this truly a sitar? I think I remember reading Jimmy Page saying it was a guitar tuned to sound like a sitar...but he could have been referring to a different song.....He wasn’t referring to one of his own. But I remember he said it was before George Harrison started playing sitar....
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 Pretty Sure George Harrison was the first musician who used the sitar in a rock song (Norwegian Wood). And It is definitely a sitar what Brian is playing, I think Jimmy referred to other song.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 The Jimmy Pager quote about a guitar tuned to sound like a sitar is referring to Jeff Beck's playing on Heart Full of Soul with the Yardbirds. Brian Jones is playing a Sitar, but George Harrison did it first on Norwegian Wood.
@@broaction5343 I can't hear this song without thinking of Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black"! (RIP) 👇🔥🎵❤✌ "We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred times You go back to her And I go back to black"
Its about a young man who's girlfriend has died , murdered and perhaps sexually assaulted and his is depressed and and what's to avoid love , and he blamed himself because he was meant to be with her and wasn't. ( I could not foresee this thing happening to you )
Thank you! Huge song, a classic by them and nowadays one of their most iconic and emblematic tracks. My suggestion is another flabbergasting banger that was the following single "Have you seen baby your mother standing in the shadow" a mad masterpiece with a tremendous orchestration and atmosphere that still drive me crazy since September 1966.
The Stones have such a long, colorful and productive career, that it would be hard to choose a singular favorite tune. That would be like choosing a favorite Beatles, Who or Leppelin song...it just doesn't happen! Hahaha. You've done good so far, but may I suggest "Can't You Hear Me Knocking", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "Midnight Rambler", "Live With Me", "Turd On The Run" or "Can't You Hear Me Knocking". I don't think you will be disappointed. Happy tune travels Dudes!
Not a Rolling Stones fan, never have been. But I remember this song back in the 60's. It was huge and it somehow triggered the "Beatles-Rolling Stones" competition on the music scene, at least in the UK & Europe.
Patrick and George, Rolling Stones "Some Girls" or "Beast Of Burden!" 2,000 Light Years From Home, Miss You, Brown Sugar, Fool To Cry, Tumbling Dice, Rocks Off. You Can't Always Get What You Want, Under My Thumb, Shattered, Get Off Of My Cloud, Time Is On My Side. Sway, Sister Morphine, Dead Flowers, Cry To Me, Happy, Before They Make Me Run, Miss Amanda Jones, Stray Cat Blues, Jigsaw Puzzle, No Expectations, Let It Bleed, Let's Spend The Night Together, Jumpin Jack Flash, Memory Motel. I could leave a LONGER list.
The song tells us about someone's feelings of loss and grief because of the death of a dear person. You can pincture the events immediately before the funeral :flowers, black cars (on their way to the funeral), people in the streets, some girls in colourful dresses (who probably remind him of the dead girl), meaning "life" and happiness "life" in uxtaposition to the "dead girl". He emphasises in having everything painted "black" which represents mourning (in the Western world) and it's a means to express his grief.
I see Euro Bro's will they react to someone black. Lol Sorry lyrics writing themselves 1) Sly and Family Stone - Thank You 2) Curtis Mayfield- Move On Up
Love the channel...Can you show some of your Canadian fans some love and do a reaction to April Wine -"Roller" ( official music video)? You won't be disappointed.
It's depression from a lover's death. Oh, and the Stones are so far above EVERY other band it's ridiculous. They don't just "play" music - they live music.
You should try Dancing with Mr. D, great bass line. Or for something completely different, Winter, one of my favorite Stones songs with superb guitar by Mick Taylor.
I think it's about grief. His love has died...the row of black cars, the flowers, his love never to come back. Everyone turns their head when they see him. He's consumed by the weight of the emotions he's feeling and deep in mourning.
Exactly what I always got from the song.
Listening to it a couple more times, definitely helped us to understand it's background even more. Thanks.
Yes, definitely about grief. The speaker is even contemplating suicide. He says "If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes." The setting sun has long been associated with death in mythology and literature, and to "look hard enough into the setting sun" is, I believe, a metaphor for committing suicide as a means of reuniting with the loved one he has lost. This is a great rock and roll song, but it is an incredibly sad song when you figure out everything he is saying.
@@jonm1114 Agree.
You've got it correct and thanks for saving me the time to type it out. Funerals and flowers?
It's hard to believe this song was from 1966. It was so ahead of it's time, and it's still an amazing tune.
It was, is and will always be! :)
Hi Lisa. Hope u had an awesome wknd. Was pretty good here .. nice weather.
@@ramonaalvarez7559 Hi Ramona. It rained all Weekend, but nice weather's coming. Nice to hear from you. Take care.
@@lisamorrison2149 Ditto Hun😊💓
Doo doo doo doo doo (Heartbreaker) is a great one
One of the best songs ever. This is such an outstanding, unique song. Rolling Stones are still untouchable.
Stones and Beatles changed the world
I get this song...when my 17 year old son passed away my heart turned black...he’s talking about the line of black cars at the funeral...flowers, his friends turning away from his grief and how angry it makes him 🖖🏻🇨🇦💔😢
What’s amazing to me about this song is they just keep playing the same riff over an over again with very little variation and you still never get tired of it. Just a cool groove.
The Rolling Stones are 🔥
- Wild Horses
- Beast of Burden
- Start Me Up
- "You Can't Always
Get What You Want"
YES to All of the above. 👍👍
And Time is on my side
@@nancyborden5860 Yep.... another good one!! :)
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" must be the version with the choir! (so not live)
She’s A Rainbow
My favourite part in the song is the playing of the Indian stringed instrument, the sitar. Brian Jones, RIP, played it beautifully. He was such a talented instrumentalist. He was also the founder of the group
This song has also been used in many movies about the Vietnam War. Just about during that time period and could relate to the feelings of grieving for a loved one.
The lyrics are very simple, but are incredibly powerful!
Next song on the album is "Ruby Tuesday" -- you will enjoy it very much!
One of my top favourite RS songs, with its description of the elusive Ms Tuesday so redolent of that particularly 60s itinerant gypsy attitude/ lifestyle.
The Beatles (George Harrison) was the first to used the Indian sitar in music. The Stones use it well in this song.
Raw dirty angry depressed. .Paint. it black. these three words says so much and
truly represent myself in dark times ♥
"i see the girls walk by in their summer clothes, but i have turn my head..." Man...i been there..
life is like the painting "The scream", you know where you are but nothing comes thru that sheild
of sadness/confusion... eventually time will help you find yourself again.
oh shit, love you guys and your reactions
This song is about death, grief and the feelings after the loss
@@p.millard557 Si Senor
Try a song from a band from my country, the Netherlands: Golden Earring - Radar Love
I never knew Golden Earring was a Dutch band!!
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 yeah it is! They had a few international hits.
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Love that song , I was about 16 when that song came out , brings back some amazing memories ❤👌🥰🏴
Top 100 greatest song there!
A true classic. It’s about depression.
Depression caused by the death of his wife/girlfriend.
Helene here...Memories...driving the freeways in LA when I was in college with this blaring from the radio...
My god this song is about 500 years old and it's still great. You guys are the best
"Jumpin Jack Flash" by them is great too
Your unbridled enjoyment of this music is awesome. Thanks for these reviews.
I was lucky enough to see them do this live during the Steel Wheels tour. Before that, they hadn't done it live in decades. It was such a rush to hear Charlies drums coming in. The crows went crazy.
“Angie” from the stones is very unique.
Hi Michele, they've already done a reaction to Angie, back in February. Hope you can find it - cheers.
@@annemaclean6634 yes found it right after I posted it. Thanks.
You should do their song Wild Horses
Yes yes✌❤
Oh and the Indian sitar is wonderful in it
That was the year I was born....this song, me, VANS shoes and Slurpees (American iced drink).....good year!❤️
Rolling Stones - Miss You
There's a really good live performance of Paint it Black from 2006 on TH-cam. The video is called Rolling Stones - Paint it Black 2006 Live Video - might be worth checking out, guys. It's got over 16m views! There's also a good one called The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black (Live at Tokyo Dome 1990). Incidentally, it's good to have you both back, I've missed seeing your reactions - cheers!
The Stones deliver great music; you need to hear the words too. Deep meanings in their songs.
My favorite Stones song, that melody is frantic and mesmerizing. Sublime drum and guitar work
5:10 George: "The Rolling Stones is the most colorful band....." Patrik: "and now it's black" hahaha!
Welcome back guys!! Gosh, I missed my daily dose of BroAction!!
So many great songs. I recommend Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Miss You, Brown Sugar, Bitch, Loving Cup...LOL...I could go on all day!
And "Emotional Rescue".
i wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
Vietnam war immediately springs to mind ,the song just seems to epitomise with it .Timeless classic for me ..👌
Hit #1 in the UK and the US in June 1966.
Charlie Watts, Mr. Metronome, never misses a beat.
My favorite Stones song!!!!
This is one of my all time favourite Rolling Stones songs!! I have it in the car and listen to it often. Amazing to think it's from 1966 but all their songs were brilliant. The lyrics are maybe a bit dark but it is called Paint It Black after all! Such a great song, fab vibe and as I said one of my favourites. Many thanks for doing this reaction, guys, very much appreciated.
Comfortably Numb Pompeii David Gilmour
hey guys, try one of their first hits Ruby Tuesday or As Tears Go By, slow sweet and powerful. Not bangers but full of flower power from the 60's.
Okay you guys are gonna go crazy for "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by the Rolling Stones. It's supreme!
Ahhh yes. WELCOME BACK. We missed y'all 💓🤘🏼 RS's one of my top 2 bands!! Oldie but goodie 👍🏼👍🏼 ✅ out these .. "You can't always get what u want", "Wild Horses", "It's only Rock & Roll (but I like it)", "Jumping Jack Flash" .. to name a few. Thnx guys, b safe & well .. peace out✌🏼🤘🏼💓
Thanks, you should do the Stones "Heartbreaker" it's fire.
A. Love the yellow/black plaid.
B. One of first rock song to use an electric sitar. (Brian Jones)
C. Their best stuff was around 1969-1972. Several great albums (the Mick Taylor years). You want the best, go to the Sticky Fingers album.
D. Best live album: Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! Mick does a super job on harmonica on Midnight Rambler on that album.
What a GREAT choice!! Loved it!!
original part : erkin koray - bir eylul aksami
If you want to hear even more range and difference with the Stones check out a song like Undercover (of the Night)
One of the best Rolling Stones songs
Whoa - road trip back to 1966; remember my older brother had this in his collection. Prefer Stones' more melodic stuff - still waiting for you guys to do 'Wild Horses' - glad you're back;)
Thanks Bros for your music appreciation 💕
Next from the Stones;
*Can't you hear me knocking
*Street Fighting Man
*Jumping Jack Flash
my fav RS song
The sitar played by Brian Jones is just terrific!
And now the question.....was Brian the first western rock musician to use the sitar? Or is this truly a sitar? I think I remember reading Jimmy Page saying it was a guitar tuned to sound like a sitar...but he could have been referring to a different song.....He wasn’t referring to one of his own. But I remember he said it was before George Harrison started playing sitar....
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 Pretty Sure George Harrison was the first musician who used the sitar in a rock song (Norwegian Wood). And It is definitely a sitar what Brian is playing, I think Jimmy referred to other song.
The best part!
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 George Harrison in Norwegian Wood
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 The Jimmy Pager quote about a guitar tuned to sound like a sitar is referring to Jeff Beck's playing on Heart Full of Soul with the Yardbirds. Brian Jones is playing a Sitar, but George Harrison did it first on Norwegian Wood.
Great song great reaction!! ✌️
Emotional rescue. Stones
STARMAN from David Bowie please next reaction ! 🖤
Iconic. Just one of their "oh so many hits"
🐥❣️🐥hugs 2 all
if you haven't seen it, you must react to metallica live in moscow. This is the craziest concert in history, you will be blown away
Coming back to life - Pink floyd
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones will blow you away
Already blew us away :) We reacted to it.
@@broaction5343 beg your pardons sirs
The best Rolling Stones song in my opinion😁
Hi George & Patrick! It's Jen!
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Hi Jen! :)
@@broaction5343 I can't hear this song without thinking of Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black"! (RIP)
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"We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black"
@@jennhurl Hi Jennifer! We’re everywhere 😂
@@lynnhoffman247 😊 U betcha! It's just you, me, & several hundred thousands of our closest friends.
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@@jennhurl 🤣🤣🤣 See you around!
Its about a young man who's girlfriend has died , murdered and perhaps sexually assaulted and his is depressed and and what's to avoid love , and he blamed himself because he was meant to be with her and wasn't. ( I could not foresee this thing happening to you )
I'd LOVE to hear you react to Jump Into The Fire by Harry Nilsson. It's a ridiculously FABULOUS banger!
Masterpiece!!! 😜
I definitely think this is among the best songs from the 60's. And one of those iconic ones, that just doesn't get played out at all.
Thanks for this reaction. If you want to hear a great ballad by the Stones, react to Angie or Fool to Cry.
Hi there, they've already done a reaction to Angie, back in February. Hope you can find it - cheers.
I think its my favourate Rolling stones song i heard it inj the 70s as a young child and its still on my favourates playlist,Glad you loved it
Thank you! Huge song, a classic by them and nowadays one of their most iconic and emblematic tracks. My suggestion is another flabbergasting banger that was the following single "Have you seen baby your mother standing in the shadow" a mad masterpiece with a tremendous orchestration and atmosphere that still drive me crazy since September 1966.
Its about the death of a loved one. The line of cars painted black are hearse and limos. It is a funeral procession.
The Stones have such a long, colorful and productive career, that it would be hard to choose a singular favorite tune. That would be like choosing a favorite Beatles, Who or Leppelin song...it just doesn't happen! Hahaha. You've done good so far, but may I suggest "Can't You Hear Me Knocking", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "Midnight Rambler", "Live With Me", "Turd On The Run" or "Can't You Hear Me Knocking". I don't think you will be disappointed. Happy tune travels Dudes!
The live versions of Midnight Rambler from 1969 to 1972 were amazing.
Not a Rolling Stones fan, never have been. But I remember this song back in the 60's. It was huge and it somehow triggered the "Beatles-Rolling Stones" competition on the music scene, at least in the UK & Europe.
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking should be next.
Bob Dylan's favourite band.
Masters.
Stones songs are all great. Do Wild Horses or Brown Sugar.
Thanks guys love this song
About the death of your love & partner 💔 I felt this when my husband died.
An absolute classic!
Give a listen to Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane.
Carry On!!
Great song. You have to check out Wild Horses. One of their best.
React to The Rolling Stones Hey Negrita, such a groovy underrated tune!
HEY Strangers!! 👋😉
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Patrick and George, Rolling Stones "Some Girls" or "Beast Of Burden!" 2,000 Light Years From Home, Miss You, Brown Sugar, Fool To Cry, Tumbling Dice, Rocks Off. You Can't Always Get What You Want, Under My Thumb, Shattered, Get Off Of My Cloud, Time Is On My Side. Sway, Sister Morphine, Dead Flowers, Cry To Me, Happy, Before They Make Me Run, Miss Amanda Jones, Stray Cat Blues, Jigsaw Puzzle, No Expectations, Let It Bleed, Let's Spend The Night Together, Jumpin Jack Flash, Memory Motel.
I could leave a LONGER list.
YES to those and SO many more.... the list is almost endless!!
@@michaelgilbert197 I had a pretty good list going somewhere. I'll find it.
@@michaelgilbert197 edited. Tried not to duplicate what they've already done. ;)
@@michaelgilbert197 dang, lost my love button. Ah well. GOT IT BACK!
Good one. I like a few others too, Can't you hear me knocking, Lady Jane, Route 66
Every human being is born which a dark side don't ever let it take over you
The song tells us about someone's feelings of loss and grief because of the death of a dear person. You can pincture the events immediately before the funeral :flowers, black cars (on their way to the funeral), people in the streets, some girls in colourful dresses (who probably remind him of the dead girl), meaning "life" and happiness "life" in uxtaposition to the "dead girl". He emphasises in having everything painted "black" which represents mourning (in the Western world) and it's a means to express his grief.
I see Euro Bro's will they react to someone black.
Lol Sorry lyrics writing themselves
1) Sly and Family Stone - Thank You
2) Curtis Mayfield- Move On Up
Try Ruby Tuesday, another amazing and colourful song by them
Hear "emotional rescue" from them
Skid row...at least one of their songs....BTW, love this one.
My favourite is I Remember You
@@NikkieTwix mine is Wasted Time.
@@nancyborden5860 that’s a good one too, Sebastian is so handsome haha
@@NikkieTwix he was a doll for sure, and a great voice.
You also have to react to his rivals in the abbey road medley the beatles RIVAL FOREVER ✌😆✌
Song about the death of a loved one
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TREE!
You're a goof ball!! 😆
@@michaelgilbert197 I froze. Lol.
@@elysehfm8797 🤣😂🤣
@@lynnhoffman247 I say tree when I'm bored of saying three. Trinidadian accent. I think I told Mike/Tina once. ;)
@@elysehfm8797 Ah…I thought maybe it had something to to do with That Chapter ☺️
Love the channel...Can you show some of your Canadian fans some love and do a reaction to April Wine -"Roller" ( official music video)? You won't be disappointed.
It's depression from a lover's death.
Oh, and the Stones are so far above EVERY other band it's ridiculous. They don't just "play" music - they live music.
react to Boston "Smokin", awesome tune
You should try Dancing with Mr. D, great bass line. Or for something completely different, Winter, one of my favorite Stones songs with superb guitar by Mick Taylor.
ANJI is a MUST!!!!!!!
Hi there, they've already done a reaction to Angie, back in February. Hope you can find it - cheers.
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Please play Wild Horses by this band.
Check out MONKEY MAN and CAN’T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKING?...The Stones ARE the greatest
Have you guys done Sails of Charon by The Scorpions ???
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