Get Off Of My Cloud

"Get Off of My Cloud"
Single by The Rolling Stones
from the album December's Children (And Everybody's)
B-side	"I'm Free" (US) "The Singer Not the Song" (UK)
Released	25 September 1965 (US) 22 October 1965 (UK)
Format	7" single
Recorded	6 - 7 September 1965, RCA Studios, Hollywood
Genre	Rock
Length	2:55
Label	London 45-LON 9792 Decca F12263
Writer(s)	Jagger/Richards
Producer	Andrew Loog Oldham
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"Get Off of My Cloud" is a song by the British rock band The Rolling Stones. It was written as a follow-up single to the successful "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". The song topped the charts in the U.S. and the UK in the weeks following its release in November 1965.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song was recorded in early September 1965. The song is noted for its drum intro by Charlie Watts and twin guitars by Brian Jones and Keith Richards.[1] The lyrics are defiant and rebellious, which was common practice for the Rolling Stones around that time; they were beginning to cultivate their infamous "bad boy" image. The Stones have said that the song is written as a reaction to their sudden popularity after the success of "Satisfaction". The song deals with their aversion to people's expectations of them.

On the song, Richards said in 1971, "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., 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." [2] In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, "That was Keith's melody and my lyrics... 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." [3] In the 2003 book According to... The Rolling Stones, Richards says: "'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'."[citation needed]

The song is in E major and is a variation on the Louie Louie riff: I-IV-V-IV, in this case E A B A.

Rolling Stones releases

• December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965)
• Got Live If You Want It! (1966)
• Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (1966)
• Love You Live (1977)
• Forty Licks (2002)
• The Biggest Bang (2007)

Cover versions

• Get Off My Cloud by The Eyes (1965)
• Get Off My Cloud by Cary August (1994)
• Get Off My Cloud by The Briggs (2004)
• Get Off My Cloud by Alexis Korner (1975)
• UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff, as Hot Rocks Polka by "Weird Al" Yankovic (1989)
• Get Off of My Cloud by The Meteors has partially the same lyrics and tune.
• Get Off My Cloud by The Flying Pickets recorded live at the Albany Empire (1982), and also released on The Best of the Flying Pickets (Only You) EMI 1991
• Nikki Boyer recorded an acoustic version of the song in 2003 as part of the tribute CD New Licks: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones.
• The improv-comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? featured Colin Mochrie making a parody of the song's title for Wayne Brady and Brad Sherwood to make up lyrics to. The song was called "Hey, You! Get Off of McCloud" about the TV detective show "McCloud". The guitar and beat sounded more like "Honky Tonk Women" than "Get Off of My Cloud"

Notes

1. ^ Unterberger, Richie. The Rolling Stones "Get Off My Cloud". allmusic. 2007 (accessed 15 June 2007).
2. ^ Greenfield, Robert. "Keith Richards – Interview". Rolling Stone (magazine) August 19, 1971.
3. ^ "Jagger Remembers". Rolling Stone. Dec 14, 1995 (accessed 12 June 2007).

External links

• Complete Official Lyrics