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Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
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justin4kick
(The Netherlands)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 14:04
 
 jackiewelsh wrote:
I'm saving my '10' for Merry Clayton's version. she is the female backup vocalist on this. didn't think it could ever get better than this version...it's mind blowing.
 
 

You're absolutely right. Saw a video of a live performance of Mick Jagger and Fergie (Black Eyed Peas). She didn't even come close.

jackiewelsh
(ATX)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 14:01
 
I'm saving my '10' for Merry Clayton's version. she is the female backup vocalist on this. didn't think it could ever get better than this version...it's mind blowing.
 
justin4kick
(The Netherlands)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 14:00
 
Absolutely brilliant. Has lost none of it's power in 44 years time!

ck12345
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 13:58
 
One of the 10 best ever recorded

oneyet
Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 02:03
 
I really like the cover, but the music..........

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 20:00
 

Everybody in my church loves this classic...
 

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 15:13
 
 stratmen wrote:
This is one of the Stones' best songs. Demonstrates why they're the best rock and roll band ever!
 
Demonstrates why they were the best rock and roll band ever when they were making rock and roll like this, not their post-1980 schlock and tripe. 

stratmen
Posted: Feb 17, 2013 - 14:38
 
This is one of the Stones' best songs. Demonstrates why they're the best rock and roll band ever!

MilSF1
(Arkadelphia, AR)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 07:29
 
 Pedro1874 wrote:
that she had a miscarriage after recording GS, "some hypothesize this was due to the strain associated with reaching such high notes whilst singing".
 
Ug, this is why I hate Wikipedia at times. Sorry, but anyone who thinks that knows nothing about singing or anatomy.

DanFHiggins
(Mid Maryland)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 07:28
 
 skipperadam wrote:
Amazing how relevent a 40 year old protest song can be.
 

Yes it is.

Solid TEN

Rocking at 13 and 56. .

Sounds like an anthem then and now. 

War, children, it's just a shot away



mauguima
(sewers)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 07:25
 
That girl has a voice!

skipperadam
Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 11:56
 
Amazing how relevent a 40 year old protest song can be.

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 14:40
 
 martinc wrote:
1969 was a rocking year!
 



That it was. This song is intense.

Desimia
(Buenvenidos a Me-ah-mi)
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 14:16
 
 JHZ wrote:
Two unquestionable 10 in a row (Marvin Gay - Inner City Blues, before this one)!!!!
 
Right on! 

JHZ
(between Clark and Hilldale)
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 14:15
 
Two unquestionable 10 in a row (Marvin Gay - Inner City Blues, before this one)!!!!

Pedro1874
(Newton-le-Willows, England)
Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 03:38
 
A 10 for me ever since the moment I first heard it on its release.  I was always fascinated with Merry Clayton and managed to get a front row table at Rainbow and Stars in NYC, (for a $20 tip!), when I was visiting in 1996.  She was singing with Marianne Faithfull and Darlene Love in a wonderful tribute to Pop music.  She really enjoyed herself in the show and was quoted as saying ""I love that room," she said of Rainbow and Stars, "because you can see people's faces, and you can see if they're loving it or if they're hating it or if they're not sure. I make a mental note of everybody who's sitting in front of me and to the side of me at every show, and I remember their faces. I love that intimacy." Wow!   Just checking MC on Wiki and found that her brother is Sam Clayton of Little Feat and that she had a miscarriage after recording GS, "some hypothesize this was due to the strain associated with reaching such high notes whilst singing".

Stingray
Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 06:04
 
 dongus wrote:

don't see any anti-war in here - though rated 10
 
Any rock song is anti-war!

lawman
(Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 06:02
 
"Dedicated to the Eastern seaboard of the United States of America." ?

Stingray
Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 05:59
 
12

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 18:41
 
 romeotuma wrote:

We be dancing...  love it...

 

Romeo, seriously, this is really nauseating.
We gotta look at the plum-smuggler every time you like a song? {#Wink}
If it's gotta be a shirtless dude, howzabout someone more representative of rock & roll? . . .




(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 18:31
 

We be dancing...  love it...

 

midreaming
Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 18:43
 
smokin backup vocals. this song shreds every time 

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 06:15
 
This was the very first LP I ever owned. Got it and Abbey Road for my birthday from my aunt. Needless to say, they got played a LOT.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 26, 2012 - 20:24
 
 ScottN wrote:
We miss you, Ann.
 
Yeah, man...  I miss her so much...

 

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 07:12
 
My fave Stones track.

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 10:08
 
1969 was a rocking year!

MsJudi
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 15:39
 
 ScottN wrote:
We miss you, Ann.
 
What Scott said. {#Sorry}

ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.)
Posted: May 24, 2012 - 13:58
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Pulling this out of the everywhere and into the here, because the story about Merry Clayton is just priceless.  Somehow, the Stones just get better with age. I'm pretty sure Keith has embalming fluid in his veins and a really bad makeup person doing his hair and face, but still... I love this band.  I first heard "Gimme Shelter" in a radio station in Elko, Nevada. I was a freshman in high school (or so), and a music-groupie. I called the station to request an Elton John song, and the DJ actually played it and mentioned my name. So - I had to go meet the guy. His name was Tim Blissenbach, and as I sat on the floor in the studio where he was broadcasting, he lit candles and a fattie, and proceeded to drop the needle on "Gimme Shelter" with the volume turned up. It was absolutely cosmic. And after I got home, I promised myself I'd buy that album, and I did.  I still have it. The grooves are white, but the vinyl's playable.  "Gimme Shelter" will always be one of my favorite songs by the Stones.

  We miss you, Ann.



gillespp
(Portland, OR)
Posted: May 24, 2012 - 13:56
 
 arcs_n_sparks wrote:
Still the best song ever recorded.
 
I think you just may be right.

arcs_n_sparks
Posted: May 12, 2012 - 20:36
 
Still the best song ever recorded.

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 14:57
 
Ah, hell yes!

arcs_n_sparks
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 - 20:26
 
Best song ever recorded.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 - 20:24
 

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

bobzane
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 15:02
 
 Merry Clayton - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Clayton

 wlpendley wrote:
Who is the female vocalist who solos in the middle of this song?  She should get star billing.

 



bobzane
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 15:01
 
still gives me goose bumps

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Mar 10, 2012 - 11:54
 
 capandjudy wrote:


No argument here. For a band with limited playing skills, they really knocked this one out of the park!
 
Limited playing skills? Charlie Watts is one of the best drummers alive, and Keef? There are legions of guitar players that wish they had his sense of rhythm and riff sensibilities. He's no Segovia, but it's a different flavor ya know ?

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 10:12
 
 ozzie1313 wrote:
Arguably the best rock-and-roll song ever.
 



No argument here. For a band with limited playing skills, they really knocked this one out of the park!

paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 09:36
 
 gillespp wrote:
I gotta go reduce ALL my 10s except this one down to 9; since we can't 11, this one has to stand above all.
 
As much as I love this song, and even though I have the same sentiment in a sense, it's not for GS. Not quite. Nothing to be taken away from GS - I have a difficult time ranking when it comes to the top but GS would be in my top 10 somewhere, possibly even my top 5. GS has been knocking me flat every time I hear it (since the very first one, in fact) for a long damn time now.

PS: Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" is the one that I have to give my '11' to - or to demote all other 10's for if I'm not allowed an '11'. And I just decided this yesterday after pondering it for the past few months (as noted above, this all-time ranking doesn't come easily to me; it's taken me nearly 44 years to make that call). But Voodoo Chile just reaches down in there and gets all the hurt, pain, unrequitedness, whatever that central feeling is - for me - and grabs it by the throat, then yanks it up and out in full view. Kind of a primal wedgie...



paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 09:30
 
Still a 10 for me. Always will consider it one of the great, truely inspired moments in modern music.....

ozzie1313
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 09:27
 
Arguably the best rock-and-roll song ever.

ziakut
(Unmoon)
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 18:41
 
 Byronape wrote:
I never really bought into the Rolling Stones phenomenon really.  They were something drastically different in an era that needed it, but that does not mean that it works for me.  

I keep the Stones in the same category I keep the Grateful Dead and Frank Zappa.  I can logically understand the appeal, I just don't feel it. 
 
Oh yeah...this is how I feel totally. Glad to read there's someone in my pool.

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 18:38
 
 gillespp wrote:
I gotta go reduce ALL my 10s except this one down to 9; since we can't 11, this one has to stand above all.
 
I'll second that


gillespp
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 15:21
 
I gotta go reduce ALL my 10s except this one down to 9; since we can't 11, this one has to stand above all.

ckcotton
(Adding snarky comments since 2007)
Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 15:20
 
Just one of those songs that never ever seems to get old.

jah_blessed
(Netherlands)
Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 23:48
 
Also one of the best songs to dance to!


Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 05:30
 
Oh man.  I know I said it a couple of pages ago, but Merry's voice just gives me goosebumps every time.

jbjnr
(Switzerland)
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 05:25
 
Considered by many to be one of the greatest rock songs in history -who are we to disagree?
 
And Sister's of Mercy did a great cover of it too. Utterly miserable


finoufk
(Bordeaux - france)
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 05:23
 
 burdell wrote:
The most over-rated band of all time. I guess there's always one of us contrarians in every bunch.
 

I agree. So painfull to my ears !  almost all of what the RS made is muzak to my ears. must be mick's voice effect ?

ScottN
(At The Bash in Bhutan)
Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 13:44
 
 dionysius wrote:
The dread, the apocalypse of the late sixties encapsulated in one stupendous track on one stupendous record album (Let It Bleed, by the way—everyone needs to own it!). I stand—or sit—in slackjawed amazement that never grows old or stale, when it plays on radio or on my stereo. The Stones have never surpassed this song, though they may have equalled it from time to time in the late sixties or early seventies. Shivers down my spine....
Every now and then I bump this eloquent comment from years ago . Thanks Dionysius. 



unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 13:25
 
 burdell wrote:
The most over-rated band of all time. I guess there's always one of us contrarians in every bunch.
 
Dear George P:  Perhaps you weren't around 'back in the day.'  "If I don't get some shelter ..."  Lots of us geezers and crones hold this one tighly to the heart.