You Can't Always Get What You Want (track)
by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1969
From the album Let It Bleed (track #9)
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You Can't Always Get What You Want appears on the following album(s) by The Rolling Stones:
- Let It Bleed (track #9) (this album) (1969)
- Forty Licks (track #6) (compilation) (2002)
- Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (track #19) (compilation) (1971)
- Rolled Gold+: The Very Best Of The Rolling Stones (track #37) (compilation) (2007)
- Flashpoint (track #7) (1991)
- Singles Collection: The London Years (track #50) (compilation) (1989)
- Live Licks (track #4) (2004)
- Love You Live (track #10) (1977)
- Grrr! (track #21) (compilation) (2012)
- Brussels Affair (Live 1973) (track #9) (2011)
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The choirs in this song were AMAZING!
VictorVale 12/28/2018 11:48 | #228188
Mergulho na musicalidade negra!
Maybe a little overrated, but still a classic.
Side two of, let it bleed, started with an epic and ends with one too. Already released, albeit in edit form, as the b-side to, honky tonk women, here it's heard in all it's magnificent glory. It's brilliantly simple and absolutely stunning and that beautiful horn at the start of the track gets me every time. A superb way to end one of the Stones' best albums.
Love Jagger's rendition, the organ parts with the piano in the breaks and the wind at the opening but I just can't stand the choir at the beggining and the end.
Still a great song tho.
I want to like it, but I can't stand hearing those same two chords played over and over again for the full length of this rather lengthy song. It gets on my nerves after about thirty seconds.
eclab 04/12/2014 14:02 | #109088
I think this the greatest Stones track of all. It's a fantastic way to end Let It Bleed, kind of like A Day in the Life on Sgt. Pepper's.
Evandar 05/10/2013 12:15 | #75692
Great songwriting here, but I'm not quite into the execution. Making it yet another example of my uneasy relationship with The Rolling Stones.
Jasonconfused 01/18/2013 03:52 | #61927
A beautifully and upbeat way to close out a masterpiece bluesy album.
You just might find you get what you need.
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