"You Got Me Rocking" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge.
Begun in early in 1993, "You Got Me Rocking" was initially a blues number; bootlegs have Jagger and Richards working the song as a slower, blues flavored ramble, with Jagger shouting the hook- "you got me rocking". Changed to a straight forward rocker in the vein of "Start Me Up", the song quickly evolved into a powerful rock single as Richards made the transition from piano to guitar. The lyrics moved to a more upbeat tone, as singer Mick Jagger presents redemption from a series of career ending instances of various professionals:
| “ | I was a hooker losing her looks; I was a writer can't write another book; I was all dried up dying to get wet; I was a tycoon drowning in debt. |
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The lyrics can be interpreted as an answer to the Rolling Stones critics, who often deride the band for their advancing age. Recording on "You Got Me Rocking" lasted from mid-summer, 1993, to early winter of the same year, where final touches were put on. The song was released as a UK-only single in September, where it registered at number 23.
The B-side is the renowned though little-known "Jump on Top of Me" which is also featured on the soundtrack to Prêt-à-Porter. "You Got Me Rocking" appeared on the soundtrack to The Replacements in 2000.
"You Got Me Rocking" is notable as it remains one of the Stones most enduring live songs, a rarity for a late album song. The song was performed some fifty times during the 2005-2006 A Bigger Bang Tour.
A recording from the 1997-1998 Bridges to Babylon Tour opened the 1999 live album No Security. It was also included on the Stones' 2002 career retrospective, Forty Licks.
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Famous quotes containing the word rocking:
“Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven’t fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)