Jim is the illustrious host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says:
Our prompt for this week is Avenue/Boulevard/Drive/Lane/Road/Street.
Here are the “rules”:
- Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not.
- Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.
- Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
- Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
- Ping back to this post will eventually work, as long as you are being patient, but you can also place your link in the comments if you don’t like to wait.
- Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
- Feel free to suggest future prompts.
- Have fun and enjoy the music.
“Street Fighting Man” is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Called the band’s “most political song,” Rolling Stone ranked the song number 301 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song opens with a strummed acoustic guitar riff. In his review, Richie Unterberger says of the song, “[I]t’s a great track, gripping the listener immediately with its sudden, springy guitar chords and thundering, offbeat drums. That unsettling, urgent guitar rhythm is the mainstay of the verses. Mick Jagger’s typically half-buried lyrics seem at casual listening like a call to revolution.”
The song was released within a week of the violent confrontations between the police and anti-Vietnam War protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Worried about the possibility of the song inciting further violence, Chicago radio stations refused to play the song. This was much to the delight of Mick Jagger, who stated: “I’m rather pleased to hear they have banned (the song). The last time they banned one of our records in America, it sold a million.” Jagger said he was told they thought the record was subversive, to which he snapped: “Of course it’s subversive! It’s stupid to think you can start a revolution with a record. I wish you could.”
Ev’rywhere I hear the sound
Of marching charging feet, boy
‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right
For fighting in the street, boy
Well now, what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock n’ roll band?
‘Cause in sleepy London town
There’s just no place for a street fighting man, no
Hey think the time is right
For a palace revolution
But where I live the game
To play is compromise solution
Well now, what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock n’ roll band?
‘Cause in sleepy London town
There’s just no place for a street fighting man, no. Get down.
Hey so my name is called Disturbance
I’ll shout and scream
I’ll kill the king, I’ll rail at all his servants
Well, what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock n’ roll band?
‘Cause in sleepy London town
There’s just no place for a street fighting man, no
Get down
Songwriters: Keith Richards / Mick Jagger
Tao Talk 
Great choice
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Thanks!
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Way to “Get Down” with this song Li.
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Thanks Jim, I came upon it looking through Pearl Jam’s song list, as they did it as a cover somewhere along the way. The Stones knock this song out of the park.
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Love it!! I almost went with the Stones again too 🙂💕
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Glad you like it, Christine.
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Great pick. Thanks for starting us off this morning.
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Glad you like it, thanks J!
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Love the Stones and just look at those young lads in that photo 💜
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I know, they were so young and full of ideas. Impressive the music made, starting so young.
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I have always been a fan of theirs always , I grew up in the same part of Ealing as they did 💜
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That is so cool, Willow. Did you ever see them, like if they came to visit family/friends?
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I could of past them many a time but I have no recognition of this happening but I did see them in the flesh on Top of the Pops 💜💜
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<3
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Another fave :)
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Wow I haven’t heard that song in years! I had no idea what it was about, so thanks for the commentary about it. I like the video a lot! :)
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Glad you liked it, Barbara :)
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Love this song. The guitar was recorded on a cassette player. Great sound they got.
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How/why did they do it that way, do you know? I love the sound of the guitar in this song.
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Keith recorded Jumping Jack Flash on cassette to…his part. Because with those old cassette players you could record with the volume up and…get an effect called “overdrive” and it was natural distortion…real cool sound.
Jumping Jack Flash was an acoustic not electric. At least that is what he said in his book.
Modern cassette recorders have limiters and you cannot do that.
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Fascinating!
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I’m heading for a shower then a movie. Was out mowing for hours again today. The yard looks beeyootiful! Have a wonderful evening of restful slumber.
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You also!
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