Song Name: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Artist: DEVO (cover song)
Appears On: Satisfaction b/w Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin'), Be Stiff EP, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!, E-Z Listening, Now It Can Be Told, Hardcore DEVO Volume 1, Greatest Hits, Greatest Misses, DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years , Best Of DEVO Vol. 1, Live In Central Park, DEVO Live 1980, Hot Potatoes, Pioneers Who Got Scalped, The Essentials, Whip It And Other Hits, this is the DEVO box, Live at Max's Kansas City - November 15, 1977
Year: 1976
Performed: [1] 1976-1980, 1982 (once), 1988-2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021-present setlist.fm stats
Run Time: 2:38 (Album Version)
Writing Credits: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Sung By: Mark Mothersbaugh (lead), Gerald Casale and Bob Mothersbaugh (backing)
Alternate Versions: Hardcore (Live) Version, "Booji Boy" (Records) Version, E-Z Listening Version, TechnoDEVO Version
Demo Versions: None known
Song Connections: Booji's Beautiful World (uses riff from original version)
Trivia / Inf[]
- Developed during a jam session in DEVO's Akron, Ohio bunker studio, the song began as a cover of "Paint it Black", but the lyrics to Satisfaction worked better
- While the lyrics are the same, the music was so drastically different as to require approval by Mick Jagger before Warner Brothers would release the track on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!. Jagger reportedly enjoyed the performance
- In live concerts, Mark typically changes some lyrics of the song: "How white my shirts could be" becomes "How wide my shit could be", and "girly action" becomes "girl with suction"
- Early versions of Satisfaction (pre-1977) featured a much slower tempo performance than the album version
- At least one pressing of the Satisfaction single swaps the song credits, and attributes Satisfaction to Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald V. Casale, and Gary Jackett
- The EZ-Listening Version of Satisfaction uses the guitar riff from the original version, the only Devo version to do so
Onstage Behavior:
- Live performances feature stage choreography similar to the music video.
- Mark repeats "baby baby" more live. Jerry said the most Mark got up to was 32, at a 1977 performance. [2]
Lyrics: (transcription of album / video version)
I can't get no satisfaction I can't get me no satisfaction And I try and I try and I try, t-t-t-try, try, try I can't no, I can't get me no
When I'm riding in my car And a man comes on the radio He's tellin' me more and more About some useless information Supposed to fire my imagination
I can't get no No, no, no Hey, hey, hey That's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction I can't get me no girl reaction And I try and I try and I try, t-t-t-try, try, try I can't no, I can't get me no
When I'm watchin' my TV And a man comes on to tell me How white my shirts could be But he can't be a man 'cause he does not smoke The same cigarettes as me
I can't get no No, no, no Hey, hey, hey That's what I say
And when I'm flying 'round the world And I'm doin' this and I'm tryin' to do that And I'm trying to make some girl Who tells me Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby Baby, baby Better come back later next week Can't you see I'm on a losing streak?
I can't get no No, no, no Hey, hey, hey That's what I say
I can't get no (satisfaction) I can't get me no (satisfaction) I can't get no (satisfaction) I can't get me no (satisfaction) A-no, no, no, I can't get no (satisfaction) A-no, no, no, I can't get me no (satisfaction) A-no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no (satisfaction) A-n-n-n-n-n-n-no, no (satisfaction) A-n-n-n-n-n-n-no, no (satisfaction) A-n-n-no, I can't get me no (satisfaction) Well, I can't get no (satisfaction)
References
- ↑ DEVO Live Guide. Website keyword search for "satisfaction".
- ↑ Reddit. Gerald Casale's answer to chatroom question. (25 June 2013).
External Links
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - (album version releases) MusicBrainz
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - (overview) AllMusic
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