(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Rolling Stones
B-side
Released
  • 4 June 1965 (US)
  • 20 August 1965 (UK)
Recorded12 May 1965
StudioRCA (Hollywood, California)
Genre
Length3:45
Label
Songwriter(s)Jagger–Richards
Producer(s)Andrew Loog Oldham
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"The Last Time"
(1965)
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
(1965)
"Get Off of My Cloud"
(1965)
Audio sample

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' songwriting partnership, it features a guitar riff by Richards that opens and drives the song. The riff is widely considered one of the greatest hooks of all time. The song's lyrics refer to sexual frustration and commercialism.

The song was first released as a single in the United States in June 1965 and was also featured on the American version of the Rolling Stones' fourth studio album, Out of Our Heads, released that July. "Satisfaction" was a hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially was played only on pirate radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive.[3] It later became the Rolling Stones' fourth number one in the United Kingdom.

It is one of the world's most popular songs, and was No. 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2021. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. The song was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006, the first and so far only Rolling Stones recording to be included in the Registry.

  1. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. ^ Schultze, Quentin James (1991). Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 150. ISBN 0802805302.
  3. ^ Nuzum, Eric (2009). Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-197673-5.