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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Composer: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards

Grateful Dead

No Grateful Dead recordings.

Rolling Stones

no info Single, Rolling Stones, 1965
no info Out Of Our Heads, Rolling Stones, 1965
no info Big Hits Vol 1 (High Tide and Green Grass), Rolling Stones, 1966
no info Got Live If You Want It, Rolling Stones, 1966
no info Gimme Shelter Soundtrack, Rolling Stones, 1970
info Hot Rocks: 1964-1971, Rolling Stones, 1972
no info Milestones, Rolling Stones, 1972
no info Rolled Gold, Rolling Stones, 1975
no info Get Stoned, Rolling Stones, 1977
no info Singles Collection, Rolling Stones, 1980
no info Solid Rock, Rolling Stones, 1980
no info Still Life (American Concert 1981), Rolling Stones, 1982
no info Story Of The Stones, Rolling Stones, 1982
no info The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: The London Years, Rolling Stones, 1989
no info Flashpoint, Rolling Stones, 1991
no info Flashpoint plus Collectibles, Rolling Stones, 1991
info Forty Licks, Rolling Stones, 2002

Others

This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

no info Drums á Go-Go, Sandy Nelson, 1965
no info Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, Otis Redding , 1965
no info Single, Otis Redding, 1966
no info Just Like Us!, Paul Revere and The Raiders, 1966
no info Makin' Waves, George Semper, 1966
no info Memphis Gold, Various Artists (Otis Redding), 1966
no info Run Baby Run, Newbeats, 1966
no info Aretha Arrives, Aretha Franklin, 1967
no info Otis Redding Live in Europe, Otis Redding, 1967
no info History of Otis Redding, Otis Redding, 1967
no info Sax and the Single Girl, Charlie Chalmers, 1967
no info James Brown Show, James Brown, 1967
no info Otis Redding in Person at the Whiskey a Go-Go, Otis Redding, 1968
no info Outsideinside, Blue Cheer, 1968
info Soul Party, Paul Nero, 1968
no info Shades of Rock, The Shadows, 1970
no info The Ventures Superpak, The Ventures, 1971
no info The Best of Otis Redding, Otis Redding, 1972
no info Bubblerock, 1974
no info The Legendary Otis Redding: His Greatest Recordings, Otis Redding, 1975
no info Satisfaction Soundtrack, Various Artists (Justine Bateman and Mystery), 1988
no info The Otis Redding Story, Otis Redding, 1989
info Jagger/Richards Songbook, Various Artists (Otis Redding), 1991
no info The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968, Various Artists (Otis Redding), 1991
no info Shadow Music/Shades of Rock, The Shadows, 1992
no info Monterey International Pop Festival Box Set, Various Artists (Otis Redding), 1992
info Psychotic Reunion Live!, The Count Five, 1993

info Live!: Standing Room Only, Outcasts, 1993
info Trios, Rob Wasserman, 1994
info End of the Beginning: The Best of Eddie & the Hot Rods, Eddie & the Hot Rods, 1994
no info Plays the Music of the Rolling Stones, London Symphony Orchestra, 1994
info Paint It Blue: Songs of the Rolling Stones, Various Artists (Junior Wells), 1997
info Ultimate Collection, Tom Jones, 1997
no info Plays the Rolling Stones, Innovations, 1998
info Cover You: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones, Various Artists (Otis Redding), 1998
info This Ain't No Tribute: Blues Cube, Various Artists (Junior Wells), 1999
no info As Years Go By, Various Artists (Bad Reaction), 1999
no info Pickin' on the Rolling Stones, Various Artists, 2000
no info The Reggae Rocks: The Tide Is High - A Tribute to Rock 'N' Roll, Various Artists (The Heptones), 2001
info Paint It Black: A Reggae Tribute to the Rolling Stones, Various Artists (The Heptones), 2002
no info Sticky Bhangra: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones, Opium Jukebox, 2002
info Get Your Rocks Off, Eddie & the Hot Rods, 2002
info A Tribute to the Rolling Stones, Various Artists (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells), 2002
info All Blues'd Up: Songs of the Rolling Stones, Various Artists (Junior Wells), 2003
no info Highway 60's 70's Blues Revisited, Various Artists (Junior Wells), 2003
info Trilogy, Rob Wasserman, 2004
info The Rolling Stones Project, Tim Ries, 2005
info Wild Horses: A Rock and Roll Tribute to the Rolling Stones, Various Artists (Devo), 2005

Notes

First recorded by the Rolling Stones, for the Out Of Our Heads LP, first at the Chess Studios, Chicago, then at RCA Studios in Hollywood, in May 1965. It became the Stones first US No. 1 and their 4th No. 1 in UK. Subsequent recordings by the Stones include the Sept. 23rd 1966 live recording at the Royal Albert Hall, London used on Got Live If You Want It.

Keith Richards has said that the opening riff of Satisfaction was derived from Martha and The Vandellas version of Dancing In The Street. Another possible source of inspiration is the Chuck Berry song Thirty Days which includes the line, "I can't get no satisfaction from the judge."

Richards recalled the initial creation of the main riff, in Florida in 1965, as follows,

I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a cassette player next to the bed and an acoustic guitar. I pushed record and hit that riff for about a minute and a half, two minutes. Then I fell back to sleep.
The phrase "trying to make some girl" was bleeped when the song was performed on the Ed Sullivan show.