Music / Voodoo Lounge

You got me rocking.

Voodoo Lounge is the twentieth studio album (twenty-second American album) by The Rolling Stones, released in 1994. It is their first album without long-time bassist Bill Wyman, who chose to leave the band at the start of the previous year. It is also their first album with his replacement Darryl Jones, although Jones is not an official member of The Rolling Stones. Also, it's their first album produced by Don Was, who would become their regular producer. Was gave this album a retro sound, which pleased critics and the fan-base, but not Mick Jagger.

Upon release, it was a major success and hit number one in the UK (the first time since Emotional Rescue in 1980), and number two in the US. Hits and fan favourites include "Love Is Strong", "You Got Me Rocking" (a late-period Stones concert staple), "Sparks Will Fly" and "Out Of Tears".

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Tracklist:

1. "Love Is Strong" (3:46)
2. "You Got Me Rocking" (3:34)
3. "Sparks Will Fly" (3:14)
4. "The Worst" (2:24)
5. "New Faces" (2:50)
6. "Moon Is Up" (3:41)
7. "Out Of Tears" (5:25)
8. "I Go Wild" (4:19)
9. "Brand New Car" (4:13)
10. "Sweethearts Together" (4:46)
11. "Suck On The Jugular" (4:26)
12. "Blinded By Rainbows" (4:33)
13. "Baby Break It Down" (4:07)
14. "Thru And Thru" (5:59)
15. "Mean Disposition" (4:09)

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Principal Members:

• Mick Jagger - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, maracas, castanets
• Keith Richards - guitar, backing and lead vocals, piano, tambourine
• Charlie Watts - drums, tambourine
• Ronnie Wood - guitar, vocals

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You Got Me Troping:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: "I Go Wild"
  And if you'd only stay away
  From femme fatales and dirty bitches
  And daylight drabs and night time witches
• Alliterative Title: "Thru and Thru"
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In the music video of "Love Is Strong", directed by David Fincher, the band appear as giants.
• Break-Up Song:
  • "New Faces"
  My heart is breaking is two
  Well, well, he'll be rotting in hell
  For playing the devil with you
  • "Moon Is Up"
  Ooh babe, won't you listen to me?
  We are worlds apart, you see
  Where are you now?
  Crying out loud?
  Where did you go?
  When I needed you
• Car Song: "Brand New Car"
  Jack her up baby, go on, open the hood
  I want to check if her oil smells good
• Deliberately Monochrome: The black-and-white music video of "Love Is Strong".
• Dem Bones: Inside the booklet and on the cover of the single "You Got Me Rocking" Satan is depicted with a Slasher Smile in the presence of card playing skeletons: [1]◊ The image is extracted from mid 19th century French diorama sculptures. [2]
• Double Entendre: "Brand New Car", where Jagger's car is a metaphor for a woman.
  Give her some stick
  Push her too far
  Right to the brink
  Hear the motor running
  Yeah, she's right in sink
  Tell me if she's thirsty
  Would she like a drink?
  And I'm stopping at this bar
  Slinky like a panther
  You can hear her purr
  Touch her on the seat
  Go on, feel the fur
• Femme Fatale: "I Go Wild"
  And the doctors says you'll be okay
  And if you'd only stay away'
  From femme fatales and dirty bitches
• Intercourse with You:
  • "Love Is Strong", a "lust at first sight" song.
  I looked for you in seedy bars
  What are you scared of, baby?
  • "Suck On The Jugular"
  Don't feel no shame
  I love men to be men
  And women women
  On special occasions
  Diving and dipping
  All get together and feel alright
  All get together and fuck all night
  • "Brand New Car", see Double Entendre above.
• Made a Slave: "I Go Wild"
  You whipped me I'm hurting
  Abused me for certain
  And slavery should not exist
• Men Don't Cry: "Out Of Tears"
  I won't cry when you say goodbye
  I'm out of tears
  I won't die when you wave goodbye
  I'm out of tears, yes I am
  I won't cry, I swear my eyes are dry
  I'm out of tears
• New Sound Album: Although this album does go back to it's roots (yet again), the sound is still clearly modern and of the 90's. Although not to the extent that Bridges To Babylon is.
• Obsession Song: "I Go Wild"
  I go wild when you're in my face
  I go wild when I taste your taste
  I go wild and I go insane
• Precision C-Strike: "I Go Wild"
  And politicians' garish wives, With alcoholic cunts like knives.
• Protest Song: "Blinded By Rainbows" is a critique of war and terrorism, especially religiously motivated violence.
  Do you fear the final hour?
  Do you kneel before the cross?
  You're blinded by rainbows
  (...) Do you see the light?
  Is the end in sight?
  Enter paradise?
  I doubt it
• Sanity Slippage Song: "I Go Wild"
  I go wild when you're in my face
  I go wild when I taste your taste
  I go wild and I go insane
  I get sick—somebody stop this pain
  You left me I'm brain-dead
  I'm feeling nothing strapped to my bed
  On life support tubes in my nose
  Tubes in my arms shot full of holes
  I go wild act like a goat
  And I get sick, lumps in my throat
  I go wild
  I go wild
  I go crazy, I go insane
  I get sick somebody stop this pain
• Self-Deprecation: "The Worst"
  Well I said from the first
  I am the worst kind of guy for you to be around
• Shout-Out:
  • The title of the album was named after Voodoo, a cat Keith Richards had at the time, and the lounge which Voodoo stayed at.
  • "Mean Disposition" references Davy Crockett
  I'm going to have stand my ground
  Like Crockett at the Alamo
  • "You Got Me Rocking" was used in the soundtrack for the film The Replacements (2000).
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: "Sweethearts Together"
  Everyone so cynical
  And says that love won't last
  Think about your future
  Stop living in the past
  Time's not standing still
  So stop looking through those tinted glasses
• Special Guest: Soul legend Bobby Womack provides backing vocals on this album.
• Step Up to the Microphone: Keith Richards sings lead vocals on "The Worst" and "Thru And Thru".
• Unrequited Love: "Thru And Thru"
  I only found out yesterday
  I heard it on the news
  What I heard really pissed me off
  Cause now I got those fucking blues
  I got those awesome blues
  Baby, I got those nothing blues
  Any minute, any hour
  I'm waiting on a call from you
  And you know this heart is constant
• War Is Hell: "Blinded By Rainbows"
  Did you ever feel the blast
  As the semtex bomb goes off?
  Do you ever hear the screams
  As the limbs are all torn off?
  Did you ever kiss the child
  Who just saw his father shot?
  Do you ever shed a tear
  As the war drags on and on?
• Writer's Block: "You Got Me Rocking"
  I was a writer, can't write another book

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