"You Got Me Rocking" | ||||
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Single by the Rolling Stones | ||||
from the album Voodoo Lounge | ||||
B-side | "Jump on Top of Me" | |||
Released | 26 September 1994 | |||
Length | 3:36 | |||
Label | Rolling Stones, Virgin | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
Producer(s) | Don Was, the Glimmer Twins | |||
The Rolling Stones singles chronology | ||||
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"You Got Me Rocking" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1994 album, Voodoo Lounge. The song was released as a single in the UK in September 1994, where it reached No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also released as a single in the United States, reaching number 13 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in 1995. A recording from the 1997–1998 Bridges to Babylon Tour opened the 1998 live album No Security. It was also included on the Stones` 2002 career retrospective, Forty Licks.
"You Got Me Rocking" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1994 album, Voodoo Lounge. The song was released as a single in the UK in September 1994, where it reached No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also released as a single in the United States, reaching number 13 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in 1995. A recording from the 1997–1998 Bridges to Babylon Tour opened the 1998 live album No Security. It was also included on the Stones` 2002 career retrospective, Forty Licks.
Begun early in 1993, "You Got Me Rocking" was initially a blues flavoured number; bootlegs have Jagger and Richards working the song as a slower, blues flavoured ramble, with Jagger shouting the hook "you got me rocking". Changed to a straightforward rocker in the vein of "Start Me Up", the song quickly evolved as Richards made the transition from piano to guitar. The lyrics moved to a more upbeat tone, as singer Mick Jagger presents redemption from a series of career ending instances of various professionals:
I was a hooker losing her looks; I was a writer can`t write another book;
I was all dried up dying to get wet; I was a tycoon drowning in debt.
The lyrics can be interpreted as an answer to the Rolling Stones` critics, who often deride the band for their advancing age. Recording on "You Got Me Rocking" lasted from mid-summer to early winter 1993, when final touches were put on.
"You Got Me Rocking" is notable as one of the few latter-day songs from the band`s career to remain on their setlist long after being released. The song was performed some 50 times during the 2005–2006 A Bigger Bang Tour.
The B-side is the little-known "Jump on Top of Me", which also appears on the soundtrack to Prêt-? -Porter. "You Got Me Rocking" appeared on the soundtrack to The Replacements in 2000.
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The Rolling Stones
Additional Performers
Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA)[1] | 64 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[2] | 29 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[3] | 35 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[4] | 39 |
UK Singles (OCC)[5] | 23 |
UK Dance (Music Week)[6] | 6 |
UK Club Chart (Music Week)[7] | 4 |
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[8] | 13 |
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[9] | 2 |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref(s). |
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United Kingdom | 26 September 1994 |
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Japan | 2 November 1994 |
| [11][12] |
"You Got Me Rocking" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1994 album, Voodoo Lounge. The song was released as a single in the UK in September 1994, where it reached No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also released as a single in the United States, reaching number 13 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in 1995. A recording from the 1997–1998 Bridges to Babylon Tour opened the 1998 live album No Security. It was also included on the Stones` 2002 career retrospective, Forty Licks.
Begun early in 1993, "You Got Me Rocking" was initially a blues flavoured number; bootlegs have Jagger and Richards working the song as a slower, blues flavoured ramble, with Jagger shouting the hook "you got me rocking". Changed to a straightforward rocker in the vein of "Start Me Up", the song quickly evolved as Richards made the transition from piano to guitar. The lyrics moved to a more upbeat tone, as singer Mick Jagger presents redemption from a series of career ending instances of various professionals:
I was a hooker losing her looks; I was a writer can`t write another book;
I was all dried up dying to get wet; I was a tycoon drowning in debt.
The lyrics can be interpreted as an answer to the Rolling Stones` critics, who often deride the band for their advancing age. Recording on "You Got Me Rocking" lasted from mid-summer to early winter 1993, when final touches were put on.
"You Got Me Rocking" is notable as one of the few latter-day songs from the band`s career to remain on their setlist long after being released. The song was performed some 50 times during the 2005–2006 A Bigger Bang Tour.
The B-side is the little-known "Jump on Top of Me", which also appears on the soundtrack to Prêt-? -Porter. "You Got Me Rocking" appeared on the soundtrack to The Replacements in 2000.
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The Rolling Stones
Additional Performers
Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA)[1] | 64 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[2] | 29 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[3] | 35 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[4] | 39 |
UK Singles (OCC)[5] | 23 |
UK Dance (Music Week)[6] | 6 |
UK Club Chart (Music Week)[7] | 4 |
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[8] | 13 |
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[9] | 2 |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref(s). |
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United Kingdom | 26 September 1994 |
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| [10] |
Japan | 2 November 1994 |
| [11][12] |