To me, this song is a gem. I always loved it. I love the way the guitars sound, I love the slowdown in the middle of the song, and I love the trumpets. The song is full of energy.
Paint It Black, Have You Seen Your Mother, Let’s Spend The Night Together, and Rocks Off all have that ferocious beginning, the quiet break in the middle, and that subsequent musical crescendo of what one music critic then called “ turn around violence “ that for me defines The Rolling Stones. And confirms their status as the greatest r’n’r band. Ever.
The grunge! The echo! The bass! Horns! The quiet mid section! Harmonies! And let's not forget the lyrics! One of their fastest most propulsive tracks where you always wondered how they made those sounds,with what kind of gear etc. And,they played it live. But everytime I hear the song,I wish I was a fly on the wall in the studio.
Lest we forget, we, the listeners in '66, were still expanding our tastebuds, and this is not particularly catchy - which got songs airplay and exposure.
It's remarkable how both the musical press and leading recording artists in Britain were totally consumed by commercial criteria in evaluating new records. Standards were bad in the States, but this was even worse. The music itself seems not to have been discussed, just sales potential.
When this came out, I bought it but thought it to be one of the Stones' lesser efforts. Not bad, but just not great either. And the charts, with Jim Reeves #1 for weeks says more about the public's taste at the time than it does about the song itself. It faired even more poorly here in the US, but I would be curious to see what the charts ranked higher. With no FM radio, deejays often made or broke a record a record with the amount of airplay given a song.
Me too, great song! And you can't be on the number 1 spot all the time...? People probably expected something like Paint it Black or Satisfaction all over again but you don't want to write or hear the same song over and over.. It was time for a different kind of tune, and maybe it was Jim Reeves who kept them off the number 1 spot, being 2nd ain't too bad neither, some people do anything to be 2nd...!
Have You Seen Your Mother was number 2 because like Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields which reached number 2 also was ahead of its time. The Stones teenie bopper fans were not ready for innovation. The Rolling Stones like The Beatles were starting to embrace the emerging counter culture.
Penny Lane/Strawberry Field's would have made number 1, but it was released as a double A side, and the sales of each side were counted separately rather than cumulatively. Silly mistake really.
So funny there was all that controversy about a Stones record missing the #1 spot… as a 16 year old fan at the time it was released I thought it was a fantastic song… and 56 years on, it still is!
It seems like they were ALWAYS hounded with things like that! I've seen really old interviews from about '64 or '65 where they are asked "How much longer can this go on?". Geez!
Living in Paris no matter with the obsession of "number one or two or ten" I escape from school just to bought their new records and this song drive me crazy and still does.
The irony of all of this is how remarkable Have You Seen Your Mother has aged. It sounds like it was literally shot out of a canon, resulting in 2 and a half minutes of glorious fuzzed-out, frenetic, almost-off-the-rails mayhem.
I've always liked it but it's really grown on me over the years. Maybe one day it will be my favorite Stones song, but they have so many great ones, that there a lot to choose from.
I've also seen it described as "The Year Pop Went Flat", and in Britain at least (can't speak for America) there was a grain of truth in that. The enormous surge of creative vigour of 1963-65 - generated by the Beatles/Merseybeat phenomenon, closely followed by the R'n'B boom led by the Stones - had spent itself. Of course, there was still a lot of good stuff around: the Kinks really found themselves that year, the Who hit their straps big-time, and Hendrix had just arrived in London. But many great acts lost their edge (Manfred Mann without Paul Jones was only half the band), side-stepped into kiddipop and/or all-round entertainment, or broke up altogether. At the start of that year the Animals were still going strong. By its end you had instead the Troggs and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Tich. Says it all. The British Invasion ended and the leadership swung back to America, about to launch psychedelia and its associated pseudo-profundities.
I agree it was a great year. The Beatles, Stones, and other groups had gone beyond basic rock and roll: Revolver, Paint it Black, Ruby Tuesday. Folk rock advanced to Eight Miles High, Monday, Monday, and the Sounds of Silence. Motown had a great year with You Can’t Hurry Love and Reach Out, I’ll Be There. The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds set the stage for Sergeant Pepper.
My favourite all time Stones song and recording. I first heard it when I was a kid in the late 70s on the 'processed stereo' version of 'Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)'. I loved the whole album but thought that 'Have You Seen Your Mother' was the most daring and downright apocalyptic pop record I'd ever heard. Still do.
I remember reading a Bill Wyman interview in the 70's (I think it was to plug his "Stone Alone" album) and they asked him if there were any Stones songs he didn't like, and this is the one he mentioned.
Pretty high bar when being #2 is seen as a career ender. The song was ahead of it's time. A hard edged. frantic song with heavy metal tinge. Great song.
Great vids and pix!! A lot of the quotes are echoed in '1966: The Year the Decade Exploded' by Jon Savage, a book I heartily recommend to anyone loving this period of music. I think that the Stones' 1st great '66 single '19th Nervous Breakdown' gave what was expected in the protest sense, as did 'Paint it, Black' which was getting quite profound. 'Have You seen Your Mother Baby' (brilliant as it is) was just too out there for a lot of the record buying public. Coincidently, the Yardbirds had the same problem with their third '66 single 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago'. The general record buying public weren't quite ready for psychedelia, but just a few months later...
We got all the Beatles and Stones 45s when they came out in the 60s...And I did hear Have you Seen Your Mother on the AM radio a few times back then, but when I got Dandilion and turned it over, with We Love You..It was another mindblower...I was used to that already as a kid at like 9 yrs old in 1967 especially with Paint It Black, and Tomorrow Never Knows a year earlier, and then Strawberry Fields and She's A Rainbow...My friends older brothers told us what was up with these knew sounds, so we couldn't wait to get old enough to try it a few years later in high school...But they never ever played We Love You on the radio...Still...Even after FM radio got invented by like the late 60s.....They never ever played that..And the fuckin' Beatles were on that we found out a few years later...Fuckin' idiots...frankm63yroldwhitekid
I think We Love You should have been on the radio just because it was a killer mind blowing futuristic bunch of unbelievable music. Like Tomorrow never knows or Revolution Number 9.. BUT then again I was fucked up in high school in the mid 70s. I thought On With The Show, and Please Go Home should have been Hit Singles. LOL
Shapes, and Happenings were brilliant...And Have You Seen Your Mother, and Aftermath were killer..All in 1966...I think at the same time as Rain by The Beatles
I’ve been listening to the Stones since I was 6 ( 1967) and I first knowingly heard this when I was about 11 and it’s always been a favourite of mine. The whole melee of colliding instruments the horns give it an urgency. The lyrics are typical of their head space at the time Status Quo = catastrophe. Love it.
Love how there was a concern that this single--rising only to #2--meant that the Rolling Stones were finished! But a great tune. The idea that it didn't deserve to be number 1 is risible. There have been many, many #1 songs that were rubbish. Have you Seen Your Mother Baby, on the other hand, has so much going for it musically and lyrically. Still, one must admit that Distant Drums by Jim Reeves is clearly a greater tune, or as one might rename it: Have You Heard Your Distant Drums, Baby, relegated to the shadow.
Keith had commented re: the record is that in their haste to release it, it was badly mixed and badly mastered, and another week of work on it would have perfected it. I believe that this shows in the horn section.
I loved the song mostly because much like "Paint it Black" nothing else sounds like it, the only problem I had for years was understanding the lyrics but when I finally learned them , I liked the song even more, its a shame but even Oldies stations wont even play it even though in America it went to # 9.
You know, I've always felt that "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? was badly mixed! It sounds rather thin. I understand Keith Richard's has another mix of the song.
It seems production was an issue on a slew of recordings during this period of 1966-67, including 'Ruby Tuesday', 'Let's Spend the Night Together' and, most especially, 'We Love You'. Awful high and low equalization, certainly not the caliber of a George Martin & Co...
The best song doesn't always make it to number one (Sugar sugar by the Archies?). I was 16 at the time, and I rather enjoyed this tune because it was so different and gave a feeling that the world was not black and white but had shades of grey in between. And wow that raw guitar sound especially at the end.
Sugar Sugar is chick magnet song . Call me a total Pooper but I was at a friend's house at about 17 and his hot sister walked by at their pool in her bikini and stopped and leaned over while the song was playing and said "Brian don't you just love this song " ? Yes yes yes Christy 😍😍❗ Still like it and loved her 😍😍❗
I have always dug "Have You See Your Mother, Baby..." since I first heard it that year. If you stop to think about it the Jagger/Richards team has written more than 350 songs I think. Among those are iconic songs that will probably be around in a thousand years. I really love the old blues and the Stones were big blues fans, too. I'd estimate about 25% of their songs are blues numbers.
I really like this song, which ends with "you take your choice at this time, the brave old world, or the slide into the depths of decline". However, I've always thought that the mix was a bit rushed, almost like a demo. Perhaps it's because of what I once read about Keith saying that the Stones recorded a version that was "fat and fantastic" but the cut that ended up being released was "thin and wasted" - but it's great nevertheless!
How beautiful was Brian. He was absolutely stunning 😍 I love the photoshoot in drag, very tongue in cheek Rock 'n' Roll sense of humour and ahead of it's time. It kind of reminds me of Queen's "I Want to Break Free" video 😂💖 I'm loving these videos. A dream come true for us Rock fans 🎸
I think the Stones pretty much invented glam rock with this photoshoot and then the promo video for Jumping Jack Flash two years later. Flossie Jones would have looked great on the cover of the New York Dolls' debut album.
Word is, while shooting the video, Flossy Jones lifted his skirt and while cameras were filming proceeded to “chicken choke”. Legend has it that Jagger and Richards years after his death would play it to folks and laugh their asses off to say “that Flossy was crazy”
I like it a lot at the time, and thought the cover was hilarious. My older brother used to buy records at the time, I was too young to have any money. I still like it.
I was 19 when it came out, and I thought the black and white pic of them in drag was the funniest thing ever. I immediately loved the song and so did all my friends. I was in college and couldn't give a toss if it was Number One or Number 100. And Aftermath, with Under My Thumb and Goin' Home (first song to last 12 minutes or whatever like it did) was a great album, kind of the Stones' equiv of Rubber Soul.
It's shocking hearing all the bad reviews and publicity surrounding this one--it's one of my top 10 favorite Stones songs. I agree with what people are saying here in that it was probably just slightly ahead of its time, like "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" released a few weeks later. But still--calling it "musical garbage" (and "Aftermath" "pretentious and mediocre") and their rock peers saying it isn't their best is a head-scratcher!! It's a thrilling song, although yes I'd love to hear it remixed.
I couldn't agree more. One of my favorite Stones songs, out of many. What really gets me is that people thought Aftermath was bad! At least five great songs on that album, it's always been one of my favorite albums of the early period.
@@ExplodingPsyche At least 5 great songs?!? How about 13 great songs! The only one I don't care for is "What To Do". I rank "Aftermath" my third favorite Stones album *ever* .
@@spiritof6663 I said "at least" because I haven't listened to the album in a long time, and don't know any of the other songs by name. After seeing this video, I'm planning on listening to it soon.
@@spiritof6663 Google must have the UK version songs, because they don't list Paint It Black. Another fantastic song! I assume the UK version left it off because it was a single, and they tended to not put singles on albums. Edit: After checking, I realize there were other singles on the album, so that theory doesn't hold water.
this one was followed by let's spend the night together, ruby tuesday , we love you and she's a rainbow. It was the follow up of paint it, black and mothers little helper. In fact it was the very best period of the Rolling Stones imo
This track was prevented from reaching No.1 by a recently deceased singer, singing a melancholy love song ( a perfect storm) otherwise it would have been No.1 for weeks…
I'm going to guess that if that rock critic who hated "Aftermath" was still around by 1977, he would've written, "The Sex Pistols don't even know how to play their instruments!" I'm so glad that guys like this, and old Bob Christgau, were there in the rock era to provide their middle-age, middle-class takes on youth music. Woof.
I have the original album...it's still in great shape. My favorites.. the best version I've seen on video is the live performance where the stage was charged with wild fans. The very end, shows Brian laughing his ass off while him and Keith being attacked by girls..
Interesting that so much attention would be paid to one song, especially about the fact that it didn't make it to number 1. Do journalists do these kind of stories today? I am no musician and have no knowledge of the recording of music, but I like the song. Lots of energy.
It doesn't happen anymore. Sadly. There's two reasons for that: 1. In the 60s and 70s music was THE biggest thing out there. Everbody was hyped about new releases, about new bands, about bands making comebacks, about new projects by band memebers, etc. It was like football and blockbusters at the same time, if you will. Then the interest and people's tastes began to change (80s-90s-up to today when it hit the cellar). Music is no longer a great artistic adventure for most people, it's not an amazing thing happening all around us. It became a thing of background: "music for working out", "music for a part", "music for cooking", "music for the road", etc. I'd say it all started with the invention of portable devices capable of displaying music through earphones (the walkman and the discman). Suddenly listening to music became much easier and much more "private" so to speak. So people started caring less. 2. The other important thing is the quality of the music-makers. Just look who were the top billing artists in the 60s, and who's the top billing performer nowadays. Beatles -> Bieber. As a result of that people care even less. Bieber or Rihanna are just performers, starlets. Not artists. The don't want to discover something new in music, the don't want to push it to it's boundaries or surpass them. It's all just business, next n1 single or the most streams. In the 60s and 70s, the manager wanted to make something the n1 single, but the ARTIST wanted to create a WORK OF ART (so to speak). All this is no more in the popular stuff. The good stuff is happening underground, and because of that it's not as easily accessible. Now, of course both these points are intertwined. One leads to the other, and the second leads to the first. All of this saddens me deeply, as as a young musician, I'd love to see the musical-artist ethos comeback. But instead I'm locked in this world of shit, nothingness and repeatability. I hope I answered your enquiries.
@@muchanadziko6378 great post and, as a fellow musician, I concur completely. You spoke to my soul with this mostly unacknowledged truth. I wish more people could've seen it. Thank you!
@@MarkMikelVideos I'm glad I could speak out the things you've had in your mind. It's quite weird to me all this stuff isn't acknowledged by (at least) critics or something. Where do you live, and how old are you? Maybe we could do a collaboration? I'm from Poland, and I'm 21. Maybe you know "MusicBanter"? The music forum. It's quite nice for encountering people with similar musical tastes/ideas
The big surprise is just how big Jim reeves was during the band era even in the album charts he was ahead of all The groups at no 1 and he kept the stones great song at no 2 in singles charts you never know
Compared to "Standing in the Shadows", Satisfaction was almost bubble-gum, with catchy verses, a 3 + 5 word chorus, and lots of musical and verbal repetition; Satisfaction was the perfect radio jingle and, love it or hate it, "shadows" was not. I'm surprised it got to number 2; that must have been a different UK chart than the one Wikipedia references, with them having it at 5 and 9 on the UK and BB-HOT-100 charts, respectively. That was hardly an earth-shattering event since "As Tears Go By" and "19th Nervous Breakdown" had both missed #1 spots in both countries. No, it didn't break them, and with its haunting opening turbo-prop guitar noise, horns and distant closing guitar solo, it will always be one of my favorite 'Stones singles.
The chart you see on the video is from Disc & Music Echo magazine. Every magazine had its own chart back then because they all got their sales numbers from different record stores so chart positions differed. I think the chart numbers that appear on wikipedia are from Melody Maker, which was eventually taken as the official chart in order to avoid confusion.
That's a good point but it wasn't just the UK. Despite the ongoing rebellion against the older generation and all they held dear, they were still their parent's children. They were hard driving and competitive, maybe even more so than their parents.
The press still do it now always comparing the number of no ones any new successful group has with past groups most obviously the Beatles and one direction, BTS etc. But you can’t compare as the Beatles actually wrote most of their songs and played the instruments themselves rather than just singing someone else’s lyrics while other musicians play the music.
Yes, and considering that in less than a year the album format will start to rule and singles will be more for the teenyboppers. In my years in high school 67-70 no one I knew bought singles.
Van Morrison then of Them fame, said the same exact thing and how phony it was that if you didnt have a song in the charts you were pretty much forgotten about till you did in the UK.
i think it was a bit disjointed, and all the effects drown out the groove of the song. it also started and stopped in places. I kinda liked it but definitely not their best. It sounds forced.
Agreed it always sounded a bit off to me. I like the song but it sounds as if something was slightly off in the recording process and no one could find the issue so they just said yeah that’ll do
Keith mentioned that the record company released it before it was finished and mixed properly agree 100% which is why they should have done it live more to show how it really could have sounded!
My family has an unusually large and complete record collection encompassing all the albums of the stones from Circe 1960-1980. Born in 66, I was at leisure to discover and play records on my own time line. It was in a vacuum- without peer pressure or cultural context. I thought Aftermath was one of the Stones top albums, and love Standing in the shadows. Saddens me the outside world got it wrong. Teeny bloopers😅
It's a really weird song by any measure, which I think is great, but it also wasn't a very good mix. It's pretty funny to see this attitude that critics and some fans had back then, like "We praised you and bought your record, we should now dictate what creative avenues are acceptable for you to pursue'. It seemed strongest in the UK, remember all the ridiculous outrage and heckling Dylan faced during his 66 tour for going electric (with the members of The Band as his backup band). I saw some footage in which one fan angrily denounced Dylan after a concert in Ireland. He said he hated it and hadn't paid for a ticket to see "some pop band". Another fan who had enjoyed it retorted "I've never heard a pop band sound like that."
I thought the record was brilliant. I think it was so different (Heaven Forbid) than anything else on the Top Ten at the time it shook listeners up. Oh well,"I might not give the answer that you want me to". Love the channel.
The Sex Pistols were ‘kept off the no 1 spot’ in 1977 when technically they actually did! - I wonder if the Stones had the same shit served to them by ‘the establishment.’
1966 was the eye of the hurricane in terms of innovation in rock music. It was when it began to assume the status of art as opposed to simply entertainment for teens. Everyone in pop that had any ability and imagination saw the possibilities and jumped right in. The music they made shaped the modern musical world.
Nice job as usual...Everyone's a critic! LOL One of the problems with most music back then was it wasn't in stereo. Recorded so it would sound best on crappy car speakers or a transistor radio. The powers that be at the time hadn't yet realized that fans like myself wanted to zone out and listen rather than finding something to snap fingers & dance to. I personally disliked the so called pop scene at the time as well as the nightclub's that produced bands that mirrored the top 40 list. Culture was on the move and IMO the Stones were leading the charge. I had just bought my first stereo component system and I remember being upset that I couldn't discern the lyrics. Jazz artists and labels such as Blue Note and Verve were hip and jazz was gaining popular raves, at least with the crowd I ran with. Everyone wanted to groove to like's of Charlie "Bird" Parker and the Dave Brubeck's types that were made famous by Beat book writers who wrote stories about being on the 'go'. Personally I loved both sides of this release and was always disappointed that it never made it onto an album. Flowers was released soon afterwards with it but I have always thought it (Flowers) was some sort of in-between 'greatest hits' LP. Have you seen your Mother, Baby, standing in the shadow? Have you had another, Baby, standing in the shadow? I'm glad I opened your eyes The have-nots would have tried to freeze you in ice Have you seen your Brother, Baby, standing in the shadow? Have you had another Baby, standing in the shadow? Well, I was just passing the time I'm all alone, won't you give all your sympathy to mine? Tell me a story about how you adore me Live in the shadow, see through the shadow Live through the shadow, tear at the shadow Hate in the shadow and love in your shadowy life Have you seen your lover, Baby, standing in the shadow? Has he had another Baby, standing in the shadow? 'Cause Baby, where have you been all your life? Talking about all the people who should try anything twice Have you seen your Mother, Baby, standing in the shadow? Have you had another Baby, standing in the shadow? You take your choice at this time The Brave old World or the slide to the depths of decline... of decline To the annoyingly hip of the day or those who have read or knows of the antics of the Beats, can see what this lyric is referring to. Pop culture of the day back then was turning some of the fan base sour and driving them underground Nevertheless Yesterdays Papers has given us all a taste of the crazy go, go, go, world of commercialism back in the 60's...Well done! Thank You
They released a load of singles in '66 mostly with dark tones in the lyrics and this was one of them. Ruby Tuesday at the end of the year lightened things up a bit and lead into a topsy turvy '67 for them. Paint It Black was arguably their best song that year with Jagger/Richards seeming to have a fixation writing about mothers in that period. Not really ahead of its time I don't think, it was experimental but not commercially so and followed a similar formula as Mothers Little Helper previously, didn't have the dynamics or tune or message/story to make it a great song.
Your time line amongst other things is completely incorrect. Sequentially in ‘66: Breakdown, Paint It, Black, Mother’s Little Helper, Have You Seen Your Mother
@@jessewolf6806 If you're in the US it may have been different. Stated are the UK release dates and don't forget Lady Jane and Ruby Tuesday to round it all off.
