The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil Reaction!! 

So the Stones write a tune about nasty historical events and ask... guess my name? Obviously the devil right?? But the song is called Sympathy For The Devil! I think its clear that the Stones are saying its humanity that is responsible for the good and evil in the world and blaming supernatural forces is kind of lame!

I straight LOL’d “it probably triggered some people” “why?” “it’s a song written from the prospective of the devil... in 1969”. Too damn good.

"i'm in need of some restraint." I take that as satan saying, "Holy crap guys, you're making my job a little too easy. Give me a challenge at least."

This song was released 6 months to the day after Bobby Kennedy was killed so you can imagine the impact it had. 1968 was a year of tumult.

At some point, the part about “who killed the Kennedys,” didn’t he say “it was you and me.” I think he’s saying humans are the problem.

What I like about the song, is that you can see it as Lucifer talking about all the evil that we humans push on him, as his fault. No wonder why he says "It was you and me".

I remember when I was a kid and first really listened to the lyrics of this. I got chills. It was like, "Holy shit, the devil's in my radio."

"Anastasia screamed in vain." Wow, what an amazingly horrific lyric.

One of the GREATEST rock songs of all time.

“Don’t give them free advertising.” *sips Pepsi Lol

Vin. The song is inspired by the Mikhail Bulgokov book "The Master and the Margarita". Epic Russian novel, no doubt you'd enjoy based on what I have learned about you. It starts with Satan debating atheists on a park bench, then into a flashback of Jesus meeting Pontius Pilate. In short they paint the devil as a entity who does evil to remind people what good is and when and how to practice it. But the novel is much bigger than that. It's such an epic book and subject matter, all encompassing, religion, history, time travel, metaphysics etc. In the book the Devil is there to force people to be kinder to each other because of what he does. As in evil in the world reminds us to be good to each other... so have a little sympathy for what he does and why he does it.

This was one of the songs that got me into the stones

What often gets overlooked with this song because of the great lyrics is the amazing musical composition going on here. It actually even has more emotional intensity than the lyrics itself (The lyrics are simple). It started out by having a simple style of music, then in each new verse, a new layer is added, with a style change. This progression carries on. This expresses the devil starting out in a simpler situation, but branching out, with more complicated layers and cultures (through these style changes), as needed. It's 100% pure genius, musically. You did get to the right conclusions at the end, by saying the song is saying Satan = Man, but it did dispute things you said earlier in the video. At least you got there.

If you heard this song, and vietnam memories comes to you, youre a person of culture.

There are few rock songs that are actually frightening. Most are just cheesy. But Sympathy is truly scary.

One of the very best lyrics ever witten imho. This is also from the era (Beggars Banquet till Exile On Main St.) the Stones were again imho at their best. BTW what Keith is playing, in Dutch we call that a "barb wire solo". Love in Vain (Robert Johnson cover on Let It Bleed) has this magic as well over it.

"As heads is tails just call me Lucifer" God is the devil according to the song. From an atheist perspective it seems more like the song is that there is no God or Devil with all those evil acts described in the song done by us mere humans.

"How did you get to be the devil?" "God called me over one day, said 'Here, put this on...'"

Vin...my dude...you went into that long rant about it being about human evil but neglected the verse on the JFK and Bobby Kennedy assassinations where he says "I shouted out who killed the Kennedys? When after all it was you and me"

I love hearing open minded Christians dig into songs like this, because a lot of secular bands write some really spiritual stuff that gets overlooked by Christians.

You NEED to watch the Rolling Stones documentary movie "Gimme Shelter." It's a dark look into the end of the hippie movement at their infamous concert at Altamont raceway outside of San Francisco in December 1969. It can be quite horrifying at times.

Love the way he tells her off for free advertising and then takes a sip of Pepsi lol

What I do like about you two, you watch the whole song without interruption. Then give a pretty reasonable interpretation. Keep it up.

Yeah I think you're missing the ultimate secret and subversion in the song: Just as every cop is a criminal And all the sinners saints As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer Cause I'm in need of some restraint This and the rest of that verse is sneakier than you think

Tax day is appropriate for Sympathy for the Devil LOL!!!

I give that 11 out of 10 1968 Beggars Banquet 124 woo-woo’s An all time classic

Got to LOVE The Rolling Stones. These guys were ouzzing talent. And for decades! Nobody really compares. All Hail the R>S>

i think i mentioned this once or twice but glad more people wanted it, thank goodness you got to it!!!!

There's a reason hitting someone in the throat is illegal in ALL professional combat sports, Vin.. and it's not because it isn't effective.

That was a clearly revealing conversation! Thank you for awakening my wife and I to a new piece to digest about this mirror world! Thank you for bringing Truth Church and it just happens to be Sunday morning here when we viewed this reaction video! Love how the Truth Always comes out in the Light!

i LOVE THE WAY SORI LAUGHS AT VIN. SHE LOVES HIM !!!! WE CAN ONLY BE SO LUCKY. LOVE YOU TOO

I'm appreciating your inquisitive and interesting conversation. Good content. Never change. I'll be checking in regularly.

Best Rolling Stones song imo. Helloween ☆ Keeper of the seven keys 🎃 i always watch the full video. But im also fast in the comment section 😘

This was a well written song and very creative. They weren’t trying to be scholars, they were just writing a very good song. Although not good, the devil has a point of view too. They had the creativeness to explore that side of the story.

You guys are so fortunate. To be able to have conversations like this with each other. I think it's is a little rare and I have to say I envy you.

I'm glad I stumbled on your channel. Lots of interesting, intelligent discussion going on here. Thank you!

This is about how people are easily lead astray and complicit in evil events but never accepting our role in the outcome “I shouted out Who killed the Kennedy’s, When after all it was YOU and me.” The mob mentality driven by fear that throughout history societies are so susceptible too. Whether the song intends to show the ease with which Satan manipulates weakness or whether the weak blame Satan is the vague element that makes it a lyrical masterpiece. Also - the Bible indicates that Pilate didn’t actually think crucifixion of Jesus was warranted and tried to lay the decision back on Herod II, who beat him but refused to execute. Pilate relented to crucifixion for political expedience - now re-read that lyric ‘Made Damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate” The question is was it the Devil? People influenced by the devil? Or just people?

Such an awesome song, still holds true all these years...

Awesome reaction and review.......just great. Thanks again guys.

another great discussion. thank you

Always loved the first guitar solo in this. Keef does a great job at making his licks sound like flames. The pace of the song rules. With its "hoos" getting louder, the bongos speeding up, Mick becoming more wild, after the flame licks of the guitar solo. It's the inferno intensifying.

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"

Really enjoyed your reaction to this. . .I'm an "older" guy, I was 19 and in college when this came out, so it's quite interesting to watch people younger than me react to songs like this from those crazy days. . .I like how you guys try to think more deeply about songs than many "reactors" who don't really get past just liking the "beat" or a guitar "solo". A unique song from one of my favorite groups.

Just discovered your channel tonight. Watched several so far and I really, really like your channel.

Motorhead's version of Sympathy for the Devil is really good.

I don’t think the song is literally about the Devil, I think it’s more about the evil that lurks in the heart of man.

Great reaction and analysis. Thanks for this.

II love listening to your discussion after a video. I learn so much from you both.

NIB- Black Sabbath is a very nice song, I suggest that song

Went to a Stones just to hear this song. left straight after they played it.

Fun story: They wrote this song after their first US tour through the South. They had apparently attracted not only fans at their shows but the ire of evangelicals. Who would protest each of their shows for playing "the Devil's music" Their response was a simple one, If they were going to be accused of playing "the Devil's music" no matter what, they might as well give them "the Devil's music" to protest.

This song played non-stop on the radio in ‘69-‘70 when I was a kid. A huge top 40 hit. This really was the golden age of rock music.

You guys need to check out Paint It Black, by the Stones.

'' Dont give free advertising while he is sipping on pepsi on every video.

VIN you got the song. I first heard this song in the 80's. became my favorite Stones song. I have meditated on this song for 35 years.

I have watched a couple of your reactions and enjoyed them.

"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste." Thanks for doing Sympathy, Guns and Roses did a cover for this for the movie "Interview with a Vampire."

This song was inspired by Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"

First time I heard this song I was about 13 years old. I did not hear the title so when I guested that it was about the devil, it blew my mind. I didn't know you could do something like that with music. I fell in love with classic rock that day. Vin your on to something, he says who killed the Kennedys - "It was you and me"

You are unique people (in the best possible way). I love how you go from deap talk to jammin' Pantera. Thanks

Check out some of the Stones live versions of Sympathy. I saw them do this live in 1975. Big energy. But don't focus on the devil...he's talking about how we're all responsible for all of this.

one of the Stone's best songs

Good analisys Vin!

Nicky Hopkins, the greatest session musician for decades, plays an amazing role on this song helping The Stones out with his amazing work on the Piano and the whole "Beggers' Banquet" album (released in November 1968). His contribution on Piano really helps drive this song along.

You got it. This was from the perspective of the devil having a conversation with man who blames him for all the human ills when he feels history is more of a joint venture. The devil is suggesting look back a bit buddy, it's not all me here dude. You have some culpability too. I was there but so were you. But on a side note, that is one funky song from the end of the 60s. The Stones were in their funky phase. They had another one in the late 70s.

The second best Stones song ever. The first being "Gimme Shelter".

Been following your channel for a while now. Did not know you had a reaction to this song. Never heard of the song and I accidentally got in to watching your reaction to this song. I tapped the screen by accident and continued listening to your reaction while I search for another reaction to watch. Your conversation at the beginning sounded interesting. I didn't actually listen because I was searching for another reaction to watch. So the song began playing and I absolutely loved it. I read the first comment and I liked the song more. Now I'm listening to your breakdown of the song and it is very interesting to me. Me too. Many times I have felt symphathy for the devil because we all blame him for the things that we do. " Please to meet you. I hope you guess my name " is also a line in one of U2's song too. I guess reffering to the meaning of this song. Thanks for reacting to this song. I liked it very much 😘

YOU TWO ARE STARTIN TO PLAY MY MUSIC, THANKS JT FROM MEX

Stones. "Cant you hear me knocking"

And this is just one of the the reasons they were called The Greatest Rock and Roll Band... brilliant, intelligent lyrics and killer musically...

One of my favorite songs from childhood, takes me back every time. thanks.

I love this in depth breakdown

Great song! The Stones were at their peak at this time. You should react to something from the Sticky Fingers album. Either Dead Flowers or Wild Horses.

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As suggested before, read Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". It's the book that inspired the song. Bulgakov was a dissident until he died. That book is probably is one of the best of the 20th century. You can read it 4 times and not quite get it all.

A lesson in World History with this song

Next guns n roses song do Coma please! Put your Like,for vin and sori see that they must do that song!

Lucifer is the Latin name of the morning star (Venus). Literally translated, it means "bearer of light" (in Latin lux, 'light' and ferre, 'bear, bring'). In the course of time, the term Lucifer became synonymous with a name of the devil in Christian usage. With Satan, the church fathers associated the fallen lightbringer Lucifer on the basis of a saying of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke (10.18 EU): "I saw Satan falling from heaven like lightning". In the Middle Ages, "Lucifer" finally became synonymous with Satan and the devil in the common usage of the church through the combination of Isaiah 14:12 EU (Fall of the Son of the Dawn) with the passage in the Gospel of Luke (Fall of Satan).

Y’all get it

The key line in the song is "...but what's puzzling YOU, is the NATURE of MY game...". A good illustration of the use of sympathy in this case is the

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Yes - Your's is No Disgrace

saw them do an 18minute version in Paris in '88.superb,nobody rocks like these boys.

Love your analysis (years after you posted it). I think you came so close, but didn’t quite get there, in the middle of the reaction where Sori was contemplating the word “sympathy”….a bit later you said it was people who did these bad things and that it’s not all attributed to the devil. Think of the lyrics “I shouted out who killed the Kennedys, when after all it was YOU and me”. And then at the end “I’ll tell you one time, YOU’RE to blame” So I think, in the song, the Devil claims to be a scapegoat - being blamed for the bad things that people did of their own free will - and is asking for leniency from those accusations. And if you don’t show that sympathy and continue to blame man’s evils on the Devil, you’ll really experience the wrath as “I’ll lay your soul to waste.” Brilliant lyrics. Brilliant sound. Brilliant reaction.

Motörhead did a fantastic job covering this song

@VinandSori Great job guys!👍 🎧🎧. Congrats and God Bless on your growing family! 🙏🙏🎈. Keep up the great work! If I may request a couple id appreciate it. Candlebox "FAR BEHIND" OR "YOU" PEARL JAM -" Rearviewmirror" DIRE STRAITS " Sultans of swing" Live (Alchemy?) Thanks guys!!

"Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name." Your name is "humanity".

I jump in and out but never felt compelled to subscribe...my God, your teaching and interpretation has me glued to the screen. Thank you for your intelligence and knowledge...new subscriber! What is the Czar documentary you are watching? I watch documentaries of all periods and have been wanting to find one on the fall of Russia. Thank you.

Hi ya guys. Great job again as usual. If you want to see a great hard rock band, check out the video of Grand Funk Railroad live in concert Los Angeles 1974, check out the song Inside Looking Out. My wife and I are a bi racial couple ( I'm white, she's black) and we were at this concert. I was just a lad of 24 and she was 21. She was ( and is ) a very small woman, so I put her on my shoulders. After the concert she told me she just wanted a better look at the guitarist Mark Farner as he was shirtless. But all was good. We have been married 48 years and are the proud grandparents of 7. I think that Vin will really like Mark Farner as his lead playing is awesome. Thanks guys, love your channel. Rocker out 🥁🎶😎

The song for the movie interview with the vampire is guns n roses cover,not this one!

Right near the end of the song Jagger sing's " Baby! wot's my name?......Baby! wot's my game?...... Your to blame !" Also when the Stones played at Altamont in 1969, a young black man was murdered in the crown by Hells Angels as the opening chords to 'Sympathy for the Devil' began, which many believe was the end of 'Peace & Love' movement.

Did it Leave u in Shock...Its Very Creative !! Love The Stone's...Legends ..😉🎼🎶🎵✌❤

Your "triggering" comments at the start are so amazing to me. Don't these people realize this is just for fun and to pass time? LOL. Gotta love these "key-stroke warriors."

BROWN SUGAR , NEXT PLEASE..

I enjoyed the discussion. Very refreshing and open minded.

This song ( and the concert at the Altamont) is one of the main influences on Don McLean referencing Mick Jagger as the devil in American Pie: "And as the flames climbed high into the night. To light the sacrificial rite. I saw Satan laughing with delight"

'Stairway To Heaven' next. please. :-)

Machine head the darkness within , pretty please!! With sugar on top

Loved it....thanks.

In the TV show 'Lucifer' the main character 'Lucifer Morningstar' has the start of this song as his cell ring