Songs For Your Day

A few weeks ago I bought The Rolling Stones’ 1967 foray into psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request.  I bought the record for one reason: “She’s a Rainbow.”  Bruce Eder of allmusic.com calls it the “prettiest and most uncharacteristic song” the Rolling Stones ever wrote for themselves.  I’ve always been a Stones fan, but only in the past two.5 years, beginning with the upload of the BSU library copy of Exile on Main Street to my iPod, have I become, as my friend Jake would say, “a fucking fan of the fucking Rolling Stones!” and this song has made its way into my top five.

The past several nights, while driving to the gym, I’ve been turning the volume as high as my little ears can handle and playing–on single track repeat–”She’s a Rainbow.”   Sure, there are other good songs on the album, but nothing that pulls the atoms of my flesh together quite like this one.  Charlie Watts drums like he needs to save a life.  I feel like I could lift the car above my head.

Sony Bravia (who have done a sweet commercial with “Heartbeats” by José González) have done a sweet commercial with “She’s a Rainbow”:

ha, how funny. This was my summer theme song in ’07. Oh what a summer it was. I’m pretty sure I put it on a mix for you.
Best Rolling Stones song ever.

Comment by lcrelyea January 12, 2010 @ 3:57 pm

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i did not know that. never appeared on the mixes i consider the big five; perhaps was on the night driving mix

Comment by amsettineri January 12, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

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or maybe it was on my personal mix that i failed to make you a copy of. The one that was constantly in my cd player during my tri-weekly bloomington visits.

Comment by lcrelyea January 12, 2010 @ 5:08 pm