I think it's the non-Boomers, discovering it through movies and TV and video games and TikTok. Here's a link to see the 180,000+ TikTok videos that use the recording. It seems quite popular with aviation (for males) and the wearing of black clothing (for females). And then there are tattoos:
By the way, is it "Paint It Black" or "Paint It, Black"? "Paint It, Black" was a misprint on the original record label. The Stones are not ordering someone named Black to paint something. They are naming the color they want that thing painted.@justinktattoo Use your references folks #tattoo #ink #tattooartist #tattooart #tattooideas #traditional #tattoolife #blackwork #tattoodesign #latattooartist #tattooed #inked #tattooink #blackandgreytattoo #losangelestattooartist #tattooflash #traditionaltattoo #animetattoo #floraltattoo#tattoo #ink #tattooartist #girlswithtattoos #venturatattooartist ♬ Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
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Ooooooorrrr....... It could just be that the song is just really kick ass, high energy and fun as hell to crank rolling down the road. I even heard a EDM/Trance version of it about 15 years ago. Really fun!
It remains a great Stones record. Ranks up there with "Shattered" for me.
I see a young female in black, I think: look at that stupid girl… she should be wearing bright, happy colors to accentuate her charms and loveliness.
The Stones, unlike the Beatles, never forgot they were first and foremost a dance band.
I would agree with that assessment. I can't remember a specific instance now but it seems to me one of the go-to gear up/lock and load sound tracks.
Black lines matter.
Why is "Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" ... one of the most expensive songs to use for movies and television"?
But can they even play that movie for younger audiences with Bo Derek's corn rolls and the story about 40+ yr old man "stalking" a 20-something recently married woman on her honeymoon, who relates a story about her uncle and that piece of music?
An upbeat song about depression.
I followed the Rolling Stones from their first album, so I have a personal memory of how all the singles felt at the time of their release. The most distinctive thing at the time about "Paint It Black" was The Stones were taking up the sitar. It was a great recording but not to the point of standing way out beyond "19th Nervous Breakdown," ""Get Off of My Cloud," "Let's Spend the Night Together," and "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow."
My Google search returned a link to Gemtracks which offers 51+ songs about shooting up schools and "you can save them into your playlist on Spotify, YouTube, etc." but I didn't click through because it was enough to know that such things exist.
Because it has been heard in at least a dozen movies and TV shows. It's the go-to tune for napalm explosions. It's such a cheerful Rolling Stones song..."I look inside myself and see my heart is black." Ugly music.
While there are other songs by the band I like better, "Paint It Black" is just an awesome song, too.
It speaks to the uncertainty of adolescence. I was not all that aware of being depressed as an adolescent, but the song affirmed it for me and made it seem more normal.
"Paint it black... Paint it black, you devil!"
If I had to pick a favorite it would be "Gimme Shelter".
Interview starts 30 seconds into video with woman who claims to have said it.
"While there are other songs by the band I like better, "Paint It Black" is just an awesome song, too."
My favorite "Gimme Shelter". Jumpin' Jack Flash, Tumbling Dice, Street Fighting Man, Sympathy for the Devil. What a great band. Saw them live in 1975, Chicago Stadium, main floor, 13th row center.
It’s a great song. The driving beat makes it an excellent background to a video.
I think it might have been the first song that had an undeniable sinister vibe that the stones later perfected with “Gimme Shelter” and “Can’t You Here Me Knocking” (my favorite Stones song).
Paint at black is my new favorite Rolling stones song. Thanks. Of course like most R/R songs i had to turn it off after 2 minutes due to the repetition.
Now that I read more comments, yeah "Get offa my cloud" is good too. But just from listening to the top songs on spotify you can see why the Beatles were the much more popular band.
Jagger has an extremely limited range.
https://youtu.be/S523q5PCX6Q?si=Q6rcua06ACYjXj9E
It sounds great on the cello, too.
The Avengers did a great version.
I think "Gimme Shelter" is a much more dark and ominous song:
"Rape, murder; it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away!"
ai: Ötzi the Iceman, (dated to about 3350 to 3105 BC) discovered on September 19, 1991, above 10,000 ft in the Alps... had 61 tattoos across his body, believed to be early forms of therapeutic pain relief.
The origins of "Painted Black" and "Satisfaction" go way back.
This is like every video of helicopters has "Fortunate Son" playing.
In the show Elementary, Sherlock’s brother Mycroft, said “Paint it Black” into a bug, and that was a code word for the MI6 snipers to wipe out all the bad guys.
Paint it Black was also the opening theme music for the 80s VN series Tour of Duty. CC, JSM
One Stones song I love is called “I Am Waiting.” Love that song. Featured in Rushmore, which also introduced me to The Creation and Love, two under-the-radar bands.
TV shows, commercials revive. People still take pictures of the Boston Legal building. Not as many as the Hancock Tower but more than Cheers!
My first break-up, I sang “You’ll Come Running Back To Me,” which must have been horrible for her because I cannot sing.
Time Is On My Side
2nd wave (Who and Kinks) are more fun than the 1st wave (Beatles and Stones).
I saw the Stones in 1976 at the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt. Great show!
That’s the only Stones song I positively dislike. Just a long sour monotone whine with a monotonous drumbeat. Something suitable for Roman galley slaves.
My millennial daughter once told me that "Paint it Black" was the first emo song. Personally, I don't get the Rolling Stones. I never turn up the volume when a Stones song comes on, unlike, I might with, say, Aerosmith. But Paint it Black holds up pretty well.
"Jagger has an extremely limited range."
It's not opera.
More ai:
Did you know the song "Paint It Black"... "sparked a minor, localized controversy over a clerical punctuation error on the original record labels."
The Comma Controversy
When Decca Records and London Records released the single in May 1966, a typo accidentally inserted a comma into the title, printing it as "Paint It, Black". This punctuation error altered the syntax, making it look like a command directed toward a Black person or a commentary on 1960s race relations.
YouTube: Is there a Black Person here?
At least the video isn't playing "Tattoo You".
“Of course like most R/R songs i had to turn it off after 2 minutes due to the repetition.”
lol… I bet you could listen to the early morning “call to prayer” all day long. amirite!
Paint it Black showcases Brian Jones playing as well as any Stones song.
Tour of Duty had it as a theme song but reruns/streaming lost the rights so they replaced it with generic music. It is shockimg how much better the show was with that Stones start. Really foisted an energy to the show that it lacks in streaming now
Here's "Paint it Black" ala Amy Winehouse: https://youtu.be/jQYOQOBc57A?is=ThEK4yuO-HwSn92y
Curious G: I was there! Huge inflatable, er, baloon came out of the floor! Amirite?
“One Stones song I love is called “I Am Waiting.” Love that song.”
My favorite as well. First heard it 15 years after it was released and it struck some elegiac chord in me, like I had absorbed the zeitgeist of the ‘60’s as a little kid. Weird, but music is like that.
Saw the Stones '72 tour w/Stevie Wonder and Wonderlove. Then the Zip Code tour. Uptight Outtasight/Satifaction encore with fully both bands was astounding!
End credits of Full Metal Jacket--memorable!
All great Stones songs begin with a memorable guitar riff. This one starts with a guitar riff and transitions to a drum riff. Greatest opening to a Stones song. Charley Watts makes the song memorable.
My step son was a carpenter on the Stones last tour. He's got a much prized recording of Keith Richards yelling at it by name to "stop fucking around". Priceless. He says they were all great and very friendly to him.
The sitar sound was new---and then there was the driving energy of the song. Layla is another song with that driving energy.
I remember the first time I heard Gimme Shelter. Still a great favorite.
He also worked for Cher, and he's got one of the stage manager telling him to "Stop staring at the boss's ass."
“ All great Stones songs begin with a memorable guitar riff. This one starts with a guitar riff and transitions to a drum riff. Greatest opening to a Stones song.”
Not even close. Greatest opening was Jumpin’ Jack Flash.
I've always thought "Paint It Black" and "As Tears Go By" were different responses to the same interior feeling
*If I had to pick a favorite it would be "Gimme Shelter".*
Monkey Man.
At least 20 years ago when I was a DJ at an FM rock station (WEBN in Cincinnati), we regularly conducted market research on specific songs, old and new. "Paint It Black" was by far the best-testing Rolling Stones song. Decades before Spotify.
Top Two for me: “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “No Expectations”
Did you know The Rolling Stones performed their very first show under the name "The Rollin' Stones" on July 12, 1962, 64 years ago today.
When I was in Australia, this was back in the 1980s, my junior year abroad, I saw a music video from the Stones that I had never seen before: Jumping Jack Flash. Really cool. It looks like they shot it back in the 1960's. Way before MTV was a thing.
After my wife died, I played 'Paint It Black' entirely too many times.
Another Stones song I like and rarely hear is She's So Cold
Sympathy for the Devil is another one they shot before MTV existed. Nice to see them when they were young.
Boy, they are really young in this one: Under My Thumb
Camille Paglia broke with the feminist harpies over this song. She went with art, music, and the Rolling Stones.
JayG: "when I was a DJ at an FM rock station (WEBN in Cincinnati)"
Was that back when you were packin and unpackin, town to town, up and down the dial? CC, JSM
It still amazes me that Dean Jagger was playing an old man at age 52 and Mick Jagger is still a bad boy teen idol at 82. His birthday is in a couple of weeks.
The Brian Jones story often makes me think of the Brian Wilson story, which thankfully has a much happier ending. But it could so easily (very nearly did) have gone as tragically wrong. And as competitive contemporaries they were most certainly listening to each others records. The sitar on Paint it Black would have blown Brian Wilson’s mind. Pet Sounds will have blown Brian Jones’s mind. Between them they did a lot to raise the general level of musicianship during that exceptionally creative era. They set the bar very high.
If you wish to see how the Stones treated the zonked Brian Jones, watch the documentary “Sympathy for the Devil”. He was placed in a recording booth with a guitar and headphones, stoned and strumming away while the band gets on with arranging and recording the song.
Near the end when Jones was often unable to record with the Stones, he did produce to Jagger’s surprise the brilliant slide guitar part to “No Expectations”, ironically a song the lyrics of which subconsciously suggesting that neither Jones nor the rest of Stones had any expectations for his future.
IMHO the best part of Gimme Shelter is not by Jagger but Merry Clayton's vocal.
I thought Kubrick misused this song in Full Metal Jacket.
Time Is On My Side was put to great use in the movie Fallen
This is my favorite video of the Stone's "Gimme Shelter."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os
The video has only 146 million views, so who am I to judge?
"MOfarmer said...
Curious G: I was there! Huge inflatable, er, baloon came out of the floor! Amirite?"
Yep, and then Mick swung out over the crowd on a cable! I paid $200 for the two tickets (me and my girlfriend)...that's $1,245 today. A lot of money for a HS senior pumping gas. Worth it!
"lonejustice said...
This is my favorite video of the Stone's "Gimme Shelter."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os"
Merry Clayton was the back up singer. Her vocals were so powerful that her voice cracked singing "Rape Murder" at about 3:00 minutes. You can hear Mick say "yeah!"
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