You Got Me Rocking

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"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
(non-album track)"
Released26 September 1994
RecordedJuly – August, November – December 1993
GenreHard rock, blues rock
Length3:36
LabelRolling Stones/Virgin
Songwriter(s)Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)Don Was & The Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Love Is Strong"
(1994) 		"You Got Me Rocking"
(1994) 		"Out of Tears"
(1994)

"You Got Me Rocking" is a song by the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, on their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge.

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 into a powerful rock single 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. The song was released as a single in the UK in September 1994, where it reached No. 23. It was also released as a single in the US but reached only No. 113 in 1995.

The B-side is the little-known "Jump on Top of Me" which also appears on the soundtrack to Prêt-à-Porter. "You Got Me Rocking" appeared on the soundtrack to The Replacements in 2000.

"You Got Me Rocking" is notable as it remains one of the Stones' most enduring live songs, a rarity for a late-career song. The song was performed some fifty times during the 2005–2006 A Bigger Bang Tour.

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.

Track listing[]

  • 7" VS1518
  1. "You Got Me Rocking"
  2. "Jump on Top of Me"
  • Cassette VSC1518
  1. "You Got Me Rocking"
  2. "Jump on Top of Me"
  • CD VSCDE1518
  1. "You Got Me Rocking"
  2. "Jump on Top of Me"
  • CD VSCDT1518
  1. "You Got Me Rocking"
  2. "Jump on Top of Me"
  3. "You Got Me Rocking" (Perfecto Mix)
  4. "You Got Me Rocking" (Sexy Disco Dub Mix)
  • CD VSCDG1518 - digipak
  1. "You Got Me Rocking"
  2. "Jump on Top of Me"
  3. "You Got Me Rocking" (Perfecto Mix)
  4. "You Got Me Rocking" (Sexy Disco Dub Mix)

Charts[]

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 64
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[2] 29
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[3] 39
UK Singles (OCC)[4] 23
UK Dance Singles (Music Week)[5] 6
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[6] 13
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[7] 2

References[]

  1. ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 18 Dec 1994". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Ultratop.be – The Rolling Stones – You Got Me Rocking" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Rolling Stones – You Got Me Rocking" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Rolling Stones: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Dance Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 8 October 1994. p. 26. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  6. ^ "The Rolling Stones Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  7. ^ "The Rolling Stones Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
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