Goin' Home (The Rolling Stones song)

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Name =Goin' Home


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Artist = The Rolling Stones
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Album =Aftermath
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Released = 15 April 1966 (U.K.) 20 June 1966 (U.S.)
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Recorded =3-8 December 1965, RCA Studios, Los Angeles
Genre =Rock
Blues rock
Length =11:35
Writer = Jagger/Richards
Label =Decca/ABKCO (U.K.)
ABKCO (U.S.)
Producer =Andrew Loog Oldham
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Audio sample? ="Goin' Home" is a song by rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1966 album "Aftermath".

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Goin' Home" is long blues-inspired track that is notable as one of the first (if not the first) song by a rock and roll band to break the ten minute mark. While many bands had experimented with length in live performances, and Bob Dylan had written many songs by this point which reached the five/six minute mark, "Goin' Home" was the first "jam" recorded expressly for an album. In an interview with "Rolling Stone", Richards said, "It was the first long rock and roll cut. It broke that two minute barrier. We tried to make singles as long as we could do then because we just liked to let things roll on. Dylan was used to building a song for 20 minutes because of the folk thing he came from. That was another thing. No one sat down to make an 11 minute track. I mean 'Goin' Home', the song was written just the first 2 and a half minutes. We just happened to keep the tape rolling, me on guitar, [Brian Jones|Brian [Jones] on harp, [Bill Wyman|Bill [Wyman] (on bass) and [Charlie Watts|Charlie [Watts] (on drums) and Mick. If there's a piano, it's Stu (Ian Stewart)." [Greenfield, Robert. "Keith Richards – Interview". "Rolling Stone" (magazine) August 19, 1971.] Jack Nitzsche, a regular Stones contributor throughout the 1960s, here performs percussion.

The song, while lengthy, is built around a common theme, as opposed to later Stones songs of great length like "Midnight Rambler" or "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" which are divided into distinct sections punctuated by differing instrumentations. "Goin' Home" plays as a long jam, eventually deconstructing Richards' guitar piece, Jagger's lyrics, and the drum lines of Watts which build in power as the song progresses. Jagger's lyrics are called "a basic expression of [his] pining for his girl and determining to go home and get him some. It's the bumpety-bump, ascending chorus of announcing his intentions to go home that's the most 'pop' element of the song." [Unterberger, Richie. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:3bfoxx9sld0e The Rolling Stones "Going Home"] . "allmusic". 2007 (accessed 25 April 2007).]

Released only on "Aftermath", "Goin' Home" has been played only during the Stones' 1967 European Tour. This song is what gave The Doors, who were big fans of The Stones' and of the "Aftermath" album, the idea to elongate the song "The End" from their debut album, "The Doors", also an eleven minute song.

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External links

* [http://www.rollingstones.com/discog/index.php?v=so&a=1&id=59 Complete Official Lyrics]