Goin' Home (The Rolling Stones song)
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| Song by The Rolling Stones | ||
| Album | Aftermath | |
| 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 |
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| Length | 11:35 | |
| Label | Decca/ABKCO (U.K.) ABKCO (U.S.) |
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| Writer | Jagger/Richards | |
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | |
"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] on harp, Bill [Wyman] (on bass) and Charlie [Watts] (on drums) and Mick. If there's a piano, it's Stu (Ian Stewart)."[1] 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 puntuated 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."[2]
| “ | Spending too much time away, I can't stand another day; Maybe you think I've seen the world, But I'd rather see my girl; I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home, back home | ” |
| “ | She'll make me feel so good, She'll make me feel all right; She make me feel so good, When she touch my hands; That's all I got to say, Cause I'm going to pack my bags | ” |
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.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Greenfield, Robert. "Keith Richards – Interview". Rolling Stone (magazine) August 19, 1971.
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. The Rolling Stones "Going Home". allmusic. 2007 (accessed 25 April 2007).
