You Got Me Rocking

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“You Got Me Rocking”
Single by Rolling Stones from the album Voodoo Lounge
Released	September 26, 1994
Format	7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, cassette, 3 x CD
Recorded	July - August, November - December 1993
Genre	Rock
Length	3 min 36 s
Label	Rolling Stones/Virgin
Writer(s)	Jagger/Richards
Producer	Don Was & The Glimmer Twins
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 English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge.

Begun in early in 1993, "You Got Me Rocking" was initially a blues number; bootlegs have Jagger and Richards working the song as a slower, blues flavored ramble, with Jagger shouting the hook- "you got me rocking". Changed to a straight forward 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, 1993, to early winter of the same year, where final touches were put on. The song was released as a UK-only single in September, where it registered at number 23. The b-side is the renowned though little-known "Jump On Top of Me."

"You Got Me Rocking" is notable as it remains one of the Stones most enduring live songs, a rarity for a late album 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 1999 live album No Security. It was also included on the Stones' 2002 career retrospective, Forty Licks.

[edit] Track listing

• 7" VS1518

1. "You Got Me Rocking"
2. "Jump On Top Of Me"

• 12" VST1518

1. "You Got Me Rocking" (Perfecto Mix)
2. "You Got Me Rocking" (Sexy Disco Dub Mix)
3. "You Got Me Rocking" (Trance Mix)

• 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)

v • d • e The Rolling Stones singles Decca/London singles 1963: Come On, I Wanna Be Your Man • 1964: Not Fade Away, It's All Over Now, Tell Me, Time Is on My Side, Little Red Rooster, Heart of Stone • 1965: The Last Time / Play with Fire, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get off of My Cloud, As Tears Go By • 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown, Paint It, Black, Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane, Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? • 1967: Let's Spend the Night Together / Ruby Tuesday, We Love You / Dandelion, In Another Land, She's a Rainbow • 1968: Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man • 1969: Honky Tonk Women • Rolling Stones/ Atlantic singles 1971: Brown Sugar, Wild Horses • 1972: Tumbling Dice, Happy • 1973: Angie, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) • 1974: It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It), Ain't Too Proud to Beg • 1976: Fool to Cry, Hot Stuff • Rolling Stones/Virgin singles 1978: Miss You, Beast of Burden, Respectable, Shattered • 1980: Emotional Rescue, She's So Cold • 1981: Start Me Up, Waiting on a Friend • 1982: Hang Fire, Going to a Go-Go (live), Time Is on My Side (live) • 1983: Undercover of the Night • 1984: She Was Hot • 1986: Harlem Shuffle, One Hit (to the Body) • 1989: Mixed Emotions, Rock and a Hard Place • 1990: Almost Hear You Sigh, Terrifying • 1991: Highwire, Ruby Tuesday (live) • Virgin singles 1994: Love Is Strong, You Got Me Rocking, Out of Tears • 1995: I Go Wild • 1997: Anybody Seen My Baby? • 1998: Saint of Me, Out of Control • 2002: Don't Stop, Sympathy for the Devil (remix) • 2005: Streets of Love / Rough Justice, Rain Fall Down • 2006: Biggest Mistake •