Carlos Joglar
English 200
Professor James M. Boehnlein, Ph.D.
Test #1: Reading and Writing about Music
“Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones has been one of the most important bands in rock and roll. The band was a big hit in the 60’s with a big amount of songs that were famous at that time and some still are but with the song “Satisfaction” they became even more famous because being their best song, it was ranked #1 in America when it came out in the 1965. The song from the album “Out of Our Heads” was played by the lead singer Mick Jagger, Keith Richards with guitar and vocals, Brian Jones in the guitar. Charlie Watts in the drum, Bill Wayman in the bass guitar and Jack Nitzche in the tambouring and in the piano, and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. In this essay I’m going to analyze this song, “Satisfaction, in different ways. First, I will talk about the music and the lyrics and how they relate with each other. Second, I will talk about the instrumentation, the mood, the effectiveness, and the technology. Third, I will talk about the theme, the plot, the genre, and the literary devices. This song is …show more content…
This particular verse is very important because in that time, the 60’s, and 20 years after the war, WWII, people were coming home with different addictions and tobacco was one of the biggest and more frequent. Because of the war the companies of the tobacco brands and distributors were making plenty of tobacco commercials on national TV which got people fighting for them to be banned because in that time they found out that tobacco is a really bad product because it causes lungs cancer. These kinds of commercials use a false vision of what happiness is for the people which is the constant criticism that Mick Jagger is trying to make clear in this song. In the song he also makes a reference to a code to woman’s menstrual period when he
English 200
Professor James M. Boehnlein, Ph.D.
Test #1: Reading and Writing about Music
“Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones has been one of the most important bands in rock and roll. The band was a big hit in the 60’s with a big amount of songs that were famous at that time and some still are but with the song “Satisfaction” they became even more famous because being their best song, it was ranked #1 in America when it came out in the 1965. The song from the album “Out of Our Heads” was played by the lead singer Mick Jagger, Keith Richards with guitar and vocals, Brian Jones in the guitar. Charlie Watts in the drum, Bill Wayman in the bass guitar and Jack Nitzche in the tambouring and in the piano, and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. In this essay I’m going to analyze this song, “Satisfaction, in different ways. First, I will talk about the music and the lyrics and how they relate with each other. Second, I will talk about the instrumentation, the mood, the effectiveness, and the technology. Third, I will talk about the theme, the plot, the genre, and the literary devices. This song is …show more content…
This particular verse is very important because in that time, the 60’s, and 20 years after the war, WWII, people were coming home with different addictions and tobacco was one of the biggest and more frequent. Because of the war the companies of the tobacco brands and distributors were making plenty of tobacco commercials on national TV which got people fighting for them to be banned because in that time they found out that tobacco is a really bad product because it causes lungs cancer. These kinds of commercials use a false vision of what happiness is for the people which is the constant criticism that Mick Jagger is trying to make clear in this song. In the song he also makes a reference to a code to woman’s menstrual period when he