I'm only about 2'30" into it, but it's where those lyrics come up: War, children, it's just a shot away, and your reaction to it. I sometimes jokingly but also sincerely say that a given reaction or a given song or something emotional made my allergies act up. But right at this point, and your reaction, and knowing that you're from Ukraine, I just had to hit pause because my eyes really started to tear up.❤
After you hear Merry Clayton's voice crack after the third verse of MURDER, you can hear Mick Jagger say "Whooa" in the recording studio. He was absolutely blown away by her vocals. She actually wanted to redo the backups because she was embarrassed by that voice crack, and told them she could do better. They told her no, they loved it. They left both the voice crack and Mick's reaction in the finished product. I'm so glad they did. You can feel the pain in this song.
As others will comment, this is an anti-war protest song created during the Vietnam War. The backing vocal is Merry Clayton. The story goes that when her voice cracked, she apologized for it and asked to do another take. Mick, however, was so impressed with the raw emotion of the vocal (you can hear him exclaim "woo!" during that part) that he kept it in-and the rest is history. Truly, it is one of the most iconic rock songs ever created.
The song is actually about when the nazis raped and pillaged and burned London during the BIG one. Mick and Keef were young children, infants during that time period.
The story of the female vocalist is worth checking out. She was called to the studio out of bed in the middle of the night, came in with no warm up and nailed it.
My senior high school class made this our song as we waited for our number to be called to go to Vietnam, I'm still here ,some of us aren't. Hope you get to feeling better quickly.
The original female vocalist was Merry Clayton who was just incredible. Lisa Fischer also accompanied Mick in later live performances and she too was just amazing.
Wow what a great description of being around an explosion or even gunfire really close, and it does kind of just deadens your ears for a while. And it feels like you're in a bubble, and that you are hearing things from a distance. Really great description
Some songs never get old. Some songs still sound fresh, new, and powerful. (I've only been hearing this song for 55 years, so, time will tell if I still feel this way in another 55 years. Stay tuned!)
Ah, 1968 and 1969-the years the world cracked open and spilled its guts onto the sidewalk. Rock music was still in its infancy, but so many songwriters saw the Vietnam War as a reflection of all the ugliness and lies that “The Man” was feeding them about freedom, patriotism, and heroism. The Stones, CCR, The Who, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Zeppelin, Country Joe and Fish, and so many others took that anger and fear, and wrapped it in incredible riffs and damning lyrics. National leaders were shocked: the young generation being drafted to go die in Vietnam was protesting! In the streets! We had never protested war before! Not in the streets. Not like that. Songs like Gimme Shelter weren’t just tunes-they were battle cries, warnings, and laments all rolled into one. It was a revolution! Songs like that, those protests, all changed the nation’s view of the war, and that helped us bring that idiocracy to an end. What a time to be alive! I mean, right now is a pretty amazing time, too, but ohhh . . . ‘68 and ‘69. All of that was on top of the assassinations of MLK Jr. and RFK Jr. two months apart in ‘68. Turbulent. Historical. Life-changing. Thanks for that reaction! You nailed it.
The Rolling Stones made a LOAD of great music and there are simply too many songs I could recommend listening to. Pick a playlist with "best Rollin Stones" songs and you will be presented with a lot of them. I have been fortunate to have been to a live show back in the early 90's when people already said they were too old to perform ... Thirty years later they are still doing live shows. Legendary band. EDIT: funny you mention "You can't always get...", because the lines "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you might find, you get what you need" and I have always found that pretty deep, especially after having had to deal with some not so nice life events. If you pick some more songs you will discover many of their lyrics cover "big" topics actually.
Thanks so much for reacting despite still feeling under the weather. I've been dragged down by a bug myself since Christmas. Yes, this is an absolutely brilliant song. The lyrics are shatteringly powerful, as you properly noted. I was in a group at Stanford in 1970, and we played this song live in a free anti-war concert we gave on the school's largest student plaza. A picture of our band ran on the front page of the Stanford Daily the next day, and the lead guitarist could tell we were playing this song by the chord configurations he was using. Pretty crazy.
I'm only about 2'30" into it, but it's where those lyrics come up: War, children, it's just a shot away, and your reaction to it. I sometimes jokingly but also sincerely say that a given reaction or a given song or something emotional made my allergies act up. But right at this point, and your reaction, and knowing that you're from Ukraine, I just had to hit pause because my eyes really started to tear up.❤
Bright Angel, I enjoy your heartfelt commentary and views of the songs you react to. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication you put into you channel.
One of their best songs and one of the best songs of my lifetime, it has forever relevant lyrics and mournful subtext to a banger with rage simmering just below the surface. You should now try Can't You Hear Me Knocking, studio original from the ikonic Sticky Fingers album. Another amazing song, like this one, the first listen is jaw dropping! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎹🎷🎷🎶🔥
Back when the Stone's first broke out, it was them & the Beatles that ruled the waves, they've been playing together that long. Keith Richards writes most of the Music for them, for a guy that with so many painful jokes told about him, he writes Deep & inspiring music. This song was about the fear of Cold War tensions getting hotter & the Vietnam conflict getting heavier, & how people were feeling more helpless than normal. Old men start wars, young men are ended in them.
As a Ukranian listening it must have hit you hard. I am an old Englishman (who like you lives in Italy, a very unwarlike country) and we grew up on the horrors of Vietnam on TV every night. Thank you for having the courage to comment on it.
These guys released an album in late 2023, called Hackney Diamonds. There is a track that you should react to called, Sweet Sounds of Heaven that is amazing. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are both in their eighties and have been rocking since 1962. Their best song is Sympathy for The Devil. It is a must react. Both should be reacted to the official lyric videos. Once you hit this rabbit hole, you will be blown away by the hundreds of great tracks by these guys. Longevity and genius describes this band. 60 plus years and getting ready to drop a new album soon.
One of the few songs where the backup singer stole the show. In this case, Mary Clayton. There is a very interesting background story about her performance on this.
Hello Inna!!! Thanks so much for your video. It is indeed a fantastic song. If I may add to this... if you search for the name of the song "gimme shelter" and add the word "Vietnam," you will truly understand the song. This song was written in the 1960s. The USA was fighting a proxy war with the USSR in North Vietnam. The USSR had nuclear missiles aimed at the USA. The USA had nuclear missiles aimed at the USSR. I grew up in the 1960s. We never knew when a nuclear war would start or when a Soviet Nuclear missile would come and kill us. Truly, WAR for us was just one shot away. One mistake, one miscalculation, would cause the destruction of the earth. But love, LOVE, is always just a kiss away.
In regard to the guitar solo, now that you mention it, I think the recording engineer left it a bit "back in the mix". In other words, he didn't bring the solo forward and make it more prominent than the rest of the music, which would be customary in order to "show it off", so to speak. So because it was not brought forward, it would tend to sound as though it were coming from a distance. That is so cool that you noticed that!
Hoping your health improves Inna. Love the reaction. I hope you can react to the Grand Funk Railroad version of this song also. It has a little harder feel to it.
Lots of comments about Mary Clayton's vocals on this but they all leave the very tragic fact that she was pregnant during the recording, and suffered a miscarriage just hours after the session.
So relevant today as it was then. When will these bloodthirsty warmongers ever stop? How can we be this far into the 21st century and not learn anything from our past?
What words??!? The most impactful part of the message you cant even say out loud - RAPE MURDER is just a shot away - hiw will we learn anything if words are being " erased"
i have problems with this song. The sound is wonderful, that lazy, effortless sound of the Stones at their very best. So I enjoy the music. But the message is dark. Nothing wrong with that. Rape and murder happen and most musicians just pretend they don't, so it's great that the Stones put this dark stuff on a track. But how do I react to a track that has words that should make me feel one way, and at the same time has music that I love?
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I'm only about 2'30" into it, but it's where those lyrics come up: War, children, it's just a shot away, and your reaction to it. I sometimes jokingly but also sincerely say that a given reaction or a given song or something emotional made my allergies act up. But right at this point, and your reaction, and knowing that you're from Ukraine, I just had to hit pause because my eyes really started to tear up.❤
After you hear Merry Clayton's voice crack after the third verse of MURDER, you can hear Mick Jagger say "Whooa" in the recording studio. He was absolutely blown away by her vocals. She actually wanted to redo the backups because she was embarrassed by that voice crack, and told them she could do better. They told her no, they loved it. They left both the voice crack and Mick's reaction in the finished product. I'm so glad they did. You can feel the pain in this song.
She also was pregnant and had miscarriage just hours after the recording session
Somehow I get the impression that this song will go down in history as one of the most listened to, brilliant and greatest Stones song ever. .
One of the greatest rock n roll songs of all time from any band, period.
Top 10 song in my lifetime for me, the Stones at their best.
It's an Anthem
As others will comment, this is an anti-war protest song created during the Vietnam War. The backing vocal is Merry Clayton. The story goes that when her voice cracked, she apologized for it and asked to do another take. Mick, however, was so impressed with the raw emotion of the vocal (you can hear him exclaim "woo!" during that part) that he kept it in-and the rest is history. Truly, it is one of the most iconic rock songs ever created.
Considering the hostess is Ukrainian.... I don't know? I'm in tears.
The song is actually about when the nazis raped and pillaged and burned London during the BIG one. Mick and Keef were young children, infants during that time period.
The story of the female vocalist is worth checking out. She was called to the studio out of bed in the middle of the night, came in with no warm up and nailed it.
The first 8 bars of this song have never been matched. Unsurpassed masterpiece. Make Love Not War.
Sound coming in was Mick Jagger on the harmonica.
This is one of my favourite Stones tracks. So powerful!
This is so pertinent to Ukraine today.
Paint it Black is even darker.
Paint it Black is about Vietnam, this one is about WW2.
That wasn't a second guitar, it was Mick on the harmonica.
My senior high school class made this our song as we waited for our number to be called to go to Vietnam, I'm still here ,some of us aren't. Hope you get to feeling better quickly.
Merry Clayton 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
The original female vocalist was Merry Clayton who was just incredible. Lisa Fischer also accompanied Mick in later live performances and she too was just amazing.
Wow what a great description of being around an explosion or even gunfire really close, and it does kind of just deadens your ears for a while. And it feels like you're in a bubble, and that you are hearing things from a distance. Really great description
Powerful fm track back 55 years ago… and still is !! Rolling Stone Magazine had this in the top 15 rock songs ever.
Some songs never get old. Some songs still sound fresh, new, and powerful. (I've only been hearing this song for 55 years, so, time will tell if I still feel this way in another 55 years. Stay tuned!)
One of the few Rolling Stones tunes I really like!
Ah, 1968 and 1969-the years the world cracked open and spilled its guts onto the sidewalk. Rock music was still in its infancy, but so many songwriters saw the Vietnam War as a reflection of all the ugliness and lies that “The Man” was feeding them about freedom, patriotism, and heroism. The Stones, CCR, The Who, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Zeppelin, Country Joe and Fish, and so many others took that anger and fear, and wrapped it in incredible riffs and damning lyrics. National leaders were shocked: the young generation being drafted to go die in Vietnam was protesting! In the streets! We had never protested war before! Not in the streets. Not like that. Songs like Gimme Shelter weren’t just tunes-they were battle cries, warnings, and laments all rolled into one. It was a revolution! Songs like that, those protests, all changed the nation’s view of the war, and that helped us bring that idiocracy to an end. What a time to be alive! I mean, right now is a pretty amazing time, too, but ohhh . . . ‘68 and ‘69. All of that was on top of the assassinations of MLK Jr. and RFK Jr. two months apart in ‘68. Turbulent. Historical. Life-changing. Thanks for that reaction! You nailed it.
Another Stones song with heavy lyrics is Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker. Great reaction.
One of the best rock songs ever and Merry Clayton's vocals are mind blowing.
The Rolling Stones made a LOAD of great music and there are simply too many songs I could recommend listening to. Pick a playlist with "best Rollin Stones" songs and you will be presented with a lot of them. I have been fortunate to have been to a live show back in the early 90's when people already said they were too old to perform ... Thirty years later they are still doing live shows. Legendary band. EDIT: funny you mention "You can't always get...", because the lines "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you might find, you get what you need" and I have always found that pretty deep, especially after having had to deal with some not so nice life events. If you pick some more songs you will discover many of their lyrics cover "big" topics actually.
Thanks so much for reacting despite still feeling under the weather. I've been dragged down by a bug myself since Christmas.
Yes, this is an absolutely brilliant song. The lyrics are shatteringly powerful, as you properly noted.
I was in a group at Stanford in 1970, and we played this song live in a free anti-war concert we gave on the school's largest student plaza. A picture of our band ran on the front page of the Stanford Daily the next day, and the lead guitarist could tell we were playing this song by the chord configurations he was using. Pretty crazy.
Keith Richards has said that the guitar sound was from a unique borrowed instrument that literally fell apart at the end of the master take.
I'm only about 2'30" into it, but it's where those lyrics come up: War, children, it's just a shot away, and your reaction to it. I sometimes jokingly but also sincerely say that a given reaction or a given song or something emotional made my allergies act up. But right at this point, and your reaction, and knowing that you're from Ukraine, I just had to hit pause because my eyes really started to tear up.❤
Technically, the words should read "it's just a SHOUT away". I've been singing this song for years so I should know.
This is the best of the Stones it the pinnacle of the catalogue
Part of the sound track of the Vietnam war...
Those drums, Charlie! Yeah!
Bright Angel, I enjoy your heartfelt commentary and views of the songs you react to. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication you put into you
channel.
You did well by not pausing . Beautiful reaction; I didn't think about the connection with your homeland until the lyrics began 🌺 ☀
This is one of their very best songs. Also Angie.
あけましておめでとうございます。今年もリアクション動画楽しみにしてま〜す！っていうか、相変わらず可愛いですね❤
A Stones Classic. It took Mary many years to actually listen to the song. As tragedy struck her not long after that recording.
One of their best songs and one of the best songs of my lifetime, it has forever relevant lyrics and mournful subtext to a banger with rage simmering just below the surface. You should now try Can't You Hear Me Knocking, studio original from the ikonic Sticky Fingers album. Another amazing song, like this one, the first listen is jaw dropping! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎹🎷🎷🎶🔥
'Blindfold' is the best Experience. I also have Velvet Handcuffs..
I remember that song passed on all radios in Europe during the early 70s.
Back when the Stone's first broke out, it was them & the Beatles that ruled the waves, they've been playing together that long. Keith Richards writes most of the Music for them, for a guy that with so many painful jokes told about him, he writes Deep & inspiring music. This song was about the fear of Cold War tensions getting hotter & the Vietnam conflict getting heavier, & how people were feeling more helpless than normal. Old men start wars, young men are ended in them.
Happy new years 🎉....I love this song
"She's A Rainbow" next or "No Expectations".
As a Ukranian listening it must have hit you hard. I am an old Englishman (who like you lives in Italy, a very unwarlike country) and we grew up on the horrors of Vietnam on TV every night. Thank you for having the courage to comment on it.
Wonderful reaction. One of the best I've seen for this magnificent piece of music.
Thank you so much!
@InnaSoloMusic you are very welcome.
This album came out when I was in the 9th grade. People sometimes wonder why we sneer at just about anything produced today.
Keith. And Mick on the harp.
Hope you feel better. Glad to see you back.
Nota stones fan but LOVE this song!!
Richards & Jagger were capable of writing great lyrics, like this one. For another, try Sympathy for the Devil. Hope you'll feel better soon.
No pause reaction is 👍 from me.
Intense song, very pertinent today.
Sadly, pertinent every day.
"Salt Of The Earth" is another song in the Stones more philosophical vein.
Raise a glass for the hard-working people
These guys released an album in late 2023, called Hackney Diamonds. There is a track that you should react to called, Sweet Sounds of Heaven that is amazing. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are both in their eighties and have been rocking since 1962. Their best song is Sympathy for The Devil. It is a must react. Both should be reacted to the official lyric videos. Once you hit this rabbit hole, you will be blown away by the hundreds of great tracks by these guys. Longevity and genius describes this band. 60 plus years and getting ready to drop a new album soon.
Thank you for the suggestion 😊
Try Paint it Black also...
You are a kiss away....
She's a Rainbow.
One of the few songs where the backup singer stole the show. In this case, Mary Clayton. There is a very interesting background story about her performance on this.
Ther's a great cover version of this by Tom Jones and New Model Army(Unusual combination)which is well worth a listen
Hello Inna!!! Thanks so much for your video. It is indeed a fantastic song. If I may add to this... if you search for the name of the song "gimme shelter" and add the word "Vietnam," you will truly understand the song. This song was written in the 1960s. The USA was fighting a proxy war with the USSR in North Vietnam. The USSR had nuclear missiles aimed at the USA. The USA had nuclear missiles aimed at the USSR. I grew up in the 1960s. We never knew when a nuclear war would start or when a Soviet Nuclear missile would come and kill us. Truly, WAR for us was just one shot away. One mistake, one miscalculation, would cause the destruction of the earth. But love, LOVE, is always just a kiss away.
Thank you so much for explaining this to me ❤️
In regard to the guitar solo, now that you mention it, I think the recording engineer left it a bit "back in the mix". In other words, he didn't bring the solo forward and make it more prominent than the rest of the music, which would be customary in order to "show it off", so to speak. So because it was not brought forward, it would tend to sound as though it were coming from a distance. That is so cool that you noticed that!
Hoping your health improves Inna. Love the reaction. I hope you can react to the Grand Funk Railroad version of this song also. It has a little harder feel to it.
Not a big Stones fan, but Gimme Shelter is one of the all time great tracks.
Harmonica.
An anti-war song from the`60`s. Still relevant today.
The looks on your face says this is one of the best songs you ever heard.
It’s a great one!
The storm is threatening...
Make Love, Not War!
Check out Sympathy for the Devil if you want to hear their more rollicking and upbeat side.
I ALWAYS LOOK AT THIS SONG AS BEING ABOUT CHOICES
React to "Angie". You won't be sorry.
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Sorry to hear you're not feeling better. Consider fasting for a day and drinking lots of fresh Rosemary tea.
Try Sympathy for the Devil
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Do Grand Funk version cover of this song done with Heavy Bass
You Can't Always Get What You Want and Gimme Shelter are actually from the same album.
I always thought that first part was an harmonica.
Watch it for the dog
I think the "first guitar solo" was actually a harmonica.
"these are heavy lyrics"
and then it was like "RA&£, MUR£#&!!!" 😳
You're weren't wrong about that 😅
React to "Şebnem Ferah-Can Kırıkları" from 2007 concert live performance, please.
Reacciona a Elvis Presley a Annie folk salad 😁😁😁 es buena
Anti war & anti stupidity song - Tool's "Right In Two". Rock on
Lots of comments about Mary Clayton's vocals on this but they all leave the very tragic fact that she was pregnant during the recording, and suffered a miscarriage just hours after the session.
Oh no, this is so sad 😞
"You" are better than any music, Inna.
Sisters of Mercy cover is in imo, better.
That's a harmonica solo followed by a guitar solo.
That is one sexy outfit
Let's see how you feel about Brown Sugar by them. I'll just say that it's rather controversial, but you'll want to dance to it.
So relevant today as it was then. When will these bloodthirsty warmongers ever stop? How can we be this far into the 21st century and not learn anything from our past?
My exact thought
Mi piace il video un po' psichedelico. Ci vorrebbe un buon contorno a base di funghetti magici trifolati ☮
What words??!? The most impactful part of the message you cant even say out loud - RAPE MURDER is just a shot away - hiw will we learn anything if words are being " erased"
This song is OK but have you seen that new tiktok dance song that's schiznit
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i have problems with this song. The sound is wonderful, that lazy, effortless sound of the Stones at their very best. So I enjoy the music. But the message is dark. Nothing wrong with that. Rape and murder happen and most musicians just pretend they don't, so it's great that the Stones put this dark stuff on a track. But how do I react to a track that has words that should make me feel one way, and at the same time has music that I love?
My favorite Stones song, though I'm not a huge fan overall. The lyrics certainly date back to the Vietnam War.
Who you don't react to spanish music as José José, Juan Gabriel, Caifanes, Mana, La Maldita Vecindad, Miguel Bose, etc?
Why don't you react to this reaction?
Those drums, Charlie! Yeah!