That was all too common back then. Society thought women needed chemical help to deal with life. In books, movies, and television shows, women were given sedatives after any sort of upset or trauma. In real life, women were prescribed uppers or downers (or both) to 'help' them get through their day.
I found this song from “The Modern Trauma Toolkit” book by Christy Gibson, MD which a phrase a before mentioning the song is “This is my overall problem with the DSM: it doesn’t acknowledge the social conditions and policies that have influenced a lot of the so-called illnesses.”
@@blackholeentry3489 Yep... Benzodiapomines and tranquilisers (benzodiapomines and tranqs) were frequently prescribed to housewives in the 60s and 70s...and I believe it's still happening today (and not just to housewives!)
I was positioning a large, heavy, and stubborn rug in my office as I was listening to the Stones. Bent at the waist, I tugged hard on the corner of the rug and suddenly pain shot through my lower back, just as Mick sings "What a drag it is getting old." You didn't have to hit it quite so hard on the head there, Mr. Jagger.
@@golem4617 you really need an explaination? In whatb world do you live? I have to agree with lastagony. The irony is though that the Stones did this song. I wonder how many tranqulizers the members of the band took, aside from other stuff...????
@@JohnBlahuta-bb2iy Haha, I am reminded of the Dennis Leary bit on Keith Richards saying kids shouldn’t use drugs: “Keith, we can't do any more drugs-because you already fcking did them all.. There are none left. We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes.”😂
In the 60s, my older sister had a bunch of 45s she used to put on the record player and they would drop and play one at a time. This was one of them. She played them so often that--at age 10--I could sing every word of this song... It was one of my favorites of all that she played... I had no idea what it was about at the time ... lol
@@gjcsoka It was NOT valium they are talking about. It is METH they are talking about. Valium is a downer. Back then the mothers all wanted uppers' not downers.
@@robertsears8323 it was ab Valium brotha. Based off the book "Mothers little helper", ab "the lazy housewife syndrome" that happened following Librium and Valium, valium specifically in the song. Good energy your guys' way, one day i hope to get off the klonopin and valium... one step at a time!!
Living in south London In 1966 I got my first paper round to buy the Aftermath LP just for this song. August 2024 and it Bill Wyman's bass still sends a tingle up and down my spine.
This was my dad's favorite Rolling Stones song. He was a Stones fan, in spite of the fact that he was born in 1897. He was 69 years old when the song came out.
@@DistantLights I'm 74 and still listen to current music, including K-Pop and J-Pop. I even went to a Taylor Swift concert not long ago. I must have got that from my dad.
"Aftermath" was the first album I ever bought as a teenager. "Mother's Little Helper" was one of my favourite tracks. The social criticism of the lyrics was quite unique back in the early 60s, besides, of course, the lyrics of Ray Davies from the Kinks.
My band's theme song. I'm 66, the guitar player is 73, the drummer is 55, and the "kid:" (rythm guitar) is 48. Old geezera playing old rock and roll. We love Etta James' Shaky Ground
Mother's little helper always makes me sleepy so I don't get much accomplished when I have to take one... Though, in all honesty, I'm not really accomplishing much when I'm having an anxiety-fueled day that requires me to take one
This was the first Rolling Stones song that really caught my attention. For me, it felt like they were starting to evolve from the usual rock and roll lyrics to actual social commentary.
The Stones hit the scene right at the right time in my life -- I was maybe 8 or 9 years old and was already hooked on Beatles tunes at that point, and then the Stones came along during some heady times for me and my family. First song I heard played on AM radio was "Satisfaction," followed by "Paint it Black." The my oldest brother went out and bought a 45 rpm record with "Mother's Little Helper" on the A-side and "Lady Jane" on the B-side, and I played both continually. LOVED both these tunes, still do almost 60 years later.
Mother had her little helper, and Father was the Miltown Man--and then they wondered where the kids got the idea of using chemicals when they felt bad, and wanted to feel good.
YES - one of the BEST STONE SONGS that NO ONE TALKS ABOUT !! just like a commenter below said. I grew up with this tune. It is really about the Plight of Women in the 60s - came out just when FEMINISM was breaking through. Pure Genius for its time.
It came out during the same time period that Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique was big. I don't know if Mick and Keith had read that book back then but they were pretty much on the same wavelength as Friedan.
What a rhythm, What a force and bitter sense of humour in the text. What a gem with the perfect synergy between Jagger wild vocals and the perfect drums of Charlie Watts
@@macduggles Lyrically, it's Keith and Mick for sure. The song is a retort to all the criticism they were getting from middle class middle aged women about Rolling Stones being a bad druggy influence and all that. Musically, nothing like this came out from the Rolling Stones after Brian died. This unique style of music seemed to die with him.
@@macduggles His use of the sitar contrasts brilliantly with Bill's bass - Light & Dark. The lyrics are all Jagger's I believe but all the other textures of the song surely makes this a whole band song!
I like the way Mick sounds in this song the most. He's using more his English accent than his pretend American accent for this song. It works really well.
I love this song, great melody and lyrics, an interesting sitar, Jagger's voice, everything is fine. But it"s Bill's bass and Charly's drumming that drive this song. Listen to it, it is so great!
I've always liked this song, even more now that I know all the words... Kind of sad, but most people do tranquilize their mind in some way or another... what a drag it is growing old.
Don't really see the connection of getting old with using drugs. People usually start using drugs when they're young and stop using when they get older because of jobs, family, and other responsibilities.
@@thersten the song is about drugs becoming popular with suburban housewives in the 1960s so "what a drag it is getting old" is commentary within that context
I was about 10 yrs old when this was popular on the radio, I'd already started experimenting with drugs and loved this song, so many hit songs from them back then.
I was SO lucky to have great parents. No drugies no alcoholics Grew up in a time when mother's little helper was her kids. Wash dishes, help with laundry, garden, shopping, or anything we could help with. And Happy to do it.
Lucky you, i did every thing for my kids. But never took pills, now again joint when they whete in bed. Or glass of wine with other mum. Great time, now most of youngsters today are on drugs for mental health. Large amount of society is.
Over half a century later this song is still relevant somehow....the Stones will never die or grow old. The mothers then, the ones after, and the ones even now can relate I'm sure...even though many of the more recent ones were never married, the struggle still remains. I'll do this song in karaoke May 8th and dedicate it to the past 3 generations of medicated mothers. And I've always loved that goofy sounding lick: .dwar-der-dar-der-de-der.... it's so zweirb and mesmerizing.
Especially since women had few prospects. Nurse or stewardess? Couldn't own property by themselves. Couldn't open a bank account without a man's signature. Automatically were terminated from from their jobs for being pregnant...
@@cheryellemley-mcroy6758- There were women doctors, lawyers, scientists, and such, but they had to go on epic quests to find banks or credit unions that would give them their own savings accounts (and even then, hubby or a male relative could swoop in and grab it). Employers could refuse to hire married women, and pregnancy cost many women their jobs (unless they were in domestic service and of darker hue). These educated, capable, women couldn't get loans without a man's signature. Some women managed to stay relatively sane. Others reached for the pills. When I was born, a married woman was Mrs. Husband's Name on all official documents, and even on the beauty shop waiting list. Eventually, she could be Mrs. Her First Name, Husband's Last Name. Then she could be Ms. Her First Name Husband's Last Name (and then her original surname if she wished). During that same time, women could finally have their own bank accounts without a man co-signing, and then their own credit cards.
I remember hearing this on Top of the Tops and was immediately captivated by the subtle Brian Jones riff, and the outrageousness of the lyric What a drag it is getting old. I bought their Aftermath album as soon as it came out, but IMO this track was the best on the album. The rest of the lyrics of the song are extraordinary, and the term Mother's Little Helper now has common usage within psychiatry. Although they like to project a working-class background, Jagger and Richards both had very high IQs
Its the tone in which Jagger delivers "what a drag it is getting old" that carries the song's meaning. It's like Dylan taunting older people with "something is happening but you don't know what it is."
John Phillips and Mick Jagger spent a year in John's California house shooting heroin. It was so horrible w/ feces everywhere that the place couldn't be sold. So it puts a smile of irony on my face to feel the utter hypocrisy from smug bastard Mick Jagger. Mick & Justice Scalise spent years at one of Jeff Epstein's boys ranch in Arizona reaming toddlers. The elite have great power to abuse w/ impunity. In spite of all that I do love this song.
Cita I had the worse time with Alcohol. I drank for 20 years & never built a Tolerance. Today I get buzzed on only 4-5 sips. Some Friends said maybe cause I was only 5'6' Tall. To top that of Im of IRISH decent. I called Mick ( A ROOSTER ON ACID ) cause of his energy on Stage.
my mother's little helper was Librium (another azepam) for many years. she loved it and so did I. whenever we took a trip, I picked some of her Librium tablets just to be on the save side - in case. we never had to use it ... I always returned them.
I love these new songs from these new artists like this because I get so tired of old guys saying that the only good rock songs stopped being written right around 2001. These Stone guys will prove them all wrong!
@@alvinrodriguez6998 That 'little yellow pill' is Valium 5mg. My mother was on these. It's a minor tranquillizer, and therefore 'calms you down', so no, not speed.
People today listen, if they listen at all, usually to the lyrics only. Because melodies have long ceased to exist in our culture. This is a great one, and its delivery is simple, pure and magical at the same time. I really like the words - but honestly, this is strong enough musically to work with any.
For years this music stuck in my head.Not always but it was always in the back of my head.And I couldn't find the song.I somehow knew it was Stones but.... I'm finally happy listening to this song for a 100 th time !!!!!
The song came out in the pre-hippie era, just when drugs were going mainstream. I remember it in HS, and didn't hear it again for 50 years---but it sounds exactly as I recall. (Although I couldn't make out the full lyric back then). Sadly, it's even more relevant today. (Though I was young when it came out; now it applies to me. It IS a drag getting OLD---).
The Waterloo Watermelon btw me and the Beatles were never against each other we actually got along behind the scenes also me and Yoko went to their circus and performed “yer blues”.
Hi Rolling Stones Records, Promos, and Bootlegs, I just watched and commented on a few videos I liked them a lot I recommend you to do early stones songs like, stupid girl, lady Jane, out of time, and or 19th nervous break down. Or should I say 1965-1969 songs. Other than that great content you should check me out to and comment on my videos too I would appreciate that a lot.
What a drag it is getting old..55 and I have the body of a 30 year old. It's the years, they go on and on and on, enough to make anyone run for the shelter of mother's little helper.
This burlesque end constrasts completely with the harshness of the lyrics (the banality of mental misery) and with the sincerity of the music and vocals. It's like a denial of the truth that has just been said. And then, suddenly, you begin to understand that this final "oï" is just another yellow pill... Pure genius... Perfect master piece...
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I’m 21, I’ve been listening to this song since I was a kid (parents are big stones fans) and I JUST learned what this song was about and what the lyrics are. Wow.
This song reminds me of my mom. She was diagnosed bipolar and struggled with her mental illness throughout her whole life. Just this year she finally admitted to me she accidentally OD on her meds. I was diagnosed with general anxiety, manic depression, and my primary care physician thinks I’m bipolar and should seek psychiatric help but I’m not going to let them shove meds down my throat that do nothing or worse. I did the gene testing. Every prescription they’ve prescribed me over the last 8 years hasn’t done any good for me. Talking to a therapist helps sometimes. But pills aren’t the answer to everything. And you can’t give the mentally ill drugs and hope they’re going to magically be fixed. It’s so saddening how this is instilled in medical practice today. And it’s a huge reason why many don’t seek help. Every therapist I’ve gone to has tried to prescribe me pills. Never fails.
Many people don't want to admit they even need help. Society still stigmatizes mental illness. Drugs can help with mental illness, but they are not a cure. Drugs for bipolar disorder smooth out the swings, and drugs for other conditions help keep people stable and even functioning. But they're still not as precise as we would like. (A third of the homeless population is mentally ill. With the right drugs and a safe place to stay, they could participate in society.)
When I 1st traveled to California in the late 80's I listened to this song..via cassette tape repeatedly. Then I saw The Rolling Stones @ the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Great time in my life!
I was diagnosed with bad vertigo and was in the hospital for almost a week. The pill they gave me for dizziness is yellow, though not valium. So this song has been running around my brain as it spins, for days. LOL
The stones really knew what they were writing about, some moms were really doing this behind closed doors.❤❤
That was all too common back then. Society thought women needed chemical help to deal with life. In books, movies, and television shows, women were given sedatives after any sort of upset or trauma. In real life, women were prescribed uppers or downers (or both) to 'help' them get through their day.
*most, and today is no different; only we use Antidepressants and Anti-psychotics to stop people from healing their mental woes.
@@julietfischer5056 also in those movies, a prescription of one brisk slap across the face with a small dose of “get yourself together!” 😑
@@julietfischer5056 Women still do that. Most women in your life are hopped on SSRIs or other ADs.
Not just some, a lot.
Ah, The Valium Song. My mother had her Librium in those days but whatever it takes to get you through the day.
So true i have a grandmother whos been taking Valium since the 60s.
Poor her
Hun they were released in 64
@@jeffreykjones2748 ok then the 60s just a very long time
I found this song from “The Modern Trauma Toolkit” book by Christy Gibson, MD which a phrase a before mentioning the song is “This is my overall problem with the DSM: it doesn’t acknowledge the social conditions and policies that have influenced a lot of the so-called illnesses.”
Mick and the boys never get old
Stones 4-ever...🎶
👍👍
What a remarkable song. It came fairly early in the Stones' career, but the lyrics are so mature. And they've aged well, too.
1966. Before the hippie drug culture even hit.
Valium
Hugh Mongus
@@blackholeentry3489 Yep... Benzodiapomines and tranquilisers (benzodiapomines and tranqs) were frequently prescribed to housewives in the 60s and 70s...and I believe it's still happening today (and not just to housewives!)
Benzos and tranqs for short...
I was positioning a large, heavy, and stubborn rug in my office as I was listening to the Stones. Bent at the waist, I tugged hard on the corner of the rug and suddenly pain shot through my lower back, just as Mick sings "What a drag it is getting old." You didn't have to hit it quite so hard on the head there, Mr. Jagger.
Yes I did!
@@mickjagger8439 took a gerontology class. the lady said "if you dont' use it, you lose it; it DOES shrivel up, dry up, and falls off!"
@@HeronPoint2021 Personal experience? 🤣
Yup. But, we survive. Slower moving, sometimes. Unstoppable, forever. Have a great day. ✌️
@@HeronPoint2021 Sorry for your loss 😉
the lyrics to this song are absolutely brilliant. Every word is as relevant today as it was then.
Even more so.
Explain the relevancy of the lyrics then.
@@golem4617 you really need an explaination? In whatb world do you live?
I have to agree with lastagony. The irony is though that the Stones did this song. I wonder how many tranqulizers the members of the band took, aside from other stuff...????
@@JohnBlahuta-bb2iy Haha, I am reminded of the Dennis Leary bit on Keith Richards saying kids shouldn’t use drugs: “Keith, we can't do any more drugs-because you already fcking did them all.. There are none left. We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes.”😂
@@lastagony Good one....
I’m now 63 and when I was growing up I never thought The Stones were prophets but “What a drag it is getting old!”
@funnyfarmdad9997 You ain't seen nothing yet... try 77. Every time I wake up I am surprised that I do....
Instant Cake 🎂
Frozen Steak 🥩
😂
Prince Vallium 🎉
@@carminemurray6624 Valium, just one "l" (diazepam)
Still taking Valium?
@@jeffreykjones2748 *"Speed"pharmaceutical grade amphetaminre is better - Get Shit done!*
🎵🎵 LONG LIVE THE STONES 🎶🎶🎶🎶
In the 60s, my older sister had a bunch of 45s she used to put on the record player and they would drop and play one at a time. This was one of them. She played them so often that--at age 10--I could sing every word of this song... It was one of my favorites of all that she played... I had no idea what it was about at the time ... lol
My big sister did the same, always willing to share them with me
The local radio station used to have a program called “my sisters 45s”
Это трагедия поколения. У нас такое не возможно было.
Same here
😃😃
One of their best.
The bass line is outstanding.
THE BEST STONES SONG NO ONE TALKS ABOUT.
That is because there is too much truth to it
Never heard it till now
Because there are too many great Stones songs. Their catalog is gargantuan.
@@reikaratnam not even the Tesla cover?
A truly great Stones song. If this song helped one person stay off barbiturates, then it's been worth it.
Valium
@@gjcsoka Valium is great!
@@gjcsoka Vicodin
@@gjcsoka It was NOT valium they are talking about. It is METH they are talking about. Valium is a downer. Back then the mothers all wanted uppers' not downers.
@@robertsears8323 it was ab Valium brotha. Based off the book "Mothers little helper", ab "the lazy housewife syndrome" that happened following Librium and Valium, valium specifically in the song. Good energy your guys' way, one day i hope to get off the klonopin and valium... one step at a time!!
My mom used to listen to this all the time. Now I do!
Can't get enough of this song...criminally underrated.
Oh, I have always loved it. i think I was about 9 or 10 when it came out. The early Stones were fantastic, unique
Can Not geht enough of thus pills...😄
love it
This was my mother's favorite song when I was growing up. I had no idea it was about popping pills 🙄
@@Goofygoober_84 very good Song 👌🏼
This song gets more relatable with each passing second.
Funny...sad but true.
I love all these shitty old ones
Timeless, this could be released today and be big
No. People now don't need deep and psychedelic songs, they just need some shitty pop on background to dance to.
@@watcoh fr 💀 music today ain’t even deep
People dont need drugs thats the point
Normal 80s life in the usa.normal life in europe today. Special here in germsny. We need this kind of songs more than ever.
@@Jerry1811 I needed drugs while that idiot trump was president. Now with Joe Biden I'm calm and relaxed.
My mom sang this to us when we were young in 1969 or 1970 or so...she liked this song and Angie by the Rolling Stones.
Living in south London In 1966 I got my first paper round to buy the Aftermath LP just for this song. August 2024 and it Bill Wyman's bass still sends a tingle up and down my spine.
This was my dad's favorite Rolling Stones song. He was a Stones fan, in spite of the fact that he was born in 1897. He was 69 years old when the song came out.
How was he 69 if he was born in 87?
@Dee Savage good catch. I was typing with my thumb on my phone and didn't see my transposition error. Hopefully, I corrected it.
@@robertpryor7129your dad was a real hip guy for being open enough to listen to the stones
@@DistantLights I'm 74 and still listen to current music, including K-Pop and J-Pop. I even went to a Taylor Swift concert not long ago. I must have got that from my dad.
@@robertpryor7129 Excellent man, I hope I have the same urge to discover new music as you and your dad!
"Aftermath" was the first album I ever bought as a teenager. "Mother's Little Helper" was one of my favourite tracks. The social criticism of the lyrics was quite unique back in the early 60s, besides, of course, the lyrics of Ray Davies from the Kinks.
Interesting, I always thought it has that vibe of the Kinks (Well Respected Man). Awesome!
My first was between the buttons!
Fantastic tune. Probably the closest the Stones came to making a Kinks song, another great band
What a remarkable song!!! This is exactly how life is now.
My band's theme song. I'm 66, the guitar player is 73, the drummer is 55, and the "kid:" (rythm guitar) is 48. Old geezera playing old rock and roll. We love Etta James' Shaky Ground
I really liked this song when I was a kid. Now as an adult I just want the little yellow pill and really respect this song and its lyrics.
If there were only a little yellow pill to make me young again...,😭
Don't do meth it will never be a goo thing.
Mother's little helper always makes me sleepy so I don't get much accomplished when I have to take one... Though, in all honesty, I'm not really accomplishing much when I'm having an anxiety-fueled day that requires me to take one
You said it!
@@robertsears8323I thought this song referenced nitrazipam 5mgs not meth?..
Those little yellow pills are still popular too.
Mine are blue. 10 mg 😂
@@lg316 those are the best..I get them but my tolerance went down. Now half of 1 puts me to sleep for 9 hours.
This was the first Rolling Stones song that really caught my attention. For me, it felt like they were starting to evolve from the usual rock and roll lyrics to actual social commentary.
The Stones hit the scene right at the right time in my life -- I was maybe 8 or 9 years old and was already hooked on Beatles tunes at that point, and then the Stones came along during some heady times for me and my family. First song I heard played on AM radio was "Satisfaction," followed by "Paint it Black." The my oldest brother went out and bought a 45 rpm record with "Mother's Little Helper" on the A-side and "Lady Jane" on the B-side, and I played both continually. LOVED both these tunes, still do almost 60 years later.
Bleak lyrics. So mature for such young artists.
Playing Mafia 3 and listening to this song feels nice.
Especially when you’re being chased by the cops.
I agree with you i just listened to it in my car parked at the mall as usual , and good vibe bro
Is good listen this song while I driving in mafia 3
Straight facts
@@Ayga9215 😢
Mother had her little helper, and Father was the Miltown Man--and then they wondered where the kids got the idea of using chemicals when they felt bad, and wanted to feel good.
YES - one of the BEST STONE SONGS that NO ONE TALKS ABOUT !! just like a commenter below said. I grew up with this tune. It is really about the Plight of Women in the 60s - came out just when FEMINISM was breaking through. Pure Genius for its time.
It came out during the same time period that Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique was big. I don't know if Mick and Keith had read that book back then but they were pretty much on the same wavelength as Friedan.
What a rhythm, What a force and bitter sense of humour in the text. What a gem with the perfect synergy between Jagger wild vocals and the perfect drums of Charlie Watts
God bless all these mothers.
Where would Britain be without the Rolling Stones and The Beatles? Thank God for both.
Simon and Garfunkel - also totally brilliant -I like to think 'the cavalry have arrived'
There's no god. Just talented people!
They wouldn't be, without them but I would have died for Winston Churchill, I think he was the best,ever,better then any president in the us,ever...
The generation born during the war were magic.
Let’s not forget about the kinks and the who ❤️
Bill's bass is superb here.
Yup, Bill's bass line totally wrenches the down, dismal tone of unpopularity
Mother’s little helper was Valium!
Not Valium, but more likely "Miltown," a popular drug of that era, taken to treat anxiety.
And it helps!!
Promoting the corrupted medical industry
@@stddisclaimer8020- A whole lot of other drugs.
I thought it was quaaludes
I have never paid attention to the lyrics. Really amazing. Mick and Keith are geniuses.
INDEED THEY ARE, A BAND SO TIGHT,R.I.P.BRIAN JONES
This sounds like a Brian Jones song
Yeah same I just thought it was a "spoonful of sugar" type of song with mummy treating her sick child
@@macduggles Lyrically, it's Keith and Mick for sure. The song is a retort to all the criticism they were getting from middle class middle aged women about Rolling Stones being a bad druggy influence and all that.
Musically, nothing like this came out from the Rolling Stones after Brian died. This unique style of music seemed to die with him.
@@macduggles His use of the sitar contrasts brilliantly with Bill's bass - Light & Dark. The lyrics are all Jagger's I believe but all the other textures of the song surely makes this a whole band song!
I like the way Mick sounds in this song the most. He's using more his English accent than his pretend American accent for this song. It works really well.
I love the laundry detergent box art, very appropriate.
I love this song, great melody and lyrics, an interesting sitar, Jagger's voice, everything is fine. But it"s Bill's bass and Charly's drumming that drive this song. Listen to it, it is so great!
vokarth All of these decades I've enjoyed this song, have no idea of who the 'band' is....or there is a sitar played in it.
There is no sitar. Brian played slide guitar.
I've always liked this song, even more now that I know all the words... Kind of sad, but most people do tranquilize their mind in some way or another... what a drag it is growing old.
Don't really see the connection of getting old with using drugs. People usually start using drugs when they're young and stop using when they get older because of jobs, family, and other responsibilities.
As I recall, that song came out in pre-hippie 1966, when I was YOUNG. Now I'm already OLD--and it is a drag!!!
@@thersten the song is about drugs becoming popular with suburban housewives in the 1960s so "what a drag it is getting old" is commentary within that context
@@SnotFroth that's pretty strange considering he's singing from the 3rd person perspective throughout the song.
@ all your comments are insults. Did mommy not give you enough hugs? 😭
I was about 10 yrs old when this was popular on the radio, I'd already started experimenting with drugs and loved this song, so many hit songs from them back then.
This is the Rolling Stones greatest song,and the story of my childhood.
Wow, that's really depressing
You've God damn right what would I do without shelter of Granny's little helper!!! ❤
I was SO lucky to have great parents.
No drugies no alcoholics
Grew up in a time when mother's little helper was her kids.
Wash dishes, help with laundry, garden, shopping, or anything we could help with.
And Happy to do it.
Lucky you, i did every thing for my kids.
But never took pills, now again joint when they whete in bed.
Or glass of wine with other mum.
Great time, now most of youngsters today are on drugs for mental health.
Large amount of society is.
Over half a century later this song is still relevant somehow....the Stones will never die or grow old.
The mothers then, the ones after, and the ones even now can relate I'm sure...even though many of the more recent ones were never married, the struggle still remains. I'll do this song in karaoke May 8th and dedicate it to the past 3 generations of medicated mothers.
And I've always loved that goofy sounding lick: .dwar-der-dar-der-de-der.... it's so zweirb and mesmerizing.
You do know this song is a bout bad evil mothers doing meth and abusing there families.
Being born in 1960, I was only a kid when this came out. I now sympathize with these poor ladies!
Especially since women had few prospects. Nurse or stewardess? Couldn't own property by themselves. Couldn't open a bank account without a man's signature. Automatically were terminated from from their jobs for being pregnant...
Why do you sympathize with a bunch of evil drug addicts?
@@cheryellemley-mcroy6758- There were women doctors, lawyers, scientists, and such, but they had to go on epic quests to find banks or credit unions that would give them their own savings accounts (and even then, hubby or a male relative could swoop in and grab it). Employers could refuse to hire married women, and pregnancy cost many women their jobs (unless they were in domestic service and of darker hue). These educated, capable, women couldn't get loans without a man's signature.
Some women managed to stay relatively sane. Others reached for the pills.
When I was born, a married woman was Mrs. Husband's Name on all official documents, and even on the beauty shop waiting list. Eventually, she could be Mrs. Her First Name, Husband's Last Name. Then she could be Ms. Her First Name Husband's Last Name (and then her original surname if she wished). During that same time, women could finally have their own bank accounts without a man co-signing, and then their own credit cards.
I remember hearing this on Top of the Tops and was immediately captivated by the subtle Brian Jones riff, and the outrageousness of the lyric What a drag it is getting old. I bought their Aftermath album as soon as it came out, but IMO this track was the best on the album. The rest of the lyrics of the song are extraordinary, and the term Mother's Little Helper now has common usage within psychiatry. Although they like to project a working-class background, Jagger and Richards both had very high IQs
Its the tone in which Jagger delivers "what a drag it is getting old" that carries the song's meaning. It's like Dylan taunting older people with "something is happening but you don't know what it is."
Yep. "DRAAAAG".
This is one of those songs, like Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit, that carries the message "hey, you old folks have your drugs, we have ours"
John Phillips and Mick Jagger spent a year in John's California house shooting heroin. It was so horrible w/ feces everywhere that the place couldn't be sold. So it puts a smile of irony on my face to feel the utter hypocrisy from smug bastard Mick Jagger. Mick & Justice Scalise spent years at one of Jeff Epstein's boys ranch in Arizona reaming toddlers. The elite have great power to abuse w/ impunity. In spite of all that I do love this song.
I thought of that line when Charlie died.
Rest in peace.
@@thetransmogrifer2522 Arizona?? U sure. Maybe near Sierra Vista Arizona or Flagstaff
Honestly, one of only a few Stones songs I really care to hear again. And what a brilliant one.
It's been approximatly 4 days since I've rediscovered this masterpiece and I can't get enough of it... maybe I'll overdose someday, but not today
It's a greatly underrated piece of genius
@@alansmith1840 i think it was top ten
@@thestones2789 Hi
I didn't think it was released as a single in UK
Perhaps USA ?
Cita I had the worse time with Alcohol. I drank for 20 years & never built a Tolerance. Today I get buzzed on only 4-5 sips. Some Friends said maybe cause I was only 5'6' Tall. To top that of Im of IRISH decent. I called Mick ( A ROOSTER ON ACID ) cause of his energy on Stage.
Same.
Mother's Little Helper is Vallium
Fathers little helper also 😀
Thank you I was wondering that actually I thought maybe speed they had it out that stuff like there was no tomorrow
@@diana8259 so, don't take it every day, dear sad lady ...
my mother's little helper was Librium (another azepam) for many years. she loved it and so did I. whenever we took a trip, I picked some of her Librium tablets just to be on the save side - in case. we never had to use it ... I always returned them.
It's actually libriums
I grew up listening to Stones thanks to my mother, I don't regret that! I have all their vinyls.
I love these new songs from these new artists like this because I get so tired of old guys saying that the only good rock songs stopped being written right around 2001.
These Stone guys will prove them all wrong!
I LOVE these visuals! They are gorgeous!
well you'll see them in most stones lyric videos
This WAS quite well done. Commercial grade.
The bass is all the adjectives...phenomenal, great, super, fantastic, wonderful, etc
Not such a drag anymore, rest in peace Mr Watts, you legend!
Mama taken speed little helper
@@alvinrodriguez6998 That 'little yellow pill' is Valium 5mg. My mother was on these. It's a minor tranquillizer, and therefore 'calms you down', so no, not speed.
Sus majestades satánicas por siempre! Long live The Stones. R.I.P Sir Charlie Watts 🥁💔🖤
What a fantastic song...I remember the first time I've got over it...hooked me ever since
Although I was born in the 80a I appreciate the older music!!!!
One of my favourites!
The Stones super group!! There music was a helper to get us through my times and I suppose others.
The best! ❇️. I cranked it up in my senior apartment.
Bills bass definitely makes this can’t forget Brian’s contributions
Blackened legendary track...Excelent arrangements by Brian Jones....RIP sir!
What do you mean blackened?
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@@timmytisdel4359 thank you, Timmy Tisdel
A hypnotic piece
Está canción tiene más de 50 años de lanzada y sigue vigente , saludos
People today listen, if they listen at all, usually to the lyrics only. Because melodies have long ceased to exist in our culture. This is a great one, and its delivery is simple, pure and magical at the same time. I really like the words - but honestly, this is strong enough musically to work with any.
The greatest song from the best band ever
Only a band this good could have a gem like this tucked away
What a drag it is getting old
what a draaaaaaag
Mick was only 22 when singing this lyric
For years this music stuck in my head.Not always but it was always in the back of my head.And I couldn't find the song.I somehow knew it was Stones but....
I'm finally happy listening to this song for a 100 th time !!!!!
Busy dying day...I felt every word to the core 😅😅😅😅.
What a drag of getting old ..I'm 61 years old and I prove this message
Loved this song from day one!
The song came out in the pre-hippie era, just when drugs were going mainstream. I remember it in HS, and didn't hear it again for 50 years---but it sounds exactly as I recall. (Although I couldn't make out the full lyric back then). Sadly, it's even more relevant today. (Though I was young when it came out; now it applies to me. It IS a drag getting OLD---).
I heard this song when i Washington 15 years old; now I am 74😅
Yes I’ve been waiting for this.
I didn't know you liked The Rolling Stones, John Lennon. Also, what happened to you being dead?
The Waterloo Watermelon btw me and the Beatles were never against each other we actually got along behind the scenes also me and Yoko went to their circus and performed “yer blues”.
Hi Rolling Stones Records, Promos, and Bootlegs, I just watched and commented on a few videos I liked them a lot I recommend you to do early stones songs like, stupid girl, lady Jane, out of time, and or 19th nervous break down. Or should I say 1965-1969 songs. Other than that great content you should check me out to and comment on my videos too I would appreciate that a lot.
how's the signal up there
Lucy Morningstar decent
It's funny. I loved this song when I was getting older (turning 20), and now at 77, I love it still. Some songs defy time.
What a drag it is getting old..55 and I have the body of a 30 year old. It's the years, they go on and on and on, enough to make anyone run for the shelter of mother's little helper.
Oy/OI there, U there, ya sloppy hag, save me a yellow!
Absolutely legend song , legend band , legend mother little helper ❤
This burlesque end constrasts completely with the harshness of the lyrics (the banality of mental misery) and with the sincerity of the music and vocals.
It's like a denial of the truth that has just been said.
And then, suddenly, you begin to understand that this final "oï" is just another yellow pill...
Pure genius...
Perfect master piece...
Thanks for posting this... It brings back some good memories! I used to play this in my pinto wagon, which had a great 8-track player...
Mick's rocking voice thumbs to u thumbs up
This song is so catchy, I can't stop coming back to it. Such a classic!
Much like a mother’s little helper!
@@Phillipzu 🎸🎶*epic guitar riff*
@@Shookey
Oh shit, I barely noticed it was you Shookey
I love your content dude! Been watching since your Ingul video
Big fan. Keep up the good work 💪🏻💪🏻
Those "little pills" bet me through life and whenI have had too much "life" I will take quite a few of those pills!
This Song Is From.the album Aftermath the First of their albums wich contained no covers but Only originale songs. The year Is 1965.
66
@@adriennekulcsar7734 you are right 1966.
I have MD, and it sorts me out. Thank goodness for whomever made it.
The Stones’ output from 1962 to 1972 is the only one that matters!
@@Midnight65883 Yes, but nothing after ‘81 is worth your time!
Eins meiner Lieblings Lieder von den Stones😋schon früher haben sie es gewusst 😅✌🏼
insane animation. doctor please, some more of these ! 😎
BRIAN!! QUE GENIAL FUISTE!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Why these lyrics videos are so good? Beside you know the Rolling Stones songs
for all the lyric videos you see from their music they, the stones don't get a dime for the early stuff ABKCO owns them
Per me è la canzone più bella perchè a un ritmo fantastico e qando parla non si interrompe
I’m 21, I’ve been listening to this song since I was a kid (parents are big stones fans) and I JUST learned what this song was about and what the lyrics are. Wow.
What’s the song about tho
@@ranellrowson4714 drugs yo, simple abuse of prescriptions
@@ranellrowson4714 The song is about bad moms doing meth.
It goes to show you that a person will get addicted to prescription drugs just the same as street drugs.
The lyrics are just brilliant:
"And IT helps her on her way"
"And TWO help her on her way"
"And FOUR help you through the night" ☺
Violent Femmes had it nailed, too.
This song reminds me of my mom. She was diagnosed bipolar and struggled with her mental illness throughout her whole life. Just this year she finally admitted to me she accidentally OD on her meds. I was diagnosed with general anxiety, manic depression, and my primary care physician thinks I’m bipolar and should seek psychiatric help but I’m not going to let them shove meds down my throat that do nothing or worse. I did the gene testing. Every prescription they’ve prescribed me over the last 8 years hasn’t done any good for me. Talking to a therapist helps sometimes. But pills aren’t the answer to everything. And you can’t give the mentally ill drugs and hope they’re going to magically be fixed. It’s so saddening how this is instilled in medical practice today. And it’s a huge reason why many don’t seek help. Every therapist I’ve gone to has tried to prescribe me pills. Never fails.
Good luck to you.
Many people don't want to admit they even need help. Society still stigmatizes mental illness.
Drugs can help with mental illness, but they are not a cure. Drugs for bipolar disorder smooth out the swings, and drugs for other conditions help keep people stable and even functioning. But they're still not as precise as we would like. (A third of the homeless population is mentally ill. With the right drugs and a safe place to stay, they could participate in society.)
When I 1st traveled to California in the late 80's I listened to this song..via cassette tape repeatedly. Then I saw The Rolling Stones @ the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Great time in my life!
I was diagnosed with bad vertigo and was in the hospital for almost a week. The pill they gave me for dizziness is yellow, though not valium. So this song has been running around my brain as it spins, for days. LOL
Meclizine