Overplayed Classic Rock Songs I'm Not Sick of (Yet): Shattered (#9)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (62442)
United States
March 14, 2018 8:50pm CST
To go along with all those "big #1 hits," I'm also counting down ten songs that you can hear daily on FM classic rock radio...and yet they haven't worn thin on me. Not yet, anyway. Here's the next song on that list.
#9: Shattered - Rolling Stones
Some people say that 1978's Some Girls was the last "great" Rolling Stones album. I don't know. I do know it's the only Stones album I've ever owned. It was played at both of my first rock concerts, and I enjoyed it, so I bought it.
Back in those days there were only three songs off this entire album that didn't get extensive airplay (the title song, because of the profanity in it; "Lies;" and "When the Whip Comes Down"). Heck, even the country-sounding "Far Away Eyes" got airplay.
Now? "Shattered" and/or "Beast of Burden." If you're lucky.
This piece of snide sarcasm about the "joys" of New York City ("they've got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown, what a mess!") is classic Stones.
Shattered
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Recorded by the Rolling Stones
From Some Girls, 1978
Go ahead, bite the big apple:
The Rolling Stones Some Girl Album released in 1978. The photos are 1970's New York City.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
15 Mar 18
I love this song! None of the classic rock stations in my city ever play it. :-(
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@dgobucks226 (34417)
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16 Mar 18
That is a great Stones song I never get tired of hearing. "Sha-doobie."
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Mar 18
Not a Stones song I would select.
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@teamfreak16 (43419)
• Denver, Colorado
15 Apr 18
If it's not the last great Stones album, it's definitely close to being so.
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