You Got Me Rocking

Infobox Single
Name = You Got Me Rocking


Artist = Rolling Stones
from 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 = Jagger/Richards
Producer = Don Was & The Glimmer Twins
Reviews =
Last single = "Love Is Strong"
(1994)
This single = "You Got Me Rocking"
(1994)
Next single = "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:

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".

Track listing

*7" VS1518
#"You Got Me Rocking"
#"Jump On Top Of Me"

*12" VST1518
#"You Got Me Rocking" (Perfecto Mix)
#"You Got Me Rocking" (Sexy Disco Dub Mix)
#"You Got Me Rocking" (Trance Mix)

*Cassette VSC1518
#"You Got Me Rocking"
#"Jump On Top Of Me"

*CD VSCDE1518
#"You Got Me Rocking"
#"Jump On Top Of Me"

*CD VSCDT1518
#"You Got Me Rocking"
#"Jump On Top Of Me"
#"You Got Me Rocking" (Perfecto Mix)
#"You Got Me Rocking" (Sexy Disco Dub Mix)

*CD VSCDG1518 - digipak
#"You Got Me Rocking"
#"Jump On Top Of Me"
#"You Got Me Rocking" (Perfecto Mix)
#"You Got Me Rocking" (Sexy Disco Dub Mix)