The Rolling Stones - Shattered - Live OFFICIAL

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[MartinJHenebury]

Most definitive rock and roll band and the best frontman of all time!

[mistaskeem]

The Rolling Stones are the purest definition of Rock & Roll.

[ryan_hald]

They’re playing the hell out of those guitars.

[thh]

Found them aged 13 or 14.... approching 60 soon. They are and will be part of my life till I'm 6 feet under ....

[ArmandoMPR]

This tour was all about reconnecting with their punkish attitude, and biting back at the young punk bands that were shitting on them. Unlike them, the Stones not only had the attitude but the talent as well.

[RazmikMattosian-feqm]

The Rolling Stones: the best name for a rock band.

[gregv]

This is a GREAT version, maybe best I've ever heard. They still did it okay at the Beacon a few years back. How can anyone rag this clip. Insane.

[jerrymarlow]

You can tell Ron and Keith were having the time of their lives rockin' this one. God bless rock and roll!

[sweetmeraki]

Bruh, I loved this gig, look at the full energy and power the band has

[kencabeen]

The GOAT. So many legendary tunes. This song simply kicks ass.

[michaelhiob]

Damn I love this band AND this killer live version of SHATTERED
(Shi-Do-Be!)🎸🎤🥁

[joannaspadea]

are kidding me, they are one of the best. stones forever, brah

[gideondingle]

I saw them on this tour in 1978 at Anaheim Stadium.It was the first concert I went 2.Tickets were $20.🎸

[Texas_C]

This is my favorite live performance of Shattered because Mick Jagger look's like he's about to have a nervous breakdown and I love when Ron Wood passes the joint to Keith Richards while they are playing and like another commenter on here said this song has a Very punk feel to it .

[sharonbre]

I like this tune cos it's about NYC.

[stevieray]

Jagger did spend a lot of time in the city not too long before he started writing the songs that would make up Some Girls, the Stones’ 1978 album that oozes a New York vibe. For the most part, the album was Jagger’s baby, as his fellow Glimmer Twin Keith Richards was preoccupied with legal issues at the time. Still, Richards’ contributions to “Shattered, ” which included the grimy main guitar riff and the “shadoobie” refrain, were integral.

In a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger spoke about the song’s origins. “In ‘Shattered, ’ Keith and Woody [Ron Wood] put a riff down, and all we had was the word ‘shattered, ’” he said. “So I just made the rest up and thought it would sound better if it were half-talked. I’d written some of my verses before I got into the studio, but I don’t like to keep singing the same thing over and over, so it changed. I was noticing that there were a lot of references to New York, so I kept it like that.”

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The New York that Jagger was referencing was a different animal from the shiny-surface, Today Show-ready haven it is now. In the Stones’ rendering, the city is a voracious living entity, fed by a heady mix of love, joy, sex, dreams, laughter, loneliness, sex and sex and sex, pride, greed, dirty dreams, and, just in case you didn’t hear Mick the first 19 times, sex. The narrator is taking the worst of it though: “And look at me, I’m in tatters.”

Some of the descriptions play up the surreal nature of the surroundings: “People dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic.” At other times, Jagger easily slips into the town’s lingo to play up this guy’s frustration: “All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter ‘bout/Shmata, shmata, shmata, I can’t give it away on Seventh avenue.” The clever repetition of words hints at the excess of everything available to the city’s denizens.

Jagger delivers this murky monologue brilliantly, his been-there, done-that cool giving way to itchy tension. “Don’t you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up?” he bellows. Things get really ugly as the song progresses: “We got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown.” “Go ahead, bite the big apple, don’t mind the maggots, ” Jagger dares the listener. His final line suggests that it’s best to just go along for the tawdry ride rather than rail against the squalor: “Pile it up, pile it up/pile it high on the platter.”

Whether the “it” in that closing salvo refers to food, money, or drugs, the implication is that too much of it, while it might be pleasurable for a while, will eventually catch up to you. “Shattered” is one of The Rolling Stones most memorable depictions of street life, all the more remarkable considering that the streets in question weren’t their native ones.

[jerrymarlow]

What a jam! Been my favorites Stones since its release. What a killer version!

[markrny]

"Shedube". No one knows what the hell i means, but you can't imagine the song without it, and it's become a part of the English language. No bad. Great vid! Thanks.

[lem]

They are the best. Always true to them selves. They dont follow trends or try to do what they think ppl want, at leastvi dont think they fo. They do them and thats not a bad thing. I mean 60 yrs on stage. 70-80yrs old And they still SELL OUT STADIUMS. Not venues. Stadiums. and they are my persomal all time favorite band.

[rebeccawagner]

I love this song 🎵 ❤️, Mick and Keith are songwriting geniuses. Mick is always ready to party with the fans. Mick 1st class frontman. Your music will never, ever go out of style. Ty, for your bad ass rock and roll. 🎉🎉