The other day, in my current state of nagging frustration, I found myself drinking coffee pre-dawn in my kitchen listening to the ipod on shuffle and contemplating what lay ahead for another day. Just then, "No Satisfaction" by Black Mountain came up and reentered my consciousness after a lengthy absence. "Oh yeah, " I thought. "How is it that Steve Jobs always knows what I need to hear?"
No Satisfaction = Frustration.
Thanks for reminding me.
The ipod is insidious in it's ability to pull things out of the air - like a vague or general horoscope that's been programmed by you. Maybe I'm just impressionable, or find it hard to ignore coincidence.
Satisfaction is the humblest and most realistic of aspirations. It is way below the spiritual quest for enlightenment, transcendence, serenity, bliss or whatever it is we try to strive for in our lives - or maybe it's all the same. In frustration, we find these states to be transitory or just out reach. Here's some songs that look at the notion of what
satisfaction is or more often is not, and what that feeling is if we don't get what we want. So, with that said, "let's light up your town and get things happening"
Download:
"No Satisfaction" mp3
by Black Mountain, 2005.
available on
Black Mountain
"Satisfaction" mp3
by Ken Boothe, 1968.
available on
Freedom Street
"What I'll Do For Satisfaction" mp3
by Johnny Daye, 1967.
available on
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968
"I'll Be Satisfied" mp3
by Don Covay, 1965.
available on
Mercy!/See-Saw
"Just To Satisfy You" mp3
by Waylon Jennings, 1969.
available on
The Essential Waylon Jennings
"Dissatisfied" mp3
by Sonny Boy Williamson, 1957.
available on
Down and Out Blues
"Unsatisfied" mp3
by The Replacements, 1984.
available on
Let It Be
"I Can't Be Satisfied" mp3
by Muddy Waters, 1947.
available on
The Definitive Collection
"Satisfied Mind" mp3
by Jonathan Richman, 1992.
available on
Jonathan Goes Country
"Uptight / Satisfaction" mp3
by Stevie Wonder with The Rolling Stones, 1972.
available on
Keep Your Motor Runnin'
bootleg
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BONUS
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"You Can't Always Get What You Want" mp3
by The Rolling Stones, 1968.
available on
Could You Walk On Waterbootleg - different stereo mix
