But while it is not as well-written as "Under My Thumb," "Stupid Girl" possesses an endearing and energetic snottiness that might have won the Stones a good amount of sexually frustrated young men fans who might have otherwise started to defect to the Who and the Kinks when they heard ballads like " Lady Jane." "Unlike another of the album's put-downs, "Under My Thumb," "Stupid Girl" rails and spits venom with a high school garage rock band-like intensity and with about the same level of polish and focus.
On the song, Bill Janovitz says in his review, Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Stupid Girl" is noted for its apparently degrading lyrics towards women, a claim also made about other Stones songs like " Under My Thumb". It was also issued as the B-side of the U.S. " Stupid Girl" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1966 album Aftermath. Keith Richards – acoustic guitar, electric twelve-string slide guitar, backing vocals.The song is in the key of E minor, but ends in the key of G major. Because I played an acoustic guitar as well." Richards also remembers the ending of the song being the idea of Bill Wyman, who also contributed a powerful and distinctive bass riff. Then we had a riff that tied the whole thing together. And it was just one of those things where someone walked in and, Look, it's an electric 12-string. Otherwise, the song was quite vaudeville in a way. The track just needed something to make it twang. Keith Richards stated in 2002: "(The strange guitar sound is) a 12-string with a slide on it. The song is based around folksy chords and an eastern-flavoured guitar riff sounding like a sitar, but is a slide riff played on an electric 12-string. No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper Toward the end of the song, the mothers are warned: The bridge section, which is repeated, has the line: "Doctor, please/Some more of these/ Outside the Door/ She took four more." She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helperĪnd it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day. Mother needs something today to calm her downĪnd though she's not really ill, there's a little yellow pill “ Kids are different today, I hear every mother say The song begins with the line that is also heard as the last line in the repeated bridge section: "What a drag it is getting old". Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Mother's Little Helper" was recorded in Los Angeles from 3–8 December 1965. The drug in question is variously assumed to be meprobamate (Miltown), or diazepam (Valium). The song deals with the sudden popularity of prescribed calming drugs among housewives, and the potential hazards of overdose or addiction. It was released as a single in the United States and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1966. It first appeared as the opening track to the United Kingdom version of their 1966 album Aftermath. "Paint It Black" is gone, replaced as the opening track by the snotty social commentary of "Mother's Little Helper," which-when followed by "Stupid Girl," "Lady Jane," "Under My Thumb," and "Dontcha Bother Me"-is like a pentathlon of punky misogyny capped by the grinding blues jam "Goin' Home." Side Two is more emotionally varied but just as musically far-reaching, adding the poppy "Take It Or Leave It" and "What To Do" to an already strong set of tunes centered on the stunning full-length version of "Out of Time" that for ome reason had never been released in the United States before this belated reissue." Mother's Little Helper" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. The track lineup is shuffled and expanded to create a much different mood.
Prior to ABKCO's comprehensive 2006 reissue program, the US versions of the Stones' early albums were the de facto standards on CD, but particularly in the case of 1966's AFTERMATH, the UK album was very different. It's difficult for American listeners to remember this, but like the recordings of the Beatles and nearly all other British groups of the '60s, the Rolling Stones' first several albums did not make it across the Atlantic in one piece.