This doesn’t sound like it was made in the 60s

It's referencing a funeral. Line of cars painted black. Flowers and my love both never to come back. Sadness and depression after the death of a loved one.

This song must have featured in every Vietnam War movie soundtrack.

The song is about Sadness, Depression, and Loss. Understanding that, the whole song makes sense.

My favorite era of The Rolling Stones is from the 60's. I loved the "Flowers" album. They had a lot of great early hits such as "Ruby Tuesday", "Get Off Of My Cloud", "Let's Spend The Night Together", "Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Honky Tonk Women", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "Gimme Shelter", "Tumbling Dice", "Brown Sugar" etc.

When you’re going through severe grief you look around and think-how can they go on like nothing has happened how can life just go on as normal when I’ve lost my world

The sitar was a big deal for a while. Beatles used it too. The red door is a church door. Catholic, Anglican and I assume others often paint their doors red. I imagine him standing outside a church with the line of black limousines and the hearse. The young girls (a reminder of his lost love) and people passing and quickly looking away

This song was also the opening theme for the TV series "Tour Of Duty" about a group of soldiers in Vietnam. It was removed (as most of the original music score was) on the series DVD collection.

The Stones were quirky as hell. Their best songs are a little "off" in an awesome way. Plus if you ever watch Jagger perform you'll see that he defines quirky. Theres something not quite right but he demands your attention. Hes describing his feelings on the day of a funeral for someone he loved. The black cars with flowers are the funeral procession.

I remember when this song came out. I was 15 years old and I loved the music of the era. I never imagined this band lasting as long as it has. I appreciate them more and more.

The Stones were never the same after Brian Jones died. He was the heart and soul. Donovan actually became the Step-Father of Jones' son.

When you are deeply depressed or grieving and don't see an end to it, you just don't want to be reminded of happy things, like bright colors or smiling people or sunshine. The juxtaposition of that joyfulness against your own misery is just too much to bear. Sad lyrics paired with upbeat music is actually pretty common; I think it keeps a song from being too depressing to listen to, while still making a powerful emotional impact.

My second favorite Stones song. Satisfaction is first of course. What an iconic group. Have loved them for half a century.

Lady Jane a song on the Aftermath album is beautiful and very different from their other songs up to this point. It’s reminiscent of the renaissance period

Favourite Rolling Stones song. This and Sympathy for the Devil.

UK albums didn't normally put singles on albums. The most upbeat sad song ever. Eric Burdon & The Animals covered it.

In the 60s, 70s and 80s, it was not uncommon for record labels to release albums with different songs, different versions of songs, album covers and names to different regions of the world. Mostly for marketing. It was frustrating in the 70s, when college and FM stations would play songs that were not on the USA release version so if you wanted a copy, you had to buy the Import version, usually for more money. This and "Lady Jane" are two of my favorite Stones songs from the 60s.

This is about one of the directions that grief can take people. Unfortunately, not everybody can chose the path that loss puts them on.

Think of the "line of cars and they're all painted black" as the hearse and cars in a funeral procession. The key line is "I could not foresee this thing happening to you." The person, probably girlfriend, has died and his reaction, perfectly understandable, is that he wants all colour removed from the world.

This has always been just a great, *great* dark rocker. I was 16 when this was released and l still love it whenever it pops up.

I came to understand this song when my 17 year old son passed away…all my friends walked away…too hard to watch me grieve I guess…I miss my son…my heart is still black 🇨🇦🖖🏻

One of the most beautiful songs of Rolling Stones🤘

One thing to remember about The Stones, in the mid-sixties, they were cranking out singles just like The Beatles and The Beach Boys. All three bands were staples of pop radio. They have a ton of great songs from that period, definitely worth a deep dive.

Ain't no strawberry field Mick is singing about. ••• Happy New Orbit!!!

This is the song played by Wedneday Adams on the Cello in the tv series Wednesday, its brilliant.

At the end it's, "I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky" not, "...flying high in the sky"😄

This is my favourite song by the Stones. Followed by "Sympathy for the Devil". And then (strangely enough?) "Wild Horses" and "Undercover of the night". The last two quite the different vibe from the first two.

The song is about the one he loves who has died. The black cars are the funeral procession.

possibly one of the most Known Rolling Stones tunes. It has been in several films. I love to spin the vinyl 45. Try "Let's Spend The Night Together", "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "You Can't Always Get What You Want" for more Stones.

According to Bill Wyman...(Bass Player) It's a Gypsy Beat. He was fooling around in the studio playing the foot pedals on the organ. That's the origin of the song.

Lyrics are actually heartbreking. expressing tjhougts afther the death of a lover, he is wishing rest of world fetlt same as he does. And actually GREAT cover of this is by The Big Push (Ren on bass).

Something fatal has happened to his girl friend. Line of black cars, funeral.

It's pretty straight story of loss of a loved one and the funeral.

I know how to pick 'em! I must've been in a mood when I suggested it lol. I think the instrumentation fits the lyrics, though, it almost keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting to hear what he says next.

"Grim", yes very grim, one of the grimmest songs ever. "I want to see the sun, blotted out from the sky!" (The lyrics in this alleged lyric video are wrong and stupid.) Doesn't get much darker than that. And yet, if you're depressed, sometimes this song can have the opposite effect. Hard to explain why.

He's watching (or watched) the funeral procession for his love "I see a line of cars and they're all painted black. With flowers and my love both never to come back".

Another grim tune comes to mind: John Mandel's "Suicide Is Painless" (theme of M*A*S*H*)

As someone with Bipolar this song hits hard in it feels and sounds like how I feel when I'm having a rapped mood swing cycle, a rush that feels so good (music) but my mind falling into a dark place fighting the joy I feel rushing though me.

I was a young girl , but I had older brothers. This music was a constant in our home.

They had some great hits back then, check out Midnight Rambler, Sympathy for the devil, 19th nervous breakdown and so forth

With the metronomic precision of Charlie Watts in the background. With the hobo-like style of Keith Richards, and the just weirdness of Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts was an impeccably dressed GOD at the back.

Brian Jones of the Stones,like George Harrison of the Beatles were both heavily into Indian Music🎩

There's a mistake in the lyrics: they sing "I want to see the sun blotted out from the sky" and not "I don't want to see the sun flying high in the sky".

During the 60's, there was (and i think this is especially true with the introduction of psychotropic drugs) an interest in the mysticism of the East. All-things-Indian became of interest. The musical culture was not immune to this pseudo interest. Ravi Shankar (father of Nora Jones, btw), a popular sitar playing Indian musician, was propelled to tour-circuit stardom and became a tutor for George Harrison. The Beatles became devotees of an Indian swami who taught them Trancendental Meditation (though John and Paul secretly joked about wanting to slip him some LSD [and it's possible that they did]). So. There is a period in the late 60's where Rock was influenced by the ragas and often contained Indian percussion and stringed instruments. Take a little time and YT search for Ravi Shankar ragas. Listen a bit, then listen to the Beatles - Within You and Without You. Maybe this will demystify the music in this song for you. Peace -

I vividly remember being 16, sitting in a friend's living room and listening with headphones to this on a reel-to-reel mix tape and crying my heart out, both for the story being told (my dad had passed away 18 months before) and my boyfriend cheating on me. Angst as only a 16 year old can experience!

Love it❤

See this is music i grew up with. Come home after school in 9th grade , smoke a joint and play old albums like this one. Then go ride my dirtbike and smoke more pot with everybody hanging out at the dip. Guess my point is we survived without phones. Microvave ovens were the thing.

For much of the 1960s, labels would release different versions of albums in the UK vs. the US. Often the UK market wouldn't put the singles on the album (with the assumption that record buyers didn't want two copies of the same song) while in the US market, they would want as many radio hits as possible on the album, so they would often swap in singles for album-only tracks. This stopped by the late 1960s, when they started putting the same tracks on all albums.

Red is the color of appetite, so the lyrics indicate a lack of appetite for life. The black cars and flowers never coming back bring caskets to mind.

This is a #1 record sounded like in 1965

The Stones keep sounding more and more relevant.

Eric Burden and the Animals did a version of this song that will blow you away.

Can’t take my eyes of you by Andie Williams 💟☮️

Simply put, it was a commentary on the Vietnamese war

Is the word you stumbled on burgeoning? It means beginning with a bursting forth feeling such as trees with flower buds that suddenly blossom on an early Spring day or one has a new love interest & the feelings suddenly burst forward despite lingering questions as though one can't help oneself. I suggest a thesaurus to accompany any dictionary software. Thanks!

Say You Don’t Mind by Colin Blunstone. message in the box by World Party. Oracle Sisters-Asc. Scorpio or anything by Poolside. 💟☮️

Marketing, including the song made US sales balloon.

A great cover version is done by The Big Push. It's unhinged.

The song is about loss of a loved one. He doesn’t want to see anything even remotely happy except black. The Stones were struggling to make the song work musically. Bill wyman played a base line on the floor under the Hammond organ with his hands on the foot pedals giving that kind of galloping rhythm in the background. The second guitar player who was almost out of the group at this point, added a lot of the odd instrumentation to this album including the sitar on this which actually finally put the song where they wanted it to sound

It is about mental or psychological depression.

Look at the actual lyrics and he lost someone he loved and was depressed.

Want to hear off? Thought-provoking? Gotta listen to Sympathy for the Devil by the Stones!!! Great vibe, too!!

I'm not a Stones fan but I do like this song. Looking forward to James Taylor on Patreon. It's been a long time coming. 🙂

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Burgeoning. As in getting bigger

The English releases did not put Singles on the albums, as a rule.

First! Love it!

When i was a kid born in 1960 i loved the song but @ 15 starting really listening to iy. . I thought it was about a serial killer ? But fonslly read someehere it was @ one of their regular hroopies whl died af6er doing hard drugs with some band members fir the first time snd @ how Mick felt guilty it happened with sone member of the group and going to her funeral. Hiwever ?

I hear what your saying the upbeat music to very dark lyrics. But to me, the rushing racing sound of the music felt more like he was fed up and angry about loss. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ANGIE

Burgeoning = flourishing. The Stones like the Beatles were influenced by India.

The lyrics really sound like depression. And you are right the music does not feel dark at all. Mysterious, yes. It kinda was a thing in the '60s and '70s.....putting lyrics and music in opposite feel buckets. But if you want music and lyrics painting a dark picture check out "Starless" from the 1974 album Red by King Crimson. It is the epitome of clinical depression. (of course, I just remembered KC blocks EVERYTHING; so, never mind unless on Patreon)

Oh, Sal... are you planning on doing any more of the Saturday Evening get-togethers?

Only thing about this animation is a mistake in the lyrics. I wanna see the sun Blotted out from the sky has been replaced by Don't wanna see the sun Flyin' high in the sky There is a 'medieval' cover of Paint It Black.

They have such great music. Living in Chicago feeling my best rocking this song headed to my hotel suite on lake shore drive. I lost control . Did a complete 360 . Sober up automatically. Great choice of a song . Driving under a influence is definitely a no, no.

Whoever made the video got the lyrics all wrong, it's not "I don't wanna see the sun, flying high in the sky". It should be "I wanna see the sun, blotted out from the sky".

It is different, but does not surprise me. That's the Rolling Stones.

With virtually every album released in the '60s, the UK album is different from the US version. The Stones, The Beatles, The Who..., the US albums had different tracks. By the time Aftermath was released, at least US and UK albums had the same names.

vietnam war songs and movies theme

Yeah...metal version may work

Someone he loved died

By far the best versions are by Eric Burdon.1967 - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obqZodBqvM-7pHk.html and 2008 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcuKm72Tx9vXlok.html Wow!

Vietnam brought a whole lot of images of loss

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker

burgeoning: (BUR-jun-ing): growing, expanding or developing rapidly. As in the burgeoning KZfaq reaction trend. You've probably heard it, but never saw the spelling.

It's Proto-Gothic Rock really..

Trying to figure it out without context and wrong lyrics is crazy. I know the song i know the meaning.

Putting singles tracks,until latter half of 80s,was considered to be a con as you were selling people the same tracks a second time🎩

Bad trip?

The gpc lyrics are wrong

SalvoG: Your obtuse "REACTION" here in this first week of 2024 is quite discouraging. (along with your apparent obliviousness to mangling the otherwise proper pronunciation of the word "burgeoning".) "... lyrics about grief and loss." (WIKIPEDIA) throughout a song entitled ""Paint It Black" has left you confused as to what this recording all means, both overall and emotionally, in the "AFTERMATH" (pun intended) of a loved one's death as sung of and about, here by its singer? That death can leave oneself only seeing its black hole, its darkness overwhelming, regardless that the colors of everyday life still abide, remain ongoing, ie. the girls in their summer clothes, and which regardless, surround the grief stricken in their time of mourning? Furthermore, your stating that the music and lyrics don't quite mesh to your ears. Really? You need to take a crash course in listening to pop(ular) songs and their structure - musically & lyrically - perhaps starting with the "American Songbook" dating back, at the least, to the beginning of the TWENTIETH CENTURY" and on upwards through its musical decades.