(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

The band first recorded it at Chess Studios in Chicago in May 1965, with Jones on harmonica, and re-cut it two days later at RCA Studios in Hollywood with a Maestro Fuzz-Tone on the riff. Richards said he wrote the riff in his sleep and found it on a cassette next to forty minutes of snoring. Jagger wrote the lyrics by a pool in Clearwater, Florida. Richards had wanted horns, but Oldham, engineer Dave Hassinger and the others outvoted him. John Covach wrote in 2015 that the fuzz pedal was meant as a placeholder for a horn line.

Jagger's lyric is about sexual frustration, commercialism and alienation, and it mocks an advertising voice. Jack Nitzsche played piano and tambourine, and Oldham produced.

Release and live life

London released it in the US on 4 June 1965, and it reached number one on Billboard on 10 July, staying four weeks and ending the year as Billboard's number three song. Decca released it in Britain on 20 August, and it spent two weeks at number one in September. Rolling Stone placed it second on its 2004 list of the greatest songs, and it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 and the National Recording Registry in 2006.

The band have played it on nearly every tour, 924 times by setlist.fm's count in May 2019. It appears on Got Live If You Want It!, Still Life and Shine a Light, and they performed it on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1966.