Shattered

About Shattered

"Shattered" is a song by The Rolling Stones from their 1978 album Some Girls. The song is a reflection of American lifestyles and life in 1970s-era New York City, but also influences from the English punk rock movement can be heard. Recorded from October to December 1977, "Shattered" features lyrics sung in sprechgesang by Jagger on a guitar riff by Keith Richards. Jagger commented in a Rolling Stone interview that he wrote the lyrics in the back of a New York cab. Most of Richards' guitar work is a basic rhythmic pattern strumming out the alternating tonic and dominant chords with each bar, utilising a relatively modest phaser sound effect for some added depth. Due to the absence of bassist Bill Wyman, the bass track is played by Ronnie Wood. "Shattered" was released as a single in the United States with cover art by illustrator Hubert Kretzschmar and in 1979 climbed to number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Rolling Stones performed the song live for an episode of Saturday Night Live. more »

Year:

1982

4:11

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I'm shattered, I'm shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still survivin' on the street
Look at me, I'm in tatters
I'm a shattered, shattered

Friends are so alarmin' and my lover's never charmin'
Life's just a cocktail party on the street
Big Apple, people dressed in plastic bags
Directin' traffic, some kind of fashion

Laughter, joy and loneliness
And sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, I'm in tatters
I'm a shattered, shattered

All this chitter chatter, chitter chatter, chitter chatter 'bout
Tush, my tush, my tush, my tush
I can't give it away on 7th Avenue
This town's been wearin' tatters, aha
Shattered, shadoobie, shattered

Work and work for love and sex
Ain't you hungry for success, success, success
Does it matter?
I'm a shattered, does it matter?

Ahh, look at me
I'm a shattered, I'm a shattered
Look at me
I'm a shattered, yeah

Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams
And still survivin' on the street
And look at me, I'm in tatters
Yeah, I've been battered

What does it matter? Does it matter? Uh huh
Does it matter? Uh huh
I'm a shattered, shattered
Huh shadoobie, shattered, huh shadoobie, shattered
Shadoobie, shattered, shattered

Don't you know the crime rate's goin' up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough
You got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown
What a mess? This town's in tatters, I've been shattered
My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan

Shadoobie, shattered, shattered
What say? Shadoobie, shattered
Shadoobie, shattered
Shadoobie, shattered

Uh huh, this town's full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the big apple, don't mind the maggots, uh huh
Shadoobie, my brain's been battered
My friends they come around, they flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in Dartford in 1962. The earliest settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (keyboards, piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums). Since Wyman's retirement in 1993, the band's full members have been Jagger, Richards, Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood who joined in 1975. Darryl Jones (bassist) and Chuck Leavell (keyboardist) are regular contributors but not full band members. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stones in 1989, noting that "critical acclaim and popular consensus has accorded them the title of the “World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.”Rolling Stone magazine ranked them 4… more »

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