What about this - rarely discussed, but still a great song.
A very long song for it's time - probably the first > 10 min. song published on a record.
A great jamming by the guys, but still based in their blues roots.
Any opinion / anybody liking this song?






Spendin' too much time away
I can't stand another day
Maybe you think I've seen the world
But I'd rather see my girl

I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, bome, bome, bome-bome-bome,
Home, bome, bome, bome, back home
Yes, I am

All those letters ev'ry day
Maybe alright in their way
But I'd love to see your face
When I get home in their place

I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, bome, bome, bome-bome-bome,
Home, bome, bome, bome, back home
Yes, I am
Alright

I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, bome, bome, bome-bome-bome,
Home, bome, bome, bome, back home
Yes, I will

When you're three thousand miles away
I just never sleep the same
If I packed my things right now
I could be home in seven hours

I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home, bome, bome, bome-bome-bome,
Home, bome, bome, bome, back home

Yes, I will
Yes, I will
See my baby, see my baby
I wanna see my girl
I just can't wait, I just can't wait
I just can't wait, I just can't wait

I just can't wait, I just can't wait
I just can't wait, I just can't wait

I just can't wait
I'll see my baby
She'll make me feel alright

Gotta see my baby
She'll make me feel so good
She'll make me feel allright
Yes she does
In the middle of the night
So good ti ti tight

Feel allright, come on baby
I'm gonna get home babe
I feel allright
I'm lookin' for my baby
I'm gonna go in the early morning
I'm gonna catch that plane
Now it won't be long, I say
Listen to me

Long time since I've seen my baby
Yes it is
It's such a long long time
Yes it is, I feel allright
I'm gonna see my baby, one more time
I get home, I gotta get home
I wanna see my darling

I wanna make sweet sweet love
In the middle of the night
Early in the morning
In the midnight hour
She'll make me feel so good
She'll make me feel allright

When she touch my hands
And that's all I gotta say
Cause I'm gonna pack my bags
I wanna see you baby
See your face
Your pretty little smile
Your pretty clothes
Hear you talk
Come on

I'm comin' home
I'll see my baby
I'm goin' home
I'm gettin' out
To see your face
Makin' love to you baby
Yes it makes me feel so good
Inside
I feel so good inside

Touch me one more time
Come on little girl
You may look sweet
But I know you ain't
I know you ain't

great tunes--I said "Aftermath" was their Masterpiece

under the boardwalk---down by the sea

Great song indeed.........you must try this one with your eyes closed

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Yes - with the eyes closed.
When I was a kid, I always thought the songs was strange - but now I think it's just great, just like the long jamming on Midnight Rambler, Can't you hear me Knocking etc.
I think Stones are great in jamming, letting the song roll on and on.... bulding up a momentum .... and then...

Fantastic song. Sloppy but tight. Oozing with sex. Love the way the pace builds then slows, almost foreshadowing 'Heroin'. People say Aftermath pales next to Revolver but to me the whole of Revolver pales next to this epic (ok excepting Tomorrow Never Knows).

the song works better on the american version of aftermath where it's the last song

>the song works better on the american version of aftermath where it's the last song

Eh, I disagree. I like the "comeback" effect of the original UK side 2 after GH.

Great song. The early era Rambler. Would have been a great choice on the B-stage, imo.

Important song because it was one the first plus 10 minute songs puts to record, but I always kinda get bored with it by minute 8 or so. Hope I'm not killed for saying that. The best part of the song is Mick's wild vocals. I always thought Jim Morrison was ripping him off on this tune with the End etc.

Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' from 1959 have the song 'All blues' 11:33 on it...



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The Doors got the idea to make The End from the Stones' Goin' Home. I read that in Densmore's book.

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the song works better on the american version of aftermath where it's the last song

amen. The US Aftermath is a better album for that reason. And because Paint It, Black is stronger than Mother's Little Helper.

I recall hearing Goin' Home on LA AM radio in '66....but not the whole thing.

<The US Aftermath is a better album for that reason.>

No way

UK all the way .........



ROCKMAN

The song was almost directly lifted by Love and renamed Revelation for their Da Capo album released in early 67. Same plodding beat and riff but now 20 minutes long instead of 11. The Stones repaid the compliment by ripping off the title of Love's She Comes In Colours for She's A Rainbow.
I always thought Going Home should have been edited to about 6 minutes.

I was just going to mention Revelations. Arthur Lee told me in '92 that Jagger & Richards came to see them live in '65 or '66 when they were already doing an early version of it and ripped them off. I didn't believe a word of it. Much as I love Arthur Lee's work he was a pretty flaky, paranoid and somewhat bitter dude, claiming everyone owed them money.

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The Doors got the idea to make The End from the Stones' Goin' Home. I read that in Densmore's book.

Using Goin' Home to justify inclusion of the 11 minute the end is not "getting the idea" from it. There's no comparison between the two.

Besides, Desolation Row predates, Goin' Home.

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Rockman
UK all the way .........

Always happy that we can agree to disagree on this topic...especially since you are so wrong!!



Going Home is also used to great effect in Charlie Is My Darling.

I'm a U.S. Aftermath man too. UK is too long, not as tight. Doesn't have such a unified, dark mood.

I like the song and was trying to remember ...
Somebody threw something at somebody trying to get them to quit ...
but they kept on playing

Marv Peck

Y'all remember that rubber legged boy

>The song was almost directly lifted by Love and renamed Revelation for their Da Capo album released in early 67. Same plodding beat and riff but now 20 minutes long instead of 11. The Stones repaid the compliment by ripping off the title of Love's She Comes In Colours for She's A Rainbow

Right, and Love also ripped off "Gotta Get Away" for "Can't Explain" (if I recall correctly). They even use the line "you're gonna wake up in the morning and find your poor self dead" -- pretty blatant. I do love Love though.

UK all the way!

All the early sixties releases from the major brit bands are far away superior to the US versions. The US versions though have some interesting alternate mixes.

>> I like the song and was trying to remember ...
Somebody threw something at somebody trying to get them to quit <<

i love the track and this may be what you're recollecting - from ALO's 2Stoned.
he's apparently misremembering some of the details, but it's a great account of the atmosphere anyway:

"The Stones were four minutes into Going Home and to everybody it felt like a great take – the take.
But as I tapped along and looked up through the control room window into the studio I knew something was up
as Charlie looked at Keith, who didn't look back, and Bill looked at Charlie as if to say, 'I don't know either.'
I turned to Dave Hassinger. 'Dave, they don't know how to end it; they don't have a fvkkin' ending.' ...
Dave turned oh so slowly towards me and shot me a look that said, 'there ain't nothing I can do about it.'
Now at the five-minute line of Going Home, the Rolling Stones kept rocking along.
Mick's vocal was over and he crossed his arms without missing a beat. Keith curled into his guitar,
playing away any problem, not allowing anyone to catch his eye.

"As we crossed into six minutes, it was still the one, still the take, but if something didn't happen
and somebody take charge and find an ending, we could be derailed. It didn't matter
that the take had eclipsed the four-minute-tops borderline; the track was holding
and I wanted the Stones to make every second of this majestic piece releasable.
When they had mapped it out they hadn't allowed they'd nailed such a great one that fast,
and now they were a plane looking for a safe landing.

"Charlie couldn't catch Keith's eye; Keith would only let me have the sly underbelly of his ...
At seven minutes Charlie looked, I waved a circle, meaning just keep it moving. He looked at me for a few seconds,
figured it in and nodded his head. Bill heard Charlie step it up and followed him.
Brian and Keith now admitted they were playing together, stayed on the money and got on the ride.
Stu shrugged, grinned and started to glide. Mick looked for and found the right harp,
wrapped his lips around it and sucked his way into our ears forever with a triumphant groan. ...

"Charlie looked in my direction, then made the obvious suggestion by looking down at the floor.
The Stones followed suit and allowed themselves to descend to a last apres skasmic crawl.
Eleven minutes-plus on the slopes and spent; thank God we'd had enough tape between reels.
The group fell about, as well they should, exhilarated. They laughed, hugged each other and collapsed on the floor.
Going Home was done and so were we. I had just witnessed a musical moment of the forever,
the Rolling Stones having just broken the sound barrier with ease."



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2009-11-14 15:35 by with sssoul.

Nice read sssoul, thanks.

This song is what makes a big difference between Stones and other sweeter (and wonderful) bands such Beatles, beach Boys, etc.... in the middle sixties

What is the actual line-up for this track?

I always thought it was like this:
Mick - vocals (including overdubbed backing)
Keith - guitars (including overdubbed lead)
Brian - harmonica
Charlie - drums
Bill - bass

However, the ALO qoute seem to imply that it´s Brian/Keith on guitars and Mick on harmonica.
Any thoughts on this?

That's definitely Brian on harmonica. Andrew is probably misremembering a little.

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His Majesty
That's definitely Brian on harmonica. Andrew is probably misremembering a little.

Well, he was a myth-making expert...

I can't listen to it all the time but every once in a while I give it a listen and its really an intersting track.

Boring song... sorry.