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We Love You

Written by: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Recording date and Location: 2nd - 22nd July 1967 Olympic Sound Studios London

Line-Up
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Electric guitar: Keith Richards
Bass: Bill Wyman
Drums: Charlie Watts
Mellotron (brass sounds): Brian Jones
Piano:Nicky Hopkins
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, John Lennon & Paul McCartney


We Love You

We don't care if you only love we
We don't care if you only love we

We love you
We love you
And we hope that you will love we too

We love they
We love they
And we want you to love they too

We don't care if you hound we
And love is all around we
Love can't get our minds off
We love you (we love you)

You will never win we
Your uniforms don't fit we
Forget the place we're in
Cause we love you (we love you)
Of course we do

I love you
I love you
And I hope that you approve them too

We love you - we do
We love you - we do


Producer: The Rolling Stones
Sound engineer: Glyn Johns
Second engineer: Eddie Kramer

Release date: 18th August
Producer: Andrew Oldham

Label: Decca F 12654 7“ single (Flip side Dandelion)

Note: Info taken from TIOMS, NZentgraf and the Internet



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One of my favourite Stones tracks!

It has a great, freaky atmosphere to it, and I just love that piano.

ROCKMAN

This song is up in my TOP10.......love it from the first day I heard it and still does......great intro and fibe

This is how my single looks like released in Holland


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Recorded right in the heart of the summer of love!! Did this song get a lot of AirPlay?

It was for 13 weeks in the TOP40 in my country 11 weeks in the TOP10 most of the weeks on 1 and 2....
And it was a popular song requested by people who were in yale as we had a special radio program back then in the 60's

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That's a cool cover, NICOS!

Sort of a jailbird's love song, then?

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DandelionPowderman
One of my favourite Stones tracks!

It has a great, freaky atmosphere to it, and I just love that piano.

Yeah DP, I love that piano too...and the swirling, building tension at the end.

I love so much the pre-1968 period.

Amazing track, and Nicky deserve a songwriter credit for it! The story said that he was playing the riff, and mick came in and say "can you play it in D, G...?". Great mellotron sound by Brian, gorgeous guitar by Keith.... The original 45 b/w dandelion is one of the most coherent ever. Two great tracks, very well recorded, produced and also backing vocals by John and Paul!

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"I'm gonna walk... before they make me run"

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From timeisonourside.com:

«We Love You - well it's funny. It's last month's message for this month! I had a piece off one of the Goons LP I wanted them to use for the sound of the prison gates at the beginning... We Love You was really a case of creating the music in the studio. Although Mick and Keith had the basic idea for some time».

Bill Wyman 1967

A magical, mind-altering morsel of Beatle-esque psychedelia, “We Love You” is thoroughly enchanting, thanks to Nicky’s piano (or is that Brian?), Mick’s delivery of those loopy lyrics, Brian’s mellotron “brass”, those beautiful harmonies (featuring the Glimmer Twins plus John and Paul!), Charlie’s rock-solid drumming, and even those trippy jail-house sound effects. This is 1960’s ecstatic grooviness in full flower, brothers and sisters. Just like its cousins (TSMR, Sgt Pepper’s, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, etc.), “We Love You” opens the mind and takes the listener on a magic carpet ride to another dimension. Far freakin’ out!

Drew

Yes, that piano-intro....only beaten by Nick Drakes 'Saturday Sun'....

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Nicky Hopkins on piano. Brian on mellotron.

It's not rock'n'roll to play mellotron...if it isn't Brian Jones of course...

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Okay, couldn't remember this one, these too simple lyrics, but saw Nicky Hopkins mentioned, who I love, so looked it up this a.m.

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Not my thing at this point, and besides the intro, not enough Nicky H as I hoped.
Marianne Faithful in the video was cool.

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35love
Okay, couldn't remember this one, these too simple lyrics, but saw Nicky Hopkins mentioned, who I love, so looked it up this a.m.

[youtu.be]

Not my thing at this point, and besides the intro, not enough Nicky H as I hoped.
Marianne Faithful in the video was cool.

I always found so rough they hide Nicky. He is the engine of the song, and in this video Keith is shown on the piano. Same sh*t in the Angie video, with Taylor faking the greatest piano solo ever. In Rock and Roll circus is was also hidden, only to be seen when Jagger is near his Steinway grand. I can't believe people still talk of him as a session musician, he was deep in the core of the Stones during 1967-1969. Ok, not official member, but c'mon, he's not the guy playing tabla on Gomper.

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Cock Sparrer from 1977

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Appropriately on Decca!



"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"



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I believe they should play this at their next concert in tribute to the legendary "Talk Track" feature on IORR. It would be a great gesture to their fans!

Top 10 Stones track for me...full of the chaos that made Have You Seen Your Mother and Cloud so great.
John and Paul's backing vocals are fab and Brian delivers that great stuttering mellotron. Nicky , Bill and Charlie great too.
Anyone know which mellotron setting Brian's using on this...is it mixed brass ?

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I believe they should play this at their next concert in tribute to the legendary "Talk Track" feature on IORR. It would be a great gesture to their fans!

YES!

Love this tune! Brian and, as Keith once noted, "all that Arabic riff."

I've always heard the lines as:

"We don't care if you hound we
and lock the doors around we."

To thank the fans and certain bands "We Love You" was recorded, a trippy, psychedelic song opened with heavy footsteps and clanging cell doors, the mellotron played by Brian Jones launches in and as the song progresses the sounds become more weird, BJ obviously enjoying the off-beat, Arabic brass arrengements.
One of their greatest songs IMO.

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TheBadRabbit
Love this tune! Brian and, as Keith once noted, "all that Arabic riff."

I've always heard the lines as:

"We don't care if you hound we
and lock the doors around we."

Those are the correct lines, a reference to being locked in jail.


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

I've always loved this song, I wish they would play it live.

As much as it would be nice if they were to play it live it would probably be a disaster! Yet they can do Monkey Man quite well... they're weird sometimes.

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35love
Okay, couldn't remember this one, these too simple lyrics, but saw Nicky Hopkins mentioned, who I love, so looked it up this a.m.

[youtu.be]

Not my thing at this point, and besides the intro, not enough Nicky H as I hoped.
Marianne Faithful in the video was cool.

I always found so rough they hide Nicky. He is the engine of the song, and in this video Keith is shown on the piano. Same sh*t in the Angie video, with Taylor faking the greatest piano solo ever. In Rock and Roll circus is was also hidden, only to be seen when Jagger is near his Steinway grand. I can't believe people still talk of him as a session musician, he was deep in the core of the Stones during 1967-1969. Ok, not official member, but c'mon, he's not the guy playing tabla on Gomper.

*I have no time, but wanted to respond, usually I look more into something, anyway, quick thought:
Do you think it was because how Nicky looked/ his Crohn's?
It is painful for me to see in some pics, but back then it maybe looked cocaine chic. I love Nicky Hopkins too, and dare say, it makes Exile for me.

Amazing song with intense layers of instrumentation and vocals.
When "We don't care if you hound we.." comes in half way through, Mick's vocals are at their best, and Charlie's drumming kicks it up a notch to a heavy/punky euphoria of mayhem.
Similar to the psychedelic vibe of She's a Rainbow, Dandelion, and 2,000 Light Years From Home, We Love You is a time capsule that captures the essence of that particular era nicely.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

It's distinctive at very least, particularly that Lennon and McCartney provide some back up vocals. I like that Nicky Hopkins is playing on it. But it's repetitive and doesn't develop much into something significant. Maybe they wanted to be to the point considering Mick & Keith's drug bust/arrest.

Overall it still stands out like their other 1967 singles do, but for example no where near as good as Let's Spend The Night Together/Ruby Tuesday single ...



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For does who love to see this song live played.......for years I ask for it.......looks like it won't happen............now the question..
Why....to difficult? The Intro wouldn't be the problem live I guess...........

Ant thoughts..............

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