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From their 4th album, Aftermath. Per pophistorydig, the song is about the funeral of a girl from her lover’s viewpoint, and he wants the color of everything to match his mood.
What’s with the comma in the title? Maybe they are saying “paint it, black!” like “hey, Mr. Black, please paint my door!” It was the record company’s idea to add the comma. Most compilations and internet radio stations remove the comma.
A cover of the music was used in the “Westworld” series aired on HBO directed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.
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There is no sense for that comma in the title
True, but that’s how The Stones chose to write it…
What have the artists said about the song?
Keith Richards explains why Brian Jones played the sitar –
Brian had pretty much given up on the guitar by then. If there was [another] instrument around, he had to be able to get something out of it. It gave the Stones on record a lot of different textures.
Was this song ever used as promotion for a video game?
Yes, the song was used for a promotional trailer for the video game Black Ops 3.
What was this song even about anyhow
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RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, CA (March 6-9, 1966)
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Paint it black
Перекрасить в чёрный цвет
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby it just happens ev’ry day
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black
Maybe then I’ll fade away
and not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facin’ up when your whole world is black
No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
If I look hard enough into the settin’ sun
My love will laugh with me before the mornin’ comes
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!
Я вижу красную дверь и я хочу перекрасить её в чёрный,
Больше никаких цветов — я хочу, чтобы всё стало чёрным.
Я вижу гуляющих девушек, одетых в летние платья,
Я должен отвернуться, пока моя темнота не рассеется.
Я вижу ряд машин, и все они чёрные,
Цветы и моя любовь никогда не вернутся.
Я вижу, как люди оборачиваются и сразу отводят взгляд,
Как и рождение детей, это происходит каждый день.
Я заглядываю в себя и вижу, что моё сердце черно,
Я вижу мою красную дверь, и она окрашена в чёрный.
Может быть, тогда я исчезну…
И мне не придётся сталкиваться с действительностью.
Это не так-то просто — принять, что весь мир стал чёрным.
Никогда больше моё зелёное море не станет темно-синим,
Я не мог предвидеть, что это случится с тобой.
Если я пристально вгляжусь в заходящее солнце,
Моя любовь будет смеяться со мной до самого утра.
Я вижу красную дверь и я хочу перекрасить её в чёрный,
Больше никаких цветов — я хочу чтобы всё стало чёрным.
Я вижу гуляющих девушек, одетых в летние платья,
Я должен отвернуться, пока моя темнота не рассеется.
Я хочу видеть все перекрашенным в чёрный,
Чёрным, как ночь, чёрным, как уголь.
Я хочу видеть солнце стёртым с неба,
Я хочу видеть все перекрашенным в чёрный.
Да!
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This is written from the viewpoint of a person who is depressed; he wants everything to turn black to match his mood. There was no specific inspiration for the lyrics. When asked at the time why he wrote a song about death, Mick Jagger replied: «I don’t know. It’s been done before. It’s not an original thought by any means. It all depends on how you do it.»
The song seems to be about a lover who died:
«I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black» — The hearse and limos.
«With flowers and my love both never to come back» — The flowers from the funeral and her in the hearse. He talks about his heart being black because of his loss.
«I could not foresee this thing happening to you» — It was an unexpected and sudden death.
«If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes» — This refers to her in Heaven.
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Daryn — Mays Landing, NJ
The Rolling Stones wrote this as a much slower, conventional soul song. When Bill Wyman began fooling around on the organ during the session doing a takeoff of their original as a spoof of music played at Jewish weddings. Co-manager Eric Easton (who had been an organist), and Charlie Watts joined in and improvised a double-time drum pattern, echoing the rhythm heard in some Middle Eastern dances. This new more upbeat rhythm was then used in the recording as a counterpoint to the morbid lyrics.
On this track, Stones guitarist Brian Jones played the sitar, which was introduced to pop music by The Beatles on their 1965 song Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). Jones made good television by balancing the instrument on his lap during appearances.
Keith Richards explained how this song came together: «We were in Fiji for about three days. They make sitars and all sorts of Indian stuff. Sitars are made out of watermelons or pumpkins or something smashed so they go hard. They’re very brittle and you have to be careful how you handle them. We had the sitars, we thought we’d try them out in the studio. To get the right sound on ‘Paint It Black’ we found the sitar fitted perfectly. We tried a guitar but you can’t bend it enough.»
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Bertrand — Paris, France
This was used as the theme song for Tour Of Duty, a CBS show about the Vietnam War that ran from 1987-1989.
On the single, there is a comma before the word «black» in the title, rendering it, «Paint It, Black.» This of course changes the context, implying that a person named «Black» is being implored to paint. While some fans interpreted this as a statement on race relations, it’s far more likely that the rogue comma was the result of a clerical error, something not uncommon in the ’60s.
Mick Jagger on the song’s psychedelic sound: «That was the time of lots of acid. It has sitars on it. It’s like the beginnings of miserable psychedelia. That’s what the Rolling Stones started — maybe we should have a revival of that.»
U2 did a cover for the 7″ B-side of «Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses,» and used some of it in live versions of «Bad.» Other artists who have covered the song include Deep Purple, Vanessa Carlton, GOB, Tea Party, Jonny Lang, Face to Face, Earth Crisis, W.A.S.P., Rage, Glenn Tipton, Elliott Smith, Eternal Afflict, Anvil, and Risa Song.
Jack Nitzsche played keyboards. Besides working with The Stones, Nitzsche arranged records for Phil Spector and scored many movies. Nitzsche had an unfortunate moment when he appeared on the TV show Cops after being arrested for waving a gun at a guy who stole his hat. He died of a heart attack in 2000 at age 63.
The Stones former manager Allen Klein owned the publishing rights to this song. In 1965, The Stones hired him and signed a deal they would later regret. With Klein controlling their money, The Stones signed over the publishing rights to all the songs they wrote up to 1969. Every time this is used in a commercial or TV show, Klein’s estate (he died in 2009) gets paid.
This is featured in the closing credits of the movie The Devil’s Advocate. It is also heard at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s movie Full Metal Jacket, where it serves as an allegory of the sorrow of the sudden death in the song relating to the emotional death of the men in the film, and of all men in war.
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Joseph — Taree, Australia
Brian Jones had a lot of input into this song, but was left off the songwriting credits (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are the credited writers). Jones did the arrangements for «Paint It Black» and many other songs around this time, but according to Keith Richards, he never presented a finished song to the group, which kept him off the credits.
Jones was a founding member of the Stones and key to their early success. He was still going strong when this song was released in 1966, but fell off a year later when his drug use caught up to him and his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, left him for Richards. By June 1969, he was a liability, and the Stones fired him. Less than a month later he drowned in his swimming pool at age 27.
His notable contributions to the group include lead guitar on «Get Off of My Cloud» and recorder on «Ruby Tuesday,» but his work on «Paint It Black» may have been his greatest musical achievement. «Brian’s sitar line not only makes the song happen but also turns it into a timeless classic,» Danny Garcia, director of the film Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones, told Songfacts.
This song was used in the movie Stir Of Echoes with Kevin Bacon. In the movie, Bacon’s character hears the first few chords of it in a memory, but could not think of the song. It drives him crazy through most of the movie.
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Mary — Phoenix, AZ
Talking on his Absolute Radio show, Stones’ co-guitarist Ronnie Wood disclosed that Keith Richards has trouble remembering how to play this song. He revealed, «We always have this moment of hesitation where we don’t know if Keith’s going to get the intro right.»
Keith Richards: «What made ‘Paint It Black’ was Bill Wyman on the organ, because it didn’t sound anything like the finished record until Bill said, ‘You go like this.'»
Ciara recorded a breathy, stirring cover for the 2015 movie, The Last Witch Hunter. The R&B star told Rolling Stone that it was a surprise for her when she got the call from Universal Publishing and Lionsgate to record the tune. «When they asked me to do this, I was like, ‘Absolutely. This would be an honor,'» she said. «I had never thought to cover this song. It was never on my radar to cover it, but when the opportunity came along, I was very thrilled, because I love what the producer Adrianne Gonzales did.»
«The direction that she went in was actually a sound I’ve always wanted to play with, and it just didn’t get any better than being able to cover a Rolling Stones song,» Ciara continued. «I feel like it pushes the edge and the limit for me, in reference to what people probably expect from me. So this was so many cool things in one. It was a huge honor, and then creatively I just got to really have some fun that I don’t usually do in my music.»
This wasn’t the only «black» hit of 1966; the Spanish group Los Bravos went to #4 US and #2 UK with «Black Is Black» that year.
In the two weeks this song was at #1 in June 1966, the #2 song was «Did You Ever Have to Make up Your Mind?» by The Lovin’ Spoonful, an American group that made inroads against the British Invasion bands with relentlessly upbeat pop songs. Their jaunty song about trying to decide between two girls was quite a contrast to «Paint It Black.»
In his 2002 book Rolling with the Stones, Bill Wyman explained that the album was intended to be the soundtrack for the never-filmed movie Back, Behind And In Front. The deal fell through when Mick Jagger met director Nicholas Ray (who directed James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause) and didn’t like him.
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Bertrand — Paris, France
In a nod to Henry Ford’s quote «you can have any color as long as it’s black,» an orchestral version was used in a 2018 Ford commercial starring Bryan Cranston. In 2020, another major brand deployed the song when Missy Elliot and H.E.R. created a new version for a Pepsi Super Bowl commercial touting Pepsi Zero Sugar’s black can. Part of the song was previewed in commercials that aired a week earlier during the Grammy Awards, where H.E.R. was a performer.
«Paint It Black» is referenced in the second verse of the 1972 song «Thirteen» by Big Star:
Won’t you tell your Dad get off my back?
Tell him what we said ’bout «Paint It Black»
Rock ‘n’ Roll is here to stay
Come inside where it’s OK
And I’ll shake you
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John — Tipperary, Ireland
Легендарная группа The Rolling Stones выпустила одну из своих самых знаменитых композиций «Paint It Black» (рус. «Покрасить это чёрным») 13 мая 1966 года.
Считается, что песня написана Миком Джаггером и Китом Ричардсом, хотя написанию риффа способствовал и Брайан Джонс.
Сингл достиг первой строчки как в хит-парадах Соединенных Штатов, так и в чартах Великобритании в 1966 году. В 2004 году журнал Rolling Stone поставил «Paint It Black» на 174?ю строчку списка «500 величайших песен всех времён».
Композиция «Paint It Black» (Нарисуй черным) является лид-синглом для альбома «Aftermath», выпущенного в апреле 1966 года. Это была уже четвертая пластинки британской рок-группы, которая помимо классического ролингстоновоского звучания, содержит в себе множество необычных музыкальных инструментов, таких как ситар, гармонь и маримба, не свойственных для использования в рок музыке. Именно ситар, использующийся для исполнения индийских классических произведений, по словам Кита Ричардса, сделал всю песню Paint It Black.
Откуда же появилась идея использовать такой редкий инструмент? Ответ прост, Брайан Джонсон, входивший в тот момент в состав группы Rolling Stones, после пребывания в доме Джорджа Харриса из Beatles увлекся этим музыкальным инструментом.
Песня снискала успех у рядовых слушателей и стала по истине культовой: от 1-ой строчки в национальных чартах США и Великобритании в 1966 году и до 174 места в списке журнала Rolling Stone «500 величайших песен всех времён» в 2004 году.
Авторами композиция являются Мик Джаггер и Кит Ричардс, заложивших в свой текст множество двусмысленных фраз. Строчка «I see a red door and I want it painted black» (Я вижу красную дверь, и я хочу раскрасить её черным цветом) не дает покоя поклонникам коллектива уже множество лет. Одни трактуют её как аллегорию на коммунизм, другие видят отсылку к входу в церковь. Если же не пытаться углубиться в скрытые смыслы, смысл песни довольно прост: печальный антагонист, после смерти возлюбленной, не может видеть, как радуются люди вокруг него, именно из-за личной трагедии он хочет выкрасить весь мир в черный цвет и лишить всех радости также, как лишили цвета жизни его.
I see a red door and I want it painted black
Я вижу красную дверь и хочу покрасить её черным
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
Никаких больше красок, я хочу, чтобы все стало черным
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
Я вижу, как девушки в летних платьях проходят мимо
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
Я отворачиваюсь, чтобы они не видели тьмы во мне
I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black
Я вижу вереницу машин и все они покрашены в черный цвет
With flowers and my love, both never to come back
Я с цветами и любовью, больше у меня не будет того и другого
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Когда люди замечают меня, они бьстро отводят взгляд
Like a newborn baby it just happens ev’ryday
Как и рождение детей, это происходит каждый день
Советую вам еще раз насладиться изначальной версией по истине демонической композиции
Мик Джаггер — вокал
Брайан Джонс — ситар
Кит Ричардс — гитара, бэк-вокал
Билл Уаймэн — бас-гитара
Чарльз Роберт Уоттс — барабаны
Джек Ницше — клавиши
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MZBLnk9YOk
Песня имеет большое количество кавер-версий.
Оркестровая версия этой песни звучит также в 1 серии 1 сезона сериала Мир Дикого запада.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juurc_U4yOY
Как и любая культовая песня, «Paint It Black» была множество раз перепета, одним из последних каверов на ставшую классической музыку, записала Ciara
Кавер-версия песни была записана певицей Сиарой для саундтрека к фильму «Последний охотник на ведьм».
Ciara — Paint it Black (The Last Witch Hunter soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI0xJ5lBxY
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Ciara — Paint It Black — UPD Crew — Choreography by Anne Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73zdDKR4Cd0