Plundered My Soul
Composers:
Mick Jagger
& Keith Richards
Recording
date: July
1971, October-November 1971 & Fall 2009
Recording
locations: Rolling
Stones Mobile Unit, Keith Richards' home, Villefranche-sur-mer,
France; One East Studio, New York City,
USA;
The
Village & Mix This!, Los Angeles, USA; & unidentified
studio, London, England
Producer: Jimmy
Miller, Don Was
& The
Glimmer Twins Chief
engineers: Glyn
Johns, Andy
Johns & Krish
Sharma
Mixer: Bob Clearmountain
Never performed onstage


Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic
guitar: Mick
Jagger
Rhythm electric guitar: Keith
Richards
Lead electric guitar: Mick
Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background
vocals: Lisa Fischer
&
Cindy Mizelle
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Saxophone: Bobby
Keys
Percussion: Mick
Jagger
Can you believe it?
I
won no medals in this love game
I've
been resting on my laurels
I'm
a bad loser, I'm a yard off my pace
Mmm, I
smelled rubber and I soon discovered
That
you'd gone for good
My
indiscretions made a bad impression
Guess
I was misunderstood
I
thought you needed my loving
But
it's my heart that you stole
I
thought you wanted my money
But
you plundered my soul
Plundered my soul
I
started asking around
But
your friends' pretty lips were sealed
I
wrote a letter full of trite confessions
About
who's the heel
I
heard some gossip you'd become an alcoholic
Going to
try it out
So
I phoned every clinic in the yellow pages
Not
a trace about
I
thought you needed my loving
But
it's my heart that you stole
I
thought you wanted my money
But
you plundered my soul
You plundered my soul
I
ain't quitting but I'm close to admitting
I'm
a sorry case
But
on quiet reflection
My
sad rejection's not a total disgrace
But
I do miss your quick repartee
And
the smile that lights up your face
You'll
be a hard act to follow, a bitter pill to swallow
You'll
be tough, you'll be tough to replace
I
thought you wanted my loving
But
it's my heart that you stole
You
were a trick up my sleeve
My
ace in the hole
I
thought you wanted my money
But
you plundered my soul
Oh
plundered my soul
Oh
yeah... (you plundered my soul)
You
plundered my soul
Yeah...
oh yeah (you plundered my soul)
Oh yes (...) (you plundered my soul)
TrackTalk
The (Exile
outtakes) weren't all recorded in the same place. Some of them I really
remembered, but some I didn't remember at all. Some of them were really
together - maybe the one you've heard, it was called Plundered My Soul,
that was perfect, you didn't have to edit, it was all perfect. Some of
the others were much more loose jams.
- Mick
Jagger, 2010
I’ve
put Mick Taylor on Plundered
My
Soul, because he wasn’t on it. I wasn’t on it, he wasn’t
on it, so
obviously we were driving to the studio when that was done (laughs)...
(I)t was very nice, it was just like the old days, you know, I just sat
Mick down and we did it like half an hour...
-
Mick Jagger, 2010
(I)t
was one of Mick's songs. It was among
the outtakes that had to be finished. Actually, some of them were
finished. But this particular song didn't have a vocal on it and it
didn't have any lead guitar. It just had Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and
Charlie Watts playing on it. So he asked me to step into the studio one
afternoon, and I did some guitar in about three or four passes. I
thought it turned out well.
-
Mick Taylor, 2012
It's
not typical of Exile on
Main Street
- it's just that it was recorded during that period. It's got backup
vocals and things on it that were done a couple of years ago. The
original track is just sort of Keith's rhythm guitar, Bill Wyman's bass
playing and Charlie Watts' drumming, and it's very raw.
-
Mick Taylor, 2012
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