Suck on the Jugular

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: September 1993, November 1993-April 1994
Recording locations: Sandymount Studios, Ron Wood's home, St. Kildare, Ireland; Windmill Lane
Recording, Dublin, Ireland; & A&M Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don Was & The Glimmer Twins        Chief engineer: Don Smith
Never performed onstage

Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Darryl Jones
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood (incl. solo)
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Bernard Fowler & Ivan Neville
Organ: Ivan Neville
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Saxophone: David McMurray
Trumpet: Mark Isham
Percussion: Lenny Castro & Luis Jardim
 

Been keeping cool and lying low
Been dancing smooth and dancing slow
Keeping myself to myself, my nose is clean
But I'm a man, not a machine

All get together and feel all right    (
All get together and feel all right)
All get together and rock all night    (
All get together and rock all night)
All get together and feel all right    (
All get together and feel all right)

Get ready, for sure
Okay, let's go

Suck on the jugular

Want to change my shape and change my name
Want to get out of myself for a while but feel no shame
I love men to be men and women women
On special occasions, diving and dipping


All get together and feel all right    (
All get together and feel all right)
All get together and fuck all night    (
All get together and fuck all night)
All right

Get ready, for sure
Okay, let's go


Suck on the jugular

Yes


Okay, let's go
All right, oh no
Uh-huh, all right

All right

Let's live lasciviously, down in the muck
And when tonight's over, you're going to watch me blow and self-destruct


All get together and feel all right    (
All get together and feel all right)
All get together and feel all right    (
All get together and feel all right)
All get together and rock all night    (
All get together and rock all night)
All get together and feel all right    (
All get together and)

All get together and rock, all get together and rock

All get together and rock, all get together and rock all night


Yeah, hey
Ha, sugar

All get together and

All get together and feel all right    (
All get together and feel all right)
(All get together and rock all night)
(
All get together and feel all right)


 

TrackTalk

Mr. Watts again. I mean, it's all drums. The arrangement is all to do with the drums. Charlie laid down the beat and I said, Well, if you can keep that up for several minutes, we've got a track. Hey, no problem. And he always makes it look like it isn't.

- Keith Richards, 1994


It used to be called Holetown Prison, and we did that in Barbados near Holetown. That's what we would loosely term a groove song. I like those a lot. We did a whole bunch of those types of songs, but a lot of them didn't get on the record, 'cause it wasn't the right time to use them, really. I like those songs more than our type of ballads.

- Charlie Watts, 1994


Mick had this idea of funking it up one night. We didn't sing anything, we just starting playing. Ding, ding - that is the missle knob on the Telecaster, just hangs it at full maximum, so I'm not playing anything on it. I'm just going Ding, ding. I know it's a good sound.

- Ron Wood, 1994


Suck on the Jugular is strange harmonica-playing. It's more like a trumpet piece.

- Mick Jagger, 1994



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