“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
by Sky Sunlight Saxon
2008 song
The Rolling Stones’ evergreen "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is one of the 1960s classics that Sky Saxon saw fit to cover on the final album of new music released during his lifetime, 2008’s truly excellent The King Of Garage Rock. The famous snarling guitar riff slices out of the speakers, sounding electrified but also leaden and inevitable. Sky, for his part, seems to know the song well and his shouted, echoing vocals give the song a wild garage rock feel that the more-professional original never had.
He only does it a couple of times but when Sky alters the lyrics it pays off well. As an example, where Mick sang, “He doesn’t smoke the same cigarettes as me” Sky impishly changes it to “He doesn’t smoke the same tea as me.” A very subtle change but an economical one: touches like this make Sky’s version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" all his own.
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is the second Stones song that Sky covered in the 2000s, after a warbling stab at "The Singer Not The Song" for a Stones tribute 7″ on Norton Records in 2004.
