{"id":513,"date":"2003-12-14T18:45:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=513"},"modified":"2007-02-21T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T21:51:24","slug":"dissatisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Dissatisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tire of having to straighten everybody out on everything, but really, <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2003_07_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#105729077675258743\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engel-cox.org\/iArchives\/001363.html#001363\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highclearing.com\/archivesuo\/week_2003_11_30.html#004766\">intelligent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polytropos.org\/archives\/000198.html\">bloggers<\/a> discussing great covers and not one mention of Devo&#8217;s <span class=\"booktitle\">(Can&#8217;t Get No) Satisfaction<\/span>? <span class=\"booktitle\">Satisfaction<\/span> never truly belonged to the Rolling Stones anyway. The Who might have made it their own but never the Stones, who were too smug and well-adjusted for a song so damp and anxious. The famous Keef guitar lick, great as it is, could just as well have shown up in <span class=\"booktitle\">Jumpin&#8217; Jack Flash<\/span> or <span class=\"booktitle\">Street Fighting Man<\/span>, it doesn&#8217;t fit the lyrics at all. Truth now, Mick: did some girl you were trying to make <i>ever<\/i> tell you to come back baby later next week? Devo grasps the meaning of &#8220;He can&#8217;t be a man &#8217;cause he does not smoke the same cigarettes as me.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>(<b>Update:<\/b> Props to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highclearing.com\/archivesuo\/week_2003_12_07.html#004780\">Jeff Taylor<\/a>, who lists <span class=\"booktitle\">Satisfaction<\/span> in his top five. <a href=\"http:\/\/ynot.motime.com\/1071556991#186964\">David Fiore<\/a> comments, and posts a <a href=\"http:\/\/ynot.motime.com\/1071068429#184637\">more interesting list<\/a> than any I linked in the first place. <a href=\"http:\/\/spitbull.blogspot.com\/2004_01_01_spitbull_archive.html#107337070841401384\">The Warrior Monk<\/a> plumps for the Otis Redding version.)<\/p>\n<p>(<b>More:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ianhamet.com\/archive\/2003\/12\/20031217a.html\">Ian Hamet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/foolintheforest.blogspot.com\/2003_12_14_foolintheforest_archive.html#107169469671966908\">George Wallace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/futurballa.blogspot.com\/2003_12_14_futurballa_archive.html#107168111496450890\">Rick Coencas<\/a> &#8212; yes, it&#8217;s godofthemachine.com, where the fun never stops!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tire of having to straighten everybody out on everything, but really, all these intelligent bloggers discussing great covers and not one mention of Devo&#8217;s (Can&#8217;t Get No) Satisfaction? Satisfaction never truly belonged to the Rolling Stones anyway. The Who might have made it their own but never the Stones, who were too smug and <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=513' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}