The best Rolling Stones song indeed!
What do you think of it ?

Here the lyrics:

No good, can't speak, wound up, no sleep.
Sky diver insider her, skip rope, stunt flyer.
Wounded lover, got no time on hand.
One last cycle, thrill freak Uncle Sam.
Pause for bus'ness, hope you'll understand.
Judge and jury walk out hand in hand.
Dietrich movies, close up boogies,
Kissing cunt in Cannes.

Grotesque music, million dollar sad.
Got no tactics, got no time on hand.
Left shoe shuffle, right shoe muffle,
Sinking in the sand.
Fade out freedom, steaming heat on,
Watch that hat in black.
Finger twitching, got no time on hand.

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Very cool, deep, heavy, simple, bluesy and raw tune.

Would love to hear it live.

Loved it since I was around 14.

Lyrics are all over, but classics.  Awesome bassline and groove.  Takes me to a better place, for sure.  When Charlie goes to the cymbals, you gotta dance a little more, but you feel sad that it's nearly over (so just press repeat).

Very cool song with a great little, unpretentious sax solo.

i am also a HUGE fan of Ventilator Blues and Sweet Black Angel

That Exile is one heck of an album, eh?

It was in Keith's book, IIRC, where he said short phrases on slips of paper were cut up a la William Burroughs to come up with the lyrics to Casino Boogie.  I'm on board that the experiment worked . . .

For a song that was just a cutup and they just threw the lyrics together. It turned out great. I'm surprised they never even attempted to play this one live. The groove and the riff are great. I'm not sure they could do it justice these days if they attempted to play it. But it has to be up there with Winter as the holy grail of songs never played live.

Not the best but baby... it's on EOMS!!!

:wow

I really like this song, I'm sure the lyrics are Williams Burroughs Cut-up technique, that Bowie did a lot in the 70's, especially on "Diamond Dogs"
http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/cutup/about

Heart Of Stone wrote on Feb 12^th, 2011 at 12:19pm:

I really like this song, I'm sure the lyrics are Williams Burroughs Cut-up technique, that Bowie did a lot in the 70's, especially on "Diamond Dogs" http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/cutup/about

I didn't know that about the Diamond Dogs. But now that you mention it. Yeah it does have an interesting style that is simialar to Casino Boogie....and it's one of my favorite Bowie songs.

The MT licks toward the end seal the deal for me ...

A great song to dance to when paraletic drunk.