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I wanted to share this song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism - thank you to Dave Grohl @foofighters for jumping on drums, bass and guitar, it was a lot of fun working with you on this-hope you all enjoy Eazy Sleazy!

https://youtu.be/MN9YLLQl7gE

Terrible Terrible.
Just as bad as gotta get a grip and england lost.

Release all the FFSO Volumes , instead of this shite.
Fucking hell

I like it, a nice single

This could have been on exile

Thanks Mick!

You look and sound great.

Love the cockney accent. More of this please.

Not a bad tune guys. It's fun...

“Shooting the vaccine, Bill Gates is in my bloodstream”

Punk rock fun!

I like it. Some witty lyrics, plus the Clash-like* (and Trump-like) sardonic, write-off verdict on Covid: "It'll be a memory you're trying to remember to forget."

If this were a straight-up Stones video, or Mick with either Keith or Ronnie on guitar (plus Dave Grohl, drums), the critics would all be bending over to kiss its ass.

*Reminiscent of the chorus in "Career Opportunities"

thanks to iorr mr dddd

W'E TOOK IT ON THE CHIN
THE NUMBERS WERE SO GRIM
BOSSED AROUND BY PRICKS
STIFFEN UPPER LIPS
PACING IN THE YARD
YOU’RE TRYING TO TAKE THE MICK
YOU MUST THINK I'M REALLY THICK

LOOKING AT THE GRAPHS WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS
CANCEL ALL THE TOURS FOOTBALLS FAKE APPLAUSE
NO MORE TRAVEL BROCHURES
VIRTUAL PREMIERES
IVE GOT NOTHING LEFT TO WEAR

LOOKING OUT FROM THESE PRISON WALLS
YOU GOT TO ROB PETER IF YOU'RE PAYING PAUL
BUT ITS EASY EASY EVERYTHING’S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY
ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT
SOON IT LL BE BE A MEMORY YOU'RE TRYING TO REMEMBER TO FORGET

THAT'S A PRETTY MASK
BUT NEVER TAKE A CHANCE TIK TOK STUPID DANCE
TOOK A SAMBA CLASS I LANDED ON MY ASS
TRYING TO WRITE A TUNE YOU BETTER HOOK ME UP TO ZOOM
SEE MY PONCEY BOOKS TEACH MYSELF TO COOK
WAY TOO MUCH TV ITS LOBOTOMISING ME
THINK IVE PUT ON WEIGHT
ILL HAVE ANOTHER DRINK THEN ILL CLEAN THE KITCHEN SINK

WE ESCAPED FROM THE PRISON WALLS
OPEN THE WINDOWS AND OPEN THE DOORS
BUT ITS EASY EASY
EVERYTHING S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY
ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT
ITS GONNA BE A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
EASY SLEAZY ITS GONNA BE SMOOTH AND GREASY
YEAH EASY BELIEVE ME
ITLL ONLY BE A MEMORY YOU'RE TRYING TO REMEMBER
TO FORGET

SHOOTING THE VACCINE BILL GATES IS IN MY BLOODSTREAM
ITS MIND CONTROL
THE EARTH IS FLAT AND COLD ITS NEVER WARMING UP
THE ARCTICS TURNED TO SLUSH
THE SECOND COMINGS LATE
THERE'S ALIENS IN THE DEEP STATE

WE'LL ESCAPE FROM THESE PRISON WALLS
NOW WERE OUT OF THESE PRISON WALLS
YOU GOTTA PAY PETER IF YOU'RE ROBBING PAUL
BUT ITS EASY EASY EVERYTHING S GONNA BE REALLY FREAKY
ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT
WERE ALL HEADED BACK TO PARADISE
YEAH EASY BELIEVE ME
IT'LL BE A MEMORY YOU’RE TRYING TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
EASY CHEESY EVERYONE SING PLEASE PLEASE ME
IT’LL BE A MEMORY YOU'RE TRYING TO REMEMBER TO FORGET

Mick + Dave Grohl is always welcome because I always want him to embrace the fact that he can rock with the best of them rather than push the dancey stuff all the time (not that I hate that). However, the faux punk accent doesn't cut it. He long past being able to do that convincingly. Lyrics are a touch dodgy, but the more he does stuff like this, the better. It'd be nice if Grohl produced an album for him.

Snarling cockney vocals are a bit overdone and very 1977...but.....I liked the lyrics and it rocks like a bastard.

It reminds me of 'Liar' by The Sex Pistols a LOT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY7EPE9biO0

Yeah, jagger sure will get a Nobel prize for literature. But it rocks. Still, i want more FFSO Outtakes than this.
jeroen

Gazza wrote on Apr 13^th, 2021 at 12:31pm:

totally agree...I thought the same thing...coulda been an outtake from Bollocks, in a Mick kinda way...but really, horrible lyrics...good rhythm and melody otherwise

Some of you guys are taking it all too seriously ::)

Listened to it a few times (just the audio) driving to work
It’s a great fun song, love the punk vibe

You can tell Mick and Dave are having a blast, chill out

Mick Jagger Has Some Thoughts on the Pandemic, Anti-Vaxxers, and Conspiracy Theories

The Rolling Stones frontman opens up about his new song with Dave Grohl “Eazy Sleazy,” Trump “winging” the pandemic, and the “light at the end of the tunnel”

By Jason Newman
April 13,2021

Mick Jagger was sitting at home last month monitoring the coronavirus pandemic when he was struck with an idea for a new song. He was ruminating over the past year on both a personal and global level, noting that while the world remains gripped by the pandemic, a return to pre-pandemic life is inching forward. The result: “Eazy Sleazy,” a one-off track with Dave Grohl that notes the tragedies, absurdities, conspiracy theories, and hopefulness Jagger’s observed over the past year.

“Shooting the vaccine/Bill Gates is in my bloodstream/It’s mind control,” Jagger sings on the track in a verse he calls “a piss-take on conspiracy theories.” “The Earth is flat and cold/It’s never warming up/The arctics turned to slush/The second coming’s late/There’s aliens in the deep state.” Elsewhere, though, the Rolling Stones frontman exudes optimism for another Roaring Twenties. “Everything’s gonna get really freaky,” Jagger sings. “It’s gonna be a garden of earthly delights.”

After writing the music for the muscular, melodic song, Jagger sent the demo off to Grohl, who he says began working on it the next day. “It’s hard to put into words what recording this song with Sir Mick means to me,” Grohl tells Rolling Stone. “It’s beyond a dream come true.” The duo sent parts to each other back and forth over the past month, with Jagger on vocals and guitar and Grohl handling guitar, drums, and bass.

Produced by Jagger’s longtime musical collaborator Matt Clifford, the song is a more encouraging version of “England Lost” and “Gotta Get a Grip,” two politically charged tracks Jagger also released as one-offs in 2017. Jagger (who, incidentally, is fully vaccinated) hopped on the phone to discuss “Eazy Sleazy,” anti-vaxxers, and the difference between the Trump and Biden administrations.

How did the song came together?

I wrote the lyrics really quickly: Just the pandemic and hopefully coming out of the pandemic; the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel chorus. It sounded really good and I thought, “You gotta put it out now because it’s not gonna be any good in three or six months.” I said, “I’d love to do it with someone really great and is working from home.” I knew Dave and [Foo Fighters] just put out an album so I knew he got that out of the way. I phoned Dave up and said, “Dave, would you be interested?” He said [puts on American accent], “Yeah, I’m really bored!” “You just put an album out.” “I’m really bored! I want to do it. I want to work!” I said, “Fine, I’ll send you the song.” It was all done quite quickly. Dave likes it ’cause it rocks hard. I like to rock hard, too, so it feels good in that way.

What spurred you to initially write the song? Was there one particular event you saw or was it the general feeling over the past year?

I wrote most of the music first with some of the lyrics and then I just went and filled in the blanks. But yeah, it’s a reflection on the last year; the physical and mental strains put on society. The whole year, we’ve been doing this and going through different emotions through it and having false starts and stops and openings and closings. [Laughs] End of last summer, everything seemed to be going well and people were out and about and great and then, especially in Europe, everything’s shut down again and you haven’t had any kind of social interaction. It’s a long time for people to have to endure that. [Also] the deep psychological ramifications of it on people and children not going to school and not socializing. We don’t know what they’re really going to be [long-term].

What about you personally? What’s been your overarching feeling and mental state throughout the pandemic?

Just pretty much rolling with the punches. The first thing was it was all going to be over in a few weeks and then the realization [came] that that [would be] pretty quickly dampened. And then you realize that you’re in for the long haul, so you say, “I see what’s going to happen here: I’m really not going to be able to do this.” [It went from] “Maybe it’ll just be inconvenient” to “All hell broke loose.” Then you’re feeling bad about so much death stalking the world. And of course, you don’t want to be included as one of those statistics either, so you want to keep safe.

People are really suffering in some places and don’t have the advantages that we have. So you went up and down and you had to be adaptable. Obviously, I’m luckier than most. I’ve never spent so long in the country. I always had somewhere I could go outside. The idea of being locked up in an urban apartment without being able to go out — which a lot of my friends were — must have been really awful. You miss seeing people; you miss conversation; you miss interaction; you miss playing music with people. All of that was difficult. But I can’t say I had a hard time. It wasn’t what I wanted, but I was able to deal with it because I was lucky enough to be able to have these nice places to hole up in. But not everyone does.

The second verse, where you mention TikTok dances, Zoom meetings, cooking, and copious amounts of eating, drinking and cleaning, seems to both reflect what everyone’s been doing in lockdown and also make fun of it.

The first verse is about how the beginning was horrible and you couldn’t believe people were dying. It was shocking. The people in government were all talking rubbish and would change their minds every five minutes. In England, it was quite a mess and under the Trump administration, he said all kinds of nonsense. Do you remember all these things that you had to get your head around? The graphs and the numbers. Then we got to the thing where we’re living in it, so now we’ve got invitations to see new movies virtually: virtual art galleries, virtual movie premieres, virtual concerts.

And then the more experiences of the kind of general long lockdown; you see a pretty girl, but you can’t take any chances before the vaccine. And then all the silly things that you could try and do to pass the time because you feel you got to “better yourself.” Everyone tried to do something, didn’t they? Cooking and dancing and learning another language badly.

Did you better yourself at all during the pandemic?

Not really, to be honest. No. It’d be so stupid if I said, [puts on sarcastic voice] “Oh yes. I did say that I bettered myself. It was an introspective time for me.” It’s a piss-take out of all these things; I mean, you try and learn another language and all this.

When “England Lost” and “Gotta Get a Grip” came out in 2017, you talked about the “anxiety [and] unknowability of the changing political situation” and added: “We obviously have a lot of problems. So am I politically optimistic? … No.” Have you gotten more or less optimistic since then?

In the U.S., there seems to be some people who want to make things right and there is a huge opportunity, I suppose, to come out of the pandemic and realize what’s got to be done. I don’t think the last administration, you really felt that. They were just like going from one week to the next not knowing what to do. There were no plans for anything. And I think at least with this administration, there’s longterm goals and things that have to be fixed. They’re not all going to work, but at least people are trying. I’m much more optimistic about the U.S. than I was this time last year.

Right. You were clear in recent years how you were hardly a fan of Trump.

Nooo! I wasn’t a fan. [Voice rising] And I just think he just winged everything. He was just winging it. And you can’t [wing] the pandemic. That’s not what you have to do. Trump at least went and bet on all these vaccines, which was a good thing. And that was a lot of money, and it was a good bet. And the government stepped up in both [the U.S. and U.K.] in a lot of ways. The difference was the U.K., at the beginning, had a rollout, which was much better than the U.S. The U.S. rollout was just non-existent in the beginning until the Biden administration came. But of course, we’ve got so many other problems that the economy in both these countries is pretty badly hit. That’s a big hole to get out of.

Why did you decide to write about conspiracy theories?

It just seems to be that even people you know that are relatively sensible about a lot of things have one thing that they just don’t kind of get. I have several friends and relations and they go off on these things that just doesn’t… They’re just irrational. Of course, there’s no point in speaking to people about it. They don’t get it. They got what they believe in and they believe in that. And it doesn’t matter what you say, they’re gonna believe in it. And rational thought doesn’t work.

Even a country like France that prided themselves in the 18th Century on rationality is the most anti-vaccine country in Western democracy. It’s not as if [vaccines] are a new thing. When I was a child, which was a really long time ago, people would die from polio. They would just not be there the next day. And that’s been eradicated through vaccines. These poor children were either dead or crippled, and I had lots of friends like that. Would you rather have a vaccine if you had a child or would you rather their legs not work? You can’t argue with these people. So that’s how I got to the conspiracy theories; through the anti-vaxxers. Even I didn’t mention it in that verse; I probably should’ve though [since] I just went off on it. [Laughs]

Can we go back a little? You said you have “friends and relations” who were talking about conspiracy theories with you?

Oh yeah, I spoke to anti-vaxxers, yeah.

You did?

Yeah. But you can’t…

How does that even happen though? Under what circumstances does Mick Jagger talk to anti-vaxxers? Are you replying on Facebook?

No, no, just on the phone. It’s just saying to people, “When are you getting your vaccine?” Just passing the time of day. “Oh, I’m not getting it.” “OK. Why not? Are you in the queue?” “Oh no, because I don’t agree with it.” I started to realize that there really were quite a few people like that. I have a few of those. I think in this case though — a lot of people at the beginning of this kind of thing — maybe even I wouldn’t want to be the [first] to take it. After a while, some people maybe change their minds on this. But all these other ones like, “Trump won the election” and all these things, I didn’t bother putting them in [the song].

The song’s verses depict dismal situations, yet the chorus remains optimistic.

Each country’s different, but I see the amount of vaccines [increasing] and having to go through all these lockdowns and changing our minds and stop-and-start. But there seems to be, now, a light at the end of the tunnel in a lot of countries. I could see that light, so I thought I’d write a song about all the things that you’ve experienced in lockdown and now hopefully this is going to be the beginning of a bit more freedom.

Link :
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mick-jagger-new-song-dave-grohl-vaccines-1154825/

Mick is telling interviewers what they want to hear. Of course. As always...

Sure, you can easily find people who believe in the craziest theories, but
keep in mind that here is maybe the most crackpot theory in the song:

WERE ALL HEADED BACK TO PARADISE
YEAH EASY BELIEVE ME

So yes, for political reasons, Mick is spinning the song as sort of typical
corporate-left, but the lyrics are quite a bit more cutting than that.

If i had to guess, from these lyrics (not from the interviews), if Mick truly
thinks we're a) at the end of the hurricane or b) merely in the eye of the storm,
i think you can guess my guess

Gazza wrote on Apr 13^th, 2021 at 7:40pm:

Right. You were clear in recent years how you were hardly a fan of Trump.

Nooo! I wasn’t a fan. [Voice rising] And I just think he just winged everything. He was just winging it. And you can’t [wing] the pandemic. That’s not what you have to do. Trump at least went and bet on all these vaccines, which was a good thing. And that was a lot of money, and it was a good bet. And the government stepped up in both [the U.S. and U.K.] in a lot of ways. The difference was the U.K., at the beginning, had a rollout, which was much better than the U.S. The U.S. rollout was just non-existent in the beginning until the Biden administration came. But of course, we’ve got so many other problems that the economy in both these countries is pretty badly hit. That’s a big hole to get out of.

That being said I don’t agree, or believe this for a moment
We all know Mick likes to pay as little tax as possible, NOT more tax under Democrats
Just Mick more of telling the media what they want to hear
Mick should just stay non-political, doesn’t suit him

You can definitely tell Grohl's sound on Drums and guitar. Mick's vocal style and lyrics are always up for interpratation these days. But, nobody is going to reinvent the wheel at this point. Not bad and I appreciate these guys putting out new music.

I guess the music is a little better than the lyrics but not much. Maybe I'm just getting old but this song isn't exactly something that could get on Exile on Main Street.

It took me by surprise yesterday. First listening was like: Whoa, this rocks. Second listing with reading the lyrics made me really grin. This lyrics are real fun, I love it. What a shame this won't end up as a Stones-song.

exile wrote on Apr 13^th, 2021 at 5:09pm:

I am there with you on this point.
I played it in the car last evening...top down...the sweet-smelling spring air...heading home to grill...it was a fun song...just fun...the lyrics make me cringe when I pay to close attention...but its a decent enough song...nothing new/innovating...just re-hashed fun.

Paranoid Android wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 8:08am:

...just re-hashed fun.

I like dave grohl, he seems like a great guy,
who can still bash with the best of em, at the drop of a hat.
And its good to see mick so fit and well,
having punk rock fun

Easy Sleazy was a very tasty treat yesterday,
kinda like goopy french pastry,
but a bit of a funny after-taste now,
almost a little sick to my stomach...

Probably just the unfortunate timing,
interrupting (hopefully not killing) a month-long stones buzz,
the finished outtakes,
new stones music with real stones depth,
nourishing my soul.

And I thought the lyrics on YGMR were lazy and juvenile. Songs like this have about a 3 day shelf life. Anyone have Ghostown on current Playlist? Did enjoy the punk sound though....it will last me 2 more days.

Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 8:27am:

Paranoid Android wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 8:08am:

...just re-hashed fun.

Easy Sleazy was a very tasty treat yesterday,
kinda like goopy french pastry,
but a bit of a funny after-taste now,
almost a little sick to my stomach...

.

12 hours more, and now I'm puking violently

What the hell was in that pastry?!

What worries me is that i had been fully vaccinated by
the Love Volumes, and I still got this sick

Beware the EZ-21 Jagger Virus! The conspiracy people are saying
its fake, or its harmless, but they're wrong as can be. Socially distance from
this song now!

FLATTEN THE CURVE!

I heard this on the radio yesterday...same station that is currently playing Plundered My Soul...Chanel 21, LSUG (aka Little Steven's Underground Garage)...sounds fine (and fun) on the radio...but thats about it...

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 10:37am:

yep

From Mick: There's a 24hr charity auction on https://twitter.com/niftygateway at 6pm BST today for a piece of Eazy Sleazy digital art, created by 3D artist https://twitter.com/extraweg - proceeds from this will be going to a few charities picked by myself and Dave Grohl

http://www.mickjagger.com/

i wasnt entirely joking. i liked it at first, but now easy sleazy
makes me queasy, literally can't listen to it, trying to forget it.
Mick's face (in this pic from mexico) captures how it makes me feel

For one of the greatest lyricists of all time, the lyrics are pure toilet. What a pity. Blown opportunity to do something really interesting.

Pure toilet, yeah?
No mention of Vitaminn D but that'[s just a minor complaint.
Possibly his best tune since the terribly-maligned 'Let's Work.
Jacks Attack.Johns aplenty
John Lennon, John Lydon, John Cleese, John Adams etc. etc.
'Dave The Rave' on hair and 'Cliff Edge' Clifford on knobs & church organ

Happy days. Happy year.

Just when I feel we are on fire- a touch of humiliation.

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Apr 19^th, 2021 at 12:18pm:

John Lennon, John Lydon, John Cleese, John Adams etc. etc.

Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZTP8-8wIs

Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 9:34pm:

Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 8:27am:

Paranoid Android wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 8:08am:

...just re-hashed fun.

Easy Sleazy was a very tasty treat yesterday,
kinda like goopy french pastry,
but a bit of a funny after-taste now,
almost a little sick to my stomach...

.

I think it's a nice tune for the times,

Odd graph you got there, does NOT require a magnifying glass...

CHIEFMOON wrote on Apr 20^th, 2021 at 6:06am:

I think it's a nice tune for the times,

Odd graph you got there, does NOT require a magnifying glass...

yeah, i THINK its a good tune too, but then it made me FEEL sick, so i can't listen to it.

An allergic reaction? Hope my blood don't clot. It took about 18 hours for my stomach to settle.

I think what it might be is that i don't believe jagger at all when he talks about the "optimistic chorus".
I feel the entire thing is extremely dark and foreboding.

whether that's true or not, its a bummer i don't need. so i'm back safely now within the
shelter of The Love Volumes. Music that affirms just how good it is to be alive.

i'm a lucky bastard really. Whereas everybody else has to go back decades to
list their favorite 7 stones albums, 3 of my top 7 have been in the last 5 years

and two of them, love volume 1 and love volume 2 each have running times
almost as long as Exile.

Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Apr 20^th, 2021 at 8:16am:

i'm a lucky bastard really. Whereas everybody else has to go back decades to
list their favorite 7 stones albums, 3 of my top 7 have been in the last 5 years

hmm, thinking about it some more...

you can make that 4 of 8. i hereby declare my 8th favorite stones album as 2017's"On Air".
i really like how tight the band is on that record. And i really like the concept of the
Stones being on air rather than on drugs or booze.

I saw Dave Grohl join the Stones for their last Anaheim show on BITCH. Grohl really whipped his long hair up and down when he wasn’t singing (from my seat at the side of the stage I could really see it fly). This might be the first time Mick’s worked with him since.

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” — George Bernard Shaw (from his 1944 book “Everybody's Political What's What”).

Currently, this track is not listed on the Wikipedia or Discogs discographies for
either Jagger or Grohl. I'm guessing that a youtube-only song does not count as
an official release.

So future-people will not even know it existed. Lucky them.

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