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Topic: Midnight Rambler Return to archive
10-19-02 01:52 PM
Mickjagger1963 can anyone give me anyt meanings/ stories about this song? I love it but I dont understnad it ... Thanks in advance.
10-19-02 02:00 PM
Child of the Moon This is a quick little thing I wrote about the song in an essay I had to write for senior AP English last year. It had to do with picking a work of art and explaining its theme. I picked the Let It Bleed album. The theme: Corruption and decay of the human soul, and how it is hard to escape from that sort of stuff.

The second side of the LP opens with sounds as ominous as �Gimme Shelter� before it: Amplifiers warming up, various studio murmurs and rumbles� then a vicious, grimy guitar riff that sounds as if it originated from a septic tank. This is �Midnight Rambler,� a lumbering Jagger/Richards collaboration focusing on a human soul gone completely bad. The protagonist of this story is the Midnight Rambler, a half-crazed serial killer/rapist who stalks his prey only at night, self-aggrandizing and brandishing various deadly weapons. The hazy narrative is told from two perspectives � first and third person. It is not clear who the omniscient storyteller is, but the first person account comes from the Midnight Rambler himself. Perhaps both perspectives are the Rambler�s, as he mutters gibberish to himself at the bus station: �Well don�t you listen for the midnight rambler/Play it easy as you go/I�m gonna smash down all your plate-glass windows/Put a fist, put a fist through your steel-plated door.� (1.6) At the end of the seven-minute long epic, the Rambler strikes, screaming and foaming at the mouth, proclaiming, �And if you ever catch the midnight rambler/I�ll steal your mistress from under your nose/I�ll go easy with your cold-fanged anger/I�ll stick my knife right down your throat, baby./And it hurts!� Only the brave listen to this song alone at night.

Hope that helps somewhat. If I ever feel like it, I might post the whole essay, if anyone wanted to read it.
10-19-02 02:05 PM
Mickjagger1963 I would kill to read it! Thanks for that so far though.
10-19-02 04:20 PM
Mickjagger1963 Anyones Else's thoughts about Midngiht Rambler ?
10-19-02 04:22 PM
Moonisup "Have you heard about the boston?"


About the boston strangler!
10-19-02 04:22 PM
Mickjagger1963 That makes sense, thanks
10-19-02 09:17 PM
gypsymofo60 Apparently it was loosely based on De Salvo.