The villa's basement, where many of the songs were recorded, was extremely hot and many of the guitars could not stay in tune as a result. The song's mix is notoriously haphazard, as many instruments, and even the lead vocals, fade in and out of prominence. The song also contained an early use of the word "fuck" in recorded popular music, with the lyric: "Plug in, flush out and fight and fuck and feed", a reference to the Four Fs (evolution). The sunshine bores the daylights out of me I Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene The song features a sudden divergence near the two minute fifteen second mark into a psychedelic jam of sorts, with Mick Jagger's vocals electronically distorted and phased, and the guitar chords stretched. The lyrics to the song, difficult to hear since the vocals were mixed very low, describe subjective dissociation, as if from intravenous drug injection. Overdubs and final mixing for the song were later done at Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, California between December 1971 and March 1972. Recorded between July 1971 and March 1972, "Rocks Off" is one of the songs on the album that was partially recorded at Villa NellcĂ´te, a house Keith Richards rented in the south of France during the summer and autumn of 1971. " Rocks Off" is the opening song on the Rolling Stones' 1972 double album Exile on Main St.
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