<Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> "You Can't Always Get What You Want" was something I just played on the acoustic guitar--one of those bedroom songs . It proved to be quite difficult to record because Charlie couldn't play the groove and so Jimmy Miller had to play the drums . I'd also had this idea of having a choir, probably a gospel choir, on the track, but there wasn't one around at that point . Jack Nitzsche, or somebody, said that we could get the London Bach Choir and we said, "That will be a laugh ." </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> In his review of the song, Richie Unterberger of AllMusic said: "If you buy John Lennon's observation that the Rolling Stones were apt to copy the Beatles' innovations within a few months or so,' You Can't Always Get What You Want' is the Rolling Stones' counterpart to' Hey Jude' ." Jagger said in 1969, "I liked the way the Beatles did that with' Hey Jude' . The orchestra was not just to cover everything up--it was something extra . We may do something like that on the next album ." </P> <P> The three verses (along with the varied theme in the fourth verse) address the major topics of the 1960s: love, politics, and drugs . Each verse captures the essence of the initial optimism and eventual disillusion, followed by the resigned pragmatism in the chorus . </P> <P> Unterberger noted: </P>

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