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The Spider and the Fly (song)

Song information
NameThe Spider and the Fly
ArtistThe Rolling Stones
AlbumOut of Our Heads
Released30 July 1965 (US)
20 August 1965 (UK)
Recorded13 May 1965, RCA Studios, Hollywood
GenreRock
Length3:38
LabelLondon PS429 (stereo), LL3429 (mono)
WriterNanker Phelge
ProducerAndrew Loog Oldham
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"The Spider and the Fly" is a song by British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones first released on the US version of their 1965 album Out of Our Heads. In the UK it was released as the B side to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".

The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A low and lumbering blues number, "The Spider and the Fly" was cut by the band during their first tour of the US at Chicago's Chess Records. The lyrics talk of the search for women on a night out;|}

Singer Mick Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, "I wasn't really that mad about it, but when you listen to it on record, it still holds up quite interestingly as a blues song. It's a Jimmy Reed blues with British pop-group words, which is an interesting combination: a song somewhat stuck in a time warp."

Of particular note is the early use of the Rolling Stones' "ancient form of weaving" by guitarists Keith Richards and Brian Jones. Jagger performs harmonica on the recording while Jack Nitzsche provides percussion and keyboards.

The Stones have performed "The Spider and the Fly" twice on tour, in both 1965 and 1966 and during their 1995 leg of the Voodoo Lounge Tour. A studio "reworking" of the song was included on their 1995 live album Stripped and features the notable and amusing switch of the female subject of the song's age from thirty to fifty - a nod at the Stones' own advancing ages.

Covers were recorded by blues artist John Hammond on his 2003 album Ready For Love and Roland Van Campenhout on his 2003 album Lime & Coconut.

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The Rolling Stones

UK studio albums
1964 �1967
The Rolling Stones (1964) * The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965) * Out of Our Heads (1965) * Aftermath (1966) * Between the Buttons (1967)
US studio albums
1964 �1967
England's Newest Hit Makers (1964) * 12 X 5 (1964) * The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965) * Out of Our Heads (1965) * December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) * Aftermath (1966) * Between the Buttons (1967)
Studio albums
1967 �present
Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) * Beggars Banquet (1968) * Let It Bleed (1969) * Sticky Fingers (1971) * Exile on Main St. (1972) * Goats Head Soup (1973) * It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974) * Black and Blue (1976) * Some Girls (1978) * Emotional Rescue (1980) * Tattoo You (1981) * Undercover (1983) * Dirty Work (1986) * Steel Wheels (1989) * Voodoo Lounge (1994) * Bridges to Babylon (1997) * A Bigger Bang (2005)
UK EPsThe Rolling Stones (1964) * Five by Five (1964) * Got Live If You Want It! (1965)
Live albumsGot Live If You Want It! (US only) (1966) * Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970) * Love You Live (1977) * "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) (1982) * Flashpoint (1991) * Stripped (1995) * No Security (1998) * Live Licks (2004) * Shine a Light (2008)
CompilationsBig Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (1966) * Flowers (US) (1967) * Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969) * Made in the Shade (1975) * Time Waits for No One: Anthology 1971 �1977 (1979) * Sucking in the Seventies (1981) * Rewind (1971 �1984) (1984) * Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993) * Forty Licks (2002) * Rarities 1971 �2003 (2005) * Exile on Main St. (Rarities Edition) (2010)
Post-contract
ABKCO albums
Hot Rocks 1964 �1971 (1971) * More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) (1972) * Metamorphosis (1975) * Singles Collection: The London Years (1989) * The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) * Singles 1963 �1965 (2004) * Singles 1965 �1967 (2004) * Singles 1968 �1971 (2005) * Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (2007)
Post-contract
Decca albums
Stone Age (1971) * Gimme Shelter (1971) * Milestones (1972) * Rock 'n' Rolling Stones (1972) * No Stone Unturned (1973) * Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975) * Solid Rock (1980) * Slow Rollers (1981)
Miscellaneous albumsJamming with Edward! (1972)
Box setsThe Rolling Stones Box Set (2009)
DVD releasesStones at the Max (1992) * The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge Live (1995) * Bridges to Babylon Tour '97 �98 (1998) * Four Flicks (2003) * The Biggest Bang (2007)
DocumentariesGimme Shelter (1970) * Cocksucker Blues (1972) * Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1974) * 25x5 � The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1989) * Shine a Light (2008) * Stones in Exile (2010)
ToursEuropean Tour 1967 * American Tour 1969 * European Tour 1970 * UK Tour 1971 * American Tour 1972 * Pacific Tour 1973 * European Tour 1973 * Tour of the Americas '75 * Tour of Europe '76 * US Tour 1978 * American Tour 1981 * European Tour 1982 * Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour * Voodoo Lounge Tour * Bridges to Babylon Tour * No Security Tour * Licks Tour * A Bigger Bang Tour
CollaboratorsBlondie Chaplin * Lisa Fischer * Bernard Fowler * Nicky Hopkins * Darryl Jones * Bobby Keys * Chuck Leavell * Ian McLagan * Billy Preston * Jim Price
Producers and managementAndrew Loog Oldham * Allen Klein * Jimmy Miller * The Glimmer Twins * Steve Lillywhite * Chris Kimsey * Don Was
Related articlesDiscography * Jagger/Richards * Nanker Phelge * Rolling Stones Records * Altamont Free Concert * Rolling Stones Mobile Studio * The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus * The Mick Jagger Centre * Peter Meaden

The Rolling Stones singles discography

Decca/London singles1963: "Come On" / "I Want to Be Loved" * "I Wanna Be Your Man" / "Stoned"
1964: "Not Fade Away" / "Little by Little" (UK) * "Not Fade Away" / "I Wanna Be Your Man" (US) * "It's All Over Now" / "Good Times, Bad Times" * "Tell Me" / "I Just Want to Make Love to You" * "Time Is on My Side" / "Congratulations" * "Little Red Rooster" / "Off the Hook" * "Heart of Stone" / "What a Shame"
1965: "What a Shame" / "Heart of Stone" * "The Last Time" / "Play with Fire" * "Play with Fire" / "The Last Time" * "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (US) * "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Spider and the Fly" (UK) * "Get Off of My Cloud" / "I'm Free" (US) * "Get Off of My Cloud" / "The Singer Not the Song" (UK) * "As Tears Go By" / "Gotta Get Away"
1966: "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "As Tears Go By" (UK) * "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "Sad Day" (US) * "Paint It, Black" / "Stupid Girl" (US) * "Paint It, Black" / "Long Long While" (UK) * "Mother's Little Helper" / "Lady Jane" * "Lady Jane" / "Mother's Little Helper" * "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" / "Who's Driving Your Plane"
1967: "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday" * "Ruby Tuesday" / "Let's Spend the Night Together" * "We Love You" / "Dandelion" * "Dandelion" / "We Love You" * "In Another Land" / "The Lantern" * "She's a Rainbow" / "2000 Light Years from Home"
1968: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" / "Child of the Moon" * "Street Fighting Man" / "No Expectations" *
1969: "Honky Tonk Women" / "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Rolling Stones/Atlantic
singles
1971: "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" / "Let It Rock" (live) (UK) * "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" (US) * "Wild Horses" / "Sway" * "Street Fighting Man" / "Surprise, Surprise"
1972: "Tumbling Dice" / "Sweet Black Angel" * "Happy" / "All Down the Line"
1973: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" / "Sad Day" * "Angie" / "Silver Train" * "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" / "Dancing with Mr. D"
1974: "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" / "Through the Lonely Nights" * "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" / "Dance Little Sister"
1975: "I Don't Know Why" / "Try a Little Harder" * "Out of Time" / "Jiving Sister Fanny"
1976: "Fool to Cry" / "Crazy Mama" * "Hot Stuff" / "Fool to Cry"
Rolling Stones/Virgin
singles
1978: "Miss You" / "Far Away Eyes" * "Beast of Burden" / "When the Whip Comes Down" * "Respectable" / "When the Whip Comes Down" * "Shattered" / "Everything Is Turning to Gold"
1980: "Emotional Rescue" / "Down in the Hole" * "She's So Cold" / "Send It to Me"
1981: "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" / "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" * "Start Me Up" / "No Use In Crying" * "Waiting on a Friend" / "Little T&A" * "Little T&A" / "Waiting on a Friend"
1982: "Hang Fire" / "Neighbours" * "Going to a Go-Go" (live) / "Beast of Burden" (live) * "Time Is on My Side" (live) / "Twenty Flight Rock" (live)
1983: "Undercover of the Night" / "All the Way Down"
1984: "She Was Hot" / "Think I'm Going Mad" * "Think I'm Going Mad" / "She Was Hot" * "Too Tough" / "Miss You" * "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" * "Too Much Blood" / "Too Much Blood"
1986: "Harlem Shuffle" / "Had It With You" * "Winning Ugly" / "Winning Ugly" * "One Hit (To the Body)" / "Fight"
1989: "Mixed Emotions" / "Fancy Man Blues" * "Sad Sad Sad" / "Sad Sad Sad" * "Rock and a Hard Place" / "Cook Cook Blues"
1990: "Almost Hear You Sigh" / "Break the Spell" (US) * "Almost Hear You Sigh" / "Wish I'd Never Met You" (UK) * "Paint It, Black" / "Long Long While" * "Terrifying" / "Wish I'd Never Met You"
1991: "Highwire" / "2000 Light Years from Home" (live) * "Ruby Tuesday" (live) / "Play with Fire" (live) * "Sex Drive" / "Sex Drive"
Virgin singles1994: "Love Is Strong" / "The Storm" * "Love Is Strong" / "So Young" * "You Got Me Rocking" / "Jump On Top of Me" * "Out of Tears" / "I'm Gonna Drive" / "So Young" * "Out of Tears" / "I'm Gonna Drive" / "Sparks Will Fly"
1995: "Sparks Will Fly" / "Sparks Will Fly" * "I Go Wild" / (remixes) * "Like a Rolling Stone" (live) / "Black Limousine" / "All Down the Line"
1996: "Wild Horses" (live) / "Live with Me" (live) / "Tumbling Dice" (live)
1997: "Anybody Seen My Baby?" / (remixes) * "Flip the Switch" / "Flip the Switch"
1998: "Saint of Me" / "Gimme Shelter" / "Anyway You Look At It" * "Out of Control" / (remixes) * "Gimme Shelter" (live) / "Gimme Shelter" (live)
2002: "Don't Stop" / "Miss You" (remix)
2003: "Sympathy for the Devil" (remix) / (remixes)
2005: "Streets of Love" / "Rough Justice" * "Oh No, Not You Again" / "Oh No, Not You Again" * "Rain Fall Down" / (remixes)
2006: "Biggest Mistake" / "Dance Pt. 1" (live) / "Before They Make Me Run"
2007: "Paint It, Black"
2008: "Gimme Shelter" * "Sympathy for the Devil" * "She's a Rainbow"
2009: "Wild Horses"
2010: "Plundered My Soul" / "All Down the Line"



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