Rolling Stones Song Wakes Man Up From Coma, And Its Not Keith Richards
Then buzz it up
August 19th, 2008 at 15:00 by Shawn Lindseth
For years the Rolling Stones have been giving hope to the dead and the nearly dead. Not through their music - no, just in the fact that they can still get around reasonably well without having had an actual pulse in over thirty years. Seriously - its inspiring.
Get on that Lifetime.
OK, well sometimes the hope-giving is through their music. Take a man who was recently in a coma, for instance. His wife plugged some headphones into his ears, blasted I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, and then the guy’s ears started to tremble and bleed. That song does the exact same thing to us. It usually starts 1/3 into verse 1.
The guys ears didn’t really bleed - he miraculously woke up.
Nowadays whenever any of the Rolling Stones make the news, its for things like poon-jabbing a Russian bar-maid who’s so young she’s not entirely sure what communism actually is. Also they make the news for getting hit in the head with coconuts or something, getting those coconut-hit heads operated on (or something), and imbibing their parents by whatever means necessary.
No or something necessary for that last bit of sentence. Allegedly.
The Rolling Stones’ news-worthiness has just been stood on its ear. Suddenly they are famous for good reason. Suddenly they can be looked upon, not as gross and prunish, but as brave and overly-skinned.
Here’s what ContactMusic.com reports on the matter:
“The ROLLING STONES have been hailed unlikely life-savers after waking a British fan from a coma. Sam Carter lost consciousness after contracting severe anaemia but came to when his favourite Stones track, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction was blasted into his ears. Ironically, the single was the first the retired baker bought when he was a teenager in 1965. Carter, from Stoke, England, was given just a 30 per cent survival rate by doctors, who advised his wife Eva to play his favourite track through headphones strapped to her husband’s head. Carter says, “I suddenly had a burst of energy and knew I had a lot more life left in me and that’s when I woke up - to the sound of the first song I ever bought.”
What Contact Music didn’t tell us in there is that the man who just awoke from the coma, well he’s gonna wait until the girl Geri Halliwell woke from a coma comes of age, and then they’re gonna make ex-coma babies to the beat of an extremely mediocre soundtrack.
Incidentally, there’s a reason Contact Music didn’t tell us any of that.
A very good reason.
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August 19th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
In what way is that “ironic”, contactmusic.com?
August 19th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
[...] The Rolling Stones are reviving those who are near the brink of death. Their heavy rock ‘n roll tunes recently brought a man in a coma back to life. The man’s wife plugged headphones onto his ears and promptly blasted “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.” The man opened his eyes and was thus welcomed back into the world of living, by those who more often than not look like they are on the brink of death….have you seen Keith Richards? But seriously, this is great news for everyone who is in a coma. Don’t walk towards the light, watch, Shine a Light and you might have another chance at life. [...]