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Key and Guitar style
Many years ago, I was in a music store, flipping through a Rolling Stones transcription book (staff music and tablature). According to this book, the song is in F minor, and is played on the acoustic with a capo on the third fret, playing as if the song were in D minor (which is much easier, from a guitarist's perspective, than F minor). I satisfied myself that this was correct when the intro, with its rapid little runs (D-E-F-G, F-E-D-E) proved much easier to play than in standard tuning, particularly the high G string that was once an E. Moreover, no guitarist with a brain in his head will play in a "guitar-unfriendly" key like F minor, when a capo (or a retuning) will make it easier, and allow for ringing open strings here and there. So, I believe it, but the only source I actually have a copy of, the Hot Rocks 1964-1971 "Piano/Vocal/Chords" book, only confirms that the song is in F minor, and doesn't mention the capo at all. And the book in general is a piece of shit full of errors, though "Paint It Black" seems to have escaped such a fate. Can any of this go in the article? I'm not going to waste the effort of an edit AND a reference just to establish the song's key. If I can add the bit about the capo, however, I'd be happy to, because it's so very, obviously true. I have a feeling this would be considered Original Research. --Ben Culture (talk) 23:20, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Music video
How come there is no mention of the Rolling Stones Music Video to this song? Mobile mundo (talk) 16:13, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Release date
"Paint It Black" was already on the WLS playlist during the last week of April 1966,[1] meaning the release date cannot be in May 1966.98.149.97.245 (talk) 05:50, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
- The album was out in April, so the song was already familiar.
- Your source is dated May 13 which does not conflict with a May release date. Binksternet (talk) 06:45, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
Funeral?
The lyrics: "I see a line of cars and they're all painted black, With flowers and my love both never to come back" suggest a funeral cortege. A hearse and a line of black cars and flowers and his dead love, never to come back. That might explain all the blackness and his having to turn his head when he sees other young women dressed in summer clothes. Acorrector (talk) 13:01, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Acorrector: Sources do support this. I have implemented a generalized mention of this. --TheSandDoctor Talk 04:11, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
- ^ "Silver Dollar Survey". WLS. 1966-05-14. Retrieved 2020-06-19.