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Stream songs including Stuck In the Middle With You. Stealers Wheel performing 'Stuck In The Middle With You', released originally in November, 1972.It reached 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100. After all, Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan had thrown the song together in about half an hour as a sarcastic attack on the music industry.

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We have an official Stuck In The Middle With You tab made by UG professional guitarists. Listen to Stuck In the Middle With You (Rerecorded Version) - EP by Stealers Wheel on Apple Music. Stealers Wheel was as surprised as anyone else when Stuck in the Middle With You became an international hit after its release in April 1973. “Stuck in the Middle With You” Official Music Videoĭid you miss a Certain Song? Follow me on Twitter: Certain Songs DatabaseĪ filterable, searchable & sortable somewhat up to date database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. 6 contributors total, last edit on Jun 24, 2020.

Of course, now doubt part of that was its use in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs in the mid-1990s - something that I’m required by law to mention when writing about the song - but even without that, it would still probably be remembered as a classic 70s song. Which, of course, it was: “Stuck in the Middle With You” was a massive massive hit, topping out at #6 on the Billboard Charts and #8 over in the U.K., the only time they even came close to the top 10 (though Rafferty’s awesome “Baker Street” - which I somehow totally forgot to write about, because I’m either a clown or a joker - made it to #2 a few years later), and has been a rock staple ever since, having been streamed over 400,000,000 times on Spotify. It’s quite literally a song that could only have been a hit in the early 1970s. I love how the whole song comes to a dead halt, except for a single cowbell, as Rafferty sings “pleeeeeeeease”. That’s Egan adding the harmony vocals, and either Rafferty or Egan playing a cool staccato rhythm guitar part while lead guitarist Paul Pilnick wraps his slide guitar all around the song, all of which comes together on a bridge that’s nearly as cool as the chorus.Īnd you’re proud that you’re a self-made man Oh wait, that’s not it: he’s describing a record company party where the band got signed, and how he and - presumably - his partner, Joe Egan, are the only people at the whole godsdamned party with a lick of sense, leading to one of the most well-known and parodied choruses in pop music history: Stuck in the Middle with You LyricistJoe Egan, Gerry Rafferty Well, I dont know why I came here tonight I got the feeling that something aint right Im. I’m so scared in case I fall off my chairĪnd I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs

I got the feeling that something ain’t right Well, I don’t know why I came here tonight Opening with an acoustic guitar, rumbling bass and handclap(!)-dominated rhythms, “Stuck in the Middle With You” wastes no time digging right into singer Gerry Rafferty’s dilemma: he wants to be Bob Dylan. “Stuck in the Middle With You” came out at almost the exact moment I fell in love with KYNO-AM and spent all my time listening to it, and even though I don’t think I ever bought the single, it was definitely one of my favorite songs of 1973, and looking back, it’s pretty easy to see why.