Jigsaw Puzzle

"Jigsaw Puzzle" (sometimes spelled "Jig-Saw Puzzle") is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Composition Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Jigsaw Puzzle" is one of the longer songs on the album. It comes in just ten seconds shorter than "Sympathy for the Devil". Parts of the recording sessions are available on the bootleg market, and on these recordings, Jagger is on acoustic guitar, Richards on electric slide guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Bill Wyman on bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. The released version has Richards on acoustic guitar and on slide guitar, with Brian Jones playing the distinctive "whine" throughout the song on a Mellotron. "Jigsaw Puzzle" has never been performed live by the Rolling Stones. Critical reception Musical opinions have varied widely on the merits of "Jigsaw Puzzle". Journalist Richie Unterberger describes it unenthusiastically as a mere "album filler". He draws comparisons to the mid-to-late 1960s work of Bob Dylan. (Dylan's name appears among the graffiti on the album cover.) Unterberg writes "...the similarity to some of Dylan's long, wordy surreal songs of the mid-'60s is close enough that it's a little surprising 'Jigsaw Puzzle' hasn't been singled out by more listeners as being a Dylan imitation, particularly since it frankly sounds a little hackneyed in its approximation of Dylanesque weirdness." Some Dylanologists consider this song to be a direct response to the 1966, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again." The lyrics depict the observations of the singer who finds himself surrounded by "misfits and weirdos";