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((Short description|1995 single by the Stone Roses))
((More citations needed|date=January 2016))
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((Infobox song
| name       = Begging You
| cover      = BeggingYou.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[the Stone Roses]]
| album      = [[Second Coming (The Stone Roses album)|Second Coming]]
| released   = ((start date|1995|10|30|df=y))<ref>((cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=[[Music Week]]|page=43|date=28 October 1995))</ref>
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| length     = 4:52
| label      = [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]
| writer     = [[Ian Brown]], [[John Squire]]
| producer   = Simon Dawson, Paul Schroeder
| prev_title = [[Ten Storey Love Song]]
| prev_year  = 1995
| next_title = [[All for One (The Stone Roses song)|All for One]]
| next_year  = 2016
))

"'''Begging You'''" is a song by English rock band [[the Stone Roses]], released as the final single before their initial break-up a year later, and was the third single from their second album, ''[[Second Coming (The Stone Roses album)|Second Coming]]'' (1994). "Begging You" was released in the United Kingdom and Australia, peaking at number 15 on the [[UK Singles Chart]].<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/25315/stone-roses/|title=Stone Roses|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=24 June 2023))</ref>

"Begging You" is a loud, cacophonous track with heavy drum beats, soaring guitars, pulsing bass and [[Apocalypticism|apocalyptic]] lyrics. [[John Squire]] said that the song was loosely based on material from [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy's]] ''[[Fear of a Black Planet]]''. The song also contains many references to [[Aesop's Fables]].

==Background and composition==
"Begging You" was inspired by the group's memory of a dark turn of events in [[Manchester]]'s hedonistic club scene, where ravers would take too many drugs and drugs would become adulterated as "dealers try to maximise profit margins," leading to the emergence of [[drug gang]]s. [[Ian Brown]] explained, "too many people take one too many." He described the song as "like when you're in a club and everything's beautiful and you're [[ecstasy (drug)|E'd]] up, and you've got some voice going in your ear saying how can they get you a gun or an ounce of this and that."<ref name="Reynolds">((cite book|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|author-link=Simon Reynolds|year=1999|title=Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture|publisher=[[Routledge]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWf4J6yn9zAC&q=the+stone+roses+begging+you+reynolds&pg=PA109|pages=108–109|isbn=0-415-92373-5))</ref>

Aside from Squire's guitar figure, which has been described as musical punctuation, the music sits at the bottom end, with a "deep, heavy repeated riff" from [[Mani (musician)|Mani]] and [[Reni (musician)|Reni]]. The rhythmic lyrics feature references to [[Aesop's Fables]]: "The fly on the coach wheel told me that he got it / And he knew what to do with it / Everybody saw it / Saw the dust that he made."<ref name="Pollock">((cite web |last1=Pollock |first1=Dave |title=Stone Roses – 10 of the best |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jun/15/stone-roses-10-of-the-best |website=The Guardian |access-date=15 May 2019 |date=15 June 2016))</ref>

==Cover artwork==
John Squire designed the "Begging You" cover with the insides of [[floppy disks]]. The disks were supposedly used to teach Squire how to use [[Sampler (musical instrument)|samplers]] and [[Music sequencer|sequencers]] for the track. Squire found the process too complicated and decided to smash the disks and use them for a piece of art instead.

Squire took the insides of the disks and set them in [[plaster]]. He arranged them in a grid motif and painted the piece with colours "borrowed" from an [[Edgar Degas]] painting.

==Critical reception==
When ''Second Coming'' was released, ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]'' invited several "experts, Roses associates and over-opinionated pundits" to review the album's songs. Radio DJ [[Mark Radcliffe (radio broadcaster)|Mark Radcliffe]] described "Begging You" as a great song that resembled "the [[Happy Mondays|Mondays]] meets '[[The White Album]]'," while presenter [[Tracey MacLeod]] praised the song's [[techno]] style "only done with real instruments" and felt it was "like a [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]] for the '90s," and [[Tricky (musician)|Tricky]] described it as "wicked."<ref>((cite magazine |title=Is This What You Wanted |magazine=Select |via=Select Magazine Website |date=February 1995 |pages=66–75 |url=http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/?p=1681 |access-date=15 May 2019))</ref>

Writer [[Simon Reynolds]] called "Begging You" the "most thrilling track" on ''Second Coming''. Describing it as a "hyperkinetic [[rock music|rock]]/techno fusion of ballistic [[blues]] riffs and looped beats," and highlighting the churning groove and "turbine-roar" guitar, he felt the song accurately simulates "the panic rush of an E'd-up raver wondering how and why the rave dream's dying all around him".<ref name="Reynolds" /> David Pollock of ''[[The Guardian]]'' named it among the Stone Roses' ten best songs in 2016, saying "it still sounds fresher than most of its contemporaries," writing: "It is to [[drum and bass]] what [[the Beatles]]’ [[Tomorrow Never Knows]] was to [[acid house]]."<ref name="Pollock" /> ''[[NME]]'' called the song a "high-speed dancefloor dogfight,"<ref>((cite web |title=Album A&E – The Stone Roses, 'Second Coming' |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/album-ae-the-stone-roses-second-coming-765249 |website=NME |access-date=15 May 2019 |date=31 March 2011))</ref> while ''[[Louder Than War]]'' writer John Robb called it an [[indie dance]] track with a "disturbed helter skelter, pile driving, neo-[[industrial music|industrial]] nature" that made it ideal for remixing.<ref>((cite web |last1=Robb |first1=John |title=Stone Roses 'Second Coming' album re-evaluated |url=https://louderthanwar.com/stone-roses-second-coming-album-re-evaluated/ |website=Louder Than War |access-date=15 May 2019 |date=4 October 2011))</ref>

==Music video==
The [[music video]] for "Begging You" features a scantily clad female dance troupe wearing masks of the band members' faces, and scenes of the band performing live, intercut with archival film footage of traditional [[folk dance]]s from various cultures around the globe.

==Track listings==
'''12-inch vinyl (Geffen GEFST 22060)'''
# "Begging You" (album version) (4:52)
# "Begging You" (Chic mix) (5:32)
# "Begging You" (Cox's Ultimatum mix) (6:33)
# "Begging You" (Stone Corporation Vox) (6:24)

'''Cassette (Geffen GFSC 22060)'''
# "Begging You" (album version) (4:52)
# "Begging You" (Chic mix) (5:32)

'''CD (Geffen GEFSTD 22060)'''
# "Begging You" (album version) (4:52)
# "Begging You" (Lakota mix) (7:48)
# "Begging You" (Stone Corporation Vox) (6:24)
# "Begging You" (Chic mix) (5:32)
# "Begging You" (Young American Primitive remix) (5:25)

'''Australian ''Tour Edition'' CD (Geffen GEFDM 22061)'''
# "Begging You" (album version) (4:52)
# "Begging You" (Lakota mix) (7:48)
# "Begging You" (Stone Corporation Vox) (6:24)
# "Begging You" (Chic mix) (5:32)
# "Begging You" (Young American Primitive remix) (5:25)
# "Begging You" (radio edit version) (3:48)

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [http://www.john-squire.com/discography/new/disco_tsr_singles_begging.html The Definitive Stone Roses Discography entry]

((The Stone Roses))
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[[Category:Geffen Records singles]]
[[Category:The Stone Roses songs]]
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