Songfacts®:

• This was the first original song The Stones recorded. They stuck to covers of blues songs until then.
• The Stones released this as the B-side of "I Wanna Be Your Man."
• An obvious title for The Rolling Stones, "Stoned" is far from their signature song. There are very few lyrics on the track, which is indeed about being stoned.
• The music is based on the instrumental song "Green Onions" by Booker T. & the MG's.
• The songwriting credit went to Nanker Phelge, a collective credit for the five band members (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman). "Phelge" was the derisive nickname for a guy Richards used to live with. "He was the sort of guy who would nail up the john while you're in there and lower a tape recorder in through the window and capture the moment when the victim couldn't get the door open," Richards explained in Melody Maker. "He ended up with a whole reel of tape and every time it got to the bit where they flushed the toilet you'd hear a roar of applause."
  
  As for "Nanker," Richards said it was "One of Brian's inventions and deserves to stay with him."