Rolling stones in Rock & Pop Music

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"Now! [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica); Keith Richards (guitar, background vocals); Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel: Ian Stewart (piano, organ); Jack Nitzsche (piano). Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois; RCA Studios, Hollywood, California; Regent Sound, London, England. Includes liner notes by Andrew Loog Oldham. Additional personnel: Jack Nitzche, Ian Stewart (piano). Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Bob Ludwig; Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi; Pascal Byrne. THE ROLLING STONES, NOW! is a masterpiece of early British R&B, Rolling Stones style. Things start off with a powerful rendition of Solomon Burke's signature tune "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love." Elsewhere, the Stones take a tour of American music, from Bo Diddley's "Mona," complete with choppy, reverbed guitar, to a slow, churning version of Willie Dixon's blues evergreen "Little Red Rooster," probably the first version of the song to feature fuzz bass. Amid all this esteemed company, though, the standout tracks are the Jagger-Richards originals. With its heartbreaking lyrics and poignant accompaniment, "Heart of Stone" could have been a classic soul ballad appropriated from some great, obscure American singer. On "What a Shame," the Stones prove that they don't have to look to outside sources for their blues. Keith's penetrating slide here, as on "Little Red Rooster," foreshadows greater things to come.

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"Metamorphosis [Digipak] [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThis is a Hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both Super Audio and regular CD players. METAMORPHOSIS is a collection of outtakes from 1975 and has never been available on CD. The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Mick Jagger (vocals); Brian Jones, Mick Taylor (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). All tracks have been digitally remastered. Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Bob Ludwig; Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi; Pascal Byrne. Culled from the Rolling Stones' massive archive, 1975's METAMORPHOSIS is the band's sole rarities compilation featuring material from the Stones' fertile '60s and '70s era. Cherry picked by former manager Allen Klein as a result of a bitter lawsuit that found a similar anthology contrived by Bill Wyman going unreleased, this treasure trove of cuts is a boon to both die-hard and casual Stones fans. It kicks off with a lush, orchestrated version of "Out Of Time," one of a handful of outtakes (along with "Heart Of Stone") featuring a studio full of session musicians including John McLaughlin, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones. Overseen by Mick Jagger and then manager Andrew Oldham, these tracks provide interesting insight to a time when the Stones' success allowed them to dish off songs to other UK artists, using versions like these as demos. Other highlights include a killer cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Don't Know Why" (originally recorded for LET IT BLEED) and "Memo From Turner," a Jagger/Richards number cut with Al Kooper and penned for the soundtrack to the Jagger vehicle Performance. Making its CD debut in 2002, METAMORPHOSIS remains a jewel that still glimmers almost three decades after its release.

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"Out Of Our Heads [Digipak] [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThis is a Hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both Super Audio and regular CD players. The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, piano, organ); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Ian Stewart (piano, organ, marimba); Jack Nitzsche (piano, organ, percussion). Engineers: David Hassinger, Ron Malo, Glyn Johns. Recorded in Hollywood, California, Chicago, Illinois & London, England. Includes liner notes by Andrew Loog Oldham. All tracks have been digitally remastered. The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards, Brian Jones (guitars); Mick Jagger (harmonica); Bill Wyman (bass guitar); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel: Jack Nitzsche (organ); Ian Stewart (marimba); J.W. Alexander (percussion). Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Bob Ludwig; Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi; Pascal Byrne. Early Stones recordings don't get much better than this. Firmly established as celebrities, the band began to use the pandemonium they inspired as an artistic source. Nowhere is their initial reaction to fame and music business drama more apparent than in the humorous, mocking "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man," in which the Stones effectively skewer the sleazier side of the record industry. Naturally, this will always be known as the album that features the original version of "Satisfaction," which would remain the band's signature tune throughout their career, but that's really just the tip of the iceberg. Equally effective as a Jagger-Richards distillation of rock and R&B is "The Last Time," a tune easily the equal of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now," which the Stones handily covered on 12 X 5. Standing out from the crowd is the harpsichord-driven, English folk-inspired "Play With Fire," a menacing minor key song full of subtly expressed psychological violence. This tune, a marked change of pace for the band, hinted at the stylistic variety they would later explore.

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"Between the Buttons [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Mick Jagger (vocals); Brian Jones (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Recorded in 1966. Once known as hard-core blues/R&B traditionalists, the Stones plunged deeper into the waters of original songwriting on BETWEEN THE BUTTONS, leading to a golden age of classic albums including LET IT BLEED, BEGGAR'S BANQUET, and EXILE ON MAIN STREET. In addition to scoring a double-sided smash-hit single in "Let's Spend The Night Together" backed with the baroque-pop "Ruby Tuesday," BUTTONS was also the last album produced by then-manager/svengali Andrew Loog Oldham. More importantly, the obscure songs on this tight package show the Stones coming into their own as composers. Between the ornate orchestrations of the aforementioned "Ruby Tuesday" and Mick Jagger's Dylanesque inflections on "She Smiled Sweetly," BUTTONS found the Stones in a strata far beyond covering Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly. Although none of these developments ranks with the Beatles' contemporaneous sonic experiments, the fabs' bad-boy counterparts showed differing degrees of whimsy and sass. Examples are Ian Stewart's barrelhouse piano and Brian Jones' kazoo playing on "Cool, Calm & Collected," or the Dixieland-flavored "Something Happened To Me Yesterday."

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"Got Live If You Want It! [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Brian Jones, Keith Richards (guitar, background vocals); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England on September 23, 1966. Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi; Pascal Byrne. As Brian Jones' time with the Stones (and with the rest of this world) was drawing to a close, the band was becoming both more progressive in its conception and more adept in its musicianship. Though the studio recordings from this golden period are impeccable, nowhere is the band's growth more evident than on GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT IT. Recorded by Glyn Johns at London's Royal Albert Hall, this album shows the Stones as a powerful live unit, now capable of subtle emotional shadings as well as rock & roll raveups. The Stones pay homage to their roots with versions of "Not Fade Away" and "Satisfaction" that easily rival their studio cousins. It's the point at which the Stones' musical trajectory veers off from the blues that things get really, interesting, though. From the ominous "Under My Thumb" to the Elizabethan "Lady Jane" and the transcendent, Dylan-influenced "19th Nervous Breakdown," the band shows off its musical sophistication both compositionally and in spirited performances. An essential live document of one of the band's finest hours.

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"Let It Bleed [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Taylor (guitars); Keith Richards (acoustic guitar); Mick Jagger (harp); Bill Wyman (autoharp); Charlie Watts (drums); Brian Jones (percussion). Additional personnel: Nanette Newman, Mary Clayton (vocals); Ry Cooder (mandolin); Byron Berline (fiddle); Bobby Keys (tenor saxophone); Al Kooper (French horn); Ian Stewart, Leon Russell (piano); Nicky Hopkins (organ); Jimmy Miller, Rocky Dijon (percussion); Madelaine Bell, Doris Troy, London Bach Choir (background vocals). Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Teri Landi; Steve Rosenthal; Pascal Byrne. The last Stones studio album of the '60s finds the band, for perhaps the first time, accurately reflecting the spirit of its age. The erstwhile bad boy outsiders of rock now found themselves firmly in the center of the social and political post-'68 whirlwind, and faced up to the challenge magnificently. The band's confident climb to its artistic peak was begun by BEGGAR'S BANQUET, but LET IT BLEED is a quantum leap even from that musical milestone. The album's opener, "Gimme Shelter," with its insinuating guitar introduction, leads us decisively out of Flower Power and into a world where rape and murder are "just a shot away," and the Devil of BANQUET is very much alive and taking names. There's a nod to seminal influence Robert Johnson, whose "Love in Vain" is a mandolin-accompanied highlight. The climax arrives in the form of "You Can't Always Get What You Want," bearing references to the fallout of the Swinging London era. LET IT BLEED finds the Stones brimming with musical confidence and artistic inspiration.

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"12 X 5 [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Keith Richards, Brian Jones (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Includes the original release liner notes by Andrew Loog Oldham. Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Bob Ludwig; Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi; Pascal Byrne. 12 X 5 includes material recorded by the Stones at Chicago's Chess Studios (home to the band's idols Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf) on their first US tour. Though this document of the group's early R&B period kicks off with a couple of covers from unsurprising sources (Chuck Berry's "Around and Around,") Mick and Keith waste little time in displaying their own compositional acumen. The acoustic-based, bluesy "Good Times, Bad Times" harkens back to even earlier, more seminal Stones influences than Berry, as does the instrumental "2120 South Michigan Avenue," where the blues-obsessed Jagger's harp is featured a la his hero Little Walter. The downbeat, Arthur Alexanderish "Congratulations" is an effective expression of romantic melancholy, complete with acoustic guitar solo. The slide guitar chords on "Grown Up Wrong" echo another early blues influence, Elmore James. The milestones on this album are two R&B covers to which the Stones take more than a rote approach, "It's All Over Now" and the majestic "Time Is On My Side," which they make completely their own.

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"England's Newest Hit Makers [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica); Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, background vocals); Keith Richards (guitar, background vocals); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel: Gene Pitney (piano); Ian Stewart (keyboards); Phil Spector (maracas). The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards, Brian Jones (guitar); Mick Jagger (harmonica); Bill Wyman (bass guitar); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel: Gene Pitney (piano); Ian Stewart (organ); Phil Spector (maracas). Audio Remasterers: Teri Landi; Steve Rosenthal. The first full-length Rolling Stones album is a raw document of their early sound, which at this point was still Early British Tinny, even on this pristine re-issue. However, the band's growing confidence throughout the course of THE ROLLING STONES is almost palpable. Their take on Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" is steeped in Chicago blues filtered through a West London sensibility, while the insistent harp on their hit cover of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" is an early example of the band's technique of using blues riffs as pop hooks. "Tell Me" is a fairly embryonic attempt at Tin Pan Alley songwriting (they're far more at home with the raw R&B of "Little By Little") and it's obvious that at this early stage the band was most comfortable performing R&B covers, such as Rufus Thomas's classic "Walking the Dog," and particularly Chuck Berry's "Carol," which remained a staple of the band's live shows for some years.

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"Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass)" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Mick Jagger (vocals); Brian Jones (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Recorded in London, England, Chicago, Illinois & Hollywood, California between 1963 & 1966. Like its 1969 second volume THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY, BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE & GREEN GRASS) is a fine collection of '60s Stones classics, but it's a rather bluesier one. This is exemplified by such rootsy tracks as the redefined Buddy Holly tune "Not Fade Away" and the R&B bounce of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now." Not that the group's original songs were lacking in grit or attitude; the vituperative "Get Off My Cloud," delivered in Mick Jagger's best Sidcup dialect still sounds magnificent, as does Brian Jones's booming Vox pearl guitar on "The Last Time" and Keith Richards's opening chords to the aforementioned "Not Fade Away." This is a disc to be handed down to your children.

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"Flowers [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsFLOWERS is a compilation of UK tracks and singles put together by Decca Records (UK) in 1967, including tracks that appeared on the English versions of AFTERMATH and BETWEEN THE BUTTONS. The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Brian Jones, Keith Richards (guitar, background vocals); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Audio Remasterers: Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi. This album represents a turning point for the Stones. Though they had not yet fully integrated the baroque aspirations of pop into their music, the flower-power influence had nonetheless begun to take root. While all the earlier elements of their sound are still firmly in place, in the folky "Backstreet Girl" and the relentlessly rocking "Let's Spend The Night Together," new sounds also crop up. Cuts like the woodwind-sweetened ballad "Ruby Tuesday" and the Middle Eastern-tinged "Mother's Little Helper" set the stage for the full-blown head-trip that would unveil itself later that year on THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST.

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"Out of Our Heads [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, piano, organ); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Ian Stewart (piano, organ, marimba); Jack Nitzsche (piano, organ, percussion). Engineers: David Hassinger, Ron Malo, Glyn Johns. Recorded in Hollywood, California, Chicago, Illinois & London, England. Includes liner notes by Andrew Loog Oldham. The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards, Brian Jones (guitars); Mick Jagger (harmonica); Bill Wyman (bass guitar); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel: Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche (harpsichord); Phil Spector (unknown instrument). Early Stones recordings don't get much better than this. Firmly established as celebrities, the band began to use the pandemonium it inspired as an artistic source. Nowhere is the band's initial reaction to fame and music business drama more apparent than in the humorous, mocking "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man," in which the Stones effectively skewer the sleazier side of the record industry. Naturally, this will always be known as the album that features the original version of "Satisfaction," which would remain the band's signature tune throughout its career, but that's really just the tip of the iceberg. Equally effective as a Jagger-Richards distillation of rock and R&B is "The Last Time," a tune easily the equal of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now," which the Stones handily covered on 12 X 5. Standing out from the crowd is the harpsichord-driven, English folk-inspired "Play With Fire," a menacing minor key song full of subtly expressed psychological violence. This tune, a marked change of pace for the band, hinted at the stylistic variety they would later explore.

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"Their Satanic Majesties Request" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Bill Wyman (vocals, bass); Keith Richards (guitar, background vocals); Brian Jones (guitar, various instruments); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel includes: J.P. Jones (strings); Nicky Hopkins (piano). Part druggy experiment, part musical rivalry with the Fab Four, and a total anomaly in the Rolling Stones' catalogue, THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST contains at least three trippy classics in "Citadel," "She's a Rainbow," and "2000 Light Years From Home." That it also contains an extensive sample of Bill Wyman snoring and an eight-minute stoned jam that begins with the timeless phrase "Where's that joint?" is a measure of SATANIC MAJESTIES' breadth of genius and folly. There's a lot going on here--try comparing the wayward Eastern atmospheres of "Gomper" to anything on BEGGAR'S BANQUET, and marvel that you're listening to the same band. The fact that Jagger and Richards could still come up with the unimpeachably charming "She's a Rainbow"--baroque pop at its finest--and a fair stab at heavy R&B in "The Lantern," while attempting to negotiate the band's rocky passage through Flower Power is a tribute to their vision, their perseverance, and their drugs of choice.

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"December's Children (And Everybody's) [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica); Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, keyboards); Keith Richards (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Jack Nitzsche (keyboards, percussion); Ian Stewart (keyboards, marimba, percussion); J.W. Alexander (percussion). Recorded in Hollywood, California, Chicago, Illinois and London, England. The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards, Brian Jones (guitars); Mick Jagger (harmonica); Bill Wyman (bass guitar); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel: Jack Nitzsche (organ); Ian Stewart (marimba); J.W. Alexander (percussion). DECEMBER'S CHILDREN marked a crucial point in the Stones' development. The band was beginning to move away from its blues/R&B roots toward something more uniquely its own. Certainly those roots were far from absent in the songs composed for this album, and the Stones still cover their share of the masters here (Chuck Berry, Arthur Alexander, Hank Snow), but something new was afoot. The aching ballad "As Tears Go By," complete with baroque orchestration, heralded a new direction in the Stones' songwriting. Similarly, the folk-rockish strains of "The Singer Not The Song" hint at previously uncharted directions. Perhaps the most crucial track here is "Get Off My Cloud, which, while it incorporates the band's rootsy influences, is possessed of a decidedly modern power that the Stones were only beginning to learn to harness. This was the beginning of a style more specific than pop, blues, or rock & roll. DECEMBER'S CHILDREN may be seen as the beginning of what can only be defined as Rolling Stones music.

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"Rock & Roll Circus" (10/15/1996) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Keith Richards (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Brian Jones (electric & slide guitars); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). The Dirty Mac: John Lennon (vocals, guitar); Eric Clapton (guitar); Keith Richards (bass); Mitch Mitchell (drums). Additional performers: Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, Yoko Ono, Ivry Gitlis, Nicky Hopkins. Producers: Jimmy Miller, Jody Klein, Lenne Allik. Recorded live in England on December 10-11, 1968. Includes liner notes by David Dalton. THE ROLLING STONES ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS documents a December 1968 show, originally intended for broadcast on British television, that featured clowns, acrobats, tigers, a fire-eater, the Rolling Stones and a menagerie of musician friends that included the Who, Eric Clapton, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The show never aired. The Stones, unhappy with their performance, shelved it. A clip of the Who performing "A Quick One While He's Away" made it into the documentary "The Kids Are Alright," but the rest of the show remained on the shelf until the 1996 release of a laser disc, video, and this soundtrack. The Stones put together this circus shortly after releasing BEGGAR'S BANQUET. Ringmaster/producer Mick Jagger recruited the above friends along with Marianne Faithfull, Taj Mahal and the relatively-unknown Jethro Tull. Twenty hours of filming resulted in a production that alternates between vaudevillian spectacle and magical rock and roll performances. Especially noteworthy is a blistering version of the Beatles' "Yer Blues" by the Dirty Mac, a supergroup featuring John Lennon on rhythm guitar and vocals, Eric Clapton on lead, Keith Richards on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The Stones went on at 1 in the morning on December 11, performing a set that included several songs from BEGGAR'S BANQUET and the not-yet-released "You Can't Always Get What You Want," sometimes playing a song two or three times to get it right for TV. Despite the numerous takes and the late hour, the Stones' intensity never flagged. This is, despite what they thought, a great performance. It builds up to a hypnotic "Sympathy For The Devil" and a rousing sing-along version of "Salt Of The Earth" that ends the circus.

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"Between The Buttons UK [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThis is a Hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both Super Audio and regular CD players. The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Mick Jagger (vocals); Brian Jones (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Recorded in 1966. Once known as hard-core blues/R&B traditionalists, the Stones plunged deeper into the waters of original songwriting on BETWEEN THE BUTTONS, leading to a golden age of classic albums including LET IT BLEED, BEGGAR'S BANQUET and EXILE ON MAIN STREET. BUTTONS was also the last album produced by then-manager/svengali Andrew Loog Oldham. More importantly, the obscure songs on this tight package show the Stones coming into their own as composers. Between the melodic balladry of "Back Street Girl" and Mick Jagger's Dylanesque inflections on "She Smiled Sweetly," BUTTONS found the Stones in a strata far beyond covering Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly. Although none of these developments ranks with the Beatles' contemporaneous sonic experiments, the Fabs' bad-boy counterparts showed differing degrees of whimsy and sass, i.e. Ian Stewart's barrelhouse piano and Brian Jones' kazoo playing on "Cool, Calm & Collected" or the Dixieland-flavored "Something Happened To Me Yesterday."

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"Aftermath [Remaster]" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, percussion); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Brian Jones (guitar, dulcimer, sitar, marimba, bells); Bill Wyman (marimba, bass, bells); Charlie Watts (marimba, drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Jack Nitzsche, Ian Stewart (piano, organ, harpsichord). Recorded at RCA Studios, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Dave Hassinger. The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass guitar); Mick Jagger (percussion); Brian Jones , Charlie Watts (bells). Additional personnel: Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche (harpsichord). Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Bob Ludwig; Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi; Pascal Byrne. The Rolling Stones' first set of all-original material--a full two years after the Beatles had passed that milestone with A HARD DAY'S NIGHT--1966's AFTERMATH is arguably the Stones' first truly great album, as opposed to a selection of killer singles padded out with some forgettable filler. Not that the singles aren't killers; "Paint It Black" and "Under My Thumb" are two of the Stones' most inventive chart successes, their sitar and marimba touches showing that at least through 1966, the Stones were just as likely as the Beatles, Kinks or Who to release a single that sounded like nothing else on the radio. Of the album tracks, "Lady Jane" and "Stupid Girl" are standouts, the former another of the boys' Elizabethan oddities and the latter a stomping, snotty garage rocker. Even better, though, are formal experiments like "I Am Waiting," a spooky acoustic tune that sounds like the boys had been listening to George Harrison's Indian excursions. Several of the more blues-based tracks press the five-minute barrier, culminating in the nearly 12-minute blues-rock rave-up "Goin' Home," one of the few extended jams that's actually worth the extra minutes.

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"Singles Collection: The London Years" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica, percussion); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Bill Wyman (vocals, bass); Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, organ, marimba, sitar, dulcimer, recorder, bells, saxophone, harpsichord, Mellotron, background vocals); Mick Taylor, Ron Wood (guitar); Charlie Watts (drums, percussion). Additional personnel includes: Joe Moretti (guitar); Ian Stewart (piano, organ); Reg Guest (piano); Nicky Hopkins, Jack Nitzsche (keyboards); Eric Ford (bass); Jimmy Miller (drums); Rocky Dijon (percussion); The London Bach Choir, Madelaine Bell, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Nanette Newman (background vocals); Gene Pitney, Phil Spector, Steve Marriott, Doris Troy, Al Kooper, Ry Cooder, Andy White. Producers: Andrew Oldham, Eric Easton, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Miller, Jack Nitzsche. Engineers include: Roger Savage, Ron Malo, Dave Hassinger. This box set is a compilation of all the Rolling Stones' singles from 1963 to 1971, including A-sides, B-sides and alternate B-sides from the U.S. and the U.K. releases. These 58 songs on 3 discs have been digitally remastered with most tracks in mono to reflect the sound of the original 45s. It includes a 78-page, 12" x 12" book with lyrics, detailed track annotations by Bruce Eder and essays by Anthony De Curtis and Andrew Oldham. THE SINGLES COLLECTION: THE LONDON YEARS comes as advertised--the box includes every American and British A-side and B-side the Rolling Stones released between 1963 and 1971 (after which the band began releasing discs under the Rolling Stones Records imprint). The fantastic speed and scope of the Stones' early artistic development have few parallels in popular music, and this collection not only details that incredible process, but serves as a microcosm of '60s pop culture as well. From the down-and-dirty Chicago-style blues and R&B of the group's early covers (Chuck Berry's "Come On," Willie Dixon's "I Just Wanna Make Love to You") to the dreamy chamber pop of "Lady Jane" and the proto-hard rock of "Street Fightin' Man," the band was always on the cutting edge, both reacting to and anticipating cultural and musical trends. One listen to this box, however, reveals that, unlike the Beatles, the Stones seldom veered far from their roots, always injecting a vital dose of raw sexuality and pure rock & roll spirit into even the boldest of experiments.

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"Singles 1963-1965 [Box] [Limited]" (04/27/2004) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Brian Jones (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Keith Richards (vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards); Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica, percussion); Bill Wyman (bass guitar); Charlie Watts (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Ian Stewart (piano, organ). Liner Note Author: Nigel Williamson. Recording information: 1963 - 1965. A spectacularly appointed box set, SINGLES 1963-1965 is perhaps the ultimate collector's item for the Rolling Stones fan. It presents, in CD form, perfect replicas of each of the band's 45's from the era, packaged with the original picture sleeves, record labels, and even vinyl-style grooves printed on the surface of the CDs. Add in a passel of fantastic period photos and stellar liner notes, and one might almost forget to listen to the music. Almost. It's fascinating to listen to the Stones' development over the first couple of years, from the tentative stabs at Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters on their very first single, to the fire-breathing, ruckus-raising sounds they achieved just a few months down the line. Not only do we get to hear them master their beloved forms of blues, soul, and '50s rock, but we witness the birth of their songwriting talents as well. Here the group shifts from an R&B cover band to a creative force capable of turning out not only the churning rocker "The Last Time," but also the ominous, folklike "Play with Fire."

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"Singles 1965-1967 [Box] [Limited]" (07/27/2004) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsIncludes original sleeve artwork, a 28 page booklet with rare photos, picture cards, and a poster. The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, harmonica, percussion); Bill Wyman (vocals, bass guitar); Keith Richards (guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Brian Jones (guitar, slide guitar, dulcimer, sitar, harmonica, recorder, saxophone, harpsichord, organ, Mellotron, marimba, bells); Charlie Watts (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Ian Stewart (piano, keyboards). Liner Note Author: Nigel Williamson. Recording information: Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois (1965); RCA Studio, Hollywood, California (1965 - 1966); Olympic, London, England (1967). The second in the series covering all of the Rolling Stones' classic 45s in CD format, SINGLES 1965-1967 starts at the exact point where the Stones became more than just a better-than-average bunch of English boys declaring fealty to Chicago blues, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Ending 11 discs (and numerous B-sides) later with the hazy "In Another Land"/"The Lantern" (the second single from the consistently underrated THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST), this set presents the period where the Stones truly earned their status as the World's Greatest Rock Band. It can be argued that the Rolling Stones underwent an even greater metamorphosis than the Beatles during the same period. After all, the Stones were starting with a less-sophisticated musical palette, but still ended up with songs as varied as the tense, Indian-influenced "Paint It, Black," the delicate "Lady Jane," and the freak-out art-pop of "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" Many fans feel that the "Jumpin' Jack Flash"-to-"Brown Sugar" run (covered by the next installment in the series) is the Rolling Stones' pinnacle, but the freewheeling experimentalism of the SINGLES 1965-1967 collection features the Stones at their most fearless.

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"Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)" (08/27/2002) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), ABKCO RecordsThe Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Keith Richards (guitar, background vocals); Brian Jones (guitar, various instruments); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Producers: The Rolling Stones, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jimmy Miller. Recorded between March 1966 and May 1969 at Olympic Studios, London, England and RCA Studios, Hollywood, California. THROUGH THE PAST, DARKLY is a 1969 compilation that documents the transitional period during which the Stones--with Brian Jones still on hand-- went from being a great R&B band to the world's greatest rock & roll band. These were the songs that not only defined Mick and Keith's reputation as songwriters, but set much of the musical tone for the rest of the '60s rock world. "Paint it Black" is a dark, Eastern-tinged song fully as influential as any of the Beatles' similar efforts. Though somewhat atypical, "Dandelion" and "She's a Rainbow" are baroque-pop classics on par with anything from PET SOUNDS. And of course, "Jumping Jack Flash," "Honky Tonk Woman," and "Street Fighting Man," with their locomotive rhythms and updated Chuck Berry riffs, were the standard against which all straight-up rock & roll would be measured well into the next century.

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"Honky Tonk Tribute to the Rolling Stones" (01/25/2005) Rock & Pop Various Artists, Tribute SoundsTributee: The Rolling Stones. Personnel: Pamela McNeill (piano).

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"Pickin' on the Rolling Stones: A Tribute" (08/01/2000) Rock & Pop On, Pickin', CMH RecordsPersonnel includes: Dennis Caplinger (guitar, 5-string banjo, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, bass, percussion); Brent Truitt (guitar, mandolin, papoose); Rudi Eckstein (mandolin, dobro, bass); Kenny Blackwell (guitar, mandolin); Joe Smith (mandolin, fiddle); Earl Palmer (guitar); Mark Thornton (guitar); Richard Bailey, David Talbot, Herb Peterson (5-string banjo); Rob Ickes (dobro); Gabe Witcher, Tim Crouch, Sara Watkins (fiddle); Dennis Crouch, J.J. Edwards (bass); Johnny Mills (percussion). Producers: Brent Truitt, Dennis Caplinger, Mark Thornton, Kenny Blackwell, Rudi Ekstein.

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"The String Quartet Tribute to The Rolling Stones" (03/18/2003) Rock & Pop Vitamin String Quartet, Vitamin Records (USA)Performers include: The Da Capo Players. Tributee: The Rolling Stones.

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"Pickin' on the Rolling Stones: A Bluegrass Tribute Vol. 2" (07/22/2003) Rock & Pop On, Pickin', CMH RecordsPersonnel includes: Dennis Caplinger (various instruments); Sharon Whyte (accordion). Recorded at Dennis Caplinger Productions, Vista, California.

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"Flashpoint" (11/17/1998) Rock & Pop Rolling Stones (The), Virgin Records (USA)The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Ron Wood (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums). Additional personnel: Eric Clapton (guitar); Bobby Keys (saxophone); Matt Clifford (French horn, keyboards); Chuck Leavell (keyboards); Bernard Fowler, Lisa Fischer, Cindy Mizelle, Tessa Niles, Katie Kissoon (background vocals). The Uptown Horns: Arno Hecht, Paul Litteral, Bob Funk, Crispen Cioe (horns). Digitally remastered by Bob Ludwig (Gateway Mastering Studios). Prior to the release of 1989's STEEL WHEELS, most rock fans figured that there was a better chance of spotting the Loch Ness Monster than catching the Stones in concert again. Band founders Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were waging a bitter verbal battle in the press (and issuing solo albums), while longtime fans criticized the Stones' last few unfocused studio efforts. It appeared like the band was done for, until Jagger and Richards reconciled and reunited the other boys in the band for their first U.S. tour in nearly eight years. The tour was one of the most successful ever undertaken by a rock band, as all the mammoth shows were instant sell-outs, including selections from all eras of the band's vast catalogue. It's still a kick to hear such longtime classic-rock radio standards as "Start Me Up," "Miss You," "Paint It Black," "Brown Sugar," and "Sympathy for the Devil," as well as such overlooked classics as "Factory Girl," while later compositions like "Continental Drift" fit in well. Also included were two new studio recordings, "Highwire" and "Sex Drive."

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"Stones World : The Rolling Stones Project II" (08/09/2005) Jazz Instrument Ries, Tim, Concord JazzPersonnel: Tim Ries (tenor saxophone); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Norah Jones (vocals, piano); Tony Scherr (vocals, bass instrument); Lisa Fischer, Sheryl Crow, Luciana Souza, Bernard Fowler (vocals); Ron Wood , Ben Monder, Bill Frisell, John Scofield (guitar); Stacey Shames (harp); Kent Smith (trumpet, flugelhorn); Michael Davis (trombone); Edward Simon , Robert Digioia, Bill Charlap (piano); Larry Goldings (organ); John Patitucci (bass instrument); Darryl Jones (bass guitar); Clarence Penn, Brian Blade, Charlie Watts (drums); Jeff Ballard (percussion). Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, New York; O'Henry Studios, Burbank, California; Right Track Studios, New York, New York; Munchen, Germany; Bennett Studios, Englewood, New Jersey (2002 - 2005). The project may seem odd at first: jazz and world music fusion covers of Rolling Stones songs? Yet saxophonist Tim Ries, a decade-long member of the Stones' touring band, fulfills his aim admirably. Gypsy music, gospel, African rhythms, flamenco, fado, Afro-Brazilian, salsa, and nearly every other music from around the world, are thrown in the blender for takes on "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Brown Sugar," "You Can't Always Get What You Want," and other classics from the world's greatest rock-&-roll band. Even more impressive is the guest roster for these sessions, which includes Milton Nascimento, Eddie Palmieri, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Frisell, and the Rolling Stones themselves.