Rolling Stones - Happy

you finished Keef's memoir yet?

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath

Maybe a field trip to the Olde Stones?

Wouldn't it be bitchin if people made records like this today?

Maybe they are and I'm not caring enough?

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Wikipedia:

Aftermath, first released on 15 April 1966, by Decca Records and ABKCO Records as the fourth British studio album by The Rolling Stones. It would be released on 20 June 1966, by London Records and ABKCO in the United States as their sixth American album. The album proved to be a major artistic breakthrough for The Rolling Stones, being the first full-length release by the band to consist exclusively of Mick Jagger/Keith Richards compositions. Aftermath was also the first Rolling Stones album to be recorded entirely in the United States, at the legendary RCA Studios in Hollywood, California at 6363 Sunset Boulevard, and the first album the band released in stereo.

The album is also notable for its musical experimentation, with Brian Jones playing a variety of instruments not usually associated with rock music—including sitar on "Paint It, Black", the Appalachian dulcimer on "Lady Jane" and "I Am Waiting", the marimbas (African xylophone) on "Under My Thumb" and "Out of Time," harmonica on "High and Dry" and "Goin' Home", as well as guitar and keyboards.

As with all the Stones pre-1967 LPs, different editions were released in the UK and the USA. This was a common feature of British pop albums at that time—the same practice was applied to all The Beatles albums prior to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band—because UK albums typically did not include tracks that had already been released as singles, and because British pop albums generally included 13 or 14 tracks, while American albums usually featured 11 or 12 tracks.

The original British version of Aftermath was issued in April 1966 as a fourteen-track LP. Issued between the non-LP single releases of "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "Paint It, Black", Aftermath was a major hit in the UK, spending eight weeks at #1 on the UK album chart.

The American version featured different cover art and an alternate, shorter running order that eliminated "Out of Time", "Take It or Leave It", "What to Do", and "Mother's Little Helper". All four tracks were later issued in the US on other compilations, and "Mother's Little Helper" was also issued as a single, in 1966, peaking at #8 on the Billboard charts.In their place, the album substituted their current # 1 hit "Paint It, Black". The revamped Aftermath still reached #2 in the US, eventually going platinum.

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Rolling Stones - Unreleased Decca Live Album, 1972

This has gotten copious virtual spins as of late.


I would be a fool if I didn't say this is a stand up & superlative document of the Stones. A little muddy and a little fuzzy at times but if there was a lovely, crystal clear recording of them on this '72 tour (Exile!) it just couldn't have the high grade skronk factor of this grimy artifact. Full horn section, check "Bitch."


Recorded live at Boston Gardens, July 19, 1972; at Spectrum Arena, Philadelphia, July 21, 1972; and at Tarrant County Convention Center, Texas, June 21. 1972.


Set List
01. All Down The Line
02. Brown Sugar
03. Bitch
04. Rocks Off
05. Gimme Shelter
06. Happy
07. Tumbling Dice
08. Love In Vain
09. Sweet Virginia
10. You Can't Always Get What You Want
11. Midnight Rambler (2nd show)
12. Rip This Joint
13. Jumping Jack Flash
14. Street Fighting Man


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The Rolling Stones - Ripe Black Box Selections

This hear is a little year-opener by way of and for good old Hilts.

We was surfing for raw stones the other night and came upon this.

Redefine yourself. Now, true fanatics should go and download it all. And probably already have. But dilettantes like we can enjoy this regurgitated version, that includes Hilts and me's favorite lil bits, reduced from massive 78 tracks sprawled across five files, to a mere 21 tracks available via one simple download (see below).

rocky says: This here is a warmful melange that includes the odd occasional B-side, outtake, and or rarity, plus some rawer earlier slower, and or acoustic, and or instrumental versions of songs you mostly already doubtlessly know all too well.

Hamburger to Go, anyone? Personally, "Dandelion" (along with "We Love You") was a true stoned revelation for me back in college. I had absolutely zero idea they could be like that. And this version, sung by Keef, is all electric guitar and still equally revelatory. Quite worf the trouble. Not to shit on the rest of it though, cuz it's all rather special.

Here's the track listing:

01. Not Fade Away
02. All Sold Out
03. Loving Cup
04. Yesterday's Papers
05. Complicated
06. Honky Tonk Women
07. All Down The Line
08. Da Doo Ron Ron
09. Please, Go Home
10. We Love You
11. Cosmic Christmas
12. Dandelion
13. We're Wastin' Time
14. Brown Sugar
15. Hamburger to Go
16. Hear It
17. Satisfaction
18. Highway Child
19. Lady Jane
20. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby
21. Let's Spend The Night Together

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