Genre: Rock
Rate: 301 kbps VBR / 44100
Time: 00:46:20
Size: 98,16 MB
Review by Bruce Eder
As the sound on the Rolling Stones' legitimate CDs has been upgraded since 2001, so the bootleggers have followed along. No, this disc isn't an SACD hybrid, but it does offer some of the cleanest and loudest masters ever heard on the outtakes and unauthorized releases programmed onto it, with an audio quality of which any legitimate CD producer could be proud. This is a cleverly designed and very nicely mastered variation on Hot Rocks and More Hot Rocks, based on what was the supposed originally intended follow-up to Hot Rocks, which was to have been called Necrophilia and using original artwork (and was, instead, utilized as the basis for More Hot Rocks). How close this came to release is a matter of speculation; could anyone in 1972 have thought that "Andrew's Blues" was releasable? And the results are actually closer to what became the Metamorphosis album four years or so later.
The orchestra-accompanied "Out of Time" opens the compilation, followed by "Don't Lie to Me" and a wonderfully lean, stripped-down, undubbed "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow," on which every jagged note of Keith Richards' guitar can be heard -- the song sounds much more of a piece with Aftermath and Between the Buttons (between which it fell) than it ever did before -- and an instrumental mixing acoustic guitar and orchestra entitled "Hear It." The rest of what was supposed to be side one finishes with the Jagger/Richards "Something Just Stuck in Your Mind"; a Nanker Phelge blues composition entitled "Aftermath;" the homoerotic Jagger/Richards song "I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" (which now seems like it could have been slotted into the score of Sidney J. Furie's film The Leather Boys); and "Andrew's Blues" in one of its cleanest and loudest masterings.
What purports to have been side two of the original LP opens with the working version of "Street Fighting Man," credited here as "Pay Your Dues" (but usually referred to as "Did Everybody Pay His Dues"). Following outtakes of "Good Times" and "Heart of Stone," we get the over-dramatic "Each and Every Day of the Year" and "Walking Through the Sleepy City," coming out of the Stones' arty 1965-1966 period. The tougher "Try a Little Harder," a much leaner and harder version of "Blue Turns to Grey," and the country-ish "We're Wastin' Time" then close out the CD.
Tracklist:
01 - Out Of Time 03:24
02 - Don't Lie To Me 02:07
03 - Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow 02:25
04 - Think 03:14
05 - Hear It 01:46
06 - Something Just Stick In Your Mind 03:00
07 - Aftermath 02:44
08 - I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys 02:11
09 - Andrew's Blues 03:07
10 - Pay Your Dues 03:08
11 - Good Times 01:59
12 - Heart Of Stone 03:48
13 - Each And Everyday Of The Year 02:50
14 - (Walkin' Thru The) Sleepy City 02:52
15 - Try A Little Harder 02:18
16 - Blue Turns To Grey 02:45
17 - We're Wastin' Time 02:42
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