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Singles Collection: The London Years by: The Rolling Stones List Price: £27.99 CD-Charts Price: £21.48 You Save: £6.51 (23%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042288234029 Format: Box set Label: Decca - Pop Manufacturer: Decca - Pop Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: Decca - Pop Release Date: August 10, 2006 Running Time: 186 minutes Studio: Decca - Pop Sales Rank: 4684 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - the best way to experience 60s StonesThis fabulous and very reasonably priced collection contains all The Rolling Stones' Decca (UK) and London (USA) single A- and B-sides. If they originally appeared on 45 in mono (the vast majority) they're in mono here - apart from Honky Tonk Women for some reason. The 2002 remasters finally do justice to this material on CD - they sound fabulous. The 60s A-sides (with the arguable exception of their debut, Come On) are uniformly brilliant, surprisingly varied and superbly produced, especially after they began recording in the USA; the B-sides, with only 1 or 2 exceptions, are good to excellent. There is surprisingly little overlap with albums (especially UK ones) and where there is, several tracks are in otherwise unobtainable ... Read More: Rating: - The Early Rolling Stone catches the worm (or something like that)These were exciting times in the early sixties. This captures all of that urgency. There was a new recording every other week. How the band managed to do so much in the studio and so much on the road defies explanation. They musta been on drugs or something. So some of the production isn't what we've got used to these days - it's raw, it's passionate, it's almost live. This gives you the transition from cover versions of mainly black R&B artists to Jagger\Richard originals - and it's seamless. These lads learnt their art well and preserved it for us brilliantly. The later stuff from the band (Sticky Fingers onward) is a faint shadow of these early recordings. It has no great enthusiasm or sexual energy. Jagger became jaded and comfortable. ... Read More: Rating: - THE LONDON YEARSGood times bad times some bads have had just that,in they time but not The Rolling Stones who just keep rocking for years. This collection of brill songs from the stones will not Fade Away in any collector collection. If you like Brown Sugar and Playing With Fire or have Sympathy for the Devil then this is the one. (Sweet,Hot,wicket) Rating:  - Acquire With CautionThe Singles Collection first came out in 1989, in vinyl, cassette and CD editions, and was re-issued in 1995. Its purpose was to collect the singles released on the Stones' American and British labels London and Decca, and present them in order of their release. It is a set that compiles itself. The EPs The Rolling Stones, 5 By 5 and Got Live If You Want It were not included. It contained many botched edits and the UK album version of Time Is On My Side instead of the single. This re-issue corrects many of the faults of the earlier releases, including Time Is On My Side, and claims to contain the original single masters. It has been mastered using Sony's high quality Direct Stream Digital process, whilst the track listing has not changed, and the ... Read More: Rating: - Expensive? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely.With so many Rolling Stones compilations now on the market, it must be difficult to know where to start. Well, it all depends on what you are after. Allow me to illustrate. If you want a concise package of their best material from their best era, then go for Hot Rocks. If you're after an overview of their entire career, then it's Forty Licks all the way. However, if you want a comprehensive anthology of the Stones' evolution from blues wannabes to world superstars, then they don't come much better than this. Strange as it seems in this day and age, the Stones were essentially a singles band up until around 1968. In those days, a-sides were how a band was defined. But the b-sides were important as well, and people used to actually listen to them, ... Read More: |
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