Mick Jagger - Very Best of Mick Jagger
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Free Music Review: Some Sympathy for the Devil...
Hit: 4 Stars
As the lead singer for the longest running rock and roll circus of all time, it makes as much sense to have sympathy for Mick Jagger as it would to have sympathy for the devil. His tenure with the Rolling Stones is unparalleled for its combination of success and longevity. Nevertheless, his solo projects never generated much steam. I, for one, virtually ignored Jagger's work away from the Stones, so this collection stands as a testament to my ignorance. While I bought every record credited to the Rolling Stones - even when it sucked, or was redundant - I never considered the relevance of Jagger gone solo, and apparently, the loss was mine.
If, like me, you judged Jagger's solo work by his now-dated `80s hit, "Just Another Night," then you are in for a surprise. The diversity contained in "The Very Best of Mick Jagger" is its most compelling quality. Sure, "Just Another Night" is included here, but there is so much more that is worthy of your time. Tracks included here date all the way back to 1969's "Memo From Turner," which was recorded for the movie "Performance." The song features hot blues slide guitar work from Ry Cooder and if you don't already own it, then you aren't a Rolling Stones fan. Another early song that has been overlooked by so many is Jagger's reggae-fied teamwork with Peter Tosh on a Temptations tune called "Don't Look Back," which easily surpasses the original version. There are plenty of pleasant surprises too, including a '73 session with John Lennon and Harry Nilsson that resulted in "Too Many Cooks," and a poignant yet unreleased dance track called "Charmed Life."
Jagger released four solo albums to ever-diminishing sales, but the evidence provided here is that his albums got better and better while sales figures slipped away. There are so many good songs here that I never heard, despite their previous availability. "Put Me in the Trash" would have been a standout track on any Stones album, while "Don't Tear Me Up" is as personal as anything I've ever heard from Jagger's lips, including "Angie" and "Waiting on a Friend." These songs previously appeared on 1992's "Wandering Spirit," but like most people, I never bothered to pay attention. I now admit my transgression and I apologize to Mick for failing to give him the benefit of the doubt. This is an excellent collection of songs, even if most of them never technically qualified as `hits'. Pick it up and catch up on what you've been missing. A- Tom Ryan
Free Music Review: Loudness war strikes again
Hit: 2 Stars
I was so excited to hear the Lennon collaboration of Too Many Cooks only to find it has fallen victim to what is known as the loundess war, the whole CD is victim as well. In a nutshell that means the songs are set at a loud volume making it sound bigger and more like current music. If you turn it up at home it becomes distorted, sounds great on my laptop's speakers but no good rocking out on my home speakers and subwoofer...sorry John. Free Music Review: Stone Alone... It makes you pine for the Stones, period
Hit: 4 Stars
Mick Jagger has had a long and illustrous career with the Stones, and over the years he has released 3 proper solo albums and a bunch of one-off singles and songs. This collection tries to bring it all home, and at times manages to do that, but at other times fails.
"The Very Best of Mick Jagger" (17 tracks, 72 min.) starts off with an OK "God Gave Me Everything", one of the few decent songs of "Goddess in the Doorway" (the worst album ever rated 5 (!) stars by Rolling Stone Magazine). Jagger's best solo album, "She's the Boss" is under-represented by only having a mere 2 songs on here: "Just Another Night" (his biggest solo hit ever, not counting the duet singles such as "Dancing In the Streets"), and "Lucky In Love". What a mistake, how could "Goddess in the Doorway" have more songs on here? Besides the true and tried duet hits "Dancing in the Streets" (with David Bowie) and "(You Gotta Walk and) Don't Look Back" (with Peter Rosh), this compilation is worthwhile for a couple of other off-center tracks like the excellent "Memo From Turner" (from the 1969 movie "Performance"), and the 1973 unreleased track ""Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup)". The other unreleased tracks "Charmed Life" and "Checking Up On My Baby" are OK but non-essential.
In all, this compilation is a fair representation of Mick Jagger's solo work, if woefully underrepresented by "She's the Boss" but it simply confirms what we've known all along: without his brethren in the Rolling Stones, Jagger is not nearly as compelling.
Free Music Review: jaggered
Hit: 5 Stars
well, i think the album is pretty good. the songs form wandering spirit (put me in the trash, don't tear me up, sweet thing and evening gown) are great. memo from turner is a gem and os are checkin' upon my baby and too many cooks spoil the soup.
i am much less convinced by don't call me up, charmed life and joy. but i never quite liked goddess in the doorway.
what surprises me is what was left out of this record: i would have used either party doll or thowaway from primitive cool instead of let's work. i was surprised by the fact that hard woman from she's the boss did not make it on this record. and was equally surprised to see that wandering spirit, which is one of the musidcally interesting things taht jagger has written over the years, was not included in this album.
this said, the record is fine and MJ does his best in the blues/rock-blues tunes.
Free Music Review: This cd rocks
Hit: 5 Stars
This cd is worth every penny, very soulful and different from the Stones.Mick is one off the most energetic entertainers off our time.There is a track here for all ages, a must buy for music lovers.