Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5
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Free Music Review: Stones' First Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
12x5 is the first great Rolling Stones record. Their first two releases showed the band's potential, but they realized it on this manic collection that finds them perfecting the Chess Records, Chicago R&B sound that so heavily influenced. From the opening riff of their ripping version of Chuck Berry's "Around & Around" to their magnificent version of "Susie Q", the band is on top of their game. Their versions of "Time Is On My Side", originally done by the great Irma Thomas, and Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now" have become Stones classics, while lesser known tracks like "Empty Heart", which has some ripping guitar riffs, "Confessin' The Blues" and "Good Times, Bad Times" stand right up next to them. The band pays tribute to Chess Records with the instrumental "2120 South Michigan Avenue". 12x5 solidified the foundation for their now almost 40 year career.Free Music Review: Early Stones album with improved sound
Hit: 4 Stars
The Stones second U.S. album, 12x5, was filled with some great covers and some early original material. Besides being one of their best early albums, the sound has been improved greatly. The album now contains STEREO versions of songs that have never been heard, let alone released, in the U.S. before. This version is superior to the old ABKCO version. This is definitely one album worth buying in the current SACD collection. You will not be disappointed in the upgraded sound. Highly recommended.Free Music Review: the stationmaster's ticket booth
Hit: 5 Stars
12 X 5 is the first Rolling Stones album I ever bought as a young teenager. It was so blues and gusty, with the appropriate amount of nasty. God, I loved this album. I wore the grooves out, literally. What made it great was the almost absence of original Rolling Stones material, and the total inclusion of terrific black American classics - Chuck Berry's "Around & Around", Jerry Ragovoy's "Time Is On My Side", Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now", and Resnick and Young's "Under the Boardwalk". As a novel idea, soul and R & B hits were transformed into rock songs on this recording. Enter into a new era of interpretation as these wild horses were let loose on an unsuspecting, naive world. The Stones just blew the doors off conformity. Jump forward some thirty years later and again I'm at the threshold of a first - my only Rolling Stones CD and appropriately enough, it's 12 X 5. Loving remastered by ABKCO, they have developed a new system for recreating the original analog sounds from the "we were there" vaults. Lucky us. The resulting deeds take you back to a perfect, simplistic clarity. "Empty Heart" and "2120 S. Michigan Ave", penned under the Nanker Phelge alias, revel in soulful harmonica, pithy guitars, and trains arriving on time. The album 12 X 5 is like the soundtrack to a black and white Americana with ole' English subtitles. All delivered in a ruffian, juvenile style. Even the packaging resembles the authentic original. Class and quality makes for a perfect combination. No apologies, no excuses, no explanation. In a singular tongue, 12 X 5 speaks volumes.Free Music Review: One of the most improved of the reissue series...
Hit: 4 Stars
Despite being their second American album, 12x5 *completely* outshines the rest of the Stones' early work in the sound quality department. A good part of this album is made up of the '5x5' EP that had been released in the UK; recorded primarily at the legendary Chess Studios, the EP's tracks sounded far, far better than the material the Stones were recording in the UK at the time. Yet while previous issues of 12x5 included the Chess tracks in mono, this new disc presents their inaugural appearence in stereo on CD. Heck, as an extra bonus, the "long" version of 2120 South Michigan Avenue makes an appearence. Cool, eh?...however, there is still a problem, here. This is still just 12x5, which I personally have never been too impressed by. The version of "Time" here is the organ-intro version, which I prefer less than the guitar-intro version, and the rest of the material is the "standard" that the Stones were performing at this point. And with no liner notes (and only 12 tracks), buying 12x5 AGAIN might test someone's patience. That said, the vastly improved sound quality makes this the preferred album introduction to the "early Stones," and it's definately a valuable entry in the new reissue series.