Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
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Free Music Review: Ready To Explode
Hit: 5 Stars
The Stones released a series of really good, trendy albums throughout the 60's, when Brian Jones was still alive and contributing. The first few were heavy on R&B covers, with Jagger-Richards compositions increasing as time went by. "Out Of Our Heads" boasts only 4 Jagger-Richards songs: "Satisfaction", one of the greatest rock songs ever and the one that began the Stones' elevation to rock royalty; "The Last Time", an excellent early rocker that preceded "Satisfaction" on American radio; "The Spider And The Fly", a sly, clever tune about infidelity on the road; and "One More Try", a decent rocker. Two of the best cuts on the album are credited to Nanker Phelge. Who was that? I didn't know, so I looked it up. It was a pseudonym for songs written by all 5 band members. Those 2 cuts are "The Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man", an amusing roots-rock tale about the life of the title character, and "Play With Fire", a ballad that is serious as a heart attack. Of the R&B covers, I like "Mercy, Mercy" and "Cry To Me" the best. I think they most effectively show off the Stones' talent. As for the remastered sound, it is quite incredible if you were used to listening to old vinyl LP's, as I was. "Satisfaction", "The Last Time" and "Play With Fire" sound especially good. To sum up, a fine effort from a rapidly developing band, and of course we now know that the best was yet to come.Free Music Review: The Stones as I remember them
Hit: 5 Stars
I still own this LP that got me into the British rock invasion of the sixties. Other reviewers will give you more history of releases, what songs were included or not, etc.
I wanted to review it because this record (sorry...CD) is probably one of my favorite Stones album and so it was natural to get the remastered CD version.
To me, the song selection is ideal. There's not a dog in the bunch! Some of the slick production we've gotten used to may be lacking on some tracks but it is more than made up with the raw spontaneity and power of the group. These guys really lived (and continue to live) for the music they made and it shows with the amazing staying power they have exhibited for over 40 years!
Buy this CD....this is what Rock 'n' Roll is all about.
Free Music Review: The First and the Best English Blues Band
Hit: 5 Stars
What younger listeners don't seem to get is that The Rolling Stones re-discovered Chicago Blues at a time when Muddy Waters was painting ceilings for a living. The first five Rolling Stones recording, ending with December's Children, are among the best white blues records of all time. For five kid from England, these guys really understood the sound and feel of electric blues from the era before Rock & Roll. Their taste was uncompromising. The addition of slide guitar (Brian Jones was the first slide player in England), cross-harp harmonica style, and raspy vocals were completely new to teenagers when they showed up in 1964. Frankly, if the Stones today could re-create the energy and intelligence of these early performances I suspect they'd have a real hit again. With no slight to the genius of Mick Taylor, the loss of Brian Jones in 1969 deminished greatly the stated Blues-based purpose of the band. I'm amazed as an adult revisiting these old recording at how well performed these tracks are. On Out of Our Heads the Stones explore soul recordings, vocally more complicated than their work on their first album,12X5 and Now. These tracks include songs by Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, and Otis Redding and Jagger does a credible job on them. It was hearing Jagger's arrangements of these songs that encouraged me to listen to the originals and ultimately changed my consciousness about what great singing really is.Free Music Review: THIS is the STONES?
Hit: 1 Stars
Alas, I purchased this CD expecting the US record, but I got the UK record. The only sort of good song is "Heart of Stone," and the great songs I remember from the US version aren't there. It's strange to listen to this horrible record and think that this band would turn into the Rolling Stones I've loved for decades. I'd never heard most of these cuts before. The Stones here sound like a second rate bar band doing weak versions of old blues and R&B titles. It's amazing to me that this stuff got released. When I think about what they would be doing in a couple more years, I can still hear that blues and R&B influence, but they would become utterly themselves, much more polished, much better at leaving space in their songs, instead of just thrashing away. (They were already doing this in their best songs, such as "Satisfaction," but not in the ones on the UK release.) Unless you are the sort who needs to have everything, you'd do better with one or more of the early hits records. Man, and I wanted "The Spider and the Fly," but it's not on this UK version.Free Music Review: Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez
Hit: 5 Stars
If you listen to "Let the Good Times Roll" you'd almost believe you were listening to a Sam Cooke outtake. I loved Sam Cooke's stuff and the bad boys of Rock and Roll really do this song justice. Mick sounds just like a Nineteen Fifty's R & B singer as he croons Bert Russell's "Cry to Me" and Roosevelt Jamison's "That's How Strong My Love Is." However, even though other songs on this record would go on to become enduring Rolling Stones favorites, I have to say that "Hitch Hike" penned by the late Marvin Gaye along with William "Mickey" Stevenson, Motown's first A & R director and singer song writer Clarence Paul is my favorite song on this record. That and Mr. Cooke's song are just wonderful, so if I was you, I'd get this record and as the French say Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez.