The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hitmakers
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Artist: The Rolling StonesBrand: ROLLING STONES
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-09-03
Music Label: Abkco
Soundtracks:
- Not Fade Away
- Route 66
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- Honest I Do
- Now I've Got a Witness
- Little by Little
- I'm a King Bee
- Carol
- Tell Me
- Can I Get a Witness
- You Can Make It If You Try
- Walking the Dog
Free Music Notes for England's Newest Hitmakers
Free Music Review: not before, not since
Hit: 5 Stars
The value of this album, as a memento of the enormous impact the Stones had when they first burst upon the scene, has been amply confirmed by all and sundry here, by reviewers since 2002. I might add that, for me personally, the advent of the Stones blew the Beatles onto the backburner for ever. Lovely harmonies and weepy love sentiments were nice, but this was something else. Man, this was raw, this was adult stuff, and for a reason: most of it was written by lusty old musicians who spoke in a code about things forbidden by the "polite society" of their time. It would be a while before the white kids who first heard this figured out what "king bee" and the honey he was seeking were all about, and that "making love to you" didn't actually mean wooing a schoolgirl under the moonlight. What strikes me today is how well the album came out. There was so much snickering at the time, about none of these newfangled bands knowing how to play an instrument decently, and although the kids didn't care about that, they pretty much assumed it might be true. Well, not at all. For beginners, the boys had incredible chops. Although keith had only about three licks to his name, he did them with such abandon that they came out stellar - and don't forget that in the studio, where the screaming of girls doesn't cover your fumbling, it takes extra courage and several takes to get it right. In fact, listening to the albums that came after this one, you get the impression that he had already been made somewhat self-conscious and his solos were less adventurous in speed and just sheer reliance on luck. And no, in spite of the fact that the media had crowned Brian the geniuis of the band, he did not play those searing solos, Keith did. And while Bill's bass was yet to be given the prominence it deserved, here he already contributes to the incredibly percussive, bottom-smooth Stones sound, along with Charly. Ironically, Mick is perhaps the least Mick he would ever be. His passionate and affectless singing is on fire, but on "Can I Get a Witness" he's practically unrecognizable.
As for the virtues of the SACD version, well, there definitely are many, but they are subtle. Frankly, if you have the first version of the CD (1986, I think), you're fine too, save your dollars for a rainy day. As is very often the case with material from that era, you simply cannot create miracles out of crappy old tapes, remaster as you may: you raise the volume until your ears bleed, and inevitably, you can only do that because you have digital means of shaving off extreme top and bottom dynamics that would otherwise translate into distortion. But basically, it's the same product it always was - clearer and louder, but that is hardly the point with a primitive rocker from the sixties anyway, is it? Pandemonium is half the charm. I am thankful to the engineers for not attempting to polish this beyond recognition - the tape hiss on a few songs is worse than ever (on one song, you can hear tape deterioration), which is part of the remastering price, and they left it that way rather than massacre everything to obtain a pristine copy it was never meant to be.
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 27-AUG-2002
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