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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:
- Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
- Down Home Girl
- You Can't Catch Me
- Heart of Stone
- What a Shame
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- Down the Road a Piece
- Off the Hook
- Pain in My Heart
- Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin')
- Little Red Rooster
- Surprise, Surprise
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"The Rolling Stones Now!," recorded during 1964, was the Stones third (U.S.) album in less than a year and remains, to these ears, their richest and most rewarding 'early' album (by 'early' I refer to the group's first five, all distinguished by noirish cover art, each containing a mix of original material and covers). The debut, "England's Newest Hitmakers" is faster and more furious, and opens with the Stones' definitive statement of purpose, 'Not Fade Away.' And "12 X 5" features two glorious early hit singles, "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is On My Side" (how prescient those classics sound today!) and several gems recorded at Chess studios in Chicago, now, since Abkco's upgrade of the Stones 1963 - 70 catalog, presented in beautiful real stereo. But "Now!" - the exclamatory title conveys immediacy, a demand for attention - while lacking any hits other than the dark 'Heart Of Stone,' (which peaked at # 19 in 'Billboard') - is crafted to feel more leisurely, the sort of album you can play regularly for years and still find some new musical detail or emotional nuance. The songs are getting longer, the grooves deeper, more deliberate; there is a perfect balance of classic interpretations and superb originals (their best to date) that represent the emerging Jagger/Richards worldview, which is remarkably mature and keenly articulate considering that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were only 21, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones 23, and Bill Wyman 28 years old at the time of the album's release.
The Stones avoid obvious commercial concessions and instead take the listener via a tour de force through their romantic, wry, bemused, open-hearted, witty, sexy, and very funky conception of America (especially the American South), with material dating from the early 1940s into the '60s by Howlin Wolf, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Nat King Cole, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Barbara Lynn, and The Coasters (or possibly Alvin Robinson). And, "Now!" works as an aural equivilant of Chuck Berry's hot-rod trip described in "You Can't Catch Me" (which nobody could, of course) with its big full moon rising up above and New Jersey Turnpike In The Wee Wee Hours, and of course the inevitable state patrol on their collective trail....
This classic starts off by accident, happily, with the 'wrong' version (wrong for "No. 2" but right for "Now!") of "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love," sung with conviction but, typically, no sentimentality, a vocal whose mannerisms seem barely perceptable, so offhand is this take with its fleet bassline, driving drums and rhythm guitar half-hidden in the mix by the jangle of tambourines, and Keith's darting guitar punctuation. "Down Home Girl" could have sound forced, but Mick pulls it off with understated bemusement and delight as the band lopes along for nearly four-and-a-half funky minutes in their London-meets-New Orleans groove. Then a ride in that brand new souped up aeromobile Berry so poetically evokes, and that the Stones drive with casual aplomb. Bo's "Mona" is so deep and ferocious (you must blast this one at maximum volume) you can get lost in it, visions of Brian's orchestral jangle in the reverb and Jerome Green in the percussion, and for my money the utterly unurried yet intense pace of this masterpiece fits way better on "Now!" than on the U.K. edition of the Stones' debut. "What A Shame" is a Chess recording of an excellent original blues that Arthur Lee stole virtually word for word on Love's debut, a song of nothing ever going right that swings along brilliantly, Brian and Keith sparring and jabbing, Bill (perhaps along with Brian and Stu the most accomplished musician from the very start of the band) effortlessly adding tasty basslines, with one of several fine (even essential, in this context) performances from 'sixth Stone,' pianist Ian Stewart. Another original, "Heart Of Stone" is hard and dark (as dark as Andrew Loog Oldham's post-"Cockwork Orange" liner notes), a passionate antecedent to "Paint It, Black." (The theme is echoed in the album's fine closer, "Surprise, Surprise," and influenced a whole sub-genre of '60s garage punk).
The second half (or side, if you ever had the London-label vinyl) brings us back to 1941 with a thrilling "Down The Road Apiece" (the song really does become airborne from the first instrumental break!), through an audacious remake/remodel of Howlin' Wolf's "Little Red Rooster" in which Mick makes no attempt to replicate the awesome menace of Wolf's vocal, instead introducing a more feline, lithe, and utterly confident interpretation that is exquisitely complimented by Brian's haunting, fluttery, yet lethal slide guitar. A solid version of the Allen Toussaint-penned 'Pain In My Heart' (with Jack Nitzsche on piano) is perhaps the only track that's less than revelatory. One that certainly is would be 'Oh Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin'),' which fits together with J/R's 'Off The Hook' (and other early gems like 'One More Try') in stating a rarely emphasized Stones theme: of committment (even sacrifice), to the hard work required of relationships, real pleasure, and, implicitly, to the project that is The Rolling Stones.
It rocks, it swings, and sings of movement, lust, assurance, power, and making things work out. "The Rolling Stones, Now!" is quintessential, classic Stones and thus rock and roll.
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