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Rolling Stones' Mailing list/newsgroup FAQ
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Part Four
The Rolling Stones -- Abbreviated Discography
Version 5.08
August 1998 (last update August 1998)
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This discography
1) lists the Rolling Stones' original long-play and EP releases issued
in either the UK or United States, sorted by release date.
Those DECCA LP releases of the 60s which were unique to the UK,
in either title or configuration, are underlined in Eastward-pointing
arrows: ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"
Those London LP releases which were unique to the US, in either
title or configuration, use Westward-pointing arrows: "<<<<<<<<<<<<<"
From "Their Satanic Majesties' Request" on, the British and American
releases of previously unreleased material on LPs were congruent, with
the exception of "Metamorphosis" (1975).
2) discusses the Rolling Stones on Compact Disc (search forward
in this document for the text "CDs, CDs, CDs"). This section
answers the following questions:
Who issues them?
When did they come out?
What are they like?
What do I need minimally for a "complete" Rolling Stones collection on CD?
What about stereo versions of early Stones tracks?
(The detail work on this last question was done by Chris M.
[ChrisM42@aol.com]).
3) lists songs that were officially sanctioned and available at
some point, but never made it to any EP or LP in the UK or US
(search forward in this document for the text "Flipsides and
Oddities").
Concerning comprehensiveness:
We have declined to catalogue out-of-print compilations that do
not have unique content unavailable elsewhere.
Some compilations, such as those which started
appearing in Europe in the seventies, may have filled
important gaps in European collections at the time
they were released, but the fact is that with only
a few exceptions, any track that was on those records
is now available somewhere on Compact Disc, small variations of
individual versions of a title notwithstanding.
(
Exceptions:
* 2 tracks (plus an intro) from the 1965 UK EP "Got LIVE if you want it!"
* 6 tracks released on "Rest of the Best", a 1984 German box set
These tracks appeared on now out-of-print European compilations, but
have still to make it to CD.
)
We have also declined, at this point in time, to exhaustively catalogue
those small variations on the same track between different LP releases.
While some variations are indeed significant, and some versions still
have not appeared on a legitimate Compact Disc in any country, we feel the
omissions do not prevent the document from being a useful resource.
With the specific exception above, compilations stay on the list as
long as they either stay in print, or offer something found on no
other EP or LP.
This discography/FAQ-section is maintained by Anthony J. Rzepela
(rzepelaa@netaxs.com).
Helps, hints, corrections, suggestions, and, where noted,
some more substantial contributions were graciously provided
by:
Jens Backlund (jens.backlund@abo.fi)
Stephen D. Carter (stevedc@central.sussex.ac.uk)
Glen Cassan (gcassan@pathcom.com)
Dave Heller
Michael Honig (honey@mwald5.chemie.uni-mainz.de)
Chris M. (ChrisM42@aol.com)
Luke Pacholski (LukPac@pitnet.net)
Pablo Roufogalis (formerly proufo@conicit.ve)
John Rutherford (john_rutherford@parsons.com)
(shattered@prodigy.com)
Mark C. Walters (mark@pluto.logica.co.uk)
Special mention goes to John Rutherford for detailed
info about promo singles, and Chris M. for info about promo CDs
and officially released stereo versions from the early 1960s.
Bibliography:
-------------
Aeppli, Felix "The Ultimate Guide 1962-1995"
ISBN: 0907872263
Hoffman, Dieter "Das Weissbuch" ISBN: 3980248940
Wyman, Bill (w/ Ray Coleman) "Stone Alone" ISBN: 0670828947
============================================================================
The Rolling Stones (EP) (17-Jan-1964)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: Impact Sound
Bye Bye Johnny / Money (That's What I Want) // You Better Move On /
Poison Ivy
NB: Rereleased on vinyl in 1982; Other sources for these tracks:
"December's Children" (track 3); German compilations "20 Super
Hits" & "Heartbreakers", and the UK compilation "Slow Rollers"
(track 3); "More Hot Rocks" (1,2, and 4); German vinyl
compilation "Around and Around" (1,3, and 4); German "The Rolling
Stones Story" (entire EP).
The Rolling Stones (17-Apr-1964)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: Oldham/Eric Easton/Arr. Stones
Route 66 / I Just Wanna Make Love To You / Honest I Do / Mona (I Need
You Baby) / 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
NB: To duplicate this track lineup with US releases, take US lp debut
("England's Newest Hitmakers"), remove "Not Fade Away", and add
"Mona" (found on 3rd US LP/CD, "Now!") and replace "Tell Me" with
the "long" version of it, not found on any US CDs. Long "Tell Me"
was on the 11-LP box set from Mobile Fidelity in 1984, but on no
other US release.
England's Newest Hit Makers (01-May-1964)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: Oldham/Eric Easton/Arr. Stones
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
NB: Then-manager Eric Easton's co-producer credits have been removed
from CD reissue. To duplicate this release's track listings, take
UK lp debut, remove "Mona", and add "Not Fade Away" and the
"short" US album version of "Tell Me" (both found on the German
"More Hot Rocks" CD).
Five by Five (EP) (14-Aug-1964)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: Oldham/Impact/Arr. Stones
If You Need Me / Empty Heart / 2120 South Michigan Avenue //
Confessin' the Blues / Around and Around
NB: Vinyl rereleased 1982; all 5 tracks can be found on American
LP/CD "12 X 5"; a longer/complete version of track 3 ("2120 South
Michigan Avenue") appears nowhere except the German compilation
"Around and Around", which was included in toto in the box set
"The Rolling Stones Story" - also vinyl, also out of print.
12 x 5 (24-Oct-1964)
<<<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Around and Around / Confessin' the Blues / Empty Heart / Time Is on My
Side / Good Times Bad Times / It's All Over Now // 2120 South Michigan
Avenue / Under The Boardwalk / Congratulations / Grown Up Wrong / If
You Need Me / Susie Q
NB: includes all of the "5 X 5" UK EP, four tracks from the second UK
LP ("No.2"), and 3 tracks taken from singles/compilations: "It's
All Over Now", "Good Times Bad Times", and "Congratulations"
No. 2 (16-Jan-1965)
>>>>> PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love / Down Home Girl / You Can't Catch Me
/ Time Is On My Side / What A Shame / Grown Up Wrong // Down The Road
Apiece / Under the Boardwalk / I Can't Be Satisfied / Pain In My Heart
/ Off The Hook / Suzie Q
NB: To duplicate, start with US LP "Now!", and add (from "12 x 5")
"Time Is On My Side", "Susie Q", "Under the Boardwalk", and
"Grown Up Wrong"; and finally (from "More Hot Rocks") use "I
Can't Be Satisfied". Tracks 4,5,7 and 9 are in true
channel-separated stereo on the Japanese CD issue of this title.
Now! (13-Feb-1965)
<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
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 Apiece / Off the Hook / Pain in My Heart / Oh Baby (We Got a Good
Thing Goin') / Little Red Rooster / Surprise, Surprise
NB: To duplicate, take UK LP "No. 2", delete tracks 4,6,8,9,12, and
add "Mona" (from first UK LP), "Heart of Stone" and "Oh Baby" (UK
version of "Out of Our Heads"), "Little Red Rooster" (UK "High
Tide and Green Grass"), and "Surprise, Surprise" (a flipside).
Track 1 claims to be 2:57 on the CD, but is actually 5:00, except
on the correct Jap. issue.
Got LIVE if you want it! (EP) (11-Jun-1965)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: Oldham/Impact/Arr. Stones
We Want the Stones / Everybody Needs Somebody To Love / Pain in My
Heart / Route 66 // I'm Moving On / I'm Alright
NB: Vinyl rereleased 1982; all tracks are on German compilations
"Rest of the Best", "Collectors Only", and "Legends of Rock"
(vinyl only, all 3 out of print; "LoR" track listing is
inaccurate - entire EP is definitely included in toto); Tracks 4
and 5 can be found on "December's Children"; track 6 is on US
version of "Out of Our Heads";
Out of Our Heads (30-Jul-1965)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Mercy Mercy / Hitch Hike / The Last Time / That's How Strong My Love
Is / Good Times / I'm Alright // Satisfaction / Cry To Me / The Under
Assistant West Coast Promotion Man / Play With Fire / The Spider and
the Fly / One More Try
NB: Features "I'm Alright" from the UK EP "Got Live if you want It".
To duplicate using UK releases, use also the UK version of "Out
of Our Heads"; the singles "Satisfaction", "The Last Time", and
"Play With Fire"; "One More Try" (found on the 1971 UK
compilation "Stone Age"); and "Spider and the Fly" (flipside to
the UK "Satisfaction" single)
Out of Our Heads (24-Sep-1965)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
She Said Yeah / Mercy Mercy / Hitch-Hike / That's How Strong My Love
Is / Good Times / Gotta Get Away // Talkin 'Bout You / Cry To Me / Oh
Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') / Heart of Stone / The Underassistant
West Coast Promotion Man / I'm Free
NB: To duplicate this UK issue, Americans need "She Said Yeah",
"Gotta Get Away", "Talkin About You", "I'm Free" (all from
"December's Children"), "Heart of Stone" and "Oh Baby" (from
"Now!"), and the US "Out of Our Heads"
December's Children (04-Dec-1965)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
She Said Yeah / Talkin' About You / You Better Move On / Look What
You've Done / The Singer not the Song / Route 66 // Get Off of My
Cloud / I'm Free / As Tears Go By / Gotta Get Away / Blue Turns To
Grey / I'm Moving On
NB: Tracks 6 & 12 are taken from the UK "Got LIVE if You Want It" EP;
To duplicate, Britons can find tracks 1,2,8, and 10 on the UK
version of "Out of Our Heads". Compilations, singles, or buying
the US CD outright are the only way to cull tracks 3,4,5,7,9,11;
German CD based on mono version of old US LP lineup.
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (02-Apr-1966)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Satisfaction / The Last Time / As Tears Go By / Time Is on My Side /
It's All Over Now / Tell Me // 19th Nervous Breakdown / Heart of Stone
/ Get Off of My Cloud / Not Fade Away / Good Times, Bad Times / Play
With Fire
NB: compilation
Aftermath (15-Apr-1966)
>>>>>>>>> PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Mother's Little Helper / Stupid Girl / Lady Jane / Under My Thumb /
Doncha Bother Me / Goin' Home // Flight 505 / High and Dry / Out of
Time / It's Not Easy / I Am Waiting / Take it or Leave It / Think /
What To Do
NB: To duplicate this Euro-config, Americans need "Mother's Little
Helper","Take It or Leave It", "Lady Jane", "Out of Time" (all
found on US compilation "Flowers"), and "What To Do" (from the
double-disc "More Hot Rocks"); for the correct, long version of
"Out of Time", (5:36) the only US release was the vinyl Mobile
Fidelity box set in 1984.
Aftermath (02-Jul-1966)
<<<<<<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Paint It, Black / Stupid Girl / Lady Jane / Under My Thumb / Doncha
Bother Me / Think // Flight 505 / High and Dry / It's Not Easy / I am
Waiting / Going Home
NB: "Paint It, Black" is the only title here not also on the European
configuration.
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (04-Nov-1966)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? / Paint It,
Black / It's All Over Now / The Last Time / Heart of Stone / Not Fade
Away / Come On // Satisfaction / Get Off of My Cloud / As Tears Go By
/ 19th Nervous Breakdown / Lady Jane / Time Is On My Side / Little Red
Rooster
NB: Several tracks appear on UK LongPlayer for the first time ever:
US LPs had by this point already included "Little Red Rooster",
"The Last Time", "Not Fade Away", "Satisfaction", "It's All Over
Now", "Paint It, Black" & "Get Off of my Cloud".
Got LIVE if you Want it! (10-Dec-1966)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham
Under My Thumb / Get Off of My Cloud / Lady Jane / Not Fade Away /
I've Been Loving You Too Long / Fortune Teller // The Last Time / 19th
Nervous Breakdown / Time is On My Side / I'm Alright / Have You Seen
you Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? / Satisfaction
NB: Poorly recorded; several tracks are just studio recordings with
canned audience on top (esp. track 5). ABKCO's "Digital Remaster"
from the mid-80s uses a different version of "Under My Thumb"
from the original London release; UK customers got tracks 1,3,5,
6,9, and 12 in 1971, on the compilation "Gimme Shelter"
Between the Buttons (20-Jan-1967)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Yesterday's Papers / My Obsession / Back Street Girl / Connection /
She Smiled Sweetly / Cool, Calm and Collected // All Sold Out / Please
Go Home / Who's Been Sleeping Here? / Complicated / Miss Amanda Jones
/ Something Happened to Me Yesterday
NB: Last non-compilation album produced by Andrew Loog Oldham; US
release can be duplicated by starting with this, and adding
singles "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Ruby Tuesday", and
dropping tracks 8 and 3.
Between the Buttons (11-Feb-1967)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Let's Spend the Night Together / Yesterday's Papers / Ruby Tuesday /
Connection / She Smiled Sweetly / Cool, Calm, and Collected // All
Sold Out / My Obsession / Who's Been Sleeping Here? / Complicated /
Miss Amanda Jones / Something Happened to Me Yesterday
NB: last album produced by Oldham; to get UK release, drop tracks 1,
3, and add "Please Go Home" and "Back Street Girl" (both found
on"Flowers")
Flowers (15-Jul-1967)
<<<<<<< PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Ruby Tuesday / Have You Seen your Mother, Baby, Standing in the
Shadow? / Let's Spend the Night Together / Lady Jane / Out Of Time /
My Girl // Backstreet Girl / Please Go Home / Mother's Little Helper /
Take it Or Leave It / Ride On, Baby / Sittin' on a Fence
NB: A US compilation containing 3 single sides, 6 UK-version LP
tracks (2 from "Between the Buttons", and 4 from "Aftermath")
plus 2 tracks which remain unavailable today elsewhere on CD ("My
Girl" and "Ride On Baby"). and one track ("Sittin' on a Fence")
which can now be found on "Through the Past Darkly" (UK version),
and also on "More Hot Rocks".
Their Satanic Majesties' Request (09-Dec-1967)
================================ PROD: Rolling Stones
Sing This All Together / Citadel / In Another Land / 2000 Man / Sing
This All Together (see what happens) // She's a Rainbow / The Lantern
/ Gomper / 2000 Light Years from Home / On With the Show
NB: First album not produced by Andrew Loog Oldham; 1st and only
album to be produced by 'Rolling Stones'; 1st album with
identical track listings on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Last LP to have an American Mono version. Super-short "promo"
versions of tracks 6 and 9 briefly appeared commercially on a US
7" rerelease with 5N-906 etched in groove.
Beggar's Banquet (07-Dec-1968)
================ PROD: Jimmy Miller
Sympathy For the Devil / No Expectations / Dear Doctor / Parachute
Woman / Jig-Saw Puzzle // Street Fightin' Man / Prodigal Son / Stray
Cat Blues / Factory Girl / Salt of the Earth
NB: First album produced by Jimmy Miller. DECCA banned use of the
original "toilet & graffiti" cover, which was later used on the
ABKCO rerelease in 1986 on lp and CD. NB: an alternate version of
"Street Fighting Man" was only on the earliest pressings of the
US 7-inch.
Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits, Vol. (12-Sep-1969)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PROD: Andrew Loog Oldham/Arr. Stones
Jumping Jack Flash / Mother's Little Helper / 2000 Light Years From
Home / Let's Spend the Night Together / You Better Move On / We Love
You // Street Fightin' Man / She's A Rainbow / Ruby Tuesday /
Dandelion / Sittin' On a Fence / Honky Tonk Women
NB: Compilation; dedicated to Brian Jones, dead two months earlier
Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits, Vol. (13-Sep-1969)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<PROD: (various)
Paint It Black / Ruby Tuesday / She's a Rainbow / Jumpin' Jack Flash /
Mother's Little Helper / Let's Spend the Night Together // Honky Tonk
Women / Dandelion / 2000 Light Years from home / Have you Seen Your
Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow? / Street Fighting Man
NB: Compilation; dedicated to Brian Jones, dead two months earlier
Let it Bleed (06-Dec-1969)
============ PROD: Jimmy Miller
Gimme Shelter / Love In Vain / Country Honk / Live With Me / Let It
Bleed // Midnight Rambler / You Got The Silver / Monkey man / You
Can't Always Get What You Want
NB: first LP to feature Mick Taylor, Brian Jones' replacement; last
ever Stones' record to be issued with a commercially available
alternate mono version, anywhere in the world (there was a UK,
but no US, mono release); first ever album to NOT have an A-side
single issued
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (01-Sep-1970)
==================== PROD: Stones/Glyn Johns
Jumpin' Jack Flash / Carol / Stray Cat Blues / Love in Vain / Midnight
Rambler // Sympathy for the Devil / Live with Me / Little Queenie /
Honky Tonk Women / Street Fighting Man
NB: live (with generous overdubs/editing); recorded on the 1969 tour
in New York City and Baltimore, MD; last non-compilation LP
issued for DECCA/London/ABKCO; subsequent new Stones releases
would be on Rolling Stones Records ("tongue" label)
Sticky Fingers (23-Apr-1971)
============== PROD: Jimmy Miller
Brown Sugar / Sway / Wild Horses / Can't You Hear Me Knockin' / You
Gotta Move // Bitch / I Got the Blues / Sister Morphine / Dead Flowers
/ Moonlight Mile
NB: Notorious 'zipper' cover, designed by Andy Warhol, was banned in
Spain, where a sick "severed finger" motif was used instead, and
a live "Let it Rock" replaced the objectionable "Sister
Morphine". US 7" version of "Sway" (the B-side to "Wild Horses")
is different.
Hot Rocks 1964 - 1971 (01-Jan-1972)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: (various)
Time is on My Side / Heart of Stone / Play With Fire / Satisfaction /
As Tears Go By / Get Off My Cloud // Mother's Little Helper / 19th
Nervous Breakdown / Paint It, Black / Under My Thumb / Ruby Tuesday /
Let's Spend the Night Together // Jumping Jack Flash / Street Fighting
Man / Sympathy for the Devil / Honky Tonk Women / Gimme Shelter //
Midnight Rambler (Live) / You Can't Always Get What You Want / Brown
Sugar / Wild Horses
NB: Compilation; finally issued in Europe in 1990; German CD uses
superior masters, including *true* stereo versions of
"Satisfaction" and "Paint it, Black". An exremely limited 1st run
of the US vinyl had alternate versions of the last two tracks, as
they were originally heard in the 1970 film "Gimme Shelter".
Exile On Main St. (01-May-1972)
================= PROD: Jimmy Miller
Rocks Off / Rip This Joint / Hip Shake / Casino Boogie / Tumbling Dice
// Sweet Virginia / Torn & Frayed / Sweet Black Angel / Loving Cup //
Happy / Turd on the Run / Ventilator Blues / Just Wanna See His Face /
Let It Loose // All Down the Line / Stop Breaking Down / Shine a Light
/ Soul Survivor
NB: The only double-LP of new studio work issued by the group until
1994's "Voodoo Lounge". 20-bit digital remaster CD issued by
Virgin records June, 1994. An alternate version of "All Down the
Line" appears as the B-side to "Happy" on several pressing runs.
More Hot Rocks (01-Dec-1972)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: (various)
Tell Me / Not Fade Away / The Last Time / It's All Over Now / Good
Times Bad Times / I'm Free // Out of Time / Lady Jane / Sittin' On a
Fence / Have You Seen You Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow /
Dandelion / We Love You // She's a Rainbow / 2000 Light Years From
Home / Child of the Moon / No Expectations / Let It Bleed // What To
Do / Money / Come On / Fortune Teller / Poison Ivy / Bye Bye Johnnie /
I Can't Be Satisfied / Long Long While
NB: Eventually issued in Europe 1990; a compilation including
previously unavailable UK flipsides and LP tracks. European CD
has a different track order and a version of "Poison Ivy" STILL
not out anywhere in US. Original US vinyl has a _third_ version
of it. Unavailable on CD anywhere else: tracks 19, 21, 22, 23.
Track 7 is short "US LP" version.
Goat's Head Soup (31-Aug-1973)
================ PROD: Jimmy Miller
Dancing With Mr. D / 100 Years Ago / Coming Down Again / Doo Doo Doo
Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) / Angie // Silver Train / Hide Your Love /
Winter / Can You Hear the Music / Star Star
NB: "censored" version of "Star Star" available only on initial US
vinyl pressings, distributed by WEA. 20-bit digital remaster CD
issued by Virgin Records June 1994.
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (01-Oct-1974)
======================= PROD: Glimmer Twins
If You Can't Rock Me / Ain't Too Proud to Beg / It's Only Rock and
Roll / Till the Next Goodbye / Time Waits for No One // Luxury / Dance
Little Sister / If You Really Want to Be My Friend / Short and Curlies
/ Fingerprint File
NB: First album produced by the 'Glimmer Twins'; between-track timing
on the CD noticeably "off" from the vinyl on "side one"; The
B-side to the single of the title track ("Through the Lonely
Nights") is still "uncompiled" (i.e., appears on no compilations
or CDs officially). The 20-bit digital remaster was issued by
Virgin/EMI in June 1994.
Metamorphosis (01-Jun-1975)
<<<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: (various)
Out of Time / Don't Lie To Me / Each and Everyday of the Year / Heart
of Stone / I'd Much Rather be With the Boys / (Walkin' thru the)
Sleepy City / Try a Little Harder // I Don't Know Why / If you Let Me
/ Jiving Sister Fanny / Downtown Suzie / Family / Memo From Turner /
I'm Going Down
NB: poorly selected compilation of outtakes from the Klein years
(early sixties to 1970)
Metamorphosis (uk) (01-Jun-1975)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: (various)
Out of Time / Don't Lie To Me / Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind /
Each and Every Day of the Year / Heart of Stone / I'd Much Rather Be
with the Boys / (Walkin' through the) Sleepy City / We're Wastin' Time
/ Try A Little Harder // I Don't Know Why / If You Let Me / Jiving
Sister Fanny / Downtown Suzie / Family / Memo From Turner / I'm Going
Down
Made In the Shade (06-Jun-1975)
================= PROD: (various)
Brown Sugar / Tumbling Dice / Happy / Dance Little Sister / Wild
Horses // Angie / Bitch / It's Only Rock 'n Roll / Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
(Heartbreaker) / Rip This Joint
NB: compilation; Briefly available as a CD under Sony and EMI. Virgin
Records still have not put a version out on disc.
Black and Blue (01-Apr-1976)
============== PROD: Glimmer Twins
Hot Stuff / Hand Of Fate / Cherry Oh Baby / Memory Motel // Hey,
Negrita / Melody / Fool To Cry / Crazy Mama
NB: first new album released with Ron Wood as a member. 20-bit
digital remaster CD, issued by Virgin/EMI 6/94, said to have one
or two tracks with longer fades.
Love You Live (23-Sep-1977)
============= PROD: Glimmer Twins
Intro/Honky Tonk Women / If You Can't Rock Me/Get Off My Cloud / Happy
/ Hot Stuff / Star Star // Tumbling Dice / Fingerprint File / You
Gotta Move / You Can't Always Get What You Want // Mannish Boy /
Crackin' Up / Little Red Rooster / Around and Around // It's Only Rock
and Roll / Brown Sugar / Jumping Jack Flash / Sympathy for the Devil
NB: live; recorded in Paris 1976, Toronto 1977, and several
uncredited sites; another 'Warhol' cover art; dedicated to Keith
Harwood, recently deceased; CD version, which was unavailable for
5 years after the band left Sony, re-emerged in Europe and Japan
in 1998.
Some Girls (09-Jun-1978)
========== PROD: Glimmer Twins
Miss You / When the Whip Comes Down / Just My Imagination / Some Girls
/ Lies // Far Away Eyes / Respectable / Before They Make Me Run /
Beast of Burden / Shattered
NB: Cover reworked due to objections of pictured celebrities,
including Lucille Ball. One flipside ("Everything's Turning to
Gold") and one remix ("Miss You") were later "compiled". There
are "Promo" mixes for "Before they Make Me Run" and "Shattered"
which are still uncompiled. 1st Stones lp preceded by a 2-year
gap.
Emotional Rescue (23-Jun-1980)
================ PROD: Glimmer Twins/Kimsey (assoc.)
Dance (Pt. I) / Summer Romance / Send it To Me / Let Me Go / Indian
Girl // Where the Boys Go / Down in the Hole / Emotional Rescue /
She's So Cold / All About You
NB: Early copies had a very large, color 'thermo' poster, also found
in the special limited edition Virgin/EMI CD, June 1994. "Promo"
edits of "Emotional Rescue" and "She's So Cold" (latter has no
line saying "God Damn Cold") are still "uncompiled".
Sucking in the Seventies (12-Mar-1981)
======================== PROD: Glimmer Twins
Shattered / Everything Is Turning to Gold / Hot Stuff (version) / Time
Waits For No One (version) / Fool To Cry (version) // Mannish Boy
(version) / When the Whip Comes Down (live) / If I was a Dancer (Dance
Pt. 2) / Crazy Mama (version) / Beast of Burden (version)
NB: Compilation featuring six single edits, a B-side, and 2
previously unreleased goodies (tracks 7 and 8). A separate Promo
12" single has an instrumental version of "If I was a Dancer".
Only "Shattered" is issued here as found on its original LP
incarnation. Available on CD under Sony, Virgin has no plans to
release this compilation.
Tattoo You (27-Aug-1981)
========== PROD: Glimmer Twins
Start Me Up / Hang Fire / Slave / Little T & A / Black Limousine /
Neighbours // Worried About You / Tops / Heaven / No Use in Crying /
Waiting On a Friend
NB: featured songs in the can from as far back as 1973. Last Stones'
studio LP to be preceded by less than a two-year gap. 20-bit
digital remaster CD issued by Virgin/EMI June 1994 has a
significantly different version of track 3 ("Slave"). The German
1983 release on CD (EMI) is the first-ever CD issued by The
Rolling Stones.
Still Life (American Concert 1981) (01-Jun-1982)
================================== PROD: Glimmer Twins
Intro (Take the A-Train) / Under My Thumb / Let's Spend the Night
Together / Shattered / Twenty Flight Rock / Going to a Go-Go // Let Me
Go / Time Is On My Side / Just My Imagination / Start Me Up /
Satisfaction (outro: "Star Spangled Banner")
NB: live album from the US tour in '81; first US CD ever issued (by
mistake in 1984). "Beast of Burden (live)", issued only as a
flipside to "Going to a Go-Go", later appeared on the 1990 CD
"Collectibles". This live record received a second CD release in
1998 in Europe and Japan after being unavailable for 5 years.
Undercover (01-Nov-1983)
========== PROD: Glimmer Twins/Chris Kimsey
Undercover of the Night / She Was Hot / Tie You Up (The Pain of Love)
/ Wanna Hold You / Feel On Baby // Too Much Blood / Pretty Beat Up /
Too Tough / All the Way Down / It Must Be Hell
NB: "short" version of "Wanna Hold You" available in US only on
initial vinyl pressings distributed by WEA, and in Germany and
Japan on EMI CDs. As of CBS reissue, the track seems to have
disappeared. One flipside ("Think I'm Going Mad", B-side to "She
Was Hot") is still "uncompiled".
Rewind (lp) (01-Jun-1984)
>>>>>>>>>>> PROD: (various)
Brown Sugar / Undercover of the Night / Start Me Up / Tumbling Dice /
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll / She's So Cold // Miss You / Beast of Burden
/ Fool To Cry / Waiting on A Friend / Angie / Respectable
NB: compilation - UK issue is missing "Hang Fire" from its American
counterpart, but includes "Respectable" and "She's So Cold".
Rewind (lp) (01-Jul-1984)
<<<<<<<<<<< PROD: (various)
Miss You / Brown Sugar / Undercover of the Night / Start Me Up /
Tumbling Dice / Hang Fire // Emotional Rescue / Beast of Burden / Fool
To Cry / Waiting on a Friend / Angie
NB: compilation. Note different track listing from CD, and the
European version of the lp, which had "She's So Cold" and
"Respectable", but left out "Hang Fire".
Dirty Work (21-Mar-1986)
========== PROD: Steve Lillywhite/Glimmer Twins
One Hit (to the Body) / Fight / Harlem Shuffle / Hold Back / Too Rude
// Winning Ugly / Back To Zero / Dirty Work / Had It With You / Sleep
Tonight
NB: Dedicated to recently deceased Ian Stewart; check out "fadeout"
at end of album.
Rewind (CD) (01-Dec-1986)
=========== PROD: (various)
Miss You / Brown Sugar / Undercover of the Night / Start Me Up /
Tumbling Dice / Hang Fire / It's Only Rock'n'Roll / Emotional Rescue /
Beast of Burden / Fool To Cry / Waiting on a Friend / Angie / Doo Doo
Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
NB: compilation (adds "Heartbreaker" and "It's Only Rock and Roll" to
the American LP configuration); A German CBS reissue on vinyl in
1990 (450199-1) uses this CD-based song lineup.
The London Years (Disc 1) (01-Aug-1989)
========================= PROD: (various)
Come On/ I Want To Be Loved/ I Wanna Be Your Man/ Stoned/ Not Fade
Away/ Little By Little/ It's All Over Now/ Good Times, Bad Times/ Tell
Me/ I Just Want To Make Love To You/ Time Is On My Side/
Congratulations/ Little Red Rooster/ Off The Hook/ Heart Of Stone/
What A Shame/ The Last Time/ Play With Fire/ Satisfaction/ The Under
Assistant West Coast Promotion Man/ The Spider and the Fly/ Get Off Of
My Cloud/ I'm Free/ The Singer Not the Song/ As Tears Go By
(Disc 2)
Gotta Get Away / 19th Nervous Breakdown / Sad Day / Paint It, Black /
Stupid Girl / Long Long While / Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane /
Have You Seen You Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? / Who's
Driving Your Plane / Let's Spend the Night Together / Ruby Tuesday /
We Love You / Dandelion / She's A Rainbow / 2000 Light Years From Home
/ In Another Land / The Lantern / Jumpin' Jack Flash / Child of the
Moon
(Disc 3)
Street Fighting Man / No Expectations / Surprise Surprise / Honky Tonk
Women / You Can't Always Get What You Want / Memo From Turner / Brown
Sugar / Wild Horses / I Don't Know Why / Try A Little Harder / Out Of
Time / Jiving Sister Fanny / Sympathy For the Devil
NB: Compilation; features most of the singles and flipsides released
under DECCA/ABKCO. Heavy overlap with the 1972 compilations "Hot
Rocks" (This set has all HR's titles but 3, and the "You Can't
Always Get What You Want" found here is not the same) and "More
Hot Rocks" (17 of MHR's 25 tracks are found here.)
On CD here and nowhere else: 4 "Metamorphosis" single sides;
three early sides ("I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Want to Be Loved",
and "Stoned"); the single version (no choir) of "You Can't Always
Get What You Want"; and "Sad Day". The 'Performance' soundtrack
version of "Memo from Turner" was previously not a 'Rolling
Stones' title in the States.
Steel Wheels (28-Aug-1989)
============ PROD: Chris Kimsey / Glimmer Twins
Sad Sad Sad / Mixed Emotions / Terrifying / Hold on to Your Hat /
Hearts For Sale / Blinded By Love // Rock and a Hard Place / Can't Be
Seen / Almost Hear You Sigh / Continental Drift / Break the Spell /
Slipping Away
NB: three flipsides from this album: seek out "Cook Cook Blues"
("Rock and a Hard Place"), "Fancyman Blues" ("Mixed Emotions"),
and "Wish I'd Never Met You" ("Terrifying"), or get all three on
the 1990 CD compilation entitled "Collectibles". First LP to be
preceded by a 3-year gap.
Collector's Edition/Collectibles (01-Jun-1990)
================================ PROD: (various)
Rock and a Hard Place (version) / Miss You (12" single) / Cook Cook
Blues / Everything Is Turning to Gold / Winning Ugly (remix) / Beast
of Burden (live) / Fancyman Blues / Harlem Shuffle (London Mix) / Wish
I'd Never Met You / Mixed Emotions (remix)
NB: included with either the "Collection 1971-1990" box set, or the
"Flashpoint" special edition double-pak issued in the States
(where it uses the name "Collectibles")
Flashpoint (CD) (02-Apr-1991)
================ PROD: Chris Kimsey / Glimmer Twins
Continental Drift / Start Me Up / Sad Sad Sad / Miss You / Rock and a
Hard Place / Ruby Tuesday / You Can't Always Get What You Want /
Factory Girl / Can't Be Seen / Little Red Rooster / Paint it Black /
Sympathy For the Devil / Brown Sugar / Jumpin' Jack Flash /
Satisfaction / Highwire / Sex Drive
NB: This CD was out of print for 5 years, after the band left Sony.
It re-emerged in 1998 from Virgin in Europe and Japan.
Flashpoint (lp) (02-Apr-1991)
================ PROD: Chris Kimsey / Glimmer Twins
Continental Drift / Start Me Up / Sad Sad Sad / Miss You / Ruby Tueday
/ You Can't Always Get What You Want / Factory Girl / Little Red
Rooster // Paint It Black / Sympathy For the Devil / Brown Sugar /
Jumpin' Jack Flash / Satisfaction / Highwire / Sex Drive
NB: 14 live + 2 new studio tracks (12+2 on vinyl); first time there
was a simultaneous release of different media with different
track lineups; seven live songs from the same ('89-'90) tour were
released as flipsides to singles from this album. (see list at
bottom of document).
Jump Back - The Best of the Rolling Ston (22-Nov-1993)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PROD: (various)
Start Me Up / Brown Sugar / Harlem Shuffle / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll /
Mixed Emotions / Angie / Tumbling Dice / Fool To Cry / Rock and a Hard
Place / Miss You / Hot Stuff / Emotional Rescue / Respectable / Beast
of Burden / Waiting On a Friend / Wild horses / Bitch / Undercover of
the Night
NB: Compilation; with 20-bit digital remastering, this is the first
Stones' release on Virgin records (Keith's solo label since 1988)
Voodoo Lounge (CD) (12-Jul-1994)
================== PROD: Don Was/Glimmer Twins
Love Is Strong / You Got Me Rocking / Sparks Will Fly / The Worst /
New Faces / Moon Is Up / Out of Tears / I Go Wild / Brand New Car /
Sweethearts Together / Suck on the Jugular / Blinded by Rainbows /
Baby Break it Down / Thru and Thru / Mean Disposition
NB: Release date puts this a month shy of being first Stones' album
with a 5-year delay. Flipsides include "The Storm", "So Young",
"Jump On Top of Me" and "I'm Gonna Drive". Track 15 ("Mean
Disposition") is not on non-CD media. First new studio album to
have different track listings on different media.
Voodoo Lounge (lp) (12-Jul-1994)
================== PROD: Don Was/Glimmer Twins
Love Is Strong / You Got Me Rocking / Sparks Will Fly // The Worst /
New Faces / Moon Is Up / Out of Tears // I Go Wild / Brand New Car /
Sweethearts Together / Suck on the Jugular // Blinded by Rainbows /
Baby Break it Down / Thru and Thru
NB: Release date fell one month shy of being the first Stones' album
with a 5-year delay. Flipsides: "The Storm", "So Young", "Jump On
Top of Me" and "I'm Gonna Drive" (see bottom). CD version is the
only format with a 15th track, "Mean Disposition". First new
studio album to feature different tracks on diff. media.
Stripped (14-Nov-1995)
======== PROD: Don Was/Glimmer Twins
Street Fightin' Man / Like a Rolling Stone / Not Fade Away / Shine A
Light // The Spider and the Fly / I'm Free / Wild Horses // Let it
Bleed / Dead Flowers / Slipping Away / Angie // Love In Vain / Sweet
Virginia / Little Baby
NB: Special "Multimedia" portion of CD features QuickTime video of
acoustic and backstage jams. Requires computer hardware (& proper
CD-ROM models) which can recognize the CD-Plus disk format. Five
live songs from 1995 tour ("Tumbling Dice","Black Limousine",
"Gimme Shelter","All Down the Line","Live with Me") released as
flips on two Euro. CD singles.
Rock and Roll Circus (14-Oct-1996)
==================== PROD: Miller/Jody Klein/Lenne Allik
Song for Jeffrey (Jethro Tull) / A Quick One (The Who) / Ain't That a
Lot of Love (Taj Mahal) / Something Better (Marianne Faithfull) / Yer
Blues (Dirty Mac) / Whole Lotta Yoko (Yoko Ono, Ivry Gitlis, and the
Dirty Mac) / Jumping Jack Flash / Parachute Woman / No Expectations /
You Can't Always Get What You Want / Sympathy for the Devil / Salt of
the Earth
NB: A 1996 release, despite the 1995 copyright info: Soundtrack disc
to the December '68 65-minute TV show which came out on home
video simultaneously. Keith Richards is bassist for the "Dirty
Mac", and the Stones only contribute the last six tracks. "Salt
of the Earth" is live vocals from Jagger, Richards, and others,
over a taped basic track.
Bridges To Babylon (30-Sep-1997)
================== PROD: (various)
Flip The Switch / Anybody Seen My Baby / Lowdown / Already Over Me /
Gun Face / You Don't Have to Mean It / Out of Control / Saint Of Me /
Might As Well Get Juiced / Always Suffering / Too Tight / Thief in the
Night / How Can I Stop
NB: Largest cast of producers yet for a new studio album. Keith sings
lead for an unprecedented three tracks. No commercially available
lead-off single in the US. One flipside, "Any Way You Look At
It", came out on "Saint Of Me".
======================== CDs, CDs, CDs =========================
Who issues them?
At any one time, legitimate CDs from the Rolling Stones
(i.e., CDs the Rolling Stones released under contract,
and not the "official but unauthorized" variety of CDs
widely issued in Europe in the 1980s and early '90s)
are issued by only two going concerns:
ABKCO
[This company, owned by Allen Klein, has the rights
to all Rolling Stones recordings originally issued
up to and including the year 1970. It also owns the
publishing on all Rolling Stones compositions up to
and including 1971's "Sticky Fingers", plus a handful
of songs from 1972's "Exile on Main Street". ABKCO's
rights apparently extend to at least the 1996 release
of "Rock and Roll Circus", a previously shelved 1968
performance. Typically, subcontractors such as London
or Polydor are the actual record label on which Stones
recordings are issued.]
or
"The Rolling Stones"
[The Rolling Stones own all of their post-1970
recordings, and subcontractors, such as EMI,
Sony, Atlantic, Virgin, etc. have been utilized
over the years to get the discs and records
to market. The records/discs typically say
"Rolling Stones Records, distributed by
[such-and-such a company]". although as of
"Voodoo Lounge", and the 1994 Virgin rereleases,
the Stones' discs really are on Virgin Records, and
there's no sign of "Rolling Stones Records" to be
found anywhere.]
Since "The Rolling Stones" own almost all of their post-1970
"recordings", what they can do is license the recordings
for release on their current label, whatever it may be,
and take the recordings with them when the record company
contract expires. This would explain the variety of companies
you may see issuing post-1970 CDs by the Rolling Stones in
your local used CD store. (Note for American releases:
American Stones CDs from this era were, up until 1993,
and with only one WEA exception, issued only by Sony/CBS,
who signed the Rolling Stones worldwide in 1984. One may
also find European or Japanese CDs from the post-ABKCO era
issued by EMI, the Rolling Stones' label in much of the
world from 1977 to 1984.)
When did they come out?
The first Rolling Stones CD ever issued was 'Tattoo You', in
Europe by EMI in 1983. In the States, it is "Still Life",
mistakenly released in 1984 by WEA, the Stones' American
label at the time.
American Stones CDs did not officially appear until 1986,
when Sony/CBS started issuing the post-1970 discs it had
the rights to, and ABKCO began unleashing its cache of
1960s recordings on disc in the States as it had been
doing since 1984 in Europe.
What are they like?
The release of CDs did not freeze in stone (heh heh) any particular
version of a song, or album, or Stones recording career overview.
Indeed, it exacerbated a long-standing problem where different
issues of a Stones album have literally different tracks on them,
as was the case in the early 60s; or where discernibly different
versions of a single song may be on different issues of an album,
a situation still happening 20 years on, in 1983, with the release
of 'Undercover', and its two distinct versions of the song "Wanna
Hold You".
Even when a CD release has two different versions of a song
(as in the interesting case of "Poison Ivy" from the
compilation "More Hot Rocks"), it may still be the case that a
particular version of a song can only be found on old vinyl.
Some examples include:
* a full-length version of "2120 South Michigan Avenue" found
only on vinyl: the 1965 German compilation LP _Around and Around_
* the "original" live recording of "Under My Thumb" which did not
make it to any post-1986 remaster of the "Got LIVE if you
Want it!" album
Other, more esoteric issues also exist. There are both true
stereo (i.e., channel-separated stereo) and "Electronically
Reprocessed" stereo versions of early 60's songs on the
market. Multiple distinct versions of a single song (as many
as four!) have seen official release with obvious changes,
such as a missing guitar solo, an organ intro replacing a
guitar, and missing percussion tracks, handclaps, or verses.
Many (but not all!) of the American ABKCO CDs are considered
inferior to their pre-1998 Japanese and pre-1995 European
counterparts, released on the "London" label, due to a poor
selection of masters.
Many of the 60's tracks from the non-ABKCO CDs which people
find preferable were remastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs
for an American box set of vinyl reissues in 1984. This
deluxe set included the Stones' London Records (US) album
catalogue up to and including 1972's "Hot Rocks (1964-1971)".
In July 1995, the line became almost hopelessly blurred, as
ABKCO decided to "streamline" its' worldwide Stones
offerings. They revamped the European CD and vinyl catalogue
and sold releases made from the masters which had previously
produced discs only for the American market. With that decision,
ABKCO effectively discontinued the "original European" pressings,
which had been available on London-label CDs for nearly a decade.
ABKCO hype about "remastering" on the front of these post-1995
European releases (a red-on-black banner across the bottom)
should be taken with a grain of salt. These CDs and LPs
are only clones of the inferior CD catalogue which had been
available in the United States for many years.
This sweeping policy change had a delayed impact
on Polydor's operations in Japan, however. In Japan,
Polydor continued, through most of 1997, to issue CDs which
did not conform to the "worldwide" ABKCO standard. The Japanese
began issuing ABKCO-standard versions in 1997.
Just as an informational aside, these ABKCO releases
don't all sound like utter crap. The deficits are really only a
problem on the early tracks from their first three years,
up through 1967. Later ABKCO-era releases such as "Beggar's
Banquet" and "Let It Bleed" are considered fine, and finding
improved conditions for these albums are a matter of religious
fervor and having unlimited cash to spend on such rarities as the
Mono version of these albums. In any case, it is often true that
rarities are interesting for their rarity alone, so buyer beware.
What do I need minimally for a "complete" Rolling Stones collection on CD?
As it stands now, there is no way to have a complete
Rolling Stones' collection without having at least
some old vinyl records.
With the 1996 release of "The Rolling Stones
Rock and Roll Circus", it is also impossible to
have a complete set of Rolling Stones recordings
on vinyl, as there was no vinyl release of "Rock
and Roll Circus".
As this applies to ABKCO, there are 22 song _titles_ never
issued on CD at all, and 12 of those come from the 1975
compilation "Metamorphosis", which can be found on several
illegitimate CD releases. There are several previously released
and available _versions_ of other titles which yet to see the
light of laser.
As it applies to Rolling Stones Records (the releases from
1971 through 1991) there are four _titles_ still not ever
released on CD: one of those appeared only on a magazine
flexi-disc in 1972, and two others were flipsides to 7"
singles. There are more than a dozen variations of already
released RSR-era titles (i.e., promo/mono edits or dance remixes)
titles which themselves are not on CD.
The ABKCO years:
When wondering "which version" of an ABKCO CD to buy, consider
recommendations on sound quality from friends, and remember,
if you are trying to accomplish a complete collection of what
IS available from the Stones on CD, even though that's a
subset of the officially released Stones canon, no collection
which does not mix the commonly available ABKCO catalogue
(the "US" CDs) and the pre-1998 Japanese/pre-1995 European discs
will do it for you,
Because... no "US" CD has, for example, the five-minute-plus
version of "Out of Time" (from "Aftermath"), the full-length
"Tell Me" (from the first album) or true stereo versions of
several early tracks, even ones that were available in true
stereo on American vinyl previously (such as "Paint It, Black").
And... a number of songs never appeared on "UK" albums in
the 60s, but exclusively on either American LPs or mid-70s UK
compilations. Those mid-70s compilations have stayed out of
print in this age of the compact disc, and the pre-1995
European CDs ape the lineups of the European album releases
from the 60s.
The comments on the individual albums, listed above in the
detailed discography, provide a complete overview of these
"orphan" tracks.
For all the faults of the "US lineup" of album releases, it
is a lineup which did end up offering the more complete (if
slightly out of order) overview of the Stones' recording
career. Buying strictly from the current "American" CD (ABKCO)
lineup will give you a complete collection of pre-1971 titles which
are available on official CD.
But, you have to buy them _all_ (including the 3-disc
"London Years" box set, which has nearly a dozen tracks
unavailable anywhere else on CD), and you only get to
economize by leaving out the double-disc "Hot Rocks
(1964-1971)" and the two single-disc "Big Hits"
compilations: buy everthing else, and only then do
these three CD titles finally become superfluous.
After all this CD collecting, you still will not have
the following pre-1971 titles:
* the six vinyl-only tracks which were released in Germany
only ("I've been Loving You Too Long (studio)", "Con le Mie
Lacrime", "Tell Me Baby, How Many More Times", "Memphis
Tennessee", "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Cocksucker Blues")
* the first three tracks from the 1965 EP "Got Live if
You Want it!" (although one of these tracks is just a
restless crowd chanting "We Want the Stones!", called,
appropriately enough, "We want the Stones!")
* the 12 tracks from the UK version of the 1975 compilation
_Metamorphosis_ which never made it to the _London Years_
box. So far, the only non-bootleg CD source of ANY tracks
from _Metamorphosis_ is the _London Years_ box, and it
only provides four of that album's 16 tracks.
The post-ABKCO years:
Certain later (post-1970) albums were notoriously mistreated in their
switch to digital, and with the advent of 20-bit mastering
technology, Virgin Records reissued 20-bit remasters of the
Rolling Stones' studio output from "Sticky Fingers" (1971) to
"Steel Wheels" (1989) (with eight of these titles available in
limited edition commemmorative packaging) in June 1994.
Some people report (trivially) longer fades on some of the tracks
on these Virgin remasters, raising the spectre of "different versions"
all over again, and forcing one to track down CBS-issue CDs in
order to have a complete set of CD-available _versions_.
At this point, the future on CD of the three compilations
originally issued by "Rolling Stones Records" between 1975 and 1984
is up in the air. All of these were issued on CD at some point
after 1984 by CBS but are now out of print. Of the three
compilations, only the single-disc compilation "Sucking
in the Seventies" has material which can't be culled from
other currently available CD sources.
Three live albums from the RSR years which had been out of print for
five years ("Love You Live", "Still Life", and "Flashpoint")
began reappearing in Japan and Europe in 1998.
About two dozen post-ABKCO tracks have never been issued on
CD, although only four of them ("Let it Rock", "Exile on
Main Street Blues", "Through the Lonely Nights", and "Think
I'm Going Mad") are actually distinct performances. For the
most part, the body of post-ABKCO work still not on CD is
relegated to 12" "dance" remixes and mono/promo edits of
singles. The value of these is set in the hearts/minds of
individual collectors.
What about stereo versions of early Stones tracks?
(Thanks to Chris M. [ChrisM42@aol.com] for this section,
and to Glen Cassan and Luke Pacholski for pointing out
where changes were appropriate.)
(As of the end of 1997, the "Japanese" releases as referred
to below are no longer available. Japanese operations came into
line with the rest of the world that year, and began issuing
CDs identical to the catalogue available in the rest of the
world from 1995 on. There was a ~2 year window in which it
was possible to get these rare discs straight from legal
sources.)
"Aftermath", released in the US in June 1966, was the first
Stones' album where the "stereo" version was true, and not
the 'Electronically Reprocessed' Stereo, of its American
predecessors.
Now, in the age of the CD, some of the material originally
issued before the release of "Aftermath" is emerging,
scattershot fashion, in _true_ Stereo, on compact disc. This
material is valuable not just for its curiosity value but
because of the extremely high fidelity of the music, and the
fact that much of it still has not been issued in America.
Japanese CDs currently provide the bulk of this newfound
luxury item.
The Japanese "Rolling Stones No. 2" has true stereo on "Time Is
On My Side", "What A Shame" (Charlie hammers the right channel!),
"Down The Road Apiece" and "I Can't Be Satisfied", with the
remaining tracks in mono.
There is a Japanese issue of "The Rolling Stones, Now!". It
has a stereo "Heart of Stone", but, faithful to the track listing
of its' original LP counterpart, includes neither "Time Is On My
Side" nor "I Can't Be Satisfied". It does, however, include the
true stereo "What a Shame" and "Down the Road Apiece" which are
also found on "No.2".
The "American"/ABKCO release of "Now!" duplicates the
stereo tracks found on the Japanese "Now!". "Now!" is the
only "American"/ABKCO CD to include true stereo versions
of any pre-"Aftermath" material. (Note also that the versions
of track 1, "Everybody Needs Somebody..." are NOT identical on
the two discs, and that the Japanese disc has the short 3-minute
version.)
To summarize to this point: The Japanese "No. 2" has 4 stereo
tracks, and any country's version of "Now!" has two of those 4,
plus a third, bringing the total number to 5 so far.
On the 1965 title "December's Children", one finds a very
high-fidelity (but alas, not true stereo) "Look What You've
Done". The Japanese issue of "DC" was once thought to have
a true stereo of both that song and "Get Off My Cloud", but the
currently sold Japanese release definitely does not.
The UK track listing of the 1966 greatest-hits compilation
album "High Tide and Green Grass" was used for a Japanese CD
reissue which has true stereo on "It's All Over Now", "Heart
of Stone", and "Time is on my Side". This same "High Tide" CD
inexplicably uses the 'electronically reprocessed stereo' version
of "Get Off My Cloud", even though a true stereo is issued on
other disc titles.
Then we come to the Japanese CD versions of the 1972
titles "Hot Rocks" and "More Hot Rocks". These two sets
were issued overseas as four separate discs: "Hot
Rocks 1", "Hot Rocks 2", "More Hot Rocks 1", "More Hot
Rocks 2". All combined, they provide most of the tracks
mentioned above. Note the 3 exceptions: "Look What You've
Done", "What A Shame", and "Down the Road Apiece". These
3 tracks are found on neither "HR" nor "MHR".
(If you are seriously considering buying only one of the
Japanese "More Hot Rocks" discs, keep in mind that the Japanese
release of it is not a song-for-song matchup of their ABKCO
counterpart discs. No tracks are missing, but the order
and configuration of songs is different.)
All of "Hot Rocks 2" is in stereo (no big deal for the
most part, although some find that the true stereo tracks
"Honky Tonk Woman" and "Street Fightin' Man" are very
desirable.) and on "Hot Rocks 1", mono is the exception
and not the rule. The pre-"Aftermath" stereo tracks
on "HR1" include "Time Is On My Side", "Heart Of Stone",
"Play With Fire", "Satisfaction", "Get Off My Cloud",
and "Mother's Little Helper".
"More Hot Rocks 1" has true stereo for both "It's All
Over Now" and the shorter, "American" version of the track
"Out of Time" (3:50). "More Hot Rocks 2" rounds out
our list of pre-6/66 stereo with "What To Do" and "I
Can't Be Satisfied".
"The Last Time", "19th Nervous Breakdown", and
"As Tears Go By" have never been _officially_ released
in Stereo, but are available on 'unauthorized' (some
would say "bootleg") CDs, including one title called,
helpfully, "In Stereo" (Chapter One, 25203). Be forewarned,
however: there's no bootleg CD with stereo versions which
has received universal praise for either fidelity or
separation. Ironically, the real selling point of the
stereo tracks is the rich fidelity, so YMMV.
========================Flipsides and oddities=========================
The following selections appeared on the 1980 German Compilation
LP called "For Collector's Only" [sic], and the 1984 4 LP German boxed
set "The Rest of the Best", but nowhere on the albums listed above for
the USA or UK. Since the deletion of these two compilations,
these tracks remain unavailable officially. Items marked "F" are
available on "For Collector's Only", and "B", the German box.
(Note that the first and sixth tracks are glorified bootlegs,
the third and fourth are not _really_ the Rolling Stones,
but rather the "Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra", and
that "For Collectors Only" would get you the two remaining
tracks.)
B "Tell Me Baby, How Many Times" recorded Chicago, June 1964
BF "I've Been Loving You too Long" recorded Los Angeles, May 1965
B "Da Doo Ron Ron" Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra, 1964
B "Memphis Tennessee" "" ""
BF "Con le Mie Lacrime" Italian "As Tears Go By", Spring '66
B "Cocksucker Blues" Olympic Studios, 1970
(limited edition 7" bonus single
found _only_ w/ Sept. '84 issue
of the box; deleted in later issues.)
The following titles/versions have been officially released
by the Rolling Stones for public consumption at some point,
intentionally or not, but have yet to appear on any LP or
compilation released in the States or the UK.
By "officially released", we mean that they were not
_exclusively_ found on promotional items, even if (as in
the case with "Exile on Main Street Blues") 'release' meant
nothing more than the appearance on a flexi-disc issued
with a magazine, and not available for separate purchase.
1968 "Street Fightin' Man"
Notorious 1st issue of the US single had not only
a politically charged (and banned) picture sleeve
of a riot scene, but an alternate musical version
which disappeared as well. The rare single has a
different vocal track and more piano than the
familiar "Beggar's Banguet" version. One of the
priciest of all Stones rarities.
Hand-written matrix number on the final groove
is XDR-43220A X, with the number 14939 written
in mirror image above it.
This version also showed up on an orange-label
London Records promo single with the same
matrix number.
1971 "Let It Rock" - third track on UK "Brown Sugar" single
- replaced "Sister Morphine" on the Spanish version
of the LP "Sticky Fingers"
- This live track from 1971 is widely bootlegged
along with the remainder of the Leeds University
show from which it is taken.
1971 "Sway"
This 3:25 version was the B-side to original
"Wild Horses" 7" single in the States.
1972 "Exile on Main Street Blues"
promotional flexi-disc, included w/purchase of
UK magazine.
1972 "All Down the Line"
B-side to the single "Happy", this is a different
version from the LP's. This pressing of the
single was eventually discontinued.
1974 "Through the Lonely Nights"
flipside to "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" 7" 45
1978+ "She's a Rainbow"/"2000 Light Years From Home"
The 1967 US 7" promo held edited versions of
these two songs, which eventually reappeared,
after 1978, on a regular-issue London Records
US single by mistake. The 1978 label is "Sunset"
style, and etched into closing groove of single
is the matrix number 5N-906.
1984 "Think I'm Going Mad"
flipside to "She Was Hot" 7" 45
1990 The "Flashpoint" sides. A number of live performances
recorded on the 1989-1990 tours were used as flipsides
to singles pulled off the live album "Flashpoint". These
include:
"2000 Light Years from Home" (Highwire US7", UK CD single "A")
"Undercover of the Night" (Sexdrive US7",
Ruby Tueday UK CD single "A")
"Play With Fire" (Ruby Tuesday 7", UK CD single "A")
"I Just Wanna Make Love To You" (Highwire UK12", UK CD single "A")
"Tumbling Dice" (Jumpin' JF 7", Benelux CD single)
"Street Fightin' Man" (Benelux CD single [same as above] )
"Harlem Shuffle" (Ruby Tuesday UK CD single "B")
This list does not pretend to exhaust your methods of getting
the tracks, it just offers suggestions for finding them.
1993 "Gimme Shelter (live)" - (cassette only, UK only) -
issued as part of a benefit project for the homeless in
1993, in which various artists cover the song, the Stones'
contribution was a live, "Urban Wheels" version. This
version does appear on a CD, but it is the Promo.
1994 "The Storm" (Flipside of "Love Is Strong" - found on US
cassette, CD single, and 7" vinyl of "LIS". Also on
the 4-track European CD VSCDT1503, and a Limited
Edition, numbered, 7" UK single.)
1994 "So Young" (Found on European "Love Is Strong" CD listed
immediately above, and the US CD single for "Out
of Tears".)
1994 "Jump On Top of Me" (Found on European CD [VSCDG 1518],
cassette [VST 1518] and Ltd. edition 7" UK single of "You
Got me Rocking", but NOT on the UK 12" vinyl single, which
has 3 remixes of YGMR only. In the States, it's found on CD
single V25H-38468, cassette single, and 12" single. Also,
this is on the full-length soundtrack CD to Robert Altman's
1994 film "Pret-a-Porter". It is also on the "Voodoo
Lounge CD-ROM", an interactive computer disc released in
November 1995, as one of four choices for musical
accompaniment to the "Screen Raver".)
1994 "I'm Gonna Drive" (flipside of "Out of Tears", found on US
Cassette single 4km-38459, the US CD single V25H-38459,
the US 7" NR-38459, and in the UK on the 7" single and
CD single.)
1995 "I Go Wild (live)" (found on US/European CD-5 of "I Go Wild";
performance is taken from the Nov. 25, 1994 show in Miami,
Florida at Joe Robbie Stadium.)
1995 "Black Limousine (live)" (Track 2 on European CD-5 of "Like a
Rolling Stone" [VSCDT 1562], released October 1995; also on
the American "LARS" single V25F-38523; and the Japanese CD
of the full-length album release, "Stripped";
Performance is from Brixton Academy in London, July 1995.)
1995 "All Down the Line (Live)" (Track 3 on European CD-5 of "Like a
Rolling Stone" [VSCDT 1562], October 1995, and in November
of that year on the US CD single V25F-38523)
1996 "Live With Me (live)"
"Tumbling Dice (live)"
"Gimme Shelter (live)"
(These are tracks 2, 3, and 4 from the first
European CD single issued for "Wild Horses"
[VSCDT 1578]. "WH" was taken from "Stripped".
"TD" is actually an edit of two versions: a
rehearsal and a public performance.)
This version of "Gimme Shelter" also wound up in a couple
places associated with the 1998 release "Saint Of Me":
the US CD5 (7243 8 38627-2-6) and CD #1 of the European
double disc release (7243 8 94750 2 9).
1998 "Anyway You Look at It"
Found on
- the US CD5, 2-track CD single, 12" vinyl, and 7" vinyl
for "Saint of Me".
- the European CD2 of the 2-disc European set for "SOM".
(7243-8-94796-2-1)
- the European 7" picture disc single for "Saint"
(7243-8-94750-7-4)
1998 "Honest I Do"
Found on the soundtrack to the film "Hope Floats",
this 1995 redo of a cover which appeared on their first
album is from the sessions for "Stripped" at EMI-Toshiba
in Japan.
1980-1998 The "remixes". While the Collectibles CD includes
one remix each of several popular songs, some remixes
persist without ever getting issued on any official
collection:
"Undercover (Extended)" (Undercover 12")
"Feel On Baby (Instrumental)" ("" " ")
"Too Much Blood" (several exist) (Too Much Blood 12")
"Harlem Shuffle (New York mix)" (Harlem Shuffle 12")
"One Hit (London Mix)" (One Hit 12")
"Winning Ugly (NY Mix)" (WU Canada-only 12")
"Rock and a Hard Place" (R & a HP US 12")
(Oh oh hard dub mix, Bonus Beats Mix, and Dance Mix)
"Terrifying (remix)" (Terrifying 12")
"Sexdrive" (Club Mix, Dirty Hands Mix)
(Sexdrive Euro- CD5)
"Love Is Strong" (Bob Clearmountain Mix)
(4th track on European
CD single VSCDT1503)
"Love Is Strong" (Joe the Butcher club mix, plus
5 Teddy Riley mixes - radio, extended,
extended rock, dub, & instrumental)
(UK CD VSCDX1503)
(US 12" has all these except the radio mix,
US CD has the extended and the instrumental.
US 7" has the extended.)
"You Got Me Rocking" (Perfecto Mix, Sexy Disco Dub Mix, and Trance
Mix, last of which is on the UK and US 12" vinyl
singles and US CD-5; first two are on the UK and
Australian 4-track CD-5.)
"Out Of Tears" (Don Was Edit, and the Bob Clearmountain Remix Edit;
both found on US Cassette single 4km-38459
and US 7" NR-38459.)
"Sparks Will Fly" (Radio Clean; found on VSCDT 1524, 7243 8 92711 26)
Added to the European CD-5 of "Out of Tears", the
big change, in the words of Michael Honig
(honey@mwald5.chemie.uni-mainz.de):
It sounded as if someone has added some ... ahem, "lubricant"
exactly on the little holes of the cd that encode the words
of the line in question: It goes something like
"... I wanna <swoosh>'uck you sweet a<swoosh>"
"I Go Wild" (Scott Litt remix, and Luis Vesto Straight Vocal mix)
Both are on the US CD-5 for "I Go Wild",
rel. April 1995 (V25H-38478); and a European
CD-5 released the month after that. "Scott Litt
remix" is also available on a Ltd. Edition UK 7"
picture disc.
"Like a Rolling Stone (Edit)"
A 4:18 version of the Bob Dylan cover tune done on the
November 1995 album "Stripped". Found on the European
CD-5 for "LARS" [VSCDT 1562], released October 1995.
"Anybody Seen My Baby?"
LP Edit, Soul Solution Remix, and Armand's Rolling
Steelo Mix (10:29) are on a UK CD single: 7243 8 94597 22
[VSCDT 1653]. An LP Edit (4:08) and Soul Solution Remix
Edit are found on a special-edition clear vinyl numbered
7" single. A 6:01 "Bonus Roll" is on the 12" vinyl issued
in Europe.
ASMB remixes popped up on releases of
"Saint Of Me": on CD#1 of the European double-CD,
there's the "Phil Jones Remix" (4:26); and on the
double-vinyl 12" of "Saint", two previously
released ASMB remixes - the Bonus Roll
and Armand's Rolling Steelo Mix.
"Saint Of Me"
A Radio Edit (4:08) appears on the European 7" picture disc
(7243 8 94750-7-4) and either of the 2 CDs from the
European double-CD issue.
Todd Terry Extended Remix (6:00) and Deep Dish Club
Mix (7:35) are both on the US CD5 (7243 8 38627-2-6)
and the US vinyl 12" (7243 8 38626-1-0).
Deep Dish Grunge Garage Remix (Pts. 1 and 2) is
on CD2 of the European set, and both of the two European
vinyl 12" releases (7243-8-94750-6-7, and the ltd. edition
double-vinyl). Both of these European vinyl 12"
releases offer both the Deep Dish Grunge Garage Dub (7:23)
and the Deep Dish Rolling Dub (7:16).
Deep Dish Grunge Dub (7:22) is on the US 12" vinyl.
"Out Of Control"
On the European CD5 (7243 8 95081 2 3/VSCDF 1700) and
12" vinyl (7243 8 95081 6 1/VST 1700), one finds
"In Hand with Fluke" (8:27), "In Hand With Fluke
Instrumental" (5:58), and "Bi-Polar At The Controls" (5:10).
Additionally, the CD5 and 2-track CD both have a 3:38
Album Radio Edit. The 12" vinyl and limited edition
clear CD single add "Bi-Polar's Fat Controller Mix" (5:24).
The "Saber Final Mix" (5:44) appears on the limited
edition single, also. A radio edit of "In Hand with
Fluke" (4:30) appears on a limited edition 7" single.
1971-1998 The "promos". Released to radio stations and DJ pools,
promotional singles will often include a version of a record that
is more amenable to commercial airplay or dance club use, by virtue
of cleaned-up language, a different running time, or a hotter mix
more friendly to the intended arena (AM radio play or dance clubs).
Many promos exist for the Rolling Stones where one side is
"Mono" and the other is "Stereo", but here we catalogue
records that were more substantially altered or edited,
AND did not see a public, intentional commercial release:
"Dandelion"/"We Love You" (Promo 7")
("WLY" edited to 3:10 down from the usual 4:00 plus. From
"Dandelion", the intro and refrains of "Dandelion" at the
end are missing.)
"She's a Rainbow"/"2000 Light Years from Home" (Promo 7")
(released commercially by mistake in 1978 - see above.)
"Wild Horses" (Promo 7")
(a shorter version of the 1971 song)
"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" (shorter) (Promo 7")
"Before They make Me Run" (Promo 7")
"Shattered" (clocks in under 3 minutes!!) (Promo 7")
"Emotional Rescue" (Promo 7")
"She's So Cold" (Promo 7")
('clean' version - lyrics have 'God damn cold' removed)
"If I was a Dancer (Instrumental)" (Promo 12")
"Waiting On a Friend" (more than a minute off) (Promo 7")
"Undercover" (Promo 7")
"Sexdrive" (Edited Club version) (US Promo 12")
"Wild Horses (Edit)" (4:07) (European Promo CD
VSCDJ 1578)
"Saint of Me": (Eur. white-label
Todd Terry Fade (3:35) dbl. 12" vinyl)
Todd Terry Tee's Freeze Dub (7:45)
Todd Terry Dub #2 (7:45)
"Flip the Switch (Clean Version)", (US Promo CD)
"Flip the Switch (Call Out Hook)" (#1 and #2)
"Out Of Control" (Eur, Promo CD)
Album Radio Edit (5:59), VSCDXJ 1700 LC 3098
Don Was Live Remix (6:54), Call Out Hook (0:17)
