The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks best collection album.Hot Rocks is one of the rare exceptions to the rule. Originally released in 1972 .You will find all the Rolling Stones retrospective songs is accounted for--Get Off Of My Cloud, Paint It Black, Let's Spend The Night Together, Gimme Shelter, Jumping' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man, Sympathy For The Devil, a live cut of Midnight Rambler, and of course, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Although this will not satisfy die hard fans and I wish a few other songs were included (Stray Cat Blues, the Ya-Ya version of Carol, Sister Morphine, She's A Rainbow, 2000 Man) everything here is grade-A gritty blues rock.Hot Rocks does a good job of capturing the rolling stones.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-1971
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones proved to be just at the beginning of their superstar period when STICKY FINGERS became their first #1 album in 6 years, and also was the first in an enviable stretch of 8 consecutive albums to top the charts.The Beatles bowed out early, so their friendly rivals the Rolling Stones were left standing to sit atop the throne.
"Brown Sugar" & "Wild Horses" had been recorded in Muscle Shoals, during the Stones' infamous 1969 American Tour. That they stand as some of STICKY FINGERS' hardest tracks comes as no surprise.But The Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones died mysteriously on July 3, 1969, and had been replaced by Mick Taylor only a few songs into the sessions for LET IT BLEED.Along with Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed and Exile On Main Street, this is arguably the greatest album ever by the world's greatest rock 'n roll band. This is the post-60's peace and love, nasty early 70's hard core drug inspired kick ass Stones at their pinnacle. Played out classics include "Brown Sugar," "Bitch" and "Wild Horses,"
Billy Preston guest stars with his classic afro organ sound on the bittersweet "I Got the Blues." Then hold on to your hats, turn down the lights and contemplate the mysteries of the Holy Trinity of "Sister Morphine," "Dead Flowers" and "Moonlight Mile,""Dead Flowers" sends up twang-heavy country music even as it manages to be a fine document of the genre itself,and also an incredible sequence of Mick, Keith, Mick Talyor and Ry Cooder genius that will leave you heart strain down.
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