I'm collecting CDs of the music I used to have on LP before I sold my albums back in the '80s. Plus I want CDs of music I never had on LP before I sold my albums, but have always wanted to have anyway! I want to get these things before I die. Hence, bucket list.
Even though I know that's not how music is consumed these days. You're supposed to give your life over to the Internet and AI to get music. I understand that. It's the "new way," as they say in Clockwork Orange. A new broom sweeps clean.
But nah. Let the youngs do that. I'm old, and how I learned to appreciate music was off Top 40 radio in the '60s. Which made me buy a component stereo system with my newspaper-route money in the '70s. And buy albums up to and through the '80s, while I listened to AOR FM radio stations. I went to sleep every night through high school listening to King Crimson and Mott the Hoople on FM 103 in the glow of the radio dial of my $150 receiver, and via my $200, knee-high speakers, that I had bought myself. And you want me to listen to commercials on Pandora? Where's the magic in that?
And, boy howdy, I had a great record collection back then. I had the "Thick as a Brick" album with the fold-out newspaper inside. I had the "Sticky Fingers" album with the working zipper. And so forth.
But I was in my 20s and kept moving from job to job and state to state. While carting all those albums around. And they were HEAVY and FRAGILE, which is a bad combination. You couldn't trust them to friends or movers. You had to personally cart them to your car, and drive them to your new place, and cart them inside. When you had about 300 other things to worry about. So when CDs came along, I thought, "albums have become the new 8-tracks or casette tapes." And I had already gone through those transitions. And, to paraphrase Men In Black, I had already bought the White Album about three times.
TBH, I didn't really believe that LPs had become obsolete, like 8-tracks. But I was tired of carting the LPs around and wanted to believe it. Plus, with CDs, you didn't have to get up from the couch and turn the record over. So, in the late '80s, I sold hundreds of original 1960s and 1970s rock 'n' roll albums to some resale place in Panama City, Florida. Or maybe Memphis. For about $200.
Yeah, it still stings.
So now I'm going to fix it. Before I die. I'm going to get all the albums that I plan to listen to for the rest of my life. Many of which are albums I used to have on LP. Now I have to get them on CD. But I DON'T want to get more CDs that I'll just listen to once, and never again. (I already have plenty of those.) I want the classics. Or, more to the point, the songs that I grew up with, and now want to grow old with.
Which means this list won't be universal. In fact, I don't expect ANYONE to have the same bucket list as me. But I do hope everyone will chime in with their own choices, and to discuss mine. Because this is a forum! So here we go:
THE BEATLES
To me, the Fab Four are ground zero. Every time I listen to their catalog, I learn something new -- not necessarily about THEM, but about the times they produced their music and the times I grew up in. The insight, brother, the insight!
But also I do, actually, learn more about the songs when I listen to them as an old grown-up. (How could I have made all those Ringo jokes as a kid? He's PERFECT.) As I get older, The Beatles just get better and better. How could those twentysomethings have been so good? How could they have leaped forward album to album, and dragged the world with them? They were, in fact, just four working-class kids from a second-class port in England. But they changed the world. They certainly changed mine.
So I have to have:
- Please, Please Me
- With the Beatles
- A Hard Day's Night
- Beatles for Sale
- Help!
- Rubber Soul
- Revolver
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Beatles
- Yellow Submarine
- Abbey Road
- Let It Be
Amazingly, if you buy all these albums, you still won't have all the major Beatles songs. Singles like "Paperback Writer" never appeared on an album, U.S or UK, because of the economic mechanics of the time. You have to get CDs like "One" and "Past Masters" to get them all. I have those, but I'm still not sure I have everything. I do have the two songs they sang in German (which are a hoot), on whatever album they were on, so I have some variants. But I'm not sure if I have everything. Not that it matters. I recently inherited "Anthology" from a friend who died, and I haven't been able to push through it. I don't need all the variants. I just need to tap my toes to what I already know.
THE WHO
I used to have the entire Who catalog through "Who Are You," which is about when I stopped buying vinyl. And you know what? I don't need to replace it all. There was a lot of genuine crap I don't need to listen to again. But I do need these:
- My Generation
- A Quick One/Happy Jack
- The Who Sell Out
- Tommy
- Who's Next
- Quadrophenia
- The Who by Numbers
- Who Are You
- Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
Holy cow, that turns out to be the band's discography before 1980! I guess I can live with the crap for all the great stuff there. Especially now that Keith Moon and John Entwhistle have died. And I hear that "Live at Leeds" is the greatest live album of all time, from any band, so I guess I have to get that. (I have never heard it.) But I can pass on "Face Dances" and later work. I do want some of Townshend's solo work like "Empty Glass" and "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes." Most of it is pretentious, self-indulgent crap, but there are some remarkable and unforgettable songs there like "Gonna Get Ya." And I don't know what album "Eminence Front" is on, but I need that.
THE ROLLING STONES
When some department store in Memphis was closing (I don't remember which one), they had a clearance sale, and my wife and I happened to be there, and it happened to be at the same time that the entire Stones catalog was being re-packaged and re-sold, so they were all there, at dirt-cheap prices. So we bought the whole Stones catalog! The whole damned thing! I mention this, because I would never have bought some early Stones LPs otherwise.
And I have listened to them. Some of which I will never bother to listen to again. The Stones started out as a blues cover band, and they weren't very good until Paul McCartney showed them that writing their own songs was the way to go. Also, they had to get rid of Brian Jones. After which, they exploded.
Which is not to say that I don't love the Stones. I do, I do. I love them more than The Who. I listened to "Exile on Main Street" non-stop for about a year in college. I have seen them in concert three times. (I never go to concerts. Unless it's the Stones.) But the Stones have fewer must-have albums than The Who, so they have ended up here, at No. 3. Here are the ones I can't live without:
- Aftermath
- Sticky Fingers
- Black and Blue
- Let It Bleed
- Some Girls
- Exile on Main Street
- Beggars Banquet
After the "Big 3," everyone else is pretty interchangeable. Some bands I only want "best ofs," like The Doors and Doobie Brothers. Because the majority of their albums are crap, except for the songs you know.
BLIND FAITH
They only made one album, "Blind Faith." You know every song on it. You know every member of this band, from other bands.
CREAM
They made four albums. I only need the last three:
- Disraeli Gears
- Wheels on Fire
- Goodbye Cream
LED ZEPPELIN
I don't know what's on any individual Led Zeppelin album, because I bought a box set years ago and just listen to some of the CDs over and over. Some discs I don't need to listen to ever again ("In Through the Out Door," "Coda"). But the first four or five albums are must-haves. "Whole Lotta Love" and "Immigrant Song" alone.
PINK FLOYD
- Animals
- Wish You Were Here
- Dark Side of the Moon
- The Wall
MOODY BLUES
- In Search of the Lost Chord
- Day of Future Passed
VELVET UNDERGROUND
- Velvet Underground & Nico
BOB DYLAN
- Blonde on Blonde
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Blood on the Tracks
CSNY
- Crosy, Stills & Nash
- Deja Vu
JETHRO TULL
- Thick as a Brick
- Aqualung
NEIL YOUNG
- Harvest
- After the Gold Rush
KING CRIMSON
- In the Court of the Crimson King
DEREK & THE DOMINOS
- Layla & Other Love Songs
MOTT THE HOOPLE
- All the Young Dudes
TRAFFIC
- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
- John Barleycorn Must Die
DAVID BOWIE
- Ziggy Stardust
FRANK SINATRA
- In the Wee Small Hours
BEACH BOYS
- Pet Sounds
- Surf's Up
HEART
- Dreamboat Annie
- Little Queen (for "Barracuda")
TOM PETTY
- Wildflowers
- Damn the Torpedos
- Full Moon Fever
BEETHOVEN
- Ninth Symphony
- Fifth Sympony
STRAVINSKY
- Rite of Spring
MUSSORGSKY
- Night on Bald Mountain
ELVIS PRESLEY
- Elvis
- Elvis Presley
WARREN ZEVON
- Warren Zevon
- Excitable Boy
THE CLASH
- The Clash
- London Calling
- Sandinista
JOHN LENNON
- Plastic Ono Band
- Imagine
- Shaved Fish (best of)
GEORGE HARRISON
- All Things Must Pass
- Living in the Material World
RINGO STARR
- Ringo
PAUL MCCARTNEY
- McCartney
- Ram
- Venus & Mars
- Band on the Run
I've never heard "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" or "Flaming Pie," but they keep popping up on "best of" lists. I guess I'll have to listen to them at some point and decide.
YES
- Close to the Edge
- Fragile
Now we get to the part where I'm really ignorant. What Roy Orbison do I need ("Pretty Wonan," obviously)? What Buddy Holly?
Also, Granny's getting tired (Missouri Breaks reference). I can't remember all the bands and/or singers I like. So I've probably forgotten a few. Which is what you guys are going to remind me of, right?
EDIT: LEGIONNAIRE RECOMMENDATIONS
- The Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy - a collection of their Sixties singles and EP tracks.
- Jethro Tull - Stand Up
- Mott the Hoople - Mott
- Beach Boys - Today and Summer Days/Summer Nights
- Roy Orbison: The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison
- Roy Orbison: A Black and White Night
- Buddy Holly: The Buddy Holly Collection
- Brian Wilson: Smile
- The Who: The Who Hits 50!
- The Who: FACE
- Traveling Wilburys: Volume 1
- Traveling Wilburys: Volume 3
- Moody Blues: The Concert at Red Rocks
- John Lennon - Double Fantasy
- Paul McCartney - Tug of War
- George Harrison - Somewhere in England
- Ringo Starr - Stop and Smell the Roses
- Chicago: Chicago IX
- Eagles: The Long Run
- Eagles: The Very Best of the Eagles
- Chicago: The Very Best of Chicago - Only the Beginning
- Stevie Wonder: Music of My Mind
- Stevie Wonder: Talking Book
- Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
- Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness First Finale
- Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life
- Joe Walsh: But Seriously Folks
- John Lennon: Lennon
- Eagles: Desperado
- Tom Petty: Hard Promises
- Jethro Tull: Original Masters
- Elton John: Elton John
- Elton John: Tumbleweek Connection
- Elton John: Madman Across the Water
- Elton John: Honky Chateau
- Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Elton John: Made in England
- Elton John: The Union
- Elton John: Captain Fantastic
- Elvis Costello-- the greatest hits compilation from the late 90s would do, though I like My Aim is True.
- Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run.
- Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
- The B-52s: Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation
- The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy, and the Last, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Hell's Ditch
- Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
- Tears for Fears-- Songs from the Big Chair
- Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
- Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
- The Tragically Hip - Yer Favourites (unless you're really into the band, this will cover it)
- Ringo: Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr
- Don Henley: Building the Perfect Beast
- Glenn Frey: The All-nighter
- Don Henley: The End of the Innocence
- Pete Townshend: The Best of Pete Townsend - coolwalkingsoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking
- Pete Townshend: Truancy - The Very Best of Pete Townsend - (17 songs, 2015)
- Otis Redding: The Soul Album
- The Doobie Brothers - Best of the Doobies
- The Dog Night - 20th Century Masters, the Millennium Collection
- The Monkees - Greatest Hits
- Kinks: The Village Green Preservation Society
- Kinks: Best of 1964-1970
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THE ROLLING STONES (Pt. 4 - The '90s & beyond):
Every time the Rolling Stones releases a new album, I fear it will be their last. Not because they're bad (quite the opposite, in fact), but simply because they have been together as a group for so very long. (They certainly don't need the money.) In the course of my lifetime, there has never not been a Rolling Stones. I find that I cannot do without any of these albums. I may listen to any one of these albums individually, but more often than not, when I listen to one I will listen to them all, in this order. (You will notice that I have listed the yet-to-be-released Foreign Tongues; I have high hopes.)
In the course of my lifetime, there has never not been a Rolling Stones.
Every once in a while someone will say something like this that provides startling clarity about perspective.
For example, I pre-date the Rolling Stones (like Richard Willis, Commander Benson and probably some other Legionnaires). Not the individual members, of course, but the band. Whereas for those who came along just a few years later, as you note, there has never been a time in their lives when the Stones didn't exist. (And, by extension, the Beatles and the entire British Invasion.) I remember the first time I heard a British/rock band (The Beatles, of course) in 1964, on the radio, in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. Which means I remember a time before the Stones and the Beatles, when "music" meant chanting dull hymns in church or the rote recital of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and other "classics" in school. And that's all it was for me, until I heard "I Want to Hold Your Hand" ... and something magical came into my world.
I remember another moment of clarity when my father was talking about his youth and it suddenly dawned on me that he pre-dated Superman. Since Superman had always existed in my life and was omnipresent in pop culture, I hadn't really pondered what it was to be a kid before the concept of the superhero existed. Kids don't change, but culture does. I suddently wondered if my father had ever pretended to fly, and if he did, what he was thinking about. Because it wasn't Superman.
And once, when talking to my grandmother, she said her father bought the second car in Arkansas. Probably an exaggeration, but it made me realize that she probably pre-dated paved roads, at least in rural, northeast Arkansas, which she corroborated. Not that there were many places to go to. The nearest hospital was in Missouri. What else did she pre-date? Penicillin, certainly. Movie theaters in her area (maybe Missouri has some) and television. Airplanes. World wars. The Great Depression. Electricity and plumbing in the home. The 20th century, in fact. What was life like for her young self? My young brain was stunned by the flood of realizations, scrambling to understand this Hobbesian world.
These different vantage points mean entirely different perspectives -- or, to put it another way, horse races. Our relative ages, even when the difference is slight, are just one of the many factors that go into why we have different likes and dislikes. This will always be the case, so why not talk about them? Occasionally, despite myself, I learn something.
Every time the Rolling Stones releases a new album, I fear it will be their last.
Well, they're not getting any younger. When either Richards or Jagger goes, that's the end of it for me. Of course, there are those who will argue that the band died with Charlie Watts. Or when Bill Wyman or Mick Taylor left. There are probably sticklers out there who say it hasn't been the REAL Rolling Stones since Brian Jones died.
Since I think the heart of MY Rolling Stones exists (the Glimmer Twins), I don't question the authenticity of the band. But I do question if they still have something to offer. I have to admit my enthusiasm has eroded to the point where I stopped buying new Stones albums after the disappointments of Steel Wheels and Voodoo Lounge. I stepped back in for A Bigger Bang, probably for whatever song was on the radio, but the rest of it just confirmed that I didn't need to get any more. Why spend one of the rapidly diminishing hours I have left on earth listening to Hackney Diamonds, when I haven't listened to Let It Bleed or Sticky Fingers in a minute? Heck, I can sing along with the latter.
But feel free to argue me into it. That's what we're here for!
I think at this point Ron Wood is considered as much of a "Stone" as Jagger or Richards.
I thought Voodoo Lounge was a somewhat disappointing follow-up to Steel Wheels (all things being relative), but I loved Steel Wheels, especially the fact that they re-engaged with same group of "master percussionists" they worked together with in the '60s. I have never seen the Stones in concert, but I came the closest during the "Steel Wheels" tour. Unfortunately, I was "between girlfriends" at the time. (Get your mind out of thegutter! that's not what I meant.)
A Bigger Bang was HUGE (I well remember the discussion of it on this board at the time), but you didn't like Hackney Diamonds? With Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Lady Gaga all on it, I listen to that one more often than any other "recent" Stone's album since... well, since A Bigger Bang. I loved the way they promoted it by making the public hungry for it, they same way they're doing now with Foreign Tongues.
I remember in one of my college linguistics classes (I took two), my professor mentioned how floored most Americans were during "Beatlemania" when they actually heard the Beatles talk for the first time (because they were immitating the vocal styles of Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and the like). Cueing on that, the term paper I wrote was "A Linquistic Analysis of the Rolling Stones" and my thesis was that they, too, mimicked American accents (mostly of Blues musicians such as Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker) until they became famous in their own right. I even included a cassette tape with my paper in support of my assertions. My professor even played some of it in class and complimented my "DJ skills."
"LIVE" ALBUMS:
I'm not generally a fan of concert albums (althought there are a few that are classics, I'll admit). But I do like albums, such as the Beatles' Let It Be... Naked, that are recorded live in the studio, with no studio enhancements added. Along those lines, the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Led Zepplin and Jimi Hendrix all have collections of songs broadcast live over BBC radio.
The one big exception I make to my "no live albums" rule is The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl (released in conjunction with the Ron Howard film Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years). It's not that the music is so good (it's not) but the audience reaction is almost unbelievable. They start screaming right at the very beginning and do not stop. The Beatles couldn't even hear themselves the crowd was so loud. The CD version has four additional songs, but the vinyl version has George Martin's liner notes. When he was preparing the album for its initial release in 1977, his daughter asked, "The Beatles... didn't you used to record them, daddy? Were they as great as the Bay City Rollers?"
A couple of live albums that I would recommend -
Paul McCartney's Unplugged:The Official Bootleg. Paul and his band perform acoustic versions of several songs from his first solo LP along with Beatles tunes and a handful of covers.
Neil Young Live At Massey Hall - Young performing solo on acoustic guitar. Recorded in 1971 but not released until the 2k's as part of his archives series. Includes songs from his first three solo albums, Buffalo Springfield and C,S,N & Y
For something more raucous - Johnny Winter And ...Live. Hard driving blues rock delivered by the twin guitars of Winter and Rick Derringer.
I would add...
From Stuck in the Seventies: "On the afternoon of my 13th birthday in 1977, I ran out and ravenously purchased Kiss--Alive, Rock & Roll Over and Destroyer. I was the last kid on my block to acquire these fundamental components for my music collection. I voraciously tore off the shrink-wrap, and ripped open all these albums. The awesome Rock & Roll Over Kiss stickers were immediately transferred to my denim norebook cover. I flipped open the live album and read the peronal notes from [the band], wishing that I could be half as cool as the two dudes pictured at [the] concert on the album back cover. After listening religiously for over four hours and carefully placing my treasure alphabetically in my record crate, I emerged from my room in a rock and roll daze. I beamed with teenage pride, bragging about my purchase and showing off my stickers the next day at school.
"On the afternoon of my 27th birthday this year, I nervously dug through my record collection once again, searching through those dust-covered records from my youth. I had not touched my Kiss albums since my one-day obsession with [them] in 1977. I picked up the albums and played a few selections... Why? Why? Why? I asked myself, disturbed an confused about my past tennage mentality and my unorthodox present behavior. What had I been thinking? What warped force of nature forced me to spend my sacred borthday money on such senseless terror? Was it the same force that caused me to play them again, 14 years later, by my own free will? I'm still scared and disoriented. Please help me."
Nah... maybe I'd better leave Kiss--Alive off the list after all.
Of course, there are many essential jazz records performed live in front of an audience, but that's a whole other topic.
From Stuck in the Seventies: "On the afternoon of my 13th birthday in 1977, I ran out and ravenously purchased Kiss--Alive, Rock & Roll Over and Destroyer. I was the last kid on my block to acquire these fundamental components for my music collection. I voraciously tore off the shrink-wrap, and ripped open all these albums. The awesome Rock & Roll Over Kiss stickers were immediately transferred to my denim norebook cover. I flipped open the live album and read the peronal notes from [the band], wishing that I could be half as cool as the two dudes pictured at your concert on the albumback cover. after listening religiously for over four hours and cerefully placing my treasure alphabetically in my record crate, I emerged from my room in a rack and roll daze. I beamed with teenage pride, bragging about my purchase and showing off my stickers the next day at school.
Like a lot of 70s kids, I first encountered Kiss with their first Alive! album. I liked it, my older brother bought it, and my friend Rich became the world's biggest Kiss fan. I bought Destroyer, and had a poster up in my room. There is a photo somewhere from Halloween, 1977: I'm Gene Simmons, Rich (who played and plays drums) was Peter Criss, and another kid was Paul. Ace went to a different school, so we didn't see him until later. My interest in the band fell off soon after, but Rich remained a diehard fan for years though even he acknowledged that Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park was pretty stupid.
I later sold the vinyl, but I do own a copy of a greatest hits CD, which I have not l listened to in years.
SOLO BEATLES (Pt. 5): Paul McCartney (& Wings)
I'm going to have to break Paul McCartney into (at least) two parts. McCartney and Ram are already on your list, so let's start with...
Wings was extremely popular during my public school years, even into high school after they had been disbanded and McCartney went "solo." (Wings was never more than McCartney's back-up band, anyway.) I know two Wings jokes. Here is the set-up for one ("What do you call a dog with Wings?"), and the punchline for another ("Paul McCarney was in another band before Wings?"). Here are my thoughts on the Wings albums...
Wild Life - This has always been my least favorite Wings album. I listened to it yesterday for the first time in a while, and it's still my least favorite. Wild Life is to Paul's discography as Extra Texture is to George's.
Red Rose Speedway - By the time I was nine, I knew that the Beatles had broken up, but I had no idea any of them went on to pursue solo careers. I remember being surprised and curious when I saw Paul's face on the cover of Red Rose Speedway in the record bin at Nash Musicland in the Mark Twain Mall. I wasn't to buy the album, though, until my flurry of solo-Beatle album purchases in the wake of John Lennon's murder.
Band on the Run - Possibly (probably) McCartney's solo masterpiece. 5 stars.
Venus and Mars - A somewhat weaker follow-up, but only slightly. 4 stars.
Wings at the Speed of Sound - Of all Wings albums, this is the most collaborative (which is not necessarily a good thing). 3 stars.
Between Wings at the Speed of Sound and London Town, was Wings Over America, a live album, and Greatest Hits, but I don't generally consider concert albums or greatest hits packages. If you like live albums, though, this one features the best songs from Wings' catalog as well as a good selection of Paul's songs from his Beatles days.
London Town - This is the first album I ever remember being advertised on TV. I remember being intrigued, but it would be three years before I bought it. It's not very well regarded by critics or fans, but it has some of my favorite songs from the Wings era on it.
Back to the Egg - Again, not very well regarded but it has some of my favorite songs. We had no idea at the time that this was to be Wings' last album. I remember one time, a few years later, Dr. Johnny Fever played the opening licks of "Arrow Through Me" on an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. I knew I knew that song, but I just couldn't place it at first. In those pre-interdays days, I had to think about it for a couple of days until it came to me.
SIDEBAR: "The Broadcast"
"The Broadcast" (from Back to the Egg) incorporated bits of The Sport of Kings by Ian Hay and The Little Man by John Galsworthy.
From The Sport of Kings:
We may win or we may lose
We may even have to cut and run for it
Well, it won't be the first time I've run
And it won't be the first time I've been caught
It's the game that matters
This is one of the greatest moments I have ever experienced
I think I sense the situation when we I say that all esteem it an honour
To breathe the rather inferior atmosphere of this station
Here along with our little friend
I guess we should all go home and treasure the memory of his face
As the whitest thing in our museum of recollections
And, perhaps, this good woman will also go home
And wash the face of our little brother here
I'm inspired with a new faith in mankind
Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to present to you
A sure enough saint, only wants a halo to be transfigured
Stand right on
THE ROLLING STONES (extra):
Here are a few more Stones releases that deserve a look...
The Rolling Stones On Air - This is the one I mentioned in the post on "live" albums (i.e.,live in the BBC radio studio, not live in concert). A two-disc look at the early years.
Blue & Lonesome - This one was released in 2016, during the lengthy gap between A Bigger Bang and Hackney Diamonds. I didn't mention it in my "Rolling Stones - Pt.4" post because it is a "roots" record. The Stones started out as a blues cover band, and this album proves they've still got the chops.
Exile on Main Street & Some Girls (reissues): I believe I have already mentioned the discs of extra material included with these rereleases.
Totally Stripped - I have already mentioned Stripped (think "unplugged"), but this is that album rethought, with only one performance in common. This album is both "live" in concert" (small venues, not arenas), as well as "live" recordings. the CD also includes a DVD.
Grrr! - A three disc greatest hits package, the most recent. It includes the four new (at-the-time) songs from 40 Licks. It's a nice retrospective, except "She's a Rainbow" is for some reason on the '70s disc rather than the '60s disc.
This will probably be my last Rolling Stones post.
Unless... is anyone here interested in the Stones' solo albums?
Have you heard Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville? She never matched the success of that-- she wrote those tracks when she was, I think, nineteen, and, not so many years later, the album made Rolling Stone's list of the 200 best albums of the century. She wrote it as a kind of track-by-track response to Exile on Main Street.
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