Rolling Stones FAQ [4/4] Archive-name: music/rollingstones-faq/part4 Last-modified: 1995/9/25 Version: 2.09 Rolling Stones' Mailing list FAQ list ==================================================== Part Four The Rolling Stones--The Lazy Man's Discography Version 2.09 September 1995 /***********************************************************************/ COPYRIGHT 1994, 1995 (c) Anthony J. Rzepela (the "compiler") This collection of four works is under the copyright of the compiler, who may, at his discretion, relinquish said copyright to the authors named herein. This collection may not be broken up, or be made available by any publisher. It may not be redistributed in any form if any changes are made to it except by the holder of the copyright. The compiler of this FAQ retains all rights for use of it. No author or proofreader or assistant credited herein grants the use of his or her name to any publisher. Be warned that attempts to publish this shared work-in-progress may interfere with legal commitments individual authors may privately hold with publishers. /***********************************************************************/ This discography 1) lists the Rolling Stones' original long-play and EP releases issued in the UK or United States, sorted by release date. 2) discusses the Rolling Stones on Compact Disc (search forward for the text "CDs, CDs, CDs"). 3) lists songs that were officially sanctioned and available at some point, but never made it to any EP or LP in the States or UK (search forward for "Flipsides and Oddities"). Concerning Part one: 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). We have declined to catalogue out-of-print compilations that began appearing in Europe in the seventies. While they filled important gaps in European collections at the time they were released, 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 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 (rzepela@cvi.hahnemann.edu). Helps, hints, corrections and suggestions were graciously provided by: Jens Backlund (jens.backlund@abo.fi) Stephen D. Carter (stevedc@central.sussex.ac.uk) Dave Heller Michael Honig (honey@mwald5.chemie.uni-mainz.de) Mark C. Walters (mark@pluto.logica.co.uk) Bibliography: ------------- 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; Track 3 appears on "December's Children", German compilations "20 Super Hits" & "Heartbreakers", and the UK compilation "Slow Rollers"; Tracks 1,2, and 4 appear on "More Hot Rocks"; all tracks are on out-of-print German vinyl compilations "Around and Around" and "The Rolling Stones Story (Part 2)" 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". 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 this track lineup using UK releases, 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" (single, or UK "High Tide and Green Grass"), and "Surprise, Surprise" (flipside). Track 1 claims to be 2:57, but is actually 5:00. 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" and "Collectors Only" (vinyl only, both out of print); Tracks 4 and 5 can be found on "December's Children"; track 6 on US version of "Out of Our Heads"; tracks 2,3,5, and 6 are on German compilation "Legends of Rock" 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 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", and "Out of Time" (all found on US compilation "Flowers"), and "What To Do" (from the double-disc "More Hot Rocks"); but the correct, long version of "Out of Time" (5:36) is not on a US CD at all, and on US vinyl only with the 1984 Mobile Fidelity box set. 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 4 single sides, 5 UK-version LP tracks (2 from "Between the Buttons", and 3 from "Aftermath") plus 2 tracks which remain unavailable elsewhere on CD ("My Girl" and "Ride On Baby"). "Sittin' on a Fence" can be found on the UK version of "Through the Past Darkly", 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) 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 available under Sony, is not scheduled (so far) from Virgin. 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 was available on a CD under Sony and EMI, but is not currently scheduled for release by Virgin. 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 (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.) Finally on CD are "Metamorphosis" tracks (the four songs relased as singles); three early gems ("I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Want to Be Loved", and "Stoned"); and the single version (no choir) of 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'. 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, not yet on Virgin Records' release roster, is de facto out of print. 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 (12 on vinyl) live + 2 new studio tracks; first time a simultaneous release had different tracks on different media; seven live songs were released as flipsides to singles from this album. (see list at bottom). 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. ======================== CDs, CDs, CDs ========================= Who issues them? At any one time, legitimate CDs from the Rolling Stones (i.e., CDs the Rolling Stones WANT to release, and not the "Official Unauthorized" variety of CDs widely issued in Europe over the last several years, often including live concerts and out takes) are issued by only two companies: ABKCO (owned by Allen Klein, who has rights to all Rolling Stones recordings originally issued up to and including 1970, and the rights to all Rolling Stones compositions up to and including 1971's "Sticky Fingers", plus a handful of songs from 1972's "Exile on Main Street") and its subcontractors (typically, "London" records, which is the label on which American versions of Stones recordings were issued in the 1960s). or "The Rolling Stones" (which owns all of the band's post-1970 recordings) and its subcontractors. (As of this writing, this would be Virgin Records, which was coincidentally sold to Stones' alma mater company EMI after the Rolling Stones signed with Virgin in 1992.) Since "The Rolling Stones" own all of their post-1970 "recordings", what they can do is license them 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 (although 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 see European or Japanese CDs from this era issued by EMI, the Rolling Stones' label in much of the world from 1977 to 1984.) *Whew!* 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 CDs did not officially appear until 1986, when Sony/CBS started issuing them, and ABKCO began unleashing its cache of 1960s recordings 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 "Wanna Hold You". Even when a CD has two different versions (as in the interesting case of "More Hot Rocks"), it may still mean that a particular version of a song can only be found on old vinyl. (some examples include: * a version of "Poison Ivy" found only on the pre-1986 vinyl release of "More Hot Rocks", * a version of "Tell Me" found only on the earliest pressings of the first Rolling Stones album, * a full-length version of "2120 South Michigan Avenue" found only on the compilation _Around and Around_, * the "original" live recording of "Under My Thumb" which did not make it to the CD remaster of the "Got LIVE if you Want it!" album, and on and on......) Other, more esoteric issues also exist: true (i.e., channel-separated) stereo vs. electronically processed stereo versions of songs; and multiple (as many as four) distinct versions of a single song existing officially with absolute changes, such as a missing guitar solo, organ, percussion track, or verse. Many of the American ABKCO CDs are considered inferior to their European counterparts (released on "London") due to a lack of careful mastering. Many of the tracks which people find preferable on European CDs 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 becomes almost hopelessly blurred, as ABKCO released in Europe the CDs which had previously been made for the American market. This includes the less desirable mastering aspect. Hype about "remastering" should be taken with a grain of salt. The European CDs made available on ABKCO in July of 1995 were clones of the CD catalogue which had been available in the United States for many years. 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. As this applies to ABKCO, there are 22 song _titles_ never issued on CD at all (mostly courtesy of the unimportant "Metamorphosis", which can be found on an illegitimate CD release), and several previously released and available _versions_ of other titles yet to see the light of laser. As it applies to Rolling Stones Records, there are three or four (depending on your attitude towards flexi-discs) _titles_ still not released on CD. In addition, there are more than a dozen promo/mono edits and dance remixes which are not on CD. The ABKCO years: [Ed. note: July 1995 - Thanks to ABKCO, the distinction between 'US' and 'UK' CDs is now obsolete. References to 'UK' CDs in the following paragraphs should be taken to mean the now out-of-print CDs which were in circulation in Europe in the 1980s and early 1990s. As of July 1995, ABKCO replaced the preferable Euro-market CDs with their American counterparts, which had been circulating, to the disgruntlement of American aficianados, for many years. Since, as of this writing, limited quantities of the preferable Euro-CDs may still be available on the aftermarket, we will reserve the luxury of the easy terminology.] When wondering "which version" of an ABKCO CD to buy, consider recommendations on sound quality from friends, and remember, if you are trying to get a "complete" (i.e. as complete as it can be on CD) collection of CD _versions_, no collection which does not mix CDs of "UK" and "US" versions will do it for you, as no American 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 on US vinyl previously, such as the true stereo "Paint It, Black"). Buying "all American" on ABKCO CDs will give you a complete collection of CD-available _titles_, but you have to buy them _all_ (including the 3-disc "London Years" box), leaving out only "Hot Rocks (1964-1971)" and the two single-disc "Big Hits" compilations. After all this CD collecting, you still will not have the following titles: * the six vinyl-only tracks which were released in Germany ("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 them is just a chant called "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 CD source of ANY tracks from _Metamorphosis_. A CD collector trying to get a complete set of CD-available _titles_ _must_ include some discs whose track listings are based on American LP track listings, as several US LPs (esp. "December's Children") have tracks which never appeared in a DECCA/UK-format LP except on long-out-of-print vinyl compilations (like 1971's "Stone Age"). 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 _versions_. At this point, the future on CD of the three compilation and three live albums originally issued by "Rolling Stones Records" between 1975 and 1991 (all of which were issued on CD after 1984 by CBS) is up in the air. The three live albums and the single compilation "Sucking in the Seventies" have material which can't be culled from other currently available CD sources. 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 actual separate performances. For the most part, these non-Digitized tracks are 12" "dance" remixes, or mono/promo edits, and are of varying value. ========================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, and that "For Collectors Only" would get you what remains.) 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.) The following titles/versions have been officially released by the Rolling Stones for public consumption (i.e., not exclusively found on promo items, intentionally or not) at some point, but have yet to appear on any LP or compilation released in the States or the UK. 1968 "Street Fightin' Man" Notorious 1st issue of the US single had not only a banned picture sleeve, but an alternate version which disappeared as well. One of the priciest Stones rarities. 1971 "Let It Rock" - third track on UK "Brown Sugar" single - replaces, on the Spanish version of "Sticky Fingers", "Sister Morphine" 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 - included w/purchase of UK magazine 1972 "All Down the Line" different version from LP. This pressing of the "Happy"/"ADTL" 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 which eventually appeared after 1978 on a London Records USA single with a "Sunset" style label, and 5N-906 etched into closing groove. 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 "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. 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".) 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.) 1980-1994 The "remixes". While the Collectibles CD includes one remix each of several popular songs, some persist that have never been released on any 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") "Rock and a Hard Place" (R & a HP US 12") (Oh oh hard dub mix, Bonus Beats Mix, Dance Mix, Michael Brauer 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 remix and the instrumental. US 7" has the extended remix.) "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 'uck you sweet a" "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 available on a Ltd. Ed. UK 7" picture disc. 1971-1990 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 (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: "She's a Rainbow"/"2000 Light Years from Home" (Promo 7") (eventually released commercially by mistake - see above.) "Wild Horses" (shorter version) (Promo 7") "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" ('clean' - no 'God damn cold') (Promo 7") "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")