Audio CD review:
The Rolling Stones - Singles Collection: The London Years

The Rolling Stones - Singles Collection: The London Years

Band: The Rolling Stones Title: Singles Collection: The London Years Rating: Release Date: 03 September, 2002 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Come On 2: I Want To Be Loved 3: I Wanna Be Your Man 4: Stoned 5: Not Fade Away 6: Little By Little 7: It's All Over Now 8: Good Times, Bad Times 9: Tell Me 10: I Just Want To Make Love To You 11: Time Is On My Side 12: Congratulations 13: Little Red Rooster 14: Off The Hook 15: Heart Of Stone 16: What A Shame 17: The Last Time 18: Play With Fire 19: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 20: The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man 21: The Spider And The Fly 22: Get Off Of My Cloud 23: I'm Free 24: The Singer Not The Song 25: As Tears Go By 26: Gotta Get Away 27: 19th Nervous Breakdown 28: Sad Day 29: Paint It, Black 30: Stupid Girl 31: Long Long While 32: Mother's Little Helper 33: Lady Jane 34: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? 35: Who's Driving Your Plane? 36: Let's Spend The Night Together 37: Ruby Tuesday 38: We Love You 39: Dandelion 40: She's A Rainbow 41: 2000 Light Years From Home 42: In Another Land 43: The Lantern 44: Jumpin' Jack Flash 45: Child Of The Moon (Rmk) 46: Street Fighting Man 47: No Expectations 48: Surprise, Surprise 49: Honky Tonk Women 50: You Can't Always Get What You Want 51: Memo From Turner 52: Brown Sugar 53: Wild Horses 54: I Don't Know Why Aka Don't Know Why I Love You 55: Try A Little Harder 56: Out Of Time 57: Jiving Sister Fanny 58: Sympathy For The Devil

Customer Reviews Not in SACD Format If you want the SACD format, look elsewhere. Contrary to the product title and description, this item is CD-only. Apparently, ABKCO is responsible for this confusion. [. . . ] . Rich collection of the Stones' earlier work ). Many of the items on this album have been released before in well known collections (Hot Rocks, More Hot Rocks: Big Hits & Fazed Cookies, etc. However, this provides a nice survey of what the subtitle refers to as "The London Years. " Especially welcome is Disc One. Here are a number of early works that draw upon the blues tradition out of which the Stones came. Their covers are as interesting, in some senses, as their own music. Chuck Berry's "Come on" illustrates. A nice rollicking version. Some of Willie Dixon's compositions are covered (e. g. , "I Want to Be Loved," "I Just Want to Make Love to You," and "Little Red Rooster" [a cool version]). One of Buddy Holly's hits, "Not Fade Away," comes off well. Bobby Womack's "It's All over Now" is solidly sung (indeed, in a later Rolling Stones' tour, I saw Bobby Womack sing this as part of the opening for the concert). Stevie Wonder's "I Don't Know Why" is also included. The other songs on Disc One are primarily works by Jagger-Richards themselves. Toward the end of this are quintessential Rolling Stones works of the mid-1960s, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Get off of My Cloud. " The second disc covers the years from "19th Nervous Breakdown" through the psychedelic album, "Their Satanic Majesties Request. " Some rather little known works appear, but most are well known. Because of that, this covers much the same territory as "Hot Rocks" and is less interesting than the first CD. The final disc has a lot of the "greatest hits" of the late 1960s and early 1970s (think "Street Fighting Man," "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar," and "Sympathy for the Devil"). There are also some mildly entertaining trifles ("Jiving Sister Fanny" and "Memo from Turner"). The most interesting of the CDs, then, is the first, since it shows off nicely some of the foundational works upon which the Rolling Stones' oeuvre is based. . There are better choices for Rolling Stones GHs. The problem with the collection here is that it included all of the 45 records on 3 CDs. This box set was release in the late 80s during the peak of the box sets revival. This may seem like a good ideal, and I will be the first to admit it, I thought it was great until I got it home and started listening to it. The problem is that not only does it included all of the hits, from "Satification" to "Get off my Cloud" to "Sympathy For The Devil", it includes also the B-side of the 45s, which include such songs as "Little Red Rooster", "Jiving Sister Fanny" and "Who's Driving Your Plane?". The issue is not the good stuff, it the filler that kills it. The Stones have way to many great songs, both before and after "Exile on Main Street" then to waste time listening to almost half the songs on this album. If you love the stones in the London Years, trade this in for Hot Rocks. . . You can see a complete list of all The Rolling Stones discography, or go back to the The Rolling Stones tabs