Friday March 12, 2010 10:37
England’s Newest Hitmakers
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The first full-length Rolling Stones album is a raw document of their early sound, which at this point was still Early British Tinny, even on this pristine re-issue. However, the band’s growing confidence throughout the course of THE ROLLING STONES is almost palpable.
Their take on Willie Dixon’s “I Just Want to Make Love to You” is steeped in Chicago blues filtered through a West London sensibility, while the insistent harp on their hit cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not… More >>
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Anonymous
March 12th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
owww my ears hurt is the typicAL respnse that anyone would give after listining to this or any other stones cds. THes stones are jusat rip offs of the Beatles. i mean look at the facts. this cd there first came out in 1962 before the Beatles. Now does anyone realize there first good song (which still Sucks) Satisfaction caME OUT aFTER THE BEATLES DUBUET. All this band did was take all of the Beatle Ideas and create sucky versions of them. The only good song on this whole Cd is walk that dog and the stones didnt even write that. its a shame. and for the love of god will JAGGER SHUT UP ALREADY. so bottom line either all stones fans are either deaf people or people who have insane jealously probolems over the Beatles. oh yeah and Beatles Rule.
Rating: 1 / 5
avexpertguy
March 12th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Potential buyers should be aware of a few things:
1. First, the high resolution (”DSD”) part of this disc is only available if played on an SACD player.
2. The CD layer on this disc may not be playable on all CD players. See the letters section at …
3. For the packaging differences between the new SACD versions and other, older, CD versions, see: …
Rating: 5 / 5
DAVID A MILLER
March 12th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Thank mike-on-the-mike for your review. I was thinking I was the only frustrated stones fan that wanted all the early songs without buying so many cd’s that constantly overlap the same songs. And with today’s cd technology, something special should be done for such a special band like the stones. Give us more for the buck then just 30 minutes on a cd AND then repeat some of the same songs on the next cd (i.e. Between The Buttons & Flowers). What a rip off. I will pay good money for something like a Rolling Stones Box Set (6 or 7 cd’s), of simply the first songs released before mid 1967. The LP’S DON’T MEAN A THING. WHAT MATTERS ARE THE SONGS. I WANT THE SONGS ON CD, WITHOUT BUYING SO MANY LP’S ON CD.
Rating: 3 / 5
P. B. Reynolds
March 12th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
First, a response to a very negative reviewer who said this album made his ears hurt: It’s called Rock & Roll, Junior!!!! It’s supposed to sound raw and impassioned. Were you expecting something in the vein of Phil Collins or Seals & Crofts? Yes, the Beatles were definitely the most innovative, prolific, and musically brilliant rock band to ever come from the United Kingdom, I’m certainly not debating that. But as to which group ROCKED harder, longer, and with the most hip-swinging, soul-swaggering pathos, it’s The Stones, hands down!!! The Stones were NOT a duplicate of the Beatles, they are a total original. I’d rather hear the Stones in ‘62 than the Beatles in the same year, when they were mostly doing bubblegum ditties and merseybeat ballads. If it were the Beatles of “Revolver” or “Magical Mystery Tour”, maybe it’d be a (slightly) harder decision. This isn’t to say that I don’t love the Beatles, but they adapted to a rock style much later than the Stones, whose humble working-class upbringings in the dreary industrial sector of England gave them the hard-bitten cynicism and youthful angst to make hard-rock sentiments come as second-nature. Having said that, I can not even begin to extoll this deliciously furious, infectiously catchy album enough. This first album chronicles their love affair with 50’s and 60’s soul and R&B, and they pull it off in spades. Even the Beatles could never do the music of early bluesmen and black rockers like Chuck Berry this much justice. The Stones take music that was already brilliant, and make it even BETTER! Could you ask for a more rollicking interpretation of “Can I Get a Witness?”, or “Walkin’ the Dog”? This is the Stones at their roughest, most raw-edged, musically unbridled beginnings, and this album of covers, to me at least, is just as satisfying and revolutionary as the Stones’ original work (which is an outstanding, enduringly phenomenal and still-growing ouvre in and of itself). In closing, yes, these are covers, and yes, they are RAW as they come. But that’s Rock & Roll, baby!!! So kick up the stereo and enjoy!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Anonymous
March 12th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Definitivamente uno de los debuts más logrados de la primera mitad de los 60’s, en abierta oposición al sonido beat que reinaba por entonces. En sus inicios, los Stones interpretaban una versión acelerada del r&b americano, pero también absorvían elementos del soul y el rock and roll. Una de las ventajas de este disco (y los debuts en general) es que presenta a unos Stones ejecutando el repertorio que hacían en vivo, lo que le da al sonido una crudeza que irían perdiendo en sus sucesivos trabajos.
Las adaptaciones de sus ídolos demuestran la real pasión que sentían por esa música y una capacidad musical y nivel de cohesión grupal sorprendente. Route 66, I Just Want to Make Love to You y Carol son pura energía en formato Inglés, con todos los elementos necesarios, ya sea potente voz y sólida armónica, perfecto dominio instrumental y económicos pero contundentes solos. Honest I Do baja las revoluciones pero sigue siendo un excitante blues (gran armónica). La instrumental Now I’ve Got a Witness recuerda a The Animals con el órgano como conductor, con un rabioso solo de guitarra.
El resto del disco sigue en la linea r&b y rock, mientras los tres útimos temas ven al grupo aproximarse hacia el soul, con no tan buenos dividendos (aunque Walking The Dog es irresistible). Tell Me marca un importante hito: es su primer original y como tal excelente para que Jagger y Richard tomen confianza, porque casi no hay banda que perdure sin hacer canciones propias. 1964 aun era un año para tomar sonidos prestados, y pocos lo hicieron con tanta maestría como los Stones, popularizando un sonido para quienes buscaban algo diferente al cautivante beat.
Rating: 4 / 5