Resurrected now, these songs would probably struggle for a place on Tattoo You, though the power-riffing "Living in the Heart of Love" most deserves a spot, recalling classic-era Rolling Stones in its directness. Only one of the songs – an early reggae-lite version of "Start Me Up" – found its way on the 1981 album, leaving covers of the Ch-Lites' "Trouble's A-Comin," Jimmy Reed's "Shame, Shame, Shame" and Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" on the cutting-room floor. Nine tracks earmarked during the sessions but eventually abandoned were recently completed by the band, freshened up with new vocals by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' guitars. Rediscovery makes the disc essential, but it's the other three CDs, featuring studio rarities and a live show, that bring together the era for a more complete portrait. "Start Me Up" and "Waiting on a Friend" were the big singles and remain the highlights, but buried cuts like the slow-burning Black and Blue leftover "Worried About You" find new relevance in the Stones catalog. The original 11-track LP, remastered here, serves as the center point of the box. A four-CD box set celebrating the album's 40th anniversary confirms fans weren't just riding a post- Some Girls high: Today, the record sounds just as committed and airtight, and maybe just a tad scraped together. I know - Exile On Main Street.' So, you kinda take snippets of something that's going on all the time.All of those mixed '70s emotions about the group – from "The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World" to lazy caricatures of themselves – were filtered into Tattoo You, which carried the Stones into the '80s with their crown still somewhat in place. 'Let's use these 12 songs, and what do we call it? I know - Beggars Banquet. But to us, the process is like, continual. Some of the stuff that you do, and say Sticky Fingers, towards the end, you've got more stuff than you can use 'Well, we'll just save it.' So, you kind of roll over material that way, and the album becomes what gets on there. Keith Richards told us that he's always viewed the band's recording career as an ongoing mission as opposed to their contemporaries who recorded specific projects every year: “Albums, what you get when you say, 'Oh, that's that album,' a lot of albums they, like, roll over into the next one. So, I only really finish the ones I know we're gonna do.” So, you invest so much in it that you get very disappointed. It's such a waste of energy when people say, 'Oh, well I don't really like that one, we won't do it,' and you've spent all this time on it. I mean, I am the winder-upper in that respect, yeah.”Ī while back, Mick Jagger explained how and why the Stones end up with so many unfinished tracks left on the cutting room floor: “We were working on about 35, something like that and cuttin' them down - didn't finish them all 'cause I don't do that anymore. Keith Richards said that more often than not over the years, he's been the one to lead the charge when it comes to the studio: “I always am for that, because, y'know, the guitars and drums - I have to play and I have to get them to play, y'know? So that Mick has something ( laughs) decent to sing to. They're just not completely tracked in there. I'm glad that the Stones aren't labeled a ''60's band' - and I find increasingly that they're not. You can't ignore what you were, but I think to kind of take that stuff too seriously. I don't find it, very, kind of, interesting to look back too much. alone, featured such instant Stones classics as “Start Me Up,” “Hang Fire,” “Little T &A,” “Worried About You,” and “Waiting On A Friend.”Īmong the highlights on the bonus disc is the band's unreleased Goats Head Soup gem, “Fast Talking Slow Walking,” the It's Only Rock N' Roll-era outtake, “Living In The Heart Of Love,” and the 1975 Black And Blue-era, early reggae version of “Start Me Up.”Īlthough the Rolling Stones have always been dealing with the shadow of their early days - Mick Jagger explained that for the most part, they remain one of the lucky bands not lumped in with any particular era or decade: “I find it fascinating when I hear other people talking about it and other groups copying certain periods. Tattoo You, which has sold over four million copies in the U.S.
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Tattoo You was originally released on August 24th, 1981 and was comprised mainly of reworked outtakes from the band's archive dating back to the 1972 sessions for the following year's Goats Head Soup. The deluxe edition features a new remaster of the 1981 nine-week chart-topper, a bonus disc of nine previously unreleased - yet heavily bootlegged tracks - and a two-disc June 1982 performance art London's Wembley Stadium. The Rolling Stones released their latest archival set, Tattoo You: 40th Anniversary today (October 22nd).
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