Bridges to Babylon [Extra tracks, Import]

The Rolling Stones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: EMI Japan
• ASIN: B000005RQM
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #763,569 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Flip the Switch

2. Anybody Seen My Baby?

3. Low Down

4. Already Over Me

5. Gunface

6. You Don't Have to Mean It

7. Out of Control

8. Saint of Me

9. Might as Well Get Juiced

10. Always Suffering

11. Too Tight

12. Thief in the Night

13. How Can I Stop

14. Angie [Live]

Editorial Reviews

ROLLING STONES Bridges To Babylon (Original 1997 Japanese 14-track PICTURE DISC CD album including the bonus track Angie recorded live at the Tokyo Dome in 1995 complete with fold-out lyric picture sleeve plus fold-out Japanese insertpresented in a printed clear plastic slipcase. This copy is still housed in the obi & barcode stickered resealable protective sleeve VJCP-25333)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent !!!!! Excelent!!!!! Excellent!!!!!, September 18, 1998

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Andrew Karelias ([e-mail]) (Kalamata, Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bridges to Babylon (Audio CD)

The best Rolling Stones album in recent years. Although I have every Stones album they have ever made, this is the one that is keeping me company most of the day, when driving, at home, etc. I particularly enjoy "Saint of Me", "Always Suffering", " Gunface" and the great "Out of Control". All other tracks are also inspiring and music travels from fantastic mellow sweet notes to hard beat tunes that you want to get up and danse. The arangement of the songs is fantastic I had the opprtunity to see the Stones concert in Athens, Greece, the other day and it was an experience of a lifetime. As one journalist put it over here, "This band has a great future!!!"

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Angels Aren't Crying Yet, October 19, 2002

By 

Richard R. Carlton (Ada, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bridges to Babylon (Audio CD)

This import version from Japan includes one extra track....a live version of Angie. The extra track is not remarkable, but (as usual) if you want 'em all, ya gotta buy this one too. Here is my review of the album as a whole:

Bridges To Babylon was originally released Sep 30, 1997. It was the 25th studio album. It includes the single hits Anybody Seen My Baby, Out Of Control, and Saint Of Me. It also includes Flip The Switch. Most people know the music, so in my reviews I try to give you data on the sessions and interesting facts connected with the songs and the album. Here we go:

Interesting notes include:
.....titles considered included Blessed Poison and Flip The Switch
.....Keith heard his daughter singing different words to Anybody Seen My Baby and panicked when he discovered Mick had unconsciously used the melody to k.d. lang's Constant Craving.....the Stones got off the hook when k.d. was flattered and accepted credit for writing the Stones track....Keith had feared this kind of mistake for decades and when it finally happened he was so relieved it wasn't him that he insisted that Mick pay k.d. from his own share of the royalties
.....the album tour (also called Bridges To Babylon) included 107 shows to 4,375,000 over 2 years and made three hundred million.

The Bridges sessions started in Nov 1996 at Dangerous Music in Greenwich Village, continued in London during December, and again in Jan 1997 in Barbados. The entire band began recording in March at Ocean Way Studios in L.A. Mick had been working on Saint Of Me and Might As Well Get Juiced for another solo album (since the Stones had not been together for over a year). Mick wanted his tracks done with new techno producers while Keith constantly ridiculed them. This lead to a lot of problems when they tried to work together in L.A. and they ended up using separate studios with Keith stealing tapes to get the final mixes done while Mick boycotted the sessions. In Mick's case, he got so angry he finally mixed one track - Already Over Me - himself, then walked out leaving Keith to finish 3 tracks himself (he promptly overdubbed Mick's techno with rockabilly). As usual with the Stones, the conflict produced some of their best music in decades and Bridges ended up acclaimed as one of their best ever. Because of the dramatic split in who did what, this time I am listing the tracks according to who wrote, played, mixed them, not where they were recorded:
.....Low Down (Keith)
.....Might As Well Get Juiced (Mick and Keith together)
.....Always Suffering (Mick)
.....You Don't Have To Mean It (Mick and Keith together)
.....Anybody Seen My Baby (Mick)
.....Saint Of Me (Mick)
.....Out Of Control (Mick)
.....Flip the Switch (Charlie & Jim Keltner)
.....Gunface (Charlie & Jim Keltner)
.....Already Over Me (mixed by Mick)
.....Too Tight (Keith overdubbing)
.....Thief In The Night (Keith overdubbing)
.....How Can I Stop (Keith overdubbing)

This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection, with some of the notes from Davis' "Old Gods Almost Dead." Both books are available from amazon.com.

4.0 out of 5 stars One more step to glory, January 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bridges to Babylon (Audio CD)

In their middle fifties they have produced a new album and a grat topur. I have seen them in Buenos Aires and they have covered all my expectations once again. In Bridges to Babylon they showed to the rock and roll world, that they are still alive because they stil make noise! At their age they still make joung fellows cry. CHEARS!!