Flashpoint (Reis) [Live]

The Rolling Stones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B0000084AQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,191 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Start Me Up

2. Sad Sad Sad

3. Miss You

4. Rock and a Hard Place

5. Ruby Tuesday

6. You Can't Always Get What You Want

7. Factory Girl

8. Can't Be Seen

9. Little Red Rooster

10. Paint It Black

11. Sympathy for the Devil

12. Brown Sugar

13. Jumpin' Jack Flash

14. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

15. Highwire

16. Sex Drive

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Live Performance, October 14, 2002

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

Flashpoint was released Feb 2, 1991. It was recorded on the Steel Wheels (American) and Urban Jungle (European) tours during 1989-90. It was their 6th live album (the most recent had been 10 years earlier - Still Life). The tracks on the album were actually recorded as follows:
.....11-25-89 Jacksonville
.....11-26-89 Clemson SC
.....12-19-89 Atlantic City
.....2-26/27-90 Toyko
.....6-14-90 Barcelona
.....7-6-90 Wembley (also filmed for the IMAX film and their 1st DVD release)

There was a special quad gatefold edition of the album (which is now out of print) that included a 2nd disc (titled Collectibles) of rare, extended version, or dance mix tracks previously released only on 12" vinyl singles or as B sides.

Many reviewers consider this either their best live album or the 2nd best (after the 1970 release Get Your Ya Ya's Out). The album includes the UK single Highwire and the US single Sex Drive, both of which are studio tracks added to the live tracks from the tour. In addition it has the live version of Ruby Tuesday that was released as a CD single in the UK along with Play With Fire, You Can't Always Get What You Want, and Undercover Of The Night (all live versions from the album). Flashpoint also includes what many people think is the best version they ever did of Little Red Rooster (it features Eric Clapton on lead). 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:
.....the 115th show of the combined Steel Wheels and Urban Jungle tours at Wembly Stadium in London was the last live performance with Bill Wyman (it was filmed on IMAX cameras and is available as the DVD The Rolling Stones Live at the MAX)
.....the Steel Wheels tour set a new American attendance record of 3.4 million, they sold out 10 shows in Tokyo, and the Urban Jungle tour included their 1st shows in East Germany and Czechoslovakia where a ticket was recognized as a one day passport for Hungarians and Poles...the combined tours grossed $200 million
.....the first show of the tour (at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia) was loud enough they blew a generator (causing 3 minutes of silence in the middle of Shattered)....they dropped the song from the setlist for the remainder of the tour
.....this was the first gargantuan stage tour....Steel Wheels featured blow up bimbos (named Angie and Ruby) during Honky Tonk Women and a diversionary lightning effect while Mick rode an elevator 8 stories up to a high stage where he sang Sympathy in a hellishly lighted cloud of smoke (because there were already so many live versions of these two songs on other albums, neither made it to the CD releases)....Urban Jungle featured two rabid canines (with erections) to go with the recently released single Terrifying.

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An utterly sublime release., May 28, 1999

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This review is from: Flashpoint (Reis) (Audio CD)

I had heard some of the Stones' songs on the radio and my dad had played them around me, but I never really thought them to be that great. I received 'Flashpoint' as a gift and thought I'd give it a whirl. It totally turned me on to the Stones and now I'm a die-hard fanatic. This album is essential to the CD collection of ANY and EVERY music fan. The energy is amazing, notably on 'Rock and a Hard Place.' This album contains excellent versions of such classics as 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'(my favorite song of all-time), 'Satisfaction,' and 'Paint it black.' 'Flashpoint' is undoubtedly the best live compilation the group has ever released, and definitely in the realm of their top five albums.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice live Stones, June 28, 2005

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flashpoint (Reis) (Audio CD)

This is not an essential live Stones recording like "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" or the partly live "Stripped", but it's certainly a good one. Taped during the 1989-1990 "Steel Wheels" tour, it should have featured a couple more songs from that album, but there is no complaining about what is here.

Some listeners will perhaps wonder why "Honky Tonk Women" isn't here, or some or other personal favorite, but hey...the Stones can't put all of their hits on each and every one of their live albums. They would be no room for newer material at all!
Instead we get a great rendition of the then-new "Sad Sad Sad", a driving rocker, as well the acoustic numbers "Ruby Tuesday" and "Paint It Black" and an epic seven-minute "You Can't Always Get What You Want".

Keith Richards rasps his way through a terrific "Can't Be Seen", and the oldies "Jumping Jack Flash", "Brown Sugar", "Satisfaction" and "Sympathy For The Devil" are very good as well.
I could have done without the disco-flavoured "Miss You" and the inane "Sex Drive", but those are just about the only drawbacks here. Jagger's vocals are better and less sloppy than on some live recordings, the band is tight, and the sound is excellent.