Forty Licks [Original recording remastered]

The Rolling Stones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Virgin Records
• ASIN: B00006IR69
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (411 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,449 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #33 in Music > Classic Rock > Supergroups
  • #33 in Music > Classic Rock > British Invasion
  • #34 in Music > Classic Rock > Psychedelic Rock

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Street Fighting Man

2. Gimme Shelter

3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

4. The Last Time

5. Jumpin Jack Flash

6. You Can't Always Get What you Want

7. 19th Nervous Breakdown

8. Under My Thumb

9. Not Fade Away

10. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Start Me Up

2. Brown Sugar

3. Miss You

4. Beast Of Burden

5. Don't Stop (new)

6. Happy

7. Angie

8. You Got Me Rocking

9. Shattered

10. Fool To Cry

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The band that proclaimed itself "The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World" has long since represented rock's most overarching confluence of art and commerce--with a distinct emphasis on the latter in recent decades--a notion this 40-track, five-decade-spanning anthology can't completely escape. While this is the first anthology to gather hits from the band's entire career, it's the early tunes that highlight one of the Stones' central ironies: virtually their entire "bad boy" reputation was built working for The Man. That original '60s musical arc bounded from '50s rock and R&B revivalism ("Not Fade Away," "The Last Time") to anti-Mop Top aggression ("Satisfaction," "Get Off My Cloud," "19th Nervous Breakdown") to proto-goth cynicism ("Paint It Black," "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby") and psychedelic minstrelsy ("She's a Rainbow," "Ruby Tuesday") to the epitome of blues-based cock rock ("Street Fighting Man," "Jumpin' Jack Flash") in quick succession. Wresting control of their own destinies--and future copyrights--at the end of the '60s, they'd spend the next 30 years largely recycling their earlier incarnation ad infinitum--their music sprinkled with occasionally successful forays into contemporary club and disco fodder ("Some Girls," "Shattered")--and resting on their well-paid laurels. Unfortunately, the listless quartet of new tracks that flesh out this collection seems little more than another business deal to hype their 2002-03 world tour, with "Don't Stop" arguably the weakest in a long string of post-'80s Stones McSingles. If Jagger seems typically detached here, Keith Richards injects some welcome, craggy warmth into the closing barroom lament, "Losing My Touch." But it's also a performance that suggests his legendary band has become little more to him than "The Greatest Day Job in the World." --Jerry McCulley

Product Description

2CD Comp

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

342 of 377 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars EDITED VERSIONS! October 2, 2002

By The Gut-Man!

Format:Audio CD

I've been a die-hard Stones fan for many years and was excited to have all these great songs in one collection. But be advised, many songs on the second disc are EDITED VERSIONS!!!! Call me a ... music geek, but when I listen the the world's greatest Rock & Roll band, I wanna hear the songs the way they were intended to be heard!!! The WHOLE song, not some EDITED version!!!! The new songs are real good and maybe "Dont Stop" will come out as a single; Keith's ballad is great, too! But it's hard for me to listen to songs that I know have more to them! I hate when they EDIT songs just so they can cram a bunch onto one disc!!!! Forty Licks shoulda been 3 discs, it's that simple. And even if someone is new to the Stones, they should hear the REAL, ORIGANINAL versions!!! Disc one is okay, but disc two, not so much!! Just wanna let people know; fair warning . . . . . .

109 of 121 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Is it all over yet? Forty years and still counting... October 1, 2002

By J. Lund VINE™ VOICE

Format:Audio CD

FORTY LICKS is by far the recommended choice for those who only want one Stones set in their collection. Fans and collectors will only need the four new tracks (which are solid albeit non-essential cuts), but they may appreciate the novelty of having a career-spanning collection, all with upgraded sound quality. Taken as a whole, FORTY LICKS shows that the Stones absorbed a lot of influences, both inside and outside of the rock genre. The Stones manage the rare feat of maintaining a consistent albeit evolving group sound, usually without slipping into a predictable formula. Few artists with four decade-long careers have maintained this level of vitality for so long: as recently as 1997 they still could cut an outstanding, contemporary-sounding track (ANYBODY SEEN MY BABY?)

I would have preferred the tracks be presented in chronological order, but at least the 1960s-vintage tracks are on disc one, 1970s-present on disc two. If I counted correctly, FORTY LICKS manages to include 16 of 21 tracks on the HOT ROCKS collection, 15 of 23 out of the two THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY sets, and 12 of 18 from the JUMP BACK 1971-1993 anthology...and still squeezes in 7 recent-to-new cuts. While such key cuts as AS TEARS GO BY, MIDNIGHT RAMBLER, WAITING ON A FRIEND, HOT STUFF, 2000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME, LADY JANE, and TIME IS ON MY SIDE are missed, there just isn't enough room. In other words, it's impressive that most of the key tracks from past anthologies are now collected in one place.

58 of 64 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware October 14, 2002

By A Customer

Format:Audio CD

Between the mono versions on disc one and the edited versions on disc two, think twice before you buy this cd. The song selection is ok, but why not use the stereo versions of Paint It Black and Satisfaction, for example? If there was something mentioned on the packaging, ok... but the record companies continue to play their unfortunate little games. We need consumer protection laws passed to stop this ongoing non-information-labeling scam.