Got Live If You Want It [Live, Original recording remastered]

The Rolling Stones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1966
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live, Original recording remastered
• Label: Abkco
• ASIN: B00006AW2Q
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,114 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars we have lift-off!, February 23, 2004

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clio (Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Got Live If You Want It (Audio CD)

Right: This album is "obviously not a real concert" - it's obviously culled from assorted 1966 concerts (plus a couple of studio busks), with all the uneven sound quality you'd expect under the circumstances. So is there something wrong with that?!?

As a matter of fact ... there's plenty wrong with that (and the album title is fair warning, so don't blame the Stones!). Live roots rock in the 1960s was a riot of frenetic every-man-for-himself energy - the musicians couldn't hear a dratted thing up there - and the Rolling Stones were fantastic at it. This great little album gives us a hilarious, roughshod, whoa-nelly taste of what they sounded like just getting off the launch-pad.

If you love the Stones, and/or know first-hand what playing rock & roll live is like, you'll get a great raving kick out of this. If not ... get your ya-ya's out!

PS In _Rolling With the Stones_ Bill Wyman confirms that a couple of these tracks are studio busks, not in-concert recordings. So what - it all rocks!

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rage, June 24, 2005

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Grant Gooch (Ft. Worth, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Got Live If You Want It (Audio CD)

Ignore the overdubs, the canned audience, the Albert Hall mislead. Find some way to slide past the muddy remastering and the twisted provenance. This is the only recorded instance of Keith and Charlie, maybe even Bill, playing mad. There's been plenty of malice, violence, and guile, but we have never heard anything like the raw seething anger boiling here on 'Under My Thumb', '19th Nervous Breakdown', and 'Satisfaction'. And we never will again.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a rush!, August 8, 2006

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E. J. Ryan "Eamonn Ryan" (South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Got Live If You Want It (Audio CD)

This was one of the first Rolling Stones albums I ever heard back in the early Seventies, and I loved it from the start. I didn't have much to compare it to at the time, but what I enjoyed about it - and still do - is the sheer adrenalin rush. From the first adolescent scream to the last it doesn't let up. When I listen to it today - and it still gets as much play as Get Yer Ya-Yas Out or Stripped - its precisely because that's what I'm looking for. The youthful exuberance of loud, fast music. It gets me excited, as opposed to aesthetically satisfied, and why else listen to live albums?

I've come to prefer live albums in recent years - I used to detest them. Most of them aren't for intensive listening, I find, with interminable guitar solos, but for background music while I work. But this album, I keep for when I'm driving and need to get somewhere fast!