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Made in the Shade (Dig)

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I have always loved this LP. It has some really classic songs on it. Brown Sugar, Bitch, Angie, Heart breaker, Rip this Joint etc. This was their first real greatest hits package with their classic 70's hits. Then came everything after it. It has a special meaning for me because of that. I remember hanging out with my friends, playing the record, and trying to solve the famous album cover. Is it a she or he? Great Lp but it should of been a double LP with more hits like, Rocks off, Sister Morphine, Sway, Dead Flowers, Winter,Coming Down Again, Star-Star, Moonlight Mile,Time Waits for No One, Finger Print File etc. This was Mick Taylor's last hoorah of hits with the Band. They went on tour that year(1975) but it never was the same without the guitar slinger-Mick Taylor.

Please bear with me as I may ramble a bit- I have been a Stones fan forever, and Made in the Shade is the best of the Stones "best ofs" this side of Hot Rocks. The song selection defines the Mick Taylor era and how they are arranged really gives this disk great punch (Angie right into Bitch is great). This album was a favorite for all of my rowdy years and I wore out my LP. I was very excited to see the remastered release and just picked it up. I must say, despite what some other reviewers said, I picked up a wicked hiss on a couple of songs- Pretty disappointing; otherwise the mix is bright and crisp. Heartbreaker is amazing.

Now for the rant. Previous reviewers have mentioned this in a softer tone. These remastered disks have no oomph or extra anything. The Stones have repackaged everything to death to wring one last dime out of their fans. I wish that when they undertook the last remastering that they at least gave us liner notes. The thought of a couple of live cuts or rarities from the time of each album is much too much to expect. Rhino Records work with re-release and remastering is the benchmark- great liner notes, disks stuffed with extras. Heck, even the notoriously money grubbing Who put a few extras on their countless re-releases.


I know we will never get this with the Stones and I knew what I was getting with Made in the Shade, and sadly I got nothing more. So... It is a great disk with a great line-up of songs from a great time in the bands career. Find it cheap, it's worth it!

The cuts sound fine. Due to the super (as the Reardon review noted) remastering job by Bob Ludwig, there's more imaging and sharper overall sound. Worth the bucks! The "Memory Hotel." It never seems to close.

There are in fact only 10 tracks on this album, but these 10 tracks are in fact essentials of the 1970's era. There have been some of them that can also be found on later compilations as well. This album may be missing a few other essentials, but at least it was really decent enough.

I just had to have this CD by The Stones.Love this CD. Stones are great here with some of their best from the past. I brought it, just for one song, had all the others here but,"Heartbreaker" Mick Jagger singing this is a killer to me. Taking me back to my wild times growing into a man, knowing life isn't all you think. Story of life in the streets & poeple you know,back alleys a wait. Roll on Stones, ride of the music never ends.

This is a great compilation from what was arguably the best era for the band musically. The only thing that I think should have been done differently was to take out "Rip This Joint" and "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo" and put in "All Down the Line" and "Star Star". But it's still a great compilation. Especially if you're, for one reason or another, unable to make your own compilations of songs.

You can't go wrong with this Best Of from the Mick Taylor era. The only thing wrong with this release is it's brevity, they really should have loaded it up with bonus tracks seeing as how they have already sold this in multiple formats over thirty years.

Oh well, It's Only Rock and Roll, but I like it!

Basically, this is rushes through the Mick Taylor years, collecting a bunch of big hits that are already available elsewhere in the first place - except for Dance Little Sister, which never was all that good in the first place. Now, out of the remaning nine, eight are amongst my favorite Stones songs: Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Bitch (from the masterpiece Sticky Fingers), Tumbling Dice, Happy, Rip This Joint, Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) and It's Only Rock and Roll. Not an Angie fan, but that's just me. But this is a fine example of wasted potential otherwise. Moonlight Mile, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Rocks Off, Winter and Time Waits for None could all make claims at inclusion. But are they? No.
Now, these nothing-but-the-basics comps can work quite well when done right, which generally implies them covering a longer timespan than the four years Shade touches on. Take Hot Rocks - that one gets a decade of the basics perfectly. So does the recent Forty Licks, for that matter. However, this fails because there's too little.
The cover's, um... interesting. Could be a potshot at David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust days, or just the Stones being the Stones.

made in the shade is an excellent stones compilation.ignore the previous retard who needs to be banned from amazon.