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Track Listings
| 1 | Around and Around |
| 2 | Confessin' the Blues |
| 3 | Empty Heart |
| 4 | Time Is on My Side |
| 5 | Good Times Bad Times |
| 6 | It's All over Now |
| 7 | 2120 South Michigan Avenue |
| 8 | Under the Boardwalk |
| 9 | Congratulations |
| 10 | Grown up Wrong |
| 11 | If You Need Me |
| 12 | Susie-Q |
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Remastered 1964 compilation originally released to coincide with the band's second American tour. Essentially an expanded version of the UK EP Five by Five, plus their third & fourth American singles, "It's All Over Now", recorded at Chess, and the first Billboard top 10 hit, "Time is on My Side", which features an organ intro rather than the better known guitar version that's the second British album. Mick and Keith's songwriting partnership is hitting it's stride by this time, with three of their songs on the album, "Congratulations", "Grown Up Wrong" and the excellent "Good Times, Bad Times", an homage to the country blues singers they loved so much.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 3.53 Ounces
- Manufacturer : ABKCO
- Item model number : 1982856
- Original Release Date : 2002
- Date First Available : July 27, 2006
- Label : ABKCO
- ASIN : B00006AW2O
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,425 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #35 in Classic Rock Supergroups
- #68 in British Invasion Rock
- #233 in Blues Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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The Stones with Brian Jones started as a Blues Band. That was their primary interest. They got to record this LP at Chess Studios which to me, as a guitarist, would be like a getting to Jam with Albert King. They met Muddy Waters, got offered songs from Willie Dixon, met and had Little Walter on their next UK tour and so on. This was an essential background to the 1960s Blues Revival which started the careers of Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Albert King, Otis Rush, John Mayall and so on.
The tunes, as discussed in previous reviews, are not of uniform brilliance. They were basically tunes they had been performing live for a few years in London clubs. Of the lot "Around and Around" is probably the best and the tune that helped get Chuck Berry back on a career track! It is great, especially the Johnny Otis shuffle in the bridge! "It's All Over Now" also helped the career of Bobby Womack-a great R&B guitar man and soul singer. This tune was a massive hit in the summer of 1964 and has one of the best vocals the Early Stones ever did. The long fade out ending was a prelude the the Beatle's "Hey Jude" a few years later. "Good Times Bad Times", an early Jagger-Richards attempt, was a great use of acoustic 12-string guitar. Probably influenced Jimi Hendrix's "Hear My Train A-Comin'".
My personal favourite on this LP is "Confessin the Blues", a 1940s Blues Standard penned by pianist Jay McShann. It was covered by many including B.B. King, but this is the Chess version of Little Walter Jacobs. Check out the original recording, it's great. This tune has a great arrangement. The guitars copy the Chicago sound and Keith has some of his most effective blues playing ever, a great emulation of Jimmy Dawkins and hard to do, even today! The hand damping triple time shuffle in the second half of the tune by Brian Jones adds so much and its not in the original. Very creative, and no effects!
Of course one who loves Blues has to comment of the Blues Harmonica of both Brian Jones and Mick Jagger. Again, not electricified, but played into the studio mike with reverb, very haunting. The Stones have always been underrated as harpists, but they did much to promote the Chicago Blues Harp. Case in point, "2120 South Michigan Avenue" (the address of the Chess Studios)-just super. Great harp playing and this version includes Keith's snappy guitar solo not in the original US release. And, of course, we have to also mention Keith's top solo ever (to me!) on "It's All Over Now" it's Chuck Berry with speed and soul!!!
"Empty Heart", written, or collaborated with, Phil Spector, is usually described as filler. But I love it and it was a prelude to the Bo Diddley recognition they would do on the "Now" LP. The Vibrato guitar without much singing is almost like a 1960s dance track. "Time Is On My Side" (this is the "organ intro" version released in the U.S. first, I think this is the better one too!), another massive hit from this period, was another attempt by the Stones to cover US R&B Soul tunes. In this case the tune had been a hit for the great Irma Thomas. I always had a lot of respect for Mick Jagger to even attempt to cover tunes by Solomon Burke, The Drifters (Under the Boardwalk) and The Falcons with Wilson Pickett (If You Need Me). That takes guts and they got away with it because most of the originals were not known to the mainstream population at the time. He did go too far when he did "My Girl" later on after it had already been a No. 1 hit.
"Congratulations" was an attempt to write a period Pop Tune. Its chord progression was right out of the 1950s-early 60s doowop era (something like the "Bristol Stomp!"). However the Stones put their own bluesy vocals into it and the "dirt" of the Chess Studios. "Grown Up Wrong" is another writing attempt. This tune clearly pays hommage to Elmore James with its slide riff. However, it is weak and much too repetitive. I used to skip it when I played the LP. This final tune "Suzie-Q" is their cover of Dale Hawkin's classic with the great James Burton riff. Again, it sounds like they ran out of studio time, or they didin't have their soul in it. And it's too short. Interesting, on this tune Keith's playing outshines Mick's singing. The final guitar solo has quite a spark and that's how we fade out in this set.
This is a great CD. It does have a few weak tunes on it and some early attempts at songwriting which are variable. However, the strong tunes are really strong and still sound great today.
Get this CD and revisit the onset of the "White Blues Revival" of the early 1960s!
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Anyway, push comes to shove, is it worth it? The clear vinyl is a merely a novelity and does not detract from the sound at all and the whole album certainly flows better being presented in mono unlike the CD version which swaps between stereo and mono. As a placeholder for if we ever have a brand new spanking remaster of the the UK 'Rolling Stones No. 2' it will certainly suffice and is a nice addition to any burgeoning Stones vinyl collection*. I'd say grab it while you can!
*At the moment (2019) the Stones vinyl catalogue in the UK has the US configuration of their debut album, this album, then the remaining UK versions of their sixties studio albums. Not exactly ideal for us UK purists but what can we do?
...And now the waiting is over and having listened to eight of these CDs and comparing them with the previous "gold standard" in Stones CDs - the Mobile Fidelity Sound European releases of the late 80's early 90's, I can definitely assure Stones fans and casual buyers alike that these new re-masters are indeed the business.
And even if you are lucky enough to own all the Mobile Fidelity mastered releases, you are still going to need these new guys on the block.
Reasons? Well let's start with the packaging; OK so the "Certificate of Authenticity" is a tad tragic and just a bit irritating, but you can always extract it from the case and place it with due solemnity in the drawer where it can happily reside with the rest of your Stones artifacts, BUT and it is a big but, everything else has been presented in a way to make you feel as if you're nearer to having the original LP (you know those strange old vinyl thingies) cover in your hands then ever was the case with previous CD releases. The digipacks I know are not to everyone's liking, but the quality of the inserts and the printed quality of the covers are infinitely superior to ANY previous CD incarnations.
The sound is also a revelation and this from someone who has only been able to listen to the CD layer, but whether in mono or stereo this is an optimum listening experience and none more so than "12 X 5".
This album has always been something of a mixed blessing, being a compilation of various sessions and featuring the wonderfully gritty photograph of virtually back lit Stones by David Bailey, which graced the cover of their second UK album "The Stones No. 2", and like it's UK predecessor was unecumbered by any type or cover blurb whatsoever, while "12 X 5" has ... well erm "The Rolling Stones 12 X 5" plastered over it, which kinda loses a little artistic je ne c'est quois in the process. It does however include all 5 tracks from the similarly titled EP that was releasd to UK fans and was the product of their first recording session in what to the Stones in 1964 (when these tracks were laid down) must have been Mecca, when they first entered the legendary Chess studios, home to Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and a host of the other grizzled ole' bluesmen that they had been so mesmerised with.
All previous CD releases of 12 X 5 including the six Chess tracks, "12 X 5" adds "It's All Over Now" to the Chess rosta were in glorious mono. This release kicks off with "Around and Around" Keef's much beloved Chuck Berry cover, in stunning stereo. As if this isn't enough we have "If You Need Me', "Empty Heart", "Confessin' the Blues" and "It's All Over Now" in crystalline stereo and to top it all the LOOOONGGGG version of "2120 South Michigan Avenue" (Chess Studios Address) which take I've never encounted before in stereo and gives us, if popular Stones lore is correct old Muddy Waters hisself a twanging his guitar on the last few bars of this fantastic intrumental homage.
So, brothers an sisters you've got to go out and buy this and after that ... well there's; "Beggars Banquet" ( I know you've got it but this remaster you need - believe me!!!) "Aftermath" the UK version, "Hot Rocks", "More Hot Rocks" with some suprise bonus tracks, oh the list is endless - perhaps all 22 might be the way to go.
But in the meantime "12 x 5" is as good a place to start as any.
Great stuff.
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