ROLLING STONES
- CD
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY REVISITED
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DAC 194 |
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Disc One, Track 1: Curly Clayton St. London 27 Oct.62 (from Chris Jagger BBC radio bc 2006) , Tracks 3-6: IBC Studios, Portland Place London 11 March 63, Tracks 7-9: Maida Vale St. London 23 Sept.63, Track 10: De Lane Lea St. Holborn, London 14 Nov.63, Track 11: De Lane Lea St. Holborn, London 20 Nov.63, Tracks 12, 13: De Lane Lea St. Holborn, London 20-21 Nov.63, Track 14: Regent St. London 10 Jan. 64, Track 15: Regent St. London 4 Febr.64, Track 16: Pye St. London 6 Febr. 64, Tracks 17,18: Regent St. London 13 Febr. 64, Track 19: Regent St. London 24 Febr. 64, Track 20: De Lane Lea St. Holborn, London 11 Mar. 64, Track 21: Radio Luxembourg St. London 18 March 64, Track 22: Maida Vale St. London 13 Apr.64, Track 23: Chess St. Chicago 10 June 64, Tracks 4-27: Chess St. Chicago 11 June 64, Tracks 28,29: BBC Broadcasting House, London 17 July 64, Track 30: Pye St. & Decca St. London 31 Aug.-1 Sept. 64, Track 31: Regent St. London 21-23 July 64. Disc Two, Tracks 1,2,4: Regent St. London 31 Aug.- 4 Sept. 64, Track 3: IBC St. London 31 Aug.- 2 Sept. 64, Tracks 5,6: Regent St. London 28 Sept. 64, Tracks 7,8: RCA St. Hollywood 2 Nov.64, Tracks 9-11: Chess St. Chicago 8 Nov.64, Track 12: ABC Theatre, Belfast 6 Jan, 65, Tracks 13: RCA St. Hollywood 17,18 Jan. & 17 Feb. 65, Track 14: Decca St. London Febr. 65, Track 15: Chess St. Chicago: 10 May 65, Tracks 16,17: RCA St. Hollywood 17,18 Jan. 65 & 11,12 May 65, Track 18: RCA St. Hollywood 5 Sept.65, Track 19: RCA St. Hollywood 6 Sept. 65, Tracks 20, 21: RCA St. Hollywood 2-10 Sept.65, Track 22, 23: RCA St. Hollywood 3-11 Aug. 66, Track 24: RCA St. Hollywood 31 Aug.- 2 Sept. 66, Tracks 25, 26: Olympic St. London 8-26 Nov.66. |
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2 cd |
RUNNING TIME: |
78.40/79.31 |
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Soundboard mono except for Disc One Track 27 and Disc Two, Tracks 7,8,13,17,18,20,21,24: Soundboard stereo |
PACKAGING: |
Double Slimline Jewel case |
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SOUND 9.5 / PACKAGING 10
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TRACK LIST: |
Disc One: 1.
You Can t Judge A Book By The Cover, 2. Diddley Daddy, 3. Roadrunner, 4. Bright
Lights, Big City, 5. I Want To Be Loved, 6. Baby What’s Wrong, 7. Come On, 8. Memphis,
Tennessee, 9. Roll Over Beethoven, 10. Go Home Girl, 11. My Only Girl, 12.
Leave Me Alone, 13. It Should Be You, 14. Not Fade Away, 15. Andrew s Blues, 16.
Kellog’s Rice Krispies, 17. Try A Little Harder, 18. Some Things Just Stick In
Your Mind, 19. Tell Me, 20. As Times Goes By, 21. Reelin’And Rockin’, 22. Beautiful
Delilah, 23. Stewed And Keefed, 24. Hi Heel Sneakers, 25. Tell Me Baby, 26. Down
In The Bottom, 27. Look What You Done, 28. Around And Around, 29. I Can’t Be
Satisfied, 30. Each And Everyday Of The Year, 31. Heart Of Stone.
Disc Two: 1.
Blue Turns To Grey, 2. We’re Wastin’ Time, 3. Hear It, 4. (Walking Through The)
Sleepy City, 5. Susie Q, 6. We Were Falling In Love, 7. Everybody Needs
Somebody To Love, 8. Heart Of Stone, 9. Mercy Mercy, 10. Key To The Highway, 11.
Goodbye Girl, 12. Little Red Rooster, 13. The Last Time, 14. I’d Much Rather Be
With The Boys, 15. Try Me, 16. Satisfaction, 17. Satisfaction, 18. Get Off My
Cloud, 19. Looking Tired, 20. 19th Nervous Breakdown, 21. 19th
Nervous Breakdown, 22. Have You Seen Your Mother, 23. Let’s Spend The Night
Together, 24. Have You Seen Your Mother, 25. Get Yourself Together, 26. Trouble
In Mind.
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REVIEW: |
This
release presents a classic Stones compilation which came out at first in 1973
on a bootleg vinyl from Trade Mark od Quality (71075) the followed by many
other reprints (Box Top Records, TMQ 541 A/B, TSP 010, BLBC 304213, K&S
Records, Berkley Records and finally TAKRL 2013-01 in colored vinyl); on
compact The Swinging Pig released it first with added tracks Pain in My Heart
and Route 66 from 5,18 March 65 BBC broadcast (TSP 010) soon reissued as TSP BLBC
in 1989, then in 1999 came out another version (Dandelion 99-100) which added
other broadcasts like the NME Express 64 & 65, TAMI show etc. followed by
TMQ 541 a Japan transfer of the vinyl album and finally in 2002 another 2 discs
set from Japan main label (VGP 307) which also included the 1972 Montreux
rehearsal tracks as well as some different Chess tracks. This version however
provides some better sounding tracks and we can easily call this the definitive
version of this title, offering 57 songs all digitally remastered, de-clicked
and speed corrected; another nice thing of this compilation is that each track
is in chronological order; add to that the fact that packaging is quite nice
with great photos and detailed and correct tracks sources. Let’s start from
Disc One, whose first track is the famous 1962 cover that was broadcasted by
Chris Jagger for the very first time, this track has Tony Chapman on drums and
possibly Dick Taylor on bass; most of the times this song has been released it
consisted of about 30 seconds having been cut off some seconds to eliminate spoken
words; here there is still consistent acetate noise, but whole 40 seconds of it
can be heard without problems. Next come the famous IBC demos which have been
officially released on the vinyl part of Grrrr compilation, here we can dig the
whole 5 tracks without the noise coming from the poor transfer from vinyl, but
coming from a tape where they all sound much clearer. There is a rumour that
the original tape comes from Brian Jones estate; another thing to notice is the
speed correction at the beginning of Diddley Daddy, as well as the second
chorus of Bright Light Big City that used to suffer a drop in the high frequencies
that has been fixed. Next are 3 tracks from Saturday Club, Come On was also
present in the official 2017 compilation On Air where the first bass note was
lacking in the intro; this version is complete although in mono. Good sounding are
also Memphis, Tennessee and Roll Over Beethoven, so much so that it is possible
to think they may come from a real BBC recording and not recorded off air by a
fan; Go On Home Girl is excellent sounding like My Only Girl which is the
Stones version of That Girl Belongs To Yesterday, the song given to Gene Pitney
that is followed by 2 more Stones demos intended for Doug Gibbons and George
Bean. Not Fade Away too has been speed corrected. The famous Rice Krispies
jingle seems to come from the video but there is less hiss than usual. The two following
tracks are the band versions of tracks that appeared on Metamorphosis, but here
with no strings and Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind has double counting at
the beg1inning. Tell Me is the different take that was on some versions of the
first album intended for the Scandinavian countries while As Times Goes By
sounds much clearer here than on previous releases which also began with a fade
in, but not in this case.
Next is
Reelin’ and Rockin’, a track that was supposed to come from Chess Studios when
first released: contrary to the track available so far, the intro is present
here and the sound is better. This is said to come from a Radio Luxembourg
session (an acetate is said to be in possession of Bill Wyman) too bad only
this track has surfaced so far out of the 14 recorded. Unfortunately, there is
no such acetate available in the forthcoming Julien’s Auction. Beautiful Delilah
does not sound much better than the On Air version, but here there is the intro
with announcer’s words that was cut off there. Chess Studios 64 tracks come
next from a mono acetate which offer a deeper sound with no cuts at the
beginning, although not in stereo except for Look What You’ve Done, as have
been released in the past, is it possible that the acetate owner released them
in mono, instead of stereo as they should sound? If so we can expect a further
upgrade sometime in the future. Disc One ends with the first version of Heart of
Stone recorded with John McLaughlin or Jimmy Page on guitar, but no pedal steel
and different backing vocals. Disc Two begins with Blue Turns To Grey followed
by more Metamorphosis tracks without overdubs, Hear It (originally called It’s
Quite Here At Home) begins with count in; Susie Q has a banter intro and said
to come from a cleaned up acetate, while Everybody Needs Somebody To Love is in
stereo with a greater separation than what used to be and a different mix. Heart
Of Stone presents another stereo mix where the rhythm guitar previously inaudible
can be heard. Next come some more tracks from Chicago November 64 sounding
great and cleaner than before. Little Red Rooster is a strange beast, it is a
rehearsal from the ABC Theatre in Belfast 65 taken from the video that is
available on YouTube, broadcasted on Six Five by Northern Ireland UTV. Then
comes a stereo mix of The Last Time that features better high frequencies than before.
Try Me is the James Brown song covered by the band at Chess Studios, a song
that had not appeared a lot in physical form, just on The Complete Chess Studio
Sessions (WLR NF 64) 4 cd, followed by 2 versions of Satisfaction, the first is
the mono backing track but with much less hiss than before, the second one, as
well as Get Off Of My Cloud, is the real stereo mix that appeared on the first
version of Hot Rocks. Looking Tired is here in mono but in an improved shape,
much clearer than before and is possible to dig the excellent piano played by
Ian Stewart. Two version of 19th Nervous Breakdown follow, both are
stereo with the first that has different vocals and the second sounding much
clearer. Have You Seen Your Mother starts with a piano and Jagger’s vocals while
Let’s Spend The Night Together is the backing track with the chorus that has no
wobbles with regards to the previously available take. The next version of Have
You Seen Your Mother shown is in stereo with a much cleaner sound, just like Get
Yourself Together (a.k.a. I Can See It) that follows. Finally, Trouble In Mind
that was the b-side of Tell Me, offered as bonus 7” with the 1991 copies of the
Weissbuch, features and instrumental played with a kazoo from a rare acetate in
the best sounding version. Over 2 hours and a half of nice sounding music,
restored with the best possible sources are what are housed in this great double
set which will undoubtedly become the reference for any new early Stones
release.
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