Disc One: 1. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #1), 2. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #2), 3. Breakin’, 4. Breakin’, 5. Make It Now, 6. Unknown (Keith’s Idea #1), 7. Not Enough, 8. Not Enough, 9. Unknown (Keith’s Idea #2), 10. Unknown (Keith’s Idea #3a), 12. Unknown (Keith’s Idea #3b), 12. You Got Away With Murder, 13. Not Enough, 14. Not Enough, 15. It’s Funny, 16. Glimmer Twins Boogie, 17. Why You Runnin’, 18. Why You Runnin’, 19. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #3a), 20. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #3b), 21. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #3b), 22. Look Out Baby, 23. Look Out Baby.

Disc Two: 1. I’m Fallin’, 2. I’m Fallin’, 3. I’m Fallin’, 4. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #4a), 5. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #4b), 6. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #4c), 7. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #4d), 8. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #5a), 9. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #5b), 10. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #5c), 11. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #5d), 12. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #6a), 13. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #6b), 14. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #7), 15. Anything For You, 16. Anything For You, 17. Anything For You, 18. Anything For You, 19. Anything For You, 20. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #8a), 21. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #8b), 22. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #8c), 23. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #8d).

Disc Three: 1. Unknown (Riff Resembling Monkey Man), 2. Unknown (Riff Resembling Sex Drive), 3. He Loves You So, 4. He Loves You So, 5. He Loves You So, 6. Unknown (Short Improvisation), 7. My Love Is My Love, 8. Disposition Boogie, 9. Randy Whore, 10. Randy Whore, 11. Randy Whore, 12. Alteration Boogie, 13. Unknown (Keith’s Idea #4), 14. Get Your Hands Off, 15. Get Your Hands Off, 16. Thru And Thru.

Disc Four: 1. Thru And Thru, 2. Make It Now, 3. Make It Now, 4. Slips Away, 5. Slips Away, 6. Slips Away, 7. Studio Talk, 8. Slips Away, 9. 32-20 Blues, 10. Slips Away, 11. Slips Away, 12. Unknown (Blues Improvisation), 13. Unknown (Keith’s Idea #5), 14. Unknown (Band Instrumental #1a), 15. Unknown (Band Instrumental #1b), 16. Unknown (Band Instrumental #1c), 17. Goodbye To Love, 18. Studio Talk, 19. It’s Funny, 20. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #9a), 21. Unknown (Mick’s Idea #10),, 22. Unknown (Band Instrumental #2), 23. Unknown (Band Instrumental #3), 24. I’m Fallin’.

This release which has no observable label number is a copy of StonyRoad-Glimmerman Prod. 01-04 Voodoo Lounge songwriting sessions which came out in early September 2021 on IORR message board and presented newly discovered demos and outtakes from the preparing sessions for Voodoo Lounge, in the words of the original uploader: “Over 20 years ago Glimmerman was contacted to write the liner notes and select the songs for what became Voodoo Residue and for this task he received 4 one hour tapes, which are those whose content is here reviewed. Here are incomplete songs, songwriting in progress which clearly show the process of creating a song the Stones way; many songs are abruptly interrupted, fragments at times with saturated sounds, other have flaws and digital noises. The editing process was complex but no filter was used (differently from Vigotone label) to reduce the background noise; moreover, it was decided not to give these excerpts any name in many instances, that is why many are called unknown, but with some of their characteristics in brackets; some of the titles provided on Voodoo Residue are not confirmed or just refer to certain vocals or lyrics, something Keith described as vowel movements”. Now since these were posted with 2 discs for each volume, meaning the original untouched cassette and the reworked one, this is the explanation for the letters that often comes after numbers (unknown-Mick Idea’s # 1b etc.). The sound output is excellent with great stereo separation, at times excessive saturation shows up though.

Disc One begins with Jagger humming a melody to a guitar (Mick’s Idea #1) with the next one that has additional keyboards and electronic drums, Richards is on bass. On Breakin’ they both sing to guitar and keyboards on the first tale while the second is instrumental, like Make It Now, this time Jagger on bass. On Unknown (Keith’s Idea #1) there is Keith at the keyboards and a guitar; on Not Enough #1 Keith is on vocals and guitar while Jagger is on drums and bass: this is what Mick calls jazz rock. You Got Away With Murder they both sing together and play guitar, on Not Enough #3 Keith is on guitar and Jagger handclapping, while they are both on guitar on Glimmer Twins Boogie. Why You Runnin’ has Jagger on vocals and guitar with electronic drums, on Mick’s Idea #3c Keith is on additional bass, on Look Out Baby #1 Mick is on keyboards while on #2 there are additional electronic drums, at the beginning it reminds Continental Drift.  

Obviously, many of these were not in the Voodoo Residue set, but some of these ideas were already put out, for instance Breakin’ was tried by Keith Richards in April-June 1985 and in August-September 1987; also, it sounds evident that Keith dislikes the drums machine, as well as synthesizer, but judging from his laughters the atmosphere in the studio was quite relaxed.    

Disc Two starts with I’m Fallin’ that features Jagger on vocals and keys, while on Mick’s Idea versions he is on guitar except for #5 where he is joined by Keith on bass; there are many takes of Mick’s Idea where it is evident his search for a melody that would bind together some riffs, but no attempt seems to succeed; this is a reprise of In Your Hand from the Undercover sessions. Anything For You has Richards on piano and vocals, Jagger on additional vocals.

Disc Three see the arrival of Charlie Watts on April 30^th, starting with an instrumental that has bits of Monkey Man (but there are still programmed percussions), which is interesting; the next one has parts that remind Sex Drive with Keith on keys and that was called Monsoon Rangoon on Voodoo Stew. On He Loves You So Richards is back on guitar, this has an interesting melody that should have been developed more. Just Charlie and Keith are on Unknown #6. My Love Is My Love is an eight minutes long jam which at the beginning seems the starts of Jiving Sister Fanny, here there is Richards on guitar, Watts on drums and Jagger on keys, like on Randy Whore. Alteration Boogie is named so at song’s end (by Richards or Jagger?), while Jagger can be heard talking in the background; just Keith on guitar and vocals and Charlie on drums on Keith’s Idea #4, the three of them are instead all present on Get Your Hands Off, while only Richards plays on Thru And Thru.

The last disc begins with another take of Thru And Thru followed by Make It Now that has Richards on keys and Jagger on bass on the first take while Jagger on guitar on the second. Slips Away is a Keith solo effort a typical ballad where he tries to sort out some significant riff. Interesting are the Band instrumentals that have Jagger on guitar, Richards on bass. Goodbye To Love is a cover of the Marcel song which has all members return to their main instrument, Richards on guitar and Jagger on vocals and Watts on drums. It’s Funny (aka Fragile) is the same song Jagger gave to Carly Simon, a tune that features Jagger on bass, Richards on vocals and guitar, Mick’s Idea #9 sees the return of Jagger on keys while #10 has him on guitar and Richards on keys like on Band Instrumental #2 but here Jagger plays also some keys. Band Instrumental #3 and I Am Fallin’ feature just Jagger on guitar and Watts on drums.

It must have been a terribly exhausting job to de-click all these takes, but the end product is really worth it, too bad we don’t get stuff like this from other Stones sessions.

Packaging is nice with a booklet that presents all track listings, however the times given for each disc are wrong.