1. It’s All Over Now, 2. I Can’t Be Satisfied, 3. If You Need Me, 4. Empty Heart, 5. 2120 South Michigan Avenue, 6. Confessin’ The Blues, 7. Around And Around, 8. Look What You’ve Done, 9. Down The Road Apiece, 10. Tell Me Baby, How Many Times, 11. Down In The Bottom, 12. Don’t Lie To Me, 13. What A Shame, 14. Time Is On My Side, 15. Heart Of Stone, 16. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, 17. The Last Time, 18. Play With Fire, 19. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, 20. Get Off Of My Cloud, 21. 19^th Nervous Breakdown, 22. Paint It, Black, 23. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby?, 24. Hi-Heel Sneakers, 25. Stewed And Keefed, 26. Looking Tired.

Just 2 years ago there was the release of the Stones In Stereo 1964-66 which prompted interest on the Stones early recordings in true stereo, here is the 2^nd press with different cover. A similar release came out digitally in the past from Ass Blaster label, but this is a real silver release presenting a collection of early stereo Stones tracks. The remarkable thing to say on this compilation is its great sound quality, balanced on all tracks with no hiss whatsoever.

Ever since 1964 in Chicago the Stones were recorded on multi tracks and some of the songs recorded for their no.2 album have even been released in stereo, while some are well known and heavily bootlegged, others are kind of unique; it must be said that for instance the songs recorded at Chess Records were all mixed in stereo and then folded down for mono release, simply true dedicated mono mixes of some songs do not exist. If You Need Me was released remastered on the In Mono box set. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love is the only stereo track sourced from vinyl, not released on cd, this being the 5 minutes plus longer version that appeared on the UK no.2 album; The Last Time that is 15 seconds shorter than the mono mix but presents a high quality recording, the Satisfaction mix here is the wider stereo one while Play with Fire has lead guitar and harpsichord on the left channel and tambourine/percussions on the right channel. Paint It Black is 20 seconds shorter in stereo rather than in mono. On 19^th Nervous Breakdown there is no distortion at the beginning, on We Love You we can here the chain clanking at the beginning going from left to right channel. E arly pressings of the ABKCO Hot Rocks CD had Heart of Stone in stereo as well as the Regent (organ intro) version of Time Is On My Side. Later pressings have a version of Heart of Stone with the first few notes in stereo albeit in much lower fidelity followed by the mono mix, as well as the Chess (guitar intro) version of Time Is On My Side in mono. The SACD Japan cds have what seems to be a new stereo remix. This is yet another nice underground compilation getting official and underground release which have the common quality of being of excellent audio quality, will it be the last one coming out?