The Rollingstones' Greatest Hits album "Forty-Licks"

[ODShowtime]

40 licks is a good party CD. LOTS of good tunes, and for the first time stuff from the Stones' different record companies on one disc.

Remixing is a lot different than remastering. It takes a lot longer and is more expensive. And the end product could be MUCH different.

[Big Train]

For example when they remixed "night at the opera
in SACD, they went back and TOTALLY remixed it to make use of all the extra spectrum available. Wasn't cheap..

[Terry]

Originally posted by DLR7884
Don't forget Tatoo You....

DLR7884
I personally think the 2nd half of that album is outstanding.

Pretty decent album all the way around.

Post-Exile, 'bout the only Stones stuff worth a damn are selected heads off of Goats Head Soup, Some Girls and Tattoo You.

[academic punk]

Originally posted by Terry
Pretty decent album all the way around.

Post-Exile, 'bout the only Stones stuff worth a damn are selected heads off of Goats Head Soup, Some Girls and Tattoo You.

There's plenty of good stuff to be ofund on all Stones albums post-Exile - they just never got close to the kind of consistency their albums contained from Beggars through Exile.

Off to the top of my head (particular faves are in CAPS):

GH:
Winter
Coming Down Again

IORR:
It's Only Rock'n'Roll
Till The Next Goodbye
FINGERPRINT FILE

BnB:
Crazy Mama
Fool to Cry
MELODY

SG:
Just My Imagination
Some Girls
RESPECTABLE
BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN
BEAST OF BURDEN
SHATTERED

ER:
SEND IT TO ME
SHE'S SO COLD
ALL ABOUT YOU
(when this album i good, it's great. When it's bad, it's reeeeeeal bad)

TY:
ALL OF IT

U:
Pretty Beat Up
Too Much Blood
Tie You Up

Dirty Work:
One Hit
Had It With You
Sleep Tonight

Steel Wheels:
Slipping Away

Voodoo Lounge:
Love is Strong
The Worst
New Faces
Out of Tears
THRU AND THRU

BtB:
(Good album, consistent, but no real standout tracks at all)

[academic punk]

Also, BOTH Keith solo albums are worth the money, especially Main Offender (Talk Is Cheap has the better songs, Main Offender the band sounds tighter and more enthusiastic).

[Terry]

Post-Exile, the Stones have been notoriously dodgy, far as my ears are concerned, and they shot what was left of their creative wad in the early 1980s.

There's no denying, for me, that the Stones were a colossal rock band, but their best years are over 20 years behind them. Can't really blame them; no group sustains that level of brilliance forever.

Some Girls and Tattoo You excepted, there are a couple of good tracks on every post-Exile release, but none of those records are essential Stones from start to finish.

They were all done by the time Undercover came out.