More of the Music of The Rolling Stones
This LP has the British track listing, so don’t pick this one up if you’re looking for great sounding versions of Let’s Spend The Night Together or Ruby Tuesday. A bummer, but the domestic copies sound AWFUL, so what can you do?
Also, the early UK Decca label pressings have never impressed us.
Congested and compressed, with no real top, who in his right mind could possibly tolerate that kind of sound nowadays?
The early Deccas might be passable on an old school system, but they are too unpleasant to be played on the high quality modern equipment we use.
Want to find your own top quality copy?
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice concerning the pressings that tend to win our shootouts.
Side One
Yesterday’s Papers
My Obsession
Back Streets Girl
Connection
She Smiled Sweetly
Cool, Calm & Collected
Side Two
All Sold Out
Please Go Home
Who’s Been Sleeping Here?
Complicated
Miss Amanda Jones
Something Happened to Me Yesterday
Further Reading
- New to the Blog? Start here
- My stereo (and thoughts on equipment)
- Important lessons we learned from record experiments
Considering many of the Jones-era singles tracks only appeared on compilations, I wonder if a title like Through The Past, Darkly is a valid candidate for the shootout treatment.
Austin,
A good idea. We last sold a copy of the album – the review is on the blog – in 2010 and liked the sound at time. We will get a some copies in and see how they sound to us now in 2024.
Thanks for the tip.
TP