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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | 1Route 66 |
2 | I Just Want to Make Love to You |
3 | Honest I Do |
4 | Mona (I Need You Baby) |
5 | Now I've Got a Witness |
6 | Little By Little |
7 | I'm a King Bee |
8 | Carol |
9 | Tell Me |
10 | Can I Get a Witness |
11 | You Can Make It If You Try |
12 | Walking the Dog |
Disc: 2
1 | Around and Around |
2 | Confessin' the Blues |
3 | Empty Heart |
4 | Time Is on My Side |
5 | Good Times, Bad Times |
6 | It's All Over Now |
7 | 2120 South Michigan Avenue |
8 | Under the Boardwalk |
9 | Congratulations |
10 | Grown Up Wrong |
11 | If You Need Me |
12 | Susie Q |
Disc: 3
1 | Everybody Needs Somebody to Love |
2 | Down Home Girl |
3 | You Can't Catch Me |
4 | Time Is on My Side |
5 | What a Shame |
6 | Grown Up Wrong |
7 | Down the Road Apiece |
8 | Under the Boardwalk |
9 | I Can't Be Satisfied |
10 | Pain in My Heart |
11 | Off the Hook |
12 | Suzie-Q |
Disc: 4
1 | Everybody Needs Somebody to Love |
2 | Down Home Girl |
3 | You Can't Catch Me |
4 | Heart of Stone |
5 | What a Shame |
6 | Mona (I Need You Baby) |
7 | Down the Road Apiece |
8 | Off the Hook |
9 | Pain in My Heart |
10 | Oh, Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') |
11 | Little Red Rooster |
12 | Surprise, Surprise |
Disc: 5
1 | Mercy Mercy |
2 | Hitch Hike |
3 | The Last Time |
4 | That's How Strong My Love Is |
5 | Good Times |
6 | I'm All Right |
7 | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction |
8 | Cry to Me |
9 | The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man |
10 | Play with Fire |
11 | The Spider and the Fly |
12 | One More Try |
Disc: 6
1 | She Said Yeah |
2 | Mercy Mercy |
3 | Hitch Hike |
4 | That's How Strong My Love Is |
5 | Good Times |
6 | Gotta Get Away |
7 | Talkin' 'Bout You |
8 | Cry to Me |
9 | Oh, Baby (We Got a Good Thing Going) |
10 | Heart of Stone |
11 | The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man |
12 | I'm Free |
13 | She Said Yeah |
Disc: 7
1 | Talkin' Bout You |
2 | You Better Move on |
3 | Look What You've Done |
4 | The Singer Not the Song |
5 | Route 66 |
6 | Get Off of My Cloud |
7 | I'm Free |
8 | As Tears Go By |
9 | Gotta Get Away |
10 | Blue Turns to Grey |
11 | I'm Moving on |
Disc: 8
1 | Paint It, Black |
2 | Stupid Girl |
3 | Lady Jane |
4 | Under My Thumb |
5 | Doncha Bother Me |
6 | Think |
7 | Flight 505 |
8 | High and Dry |
9 | It's Not Easy |
10 | I Am Waiting |
11 | Goin' Home |
Disc: 9
1 | Mother's Little Helper |
2 | Stupid Girl |
3 | Lady Jane |
4 | Under My Thumb |
5 | Doncha Bother Me |
6 | Goin' Home |
7 | Flight 505 |
8 | High and Dry |
9 | Out of Time |
10 | It's Not Easy |
11 | I Am Waiting |
12 | Take It or Leave It |
13 | Think |
14 | What to Do |
Disc: 10
1 | Yesterday's Papers |
2 | My Obsession |
3 | Backstreet Girl |
4 | Connection |
5 | She Smiled Sweetly |
6 | Cool, Calm and Collected |
7 | All Sold Out |
8 | Please Go Home |
9 | Who's Been Sleeping Here? |
10 | Complicated |
11 | Miss Amanda Jones |
12 | Something Happened to Me Yesterday |
Disc: 11
1 | Ruby Tuesday |
2 | Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow? |
3 | Let's Spend the Night Together |
4 | Lady Jane |
5 | Out of Time |
6 | My Girl |
7 | Backstreet Girl |
8 | Please Go Home |
9 | Mother's Little Helper |
10 | Take It or Leave It |
11 | Ride on Baby |
12 | Sittin' on a Fence |
Disc: 12
1 | Sing This All Together |
2 | Citadel |
3 | In Another Land |
4 | 2000 Man |
5 | Sing This All Together (See What Happens) |
6 | She's a Rainbow |
7 | The Lantern |
8 | Gomper |
9 | 2000 Light Years from Home |
10 | On with the Show |
Disc: 13
1 | Sympathy for the Devil |
2 | No Expectations |
3 | Dear Doctor |
4 | Parachute Woman |
5 | Jigsaw Puzzle |
6 | Street Fighting Man |
7 | Prodigal Son |
8 | Stray Cat Blues |
9 | Factory Girl |
10 | Salt of the Earth |
Disc: 14
1 | Gimme Shelter |
2 | Love in Vain |
3 | Country Honk |
4 | Live with Me |
5 | Let It Bleed |
6 | Midnight Rambler |
7 | You Got the Silver |
8 | Monkey Man |
9 | You Can't Always Get What You Want |
Disc: 15
1 | Come on |
2 | I Want to Be Loved |
3 | I Wanna Be Your Man |
4 | Stoned |
5 | Fortune Teller |
6 | Poison Ivy |
7 | Bye Bye Johnny |
8 | Money |
9 | Poison Ivy (Verison 2) |
10 | Not Fade Away |
11 | I've Been Loving You Too Long |
12 | The Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man (Single Version) |
Disc: 16
1 | 19th Nervous Breakdown |
2 | Sad Day |
3 | Con Le Mile Lacrime (As Tears Go By) |
4 | Long, Long While |
5 | Who's Driving Your Plane? |
6 | We Love You |
7 | Dandelion |
8 | Child of the Moon |
9 | Jumpin' Jack Flash |
10 | Street Fighting Man |
11 | Honky Tonk Women |
12 | You Can't Always Get What You Want (Single Version) |
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The Rolling Stones In Mono (Limited Color Edition) features the entirety of the band's 1960s studio output with each LP pressed in a different color. Featuring 14 original mono albums, including U.K. and U.S. versions of Out Of Our Heads and Aftermath. Also included is the Stray Cats collection which incorporates every 1960s non-album track on 2 LPs and a 48-page booklet with an essay by David Fricke. Limited Edition, numbered 16 LP boxset on 180-gram vinyl.
Product details
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 14.76 x 14.17 x 6.5 inches; 10.4 ounces
- Manufacturer : ABKCO
- Original Release Date : 2023
- Date First Available : November 14, 2022
- Label : ABKCO
- ASIN : B0B4BVP93L
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,689 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,297 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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I got lucky, because my set arrived with the records and packaging in excellent condition.
THE PACKAGING: The 16 albums/17 L.P.'s are housed in a reasonably sturdy outer box; not as sturdy as the two Beatles vinyl boxes, but acceptable. a large,folded flap folds over the top then covers the entirety of the box's front, where it is held in place by a magnetic clasp. Therefore, when picking up this boxed set, grab it by the bottom and rear. Grabbing the set by the front will cause the front flap to pull loose from the magnetic clasp. The album covers are well printed with an attractive,glossy finish on both front and back. Be cautioned that they don't have the cellophane lamination of the original UK 1960's edition. There is no longer any print house capable to manufacturing the celleophane laminated covers. ABKCO has licensed the use of the "London" & British "Decca" names for the labels of these records, but not for use on the album covers, which is OK with me. The album covers are reasonable, but not exact reproductions of the original artwork. Since the original black vinyl edition of this boxed set,which featured pale, severely cropped artwork images for "Aftermath(UK)" and "Their Satanic Majesties Request", ABKCO has found much better, uncropped artwork images and they are used in this set, though "Their Satanic Majesties Request" lacks the 3-D "Lenticular" image found on the original release, and the red "Smoked" inner sleeve. All of the albums in this set feature white hard card inner sleeves, except "Let It Bleed" which has a red printed inner sleeve similar to that found in the original. I know many people would have prefered poly lined inner sleeves.
THE PRESSINGS: All of the grooves were on center, and excepting a few ticks in the song "Ruby Tuesday", the surfaces were dead quiet. As for warps, 15 of the 17 records were flat, but the 2-L.P. "Stray Cats" did have some mild warpage, but they weren't dish warps and had no audible effect on playback. I know that some "Audiophiles" think that color vinyl means higher surface noise or inferior sound, but that is not true, and I would know, I started collecting vinyl in 1968. I would know. There is also the issue of analog mastered vinyl(such as The Beatles in Mono box) versus the DSD Digital mastering used in this Stones box. For most of these songs, it makes no difference, but the place where a difference is on some of the most primitively recorded songs here, digital mastering does sound different when reproducing distortions found in the original recordings. Digitally reproduced distortion is an oxymoron, but since neither you nor I have ever listened to the original master tapes, we can't be sure if DSD's reproductions of these distortion(as on the song "She Said Yeah") are actually closer to how the tapes actually sound.
UK/U.S.A. album differences: As with the 1964-1966 Beatles albums, there differences between the Uk & U.S.A. versions of the albums, but unlike The Beatles, who had no control over the song contents of the American albums, The Stones had indirect control over the contents of their U.S.A. album, which were compiled by their producer Andrew Loog Oldham. As with Capitol's U.s.A. Beatles albums, the Rolling Stones albums, they reflected the U.S.A. music biz view that the inclusion of the recent hit singles helped sell the albums. Capitol cut UK Beatles albums down to 11 songs (versus the 14 songs UK album), to save money on song publishing royalties, but this issue was usually nopt a factor in compiling U.S.A. Stones albums, since only one UK 1960's Stones album ('Aftermath(UK)") had 14 songs. Also, The U.S.A.(where albums cost less than in the UK) would support albums more, so the U.S.A-only albums could be created using non-L.P. UK Singles, E.P. tracks, and, in a number of cases, songs that would not see UK release until after The Stones left Decca & London.
THE ALBUMS:
"The Rolling Stones"(debut album)
(This is essentially the same as the U.S.A. album "Englands' Newest Hitmakers" but with "Mona" instead of "Not Fade Away")
12 x 5
(ABKCO considers this to be the group's 2nd album, since it was released 2 seasons before the group's second UK album. The five Chess Studio tracks released in England on the E.P. "5 x 5" are combined with some fairly primitively recorded tracks from Regent Sound and a few tracks that would not get released in England in the 1960's, includding an early inferior version of "Time is On My Side". By the way, when fitting 3 songs on one side of a 45RPM E.P., "2120 s.Michigan Ave" was faded out one mintue early, and, by mistake that shortened version was used on the original" "12 x 5" album. Here ABKCO wisely uses the uncut original on this record.)
"The Rolling Stones No.2"
(The group's 2nd UK album, using some songs from "12 x 5" and adding some previously unreleased selections)
"The Rolling Stones Now"
(The group's 3rd American album, providing the U.S.A. debut for most of the tracks that debuted on "The Rolling Stones No.2", plus singles tracks and a few tracks that were not at the time released in the UK, such as "Surprise,Surprise". By mistake this album opens with a rough demo of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". It was a record company error. The superior RCA/Hollywood version can be heard on "The Rolling Stones No.2")
"Out of Our Heads(UK)"
"Out of Our Heads(U.S.A.)
"Decembers Chidren (and Everybody's)"
("Out of Our Heads(UK) was the group's 3rd UK album, and a great album it was. Through the addition of hit singles, E.P. tracks and tracks that weren't released in the UK, this material was stretched out into two albums in the U.S.A.)
"Aftermath(UK)"
"Aftermath(U.S.A.)
(in this case, where the Uk album had 14 track, songs had to be dropped in the U.S.A., so "Out of Time", "Take it or Leave It" and the forgettable, bland "What To Do" were dropped, and the non-L.P. Uk single "Paint It Black" was added.
"Between The Buttons"(UK)
(This version of of "Between The Buttons" has "Please Go Home" & "Backstreet Girl". I would have much prefered the U.S.A. album, which featured "Ruby Tuesday" & "Let's Spend The Night Together". Besides the two songs exclusive to the UK "Between The Buttons" appear on "Flowers")
"Flowers"
"London Records" was impatient for new Stones product, so Andrew Loof Oldham compiled "Flowers" a sort of "Rolling Stones" equivalen of The Beatles' "Yesterday and Today", combining recent hit sings,songs that had been dropped from the U.S.A. versions of "Aftermath and "Between The Buttons" and some previously unreleased tracks such as "Sitting on a Fence", "My Girl" & "Ride on Baby". The version of "Out of Time" heard on "Flowers has been edited down approximately 2 minutes shorter than the version that appeared on :"Aftermath(UK)"
"Their Satanic Majesties Request"
(The Stones' attempt at Flower Power Psychedelia, some songs have stood the test of time, while others haven't. You'l not that in this set, generally, Albums that were exclusive to the Uk or were identical worldwide have been pressed with "Decca" labels, whilke U.S.A. albums have been pressed with "London" labels, so you may ask, why is "Their Satanic Majesties Request" been pressed with "London" labels. This is the reason why. The Uk mono L.P. of this album was a fold-down, but London Records in the U.S.A.. released a dedicated mono mix.For ABKCO to put "London Records" labels on this record is ABKCO's was of saying to the fans, "Yes fans, we know. We are giving you the real dedicated mono mix")
"Beggars Banquet"
(This mono version is mostly a fold-down, Except "Sympathy For The Deiveil", which is a dedicated mono mix. Why was a dedicated mono mix created for "Sympathy For the Devil"? Because, when Olympic Studios engineers tried to fold down the stereo mix of 'Sympathy For The Devil", there were phase issues, which caused some of the instruments to disappear.
"Let It Bleed"
(A fold-down of the stereo mix. This is supposedly being included in this set, for the sake of completeness or by public demand)
"Stray Cats"
(a 2 L.P. compilation, similar in concept to the "Mono Masters" collection in The Beatles' mono vinyl box.
This combines non-L.P. a-sides & B-sides and E.P. tracks. I heard something odd on "Honky Tonk Women", which causes Mick Taylor's guitar solo to be barely audible, as if it it has been copied from one channel of a stereo mix. All of the other tracks on this 2 L.P. set sound correct.
You'll note that the U.S.A. live album "Got Live if You Want It" is not included in the set, though a few of the songs from the live UK EP(coincidentally also titled "Got Live If You Want It") appear on "Decembers's Children" and "Out of Our Heads(U.S.A.)
So is this set the complete works of the studio tracks released in mono between 1963-1969? Almost, There was a alternate version of "Tell Me(You're Coming Back)" accidentally included with the first UK pressing of the group's debut album....for the first 2 weeks that the album was sold. Yes, it's inferior to the correct version. I'm not sure that ABKCO can legally reissue it.
Two more things, The reproduction of the photo used on the covers of "12 x 5" & "The Rolling Stones No.2" is poorly reproduced and makes The Stones look severely sunburned. And it would have been nice if the informative and attractive book of photos and liner notes had been a hardback book, because the type of glossy paper used becomes visibly creased very easily.
Overall, quite an enjoyable set.
As far as the Rolling Stones in Mono goes it ROCKS!! All of these albums are crystal clear, and LOUD (which is a key element in Mono due to it naturally being quieter than stereo).
I also have the 2002 Remastered versions of these albums – but they would put stereo versions of songs that sound GREAT and mix them in to mono albums… making them very uneven to listen to! I couldn’t hardly listen to that version of “12 X 5” because it would have 2 or 3 quiet mono songs, then a Loud (albeit perfect) stereo recording of another song, then right back to quiet mono again – which had me turning the volume constantly up and down! The same went for most of the 2002 Remasters.
But now these are all straight sounding and even in a great Mono sound! "12 X 5" sounds 100 times better than the 2002 version… particularly “Good Times, Bad Times” – the glitches and bad sound quality of that one is gone – it sounds PERFECT now!! The rest of these albums sound fantastic as well… wish they could’ve included “Got Live If You Want It” but other than that I have no issues with the releases. Some reviewers are taken back by Abkco including both the UK and US versions of some of these titles, but I think it’s really cool to have both! We get to hear them as the UK heard them back in the day… and we get to see the similarities and differences in the track listings and album covers of both versions!
Now with the good always comes the bad! The packaging of these is not very good! My CDs, while new, came with some little dusty-type particles that look like pencil eraser shavings on them. This was also on/inside the main box, so be on guard for that if you get this. The album sleeves look really cool and have a nice gloss on them, but the CDs are loose in there and can fall out very easily! I had some paper CD sleeves that I put mine in and thankfully they could still fit inside the album cover sleeve! For the price we pay for these box sets, you'd think they'd be put together better and have individual sleeves included like on Bob Dylan and The Beatles box sets!
But I’m happy to say the good more than outweighs the bad on this set! This is the best sounding I’ve ever heard the Rolling Stones early albums in the 60’s! I also love the fact that we get the single, unedited version of “Promo Man” on the “Stray Cats” CD! 1960’s censorship was pretty strict, not allowing the word a** to be heard! LOL!
I will say though if you want the best listening experience of “Beggar’s Banquet” and “Let It Bleed” I would suggest the 2002 Stereo Remasters of those, since those come across better in stereo – but they’re still lots of fun in Mono!
I recommend this to any Rolling Stones fan or any fan of music in general as this stuff is priceless (along with Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Johnny Cash 60’s albums) and would fit in anybody’s music library!
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You can't and shouldn't compare the quality of recordings made in the 1960's with todays standard. If you are willing to forgive that and you love the Stones this is a must have.
The box set itself exceeds expectations and I recommend the “Andrew from Polygram” video on YouTube which is 100% accurate.
Reviewed in Italy on April 17, 2023