The Rolling Stones - GRRR! 5CD Super Deluxe (2012, FLAC) 88

The Rolling Stones
GRRR! (2012)
5CD Super Deluxe Edition
FLAC LOSSLESS 16Bit-44.1kHz



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https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002423573#review

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Graced with cover art of a grotesque gorilla sporting the Stones' trademark leering lips, GRRR! doesn't quite have the classy veneer usually associated with a 50th anniversary collection. Frankly, that's a good sign for the Rolling Stones: they're celebrating their half-century together but refusing to take themselves too seriously, even when they're assembling a mammoth retrospective that's available in three different incarnations. Each chronicles the Stones' story beginning with their first single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On," to a pair of good new recordings (a loose-limbed rocker called "Doom and Gloom" and the poppier "One More Shot"). Neither the standard triple-disc version, a budget two-disc version, or the super deluxe four-disc set -- which has the added bonus of a disc of the band's Chess Records-heavy demos for IBC in 1963, a significant enticement to make the investment (there's also a bonus 7" EP of a 1964 BBC session) -- has all of the singles or significant songs the Stones have released over the course of five decades, but both do an excellent job of providing a thorough overview of a monumental career. Of these, three-CD set offers fewer surprises, marching steadily through the years and serving up the songs you know by heart, supplemented by just enough of the best latter-day material to make a convincing argument that the Stones retained their power. As it has more room to roam, the four-disc Super Deluxe is quirkier and offers a better illustration of the band's range, digging deeper into the band's late-'60s psychedelia ("Dandelion," "Child of the Moon"), emphasizing country-rock ("You Got the Silver," "Salt of the Earth"), disco ("Dance, Pt. 1"), and does a tremendous job in editing the band's third act so their enduring craftsmanship shines through. Again, it's easy to name great songs that are missing, but what's here is sublime, some of the best rock & roll ever made, and the best overall Stones comp to date.



Tracklist:

1-1 Come On
1-2 I Wanna Be Your Man
1-3 Not Fade Away
1-4 That's How Strong My Love Is
1-5 It's All Over Now
1-6 Little Red Rooster
1-7 The Last Time
1-8 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
1-9 Heart Of Stone
1-10 Get Off Of My Cloud
1-11 She Said Yeah
1-12 I'm Free
1-13 Play With Fire
1-14 Time Is On My Side
1-15 19th Nervous Breakdown
1-16 Paint It, Black
1-17 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
1-18 She's A Rainbow
1-19 Under My Thumb
1-20 Out Of Time
1-21 As Tears Go By
2-1 Let's Spend The Night Together
2-2 Mother's Little Helper
2-3 We Love You
2-4 Dandelion
2-5 Lady Jane
2-6 Flight 505
2-7 2000 Light Years From Home
2-8 Ruby Tuesday
2-9 Jumpin' Jack Flash
2-10 Sympathy For The Devil
2-11 Child Of The Moon (R M K)
2-12 Salt Of The Earth
2-13 Honky Tonk Woman
2-14 Midnight Rambler
2-15 Gimme Shelter
2-16 You Got The Silver
2-17 You Can't Always Get What You Want
2-18 Street Fightin" Man
2-19 Wild Horses
3-1 Brown Sugar
3-2 Bitch
3-3 Tumblin" Dice
3-4 Rocks Off
3-5 Happy
3-6 Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
3-7 Angie
3-8 It's Only Rock 'N' Roll
3-9 Dance Little Sister
3-10 Fool To Cry
3-11 Respectable
3-12 Miss You
3-13 Shattered
3-14 Far Away Eyes
3-15 Beast Of Burden
3-16 Emotional Rescue
3-17 Dance (Pt. 1)
3-18 She's So Cold
3-19 Waiting On A Friend
3-20 Neighbours
4-1 Start Me Up
4-2 Undercover Of The Night
4-3 She Was Hot
4-4 Harlem Shuffle
4-5 Mixed Emotions
4-6 Highwire
4-7 Almost Hear You Sigh
4-8 You Got Me Rockin'
4-9 Love Is Strong
4-10 I Go Wild
4-11 Like A Rolling Stone
4-12 Anybody Seen My Baby?
4-13 Saint Of Me
4-14 Don't Stop
4-15 Rough Justice
4-16 Rain Fall Down
4-17 Streets Of Love
4-18 Plundered My Soul
4-19 Doom And Gloom
4-20 One More Shot
5-1 Diddley Daddy
5-2 Road Runner
5-3 Bright Lights Big City
5-4 Honey What's Wrong
5-5 I Want To Be Loved


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