the TATTOO YOU poll

He plays the acoustic part in "Moonlight Mile" too.

Ronnie taught him the electric rhythm stuff, they've both said.

Doesn't he play some guitar in "Performance", or did I imagine that?

What the general public doesn't know is that he's written many of the riff monsters that many think Keef wrote ("Brown Sugar," "Miss You," etc). My theory: unlike Keef he sits down with his guitar or keyboard and says, "I'm gonna write Stones songs" and writes to that so-called template.

When's this photo from? '65ish?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/f7637daa0c0a667576d429ea6807e97a/tumblr_mys0zy63B01qgfyaho1_500.png

Hmm. Either '65 or '66, from the looks of it. Jagger looks like he's messing on with some 12-bar/slow rock'n'roll thing, based on where his fingers are on the fretboard.

Next Stones Reissue, Sez Woody

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rolling-stones-tattoo-you-box-new-tracks/

Full details on the 40th anniversary edition

Known for the singles “Start Me Up” and “Waiting on a Friend,” “Tattoo You” was a collection of 11 songs that mostly had been begun during sessions for albums from the previous decade and completed later. That also appears to be the case for the nine bonus studio tracks included here under the title “Lost & Found,” some of which, like the bonus tracks for the 2010 “Exile on Main Street” reissue, were completed decades after they were begun (“newly completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the band,” according to the announcement). Along with “Living in the Heart of Love,” those tracks include covers of blues legend Jimmy Reed’s “Shame, Shame, Shame” and soul singer Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away,” as well as a reggae-tinged version of “Start Me Up.”

I love this, because for decades the story with "Start Me Up" was "we kept trying it as a reggae song and it sucked, then we found one rock version that was worth keeping," and now that it's deluxe reissue time, it's "hey, here's a reggae version of 'Start Me Up'!"

The set also includes a full concert from the group’s 1982 stand at London’s Wembley Stadium, which bears the title “Still Life” (confusingly, it is a different-but-similar album from the live album released from the group’s 1981 North American tour, which was also called “Still Life”). Along with the group’s classic hits and a healthy portion of songs from “Tattoo You,” the live set includes covers of the Temptations’ “Just My Imagination,” Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” Smokey Robinson & the Miracles’ “Going to a Go Go” and the Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace.”

"Shame x3" and "Drift Away" were part of the original half-covers/half-live lineup for It's Only Rock'n'Roll.

Still Life was a terrible live album, but I don't know a whole lot about the making of it or the tour - any chance the full concert from Wembley will be really good?

Usually newly completed outtakes are a dubious enterprise, but that's essentially Tattoo You. Granted 40+ years is a whole lot longer than a decade or less, but the 2011 bonus disc on Some Girls was an excellent Stones album in itself that was just as good as Tattoo You.

lol I'm just now finding out about the Some Girls bonus disc, ten years after the fact. This is pretty fun so far.

"Living in the Heart of Love" is bog standard Stones raver.

Living in the Heart is like a mashup of Luxury and Brown Sugar

This deluxe thing is out today I guess

Reggae Me Up reminds me of Keith’s x pensive winos stuff

HANG FIRE HANG FIRE HANG FIE-YAAAHH

Every man is the same come on

Wow Tops got robbed.

xpost - came out last Friday, actually.

The bonus disc with the "new" songs is my favorite of all of these, even if they are even more reliant on modern overdubs than some of the past ones have been. It's still a great little batch of songs and, hell, wasn't overdubbing old scraps pretty much what the original album was anyway?

Every man is the same come on

wild results. can’t say for sure I would have voted for it but if I’m making a stones mix “Worried…” is absolutely going on it

I posted a brief note about the bonus disc last Friday, but yeah, it's a fine disc and it's grown on me. Almost as good as No Spare Parts from the Some Girls set which is still easily the best "outtakes" disc they've released so far. I can't say they made the wrong decision to shelve these songs, but I'm glad this got a release, and like No Spare Parts, it's nice that it was shaped into an album of sorts. (Watts and the others recorded some overdubs to finish these songs, correct? Would this be his last studio work with the Stones?)

the drift away cover is really nice, I could honestly listen to a whole album of the stones playing “drift away” 12 times in a row

you might be rifht, calstars, I just hear a slight contraction and a comma

Would this be his last studio work with the Stones?

Possibly? Jagger and/or Richards have alluded to there being some new Stones songs awaiting finishing touches. Blue and Lonesome emerged out of sessions for a long-gestating new album of originals.

"Heaven" sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday, love that song

otm, so dreamy, it sounds watching cigarette smoke disperse in the air