Product Description

Celebrating 40 years in the business, The Rolling Stones' 'Forty Licks' is their first complete career-spanning collection. It includes 8 UK No.1 singles, 13 UK Top 10 hits and four brand new songs. The album is dedicated to Royden Walter Magee, a long serving member of their road crew, who died inJuly 2002.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Street Fighting Man
2. Gimme Shelter
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
4. The Last Time
5. Jumpin Jack Flash
6. You Cant Always Get What You Want
7. 19th Nervous Breakdown
8. Under My Thumb
9. Not Fade Away
10. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby
11. Sympathy For The Devil
12. Mothers Little helper
13. She's A Rainbow
14. Get Off Of My Cloud
15. Wild Horses
16. Ruby Tuesday
17. Paint It Black
18. Honky Tonk Women
19. Its All Over Now
20. Lets Spend The Night Together

Disc 2:

1. Start Me Up
2. Brown Sugar
3. Miss You
4. Beast Of Burden
5. Don't Stop
6. Happy
7. Angie
8. You Got Me Rocking
9. Shattered
10. Fool To Cry
11. Love Is So Strong
12. Mixed Emotions
13. Keys To Your Love
14. Anybody Seen My Baby
15. Stealing My Heart
16. Tumbling Dice
17. Undercover Of The Night
18. Emotional Rescue
19. Its Only Rock & Roll
20. Losing My Touch

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11557 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-05
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
The band that proclaimed itself "The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World" has long since represented rock's most overarching confluence of art and commerce--with a distinct emphasis on the latter in recent decades--a notion this 40-track, five-decade-spanning anthology can't completely escape. While this is the first anthology to gather hits from the band's entire career, it's the early tunes that highlight one of the Stones' central ironies: virtually their entire "bad boy" reputation was built working for The Man. That original '60s musical arc bounded from '50s rock and R&B revivalism ("Not Fade Away," "The Last Time") to anti-Mop Top aggression ("Satisfaction," "Get Off My Cloud," "19th Nervous Breakdown") to proto-goth cynicism ("Paint It Black," "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby") and psychedelic minstrelsy ("She's a Rainbow," "Ruby Tuesday") to the epitome of blues-based cock rock ("Street Fighting Man," "Jumpin' Jack Flash") in quick succession. Wresting control of their own destinies--and future copyrights--at the end of the '60s, they'd spend the next 30 years largely recycling their earlier incarnation ad infinitum--their music sprinkled with occasionally successful forays into contemporary club and disco fodder ("Some Girls," "Shattered")--and resting on their well-paid laurels. Unfortunately, the listless quartet of new tracks that flesh out this collection seems little more than another business deal to hype their 2002-03 world tour, with "Don't Stop" arguably the weakest in a long string of post-'80s Stones McSingles. If Jagger seems typically detached here, Keith Richards injects some welcome, craggy warmth into the closing barroom lament, "Losing My Touch." But it's also a performance that suggests his legendary band has become little more to him than "The Greatest Day Job in the World." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Half is amazing
As far as I'm concerned, other than 'Brown Sugar,' you may as well throw the second disc away, or use it to keep your mug of tea on.
But... the first disc is so astoundingly, damned good, that you really don't care!

Absolute Class!!
I really can't understand some people's lack of appreciation for the Rolling Stones, particularly for this album. In my opinion it's one of the greatest Best Of's ever put together, right up there with the Beatles 1's collection, (for the record i'm probably an even bigger fan of the Beatles).

Side one doesn't have a duff track in sight, almost every song being an absolute classic and essential on any 'Greatest Hits'. Side two is more of a mixed batch. Along with must have's like 'Brown Sugar' or 'Miss You' there are several songs from more recent years, which although don't bare comparison to their earlier work, are still a lot stronger than a great deal of music around today. And besides, how fresh would YOU sound after a career spanning forty years, a massive accomplishment on it's own.So although the second side doesn't reach the dizzying heights of side one, songs like 'Start Me Up', 'Tumbling Dice' and 'Happy' make it more than worth having.

The truth of the matter is that to fully understand the popularity of the Stones you need to buy the albums, especially 'Beggars Banquet to 'Exile On Main Street'. But if I had to play any one CD of theirs to someone looking to know more about them, it would be the first disc of this album. With a collection as good as this, you'll never need any other Best Of. Simply brilliant.

Excellent
This album is the diffinative collection, ts great, the best yet, being only 13 ive just gt into the Rolling Stones and this is the second album of theirs ive bought and well worth a look in, brilliant from start to finish, on continuous repeat on my ipod, i cant get enough