Product Description

After more than 40 years in the business, the Rolling Stones prove that they are still the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world. Live Licks captures the best bits of their recent world on 2CDs. Includes firm favourites "Brown Sugar", "Paint It, Black" and "Gimme Shelter" plus old gems like "Monkey Man", "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "When The Whip Comes Down".

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Brown Sugar
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Paint It, Black
4. You Can't Always Get What You Want
5. Start Me Up
6. It's Only Rock n' Roll
7. Angie
8. Honky Tonk Women
9. Happy
10. Gimme Shelter
11. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Disc 2:

1. Neighbours
2. Monkey Man
3. Rocks Off
4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
5. That's How Strong My Love Is
6. The Nearness Of You
7. Beast Of Burden
8. When The Whip Comes Down
9. Rock Me, Baby
10. You Don't Have To Mean It
11. Worried About You
12. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10319 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-01
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Clean, Live

CD Description
Recorded on the bands 40 Licks tour, which played to 3.4 million people at 113 shows worldwide, this two CD set combines various Stones favourites with relative obscurities. Included are duets with Sheryl Crow and Solomon Burke and also a handful of covers including a version of Hoagy Carmichael's 'The Nearness of You'.

Customer Reviews

A nice souvenir for fans
The fact that there are two versions of this CD, one with a bikini-clad cover girl and the original sans bikini, makes you wonder about the priorities of the Western world, doesn't it?

Anyway, this is a really good live album. I've seen some people complain about the sound, but I can't hear it...it seems fine to me.
If you don't own any live Stones, you won't mind the fact that songs like "Start Me Up", "Street Fighting Man", "Honky Tonk Women" and "Satisfaction" have been available live for a long time and on several different albums. And if you do, well, then you're probably considering to buy this album because of disc two, which features a dozen rarely heard songs which have never appeared live before.

Now, I don't know why these rarities have to be compiled on a dosic of their own...I would have preferred them to be mixed in with the old warhorses on disc one. But that's the way things are, and it's nice to have them.
Disc one is highlighted by powerful, crisp and confident renditions of "Brown Sugar", "Paint It Black" and "Street Fighting Man", and disc two features a really good, bluesy "Monkey Man" and a wonderful take on the classic blues "Rock Me Baby". Other highlights include the 60s soul cover "That's How Strong My Love Is", and a driving (if slightly ragged) "Rocks Off". And of course one of my personal "cult" favorites, Keith Richards' swinging reggae-number "You Don't Have To Mean It".
You have to decide for yourself how you feel about Keith singing Hoagy Carmichael ("The Nearness Of You"), and "Beast Of Burden" could have been really good as well if Jagger would have sung it properly.

The Stones sound like they mean it on both of these discs, they're not coasting, and the large 13-man band is as tight as can be. And Jagger only slurs in his annoying faux-country way on a couple of songs.
"Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" and "Love You Live" remain the best live Stones albums in my book, but this one has a lot of fine moments as well. Still, it's one for fans rather than casual listeners.
3 3/4 stars.

What clean sleeve! No Sleeve more like!
I'm sorry I can't give this item a star rating as it doesn't earn one. The CD was titled as Live Licks [Clean Sleeve]. The front cover was totally missing. When I purchase a CD I expect it to have the correct information in the description. UNHAPPY JS.

It appears that I can not send a no rating with this item. I give it one star under protest!