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: #33227 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

CD Description
Thirty years after the release of what had been the definitive Rolling Stones anthology, HOT ROCKS, the arrival of the two-disc Stones collection FORTY LICKS seemed bound to prompt compare/contrast debates. In the end, it's pretty much an apples-and-oranges situation. HOT ROCKS does have some great'60s tracks absent from the later release, but time is on the side of FORTY LICKS, which takes advantage of access to all the Stones' great post-1971 material, which is abundant, despite cynics' protests to the contrary. So besides the early hits/classics it shares with HOT ROCKS ("Satisfaction", "Brown Sugar", "Jumping Jack Flash", you know the drill), FORTY LICKS offers the stuttering, sassy "Start Me Up", the sensual, disco-tinged "Miss You", mission statement "It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)", and such tearjerkers as "Foolto Cry" and "Angie".
Impressively, FORTY LICKS simultaneously captures the glory of the Stones' first couple of phases and puts the lie to the benighted notion that the early '70s were this hardy band's last hurrah. And that's not even mentioning the four new, previously unreleased tracks these seemingly indefatigable icons saw fit to throw in.

Customer Reviews

Almost All The Best - MIssing A Few
In the early ninties, artists started releasing box sets. More recently, double CD compilations have been surfacing every month and the Stones are no different. Using the commercial ploy of adding several 'new' songs to the list for better sales, the Rolling Stones have almost beat the rest. "Don't Stop" is a new single and already a classic Stones song. However, "Stealing My Heart", "Keys To Your Love" and "Losing My Touch" are no more than good album cuts. In fact, "Losing My Touch" contains vocals with a low-down, bar-room blues style that's new, but not particularly engaging.

Still, the remastering job is incredible. If this is not SACD, then I can't wait to hear one. It is crisp, clear and clean, which makes every song sound like a new recording. Of course, only a full song box set would satisy all the fans, but they chose well with the forty songs given here. Not in chronological order, it makes for good contrast in growth and style. But, damn those early songs are just as good as this years!

A long time coming but well worth the wait!
The wait is finally over, and for my patience i was justly rewarded! As soon as you hear the first strains of street fighting man you praise the wonders of digital remastering technology! The track listings really do speak for themselves and Licks pales Jump Back into insignificance. The two CDs really are what it says on the label - the definitive Stones collection. With early classics from the London Years of the band - Get Offa My Cloud, Satisfaction, Jumpin Jack Flash and Sympathy for the Devil - its worth buying just to be able to listen to these sounding better than they did first time around!

Combine these with other rock master tunes no stones fan is without - Start Me Up, Brown Sugar, It's Only Rock n Roll to name a very few, and then mix with the new offerings from the greatest rock band ever to walk the planet (I personally reccommend Keef's track Losing My Touch - the last word of the album and boy does he put it well!). Overall the best of the best of the best from the cream of rock and roll, sounding better than ever (if that's possible!) A DEFINITE must have for any respected fan, but also for anyone who doesn't remember it all first time around! Just one word of warning - get those air guitars tuned - it's infectiously rocky! Bring on the UK tour!

A great overview of their career.
Unless you feel the need to buy indivual Stone's albums for one reason or another, this double CD just about covers everything the casual music lover will need. There in the collection for when you feel in the mood for a blast from the greatest rock 'n' roll band of all time, this release has the early chart classics in abundance, along with latter-day hits which cropped up along the way, but are nevertheless just as memorable. As an aside, the booklet included has a fabulously written history and excellent photos from throughout the Stone's career. This is the one for me, and it gets played on a regular basis.