Singles Collection: The London Years

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The most comprehensive anthology of the Rolling Stones' prime early work collects every single from the beginning up through 1971, A- and B-sides. All the obvious hits are here ("Satisfaction," "Jumping Jack Flash," "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar") as well as several B-sides ("Stoned," "I Want to Be Loved," "I Don't Know Why AKA I Don't Know Why I Love You") not previously released on CD. But it's the unrelenting succession of great cuts that make this a landmark collection. No band in the history of rock and roll has a catalog as substantial and hard-hitting. Quite simply, one the most essential rock collections ever released. --Rob O'Connor

Tracks:

Come On
I Want To Be Loved
I Wanna Be Your Man
Stoned
Not Fade Away
Little By Little
It's All Over Now
Good Times, Bad Times
Tell Me
I Just Want To Make Love To You
Time Is On My Side
Congratulations
Little Red Rooster
Off The Hook
Heart Of Stone
What A Shame
The Last Time
Play With Fire
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
The Spider And The Fly
Get Off Of My Cloud
I'm Free
The Singer Not The Song
As Tears Go By

Tracks:

Gotta Get Away
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Paint It, Black
Stupid Girl
Long Long While
Mother's Little Helper
Lady Jane
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
Who's Driving Your Plane?
Let's Spend The Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
We Love You
Dandelion
She's A Rainbow
2000 Light Years From Home
In Another Land
The Lantern
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Child Of The Moon (Rmk)

Tracks:

Street Fighting Man
No Expectations
Surprise, Surprise
Honky Tonk Women
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Memo From Turner
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
I Don't Know Why Aka Don't Know Why I Love You
Try A Little Harder
Out Of Time
Jiving Sister Fanny
Sympathy For The Devil

Album Description

This Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) recording offers high-resolution sound and is playable on both standard CD players and SACD-compatible devices.

Album Description

Full Title - Singles Collection - The London Years. Remastered reissue of 1989 compilation, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Tri-fold digipak.

Customer Reviews:

Rich collection of the Stones' earlier work.......2007-04-15

Many of the items on this album have been released before in well known collections (Hot Rocks, More Hot Rocks: Big Hits & Fazed Cookies, etc.). However, this provides a nice survey of what the subtitle refers to as "The London Years."

Especially welcome is Disc One. Here are a number of early works that draw upon the blues tradition out of which the Stones came. Their covers are as interesting, in some senses, as their own music. Chuck Berry's "Come on" illustrates. A nice rollicking version. Some of Willie Dixon's compositions are covered (e.g., "I Want to Be Loved," "I Just Want to Make Love to You," and "Little Red Rooster" [a cool version]). One of Buddy Holly's hits, "Not Fade Away," comes off well. Bobby Womack's "It's All over Now" is solidly sung (indeed, in a later Rolling Stones' tour, I saw Bobby Womack sing this as part of the opening for the concert). Stevie Wonder's "I Don't Know Why" is also included. The other songs on Disc One are primarily works by Jagger-Richards themselves. Toward the end of this are quintessential Rolling Stones works of the mid-1960s, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Get off of My Cloud."

The second disc covers the years from "19th Nervous Breakdown" through the psychedelic album, "Their Satanic Majesties Request." Some rather little known works appear, but most are well known. Because of that, this covers much the same territory as "Hot Rocks" and is less interesting than the first CD. The final disc has a lot of the "greatest hits" of the late 1960s and early 1970s (think "Street Fighting Man," "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar," and "Sympathy for the Devil"). There are also some mildly entertaining trifles ("Jiving Sister Fanny" and "Memo from Turner").

The most interesting of the CDs, then, is the first, since it shows off nicely some of the foundational works upon which the Rolling Stones' oeuvre is based.

There are better choices for Rolling Stones GHs........2007-02-04

This box set was release in the late 80s during the peak of the box sets revival. The problem with the collection here is that it included all of the 45 records on 3 CDs. This may seem like a good ideal, and I will be the first to admit it, I thought it was great until I got it home and started listening to it. The problem is that not only does it included all of the hits, from "Satification" to "Get off my Cloud" to "Sympathy For The Devil", it includes also the B-side of the 45s, which include such songs as "Little Red Rooster", "Jiving Sister Fanny" and "Who's Driving Your Plane?". The issue is not the good stuff, it the filler that kills it. The Stones have way to many great songs, both before and after "Exile on Main Street" then to waste time listening to almost half the songs on this album. If you love the stones in the London Years, trade this in for Hot Rocks.

Great Fun. A Musical Biography of A Legendary Band's Early Years.......2006-11-06

This album is simply great fun from beginning to end. Made up of all the material on the Stones' singles, A and B sides, from the London years, it is a grand tour of their early years and their evolution as one of the top rock and roll bands of all time. The mix is good enough on the CD that the mono still sounds fine to me on a stereo system, so I have no complaints there. The sound is raw and energetic, much the way I expect their early concerts sounded. If you are a Stones fan, this is an essential addition to your music collection. So good that when the CD ends, you want to give it another listen.

I'm gonna tear my hair out just 4U!.......2006-08-16

Many, like me, read these reviews as a pastime. There are a few reviewers who must be more audiophilic than simply lovers of the Stones, or rock, or any particular group. In this particular case, since it is such a comprehensive and large box set--if you remember these were all singles, that's a LOT of vinyl replaced by 3 little discs--I am not going to be so particular.

This is the first boxed set or CD of any kind my goil friend, and now wife, risked buying finicky me: she felt she could not go wrong! And she was 100% correct. Mono, stereo, SACD, AIFF, AAC, whatEVAH--If you were jumping up and down to these songs over some tiny transistor AM radio in the sixties, and singing these songs in the bathroom, and they came out of your dashboard on Saturday night when you had your date parked out in the woods, BUY THIS! It sounds great, absolutely amazing, song after song, compared to what we had then, and the hits keep right on coming. Try to decide which songs Mick was messed up on. Figure out which ones were influenced by some other band from that era when they came out. Dig how amazing Brain Jones was always!

I don't think you can pack more coolness into a boxt set, as someone else said. This set of mine is like fifteen years old now, and I put it on iTunes a few months back. It gets played, in part, nearly every day, and I have 60 Gigs of iTunes! How good is that?

A Fantastic Compilation.......2006-08-13

If you happen to be a huge Rolling Stones fan like myself, than I must say that "The London Years: The Singles Collection" will make a fantastic edition to your cd library. This solid mix of classic hits by Mick and the boys and hard to find rarities, it is a truly wortwhile purchase.

Disc 1 covers 1962 up to 1965, kicking off with their first single, their cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On". What follows is a journey through some of their biggest hits ("(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Time Is On My Side", "Get Off My Cloud") and a stunning list of rare tracks (their cover of The Beatles' "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Little Red Rooster", "Off The Hook", and much more).

Disc 2 is loaded with familliar Stones staples such as "19th Nervous Breakdown", "Pain It, Black", "Mother's Little Helper", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash", and includes lesser known tunes like "Stupid Girl", "Sad Day", "Who's Driving Your Plane", "2000 Light Years From Home" and "In Another Land".

Disc 3 is the only disc I have really any complaints about. I hate how they put the single edit of "You Can't Always Get What You Want", the song is nothing without the choral intro. Plus, while I know this is solely meant to be a singles collection, I think that any Stones compilation covering this period, even if it's mainly just the singles, should include "Gimme Shelter", "Let It Bleed" and "Midnight Rambler".

Other than that (plus the fact that the cd won't play on my computer), I have virtually no complaints about this fantastic compilation that I recommend to all fans of great rock and roll.

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All glitter and tarnished gold
singles collection the london years-- the rolling stones
Stoned To My seat listening to this
A Box of Stones that Rocks!!!
The best!

Singles Collection: The London Years
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ASIN: B000003BD2
Release Date: 1991-04-02

Tracks:

Come On
I Want To Be Loved
I Wanna Be Your Man
Stoned
Not Fade Away
Little By Little
It's All Over Now
Good Times, Bad Times
Tell Me
I Just Wanna Make Love To You
Time Is On My Side
Congratulations
Little Red Rooster
Off The Hook
Heart Of Stone
What A Shame
The Last Time
Play With Fire
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
The Spider And The Fly
Get Off Of My Cloud
I'm Free
The Singer Not The Song
As Tears Go By

Tracks:

Gotta Get Away
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Paint It, Black
Stupid Girl
Long Long While
Mother's Little Helper
Lady Jane
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The..
Who's Driving Your Plane?
Let's Spend The Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
We Love You
Dandelion
She's A Rainbow
2000 Light Years From Home
In Another Land
The Lantern
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Child Of The Moon (Remix)

Tracks:

Street Fighting Man
No Expectations
Surprise, Surprise
Honky Tonk Women
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Memo From Turner
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
I Don't Know Why AKA Don't Know Why I Love You
Try A Little Harder
Out Of Time
Jiving Sister Fanny
Sympathy For The Devil

Amazon.com

The most comprehensive anthology of the Rolling Stones' prime early work collects every single from the beginning up through 1971, A- and B-sides. All the obvious hits are here ("Satisfaction," "Jumping Jack Flash," "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar") as well as several B-sides ("Stoned," "I Want to Be Loved," "I Don't Know Why AKA I Don't Know Why I Love You") not previously released on CD. But it's the unrelenting succession of great cuts that make this a landmark collection. No band in the history of rock and roll has a catalog as substantial and hard-hitting. Quite simply, one the most essential rock collections ever released. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

All glitter and tarnished gold.......2007-02-26

THE ROLLING STONES SINGLES COLLECTION * THE LONDON YEARS consists of three CDs packed in the LP-sized box that was in vogue 10 or 15 years ago-- in hindsight, a wastefully expensive package. The included 72-page giant book is of recycled-quality paper. It's pages are dyed several starkly annoying colors, and all graphics are in low-grade B&W. Two pages of text in front, and two in back bookend the spread out song lyrics and lousy-looking photos. A hack job, design-wise.

The music is little better, sonically. There's a persistent dullness to a lot of these tracks. Andrew Oldham is credited with oversight of this project, so it's surprising that the transfers aren't more vibrant. This great material has been badly served. Recommended only for serious fans or completists. A middling rating for a mediocre product.

TOTAL RUNNING TIMES --
DISC ONE -- 66:41
DISC TWO -- 68:27
DISC THREE -- 49:39

singles collection the london years-- the rolling stones.......2007-01-12

stones at thier best
the londen years proves that early stones are the best

Stoned To My seat listening to this.......2004-06-03

A comprehensive collection of single releases from 1963-71 which is far more than it proclaims in it's title. This is the most complete collection of Rolling Stones singles and b-sides available on CD format. From their first in June of 1963 (Come On b/w I Want to Be Loved), you will find almost every aspect of the Stones singles material represented, including British flip-sides and Decca/London singles released after 1971. This 3CD (4LP) set overlaps thirty-five (35) songs from the Hot Rocks collections (4CDs), but offers an additional twenty-three (23) selections. Remaining true to the singles, songs such as Sympathy For the Devil, You Can't Always Get What You Want, and Dandelion are heard as they were in their original edited (or extended) "single" form for this album. note-though it would have been a great highlight, this collection does not contain Street Fighting Man as it is heard in it's initial 7" form, that version remains otherwise unavailable on any official CD or LP. When the song Wild Horses was released as a single, it's b-side Sway was found in alternate form as well; that recording was not owned by Decca/London, and thus was not included in this collection.

A Box of Stones that Rocks!!!.......2003-09-05

What a great idea! While their most noteworthy contemporaries, the Beatles, were one of the first bands to explore the possibilities of creating great albums, by and large the Stones remained a band that created listenable, danceable, rockable hit singles. (There were some exceptional albums, however, such as Aftermath and Beggars Banquet.) So, their original record company has a great idea: Why not gather together ALL the Stones singles (the ones released on the London label from the years 1963-1976) with their flip sides (both US and UK) and release them in one great big beautiful box! Brilliant, huh??? Actually, it is an excellent concept and, for the most part, well executed. It is true that many of the Stones great singles are here: "Satisfaction," "Get Off of My Cloud," "Brown Sugar," "Let's Spend the Night Together," etc. It is also true that many of their lesser known singles and fabulous flips (B-sides) are here as well. Many other bands would feel very lucky to have just one song as good as "The Spider and the Fly," "The Under-assistant West Cost Promotion Man," "Play With Fire," "Little Red Rooster," and "Ruby Tuesday". So, that means it's a perfect compilation, right? Well, not quite. For one thing, both hits and flips include a lot of clunkers, such as "Sad Day", "Memo from Turner," "The Singer Not the Song" and "Surprise, Surprise." Also included are some of the mid-sixties demos later gathered on the album Metamorphosis, such as "I Don't Know Why" and "Jiving Sister Fanny." They are interesting ideas, but obviously unfinished. Finally, since this is a singles collection, that means we get the cut version of "You Can't Always Get What You Want." Most listeners will no doubt want the full version that contains the choral section at the beginning, found on the Let It Bleed album. Still, over 3/4 of the cuts are worthwhile, and many are classics not easy to find in one place. So, grab your boxers, put on this box, and rock this town!!!

The best!.......2003-08-10

This three-disc set is by far the best overview of the Rolling Stones' first twelve years as recording artists.
Spanning 1963-1975, "The London Years" chronicles every single the band ever released during those years, including B-sides.

"Hot Rocks 1964-71" is an excellent compilation for those who just want a brief overview, but if you want to dig a little deeper, this is the way to go. "The London Years" only includes the singles (well, almost), and the Stones made many excellent albums for sure. Even their earliest R&B records were impeccably paced. But their singles always had a special punch, and here you get all of them.

The album opens with a Chuck Berry cover, "Come On", before moving through various blues and R&B covers ("I Want To Be Loved", "The Little Red Rooster", "Time Is On My Side"), and literally dozens of Jagger/Richards-originals, including "Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Street Fighting Man", "Honky Tonk Women", "Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses" and many, many more.

Tracks:

Come On
I Want To Be Loved
I Wanna Be Your Man
Stoned
Not Fade Away
Little By Little
It's All Over Now
Good Times, Bad Times
Tell Me
I Just Wanna Make Love To You
Time Is On My Side
Congratulations
Little Red Rooster
Off The Hook
Heart Of Stone
What A Shame
The Last Time
Play With Fire
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
The Spider And The Fly
Get Off Of My Cloud
I'm Free
The Singer Not The Song
As Tears Go By

Tracks:

Gotta Get Away
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Paint It, Black
Stupid Girl
Long Long While
Mother's Little Helper
Lady Jane
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In...
Who's Driving Your Plane?
Let's Spend The Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
We Love You
Dandelion
She's A Rainbow
2000 Light Years From Home
In Another Land
The Lantern
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Child Of The Moon

Tracks:

Street Fighting Man
No Expectations
Surprise, Surprise
Honky Tonk Women
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Memo From Turner
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
I Don't Know Why AKA Don't Know Why I Love You
Try A Little Harder
Out Of Time
Jiving Sister Fanny
Sympathy For The Devil

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Customer Reviews:

All glitter and tarnished gold.......2007-02-26

singles collection the london years-- the rolling stones.......2007-01-12

stones at thier best
the londen years proves that early stones are the best

Stoned To My seat listening to this.......2004-06-03

A Box of Stones that Rocks!!!.......2003-09-05

The best!.......2003-08-10

Tracks:

Come On
I Want to Be Loved
I Wanna Be Your Man
Stoned [Instrumental]
Not Fade Away
Little by Little
It's All Over Now
Good Times, Bad Times
Tell Me
I Just Want to Make Love to You
Time Is on My Side
Congratulations
Little Red Rooster
Off the Hook
Heart of Stone
What a Shame
Last Time
Play with Fire
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Spider and the Fly
Get off My Cloud
I'm Free
Singer Not the Song
As Tears Go By

Tracks:

Gotta Get Away
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Paint It, Black
Stupid Girl
Long Long While
Mother's Little Helper
Lady Jane
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
Who's Driving Your Plane?
Let's Spend the Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
We Love You
Dandelion
She's a Rainbow
2000 Light Years from Home
In Another Land
Lantern
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Child of the Moon (RMK)

Tracks:

Street Fighting Man
No Expectations
Surprise, Surprise
Honky Tonk Women
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Memo from Turner
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
I Don't Know Why aka Don't Know Why I Love You
Try a Little Harder
Out of Time
Jiving Sister Fanny
Sympathy for the Devil

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Dsd Mastered Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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Singles Collection-London Years

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ASIN: B000KJTK8O
Release Date: 2007-01-30

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ASIN: B000A28OYC
Release Date: 2002-08-27

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Singles Collection: The London Years
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ASIN: B00006RT56
Release Date: 1989-01-01

Tracks:

Come On
I Want to Be Loved
I Wanna Be Your Man
Stoned
Not Fade Away
Little by Little
It's All Over Now
Good Times, Bad Times
Tell Me
I Just Want to Make Love to You
Time Is on My Side
Congratulations
Little Red Rooster
Off the Hook
Heart of Stone
What a Shame
Last Time
Play With Fire
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Spider and the Fly
Get off of My Cloud
I'm Free
Singer Not the Song
As Tears Go By

Tracks:

Gotta Get Away
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Paint It Black
Stupid Girl
Long Long While
Mother's Little Helper
Lady Jane
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
Who's Driving Your Plane?
Let's Spend the Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
We Love You
Dandelion
She's a Rainbow
2000 Light Years from Home
In Another Land
Lantern
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Child of the Moon [rmk]

Tracks:

Street Fighting Man
No Expectations
Surprise, Surprise
Honky Tonk Women
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Memo from Turner
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
I Don't Know Why
Try a Little Harder
Out of Time
Jiving Sister Fanny
Sympathy for the Devil

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Singles Collection: The London Years
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ASIN: B000F3AICM
Release Date: 2006-04-25

Tracks:

Come On
I Want to Be Loved
I Wanna Be Your Man
Stoned [Instrumental]
Not Fade Away
Little by Little
It's All Over Now
Good Times, Bad Times
Tell Me
I Just Want to Make Love to You
Time Is on My Side
Congratulations
Little Red Rooster
Off the Hook
Heart of Stone
What a Shame
Last Time
Play with Fire
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Spider and the Fly
Get off My Cloud
I'm Free
Singer Not the Song
As Tears Go By

Tracks:

Gotta Get Away
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Paint It, Black
Stupid Girl
Long Long While
Mother's Little Helper
Lady Jane
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
Who's Driving Your Plane?
Let's Spend the Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
We Love You
Dandelion
She's a Rainbow
2000 Light Years from Home
In Another Land
Lantern
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Child of the Moon (RMK)

Tracks:

Street Fighting Man
No Expectations
Surprise, Surprise
Honky Tonk Women
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Memo from Turner
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
I Don't Know Why aka Don't Know Why I Love You
Try a Little Harder
Out of Time
Jiving Sister Fanny
Sympathy for the Devil

Album Description

European paper sleeve pressing. Part of Abkco's `Rolling Stones Remastered Series'. Includes an `Inaugural Edition' Certificate! Universal. 3 CD's. 2006.

Album Details

This Strictly Limited Edition Series Exactly Replicates the Original 1960s Vinyl Sleeves. The CDs Feature the Acclaimed Dsd-mastered Audio - Remastered from the Original Master Tapes for the First Time.

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