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FORTY LICKS
The Rolling Stones
(Virgin/EMI)
Back when they really were the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, The Stones used to go to the trouble of making a new album before a tour. Nowadays, it seems they can barely muster the energy to write a few new songs to pad out a best-of CD.
Forty Licks, their umpeenth compilation, has 36 classics you already own -- Satisfaction, Wild Horses, Happy, Angie, Miss You, Shattered, etc. -- and four new tracks designed to make you shell out for those old cuts yet again.
There's Don't Stop, a country-rock throwaway; Keys to Your Love, a soul-pop ballad that lets Mick unleash his falsetto; Stealing my Heart, a lightly gritty downbeat rocker; and Losing My Touch, a gorgeous, smoky ballad from a craggy-voiced Keith.
Of the four, it's the only one that earns a legitimate spot on this disc -- and the only one worth opening your wallet for. Otherwise, save your bucks for those concert tickets. (More on The Rolling Stones)
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 Can't 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. Mother's Little Helper
13. She's a Rainbow
14. Get Off My Cloud
15. Wild Horses
16. Ruby Tuesday
17. Paint It Black
18. Honky Tonk Women
19. It's All Over Now
20. Let's Spend The Night Together
Disc 2:
1. Start Me Up
2. Brown Sugar
3. Miss You
4. Beast Of Burden
5. Don't Stop (new)
6. Happy
7. Angie
8. You Got Me Rocking
9. Shattered
10. Fool To Cry
11. Love Is Strong
12. Mixed Emotions
13. Keys To Your Love (new)
14. Anybody Seen My Baby?
15. Stealing My Heart (new)
16. Tumbling Dice
17. Undercover of the Night
18. Emotional Rescue
19. Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)
20. Losing My Touch (new)