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LIVE LICKS
The Rolling Stones
(Virgin/EMI)
We call shenanigans! Since the early '90s, the Stones have stuck to the same game plan -- put out a studio album, do a world tour, put out a live album.
But with the two-disc Live Licks -- their eighth concert release -- Mick, Keef and the lads are getting ahead of themselves. And pushing their luck.
Live Licks, taped on their last tour, follows 2002's Forty Licks best-of and 1998's live set No Security, making it the third compilation since their last studio disc -- 1997's Bridges to Babylon, if you remember that far back.
OK, the performances on this 23-song set are cracking, the set list has left-field entries like Monkey Man and Worried About You, and the production is vibrant, with Keith and Ron's slashing guitars sharply separated in the mix.
But really, how many live versions of Satisfaction and Brown Sugar do they expect us to buy?
Get back to the studio, boys -- and near as we can tell, you owe us a double album.
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