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My favorite live album. Love Sympathy. The solo by Keith and the Mick T are sublime. Little Queenie kicks ass. Midnight Rambler is better than the studio. Great album by a band at the top of their game. Amazing stuff. I think the deluxe version makes it even better. the only live version of Satisfaction that I really like and I love Under My Thumb.

I agree 1000%. Exactely what I think, but you forgot the brilliance of Street Fighting Man and Love in Vain - GYYYO is by far the most listened album for me!

Never understood the fuss, actually. It took me a few listens (when I was a kid and before I read the song listings) to realize that was Stray Cat Blues they were playing. Sounded anemic compared to the Beggar's Banquet version. "This is the same song? Why so sloooow?" Love the Midnight Rambler, though.

My all-time favorite album by anyone! Just indescribably good...

GYYYO is the second-best live album ever recorded. The Who Live at Leeds (esp. the re-worked edition) is incredible but Ya Ya's is second. The most listened to Stones album ever by the masses. It turned me on to them and I'm sure it is the same for lots of others.

Superb album, to those who say Wyman wasn't a good bassist listen to this...his locking with Charlie really lifts this album

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GYYYO is the second-best live album ever recorded. The Who Live at Leeds (esp. the re-worked edition) is incredible but Ya Ya's is second. The most listened to Stones album ever by the masses. It turned me on to them and I'm sure it is the same for lots of others.

Well, Ya Ya's has the best music. That makes the choice easy for me

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GYYYO is the second-best live album ever recorded. The Who Live at Leeds (esp. the re-worked edition) is incredible but Ya Ya's is second. The most listened to Stones album ever by the masses. It turned me on to them and I'm sure it is the same for lots of others.

Well, Ya Ya's has the best music. That makes the choice easy for me

exactly ! what is it with live at leeds ? better recorded ? mixed? whatever, the contents of Ya Ya s is unsurpassed !

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I never tire of listening to it. For me, it takes me back to seeing them on that tour, and when I hear the album cuts, I can visualize them on stage. What a brilliant show, a brilliant slice of the Stones' history. Not a weak song on that album. My only complaint is Mick's vocal overdubs on Street Fighting Man, but that is not a big deal to me.

Best live album ever.

Amen.

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My favorite live album. Love Sympathy. The solo by Keith and the Mick T are sublime. Little Queenie kicks ass. Midnight Rambler is better than the studio. Great album by a band at the top of their game. Amazing stuff. I think the deluxe version makes it even better. the only live version of Satisfaction that I really like and I love Under My Thumb.

I agree 1000%. Exactely what I think, but you forgot the brilliance of Street Fighting Man and Love in Vain - GYYYO is by far the most listened album for me!

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GYYYO is the second-best live album ever recorded. The Who Live at Leeds (esp. the re-worked edition) is incredible but Ya Ya's is second. The most listened to Stones album ever by the masses. It turned me on to them and I'm sure it is the same for lots of others.

Well, Ya Ya's has the best music. That makes the choice easy for me

exactly ! what is it with live at leeds ? better recorded ? mixed? whatever, the contents of Ya Ya s is unsurpassed !

The only argument I've heard about Live at Leeds is that it's not overdubbed. I listened to an itnerview with Townsend and Daltry where they slagged off Ya-Ya's saying it was all overdubs and that "Live at Leeds" was a "genuine" live album. Frankly, I think it's self-indugent and dated. Ya-Ya's is for me the pinnacle of live rock and roll music.

Overrated. Not bad at all but overrated. I love LYL, which everybody hates and Id really love a proper coleection of songs from 1975 and a few from 1976 + El Mocambo. And LYL is not that, not even close.

A proper release of The unreleased live album from 1972 and a better 1973 live album would be so much better than Yayas.

Street fighting Man : rock'n roll eruption.

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Overrated. Not bad at all but overrated. I love LYL, which everybody hates

I used to hate it.

I quite like it now 36 years later.

Mick's singing is not as bad as I remembered and the band are excellent.

Keith is still the human riff at this stage.

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Overrated. Not bad at all but overrated. I love LYL, which everybody hates

I used to hate it.

I quite like it now 36 years later.

Mick's singing is not as bad as I remembered and the band are excellent.

Keith is still the human riff at this stage.

Interesting becuase Keith was great of course, Mick was the problem, too young.

Lovely.

Top one, thanks.

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Lovely.

Bill sounds great on this.

Best live album ever, even though it sounds pretty horrid on good speakers. The mix could be better too.

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The bass on this is different to the studio version.

Bill is playing the notes from the studio marimba.

I like both ways.

Studio version and this live version in 69, this is one of their best.

Is there anything more beautiful than Love in vain with the Mick Taylor playing and more electrified than Street fighting man (Mick Taylor and Keith rock'n roll steamroller ?)

FANTASTIC, Stones at their best.

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Overrated. Not bad at all but overrated. I love LYL, which everybody hates

I used to hate it.

I quite like it now 36 years later.

Mick's singing is not as bad as I remembered and the band are excellent.

Keith is still the human riff at this stage.

Interesting becuase Keith was great of course, Mick was the problem, too young.

Jagger?

Well....this is the album that made me a Rolling Stones fan 38 years ago.

I was in 4th grade and just getting into music. Had a couple Beatles and Elton John albums.

I had a great aunt who must have been 60 or so at the time and for some reason was a Stones fan. She kept telling me to check them out and for my Birthday that year gave me Ya- Ya's.

I still so vividly remember dropping that vinyl disc on the turntable for the first time and just being fascinated by the anticipation of the whole "Is everybody ready? It seems to be ready" intro. As soon as Keith hit the first chord of JJ Flash, that was it for me. I was hooked. The Beatles suddenly seemed like The Partridge family compared to the menace that was blasting from my speakers. Even the name of the album...just sounded so exotic and rebellious.

Begged my parents to let me start guitar lessons the next week. Been a Stones fan ever since.

Hadn't listened to it in a while but this thread inspired me to go back and check it out. Good Lord it still holds up. Just a furious, tribal, soulful blend of sounds.

I think future generations could pick this album up hundreds of years from now and stop and take notice.

They should have put all the extra tracks from the deluxe edition of Ya Yas on the same disc as the original ones and resequenced them. Having Satisfaction on Under My Thumb/I'm Free on there really gives a wider picture of how phenomenal the band sounded in 1969, particularly the Richards/Taylor guitar combination.

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They should have put all the extra tracks from the deluxe edition of Ya Yas on the same disc as the original ones and resequenced them. Having Satisfaction on Under My Thumb/I'm Free on there really gives a wider picture of how phenomenal the band sounded in 1969, particularly the Richards/Taylor guitar combination.

I've done this very thing with my copy of Ya Yas. It's easy with pretty much any computer and freely available software (iTunes).

-R

Speaking of Ya Ya's, I've been seeing all these bootlegs (none of which I have) for the Complete, or Alternate version of the album. There are MANY of them, and I don't really want to go through all of them comparing the sound quality and what have you. Is there a definitive or "best" version out there anybody recommends? I'm assuming there's no problem bringing it up here, as the site I see them all on doesn't do official material, it all appears to be from other sources.

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They should have put all the extra tracks from the deluxe edition of Ya Yas on the same disc as the original ones and resequenced them. Having Satisfaction on Under My Thumb/I'm Free on there really gives a wider picture of how phenomenal the band sounded in 1969, particularly the Richards/Taylor guitar combination.

I couldn't disagree more. The strength of GYYYO is that is not a warhorse livealbum and that it does not care about making SFTD and SCB etc sound exactly like the studio versions. It would weaken GYYYO if UMT and Satisfaction thrown in too. I think it is very good that they occur seperately.

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They should have put all the extra tracks from the deluxe edition of Ya Yas on the same disc as the original ones and resequenced them. Having Satisfaction on Under My Thumb/I'm Free on there really gives a wider picture of how phenomenal the band sounded in 1969, particularly the Richards/Taylor guitar combination.

I couldn't disagree more. The strength of GYYYO is that is not a warhorse livealbum and that it does not care about making SFTD and SCB etc sound exactly like the studio versions. It would weaken GYYYO if UMT and Satisfaction thrown in too. I think it is very good that they occur seperately.

But Satisfaction and UMT/I'm Free, like SFTD and SCB, are different arrangements as well. Satisfaction is a really great arrangement, I can barely stand to think of a time when I owned Ya Ya's without that song on there, and I'm not a Satisfaction fan at all. It's definitely worthy of the album. UMT/I'm Free isn't that drastic of a change, but it's different.

Now that we have that bonus disc, I'm happy with the release. It was always good, but those songs were sorely missed (by me) in hindsight. I don't really care about them resequencing the original album and putting those in though, I like them on a bonus disc. I could have gone for more bonus tracks, but that's the only thing I can think of. I like the format of maintaining the tracklisting of the original and putting the rest on a bonus disc. I think it would have been really cool if they'd put those songs on the original, sequenced them in and all that. But since this is they put it out that way in '70, I'd prefer they format it the way they have. I don't like going in and messing with tracklistings of classic albums. Tack the tracks on at the end or on another disc is what I prefer in those situations.

Under My Thumb and Satisfaction would have been perfect on the original (given space).