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Today, I ripped the deluxe edition of On Air on to my computer and then made CD-Rs where I put the 32 tracks in chrono order. It flows better than the released version.
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Today, I ripped the deluxe edition of On Air on to my computer and then made CD-Rs where I put the 32 tracks in chrono order. It flows better than the released version.
I make it chrono, injecting Live In England '65 where it belonged. Marvelous.
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RoughJusticeOnYa
On a side note, I'd like to take the opportunity to raise my glass to their BBC live version of "Come On" - the album's opener.
I mean, it's somewhat a trifle of a song in the Stones' backcatalogue; albeit their very first one (debut single), a bit overlooked & patronized even, by us fans. (Just my impression, btw...)
But the way they kick into gear here, and deliver that whole song - it's like a blade hitting you right between the eyes.
Here's to the early Stones!
Still really lovin' this "ON AIR" thingie...
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floodonthepage
Has anyone noticed that 'The Last Time' (track 10 Disc 1) is ****ed up? It repeats and/or skips around 2:40.
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floodonthepage
Thanks Irix! I don't suppose there's any word of corrected discs being offered, akin to the corrected 'I think I'm Going Mad' discs in the '71-'06 Singles Collection'?.
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Thanks Irix! I don't suppose there's any word of corrected discs being offered, akin to the corrected 'I think I'm Going Mad' discs in the '71-'06 Singles Collection'?.
It's not a digital glitch or a skip, it's a very bad tape splice that's present on BBC broadcasts since the nineties.
All they've done is "cleaned up" the very audible splice rather than removing the repeated line.
Don't expect any corrected discs to be offered!
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alfstone
Hey there.....listening my yellow vinyl copy. I´ve found on The Last Time, after the guitar solo when Mick is singin´..." last Time baby..."...and one time repeated like not a skip but a pressing failure. I´ve cleaned and found the same. Don´t know if you understand what I mean. Anyone found trouble with this track?
Thanks
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alfstone
I´ve found on The Last Time, after the guitar solo when Mick is singin´..." last Time baby..."...and one time repeated like not a skip but a pressing failure.
It's been discussed here.
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I´ve found on The Last Time, after the guitar solo when Mick is singin´..." last Time baby..."...and one time repeated like not a skip but a pressing failure.
It's been discussed here.
Yes, here (page 14): [iorr.org] , here (page 15): [iorr.org] and here (page 19): [iorr.org] .
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Cristiano Radtke
Robert Christgau on a Brilliant Beefheart Trip and Some Early Stones Standouts
The Dean of American Rock Critics reviews Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas's 'The World of Captain Beefheart' and The Rolling Stones' 'On Air.'
The Rolling Stones: On Air (Deluxe Edition) (Polydor/Abkco/Rolling Stones)
Exploiting the surprise sales spike of their 2016 Christmas album Blue & Lonesome, their 2017 Christmas album purportedly revisits the band's early-'60s blues beginnings, which in fact were no such thing.
Chuck Berry, who wrote six of these songs, was not a blues artist, and neither was Bo Diddley, who gets three including the previously bootleg-only "Cops and Robbers" playlet (theirs is fine, Bo's better).
Billed "R&B" as they started playing out in 1963, the Stones were catchier and quicker than blues, and on these 32 radio transcriptions they sound like the premier bar band of their time if not ever.
Where Blue & Lonesome is a sodden thing—many old rockers have recorded sharper, spunkier, wiser music—this collection proves what world-beaters they were even before they got serious about songwriting.
True, the unperfected "Satisfaction" some hedger stuck in sounds pretty good—how could it not? But "2120 Michigan Avenue," the instrumental they concocted to celebrate recording at Chess, is the closer because it oughta be.
A MINUS
..No..I think the Stones "Cops and robbers" version is better than Bo Diddley's ...
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Monsoon Ragoon
What I finally ordered was the London Calling release. It has far more tracks than the official release for less money. The quality varies from (poor) g-vg soundboard for some tracks to official sound, but the poor recordings are probably not available better and missing on the official counterpart. It also has a nice booklet. I don't think the DAC or Godfather releases are really better.
A good choice.
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Monsoon Ragoon
What I finally ordered was the London Calling release. It has far more tracks than the official release for less money. The quality varies from (poor) g-vg soundboard for some tracks to official sound, but the poor recordings are probably not available better and missing on the official counterpart. It also has a nice booklet. I don't think the DAC or Godfather releases are really better.
A good choice.
Clearly a better choice. You get more tracks and in chronological order. Plus, at times I find the London Calling CD's better sounding than the "echo-drowned" official CD.