Forty Licks (2002)
Disc One
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
Standing in the Shadow?
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 Woman
19.It's All Over Now
20.Let's Spend the Night Together
Disc Two
1.Start Me Up
2.Brown Sugar
3.Miss You
4.Beast of Burden
5.Don't Stop
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
14.Anybody Seen My Baby
15.Stealing My Heart
16.Tumbling Dice
17.Undercover of the Night
18.Emotional Rescue
19.It's Only Rock 'N Roll
20.Losing My Touch
 
I always am very suspicious of
compilations that aren't really needed. This band already had several
greatest hits packages, as well as a box set, so when I heard about this
one, I was less than enthused.
Well, it works. And it works incredibly. The reasons being that this
was the first time they had released a complete retrospective in one
package (Their Boxed set that was released several years ago only
featured their singles, and even that time frame ended in the early
seventies). The two disc set here is split between the decade of the
sixties on the first, and everything else on the second. Yet the music
isn't chronological. It plays like a concert set list, and the track
order only adds to the overall enjoyment. Oh sure, you could bitch -
they leave a lot of their good songs off here, but no one "greatest
hits" package is going to make everyone happy. I wish they would have
left the four new songs off, and put them on a later release (Don't
Stop is outstanding, the other three Keys to Your
Love, Stealing My Heart, and Losing My Touch are
"pretty good"). Of course, you had to wonder if there would be
another release with these guys pushing sixty. The best compilation out
there to date.
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