Grrr! (2012)
Disc One
1. Come On
2. Fade Away
3. It's All Over Now
4. Little Red Rooster
5. The Last Time
6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
7. Time is On My Side
8. Get Off My Cloud
9. Heart of Stone
10.19th Nervous Breakdown
11.As Tears Go By
12.Paint it Black
13.Under My Thumb
14.Have You Seen Your Mother Baby,
Standing in the Shadow?
15.Ruby Tuesday
16.Let's Spend the Night Together
17.We Love You
Disc Two
1. Jumpin' Jack Flash
2. Honky Tonk Women
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. You Can't Always Get What You Want
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Wild Horses
8. She's a Rainbow
9. Brown Sugar
10.Happy
11.Tumbling Dice
12.Angie
13.Rocks Off
14.Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
15.It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)
16.Fool to Cry
Disc Three
1. Miss You
2. Respectable
3. Beast of Burden
4. Emotional Rescue
5. Start Me Up
6. Waiting on a Friend
7. Undercover of the Night
8. She Was Hot
9. Streets of Love
10.Harlem Shuffle
11.Mixed Emotions
12.Highwire
13.Love is Strong
14.Anybody Seen My Baby?
15.Don't Stop
16.Doom and Gloom
17.One More Shot
 
When I first saw this one, my immediate impression was that this was basically a ripoff of something they had released just a few years prior with the double CD retrospective Forty Licks. You know - a multi disc collection with mostly hits, plus a few new numbers. Do we really need another package like this so soon?
Well, on closer inspection, this is actually a triple disc as opposed to a double, and there are fifty songs on here as opposed to forty. So a bit of an improvement. Right?
Well, yes and no. Mostly yes. The biggest drawback for me is that, with 50 songs, you should be able to include all of your hits. Even the Stones could fit their huge catalog of chart toppers into such a massive collection. But for whatever reason, many of the minor hits are missing. In their place are some weird substitutions. Yes, we get two brand new songs. They’re good, but nothing spectacular. Plus, when you look at the running time, you could have easily squeezed four or five more songs on each disc. If you’re going to have 50, why not 60-65 if they’ll fit?
Well, guess what? There was a “bonus” 5 CD version (which contained a total of 80 songs) – yet on that version, the “original” three CDs had more songs than what was featured on these three discs! I don’t get it!
Why???
So this package falls a bit short since it could have been better. A good thing is that the songs are mostly in chronological order. Not in exact chronological order - there are a few tweaks since the running order obviously sounds a bit better when small variations are made. A good buy if you don’t have much. But, man, this could have been so much better.
Oh, yeah – some countries also sold a “double disc” version with 40 songs as well. Pure idiocy.
When will the greed of record companies stop?
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