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Singles Collection: The London Years [Box set]

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  • Audio CD (10 Aug 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Decca - Pop
  • ASIN: B00006RT56
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Come OnThe Rolling Stones 1:48£0.79
Listen  2. I Want To Be LovedThe Rolling Stones 1:51£0.79
Listen  3. I Wanna Be Your ManThe Rolling Stones 1:43£0.79
Listen  4. StonedThe Rolling Stones 2:09£0.79
Listen  5. Not Fade AwayThe Rolling Stones 1:46£0.79
Listen  6. Little By LittleThe Rolling Stones 2:39£0.79
Listen  7. It's All Over NowThe Rolling Stones 3:27£0.79
Listen  8. Good Times, Bad TimesThe Rolling Stones 2:30£0.79
Listen  9. Tell MeThe Rolling Stones 3:47£0.79
Listen10. I Just Want To Make Love To YouThe Rolling Stones 2:16£0.79
Listen11. Time Is On My SideThe Rolling Stones 2:52£0.79
Listen12. CongratulationsThe Rolling Stones 2:27£0.79
Listen13. Little Red RoosterThe Rolling Stones 3:04£0.79
Listen14. Off The HookThe Rolling Stones 2:34£0.79
Listen15. Heart Of StoneThe Rolling Stones 2:45£0.79
Listen16. What A ShameThe Rolling Stones 3:02£0.79
Listen17. The Last TimeThe Rolling Stones 3:41£0.79
Listen18. Play With FireThe Rolling Stones 2:13£0.79
Listen19. (I Can't Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling Stones 3:42£0.79
Listen20. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion ManThe Rolling Stones 3:07£0.79
Listen21. The Spider And The FlyThe Rolling Stones 3:38£0.79
Listen22. Get Off Of My CloudThe Rolling Stones 2:53£0.79
Listen23. I'm FreeThe Rolling Stones 2:23£0.79
Listen24. The Singer Not The SongThe Rolling Stones 2:22£0.79
Listen25. As Tears Go ByThe Rolling Stones 2:45£0.79


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Listen  1. Gotta Get AwayThe Rolling Stones 2:06£0.79
Listen  2. 19th Nervous BreakdownThe Rolling Stones 3:56£0.79
Listen  3. Sad DayThe Rolling Stones 3:01£0.79
Listen  4. Paint It BlackThe Rolling Stones 3:44£0.79
Listen  5. Stupid GirlThe Rolling Stones 2:54£0.79
Listen  6. Long Long WhileThe Rolling Stones 3:00£0.79
Listen  7. Mother's Little HelperThe Rolling Stones 2:45£0.79
Listen  8. Lady JaneThe Rolling Stones 3:09£0.79
Listen  9. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?The Rolling Stones 2:33£0.79
Listen10. Who's Driving Your Plane?The Rolling Stones 3:13£0.79
Listen11. Let's Spend The Night TogetherThe Rolling Stones 3:26£0.79
Listen12. Ruby TuesdayThe Rolling Stones 3:13£0.79
Listen13. We Love YouThe Rolling Stones 4:35£0.79
Listen14. DandelionThe Rolling Stones 3:47£0.79
Listen15. She's A RainbowThe Rolling Stones 4:11£0.79
Listen16. 2000 Light Years From HomeThe Rolling Stones 4:44£0.79
Listen17. In Another LandBill Wyman 2:52£0.79
Listen18. The LanternThe Rolling Stones 4:25£0.79
Listen19. Jumpin' Jack FlashThe Rolling Stones 3:37£0.79
Listen20. Child Of The Moon (rmk)The Rolling Stones 3:12£0.79


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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Street Fighting ManThe Rolling Stones 3:08£0.79
Listen  2. No ExpectationsThe Rolling Stones 3:54£0.79
Listen  3. Surprise, SurpriseThe Rolling Stones 2:29£0.79
Listen  4. Honky Tonk WomenThe Rolling Stones 2:59£0.79
Listen  5. You Can't Always Get What You WantThe Rolling Stones 4:49£0.79
Listen  6. Memo From TurnerMick Jagger 4:06£0.79
Listen  7. Brown SugarThe Rolling Stones 3:49£0.79
Listen  8. Wild HorsesThe Rolling Stones 5:42£0.79
Listen  9. I Don't Know Why Aka Don't Know Why I Love YouThe Rolling Stones 3:00£0.79
Listen10. Try A Little HarderThe Rolling Stones 2:17£0.79
Listen11. Out Of TimeThe Rolling Stones 3:21£0.79
Listen12. Jiving Sister FannyThe Rolling Stones 3:19£0.79
Listen13. Sympathy For The DevilThe Rolling Stones 6:16£0.79

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THE SINGLES COLLECTION: THE LONDON YEARS comes as advertised--the box includes every American and British A-side and B-side the Rolling Stones released between 1963 and 1971 (after which the band began releasing discs under the Rolling Stones Records imprint). The fantastic speed and scope of the Stones' early artistic development have few parallels in popular music, and this collection not only details that incredible process, but serves as a microcosm of '60s pop culture as well.
From the down-and-dirty Chicago-style blues and R&B of the group's early covers (Chuck Berry's "Come On", Willie Dixon's "I Just Wanna Make Love to You") to the dreamy chamber pop of "Lady Jane" and the proto-hard rock of "StreetFightin' Man", the band was always on the cutting edge, both reacting to and anticipating cultural and musical trends. One listen to this box, however, reveals that, unlike the Beatles, the Stones seldom veered far from their roots, alwaysinjecting a vital dose of raw sexuality and pure rock & roll spirit into even the boldest of experiments.

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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Expensive? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely., 24 Jun 2004
This review is from: The Singles Collection: The London Years (Audio CD)
With so many Rolling Stones compilations now on the market, it must be difficult to know where to start. Well, it all depends on what you are after. Allow me to illustrate. If you want a concise package of their best material from their best era, then go for Hot Rocks. If you're after an overview of their entire career, then it's Forty Licks all the way. However, if you want a comprehensive anthology of the Stones' evolution from blues wannabes to world superstars, then they don't come much better than this.

Strange as it seems in this day and age, the Stones were essentially a singles band up until around 1968. In those days, a-sides were how a band was defined. But the b-sides were important as well, and people used to actually listen to them, unlike now. Here, we get all of their early singles - a-sides and b-sides - gathered together back to back onto 3 discs. So, whilst we get all the usual suspects, like Not Fade Away, Satisfaction and Get Off My Cloud, we are also treated to such early gems as Little By Little, Off The Hook and The Spider And The Fly. Along with Paint It Black and Mother's Little Helper, we also get Long Long While and We Love You. Absolutely Superb!

The only place where this collection falters is, wait for it, around 1968, when the Stones - indeed the world - became less interested in singles and more into albums. Hence the album track Gimme Shelter does not qualify for a place here, whereas b-sides Surprise Surprise and Try A Little Harder do. Hmm, shame. Still, the compilers have used the opportunity to gather up some half decent loose material from that time, such as Jiving Sister Fanny and Mick Jagger's Memo From Turner, so bravo for doing that! All of which makes this an indispensable collection - five stars!

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Expensive but packed with memories..., 8 Jan 2004
By nicjaytee (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Singles Collection: The London Years (Audio CD)
For those seeking a cross section of the Stones' best early period work this album is of limited value, missing - as it does - key tracks from their first albums. For those seeking a compilation of early period "Greatest Hits" it's a fairly expensive luxury. So... why 4 stars?

Easy... if you were living in London when "Come On" was released, if you went to your local record store and played it and it's marvellous "B" side - "I Want To Be Loved" - on your mono, low-fi record player over and over again, if you went back to the store and bought single after single as they were released and put both sides through the same repeat play process, if you still have them in your attic in a lovingly scratched, wholly unplayable state or if you've lost them over the years... then this is all you could ask for.

"B" sides were important then and, with a group like the Rolling Stones you played them, sometimes as much as the "A" sides. Disc One contains all the "B" side classics: "I Want To Be Loved", "Stoned", "Little By Little", "Good Times, Bad Times", "Off The Hook", "Play With Fire" etc. And, while the "B" sides on CD Two and Three are more patchy and less relevant, the A sides on these two CD's are a pretty comprehensive "Greatest Hits" collection in their own right.

So, if you were there and you want to be there again, then CD One is an indispensable memory bank: play it straight through and you can almost hear the 45's dropping down from the multidisk arm. And if you weren't, well this is what it was like!

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37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive sixties collection, 1 Feb 2003
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Singles Collection: The London Years (Audio CD)
The Rolling Stones have had a very long career, but it their sixties music on which their reputation is based, and it is that music which this set focuses on. Originally released as a boxed set, it was later re-released as a triple CD. In 2002, a new re-mastered version of the triple CD was released with improved sound quality.

Their first single was Come on, a cover of a Chuck Berry song. It made the top thirty in Britain. The follow-up single, a cover of the Beatles' I wanna be your man, fared better, just failing to make the British top ten. Next came Not fade away, a cover of a Buddy Holly song but with a Bo Diddley beat. Continuing with covers, this was followed by Its all over now, originally recorded by the Valentinos, a group which included Bobby Womack. In November 1964, Little red rooster (a hitherto obscure blues song) became another cover hit. Like Its all over now, it was a British number one. In 1965, they had phenomenal success with their own self-penned songs. The last time, (I can't get no) Satisfaction and Get off of my cloud were all major international hits. All three were British number ones.

All the above classics are here, plus those that followed including Jumping Jack Flash and Honky tonk women. You also get their versions of songs they wrote but allowed others to have hits with, like As tears go by (Marianne Faithful) and Out of time (Chris Farlowe). Ruby Tuesday was only a B-side but was later covered by Melanie who was very successful with it.

This is an excellent collection of music by one of the most important groups in rock history, when they were at their peak.

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