Forty Licks is a
doubleA double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold . A double album is typically, though not always, released because the recording is longer than the capacity of the medium...
compilation albumA compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter...
by
The Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup...
. A forty-year career-spanning retrospective,
Forty Licks is notable for being the first retrospective to combine the band's formative
DeccaDecca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades...
/
LondonLondon Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 through 1979, then becoming a semi-independent label.-History:...
era of the 1960s, now licensed by
ABKCO RecordsABKCO Music & Records, Inc. is a New York headquartered independent record label, music publisher, and film and video production company. It owns and or administers the rights to music by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks as well as the...
(on disc one), with their self-owned post-1970 material, currently distributed by
Universal Music GroupUniversal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. It is the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
(on disc two). Nevertheless, the compilation is currently
out of printOut of print refers to an item, typically a book , but can include any print or visual media or sound recording, that is in the anachronistic state of no longer being published....
.
Forty Licks was compiled following the enormous success of
The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
'
1 compilation from 2000.
Forty Licks is a
doubleA double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold . A double album is typically, though not always, released because the recording is longer than the capacity of the medium...
compilation albumA compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter...
by
The Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup...
. A forty-year career-spanning retrospective,
Forty Licks is notable for being the first retrospective to combine the band's formative
DeccaDecca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades...
/
LondonLondon Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 through 1979, then becoming a semi-independent label.-History:...
era of the 1960s, now licensed by
ABKCO RecordsABKCO Music & Records, Inc. is a New York headquartered independent record label, music publisher, and film and video production company. It owns and or administers the rights to music by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks as well as the...
(on disc one), with their self-owned post-1970 material, currently distributed by
Universal Music GroupUniversal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. It is the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
(on disc two). Nevertheless, the compilation is currently
out of printOut of print refers to an item, typically a book , but can include any print or visual media or sound recording, that is in the anachronistic state of no longer being published....
.
History
Forty Licks was compiled following the enormous success of
The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
'
1 compilation from 2000. Released in September,
Forty Licks peaked at #2 in the UK and US—behind
Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King....
's
30 #1 Hits package—selling close to 8 million units worldwide. In the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
alone, it is certified quadruple platinum. Of the four new songs featured on disc two, "Don't Stop" was promoted as a single, becoming a minor hit in both the UK and the US.
The album contains tracks from throughout the Stones' career, but omits
Dirty WorkDirty Work is The Rolling Stones' 18th studio album . It was released on 24 March 1986 on the Rolling Stones label by CBS Records...
.
Concurrently with the album's release, The Rolling Stones embarked on the successful, year-long international
Licks TourThe Licks Tour was a lengthy, truly worldwide concert tour held during 2002 and 2003 by The Rolling Stones. Its start was somewhat concurrent with the compilation album Forty Licks, which was released on October 1, 2002....
, which would result in
Live LicksLive Licks is a double live album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 2004. Coming six years after No Security, this seventh official Rolling Stones full-length live release captures performances from the band's year-long 2002–2003 Licks Tour in support of their career-spanning retrospective...
in 2004.
Track listing
Note that recent Chinese produced versions only have 36 tracks—"Honky Tonk Women" and "Let's Spend the Night Together" are missing from disc one and "Brown Sugar" and "Beast of Burden" are missing from disc two and all tracks are in
monoMonaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...
format only. All albums referenced are in the American catalogue, excluding compilations, though in other countries the albums may have separate track listings.
Disc one
| # | Title | Time | From the album | Composers | Date |
|---|
| 01. |
"Street Fighting Man "Street Fighting Man" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Called the Stones' "most political song", Rolling Stone ranked the song #295 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.-Inspiration:Originally titled and recorded...
" |
3:15 |
Beggars Banquet Beggars Banquet is the seventh studio album by the English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released by Decca Records/ABCKO Records in the United Kingdom and London Records/ABKCO in the United States in December 1968...
|
(Jagger/Richards) The songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, known as Jagger/Richards is a musical collaboration whose output is primarily part of the catalogue of their group, The Rolling Stones....
|
August 1968 |
| 02. |
"Gimme Shelter "Gimme Shelter" is a song by the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. It first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1969 album Let It Bleed. Although the first word was spelled "Gimmie" on that album, subsequent recordings by the band and other musicians have made "Gimme" the customary...
" |
4:31 |
Let It Bleed Let It Bleed is the eighth album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in late-November 1969 by Decca Records/ABKCO Records in the United Kingdom and London Records/ABKCO in the United States...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
November 1969 |
| 03. |
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Satisfaction" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones released in 1965. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. The number is noted for Richards's three-note guitar riff which opens and drives the song, and for the lyrics, which include...
" |
3:43 |
Out of Our Heads Out of Our Heads is The Rolling Stones' third British album and their fourth in the United States. It was released in 1965 through their original distributors - London Records in the US on 30 July 1965, and Decca Records in the UK on 24 September 1965 , although with significant track listing...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
June 1965 |
| 04. |
"The Last Time "The Last Time" is a song by the British rock band The Rolling Stones. This was the first Rolling Stones single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to reach # 1 in the UK, where it stayed for four straight weeks...
" |
3:41 |
Out of Our Heads |
(Jagger/Richards) |
February 1965 |
| 05. |
"Jumpin' Jack Flash "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, released as a single in 1968. Called "supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London" by Rolling Stone, the song is seen as the band's return to their blues roots after the psychedelia of their preceding albums...
" |
3:42 |
non-album single |
(Jagger/Richards) |
May 1968 |
| 06. |
"You Can't Always Get What You Want "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the Rolling Stones released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone in its 2004 list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."-The song:"You Can't...
" |
7:28 |
Let It Bleed |
(Jagger/Richards) |
November 1969 |
| 07. |
"19th Nervous Breakdown "19th Nervous Breakdown" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones.The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards during their 1965 tour of the United States. The song was recorded during the Aftermath sessions between December 3 and 8, 1965 at RCA Recording Studios in...
" |
3:56 |
non-album single |
(Jagger/Richards) |
February 1966 |
| 08. |
"Under My Thumb "Under My Thumb" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones. Its first appearance was as an album track on 1966's Aftermath, and though it was never released as a single, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the period, appearing frequently on best-of...
" |
3:41 |
Aftermath |
(Jagger/Richards) |
April 1966 |
| 09. |
"Not Fade Away "Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, in May 1957. The song's rhythm pattern is one of the classic examples of the Bo Diddley beat; Crickets drummer Jerry Allison pounded out the beat on a cardboard...
" |
1:48 |
The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones is the debut album by The Rolling Stones, released by Decca Records in the United Kingdom on 16 April 1964. The American edition of the LP—with a slightly different track list—came out on London Records on 30 May 1964, under the title England's Newest Hit Makers.Recorded at...
|
(Buddy HollyCharles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
/Norman PettyNorman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwest who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....
) |
February 1964 |
| 10. |
"Have You Seen Your Mother Baby? "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" is a song by the British rock 'n' roll band The Rolling Stones. It first appeared as a single in September 1966 and was included as the opening track on the UK version of their 1966 compilation album Big Hits .Written by Mick Jagger and...
" |
2:35 |
non-album single |
(Jagger/Richards) |
September 1966 |
| 11. |
"Sympathy for the Devil"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by The Rolling Stones which first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1968 album Beggars Banquet. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards...
" |
6:17 |
Beggars Banquet |
(Jagger/Richards) |
December 1968 |
| 12. |
"Mother's Little Helper "Mother's Little Helper" is a song by the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. It first appeared as the opening track to the UK version of their 1966 album Aftermath....
" |
2:46 |
| Aftermath |
(Jagger/Richards) |
July 1966 |
| 13. |
"She's a Rainbow "She's a Rainbow" is a song by the English rock 'n roll band The Rolling Stones and was featured on their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request.Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "She's a Rainbow" was recorded on May 18, 1967...
" (No Intro/Single Edit) |
4:13 |
Their Satanic Majesties Request Their Satanic Majesties Request is the sixth studio album by The Rolling Stones and was released on 8 December 1967 by Decca Records/ABKCO Records in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States by London Records/ABKCO...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
December 1967 |
| 14. |
"Get Off of My Cloud "Get Off of My Cloud" is a song by the British rock band The Rolling Stones. It was written as a follow-up single to the successful " Satisfaction". The song topped the charts in the U.S. and the UK in the weeks following its release in November 1965.Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the...
" |
2:55 |
December's Children (And Everybody's) December's Children is the fifth American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in late 1965. Drawn largely from two days of sessions recorded in September to finish the British edition of Out of Our Heads and to record their new single—"Get Off Of My Cloud"—December's Children also...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
September 1965 |
| 15. |
"Wild Horses "Wild Horses" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Rolling Stone ranked it at #334 in its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2004.-Inspiration and recording:...
" |
5:43 |
Sticky Fingers Sticky Fingers is the ninth studio album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in April 1971. It is the band's first album of the 1970s and its first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records, after having been contracted since 1963 with Decca Records in the UK...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
June 1971 |
| 16. |
"Ruby Tuesday "Ruby Tuesday" is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966, released in January 1967. The song was a number-one hit in the US and a number three in the UK.-Music and inspiration:...
" |
3:13 |
Between the Buttons Between the Buttons is the fifth British and seventh American studio album by The Rolling Stones and was released on 20 January 1967, in the United Kingdom and 11 February 1967, in the United States as the follow-up to the ambitious Aftermath....
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
January 1967 |
| 17. |
"Paint It, Black "Paint It, Black" is a song released by The Rolling Stones as a single in 1966. It also appeared as the opening track of the US version of their 1966 album Aftermath....
" |
3:44 |
Aftermath |
(Jagger/Richards) |
May 1966 |
| 18. |
"Honky Tonk Women "Honky Tonk Women" is a 1969 hit song by The Rolling Stones. Released as a single on 4 July 1969 in the UK and a week later in the US, it topped the charts in both nations.-Inspiration and Recording:...
" |
3:00 |
non-album single |
(Jagger/Richards) |
July 1969 |
| 19. |
"It's All Over Now "It's All Over Now" was written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack. It was first released by The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack. The Valentinos version entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 27, 1964, where it stayed on the chart for two weeks. peaking at #94...
" |
3:26 |
12 X 5 12 X 5 is the second American album by The Rolling Stones released in 1964 following the massive success of their debut The Rolling Stones in the UK and the promising sales of its American substitute England's Newest Hit Makers....
|
(Bobby Womack Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...
/Shirley Jean Womack) |
June 1964 |
| 20. |
"Let's Spend the Night Together "Let's Spend the Night Together" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and originally released as a single by The Rolling Stones in 1967...
" |
3:26 |
Between the Buttons |
(Jagger/Richards) |
January 1967 |
Disc two
| # | Title | Time | From the album | Composers | Date |
|---|
| 01. |
"Start Me Up "Start Me Up" is a song by The Rolling Stones featured on the 1981 album Tattoo You.-Recording:"Start Me Up" was first recorded in Munich during the 1975 Black and Blue sessions, and later in the 1977 Some Girls and the 1979 Emotional Rescue sessions under the working titles "Never Stop" and "Start...
" |
3:33 |
Tattoo You Tattoo You is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1981. The follow-up to Emotional Rescue, it proved to be a big critical and commercial success upon its release and is still celebrated as one of The Rolling Stones' finest full-length releases, despite its prolonged recording...
|
(Jagger/Richards) The songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, known as Jagger/Richards is a musical collaboration whose output is primarily part of the catalogue of their group, The Rolling Stones....
|
August 1981 |
| 02. |
"Brown Sugar Brown Sugar is also a song on ZZ Top's First Album"Brown Sugar" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's 1971 album Sticky Fingers...
" |
3:50 |
Sticky Fingers |
(Jagger/Richards) |
April 1971 |
| 03. |
"Miss You" |
3:35 |
Some Girls Some Girls is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978. Considered a highlight of their output and the best of their post-Exile on Main St. records, the album revitalized the band's career upon its release and re-established The Rolling Stones as a vital rock and roll band in an era infused...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
May 1978 |
| 04. |
"Beast of Burden "Beast of Burden" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, featured on the 1978 album Some Girls. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #435 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.-Inspiration and recording:...
" (Single Edit) |
3:28 |
Some Girls |
(Jagger/Richards) |
September 1978 |
| 05. |
"Don't Stop "Don't Stop" is a single by rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 2002 double-compilation album Forty Licks.Credited to singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, "Don't Stop" was largely the work of Jagger. Writing began during Jagger's preparations for his 2001 album...
" |
3:59 |
new song |
(Jagger/Richards) |
September 2002 |
| 06. |
"Happy "Happy" is the tenth track on the Rolling Stones' 1972 album Exile on Main St. Keith Richards sings lead vocals. Released as the second single from the album in July 1972, it reached number 22 in the US charts....
" |
3:05 |
Exile on Main St. Exile on Main St. is the tenth studio album by English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released as a double LP in 1972 and drew on influences from rock & roll, blues, country and soul. Initially "Exile" was greeted with lukewarm reviews, but is now widely considered among the band's finest...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
July 1972 |
| 07. |
"Angie" |
4:32 |
Goats Head Soup Goats Head Soup is an album by The Rolling Stones released in 1973. It was recorded as the follow-up to 1972's critically acclaimed Exile on Main St. Goats Head Soup was a more polished production than the raw and ragged Exile. It reflected the resurgence of soul-pop and the rise of funk, while...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
August 1973 |
| 08. |
"You Got Me Rocking "You Got Me Rocking" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge.Begun in early in 1993, "You Got Me Rocking" was initially a blues number; bootlegs have Jagger and Richards working the song as a slower, blues flavored ramble, with Jagger...
" |
3:34 |
Voodoo Lounge Voodoo Lounge is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in July 1994. As their first new release under their new alliance with Virgin Records, it ended a five-year gap since their last studio album, Steel Wheels in 1989. Voodoo Lounge is also The Rolling Stones' first album without founding...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
September 1994 |
| 09. |
"Shattered "Shattered" is a song by The Rolling Stones from their 1978 album Some Girls. The song is seen as a reflection of American lifestyles and life in 1970s-era New York City, but also influences from the English punk movement can be heard. It also foreshadowed the upcoming Rap movement as Jagger's...
" |
3:46 |
Some Girls |
(Jagger/Richards) |
November 1978 |
| 10. |
"Fool to Cry "Fool to Cry" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1976 album Black and Blue.Recorded in December of 1974, the song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and is notable among songs in the Stones canon as it is a slow-paced ballad. Mick Taylor had just left...
" (Single Edit) |
4:07 |
Black and Blue Black and Blue is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1976. It was the band's first studio album released with Ronnie Wood as the replacement for Mick Taylor...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
April 1976 |
| 11. |
"Love Is Strong "Love Is Strong" is the opening track, and first single, by The Rolling Stones from their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge.-Inspiration and recording:...
" |
3:48 |
Voodoo Lounge |
(Jagger/Richards) |
July 1994 |
| 12. |
"Mixed Emotions" (Single Edit) |
4:01 |
Steel Wheels Steel Wheels is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1989. Heralded as a major comeback upon its release, the project is notable for the patching up of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' relationship, a reversion to a more classic style of music and the launching of the band's biggest...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
August 1989 |
| 13. |
"Keys to Your Love" |
4:11 |
new song |
(Jagger/Richards) |
2002 |
| 14. |
"Anybody Seen My Baby? "Anybody Seen My Baby?" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones featured on their 1997 album Bridges to Babylon.Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song also carries writing credits for K.D. Lang and Ben Mink. The song is known for its chorus, which sounds strikingly...
" (Forty Licks Edit) |
4:08 |
Bridges to Babylon Bridges to Babylon is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1997. It would prove to be their final studio album of the 1990s and their last full-length release of new songs until 2005...
|
(Jagger/Richards/Lang k.d. lang OC is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials.Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances...
/MinkBen Mink is a Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.Born in Detroit, Michigan of Polish parents, Mink was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His family moved to Toronto, Ontario when he was 11 years old....
) |
September 1997 |
| 15. |
"Stealing My Heart" |
3:42 |
new song |
(Jagger/Richards) |
2002 |
| 16. |
"Tumbling Dice"Tumbling Dice" is a rock song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones' 1972 double album Exile on Main St. and was the album's first single. The single peaked at #7 on the charts in the United States and #5 in the United Kingdom....
" |
3:47 |
Exile on Main St. |
(Jagger/Richards) |
April 1972 |
| 17. |
"Undercover of the Night "Undercover of the Night" is the lead track and first single from English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones' 1983 album Undercover.-Inspiration and recording:...
" (Forty Licks Edit) |
4:13 |
Undercover Undercover is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1983. After their preceding studio album, Tattoo You, which was mostly patched together from a selection of outtakes, Undercover was their first release of all newly-recorded material in the 1980s...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
November 1983 |
| 18. |
"Emotional Rescue "Emotional Rescue" is a song by the English rock 'n roll band, The Rolling Stones. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and is featured on their 1980 album Emotional Rescue....
" (Forty Licks Edit) |
3:41 |
Emotional Rescue Emotional Rescue is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1980. Upon release, Emotional Rescue topped the charts in both the United States and United Kingdom.-History:...
|
(Jagger/Richards) |
June 1980 |
| 19. |
"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" (Forty Licks Edit) |
4:09 |
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll |
(Jagger/Richards) |
July 1974 |
| 20. |
"Losing My Touch" |
5:06 |
new song |
(Jagger/Richards) |
2002 |
Other songs
The songs in the list below are songs which did not appear on
Forty Licks, but were either on
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (1971) or
Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling StonesJump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones is the sixth official compilation album by The Rolling Stones and was initially released worldwide, except in North America, in 1993...
(1993). Up until
Forty Licks' release in 2002, these two
compilation albumA compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter...
s were the most comprehensive
greatest hitsA greatest hits album is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band...
sets available for The Rolling Stones. Each set covered one label of The Rolling Stones catalogue. Many other compilation albums exist from the two labels, yet these are considered to be the two most comprehensive greatest hits albums of all.
Note that of the 33 songs (on
Forty Licks) which could have been on these two compilation albums, only 7 were not. The five songs from disc 1 not on
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 all appeared on its follow up release
More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)More Hot Rocks is the second compilation album of Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records after the band's departure from Decca and Klein...
. The two remaining songs can be easily explained for their absence on
Jump Back. In the case of "Happy" it would be the only song on the album with Keith Richards on vocals; and in the case of "Shattered" it was an American-only single, while Britain had "Respectable" as their single for that time period. Until the year 2004
Jump Back was only available in Britain.
Songs from
Hot Rocks and
Jump Back not appearing on
Forty Licks
| # | Title | Time | From the album | From the compilation | Composers | Year |
|---|
| 01. |
"Time Is on My Side "Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy . First recorded by jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his Orchestra in 1963, it was covered with additional lyrics by Jimmy Norman by both soul singer Irma Thomas and The Rolling Stones in 1964.-History:Winding session arranger Garry Sherman...
" (Guitar Intro) |
2:58 |
12X5 |
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 |
(Meade/Ragovoy Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy is an American songwriter and record producer.His best-known composition "Time Is on My Side" was made famous by the The Rolling Stones, although it had been recorded earlier by Kai Winding and Irma Thomas...
) |
1964 |
| 02. |
"Heart of Stone -Inspiration:Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Heart of Stone" is an inspired by the blues and R&B, being one of their first compositions released as a lead single....
" |
2:50 |
The Rolling Stones, Now! The Rolling Stones, Now! is the third American studio album by The Rolling Stones and was released in the 1965 by their initial American distributor, London Records.The album contained seven tracks from their second UK album The Rolling Stones No...
|
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 |
(Jagger/Richards) |
1965 |
| 03. |
"Play with Fire "Play with Fire" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, originally released as B-side to the song "The Last Time". It was later included on their 1965 album Out of Our Heads....
" |
2:13 |
Out of Our Heads |
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 |
(Nanker Phelge Nanker Phelge was a collective pseudonym used between 1963 and 1965 for several Rolling Stones group compositions. Stones bassist Bill Wyman explained the origins of the name in his 2002 book, Rolling with the Stones:...
) |
1965 |
| 04. |
"As Tears Go By "As Tears Go By" is a song written by The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, and their manager Andrew Loog Oldham, and was a popular hit for both British singer Marianne Faithfull in 1964 and The Rolling Stones in 1965....
" |
2:45 |
December's Children (And Everybody's) |
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 |
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/Oldham Andrew Loog Oldham is an English producer, impresario and author. He was manager of The Rolling Stones in the 1960s, and was noted for his flamboyant style.-Biography:...
) |
1965 |
| 05. |
"Midnight Rambler "Midnight Rambler" is a song by British rock band the Rolling Stones, released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed.The lyrics take the point of view of a roaming rapist/murderer; some of the words are reportedly quotes from Albert DeSalvo's confession to the Boston Strangler's crimes. Keith Richards...
" (Live) |
9:14 |
| Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! `Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!´: The Rolling Stones in Concert is a live album by The Rolling Stones, released 4 September 1970 on Decca Records/ABKCO Records in the United Kingdom and on London Records/ABKCO in the United States...
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Hot Rocks 1964–1971 |
(Jagger/Richards) |
1971 |
| 06. |
"Bitch" |
3:37 |
| Sticky Fingers |
Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones is the sixth official compilation album by The Rolling Stones and was initially released worldwide, except in North America, in 1993...
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(Jagger/Richards) |
1971 |
| 07. |
"Hot Stuff" (Single Edit) |
3:37 |
| Black and Blue |
Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones |
(Jagger/Richards) |
1976 |
| 08. |
"Respectable" |
3:07 |
Some Girls |
Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones |
(Jagger/Richards) |
1978 |
| 09. |
"Waiting on a Friend "Waiting on a Friend" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1981 release Tattoo You.-History:It was first played as early as 1970, when Mick Taylor first joined the group and was recording with Jagger in London...
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4:35 |
Tattoo You |
Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones |
(Jagger/Richards) |
1981 |
| 10. |
"Harlem Shuffle "Harlem Shuffle" is an R&B song originally written and recorded by the duo Bob & Earl in 1963, and covered by Booker T and the MG's,also covered by John Fred and his Playboy Band in 1966 on their self titled album, as well by Vigon , Johnny and Edgar Winter in the album Together and the The...
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3:24 |
| Dirty Work Dirty Work is The Rolling Stones' 18th studio album . It was released on 24 March 1986 on the Rolling Stones label by CBS Records...
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Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones |
(Nelson/Relf) |
1986 |
| 11. |
"Rock and a Hard Place "Rock and a Hard Place" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1989 album Steel Wheels. It's the second single from the album. It remains to this day the most recent Billboard Top 40 hit by the band.-Recording:...
" (Single Edit) |
4:05 |
Steel Wheels |
Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones |
(Jagger/Richards) |
1989 |
Personnel
The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, occasional film producer and actor, best known for his work as lead vocalist and frontman of The Rolling Stones.The Rolling Stones started in the early 1960s as a...
– leadThe lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. Lead vocalists may also play one or more instruments...
vocalsSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
, harmonicaThe harmonica is a free reed wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers causes a reed or multiple reeds to vibrate up and down creating sound...
, percussionA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration...
, guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
, and electricAn electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electronic signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical...
pianoThe piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
- Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and one of the founding members of the rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, his flamboyant attire and his recreational drug excesses.- Early life :Jones was born in the Park Nursing Home in Cheltenham,...
– leadA lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays...
, slideSlide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide is in reference to the sliding motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides, which were the necks of glass bottles...
, and rhythm guitarRhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chordal accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the acoustic, country, blues, rock or metal genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the...
, tamboura, marimbaThe marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. Keys or bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones...
, harmonica, backing vocalsA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
, recorder, piano, and sitarThe sitar is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
- Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of...
– lead, slide, rhythm, and acoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only acoustic methods to project the sound produced by its strings. The term is a retronym, coined after the advent of electric guitars, which depend on electronic amplification to make their sound audible....
, backing vocals, bass guitarThe electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....
, bowed double bassThe double bass, also called the upright bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The name, "double bass," derives from the early use of the instrument to double—an octave lower where possible—the bass part written...
, and lead vocals
- Mick Taylor
Michael "Mick" Kevin Taylor born 17 January 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English musician best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones....
– lead, slide, and rhythm guitar, bass guitar, and backing vocals
- Charlie Watts
Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is a jazz bandleader, record producer, commercial artist and horse breeder...
– drumsA drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...
, percussion, and backing vocals
- Ronnie Wood – guitars, backing vocals, O/D bass drum
A bass drum is a relatively large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The bass drums are of variable sizes and are used in several musical genres . Three major types of bass drums can be distinguished: the large orchestral bass drum, the smaller kick' drum, and the...
, and bass guitar
- Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...
– bass guitar, maracas, backing vocals, and bowed double bass
Additional musicians
- Madelaine Bell – backing vocals
- Sugar Blue – harmonica
- Blondie Chaplin
Terence William 'Blondie' Chaplin is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a singer and guitarist for The Beach Boys...
– background vocals and shakerThe word shaker describes a large number of percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music.They are so called because the method of creating sound involves shaking them—moving them back and forth rather than striking them. Most may also be struck for a greater accent on certain...
- Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer , and an actress. She has provided a number of back-up vocal tracks to songs recorded by major performing artists during the 1960s, notably her powerfully-sung duet with Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter"...
– vocals
- Mel Collins
Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and prominent session musician....
– saxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841...
- Sara Dash – backing vocals
- Jim Dickinson
James Luther "Jim" Dickinson was an American record producer, pianist, and singer who fronted, among others, the Memphis based band, Mudboy & The Neutrons.- Biography :...
– piano
- Rocky Dijon – percussion and conga
The conga is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent....
s
- Sly Dunbar
Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar is a drummer.-Biography:Working together with Robbie Shakespeare, Sly and Robbie are considered one of the world's premier rhythm sections for their work in the field of reggae...
– percussion
- Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull, Baroness Sacher-Masoch is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s...
– backing vocals
- Lisa Fischer
Lisa Fischer is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B vocalist, known for her beautiful image, impressive vocal range and talents that reach high up to the whistle register, and her 1991 smash hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain". Fischer has been recognized as one of the most successful session...
– backing vocals
- Bernard Fowler
Bernard Fowler is an American musician and songwriter, known as powerful vocalist with a wide range, who has provided backing vocals with the Rolling Stones, for over 20 years on recordings and tours, collectively and individually, as well as being a regular featured singer on other musicians'...
– backing vocals
- Nicky Harrison – string
A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are guitar, violin, viola,...
arrangementIn music, an arrangement is either a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet...
- Nicky Hopkins
Nicky Hopkins Nicky Hopkins Nicky Hopkins (born Nicholas Christian Hopkins (February 24, 1944 – September 6, 1994) was an English pianist and organist.He recorded and performed on some of the most important British and American popular music recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely...
– piano and backing vocals
- Kick Horns – brass
A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...
- Luis Jardim
Luis Alberto Figueira Goncalve Jardim is a Portuguese percussionist, born in the Madeira Island, best known for his work with producer Trevor Horn....
– percussion
- Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones , also known as "The Munch", is an American bass guitarist. He is highly regarded for his stylish bass-playing in jazz, blues, and rock music....
– bass guitar
- John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist musician.Best known as the...
– string arrangement
- Bobby Keys
Bobby Keys is an American saxophone player and together with Jim Price and occasionally Jim Horn formed the most in-demand horn section of the 1970s...
– saxophone and percussion
- Clydie King – backing vocals
- Al Kooper
Al Kooper is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, probably best known for organizing the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, though he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity...
– piano, French horn, and organThe organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet...
- Chuck Leavell
Chuck Leavell is an American pianist and keyboardist, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and later, the keyboardist for Eric Clapton and The Rolling...
– piano, organ, and keyboardsA keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- The London Bach Choir – choir
A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together is called a choir or chorus...
- Dave Mason
David Thomas Mason is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. In his long career, Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, The Rolling...
– shenai
- Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands, the Small Faces, and the Faces.-Small Faces and Faces:...
– electric piano
- Jimmy Miller – percussion, drums, and cowbell
- Jamie Muhoberac
Jamie Muhoberac is a session keyboardist with numerous credits, including The All-American Rejects, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones , Backstreet Boys, Aly & AJ, Bob Dylan, Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Cornell , My Chemical Romance, Paradise Lost, Carmen Rizzo and Pet Shop Boys...
– bass guitar and keyboards
- Ivan Neville
Ivan Neville is a multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to members of the Neville Brothers....
– backing vocals
- Nanette Newman
-Early life and career:Born in Northampton, England, she was educated at Sternhold College, the Italia Conti Academy stage school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London....
– backing vocals
- Jack Nitzsche
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an arranger, producer, songwriter and film score composer.- Biography :...
– piano and choral arrangements
- Denis O'Regan
Denis O'Regan is a renowned English rock photographer. Although his imagery is particularly associated with the Punk movement, Queen, David Bowie, and Duran Duran, O'Regan has photographed everyone from AC/DC to ZZ Top, documenting Punk, New Romanticism, Grunge, and Heavy Metal along the way...
– photography
- Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg is a model, actress and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1979.-Early life:...
– backing vocals
- Jim Price
Jim Price may refer to:*Jim Price , former NFL tight end*Jim Price , former catcher in for the Detroit Tigers*Jim Price , manager of the New York Gothams...
– trumpetThe trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC...
and tromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
- Ian Stewart
Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was a Scottish keyboardist and cofounder of The Rolling Stones. He was dismissed from the line-up in May 1963 but he remained as road manager and piano player.- Role in the Rolling Stones :...
– piano
- Doris Troy – backing vocals
- Vanetta – backing vocals
- Waddy Wachtel
Robert "Waddy" Wachtel is a Los Angeles musician, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work...
– electric and acoustic guitar
- Don Was
Don Was is an American musician, bassist and record producer.Was was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year...
– keyboards
Chart positions
Album
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| 2002 |
left>UK Top 75 Albums |
2 |
| left>2002 |
left>The Billboard 200 |
2 |
Singles
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left>Single |
left>Chart |
left>Position |
| left>2002 |
left>"Don't Stop" |
left>Mainstream Rock Tracks |
21 |
| left>2002 |
left>"Don't Stop" |
left>UK Top 75 Singles |
36 |