Forty Licks

Rating

Album: Forty Licks
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Street Fighting Man
2)	Gimme Shelter
3)	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
4)	Last Time, The
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 of My Cloud
15)	Wild Horses
16)	Ruby Tuesday
17)	Paint It Black
18)	Honky Tonk Women
19)	It's All Over Now
20)	Let's Spend the Night Together
1)	Start Me Up
2)	Brown Sugar
3)	Miss You
4)	Beast of Burden
5)	Don't Stop - (previously unreleased)
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 - (previously unreleased)
14)	Anybody Seen My Baby?
15)	Stealing My Heart - (previously unreleased)
16)	Tumbling Dice
17)	Undercover of the Night
18)	Emotional Rescue
19)	It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)
20)	Losing My Touch - (previously unreleased)

Album: Forty Licks
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Street Fighting Man
2)	Gimme Shelter
3)	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
4)	Last Time, The
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 of My Cloud
15)	Wild Horses
16)	Ruby Tuesday
17)	Paint It Black
18)	Honky Tonk Women
19)	It's All Over Now
20)	Let's Spend the Night Together
1)	Start Me Up
2)	Brown Sugar
3)	Miss You
4)	Beast of Burden
5)	Don't Stop - (previously unreleased)
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 - (previously unreleased)
14)	Anybody Seen My Baby?
15)	Stealing My Heart - (previously unreleased)
16)	Tumbling Dice
17)	Undercover of the Night
18)	Emotional Rescue
19)	It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)
20)	Losing My Touch - (previously unreleased)

Performer Notes

Includes a 24 page color booklet with liner notes by David Wild.
The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion); Keith Richards (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, bowed double bass, background vocals); Mick Taylor (electric & slide guitars, bass); Brian Jones (electric guitar, sitar, recorder, harmonica, piano, marimba, tamboura, background vocals); Ron Wood (electric guitar, background vocals); Bill Wyman (bass, maracas, background vocals); Charlie Watts (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Merry Clayton (vocals); Sugar Blue (harmonica); Bobby Keyes (saxophone, percussion); Mel Collins (saxophone); Chuck Leavell (piano, organ, keyboards); Nicky Hopkins, Ian Stewart, Ian McLagan, Al Kooper (piano); Don Was (keyboards); Darryl Jones (bass); Blondie Chaplin (percussion, background vocals); Sly Dunbar, Luis Jardin (percussion); Clydie King, Vanetta, Ivan Neville, Bernard Fowler, Lisa Fischer, Sara Dash, Doris Troy, Madeline Bell, Nanette Newman, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg (background vocals); The London Bach Choir.
Producers include: Andrew Oldham, Jimmy Miller, The Glimmer Twins, Don Was.
Thirty years after the release of what had been the definitive Rolling Stones anthology, HOT ROCKS, the arrival of the two-disc Stones collection FORTY LICKS seemed bound to prompt compare/contrast debates. In the end, it's pretty much an apples-and-oranges situation. HOT ROCKS does have some great '60s tracks absent from the later release, but time is on the side of FORTY LICKS, which takes advantage of access to all the Stones' great post-1971 material, which is abundant, despite cynics' protests to the contrary. So besides the early hits/classics it shares with HOT ROCKS ("Satisfaction," "Brown Sugar," "Jumping Jack Flash," you know the drill), FORTY LICKS offers the stuttering, sassy "Start Me Up," the sensual, disco-tinged "Miss You," mission statement "It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)," and such tearjerkers as "Fool to Cry" and "Angie."
Impressively, FORTY LICKS simultaneously captures the glory of the Stones' first couple of phases and puts the lie to the benighted notion that the early '70s were this hardy band's last hurrah. And that's not even mentioning the four new, previously unreleased tracks these seemingly indefatigable icons saw fit to throw in.

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (10/4/02, p.155) - "...A nicely sequenced, relatively comprehensive collection..." - Rating: A-

Uncut (1/03, p.97) - Included in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year"

Uncut (12/02, p.158) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...A body of work that still fuels the aspirations of any garage band worth its salt..."

Mojo (Publisher) (11/02, p.114) - "...An album with something for everyone...the best value Stones compilation bar none..."