na: the rolling stones

03Apr08

The Rolling Stones are my absolute favorite band of all time, and now they’re on eMusic. How about them ABKCOs? There are 25 albums total, everything up through Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out, including Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet, Aftermath, Rock & Roll Circus, 12 X 5 and on and on. In fact, we have everything that matters from the Stones, aside three records (Exile, Sticky Fingers, and one half (each) of Goat’s Head Soup and Some Girls). Pretty damn good haul, huh?

Editorially, we went all out on this stuff. Lenny Kaye, Ira Robbins and Ben Fong-Torres are among the incredibly knowledgeable folks who helped to put this stuff into its proper context. If you click around, you will find that every single one of these things is covered, and I even put together my own list of the 15 Best Unknown Stones songs (a feature I have basically spent my entire post-adolescent life researching). So yeah, we’re pretty effing excited, and we hope you are, too. Do you have a particular Stones recommendation you would like to share with the rest of the class (Amazing Larry)? If so, just drop it in the comments.

yancey.

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1 Mr B on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

I weep for it’s only US…
2 WJPurdy on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

Amazing. EMu is on a completely unprecedented roll in 2008. Nice work, folks.
3 micah on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

yawn.
4 graham on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

Wow, talk about go big or stay home. A McSweeney’s audiobook, David Murray’s DIW catalog, and now this. Fantastic.

Also, great list, yancey.
5 Higgy on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

OMG….Maybe you should get a link to Buy a Booster Pack on all those Stones pages, he said weeping…
6 Jazzinator on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

This is awesome news and a very welcome addition to the site - cheers to all involved!
7 jrn on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

yeah, nice list yancey. of course there’s always some slight divergence of taste but the very fact that you put the Dirty Mac on there is brilliant. the track absolutely destroys. also get jagger and lennon’s intro. classic.
8 Mondegreen on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

Between this and Jay-Z earlier in the month, we might be headed for a troll-free 2009. I single tear rolls down my cheek.
9 Tom Hilton on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

Wow. I’m not one of those folks who miss the big-name acts (you can always get them elsewhere), but still–this is a huge addition. Well done.

Between this and Jay-Z earlier in the month, we might be headed for a troll-free 2009.

People who are inclined to troll will always find something to troll about. Alas.
10 Daniel, Esq. on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

I’m not looking for mainstream artists to flood into eMusic, either. A little of that goes a long way, and too much of it could do real harm to eMusic’s niche in the market (and put it in a grey area where it’s more squarely competing for iTunes, which would be an uphill battle). So I’ll shed no tears if we never see Asia or Boston or Beyonce or the Backstreet Boys on eMusic.

But having said that, select items from a major label’s back catalogue fit nicely within eMusic’s concept. And today’s additions from The Rolling Stones do, as well. These songs are gritty and savage and bluesy; they aren’t sleek or polished or glossy. They fit here, I think, and Yancey’s feature today — highlighting overlooked Stones gems — makes a powerful case for why they belong here.
11 porieux on Apr 3rd, 2008 said:

I think the more music eMusic gets the better. Mainstream, underground, whatever. It all belongs there, and will only improve the service. There is no way adding more music could ever be a bad thing (though the mechanisms for finding, sorting etc that music can always be improved).
12 Json on Apr 15th, 2008 said:

Will this be US-only forever?

Canada needs the love!
13 Josh Love on Apr 17th, 2008 said:

a few of my unsung favorites: “I’m a King Bee,” “Fingerprint File,” “Hand of Fate,” “Indian Girl,” “No Use in Crying.”
14 midojo on Apr 17th, 2008 said:

@Yancey Thanks for the 15 songs article. I would have completely glossed over the “Yer Blues” and “A Quick One. . . ” I’m one of the few human mammels that never really liked the Stones. I mean, sure there are songs on “Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol.2)” that as a kid I used to play off of my father’s LP (one of the best Vinyl cases ever: hexagon) but for the most part I was never into them (read this as I think they are a greatly talented band but their music hasn’t touched me much so I pretty much ignored the biggest band ever to come to eMusic when they were put on the na list).

Maybe I’ll even download “Mother’s Little Helper” off of Darkly, ’cause I keep getting it stuck in my skull.
15 Adamm on May 9th, 2008 said:

So I just noticed ABKCO’s disappearance. Sorry to see them go, glad I got some while it was here. I hope you sent them a bill for all the time you put in on the launch.
16 MiDoJo on May 9th, 2008 said:

Yeah, FrankHecker (is it hecker or heckler?) wrote a good blog entry on it (see the link under the Comments here)
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