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  2. Nice. Have most of them in mono though and Beggar’s Banquet and Let it Bleed are “fold downs”. Looks like a mixture of US and UK albums (2 Out of Our Heads) and No. 2 finally on CD?

          • If an album was recorded on multitrack for stereo release at the end of the ’60s, what’s the point of remixing it now for mono? No point whatsoever aside from then being able to put it in a box labelled “In Mono”. They should either just call the box “The Stones Decca Recordings Box” and use stereo for the tracks that were originally released in stereo, or else only include stuff that was originally released in mono.

            Anyway, hopefully those older Stones Decca/London albums will now get decent individual CD and vinly releases, once sales of the boxes have died down.

  3. What’s on it?
    If the answer doesn’t include the phrase, ‘the first 2 UK LPs on CD,’ the amount of folding parted with from these quarters will have a familiar round quality to it.
    And, even if they are, you have to buy EVERYTHING again?!
    Ker-and-very-much-no-ching.

    At £10 for a cinema ticket and £10 for a CD, September was always going to be ‘Beatles month’ anyway!

          • OK, I think I’m getting there…..

            The extra LP (of 16) presumably means that “Stray Cats” (utilising the artwork the group initially hated, of course) is a double LP of 30 or so rogue As, Bs and EP tracks, which will fit snuggly onto 1 CD (of 15).
            Like a “Past Masters Vols. 1 and 2,” only 28 years too late!!!

            Really don’t like the idea of funding Elizabeth Jagger to the tune of 100 sovs, in fact it makes me want to vomit, but this will clearly need some serious consideration.

  7. Just worked out that the much maligned, though absolutely brilliant, Decca Records put out 15 singles, 3 EPs and 8 LPs (not counting the 2 superbly packaged compilations) under The Stones’ name in the 60s.

    If you bought all 26 records, which frankly you should have done, you would have replicated just 2 songs…..’Little By Little’ and ‘Off The Hook.’
    (note – the 2 versions of ‘You Can’t Always Get Want You Want’ are wildly different.)

    It’s a pity that such clarity of thought, and value for money, hasn’t informed the packaging and repackaging of Stones’ product since “Let It Bleed.”
    (note – if you bought the ‘Brown Sugar’ 45 and ‘Sticky Fingers,’ the first 2 releases on Rolling Stones Records, you would have replicated…..erm….2 songs.)

    • “…It’s a pity that such clarity of thought, and value for money, hasn’t informed the packaging and repackaging of Stones’ product since “Let It Bleed.””

      That’s why the two vinyl box sets from the German Decca (one with the 8 original UK vinyl albums, the other a 4 LP set with everything else – including a few unreleased items) are still sought after.

  8. Just when you thought they must of run out of ways of flogging this particular dead horse. Doe’s the world really need another Rolling Stones greatest hits in any format whatsoever?

  9. Having just discovered that the three albums of library music I bought this morning for a pound each are quite sought after, even in their (conservative) VG condition, the trio may likely fetch enough on eBay to pay for my Stones box. Wahey! etc.

    • Notions like ‘aptitude,’ in the realm of pop, is largely (95%?) an irrelevance.
      Jagger walks in a room, even the pre-fame Jagger, and the girls (and boys) fall at his feet.

      You really don’t reckon “Satisfaction,” “Paint It, Black,” “Street Fightin’ Man,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” or “Honky Tonk Women?”

      • In the context of the time, they made a handful of great pop singles, as you suggest, but I honestly don’t get the fuss, the longevity, the public’s willingness to keep paying to see them… I’ll say this, beyond the catchy riff in ‘Start Me Up’ NOTHING whatsoever from the Ron Wood years is worth a moment of anyone’s time. Dreadful old cack by a shower of caricatures, which becomes only more absurd as years go by.

        • On their night they are still great live, now that is scarcely believable. Most 60s bands haven’t been much cop since 76 when he joined, but there some sparkling gems since then including at least one excellent album, Some Girls.

          However that is another discussion as the era in question here not only predates Ron, but also, for the most part, Mick Taylor. So irrelevant.

      • Not sure you’ve got to grips with the subjective nature of opinion on these chat forum things, dai. You don’t have to suffix every statement you make with a DVD style commentary disclaimer.

        • I think you do in certain cases; if this was a thread headed “Are the Stones any good?” then Colin’s post would have been grand. It would’ve been a direct answer to a question asked.

          However, whilst everybody is, of course, entitled to an opinion, I’ve always found the notion of just lashing into a thread with ‘yeah, but *insert topic* is shite’ can be a teeny tiny bit rude. Certainly there are mechanisms to be utilised to show that one isn’t deliberately, conscientiously, nastily pissing on the groups’ chips – emoticons, an in-joke or some such. I didn’t see any evidence of it here.

          It reminded me of the gobshite that came up to meself and a mate of mine in our first year of college – didn’t know us from adam – and noticed we were drinking cider. He looked at the drink, looked at us, and then said “ah yeah, cider, that’s a real first year drink”. Puzzled we walked away, thinking ‘what a strange thing to say’…

          • Yes. I happen to have no interest for prog and generally can’t stand it. However, I do not go looking for threads about prog to insert things like “all prog is shite”. I just stay well away.

          • You’re right Ivan – I was being a bit indulgent there, and the thread etiquette was indefensible.

            Still, that being said, the RS can certainly take me or anyone else shouting ‘EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES! THEY’RE RUBBISH! DON’T PAY THAT RIDICULOUS TICKET PRICE – GO TO ANY PUB ROCK GIG FOR A FIVER AND GET A MUCH BETTER BAND PLAYING THE SAME SORT OF THING!!!! etc etc etc’

            If I stood outside their stadia with a megaphone exclaiming these truths, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference. People would still be paying their £200-£300 to be able to say ‘I’ve seen the Rolling Stones!’

            What they are seeing is a wiry septuagenarian miming a gym workout, a grizzled survivor throwing caricature shapes while someone under the stage plays his riffs, a bass player who stands in the shadows, a decent drummer who should know better, and a dreadful old 12-bar merchant who should stick to the painting.

  11. Looking at the pics this what it seems to be”

    The Rolling Stones (UK)
    No. 2 (UK)
    12×5 (US)
    Now (US)
    Out of Our Heads (UK)
    Out of our Heads (US)
    December’s Children (US)
    Aftermath (UK)
    Aftermath (US)
    Between the Buttons (UK)
    Flowers (UK)
    Their Satanic Majesties Request
    Beggar’s Banquet *
    Let it Bleed *
    Stray Cuts (Cats?) = double?

    That’s 16 discs, but a fair amount of repetition.

    * denotes fold down probably unless a dedicated mono mix has been found.

  14. Mercifully (I’ll believe it when I see it, etc. etc.) it would appear that, sometime (cheers for being so specific) in 2017, the release of all these discs will be made available individually.

    I should be foaming at the mouth for all this, and I’ve got the money, more than enough…..but I’m not. Tell you why…..

    They have had 32 years to get this stuff out, and even now there are no BBC recordings mentioned. However, ultra-conservative Donald Trump is, I cannot believe that the inner workings of the Rolling Stones organisation wouldn’t make his business empire look like a raffle at the local Church fete.

    On CD, I’ve already got the EPs, I’ve got the 45s, and I’ve got albums 1 and 3.
    With a heavy heart, I’m only going to get the second album and the “Stray Cats” compilation.
    The equivalents of which, in the Beatles’ (the bigger of the two groups, remember) back catalogue, came out in 1987 and 1988 respectively. Pre-Hillsborough. That’s how long ago!

    Brian got out at the best time.

          • Yes, I thought JW was talking about fold downs.

            When the stereo and mono versions of an album are mixed separately, it’s a different matter. You will hear differences in that case, but not with a fold down which will sound exactly the same as the stereo version without the separation.

            Not many people know there is a UK mono version of Dylan’s Nashville Skyline. It’s a very rare item because few people were buying mono LPs in 1969, but it’s simply a fold down of the stereo version, so no differences are heard

  18. Incidentally, the hefty price tag for the vinyl set is starting to look like top value compared to the £160 plus Spincds are quoting for the 4 LP version of Metal Box. Albeit the latter dobut less includes an art print, photocopy of Wobbles backside or some such.

  19. On September 30, ABKCO will release The Rolling Stones In Mono box set on CD, vinyl, digital and hi res formats and a special limited package that includes The Rolling Stones In Mono (15 CDs or 16 vinyl LPs) bundled with a set of nine extremely limited Rolling Stones 7” vinyl singles. Each single is an exact reproduction of a significant hit record from a different country with original art matching how the single looked in that specific nation at the time of release. After the bundles are sold out, the remaining individual 7”s will only be available in local record stores in their respective countries.

    These 7”s are:

    •Poison Ivy/Fortune Teller (UK, 1963)

    •Fortune Teller/Sad Day (Australia, 1966)

    •Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)/Carol (Japan, 1964)

    •Time Is On My Side/Congratulations (Norway, 1964)

    •Empty Heart/Around And Around (Netherlands, 1964)

    •Not Fade Away/I Wanna Be Your Man (Canada, 1964)

    •2,000 Light Years From Home/She’s A Rainbow (Germany, 1967)

    •We Love You/Dandelion (France, 1967)

    •Street Fighting Man/No Expectations (U.S., 1968)

  21. So, is anyone getting this set? I don’t own most of the albums in it, so I’m in for the CD set. Luckily I locked in at about £96 with a pre-order (still can’t really afford it, but what the hey), as since then it’s been more, and is now out of stock on Amazon.

    I am excite.

  22. I had pre-order at about 200 quid for the vinyl. J have cancelled it, as there seems to be a lot of uncertainty about whether the same attention to detail as for the Beatles set has been applied here.

    As I already have 4 originals or reissues in mono (1st, no. 2, BTB and Satanic) I will probably just get Out of Out Heads and Aftermath individually, the “fold-downs” are pointless because I have stereo copies and can just press the mono button on my receiver.

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