A repeated expanded release of the 1975 collection

After an amazing last studio album A Bigger Bang of 2005 Rolling Stones' status of one the most influential rock bands of the world has at least doubled. This year it is high time to remember how it all began, or, rather, continued. Compilation Rolled Gold: The Very Best Of Rolling Stones released this November presents nothing else but the collective in all its beauty, as it is a repeated expanded release of the 1975 collection named simply Rolled Gold. Thus all the forty songs on the compilation refer to the period when Rolling Stones was on the peak of its creative work and has already gained a huge respect and popularity in the native UK and across the Atlantic. Listening to the new collection you will practically travel through time, find what kind of music Rolling Stones played more than thirty years ago, and if one listens carefully to the words one can learn what interested Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the self-perpetuating front men of the great collective, at those times.

Rolling Stones' songs that were learnt by heart

The collection includes the band's best songs of 60's-70's, and even today Rolled Gold: The Very Best Of Rolling Stones sounds as fresh as in the year of the original version release proving once again that this collective has always made music for all times. At first we are offered three short compositions as a warm up: harmonica refined Come On opens the album with a daring simplistic tune, Mick's recognizable sharp vocals appear already on I Wanna Be Your Man with a brilliant guitar solo, and a country style song Not Fade Away pleases with a nice rhythm. A beautiful melody of begging Tell Me is rather complicated to sing along, while two standard covers, It's All Over Now and Little Red Rooster are remarkable for a definite stylistic direction, the former being a classical rock number, and the latter portraying Rolling Stones as skillful blues performers. One cannot but be happy with the presence of hit (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction on the collection for the song was known in every corner of the planet already then. Melancholic song Lady Jane, sullen Paint It Black with its unforgettable tune, a bit insane 19th Nervous Breakdown, pessimistic Out Of Time, calling Let's Spend The Night Together, merry and again very famous She's A Rainbow, psychedelic 2000 Light Years From Home, danceable Sympathy For The Devil are only a small part of the songs that people used to learn by heart and listened at all parties, as well as eternal hits Let It Bleed, Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Women and the collection finale, Wild Horses.

A perfect present to a huge number of fans

Having released over fifty albums and compilations Rolling Stones do not cease to please its fans with new surprises but it has been a long time since the band last gave us as generous a present as Rolled Gold: The Very Best Of Rolling Stones. The new compilation has included the songs from the works like Out Of Our Heads, Aftermath, Between The Buttons, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers. A number of songs is associated with hard times for Jagger and Richards when they had troubles with the law because of the drugs. For instance composition We Love You was written as a sign of gratitude to the fans for remaining faithful to their idols even not with the most biased circumstances. Yet the emotions filling each track on the wonderful record speak for themselves. The collection is not released at the end of autumn by accident – regarding the Christmas time approaching it is sure to serve a perfect present to a huge number of fans who still remember the seventies as their best years, and awake a storm of the warmest reminiscences.

Alexandra Zachernovskaya
12.12.2007