Forty Licks

one of the best albums ever made

Not all their hits but a great representation of their classics

Forty Licks is an excellent collection of songs from one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. Even if you are not famillar with every Rolling Stones song, you will enjoy Forty Licks like I did. I enjoyed their older songs from the 60's and early 70's the best like Jumpin Jack Flash , Satisfaction, Brown Sugar, and Ruby Tuesday to name a few. I liked a lot more songs every This wonderful retrospective also includes hits like Miss You, Beast of Burden, and the song You Can't Always Get What You Want. I love this song, because I agree the message in the song. You can always get what you want, but if you try you get what you need. I would like to have seen Waiting on a Friend and Time Is On My Side included here. Start Me Up is a song that will always pump me up. It is one of my favorites and I'm glad to see it on here. Emotional Rescue is another great track from the early 80's. The four new tracks are pretty good. The best new track is the energetic song Don't Stop and the romantic Keys to your love. 40 Licks is a very enjoyable listen.

My favorite tour of The Rolling Stones!! Went to 3 concerts of “Forty Licks”!

I am not a huge Stones fan that said. I would not recommend this particular compilation to anyone who has really never listened to the Stones. Although this album doesn’t claim to be a greatest hits album on the surface it appears to be. There are several tracks that have been remixed poorly it sounds as if the original songs were enhanced across the spectrum without any regard to the fact that the original recordings were performed and recorded with equipment that were by today’s standards greatly lacking in quality. The remix enhances the poor quality of the original equipment making the sound terribly distorted. Next for a typically young Stones listener trying to familiarize themselves with maybe the greatest Rock Band ever disappointed. This album has several songs that I would have left out because they are not representative of the band but rather are trendy songs from the era when they were released. And I find it lacking in many great songs that are maybe “B” side tracks but are in fact far superior to the “A” side track’s that made Top 40 lists. I am typically a Top 40 person but I often discover jewels on albums that are overlooked by the charts. This compilation missed out on a number of great songs combined with poor sound quality makes this a bit of a disappointment. However if you just want a few Rolling Stones songs in your collection it will work. If you are looking for music that moves your heart and soul both by the songs but sound quality as well you might want to look further. I know I will because the high points on this album only make me miss the ones that aren’t here and loathe the songs that disappointed me when they were released originally.

Yes, I too could be whinning on and on about songs that were left out of this compilation but... c'mon, let's get real: 40 years of music, 2 cds, it's a little difficult to summarize such an illustrious career! I agree with another reviewer who said that this package could just as easily been "80 licks", and still, there would be songs missing... but remember this: this is THE ONLY compilation EVER to span the entire career of the Stones... and no other band still doing something has been around as long as they have... in my case, the only song I miss is "She is so cold"... i was looking forward to get that song, but... on the other hand, the inclusion of "Sympathy for the Devil", an often overlooked gem (it could very well be my fav Stones song...), more than makes up for that! 40 years of music on 2 CDs... difficult task... but as I said, if you're looking to get a good idea of the career of the greatest r'n'r band ever, this is the place to start: you get all the fundamentals and essentials... once you're done rockin' the bejesus out of it, you can dig further. Bottom Line: YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH THIS! GET IT!

Love the Stones, and as much as i like the MP3 version on my phone, the sound quality on a CD is superior. I also appreciate the seller's accurate description of an excellent quality CD media and packaging.

Just twenty minutes ago I returned from a day trip where I was driving in my car for a few hours, and I had this double CD playing back to back the whole time. I was reminded again how great Mick and the guys are, and what a sweet collection of hits "Forty Licks" is. This collection contains all The Stones' major hits throughout the years. I found myself singing out loud to such hits as "Satisfaction", "Wild Horses", "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Angie", "It's Only Rock and Roll", and other great Rolling Stones' classics. There is also some original songs written and recorded just for this collection. My favorite is "Don't Stop". It's a great rocker with Jagger belting out the sexy lyrics. Mick, Keith, and the rest of the guys are now in their late fifties, early sixties--and they're still writing and performing great rock and roll! "I know, It's only rock and roll, but I like it, like it, yes I do!!!"

Diese Label-übergreifende Zusammenstellung macht die bisherigen weitgehend verzichtbar. 9 von 11 der Big Hits Vol. 2, 16 von 21 der Hot Rocks und 12 von 18 Titeln aus Jump Back werden berücksichtigt. Natürlich wird jeder gestandene Fan den einen oder anderen Titel vermissen. Details: Time Is On My Side, Heart Of Stone, Play With Fire und As Tears Go By fehlen ebenso wie ein Beitrag von Between The Buttons (Yesterday`s Papers oder Back Street Girl). Bitch, Hot Stuff und Respectable fanden zwar Platz auf Jump Back jedoch hier ebenso wenig wie der legendäre Stray Cat Blues. Entbehrlich dagegen das ebenfalls auf Jump Back vertretene Angie - doch, wirklich! Da wurde die Zielgruppe Sailing with Rod Stewart bedient. Das Album Goat`s Head Soup wäre mit Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) oder Star Star besser vertreten. Aus gleichem Grund wäre mir Memory Motel statt Fool To Cry von Black And Blue lieber gewesen. Persönlich hätte ich zudem mit Hinweis auf Jump Back Miss You und Emotional Rescue zugunsten von Some Girls und She`s So Cold weggelassen. Von den vier wohl als Kaufanreiz gedachten neuen Titeln hat nur Stealing My Heart die Klasse, in dieser Auswahl zu bestehen (ups, dünnes Eis!). Keiths Losing My Touch ist toll, hat aber hier genauso wenig zu suchen wie Don`t Stop und Keys To Your Love. Fazit: Diese Doppel CD ist bei allen empfundenen Mängeln die bislang beste Compilation und ein heißer Kauf. Wer noch ganz ohne Best of Stones ist wird allerbestens bedient. Ärgerlich bleibt, daß die Welt die maximale Laufzeit einer CD der Vorliebe der Japaner für Beethoven verdankt. In diesem Sinne: Happy Birthday!

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私にすれば破格の★５ 既にベストbig hits:high tide and breen grass 他オリジナル数枚所持だけど あの２曲、黒く塗れ！ ホンキー・トンク・ウーマンがない事に少し前に気付きで 今回この40を。 よろしおまんな。音の方も ただ悔しいのが、話はズレるけど黒くはビル、チャーリー、ブライアンの作。 ホンキーのフレーズやらアレンジアイディアなんかはライのパクリ。 ２作とも自分名義のアイツね、そキースの野郎 とはいうものの、キースあってのストーンズ・・悔しいなぁ