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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 7797
Released: September 3, 2002 |
| Our Price: $8.53 |
| Used Price: $7.40 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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December's Children (And Everybody's) Track Listing:
1. She Said Yeah
2. Talking About You
3. You Better Move On
4. Look What You've Done
5. The Singer Not the Song
6. Route 66
7. Get off of My Cloud
8. I'm Free
9. As Tears Go By
10. Gotta Get Away
11. Blue Turns to Grey
12. I'm Movin' On
Editorial Review:
DECEMBER'S CHILDREN marked a crucial point in the Stones' development. The band was beginning to move away from its blues/R&B roots toward something more uniquely its own. Certainly those roots were far from absent in the songs composed for this album, and the Stones still cover their share of the masters here (Chuck Berry, Arthur Alexander, Hank Snow), but something new was afoot.
The aching ballad "As Tears Go By," complete with baroque orchestration, heralded a new direction in the Stones' songwriting. Similarly, the folk-rockish strains of "The Singer Not The Song" hint at previously uncharted directions. Perhaps the most crucial track here is "Get Off My Cloud, which, while it incorporates the band's rootsy influences, is possessed of a decidedly modern power that the Stones were only beginning to learn to harness. This was the beginning of a style more specific than pop, blues, or rock & roll. DECEMBER'S CHILDREN may be seen as the beginning of what can only be defined as Rolling Stones music.
Description of December's Children (And Everybody's):
Before this 1965 blues-rock masterpiece, the Stones were the best of the many British bands living out their Muddy Waters dress-up fantasies. They continue giving new life to old songs, such as Arthur Alexander's soul tearjerker "You Better Move On" and the Nat King Cole standard "Route 66," but there are several exciting new developments. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger discover their songwriting talents, coming up with the enduring "Get Off My Cloud" and "As Tears Go By" as well as the underappreciated "I'm Free." And drummer Charlie Watts focuses the swing-jazz fills that have defined the Stones as much as the writing, voices, and guitars. --Steve Knopper
December's Children (And Everybody's) Reviews:
Order as Super Audio CD and got the normal remastered CD 
2009-11-24 - Placed the order as a gift for a good friend who asked for the Super Audio Remastered 2002 edition, on the site was standing that it is a Super Audio CD, three weeks later the order was in my postbox and when i opened the good packed envelop i saw it was the normal DSD Remastered 2002 edition and not the Super Audio which i asked for.
I looked on the internet and saw that the information was changed from Super Audio into normal CD.
Hope that next time the info is right and keeps that way, because this is a big shame.
But the present was ok for my friend, and i heard that the album sounds good, but he rather had the Super Audio CD.
Ben de Waal (Holland)
Finding Classics 
2009-07-10 - Quick reponse on getting the product to the customer and the price was excellent. A good way to have customers return for more buying of your products. Thank You. Mick Macias.
My Personal Favorite from the Stones 
2009-03-12 - Its not a cohesive album, just a collection of songs. But where else can you find the raw raunch of a live Route 66 (better than studio version) and then find gems like the wistful Singer Not The Song or Blue Turns to Grey. Some sure fire hits but also some cool covers and some cool songs they probably wrote for other people but covered themselves. I like just about everything on here and so will you. Experiments with tremolo, harmony, harmonica. This album touches it all (blues, pop, rock, ballad and coolness). I am probably being wistful in the recommendation but so be it.
Husband really liked this CD -- two thumbs up!
2009-01-17 - First off, I am not a Rolling Stones fan--but my husband is. And when he saw this while perusing on the Amazon website, he just had to have it. I think he was really happy with it--brought back lots of memories. He definitely recommends it.
Brian Jone's Stones
2008-11-24 - I fell in love with the Stones' music listening to this LP at about 12 years of age. Brian's presence, his pose, and his panche added so much to this group before Mick and Keith took it to another level. But it's not Mick and Keith's fault Brian burned out. I love the ballads and the covers, Charlie's drums, Stu's piano, Bill's bass, Keith and Brian playing off each other, and of course, Mick's harp and heartfelt vocals. The songs reflect a young ansgst the Stones outgrew. The live recordings propel the collection forward. That I still listen to this LP 40 years later shows how strong my love is. 40 years! That's how strong my love is, 40 years later, still cruising on Route 66.
