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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 46242
Released: September 3, 2002 |
| Our Price: $8.23 |
| Used Price: $7.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Got Live If You Want It Track Listing:
1. Under My Thumb
2. Get off of My Cloud
3. Lady Jane
4. Not Fade Away
5. I've Been Loving You Too Long
6. Fortune Teller
7. The Last Time
8. 19th Nervous Breakdown
9. Time Is on My Side
10. I'm Alright
11. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing in the Shadow?
12. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Editorial Review:
As Brian Jones' time with the Stones (and with the rest of this world) was drawing to a close, the band was becoming both more progressive in its conception and more adept in its musicianship. Though the studio recordings from this golden period are impeccable, nowhere is the band's growth more evident than on GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT IT. Recorded by Glyn Johns at London's Royal Albert Hall, this album shows the Stones as a powerful live unit, now capable of subtle emotional shadings as well as rock & roll raveups.
The Stones pay homage to their roots with versions of "Not Fade Away" and "Satisfaction" that easily rival their studio cousins. It's the point at which the Stones' musical trajectory veers off from the blues that things get really, interesting, though. From the ominous "Under My Thumb" to the Elizabethan "Lady Jane" and the transcendent, Dylan-influenced "19th Nervous Breakdown," the band shows off its musical sophistication both compositionally and in spirited performances. An essential live document of one of the band's finest hours.
Got Live If You Want It Reviews:
Live Recordings Pale in Comparison to Studio Output. 
2009-10-24 - Here is why I don't like this album and don't recommend it:
1. The Stones were just not that good live.
2. The selection of songs is really not that great; it is too short and is lacking many great classics
3. The sound quality of the recording is terrible...the songs are polluted by the noise of the crowd in the background.
Instead, as a highlight of the early-period Stones, (circa 1966) I suggest Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) first. And, if you are left wanting more, which is fairly likely, pick up this More Hot Rocks: Big Hits & Fazed Cookiesas well.
Go ahead, buy it. I did. You will, too, you know you will. You're thinking "it's probably not that bad" 
2009-04-09 - But it is. All the "professional" reviews I had read suggested that this album was mediocre or worse. And in fact it is - worse.
A live album from the Brian Jones-era sounds like something any Stones fan would gladly shell out for, and I guess that a lot of Stones fans do, in spite of this album's less than stellar reputation. But it is pretty much worthless, actually, as you'll discover once you too succumb to temptation and buy it, thinking that it's probably not all that bad.
The band is a chaotic, muddled banging and rattling noise behind a mediocre Mick Jagger (this cover of Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long" must make Jagger himself cringe if he ever listens to it). The monotonous screaming of the fans is annoying. And besides, it's not even all live. Stories about this being a complete fake, twelve studio recordings with overdubbed crowd noise, are erroneous, but there are indeed a couple such songs here, a fact which only serves to drag an already disappointing album down further. Even the closer, a sloppy "Satisfaction", trails off into chaos and is consequently faded out.
The Stones were almost impossible to record live during this period. They, like the Beatles, literally couldn't hear themselves playing. The crowd would frequently go nuts and charge the stage, trying to tear the band to pieces and take the pieces home as souvenirs. And, well, when the producers had taped three or four shows (as opposed to the one that they originally intended to), they had less than half an hour of usable material, and even that pretty much sucked. The result is this horrible live album which only serves to remind the listener what a chaotic mess a mid-60s rock n' roll concert really was.
Got Live If Yo Want It.. Oh yea
2008-08-08 - Man let it go about the tech crap, this is and will always be a great time piece recording of the Stones. All of the original band is here. They couldn't play anywhere without all the screaming, it was just the way it was back then. Give a listen to the Beatles at Shea or Hollywood Bowl. Hell they couldn't tell if there mikes were on. Tech had not caught up with them however it did with the Stones because they stuck around for a long while. Yea Get Your Ya's ya's out and Love you live are both great live recordings. This (Got Live) is what it was. The sound is not bad, just listen to Brian and Keith exchanging licks and Keith backing Mick on vocals and Bill and Charlie's soild backup. This is the real deal. Don't listen to all that crying about tech and recording contracts. Just read the song list and give a listen and you will really like this classic live Stones disc.
Cash From Chaos 
2008-03-17 - When a band needs to meet contractural obligations to a record company, it mostly means nothing really good will be produced.
The Rolling Stones were faced with this dilemma through their U.S. distributor, London Records. Before the sessions were completed which produced Between the Buttons, this "live" album was issued on December 12, 1966.
And talk about a rush job; the live material was recorded in early-October gigs in Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol, with studio overdubs done later that month. Two songs - I've Been Loving You Too Long and Fortune Teller - were cut in the studio during different sessions (several years apart), with raucous screaming by girls overdubbed on the tracks.
Basically a great example at the lengths record companies would go to get product into the marketplace, the band ultimately distanced themselves from the project, though it earned them a gold album and peaked at number six on the 1967 Billboard Pop Albums chart.
not a good live Stones album
2008-03-03 - This album isn't really a "must own" Stones album. The recording features screaming teenage girls more than the music of the band. I have the remastered edition, and the audience levels still way overpower the band.
