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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 30959
Released: November 22, 2005 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Rarities 1971-2003 Track Listing:
1. Fancy Man Blues
2. Tumbling Dice [Live]
3. Wild Horses [Stripped Version][Live]
4. Beast of Burden [Live]
5. Anyway You Look at It
6. If I Was a Dancer (Dance, Pt. 2)
7. Miss You [Dance Version]
8. Wish I'd Never Met You
9. I Just Wanna Make Love to You [Live]
10. Mixed Emotions [12" Version]
11. Through the Lonely Nights
12. Live with Me [Live]
13. Let It Rock
14. Harlem Shuffle [NY Mix]
15. Mannish Boy [Live]
16. Thru and Thru [Live]
Editorial Review:
Though countless Rolling Stones zealots contend that the band's most compelling work bubbled to the top prior to 1973, the music department at Starbucks has unearthed a sundry collection of B-sides, live takes and unreleased studio recordings culled mostly from the three decades that followed. Cherry-picking from a selection many times larger than the 14 tracks presented here, the compilation's producers reach as far back as a 1971 live cover of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock" and navigate through the Stones' forays into blues (Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" from 1977; "Fancy Man Blues" from 1989), rhythm & blues (1986's "Harlem Shuffle" and a 1998 live take of Let It Bleed's "Live With Me") and disco (the seven-minute dance mix of the 1978 hit "Miss You"), as well as stripped-down 1995 versions of Glimmer Twins gems "Wild Horses" and "Tumbling Dice." The accompanying compendium of liner notes and band member comments testify that the Rolling Stones still believe that rock and roll will never die. And even those zealots must concur that the music here is timeless, as the band remains as vital as ever. --Scott Holter
Rarities 1971-2003 Reviews:
Good start but keep going! 
2009-06-17 - This compilation does compile many key Stones rarities from the "Sucking in the 70's" vinyl album and newer sources that aren't currently available anywhere else. To me the classic, "If I was a Dancer" (Dance part 2) is worth the price of admission alonce. The Stones need to keep this going and release some of the many unreleased "Some Girls" sessions tracks, the "Miss You" cassette version and the 12 inch versions of "Under cover of the Night." While I can't "splain" the "Miss You" edit on this album, I can't say that it's inferior to the longer original 12 inch version (which is avaiable, by the way, on the "Don't Stop" CD single that promoted the "40 Licks" compliation from 2002. Bottom line is that I can't imagime why a Stones fan wouldn't like this album despite the songs that aren't here and the stupid and lazy mistakes in the liner notes.
Not enough rarities, too much recycling 
2009-03-09 - An incredibly poor excuse for a "rarities" album, given the number of tracks that have been readily available on Sucking in the Seventies, Love You Live, Stripped, and No Security.
The two stars in my review are for the actual "rarities" in the set, such as the live version of the Keith "Voodoo Lounge" classic "Thru and Thru" (the original was memorably featured in the second-season finale of "The Sopranos"). A little more of this kind of "rarity" and a little less recycling would have made for a dynamic set...especially if they included the full Japanese EP of "Wild Horses" (from "Stripped"...see below). The B-sides are within reason...the recycled album tracks are not.
Fancy Man Blues: B-side to "Mixed Emotions."
Tumbling Dice (Live): Outtake from "Stripped." It appeared on the Japanese EP "Wild Horses," along with "Live With Me." It also included the definitive Lisa Fischer version of "Gimme Shelter," which Martin Scorsese used in "Casino," and was prominently featured in the "Stripped" video. The Stones had their reasons for excluding "Gimme Shelter" from the "Stripped" CD, but its absence from this collection is inexcusable.
Wild Horses (Live Stripped Version): "Included on Stripped"...so WHY is this "RARE?"
Beast of Burden (Live): B-side to "Going to a Go Go" AND included on "Sucking In The Seventies"...another non-rare "rarity."
Anyway You Look At It: B-side of "Saint of Me."
If I Was A Dancer (Dance Pt. 2): Another "Sucking In The Seventies" non-event.
Miss You (Dance Version): Yeah, OK.
Wish I'd Never Met You: Another "Steel Wheels" B-side.
I Just Wanna Make Love To You (Live): From the "No Security" live album. Another non-rarity.
Mixed Emotions (12" Version)
Through The Lonely Nights: B-side to "It's Only Rock & Roll."
Live With Me (Live): Another "No Security" track.
Let It Rock: B-side of "Brown Sugar."
Harlem Shuffle (NY Mix): "Extended Remix" from the 12" single.
Mannish Boy (Live): From "Love You Live."
Thru and Thru (Live): Featured in the "Four Flicks" DVD.
Not Rare But Still The Stones
2007-11-10 - Even someone like myself, who doesn't own every Stones album ever made can tell these aren't all that rare but...I like it and it has grown to be my favorite road CD as I work. I like the fact that it isn't a greatest hits collection, but a mixture. So don't buy it thinking its like the Beatles Anthology, but more like you burned a cd randomly choosing some stones songs and you'll be happy with it.
rarities? I don't see them 
2007-07-15 - I won't belabor the point. Others have written more eloquently about the short comings of this release.
The only songs that comes close to rarities are "Let it Rock" and "thru the lonely nights". "Let it Rock" was released as a b-side only in Europe in 1971. "thru the lonely nights" released only as a b-side in 1974.
The rest have been released through multiple compilations. In fact this is the third release of "Mannish Boy". How the hell is that rare?
There's a wealth of songs that await release. Does anyone would get upset if "Claudine" was released today? Does anyone under a certain age even know what the song is about? It's actually a humorous song once you get past the subject matter.
How about Keith's rendition of "Run Run Rudolph"? How about the mid/late 60's song "can't believe(aka I can see it")? How about live recordings from their concerts in 1972/73? How about the full concert recording for "get your ya-ya's out" with the songs in the CORRECT order?
The Beatles recording company has released several CDs with unreleased songs.
Bruce Springsteen, who is notorious on keeping a tight rein on his songs, has released a boxed set of previously unreleased songs.
Surely the Stones, with a pelthora of unreleased songs, can release a real boxed set of unreleased songs. This single CD ( where 95% of the songs on this CD are about as rare as the sun coming up every day) is an insults to fans' intelligence.
And artists/record companies wonder why bootlegs are so prevalent.
ANOTHER RIP-OFF 
2007-04-10 - Early in 2005, there were a few Stones releases on the schedule that never saw the light of day. Stones freaks like myself salivated over the prospect of hearing these multi-disc collections, which promised outtakes and unreleased recordings and live songs from the late 1960s, and early 1970s. Instead we got this knock-off Christmas release that amounted to nothing more than theft. I bought 'Rarities' as soon as it came out (for full price). I had already bought 'Sucking In The Seventies'. Given the crossover of tracks, I soon felt like a TOTAL sucker. As for airbrushing out Bill Wyman-- this reminds me of the recent double-disc compilation which featured a thick booklet but no space for Mick Taylor. I love the Stones but I hate how they rip off their fans. And what's with the Stalin-like rewriting of history?
