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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 145065
Released: November 17, 1998 |
| Our Price: $6.95 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Still Life Track Listing:
1. Intro: Take the 'A' Train
2. Under My Thumb
3. Let's Spend the Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Twenty Flight Rock
6. Going to a Go-Go
7. Let Me Go
8. Time Is on My Side
9. Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
10. Start Me Up
11. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
12. Outro (Star Spangled Banner) - Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered reissue of The Rolling Stones 1982 live album.
Description of Still Life:
It used to be said there were only two sure things in the world: death and taxes. Add a third--a live Rolling Stones album every three years. In what's essentially become a flourishing, if decidedly spotty subcatalog (the notable exception being the stellar Get Your Ya-Ya's Out, culled from the band's 1969 performance peak), 1982's Still Life is the band's fourth live collection and marks the beginning of a long stretch of laurel-resting. Though recorded in support of the band's Tattoo You album, eight of the scant 10 Stones tracks here are either hits from their early years or covers of favorite rock and R&B chestnuts. Though they would go on to have an artistic comeback (or three), this collection sometimes finds them struggling against being their own tribute band. --Jerry McCulley
Still Life Reviews:
Should Have Been A Double Album 
2009-11-27 - I'll add my voice to the chorus of other reviewers on this one. This album is one of the more unjustly maligned Stones records. I say unjustly because this is arguably their last great live album until the recent Shine A Light. The boys are in great form on nearly every track here, and if there is any complaint to be hurled at the track list, it is that this album is too short. It really should have been a double album.
Remember, this live album was recorded on the tour supporting Tattoo You, yet we only get Start Me Up from that album. I would have loved to hear the band at this point in their career playing Neighbors, Little T&A, and Black Limousine live. Then again, perhaps the thinking was they didn't want to cannibalize sales from Tattoo You itself, which was on or near the charts for some time after its release. Not that I would have removed anything from the Still Life record that we wound up with -- and I say "record" because I did buy it in high school on LP when it first came out. As much as I love Chuck Berry, it was a refreshing change of pace for the Stones to pick Twenty Flight Rock and Going to A Go Go as their cover songs for this live album. And no, there's nothing wrong with covers, especially when the band tears into them like on this album.
As far as this 2009 Universal remaster, it is just as sonically fat and juicy as the rest of the 2009 Universal remasters. Apparently, Bill Wyman DID have his bass plugged in on all of these albums. And Charlie's drums sound better than they ever had on previous CD reissues of these records, whether CBS/Grammofoonplaten or, later, Virgin. This is most notable from, say, Emotional Rescue forward, which originally sounded like he was playing cardboard boxes on those CD releases of these titles. Best of all, you can untangle Keith and Ronnie and hear two, yes, two guitars playing with and against each other at the same time.
Time really is on their side.
2009-03-13 - I remember I used to hate "The Stones" for years. The local stations would just run them into the ground and completely ruin them for me. Now, as an adult, I can't get enough of them!
I just recently got this CD and thought it was a great live show. Maybe not one of their best but great all the same. Good mix. Good selection of songs. Very energetic. I would recommend this to any Stones fan, young and old.
Not All Rolling Stones Are Created Equal 
2008-12-18 - I have spent no little ink this year reviewing the musical influences from my youth. A fair part of that youth involved an undying devotion to The Rolling Stones. I am not sure exactly when I first hear a Stones song although it was probably "Satisfaction". However, what really hooked me on them was when I hear them cover the old Willie Dixon blues classic "The Red Rooster". Perhaps you will recall that song was banned, at first, from the radio stations of Boston. Later, I think, and someone can maybe help me out on this, WMEX, a local rock station, broke the ban and played it. And no, the song was not about the doings of our barnyard friends. But, beyond that it was the fact that it was banned that made me, and perhaps you, want to hear it at any cost.
That event began my long love affair with the blues. And that is probably why, although American blues also influenced the Beatles, it is the Stones that I favor. Their cover still holds up, by the way. Not as good, as I found out later, as the legendary Howlin' Wolf's version but good. I have also thought about The Stones influence recently as I have thought about the long ago past of my youth. Compare some works like John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" and The Stones' "Street Fighting Man" (yes, I know these are later works) and I believe that you will find that something in the way The Stones' presented that angry, defiant sound appealed to my working class alienation. But enough. I will close with this. I have put my money where my mouth is with my preference. When the Stones' toured Boston at Fenway Park in the summer of 2005 I spend many (too many) dollars to get down near the stage and watch old Mick and friends rock.
That said, no all Stones work is of the highest quality nor should one expect it to be after over forty years of ups and downs as a group. This CD is one of the downs. Sure, all the key songs are here but the quality is off, way off even accounting for the problems inherent in live performance CDs. Everything, including Mick's voice sounds tinny. Please look elsewhere for better examples of the work of this seminal group of 20th century rock.
Get to the top, I'm too tired to rock... 
2008-09-13 - Stones live albums will always bug longtime fans because very few of them are memorable yet fans have to have them all! `Still Life' is no exception, run of the mill per usual, just as `Love You Live' was five years previous. What these albums should do is only spotlight new songs from that tour to at least give them some variety. "Going to a Go-Go" and "Twenty Flight Rock" are decent but were they really necessary to have on album? "Black Limousines" or "She's So Cold" would've been better alternatives. Also, do we really need TWO Motown songs? "Just My Imagination" sounds nothing like the blood and thunder version from `Some Girls". "Start Me Up" is included here of course but it already sounds tired here, with a sped up tempo - not much different then the one from `Flashpoint". I really hate the concept of stadium rock anyway...small arenas always sound better, but the Stones were already too big (though they still do arenas from time to time). As I said before ` Ya-Ya's' is still the only great live record from these guys so if you are not a serious Stones addict, don't bother with `Still Life', lame title too.
Still Life
2008-06-11 - The Rolling Stones-Still Life ****
Wile it isn't as widely popular as the 'great' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!; Still Life is still an exciting live record, and superior to Ya-Ya's in many ways, and for me personally I think I might like it more.
While I can't for the life of me understand why if this was the Tattoo You tour of 1981, in touring support of the album of the same name, why only one out of the ten songs on the album are from that album, those being 'Start Me Up' of course being the choice for the record. The rest is made up mostly of old rock and r&b tunes the band grew up admiring, and early Stones hits.
So with this is superior to Ya-ya's is well, it's a hell of a lot more fun, and isn't that what a concert is supposed to be is fun. While Ya-Ya's is a classic, the energy isn't as in your face as here. That is also why I prefer to listen to this one as well. Ya-ya's had a better selection of songs, and some classic versions of them, and truly is superior over all but for a good fun listen from a time that was other wise lame for The Stones, Still Life is a nice addition to a live Rolling Stones collection.
