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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 435065
Released: May 22, 1990 |
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| Used Price: $12.00 |
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| Media: Vinyl |
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The Rolling Stones, Now! Track Listing:
1. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
2. Down Home Girl
3. You Can't Catch Me
4. Heart of Stone
5. What a Shame
6. Mona (I Need You Baby)
7. Down the Road a Piece
8. Off the Hook
9. Pain in My Heart
10. Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin')
11. Little Red Rooster
12. Surprise, Surprise
Editorial Review:
The covers on this 1965 gem are a bit more obscure than on the Stones' first two long-players, not a bad thing for a band still getting its writing chops together (if admirably; "Heart of Stone" and "Surprise, Surprise" are particularly strong). If there were still doubts that these London kids had any business playing this music, a casually scorching "Down the Road Apiece" should have allayed them; the stomp they lay on Bo Diddley's "Mona" and Jagger's lazy drawl on the New Orleans obscurity "Down Home Girl" make for canny mood changes. --Rickey Wright
The Rolling Stones, Now! Reviews:
Rolling Stones - 'The Rolling Stones, Now!' (Abkco) 
2007-10-25 - Early twelve track Stones release, from 1965 - wow! Don't think I remember this record, but I do recognize most of these songs. This is simply a must-have by all fans of blues rock, classic rock, British Invasion, etc. Tracks that more than managed to hold my full attention were the standard "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love", "What A Shame", the toe-tapping "Mona (I Need You Baby)", the rousing "Off The Hook" and the unforgetable "Little Red Rooster" {hadn't heard this song since I was like maybe ten years old}. Also liked "Down The Road A Piece" quite a bit. So recommended, it hurts.
Amazing, Simply Amazing
2006-06-12 - The guitar work, the way Brian and Keith weave their way through this record, is a joy to listen to and reason enough to own it, never mind the fine songs. I really like that they've included the long version of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" rather than the much shorter single version, because it's a song I really like. Rolling Stone Magazine lists this record as number 181 on their list of the best five hundred records ever made. I'd probably put it in my top hundred. This is the third Stones album to come out in the States and once again they rock down the house with a Chuck Berry number "You Can't Catch Me," but the real gem on this record is their cover version of Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster." The numbers written by Mick and Keith are pretty darned good too. Brian Jones is amazing, simply amazing, as is this must own masterpiece.
Listen to this album...NOW!
2004-06-09 - This is the lowest-charting studio album released for the US market in the history of the Rolling Stones. Though reaching #5 is commendable, the consumer was in want of something fresh to bite into, and this album did not offer much. The Stones were well aware of their situation, and promptly dealt with it from this point forward. As the first top-twenty single in the US written by Jagger/Richards, Heart of Stone made it's album debut as track #4. The amount of eventual B-sides outnumbered the hit singles on this release. Though listed as running under three (3) minutes, the opening track Everybody Needs Somebody to Love is actually over five (5) minutes in length. You Can't Catch Me was listed as running four (4) minutes and thirty (30) seconds but is actually over three (3) minutes and forty (40) seconds. What A Shame was the b-side to Heart of Stone and the first Jagger/Richards penned blues song. It was released on The Rolling Stones No. 2 with Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, Down Home Girl, You Can't Catch Me, Down The Road Apiece, Off The Hook, and Pain In My Heart. Oh! Baby (We Got A Good Thing Going) was released in the UK on Out Of Our Heads with Heart of Stone. Mona (I Need You Baby) was releaed in the UK on The Rolling Stones the year before. Little Red Rooster was released the next year on the UK Big Hits (High Tide an Green Grass). Surprise, Surprise was released as a single with Street Fighting Man in 1968. It wasn't released on an LP until 1973 on No Stone Unturned.
So once you have this, sit down and listen to it...NOW!
ABKCO FINDS TRUE STEREO GEMS! 
2004-05-27 - I was hugely disappointed with most of the early ABKCO Rolling Stones "remasters" on CD (What? "Between The Buttons" in MONO? And what SOUNDS like 3rd Generation MONO, at that). I was AMAZED when I played "The Rolling Stones NOW" to find that Abkco used TRUE STEREO MASTERS of "Down The Road Apiece, What A Shame, and Heart Of Stone!" That alone is worth the price of the disc!
Time tripping
2002-10-25 - A British LP with these songs on it was my first exposure to the Rolling Stones. A friend of my sister's was brought it by her father, an airline pilot. There is every reason to believe that this was the first Stones LP to be played in Israel. I got it because my sister's friend didn't like it. It was unintelligible to me at first. The music ambiance there and then was Israeli folk music, or pre-Beatles, post Elvis: Cliff Richards, The Searchers; ballads. It was so unlike anything Israelis or the expatriate community had been exposed to that it might as well have come from the moon. We had no idea that the songs were covers of blues songs; we had never heard them sung by the original artists. It was like, decades later, the impact of Asleep At the Wheel on a public that was too young to have heard of the Sons of the Pioneers. So the Stones actually preceded the Beatles into the nascent pop music scene in Israel that emanated from the American International School in Kfar Smariahu and was immortalized in the 70s by Danny Sanderson's Lahakat HaKaveret. My best friend left it on bus one day, and I looked for a replacement for over 35 years. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love never made it to any of the stateside editions, and became the Holy Grail for those of us wishing to relive the moment we "got it". Had it not been for the song's appearance in Animal House, I would have begun to doubt its existence. My daughter found this CD on line last year. I was almost afraid to play it; fearing that the memory was greater than the actuality. I need have feared not. With the first notes of Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, I was on my feet. Wonderful. For me the first few albums and 45s the Stones put out before 1967 will always be the high water mark of rock and roll. In those days the only competition was the Beatles, and the Stones were winning. A truly essential album.
