ROLLING STONES – Tattoo You [40th Anniversary Remastered Super Deluxe 4CD Boxset] (2021)

The ROLLING STONES celebrates the 40th Anniversary of their album “Tattoo You” with a brand new Super Deluxe 4CD Boxset edition of the chart topping, multi platinum LP.
The Super Deluxe 4CD Boxset includes the newly remastered (by Stephen Marcussen) version of ‘Tattoo You’, the bonus CD ”Lost & Found: Rarities”, a nine-track collection of previously unreleased songs from the period of the album’s original release newly completed with additional vocals and guitar by the band, and 2 discs (”Still Life – Wembley Stadium 1982”) with the band’s complete performance at Wembley Stadium in 1982, a memento of the band’s London show in June that year from the ‘Tattoo You tour’.

The original album was put together mostly from studio outtakes from the 1970s and features well known singles such as ‘Waiting On A Friend’ and the transatlantic top ten hit ‘Start Me Up’. The sound quality of this 2021 remaster is excellent.

The ”Lost & Found: Rarities” disc contains no fewer than nine previously unreleased songs from the period of the album’s original release, newly completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the band.
Among these, “Living In The Heart Of Love” is a quintessential Stones rock workout with all of the group on top form, complete with urgent guitar licks and fine piano detail. Other highlights include a killer version of “Shame, Shame, Shame,” first recorded in 1963 by one of the band’s blues heroes, Jimmy Reed; their reading of Dobie Gray’s soul gem “Drift Away”; and a fun reggae-tinged version of “Start Me Up.”

”Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982” is an unmissable memento of the band’s London show in June of that year on the Tattoo You tour. The mighty 26-track set is packed with Stones mega-hits, including an opening “Under My Thumb” and all-time greats such as “Let’s Spend The Night Together,” “Honky Tonk Women” and “Brown Sugar.”
The Wembley show has covers of the Temptations’ “Just My Imagination,” Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” the Miracles’ “Going To A Go-Go,” and early rock ‘n’ roller the Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace.”
It also features early live workouts for tracks from the then-new Tattoo You such as “Start Me Up,” “Neighbours,” “Little T&A,” and “Hang Fire.”

While “Tattoo You” was put together by the band using discarded song ideas, it’s easily one on my favorite Stone’s album. This remaster sounds great, and the unreleased material is very cool.
Highly Recommended

CD1 Tattoo You ; Remastered 2021
01 – Start Me Up (Remastered 2021)
02 – Hang Fire (Remastered 2021)
03 – Slave (Remastered 2021)
04 – Little T&A (Remastered 2021)
05 – Black Limousine (Remastered 2021)
06 – Neighbours (Remastered 2021)
07 – Worried About You (Remastered 2021)
08 – Tops (Remastered 2021)
09 – Heaven (Remastered 2021)
10 – No Use In Crying (Remastered 2021)
11 – Waiting On A Friend (Remastered 2021)

CD2 Lost & Found ; Rarities
01 – Living In The Heart Of Love
02 – Fiji Jim
03 – Troubles A’ Comin
04 – Shame, Shame, Shame
05 – Drift Away
06 – It’s A Lie
07 – Come To The Ball
08 – Fast Talking, Slow Walking
09 – Start Me Up

CD3 Still Life ; Wembley Stadium 1982
01 – Under My Thumb
02 – When The Whip Comes Down
03 – Let’s Spend The Night Together
04 – Shattered
05 – Neighbours
06 – Black Limousine
07 – Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
08 – Twenty Flight Rock
09 – Going To A Go-Go
10 – Chantilly Lace
11 – Let Me Go
12 – Time Is On My Side
13 – Beast Of Burden
14 – Let It Bleed

CD4 Still Life ; Wembley Stadium 1982
01 – You Can’t Always Get What You Want
02 – Band Introductions
03 – Little T&A
04 – Tumbling Dice
05 – She’s So Cold
06 – Hang Fire
07 – Miss You
08 – Honky Tonk Women
09 – Brown Sugar
10 – Start Me Up
11 – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
12 – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

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