I just read in Time magazine that EMI is going to issue all of the Stones CDs remastered
to go along with the tour which starts September 9 (I think) in Boston. I for one, am going to
get Sticky Fingers, Beggars Banquest, Let it Bleed and Exile.
Just think if George Martin did the Stones like he did the Beatles.

On August 20, there will be Super Audio hybrid discs of all of the Stones' ABKCO releases--everything up until Sticky Fingers, I believe. These new remasters will work on both SACD players and regular CD players. Twenty-two different releases, I'm pretty sure.

Let It Bleed and Beggars Banquet will be re-released, but Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street are now owned by Virgin, and they have already remastered and re-released them, several years ago. AFAIK, there are no new remasters planned for those anytime soon.

Once Sony gets the rest of the rights from Wacko Jacko, I hope some good things will start happening with that catalog.

This release sounds great. I'll have to pick up several of these. Does anyone have any idea what these SA hybrid discs will cost?

Yep, here's the list. Click on the name to see album cover.

(1964 LPs) "England's Newest Hit Makers/The Rolling Stones" & "12 x 5"

(1965 LPs) "Out of Our Heads" (U.S. version or U.K. version),
"The Rolling Stones, Now!" & "December's Children (and everybody's)"

(1966 LPs) "Aftermath" (U.S. version or U.K. version),
"Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)" & "got Live If you want It!"

(1967 LPs) "Between the Buttons" (U.S. version or U.K. version),
"Flowers" & "Their Satanic Majesties Request"

(1968 LP) "Beggars Banquet"

(1969 LPs) "Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)" & "Let It Bleed"

(1970 LP) " 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' "

(1971 LP) "Hot Rocks 1964-1971"

(1972 LP) "More Hot Rocks (big hits & fazed cookies)"

(1989 LP) "Singles Collection: The London Years" (BOX SET)

"Metamorphosis" (collection of outtakes from 1975, never on CD)

Also this fall they have a 2-CD Gr Hits <small>(see below)</small> to promote 40th Anniv. tour!

List Price is : $18.98 on single discs
List Price is : $35.98 on HOT ROCKS discs
List Price is : $53.98 on SINGLES COLLECTION
All are up for preorder at AMAZON starting at $12.99

Edited on 8/13 to add a few new pics of remastered CDs, click to enlarge!

Edited to add a cool link for more info about the discs, click pic below!


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Edited on 8/30 to add complete track list for Forty Licks.

From CDnow: The Rolling Stones greatest hits collection, the two-disc Forty Licks, is set for an Oct. 1 release on EMI's Virgin Records. Four new songs have been recorded with producer Don Was for inclusion on the set as well.

Each disc (the first CD includes hits released on the ABKCO label, and the second disc contains the Virgin Records hits) will include 20 digitally remastered songs, such as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Ruby Tuesday," "Brown Sugar," "Miss You," "Start Me Up," "Gimme Shelter," "Get Off My Cloud," "Paint It Black," and "Happy."

The label won't be revealing the full track listing for the album. And, only one title of the four new songs has been revealed: "Don't Stop." The track will be released as a single from the album, according to an EMI rep.

Meanwhile, the release of the Rolling Stones Remastered Series has been delayed a week to Aug. 27, due to production issues, according to a spokesperson for the project.

FORTY LICKS TRACKS

DISC 1: Street Fighting Man Gimme Shelter Satisfaction The Last Time Jumpin Jack Flash You Can't Always Get What you Want 19th Nervous Breakdown Under My Thumb Not Fade Away Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Sympathy For The Devil Mother's Little Helper She's a Rainbow Get Off My Cloud Wild Horses Ruby Tuesday Paint It Black Honky Tonk Women It's All Over Now Let's Spend The Night Together

DISC 2: Start Me Up Brown Sugar Miss You Beast Of Burden Don't Stop <small>(previously unreleased)</small> Happy Angie You Got Me Rocking Shattered Fool To Cry Love Is Strong Mixed Emotions Keys To Your Love <small>(previously unreleased)</small> Anybody Seen My Baby? Stealing My Heart <small>(previously unreleased)</small> Tumbling Dice Undercover of the Night Emotional Rescue It's Only Rock 'n Roll Losing My Touch <small>(previously unreleased)</small>

Edited on 9/20 to add info about limited-edition version posted by Brain Stew

The limited-edition version is housed in an LP-style box with a holographic, foil-stamped tongue-and-lips logo and packaged with an 18" x 24" vintage band poster, a 12" x 12" expanded booklet, and exclusive historic photographs. Edited on 9/22 to add TOUR DATES

This is friggin' great!!! It's about damn time their 60's catalog was remastered and released with the UK running order. I'll be snatching these up first day!

Any BestBuy employees who frequent this site know if BB will have these STONES sacd's on sale on August 20th?

I never saw the original LP artwork for these records, but it appears that they have either been changed to a slightly different picture, or changed to a better copy of the LP artwork.

'Let It Bleed' Audio CD:



'Let It Bleed' Super Audio CD:



'Beggars Banquet' Audio CD:



'Beggars Banquet' Super Audio CD:



'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' Audio CD:



'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' Super Audio CD:

For anyone interested, these are also available at DeepdiscountCD.com for $12.99 with free shipping. Use code z100 for 10% off your order. It can make for a pretty good deal.

That would completely ruin the Stones. No way would I want George Martin to touch them.

As for these reissues, when they were announced about a month or two ago I had just finished buying every Stones album up until Some Girls. Maybe two days earlier I had bought the last three records. I was pissed, as you can imagine.

I would love to see a tracklist for that 2-CD greatest hits....

Wish granted.
Hot Rocks:
Disc 1 :
1. Time Is On My Side
2. Heart Of Stone
3. Play With Fire
4. Satisfaction, (I Can't Get No)
5. As Tears Go By
6. Get Off My Cloud
7. Mother's Little Helper
8. 19th Nervous Breakdown
9. Paint It Black
10. Under My Thumb
11. Ruby Tuesday
12. Let's Spend The Night Together
Disc 2 :
1. Jumpin' Jack Flash
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Sympathy For The Devil
4. Honky Tonk Women
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Midnight Rambler - (live)
7. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Brown Sugar
9. Wild Horses

Don't forget there's also More Hot Rocks
1. Tell Me
2. Not Fade Away
3. Last Time, The
4. It's All Over Now
5. Good Times Bad Times
6. I'm Free
7. Out Of Time
8. Lady Jane
9. Sittin' On A Fence
10. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows?
11. Dandelion
12. We Love You
Disc 2 :
1. She's A Rainbow
2. 2000 Light Years From Home
3. Child Of The Moon - (remix)
4. No Expectations
5. Let It Bleed
6. What To Do
7. Fortune Teller
8. Poison Ivy - (Version 1)
9. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
10. Come On
11. Money
12. Bye Bye Johnny
13. Poison Ivy - (Version 2)
14. I've Been Loving You Too Long
15. I Can't Be Satisfied
16. Long Long While

Reported today that the remasters have now been pushed back to August 27. . .

Yep!

Thanks for the effort Decker, and thanks as well bigjim.

Oops Sorry about that mix-up!

Well, Rolling Stone just came out with their review of each of the Rolling Stones reissues. Each is given a star rating, and there is an article next to them which hardly talks about the reissues at all, more about the legacy of the Stones. Anyway, here's what those guys say (in order of highest to lowest rated):

Out of Our Heads (UK) *****
Big Hits (high tide and green grass) *****
Beggar's Banquet *****
Let it Bleed *****
Hot Rocks *****
England's Newest ****
12X5 ****
Stones, Now! ****
Out of Our Heads (US) ****
Aftermath (UK)****
Aftermath (US) ****
Got LIVE ****
Between the Buttons (UK) ****
More Hot Rocks ****
Singles Collection ****
Between the Buttons (US) ***
Flowers ***
Satanic Majesties ***
Big Hits Vol. 2 ***
Ya Ya's ***
Metamorphosis (UK) **

Well. there it is. The main shocker to me was the fact that the only pre-"Beggar's" album they gave ***** to was Out of Our Heads (UK), neglecting Aftermath and Between the Buttons (giving them **** each). Never having heard Out of our heads I couldnt say much, but I've always heard people talk of Aftermath as seemingly the definitive pre-"Beggar's" Stones record. Am I the only one?

metamorphosis deserves **** instead of ** imho

"Get Your Ya-Yas Out" only 3 stars? That was the Stones live in their prime, it's ***** in my book.

doh!

Well, bigjim, could you help me out? What will be so special about the limited edition of Forty Licks? I know it has some sort of special packaging, but I'm not sure that alone will be worth the extra $8-10. Thanks.

Yeah, but I can't really tell what that is. I guess the B&W picture is a poster, but beyond that I have no idea. At CC the difference of the sets will be $17.99 vs $24.99 and I don't think a poster would be worth the extra $7.
Is that box supposed to be a holograph?

According to BarnesAndNoble.com,

The first definitive, career-spanning Rolling Stones collection, Forty Licks collects 36 remastered Stones classics alongside four newly recorded songs, including the current single "Don't Stop." Among the featured songs are "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Paint It Black," "Ruby Tuesday," "Sympathy for the Devil," "Brown Sugar," and "Beast of Burden." This limited-edition version is housed in an LP-style box with a holographic, foil-stamped tongue-and-lips logo and packaged with an 18" x 24" vintage band poster, a 12" x 12" expanded booklet, and exclusive historic photographs.

I read the heading and thought it would have something to do with changing Keith Richards' blood and pumping him full of adrenalin.

Thanks Brian, that's what I needed to know. Still not sure which version to get, though...

BTW: Has anyone noticed that in stores, none of these remastered CDs have anything on them about being SACD hybrids? I thought that was weird.

Yeah same here Decker,

I already have Out of Our Heads, Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Get Yer Ya-Yas, Let It Bleed, Hot Rocks 1964-1971, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main St. and Some Girls. So, I am not sure whether it is worth my money to buy a greatest hits package, just because it has 4 new songs. Then again, I'll probably buy it anyhow...

Not on the outside, but there is mention of the SACD layer on the inside of the discs. Nobody knows why they didn't hype up the SACD layer more, but I'm guessing they didn't want to confuse people.