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Music CD - The Rolling Stones: December's Children (And Everybody's)
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Music CD: December's Children (And Everybody's)
Artist: The Rolling Stones
List Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Abkco
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1. She Said Yeah
2. Talkin' About You
3. You Better Move On
4. Look What You've Done
5. Singer Not the Song
6. Route 66
7. Get Off of My Cloud
8. I'm Free
9. As Tears Go By
10. Gotta Get Away
11. Blue Turns to Grey
12. I'm Moving On
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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0018771745112
Label: Abkco
Manufacturer: Abkco
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Tracks: 12
Publisher: Abkco
Release Date: 1990-05-22
Studio: Abkco
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Summary: Disappointing followup to Out of Our Heads
Comment: Squeezed between Out of Our Heads and Aftermath, easily their two best early albums (by "early", I mean "Pre-Beggars Banquet") is December's Children, one of their weaker early albums, along with 12x5 and Satanic Majesties. There's not really much bite here. Yeah, the proto-punk Get off My Cloud is here, heavy on drums, guitars and attitude and one of their best ever. As Tears Go By is their entry into the 1965 Orchestrated Ballad Sweepstakes, and I'd give it the winner - like Yesterday, but more mature and sincere, and with a better string arrangement. Then there's some random lousiness, and some random badness. I REALLY don't like I'm Free. Yeah, it's all peppy and happy and exuberant. The Stones don't DO peppy and happy and exuberant. The Stones do sullen, moody and dark, or at LEAST completely perverse. Not only that, but they run off with Eight Days a Week's chorus hook. I mean, I don't blame them for wanting to rip off the Beatles, but come on. And of course there's that stupid phone commercial.
Same goes for The Singer Not the Song. Ooh, metaphor in the chorus! Now we're really smart! Sorry, but no. And it's got that stupid Merseybeat sound that nobody but The Beatles could make listenable. Okay, no more Beatles comparisons.
You'd Better Move On... eurgh. It's like they were sitting around bored one day, and somebody yelled, "Hey! Let's do another really bad R&B cover that nobody's gonna listen to more than once! You know, we've ruined Walkin' the Dog, Pain in My Heart and Under the Boardwalk, so let's ruin You Better Move On!". And everyone else said, "Cool!" And that was that.
Chuck Berry should sue the guys for their cover of his Talkin' About You, it's so bad. Then again, that wasn't a great song in the first place, so maybe a lawsuit would be a waste. Speaking of wastes, how about that live Route 66? The Stones' take on Hit Makers was a fresh take on a song we've all heard too much of. But they almost (but don't quite) lose their kudos for that version here. If I wanted to hear teenagers scream their heads off while a band ran though a watered-down performance, I'd listen to... wait, never mind. I had promised to stop comparisons to that OTHER group of deserved British Invasion legends. Some of the material is likeable enough (She Said Yeah, Look What You've Done, I'm Moving On), but isn't at all great.
Okay, the Stones were a year away from the Artistic Big Time, which they hit on Aftermath, influenced on that hugely successful pop band from the '60's we all know and love as... take a guess. ("Bad Company?" "Sit down, chump!"), and that maverick, groundbreaking folk-rocker whose name you must know. ("Neil Diamond?" "Wrong-o"), while at the same time influencing both acts tremendously. They weren't there yet, though.
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Summary: Stupendously Fantastic
Comment: This is an absolute stunner of a record. The bad boys of Rock and Roll really go to town with Chuck Berry's "Talkin' About You," and Bobby Troup's "Route 66." The latter being one of the two live songs on the record. The timeless "As Tears Go By," written by Mick and Keith along with group manage Andrew Oldham," has got to be one of the signature songs of a generation. According to my folks, it was the Boomer's big make out song. Hey, I've made out to it too, the song really is timeless. The other Mick and Keith songs that I really like are "Blue Turns to Grey" and "Get off My Cloud." Brian's slide guitar on the live version of "I'm Moving On" is stupendous, in fact the whole record is stupendously fantastic.
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Summary: A hodge-podge, not really an album (2.5 stars)
Comment: After the success of OUT OF OUR HEADS, the Stones (really Abkco) take a step backwards with NOVEMBER'S CHILDREN, which amounts to a cynical packaging of leftover songs and current singles.Again, it's half-cover versions and half Jagger/Richard originals in a package that the Stones themselves dismissed. (The UK version of this album was named OUT OF OUR HEADS -- to make things more confusing.) The saving grace is the inclusion of the then-current single, Get Off My Cloud/As Tears Go By. Otherwise, there's little else to this album. Covers such as She Said Yeah are good, but nothing fantastic, while other Stones originals like Blue Turns To Grey sound like album filler. Wouldn't it have been more sensible to combine the US & UK versions of OUT OF OUR HEADS?
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Summary: A Personal Favorite
Comment: This cult favorite among Stones "butcher" albums has songs from an incredible number of sources including the UK issue of Out of Our Heads, and both UK EPs, Rolling Stones and got LIVE if you want it! The 4th track Look What You've Done appears on no other LP or CD. First performed by Marianne Faithfull in 1964, the Stones version of their own composition As Tears Go By, made it's way on to this album as well as the top-10 US singles chart in December.
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Summary: Before The Band Took Over
Comment: This is an odd one for the Stones, released only in the U.S. on Dec 3, 1965 (their 3rd album release that year). It was a compilation of 2 hit singles (Get Off Of My Cloud released 7-24-65 and As Tears Go By released 12-17-65) along with other tracks that had not been released in the States.This was the last album where the record execs had total control. After this one, the Stones got into the studio enough and produced new tracks so that they were able to exert at least some influence on their releases from here on out. Keith has been quoted in several sources as saying their fans in the UK would not have accepted an album like this. He was later proven right when the UK market failed to pick up on the many greatest hits releases by Klein and Decca after the Stones formed their own label in the 1970s. The album does mark the advent of Jagger and Richards as ballad writers with I'm Free, As Tears Go By, Blue Turns To Grey, and The Singer Not The Song. They also did Gotta Get Away and Get Off Of My Cloud. The rest of the album includes the premature rocker She Said Yeah, Chuck Berry's Talkin' 'Bout You, and Look What You've Done from the Chess Studio sessions in Chicago when Muddy himself was present. I'm Movin' On is a live track from their live UK EP and You Better Move On was from the earlier UK EP "The Rolling Stones." I've never heard anybody explain why Route 66 was added to this album when it was already on their 1st U.S. release. Now a bit about the hits: Get Off Of My Cloud was the follow up to Satisfaction and was their 2nd #1 single in the States. As Tears Go By was first done as a demo on March 11 or 12, 1964 but was finally finished on Oct 26, 1965 and was also released by Mick's girlfriend at the time, Marianne Faithful. The tracks were recorded from 1963-5 as follows:
Nov 14, 1963 at De Lane Lea Studios in Kingsway, London
You Better Move On (originally released on the UK EP The Rolling Stones)
Jan 3, 1964 at Regent Sound in London
Route 66 (previously released in U.S. on their 1st album)
June 10-11, 1964 at Chess Studios in Chicago
Look What You've Done
Live in the UK on March 6 (Empire in Liverpool), 7 (Palace in Manchester), or 16 (Granada in Greenford)
I'm Moving On
Sep 6-7, 1965 at RCA Studios in Hollywood
I'm Free
Get Off Of My Cloud
The Singer Not The Song
She Said Yeah
Gotta Get Away
Blue Turns To Grey
Oct 26, 1965 at IBC Portland Place Studios, London
As Tears Go By Also of interest, the UK Out Of Our Heads used the same artwork as the US release of December's Children. This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Before this 1965 blues-rock masterpiece, the Stones were the best of the many British bands living out their Muddy Waters dress-up fantasies. They continue giving new life to old songs, such as Arthur Alexander's soul tearjerker "You Better Move On" and the Nat King Cole standard "Route 66," but there are several exciting new developments. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger discover their songwriting talents, coming up with the enduring "Get Off My Cloud" and "As Tears Go By" as well as the underappreciated "I'm Free." And drummer Charlie Watts focuses the swing-jazz fills that have defined the Stones as much as the writing, voices, and guitars. --Steve Knopper
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