The Rolling Stones

A couple of years ago a good friend of mine died, having been diagnosed with lung cancer a few months before.

A couple of weeks ago his widow bought his LPs into choir practice for anyone who wished to have them, unfortunately I was a bit late, fortunately most of my fellow warblers are only into classical. What was left was primarily three Rolling Stones albums: Tattoo You; Made In The Shade; and, Their Satanic Majesties Request (Mono).

Here is where I may well upset a few people ....I have never been a Rolling Stones enthusiast, in fact most of their music that I own is on DVD, for instance, The Four Licks concert box set, PCM soundtracks mind you.

Yes, I love their great tracks, but have never really been enthused by their broader work and so not explored their back catalogue, hence I owned non of these albums.

Two days ago I: ripped the LPs; removed any really intrusive clicks and scratches; normalised the tracks; split them and uploaded them onto the NS01.

My Thoughts?


Made in the Shade: Compilation album, but good quality. Some of the Rolling Stone great songs. Good stuff.
Tattoo You: Not sure. Not an instant hit with me, which is not a bad sign. Be listening to this over the next few weeks to see if it grows on me.
Their Satanic Majesties Request: Interesting, not what I expected. Shades of Pink Floyd! Sounds as though it was produced after some consumption of weed, and with everyone in the same studio! I'll give this a few more goes, but suspect that it won't be high on my hit parade - a real product of its time though. Great gate fold album cover.

Thanks Michael.

M