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The Rolling Stones - Rarities 1971-2003

The title of Rarities 1971-2003 is a little misleading, as is the cover photo of the Stones in prime late-'70s form: both suggest that this long-awaited trawl through the Rolling Stones vaults, released in conjunction with Starbucks' Hear Music label but available in all conventional retail outlets, will be heavy on '70s material. That's certainly not the case. There are just three '70s cuts here, actually -- four if you count the live "Mannish Boy," which appeared on the 1977 double live album Love You Live and the 1981 odds-n-sods collection Sucking in the Seventies, which was reissued earlier in 2005, the same year Rarities 1971-2003 came out. That's not the only track the two comps share, either: a live "Beast of Burden" from 1981 (originally released as a B-side to "Going to a Go-Go") and "If I Was a Dancer (Dance, Pt. 2)," a disco-rock workout that's a cult favorite, are on both collections. This isn't the only time that Rarities 1971-2003 carries recycled songs from albums, either, since the live versions of "Live with Me" and "I Just Want to Make Love to You" were taken from the No Security album while the live "Wild Horses" here is the one that was on Stripped. So, that's six songs out of 16 that are easily available on current Stones CDs, and that's not counting the live "Thru and Thru," which was lifted from Four Flicks DVD set, which could reasonably be counted as a rarity that's not so rare. That leaves nine songs on Rarities, one of which is a Stripped-era live take on "Tumbling Dice," and then there are three extended mixes -- a lengthy "Miss You" that rides out the same groove on the single/LP version, a 12" mix of "Mixed Emotions" that bears all the hallmarks of late-'80s remixes, right down to the insistent mechanical high hat, and the "New York" mix of "Harlem Shuffle," which isn't all that terribly different than the original, apart from a stilted synth breakdown that occurs halfway through the track -- which brings you down to a whopping five non-LP songs available here and nowhere else on a Rolling Stones album.

Thom Jurek -- All Music

Tracklisting

01. Fancy Man Blues
02. Tumbling Dice
03. Wild Horses
04. Beast Of Burden
05. Anyway You Look At It
06. If I Was A Dancer (Dance Pt.2)
07. Miss You (Dance Version)
08. Wish I'd Never Met You
09. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (Willie Dixon)
10. Mixed Emotions (12" Version)
11. Through The Lonely Nights
12. Live With Me (Live)
13. Let It Rock (Chuck Berry)
14. Harlem Shuffle (Bob Relf/Ernest Nelson)
15. Mannish Boy (M. Morganfield/E. McDaniel/M. London) (Live)
16. Thru And Thru (Live)

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