Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 1, 2015 14:39:56 GMT 2
Sometimes a Greatest Hits isn't enough.
Bit of back story; my computer died, meaning I had to get a replacement hard drive. Complications ensued, meaning my iTunes library had some music on there but was missing a whole lot but it still showed as being there on the actual library until you tried to play it. A terrible few weeks of head scratching, searching, cutting and pasting and bad language resulted in me saying fuck it and rebuilding my entire music library from scratch. Which meant going upstairs, getting a bunch of CD's and putting them all back into the PC. It took fucking h-o-u-r-s.
Done now, and what it meant was revisiting a lot of music that I hadn't previously put onto the iTunes library and just sat there gathering dust. And so it was that the new obsession was born, when I played an album I hadn't really touched in a few years, called "It's Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It), by these fine fellows.
So I had a couple of albums of the Rolling Stones but the only album I had on my iTunes library was the 40 Licks Best Of. When I played the opening track of "It's Only Rock & Roll", ("If You Don't Rock Me, Somebody Will") it was as sleazy and brilliant as anything on their hits album and I had completely forgotten all about it. What other absolute gems were sitting there on other Stones albums that I would never hear? And call me old fashioned, but playing those albums in full and hearing "You Can't Always Get What You Want" or "Sympathy for the Devil" in their proper context just seems...right?
I've gotten heavily invested in bands before, most specifically Prince and Bowie. Prince became a "buy an album a week" kind of deal and obsessing over pretty much every one, and Bowie was the same although the shop I got the Bowie discs from had a "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" deal going on, so I ended up buying Bowie albums almost in bulk, which meant a few probably got unfairly overlooked. Again, loading them all up onto iTunes like I just did will hopefully rectify that.
So getting seriously into the Stones is a trickier business than you would think. Looking up "Rolling Stones CD" on ebay or Amazon throws up hundreds upon hundreds of results, and once you wade through the endless Live collections and Greatest Hits collections, you have the prospect of looking for remastered vs older versions. And surprisingly, timeless rock and roll don't come cheap. Buying into the Stones looks like it could be a costly affair.
So this thread serves two reasons; a reminder to dig out any older albums you may have forgotten about thanks to the rise of streaming/iTunes etc, and also to ask you how you got into older bands with huge back catalougues and is it still something we do in 2015?
Bit of back story; my computer died, meaning I had to get a replacement hard drive. Complications ensued, meaning my iTunes library had some music on there but was missing a whole lot but it still showed as being there on the actual library until you tried to play it. A terrible few weeks of head scratching, searching, cutting and pasting and bad language resulted in me saying fuck it and rebuilding my entire music library from scratch. Which meant going upstairs, getting a bunch of CD's and putting them all back into the PC. It took fucking h-o-u-r-s.
Done now, and what it meant was revisiting a lot of music that I hadn't previously put onto the iTunes library and just sat there gathering dust. And so it was that the new obsession was born, when I played an album I hadn't really touched in a few years, called "It's Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It), by these fine fellows.
So I had a couple of albums of the Rolling Stones but the only album I had on my iTunes library was the 40 Licks Best Of. When I played the opening track of "It's Only Rock & Roll", ("If You Don't Rock Me, Somebody Will") it was as sleazy and brilliant as anything on their hits album and I had completely forgotten all about it. What other absolute gems were sitting there on other Stones albums that I would never hear? And call me old fashioned, but playing those albums in full and hearing "You Can't Always Get What You Want" or "Sympathy for the Devil" in their proper context just seems...right?
I've gotten heavily invested in bands before, most specifically Prince and Bowie. Prince became a "buy an album a week" kind of deal and obsessing over pretty much every one, and Bowie was the same although the shop I got the Bowie discs from had a "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" deal going on, so I ended up buying Bowie albums almost in bulk, which meant a few probably got unfairly overlooked. Again, loading them all up onto iTunes like I just did will hopefully rectify that.
So getting seriously into the Stones is a trickier business than you would think. Looking up "Rolling Stones CD" on ebay or Amazon throws up hundreds upon hundreds of results, and once you wade through the endless Live collections and Greatest Hits collections, you have the prospect of looking for remastered vs older versions. And surprisingly, timeless rock and roll don't come cheap. Buying into the Stones looks like it could be a costly affair.
So this thread serves two reasons; a reminder to dig out any older albums you may have forgotten about thanks to the rise of streaming/iTunes etc, and also to ask you how you got into older bands with huge back catalougues and is it still something we do in 2015?
