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12 Stones Music Collection : 12 X 5

12 X 5


Price: $7.99

Artist: The Rolling Stones

  1. Around and Around
  2. Confessin the Blues
  3. Empty Heart
  4. Time Is on My Side
  5. Good Times Bad Times
  6. It s All over Now
  7. 2120 South Michigan Avenue
  8. Under the Boardwalk
  9. Congratulations
  10. Grown up Wrong
  11. If You Need Me
  12. Susie-Q

12 X 5 includes material recorded by the Stones at Chicago s Chess Studios (home to the band s idols Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf) on their first US tour. Though this document of the group s early R&B period kicks off with a couple of covers from unsurprising sources (Chuck Berry s Around and Around,) Mick and Keith waste little time in displaying their own compositional acumen. The acoustic-based, bluesy Good Times, Bad Times harkens back to even earlier, more seminal Stones influences than Berry, as does the instrumental 2120 South Michigan Avenue, where the blues-obsessed Jagger s harp is featured a la his hero Little Walter. The downbeat, Arthur Alexanderish Congratulations is an effective expression of romantic melancholy, complete with acoustic guitar solo. The slide guitar chords on Grown Up Wrong echo another early blues influence, Elmore James. The milestones on this album are two R&B covers to which the Stones take more than a rote approach, It s All Over Now and the majestic Time Is On My Side, which they make completely their own.

Rollicking Stones Album - 12 X 5 was a classic Rolling Stones album. Many of the songs are covers, but there are also some of the earliest of their own compositions (for those who are not Rolling Stones veterans, songs credited to Nanker Phelge are actually by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards).The CD opens with a fine cover of Chuck Berry s Around and Around and closes with the classic Susie Q, well sung by the way.Let s sample some of the works.Around and Around. This is credible Chuck Berry (I never thought, for instance, that the Beatles, as talented as they were, could quite manage the essence of Berry s works). There is nice guitar work and great thumping piano playing.Time Is on My Side. Another cover and another classic. The Stones made this their own song. The rhythm section lays down a good base for the rest of the band. Even at his young age, Jagger had the ability to get into a song and make it mean something.Good Times, Bad Times. The Rolling Stones have had a solid blues sensibility since their earliest works. This song is their own blues piece (a Jagger-Richards composition). A fine piece of blues. Great harmonica work and solid guitar work. The opening lines:There ve been good times,There ve been bad times.I had my share of hard times, too.Under the Boardwalk. I still find it hard to think of the Stones playing this summertime song! But they do it well and make this fun. Then, the CD closes out with a cool version of Susie Q. Nice guitar work again.Anyhow, if you want a flavor of the early Rolling Stones, you can t do much better than this. I hadn t listened to this album for eons, and it s still fresh and even interesting to listen to.

12 X 5, great early Stone - Some of the younger Stones fans may not be aware that the Rolling Stones started out as a blues band. This album is very early Stones (1964), and in my opinion, in addition to Let It Bleed, it is one of the best albums they have ever done. Some songs rock, some are bluesy (?), and some are familiar, but all are great. I highly recommend this CD to anyone who is interested in the Rollings Stones roots or who just loves to listen to something different.

it s good - each song sounds clean, really fresh. their version of under the boardwalk sounds better than the original.

Rolling Stones - An old not often heard cuts that rock, I bought it for Around & Around you ll dig it.

It s NOT the Hybrid SACD version--it s the DSD Remastered version - Great disc, but I ll have to buy it again, because I wanted the hybrid SACD version in the pretty card stock case, not the DSD Remastered version in the standard plastic jewel case. I think the only way to be sure is to buy at a retail outlet where you can see what you re getting.



12 X 5