The Best of the Rolling Stones (part one)

The Best of the Rolling Stones (part one)

The question that occurred to me was, ”If I could only take three Rolling Stones albums with me to a desert island, which three would they be?” My first choice is easy, “December’s Children”. This is my all time favorite Rolling Stones album. I can still recall when I first heard it. I was at a friend’s house and his older brother had just purchased it. Ironically, this was a spliced together US album version. It contained tracks from the UK version of “Out of our Heads” with a couple of recent singles thrown in. It also contains a couple of tracks from the EP “Got Live If You Want It.”  I don’t know how much thought was put into the track selections or the track order on the original record. Whether it was by considered choice or not, it makes for a kick ass album. The first track, “She Said Yeah” starts with Keith’s or possibly Brian’s, slashing guitar chords. This gets the album off to a rocking start. This set also includes two of the Stones finest single releases. “Get Off of My Cloud” and “As Tears Go By.” “Cloud” is one of my favorite Rolling Stones singles. I love Charlie’s drum rolls and for some odd reason I see the color orange every time I hear this song. “As Tears Go By” was first recorded by Marianne Faithful. Many people thought that it was the Stones answer to The Beatles recording, “Yesterday.” What the two songs have in common is that they both use a string section. I have to admit that there seemed to be a relation between what the Beatles released and what the Stones followed with a few months later. For example the Stones followed “Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” with “Their Satanic Majesties Request.”