![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These are some of the comments you can find on Youtube by people who have just discovered Oliver’s private press masterpiece “Standing Stone”. “sounds like something Jack White would do now” ![]() “this reminds me of early Kurt Vile demos in areas…” “predates the White Stripes by 20 years!” “the precursor to the entire "The Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People…” The Stones sounded just as happy to live off somebody else's.“Hawkwind, Jefferson Airplane, and Tull all mixed together!” When the Fab Four sang the same song, after all, they sounded like they were willing to go out and work for their pay. That said, No Stone Unturned certainly cherry-picks the best of the Stones' period rarities, from the post-psychedelia of "Child of the Moon," all the way back to the primeval beat-boomery of the instrumental "Stoned" and their grinding take on "Money" - the song that illustrated for early-'60s observers just how far removed from Beatle-dom the Stones' early influences really were. catalogs, those old American B-sides and album-fillers were impossible to find in Britain, and their piecemeal distribution over sundry compilations was seen as nothing short of opportunistic gouging. In the years before ABKCO consolidated the Stones' U.K. ("Sad Day" and "Congratulations") simply rubbed salt into the British collectors' wounds. Indeed, the only serious criticism of the set should be its brevity - 12 songs merely scraped the surface of the Stones' unavailable catalog, and the presence of two songs that had only ever been issued in the U.S. The best of the various Rolling Stones collections issued by British Decca during the early '70s, No Stone Unturned is a marvelous gathering of (primarily) non-album B-sides and EP cuts that would not be entirely superseded until the appearance of the three-CD Singles Collection: The London Years singles collection almost a decade and a half later. ![]()
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