I suspected as much now it's clear and look at all the promo interviews or activity for the deluxe Sticky Fingers & Exile for example.
Mick and Keith watching Jethro Tull perform during the Rock and Roll Circus: “Can you believe in fifty years these guys will be killing us in the Deluxe Reissue game?”
Hear, hear. I’ve always thought that JJF and Gimme Shelter were the two greatest Stones songs with no clear third place in the podium. Now I’m sure that Honky Tonk Women deserves that spot.
In the early 70s, iirc, the Stones took out ads in the British music press asking fans not to buy one of the umpteen Decca comps (Stone Age, etc.) that Decca pumped out after the Stones jumped ship to Atlantic.
Not to mention how much they pushed the most recent vinyl box from SF forward, even releasing an unboxing video. I don't suppose they will be doing one of those for this..lol
Totally agree. The stereo was in slightly better condition too, but incomplete. It was missing the inner. I would pick up a nice stereo if I see one for a good price. I was unemployed then, so had to trade it. I only paid £18 cash with the stereo for the complete mono. I didn't know it was a fold then, or even have a decent turntable. No regrets though, complete unboxed label monos are very rare. Totally unrelated, I really like Love In Vain and Country Honk.
This has always been a big fave of mine along with Aftermath, Beggars, Through the Past, & Sticky. I have the 2002 SACDs of each as well as the recent Majesties 50th and like them very much. While the overall package is somewhat compelling i.e. the book. Think I'll wait for SQ reviews before making the plunge.
Popmarket is pushing a super-deluxe described like so in email: The limited-edition set features two LPs and two Hybrid Super Audio CDs, newly remastered in stereo and mono by Bob Ludwig. The set also features a reproduction of the 1969 7” mono picture sleeve single “Honky Tonk Women” / “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” The single was first released four months ahead of Let It Bleed and went to No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. The set also comes with three 12” x 12” hand-numbered replica-signed lithographs, plus a full color 23“ x 23” poster, with restored artwork from the Decca Records package of 1969. Finishing off the deluxe set is an 80-page hardcover book with unpublished photos and an essay by music writer David Fricke. NM. I see the parent post was asking about a standalone SACD.
If ABKCO or whoever is putting this box out put as much effort into content as marketing this would be the best sounding let it bleed ever
That would be good but certainly would require a lot of legal work I guess. Re this new 50th LIB it is what I expected ie no new archival material. Looks a nice package but an expensive way of celebrating the albums 50th. I would have thought a picture disc would sell pretty well in the current market and leave it at that.
So will the 45 be styrene like a lot of the original copies? Seriously though, at least they could have used the U.K. version of the picture sleeve with the black border. That one’s somewhat tough to come by, compared to the dime-a-dozen US version.