Rolling Stones Studio Albums 1971-2016 Vinyl Box Coming June 15th*

Totally get that. Nothing new here but these have been out of print so for others.

There have been lots of those Live Stones sets released lately , several each year to wet your stones appetite.

 

I can’t wait for a new cut of "It’s Only Rock'n'Roll" and "Tatoo You"!

 

For some reason I am really looking forward to this release.

Although I have all the albums I have ordinary AU pressings of Tattoo You, Undercover, Dirty Work and Steel Wheels.

They did a really great job with the mono box set.
The INXS half speed reissue of Kick is excellent as well.

Hopefully the new vinyl masters are alive, open and vibrant.
MPO should do a great job, hopefully they will make sure they are pressed centered and have poly inner sleeves.

 

Actually I am a gumby buying this set who wishes they just put out all the albums up to Tattoo You in a box and leave the others released post 1982 out. Having said that Dirty Work in original packaging sounds a nice idea as do the high resolution files. I have the post 1971 2010 box as well. I have all the official mainstream post 71 Stones albums on cd and vinyl but really I rarely play anything post Tattoo You. I still have an old cd of Dirty Work in the car and it has been hard work playing through it one track at a time on the way to and from coffee. Still for many folk this set will help to fill in the vinyl blanks as a fair number of my friends stopped buying vinyl from sort of 1992 on. I have no idea if the albums will get released individually but hope they do.
As has been stated elsewhere the problem with these boxes is if one record is done poorly getting a replacement is not easy. With the Lennon vinyl box there was a duplicated track on Rock n Roll but at least you could just buy the standalone album a few months later with the correct track list.
Mind you marcb you are probably correct that the recent albums on vinyl is a big attraction of this box for some folk.

 

$350 is a lot to fill in 1 or 2 blanks, but to each his own.

I’ll probably jump on it if it comes down to $200 or so - if the mastering is great (which is possible, but far from certain - “vinyl specific original tape transfers” simultaneously inspires both confidence and concern).

 

I do have the cheap Amazon pre order holding for now but all I really want is an original Voo Doo Lounge. Not many LPs pressed at that time and I bet it is good. I know they can be expensive. In fact ETSY has one for $189 thats crazy... Uber Rare Original '94 The ROLLING STONES Voodoo Lounge Virgin Records Imported British Double Album 2Lp MINT! Rock Funk Classic Mick Jagger probably can find one cheaper elsewhere. Think there are a couple copies on eBay and discogs

 

I’m with you on this. I only need Voodoo Lounge as well.

I’m not so sure the original vinyl is so good though. I’ve read it’s just the CD master cut to vinyl (even though it was an analog recording). However I’ve never heard it so I can’t confirm this. Plus I believe it omitted did one track. So it seems the potential is there to make some significant improvment over the original.

I wonder how the version in the 2010 box sounded? Given the rest of the box’s content, I’m going to assume it wasn’t much of an improvement - and quite possibly worse (but I think it did include all tracks).

 

The Rolling Stones: Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971 - 2016 10LP - The Rolling Stones

£325 from What records...

 

I am fortunate that I can afford this box but like other folk I know I am starting to run out of easily accessible space for the box sets I have purchased over the past few years. It is expensive but I guess it will sell well enough. The high res is a bit of a bonus to make it better value although I would prefer flac files at 96/24 or 192/24. There is a lot of Stones and audiophile expertise on SHF so I am looking forward to what folk think when the boxes start arriving.

 

I did not know that Voodoo Lounge was an analogue recording. I just assumed everyone was digital for studio albums from the 90s on. Thanks

 

amazon.ca wants 556!

 

I meant to include apparently an analog recording. My mind is faster than my fingers at times. I recall reading it was recorded to tape, but I can’t say that’s 100% true with confidence.

 

Per Michael Fremer 1 Nov 2010 (for what that’s worth...):

“On July 12th,1994 Virgin released Voodoo Lounge ( V 7243 8 39782 2 9 CD/ V2750 (7243 8 39782 1 2). Bill Wyman had quit, replaced by Darryl Jones. Longtime Stones keyboard collaborator Chuck Leavell was also on board, as was producer Don Was and at last, an analogue multi-track recorder.”

 

Is there any way to tell by reading credits on the back of the original Voodoo LP or in the deadwax from that time? I can check mine if I knew what to look for.

 

I don’t have it, but I doubt it says anything in the credits. And the dead wax will tell you nothing on analog or digital.

My post above is probably as good as you’ll get. Maybe if you do a needledrop and there’s no hard cutoff that would confirm it was AAA. But even if there’s a hard cutoff, it wouldn’t mean it was not an analog recording - just that the vinyl was cut from a digitsl source.

 

For an original Voodoo? Or the new box, my order just dropped down to $464 CDN, which is $200 less than the set started out as when I placed the order.

It might be digital, due to the trends of the day, and Steel Wheels displaying the DDD label on the cd a few years before. Although they could have changed it up as they switched to Virgin. I have the old Original Album Packaging CD set from that time and I think were some of the best versions of the old catalog made for CD. So Voodoo may have benefited at the same time. I always thought the audio on VL was better than Steel Wheels.

 

Did you read my post of last Thursday?

 

The 1/2 speed exile is actually way better than the US Virgin 180 grm RTI pressing but somewhat revised sound over the original vinyl. I found for some reason a better TT and phono stage with a lot of headroom coped with the compression actually making it quite listenable. It certainly is far from audiophile but even a UK first press can't claim that due to the recording. Obviously if Miles has been given the tapes rather than masher Marcusson's files we may have something really good to look forward to. Just hoping the price of this box set comes down to a saner level and the albums actually improve on originals rather than the opposite. Only Black And Blue is really good sounding on original vinyl out of the later catalogue.

 

Mono is viewed as specialist. Beatles mono is exception. Don't recall any other mono box sets getting individual releases. Stones Mono box is too good to miss.

 

All true, but on release it was promised that standalones sans Stray Cats will appear in 2017.

 

box set
https://www.amazon.ca/Rolling-Stones-Studio-Collection-1971-2016/dp/B07C5FQLFW/

 

Yes the original black and blue sounds wonderful.

 

Pity it's not on CD too.

 

The 1/2 speed sounded pretty much the same as 2010 LP to me.

 

When was this promised?