Editorial Review:

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The Stones got their groove on early, making one of the few originals here, the blues pastiche 'Little by Little,' a standout in terms of cool-eyed intensity. While taking on Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly and Marvin Gaye on a debut album would rightfully have daunted many a young band, this bunch just rocks it all. Outside the general toughness of sound and the front-cover glares, there's little of the badass 'tude-mongering that would begin to define them with the next album; here, Jagger, Richards, Jones, Wyman and Watts are mainly about the music, which they essay with a respectful insolence. --Rickey Wright

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Disc 1:

1. Not Fade Away - The Rolling Stones, Holly, Buddy
2. Route 66 - The Rolling Stones, Troup, Bobby
3. I Just Want to Make Love to You - The Rolling Stones, Dixon, Willie
4. Honest I Do - The Rolling Stones, Reed, Jimmy [1]
5. Now I've Got a Witness - The Rolling Stones, Phelge, Nanker
6. Little by Little - The Rolling Stones, Phelge, Nanker
7. I'm a King Bee - The Rolling Stones, Moore, James [Blues
8. Carol - The Rolling Stones, Berry, Chuck
9. Tell Me - The Rolling Stones, Jagger, Mick
10. Can I Get a Witness - The Rolling Stones, Dozier, Lamont
11. You Can Make It If You Try - The Rolling Stones, Jarrett, Ted
12. Walking the Dog - The Rolling Stones, Thomas, Rufus

Rating: - * Do You Think They Knew? ... "Route 66," "I Just Want to Make Love to You," "Honest I Do," and the rest of the songs on this record show us the influence of the Blues on Rock and Roll. I have to admit that I came late to the Stones and haven't really paid much attention to the earlier stuff, till my friends and I decided to review their records. I spent a week with this record, "Out of Our Heads" and "Aftermath," playing them over and over again, so that I'd have a good understanding and appreciation of them when we got together to write our reviews. Wow, is all I can say. I appreciate them now, and I think I understand them, they are just plain down and out Rhythm and Blues records. Do you think they knew back then, when they heard this record for the first time that they were listening to what was going to become THE GREATEST GROUP ON EARTH, Really, do you think they knew? Rating: - * Nineteen Sixty Four All Over Again ... It's hard to believe that this record was recorded in only five days, but I guess back then they didn't spend months in the studio trying to polish an album. Andrew Oldham and Eric Easton produced a masterpiece with this one and that's saying something, because this is the band's debut album. This is R & B at it's best. R & B from a group of white guys. I'd give anything, just anything if I could go back in time and see these guys perform Bobby Troup's "Route 66" live or Willie Dixon's "I just Want to Make Love to You," which happens to be my favorite song on this record. Of course, Chuck Berry's "Carol" which the Stones will do so well six years later on the Bootleg "Liver Than You'll Ever Be" is also a dynamite piece of music. Oh gosh, listening to this record is like being back in Nineteen Sixty Four All Over Again, well that's what my dad says, I hadn't been born yet. Rating: - * Never Fade Away ... I've heard that back in the early Sixties the Rolling Stones were the bad boys of the English music scene while the Beatles were the good guys. Well, give me the bad boys any day of the week, month or year. This is the Stones debut album and you can tell from the very first chord, from the second Mick Jaggar opens his mouth that this is a band to be reckoned with. Nobody did it like the Stones back then and nobody does it like the Stones today. They've been around my whole life. I grew up with them and God willing, I'll grow old with them. I've seen them live more times than I can count, loved every second of every show. Let's all hope that the Rolling Stones Never Fade Away. Rating: - * Very Bluesy, Very Good ... This is the blues at it's very best. Mick's young voice is in fine form, Lord he sounds like a young black man singing his heart out, he could almost be Sam Cooke. "Little by Little," "Walking the Dog," and "Carol" are just plain blues to die for and I swear he does "Not Fade a Way," not a bit like Buddy Holly. I used to play this record a whole lot, but over the years it's sort of been at the back of my CD pile. I'm glad I gave it a listen this morning, it's like an old friend I haven't seen in a while, a friend I'll be listening to a lot more now. Rating: - * More for the early early Stones blues-cover-era fans ... The Rolling Stones produced a heap of albums, and this is the first. Like most of their first few albums, it has mostly blues and rock'n'roll cover songs, such as Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and Chuck Berry's "Carol". These songs are done very well in early-stones style, but for those new to the stones and looking for another album packed with hits, I wouldn't look here. If you're looking for a more popular early-stones album, I suggest Out of our Heads, December's Children, and 12x5. If you decide you like those, then by all means buy this album. It's a solid blues/rock cover extravaganza...