No. 2 (studio album) by The Rolling Stones

From Jboy56 11/01/2022 12:22

OK

From VictorVale 09/08/2022 13:52

Um dos grande álbum de blues da banda no início! Quanta energia!

Very solid early stones

From Sandrof1969 02/11/2018 16:18

Il secondo album dei Rolling Stones è un passo indietro rispetto alla freschezza ed all'esuberanza del primo omonimo. Discreto, ma è anche solamente poco di più che il contenitore di "Time is on my side".

The second UK stones album lacks the spark of their debut. It's pretty much the same content as the first, rock'n'roll covers, ballads, and a couple of generic originals. Best tracks are, down home girl, under the boardwalk, (which the stones really make their own, regardless of their bad boy image), and the excellent, time is on my side. The stones originals, what a shame, off the hook, and grown up wrong, are the kind of songs the stones would become master's of in a year or two, but at this time they're just average rock/blues tracks. As I said, it doesn't quite have the bite of it's predecessor, but is still fun to listen to, knowing the genius to come.

"Rolling Stones No. 2" spent 10 weeks at number 1 on the UK charts. The LP contains the proper version of "Somebody To Love" whereby "Now!" contains a studio run through. The proper version was not released in the States until ABKCO tacked it on to a compilation album with their release of the SACD's in 2002. This LP also contains a great cover of Muddy Waters' "I Can't Be Satisfied" with great slide work from Brian Jones. Four tracks from this LP were recorded at Chess Studios where the Stones always sounded their best as opposed to Regent Sound and RCA Hollywood. These four tracks were recorded in genuine stereo and were released in stereo on the SACD's. By ranking this LP so low, "Best Ever Albums" displays a basic misunderstanding of the importance of the British Invasion in general and the Stones in particular. While The Beatles were a better group, Jones had no wish to commercialize the blues and consequently, as faithfully as possible, fed our own African-American musical heritage back to us which most individuals of the Caucasian persuasion had never heard because "race records" did not enjoy airplay on radio stations geared to the masses.

I feel this album was recorded in kind of a rush. Solid though, I miss the days when the Stones had something to prove.

Decent record, fav; Time is on my side.

From lightmyway 05/11/2012 05:08

I have the American version, Now! This is a great early album from them, packed with energy.