Just got an e-mail from the official site which seems to confirm 19th August at 2 pm (UK time) as the announcement for the Tattoo You reissue

'Get Ready to be Re-inked' goes the tagline

Bizarrely, they've provided a link to an unofficial youtube account (Rolling Stones Data - its a good one, always worth following) showing the youtube marketing promo by Mick this time 40 years ago (check out the artwork in the background.... )




Going by the artwork, it looks like 'Trouble's a-Comin' is one of the bonus tracks.

If the reports about a 4-CD/5 LP set are true, I guess it'll be

CD 1/LP 1 - original album
CD 2/LP 2 - outtakes
CD 3 & 4/LP 3, 4 & 5 - a full 1981 concert.

Trying to figure out the titles of the unreleased songs based on the above images.  The recently circulated 'Trouble's a comin' is the only one that's jumping out at me.

There was a song cut for 'Black and Blue' called 'English Rose'. Maybe the white roses at the top of the picture are a reference to that one.

Gazza wrote on Aug 17^th, 2021 at 5:44pm:

'Living In The Heart Of Love', supposedly. Guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Paranoid Android wrote on Aug 18^th, 2021 at 6:35am:



Yeah, the concept is ludicrous. Whatever songs get included, I doubt many (if any) were amongst those under consideration in spring 1981.

great reading

Rolling Stones' 'Tattoo You': A Track-by-Track Guide

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rolling-stones-tattoo-you-track-by-track/

It's here...
Regular 2-CD edition + Super Deluxe Edition. Details below:

DESCRIPTION
The Rolling Stones | Tattoo You (40th Anniversary Remastered Super Deluxe 5LP Boxset)

Release Date: 22 October, 2021

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Includes 5 x 180g Heavyweight Vinyl. (LP1 Brand New 2021 Remaster of Tattoo You, LP2 Lost & Found:

9 Previously Unreleased Tracks, LP3, 4 & 5 Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982) + 124 page book & lenticular artwork.

Tattoo You celebrates 40 years with the release of a brand new deluxe remastered edition of the chart topping, multi-platinum album. The Super Deluxe 5LP Boxset includes the newly remastered version of Tattoo You, Lost & Found, Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982 plus a bonus picture disc pressing of Tattoo You and a 124 Page Book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions & world tour + interviews with producer Chris Kimsey & photographer Hubert Kretzscmar.

The package includes a special lenticular sleeve.

The Lost & Found disc contains no fewer than nine previously unreleased songs from the period of the album's original release, newly completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the band. Among these, 'Living In The Heart Of Love' is a quintessential Stones rock workout with all of the group on top form, complete with urgent guitar licks and fine piano detail.

Other highlights of Lost & Found include a killer version of 'Shame, Shame, Shame’, first recorded in 1963 by one of the band's blues heroes, Jimmy Reed; their reading of Dobie Gray's soul gem 'Drift Away'; and a fascinating reggae-tinged version of 'Start Me Up’.

Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982 is an unmissable memento of the band's London show in June of that year on the Tattoo You tour.

The mighty 26-track set is packed with Stones mega-hits, including an opening 'Under My Thumb' and all-time greats such as 'Let's Spend The Night Together’, 'Honky Tonk Women' and 'Brown Sugar’.
The Wembley show has covers of the Temptations' 'Just My Imagination,' Eddie Cochran's 'Twenty Flight Rock,' the Miracles' 'Going To A Go Go' and early rock 'n' roller the Big Bopper's 'Chantilly Lace.' It also features early live workouts for tracks from the then-new Tattoo You such as 'Start Me Up’, 'Neighbours’, 'Little T&A' and 'Hang Fire’.

TRACKLISTING

Side A

Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
Slave – Remastered 2021
Little T&A – Remastered 2021
Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
Neighbours – Remastered 2021
Side B

Worried About You – Remastered 2021
Tops – Remastered 2021
Heaven – Remastered 2021
No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021
Side C

Living In The Heart Of Love
Fiji Jim
Troubles A’ Comin
Shame Shame Shame
DriftAway
Side D

It’s A Lie
Come To The Ball
Fast Talking Slow Walking
Start Me Up (Early Version)
Side E

Under My Thumb
When The Whip Comes Down
Let's Spend The Night Together
Shattered
Neighbours
Side F

Black Limousine
Just My Imagination (RunningAwayWith Me)
Twenty Flight Rock
Going To A Go Go
Side G

Chantilly Lace
Let Me Go
Time Is On My Side
Beast Of Burden
Side H

Let It Bleed
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Band Introductions
Little T&A
Side J

Tumbling Dice
She’s So Cold
Hang Fire
Miss You
Honky Tonk Women
Side K

Brown Sugar
Start Me Up
Jumpin' Jack Flash
9. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

'Living In The Heart of Love' will be the first single, released this week. Expect a video to be unveiled later today.

'Trouble's a Comin' will be released as the second single on September 24th with 'Come to the Ball' listed as a 'DSP focus track' (not sure what that is) when the album comes out on October 22nd.

I wonder which of the two Wembley shows will be released. [/quote]

Hope its the second date - although I was at that show - I was a little "overwhelmed" and dont remember much about it

exile wrote on Aug 19^th, 2021 at 4:57am:



It was. And this is different again. It's about 44 seconds longer for a start (4:13 vs 3:29). The long-bootlegged take is about 4:07.

Same basic take but there's been some recent vocals and guitars added for sure. And a more prominent piano (not sure if thats added or simply a case of it being brought up higher in the mix)

The promo video features a brief snippet of 'Drift Away', which also sounds like the vocal has been touched up a little

I was never a fan of Living in the Heart of Love.  I'd rather hear them push Fiji Jim, though I haven't yet heard how much it's junked up with overdubs.

Dylan's people are (mostly) better at assembling "Bootleg Series" collections, because they understand that the fans who want this stuff want it handled as archival material and not product retreaded into potential Spotify hits.  Why can't we have one of the two Fiji Jim takes overdubbed and the other left raw?  Are they going to tart up the reggae Start Me Up until it's bastardized?

Gazza wrote on Aug 18^th, 2021 at 7:41am:


Not even anything from the 80's at all, LOL.

Just from my own research and notes I had from the FFSO thread:

Side C

Living In The Heart Of Love  - 1974
Fiji Jim  - 1978
Troubles A’ Comin  - 1972
Shame Shame Shame  - 1975 or 1978
DriftAway - 1974

Side D

It’s A Lie - 1978
Come To The Ball - ???
Fast Talking Slow Walking - 1972
Start Me Up (Early Version) - 1975ish

Check this by Ian Billen

The Uniqueness of Tattoo You - By Ian Billen

Taking a moment to address the why, where, and how of this unconventional and distinctive 1981 Rolling Stones release.

There will be a 4CD one LP in Japan with the CDs in SHM format

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UICY-79756?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-art...

I like 'Living in The Heart of Love' and what they did with it.

Now I wonder.... When will we get that other Rolling Stones album .. the new album!

For now though I will feast on Tattoo You.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Aug 19^th, 2021 at 12:58pm:



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Hope you like this. I didn't want to post here when I havent posted on a messegeboard in a while. I have been checking this as my darn good source and ffavorite Rolling Stones Message board. Thanks.

And btw F**K Gazza .. Will ya!!! (Where is that masked man?).


... Ian

Some Guy wrote on Aug 19^th, 2021 at 6:56pm:



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Ok .. I'll say it again .. because I must >>> I like it - !

Excuse me if I pass on Ian Billen's viewpoint of Tattoo You. The guy could do a 10 hour docuseries on how wrong he was about  the new record. Which still isn't ready, as I type.

When will the marketing/PR period start for this release, or is this another one they just put out and not put much into it? Don't see any interviews yet, but am expecting the usual tepid Rolling Stone page and a couple others.

Some Guy wrote on Aug 19^th, 2021 at 6:44pm:

You guys have no idea how good we about to get it.

Disc 2 – Lost & Found: Rarities
1. “Living in the Heart of Love”- love it!
2. “Fiji Jim”- very excited to hear a proper version.
3. “Troubles a’ Comin”- fuck me, fuck you- this is gonna jam!
4. “Shame Shame Shame”- cool...
5. “Drift Away”- that's my jam right there, we may be back on the charts.
6. “It’s a Lie”- yes, yes and yes.
7. “Come to the Ball”- cool.
8. “Fast Talking Slow Walking”- this will be stellar.
9. “Start Me Up” (Early Version)- I'm in.

New vocals, lyrics- I don't care. I'm ready for another song please.

Love the new tune a lot just gritty Jagger slurring in my ears and spitting in my eye with those vocals and Keith's back up! Fucking brilliant!
I do suggest we release Drift Away soon. We could use it.

Dunno yet. I'd imagine you can just buy the individual songs on i-tunes.

listening now.

seems a charlie tribute

So the 'heart of love' would appear to be Paris.  Seems fair enough. 

We may be trending in the latinx community.

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Trouble's a-comin' was scheduled to be released as a single on Friday September 24th, when this package was announced in mid-August (see page 1 of this thread), so hopefully that's still on schedule.

I didnt actually know it was a cover until Mick introduced it the other night as a Chi-Lites song. The writer was Eugene Record, who was the band's lead singer. All I knew was that it was recorded in Nassau in early 1979 for 'Emotional Rescue'.

Here's the original from 1970. It was a b-side (the A-side 'Are You My Woman' was the song that had its horn riff sampled on Beyoncé's  'Crazy In Love')



It was also covered by Johnny Sayles in 1973 :




This was one of the songs I liked the most on the 3-CD outakes that came out a few months ago



(it'll be interesting to hear if theres been any further overdubs added for the official version), but it's a little disappointing to find out its not a lost Jagger/Richards gem.  It does seem that most of the best finished outtakes in the Stones' vaults tend to be covers. I guess its true that for their own songs, the lyrics and vocals are around the last things to get finished, which is why so many of them sound half finished (and also why we havent got a career spanning boxed set of outtakes)

If someone saw fit to put it all together, theres a terrific Stones album of soul covers out there waiting to be unleashed.

Gazza wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2021 at 12:29pm:

Paris Hilton ( YO! TomL!!) or Paris Jackson??

Some Guy wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2021 at 12:08pm:

Nor Mick Taylor, as he's on the original!

Gazza wrote on Sep 29^th, 2021 at 8:45pm:



Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Aug 19^th, 2021 at 7:02pm:

Every single aspect of this song is amazing!

Fuck yes we are the greatest!

Trouble has a Crazy Mama feel imho

Some Guy wrote on Sep 30^th, 2021 at 9:22am:


Drivel? Let's go to the tape archives.

They are making a mistake by not releasing Drift Away in advance.

Some Guy wrote on Sep 30^th, 2021 at 12:18pm:


He told me he waited hours for you at that bar in Charlotte but you didn't show

Mick interviewed by Zane Lowe about the new Tattoo You reissue

https://music.apple.com/us/post/1588192617

Talks about  dealing with bootlegging, finding the songs for both the original and bonus TY material and touring without Charlie.

Intriguingly, he talks about working in the studio with Charlie recently (for the next Stones album)

Very good song. I studied it this weekend. When they hit us with those first 2 Get it together verses with just the Stones in heavy back up- man that makes me proud! And the woo hoo's- fuck that's sweet. Very well crafted une.

sounding gooooood...

Mick announcing the original

https://twitter.com/i/status/1449068524580876289

Gazza wrote on Oct 15^th, 2021 at 2:26pm:

2 days.

With thanks to Mark-10 from our message board in Spanish

From what I've read from a couple of people with more time on their hands and a keener ear than me, the live material is all from the Wembley 26/6/82 show. Nothing from 25/6/82. And they've edited out the botched intro to 'Shes So Cold' by Ronnie that you can hear on the circulating video (there's been a pro shot of the last 45 minutes of the gig available since 1982-83 and its available on YouTube)

snippets here :

Qobuz :
https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/tattoo-you-the-rolling-stones/eqobgpi5tl7cb

Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/nz/album/tattoo-you-super-deluxe/1580951493


The 'early take' of 'Start Me Up' has new vocals. What was the point of that?

Gazza wrote on Oct 21^st, 2021 at 3:42pm:


I don't think I've ever been this happy!

Cheers. Listening to it a bit after it came on spotify after midnight and more so today

The Wembley show is better than I thought it would be. Great version of 'Just My Imagination'. Not quite on the level of Hampton' 81 but raggedly glorious all the same.

(EDIT - it seems that 'She's So Cold' is from the 25/6/82 show. They didnt use the butchered 26/6/82 version. The rest of the songs used are from 26/6/82)

Nice to hear the outtakes. I like that version of 'Start me up', notwithstanding the fact that its totally artificial to put new vocals and completed lyrics on a take that's been passed off as being supposed to be a work in progress

Its a Lie and Fiji Jim have long been two of my favourite outtakes even though it was obvious that they couldnt really release them in the form that they circulated in. They've done a good job with them, even though its evident some of the lyrics are new (there's even a reference to 'ebay' which makes it pretty clear  it wasn't written in 1977!)

9 songs and under 40 minutes of music does make you feel a bit shortchanged though, especially as the 8 'new' tracks almost certainly were never worked on or shortlisted for 'Tattoo You' to begin with.  Its basically a collection of leftover songs from 1973-79, some of which they didn't even use for the GHS and SG reissues.  Taking that into account, its hard to imagine where they'll go next with these reissues.
There isnt really much left from IORR or Black and Blue.  There's a chunk of material from ER, UC, DW and VL but there's hardly going to be a demand for a reissue of those records.

Maybe an expanded release covering a period of years (a la Neil Young's 'Archives' or Dylan's recent 'Springtime in New York') is the way to go forward with these

Gazza wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2021 at 8:00am:

I just watched the first 2 Friday movies 2 weeks ago....for about the 5th time...they are hilarious.

The new tunes have been Jaggered.  Even the guitars at the end of Drift Away have been buried in the mix. Ruined....Fiji Jim slowed down from the boot version. Sorry but this blows.

Paranoid Android wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2021 at 11:58am:



LOL..yeah. They wont play it but they'll release it!

Some Guy wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2021 at 7:08am:


When there is no more Stones, they'll sell the tracks back to us "Naked."