The Rolling Stones - In Mono

Limited edition numbered 16LP box set!

The Rolling Stones In Mono with the band's 1960s studio albums, each a different color vinyl!

From 1964's The Rolling Stones to 1969's Let It Bleed, all in mono!

Plus compilation album Stray Cats

Also includes a 48-page book with an essay by Rolling Stone magazine's David Fricke

The Rolling Stones In Mono (Limited Color Edition) features the entirety of the band's 1960s studio output, each pressed on a different color. Fourteen original mono albums are included in this set, including U.K. and U.S. versions of Out Of Our Heads and Aftermath. Also included is the special collection Stray Cats, a 2LP set incorporating every 1960s Rolling Stones track that isn't on the other 14 albums. This limited-edition numbered box set includes a 48-page booklet with an essay by David Fricke.

Spanning the era between 1963 and 1969, The Rolling Stones in Mono covers the formative years of "The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World." During this era, most rock and pop recordings were originally recorded in mono, with stereo often an afterthought, dealt with only following the completion of the original (mono) version of a given track. In short, mono reigned and this was, indeed, the case for the Rolling Stones during the period. While typical playback systems of the time were less than sophisticated, the original mono recordings, especially as heard through quality components, were of the highest audio quality and had a powerful and very direct impact.

"You felt you were in the room . . . listening to exactly what went down in the studio, no frills, no nothing," Keith Richards wrote in his autobiography, Life. "Rock was a completely new musical form," Mick Jagger explained in a 1995 Rolling Stone interview. "It hadn't been around for ten years when we started doing it . . . You felt like one of the chosen few, one of the only ones in the world who would get to play with this new toy. We had evangelical fervor." Late recording engineer Dave Hassinger explained how he mixed his '64-'66 work for the Stones in mono, "They always played together at the same time," Hassinger said. "They would run the parts down, work out the changes here and there, nail it down, then start recording."

Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, in his 5,000-word essay that accompanies the set, writes, "The Rolling Stones in Mono is the full studio account of that first decade of history and mayhem, newly remastered with unprecedented fidelity and revelatory detail." His commentary is included with this vinyl box set as part of a 4-color deluxe 48-page lie flat book that features numerous rare photos by renowned photographer Terry O'Neill. The 16 LPs are housed in the original full color album jackets that fit along with the book into a one piece specially crafted box.

 

 

 

LP 1: The Rolling Stones (UK) [Cobalt Blue vinyl]

1. Route 66

2. I Just Want To Make Love To You

3. Honest I Do

4. Mona (I Need You Baby)

5. Now I’ve Got A Witness

6. Little By Little

7. I’m A King Bee

8. Carol

9. Tell Me

10. Can I Get A Witness

11. You Can Make It If You Try

12. Walking The Dog

LP 2: 12 x 5 [Yellow vinyl]

1. Around And Around

2. Confessin’ The Blues

3. Empty Heart

4. Time Is On My Side

5. Good Times, Bad Times

6. It’s All Over Now

7. 2120 South Michigan Avenue

8. Under The Boardwalk

9. Congratulations

10. Grown Up Wrong

11. If You Need Me

12. Susie Q

LP 3: The Rolling Stones No. 2 [Steel Blue vinyl]

1. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

2. Down Home Girl

3. You Can’t Catch Me

4. Time Is On My Side

5. What A Shame

6. Grown Up Wrong

7. Down The Road Apiece

8. Under The Boardwalk

9. I Can’t Be Satisfied

10. Pain In My Heart

11. Off The Hook

12. Susie Q

LP 4: The Rolling Stones, Now! [Gold vinyl]

1. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

2. Down Home Girl

3. You Can’t Catch Me

4. Heart Of Stone

5. What A Shame

6. Mona (I Need You Baby)

7. Down The Road Apiece

8. Off The Hook

9. Pain In My Heart

10. Oh, Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin’)

11. Little Red Rooster

12. Surprise, Surprise

LP 5: Out Of Our Heads (US) [Sky Blue vinyl]

1. Mercy Mercy

2. Hitch Hike

3. The Last Time

4. That’s How Strong My Love Is

5. Good Times

6. I’m All Right

7. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

8. Cry To Me

9. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man

10. Play With Fire

11. The Spider And The Fly

12. One More Try

LP 6: Out Of Our Heads (UK) [Green vinyl]

1. She Said Yeah

2. Mercy Mercy

3. Hitch Hike

4. That’s How Strong My Love Is

5. Good Times

6. Gotta Get Away

7. Talkin’ ‘Bout You

8. Cry To Me

9. Oh, Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin’)

10. Heart Of Stone

11. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man

12. I’m Free

LP 7: December’s Children (And Everybody’s) [Silver vinyl]

1. She Said Yeah

2. Talkin’ Bout You

3. You Better Move On

4. Look What You’ve Done

5. The Singer Not The Song

6. Route 66

7. Get Off Of My Cloud

8. I’m Free

9. As Tears Go By

10. Gotta Get Away

11. Blue Turns To Grey

12. I’m Moving On

LP 8: Aftermath (UK) [Purple vinyl]

1. Mother’s Little Helper

2. Stupid Girl

3. Lady Jane

4. Under My Thumb

5. Doncha Bother Me

6. Going Home

7. Flight 505

8. High And Dry

9. Out Of Time

10. It’s Not Easy

11. I Am Waiting

12. Take It Or Leave It

13. Think

14. What To Do

LP 9: Aftermath (US) [Grey vinyl]

1. 1Paint It, Black

2. Stupid Girl

3. Lady Jane

4. Under My Thumb

5. Doncha Bother Me

6. Think

7. Flight 505

8. High And Dry

9. It’s Not Easy

10. I Am Waiting

11. Going Home

LP 10: Between The Buttons (UK) [Azure Blue vinyl]

1. Yesterday’s Papers

2. My Obsession

3. Back Street Girl

4. Connection

5. She Smiled Sweetly

6. Cool, Calm & Collected

7. All Sold Out

8. Please Go Home

9. Who’ s Been Sleeping Here?

10. Complicated

11. Miss Amanda Jones

12. Something Happened To Me Yesterday

LP 11: Flowers [Pink vinyl]

1. Ruby Tuesday

2. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?

3. Let’s Spend The Night Together

4. Lady Jane

5. Out Of Time

6. My Girl

7. Back Street Girl

8. Please Go Home

9. Mother’s Little Helper

10. Take It Or Leave It

11. Ride On, Baby

12. Sittin’ On A Fence

LP 12: Their Satanic Majesties Request [White vinyl]

1. Sing This All Together

2. Citadel

3. In Another Land

4. 2000 Man

5. Sing This All Together (See What Happens)

6. She’s A Rainbow

7. The Lantern

8. Gomper

9. 2000 Light Years From Home

10. On With The Show

LP 13: Beggars Banquet [Maroon vinyl]

1. Sympathy For The Devil

2. No Expectations

3. Dear Doctor

4. Parachute Woman

5. Jig-saw Puzzle

6. Street Fighting Man

7. Prodigal Son

8. Stray Cat Blues

9. Factory Girl

10. Salt Of The Earth

LP 14: Let It Bleed [Red vinyl]

1. Gimme Shelter

2. Love In Vain

3. Country Honk

4. Live With Me

5. Let It Bleed

6. Midnight Rambler

7. You Got The Silver

8. Monkey Man

9. You Can’t Always Get What You Want

LP 15 & 16 Stray Cats compilation [White vinyl]

1. Come On

2. I Want To Be Loved

3. I Wanna Be Your Man

4. Stoned

5. Fortune Teller

6. Poison Ivy (Version 1)

7. Bye Bye Johnny

8. Money

9. Poison Ivy (Verison 2)

10. Not Fade Away

11. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long

12. The Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man (Single)

13. 19th Nervous Breakdown

14. Sad Day

15. Con Le Mie Lacrime (As Tears Go By)

16. Long, Long While

17. Who’s Driving Your Plane?

18. We Love You (Single Version)

19. Dandelion

20. Child Of The Moon

21. Jumpin’ Jack Flash

22. Street Fighting Man (Single)

23. Honky Tonk Women

24. You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Single)

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