This release is quite a special release in a number of ways:
Italian release
Compilation of their songs (and 7 are the band covering others songs) over the period 1965 - 1968
The photograph on the front cover is NOT The Rolling Stones but in fact a cover band
NOT A BOOTLEG - Made under licence from Decca Record Co. Ltd
Great collection of songs from the very early days of The Rolling Stones, depending what style you like from these guys, for me it is Good Times Bad Times on Side B with Brian Jones on harmonica - real dirty blues. Another is Oooooh Yeaoooooh .....Dooooooown Hooooooome Girrrrrl (thats Mick dragging out the chorus) just fantastic EARLY Stones.
SPECIAL NOTE: The vinyl is not in the best shape, please ensure you read my detailed description below ...
The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
Armando Curcio Editore
Cat# SU-1005
1981
Italian release
Most of these recordings were mono but have been made pseudo stereo, the exceptions to this being Everybody Needs Someone To Love and Mother's Little Helper - these are true stereo recordings.
Cover is in good condition, no seam splits, no tears but medium level of edge wear from handling. A liquid spill sometime in the past has also discoloured the rear of the cover a bit.
Interesting, all text is in English except for the tracking listing on each side title, instead of Side A and Side B it is printed as Lato A and Lato B
Rear, bottom left hand corner "Printed and manufactured in Italy"
Just across from this, in an extremely small font SU-1005
New inner plastic sleeve
Vinyl is in good (minus) condition, inspected under a white halogen light source and I can see this is a pretty poorly looked after record!
Side A is not so bad but Side B "looks" like a shocker! But looks are often deceiving .... never accept a record condition based on just the look of the vinyl, sometimes the sound can surprise you (or the reverse, it can look very clean but in fact the grooves can be filled with gunk).
I played the entire album (such a joy) and yes, there were some light to medium crackles accompanying the music but nothing terrible - no great horrible crashes/thumps or other nasties and not one mistrack - yeah!
The worst looking is Side B Track 3 (Down Home Girl) and for sure the noise level increases but Mick breaks through the increased surface noise easily!
New outer protective plastic sleeve
TRACKS:
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, Out Of Time, Back Street Girl, Carol, Mothers Little Helper, Mercy Mercy, Dear Doctor, Good Times Bad Times, Poison Ivy, Down Home Girl, Around And Around, Off The Hook, Heart Of Stone, Honest I Do
