Out Of Time (The Immediate Anthology) [Remastered] - Chris Farlowe

Advantages: Some good tracks
Disadvantages: See text re comments on packaging, and also for likelihood of its being superseded

...;Eleanor Rigby’, except in their case the string quartet is replaced by classical-type guitar, harpsichord and hammered dulcimer, and it’s really rather lovely. Baroque, I think critics labelled it at the time. If you remove the vocals, the backing track could have doubled quite neatly as a theme for a Tudor costume drama on TV. ‘Out Of Time’ is the song they produced and gave away to Chris Farlowe, who took his version to No. 1 in the summer of 1966. Here, the Stones replaced strings with what sounds like a xylophone. I feel Mick doesn’t really put heart and soul into this one; it comes across more like a music publisher’s demo, or else a rushed job. [Another version appeared on a long-since deleted 1975 compilation ‘Metamorphosis’, which has Mick singing to the backing track used by Chris... Read review

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Advantages: wonderful music
Disadvantages: she isnt here with us and should be

...Prohibido 1994~ Selena 1995~ Las Reinas Del Pueblo 1995~ Dreaming of You 1995~ Grandes Exitos 1996~ Siempre Selena 1996~ Exitos Y Recuerdos 1997~ Selena The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1997~ Selena Original Score 1998~ Anthology 1999~ All My Hits/ Todos Mis Exitos 2000~ All My Hits/ Todos Mis Exitos 2 2000~ Selena y Sus Inicios Vol. 1 2001~ Live The Last Concert 2002~ Mis Primeras Grabaciones (digitally remastered) 2002~ Selena (digitally remastered) 2002~ 16 Super Exitos (digitally remastered) 2002~ Ven Conmigo (digitally remastered) 2002~ Entre a Mi Mundo (digitally remastered) 2002~ Live (digitally remastered) 2002~ Dreaming of You (digitally remastered) 2002~ Selena Soundtrack (digitally remastered) 2002~ Live the Last Concert (digitally remastered) 2002~ Ones... Read review

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Advantages: Exhaustive compilation of their heyday; well-annotated booklet
Disadvantages: A few so-so tracks

...and curios. Best of all has to be ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’, which unfortunately appears here only in the 5-minute edit, pared down as it was to a B-side - you’ll have to look elsewhere for the full 7-minutes-plus epic. (As it appears on CD 3 in this collection, which has a total playing time of 49 minutes, while the other two clock in at nearly 70 minutes each, this seems a tad niggardly). ‘Memo From Turner’ is a strange off-the-wall item from the controversial movie ‘Performance’, with Ry Cooder on slide guitar, was first issued as a solo single by Mick Jagger in 1970. ‘Out Of Time’, released for the first time in 1975 -nine years after it was recorded - is in effect another solo outing by Mick, with session musicians. Oddly it was released to compete with a reissue of Chris Farlowe's version (a No. 1 in 1966) in 1975, and even more... Read review

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