Stripped [ECD] - Rolling Stones (The) > Reviews

Advantages: Good versions of some less familiar oldies
Disadvantages: Some tracks rather dull

Over the years the Stones have issued around half a dozen live albums. Most are rather sloppy rehashes of greatest hits onstage, and only for the completist. 'Stripped', recorded mainly live at club gigs in Paris and Amsterdam, plus sessions from tour rehearsals, released autumn 1995, is perhaps not essential. But for me it wins out over the other live sets through more enterprising track selection, as well as the more stripped-down performance. Hence ... Read review

Advantages: loada
Disadvantages: none

This is the stones’ effort at producing an unplugged album and this has been done effortlessly and with a lot of style. This is a fantastic album and shows how good they are as musicians and where there roots lie. There is a great cover of dylan’s song ‘like a rolling stone’ and the old favourites make their appearances without making the album into a greatest hits. The more random numbers (the spider and the fly, and , love in vain) are simply beautiful ... Read review