The Rolling Stones
It's Only Rock ‘N Roll

 

Limited Edition, Mastered at Abbey
Road Studios - Half Speed
Mastering LP on 180g Vinyl

 

Rolling Stones Records -
COC 59103 - US 2020

The Rolling Stones have just released their first original track for eight years.
'Living In A Ghost Town', started some time ago when the band could convene
together in a swanky recording studio and hastily rounded off with isolated
overdubs. It's getting a bit of a pasting from the online community who are
having a lot of fun mocking Mick Jagger and Co for moaning about being stuck
at home when they live in mansions with acres of land, hot tubs and snooker
rooms, etc.

 

It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll is a decadent album because it invites us to dance in

the face of its own despair. It’s a desperate album that warns at the end of

one side that “… dreams of the nighttime will vanish by dawn,” and on the

other that a Kafkaesque “someone is listening, good night, sleep tight.”

It’s a rock ‘n’ roll album because it’s so darn violent.

 

At its simplest level the album deals with the psychosis of being in a

rock ‘n’ roll band and having made it as a star — and it does that better

than the Who’s opus devoted exclusively to that subject, Quadrophenia. 

At another level it uses the relationship between a band and its audience as

a metaphor for the parasitic relations between a man and a woman. At still

another, in the best tradition of rock ‘n’ roll, it convincingly flaunts its

own raunchiness.

First released as an LP on The Rolling Stones label [COC59103], and reissued

in 1989 with a cassette option [450202 4], this is one in a series of ten Rolling

Stones albums – spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s – which have all been
remastered at Abbey Road Studios at half-speed using 'vinyl-specific' original
tapes.

Pressings are on 180g black vinyl and reissued by Polydor/Universal
Music Group International.

NOTICE: This item is new sealed, however the lower, left corner of the
sleeve has a minor dent. Otherwise, the sleeve is Near Mint/ Excellent.

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Offered for purchase is new, sealed LP on 180g vinyl

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