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Brand new factory sealed The Rolling Stones - 15 Studio Album Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 Box Set.

The Rolling Stones: Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971 - 2016

Whenever The Rolling Stones do anything, they do it with quality and gravitas. Having defined rock’n’roll in the 60s, The Rolling Stones entered their imperial phase in 1971 with Sticky Fingers. What followed is a run of albums that couldn’t have happened at any other time, by any other band: the decadent excess of Exile On Main St, the Jamaican voodoo swamp of Goats Head Soup, the disco and punk-infused prowl of Some Girls. With each new decade, the Stones evolved while staying true to their roots, coming full circle in 2016 with Blue & Lonesome, a love letter to their first inspiration: the blues. Today, The Rolling Stones and Universal Music announce ‘The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016’, a brand new limited edition vinyl box set collection, featuring 15 albums across 20 LPs released on 15 June 2018 and available to pre-order here. View the unboxing trailer here.

‘The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016’ presents this monumental era in rock’n’roll history in a highly bespoke, lenticular mounted, limited edition box-set housing the 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers through to Blue & Lonesome in faithful and intricate original packaging replications.

Every album has been lovingly remastered and cut at revelatory half-speed at Abbey Road Studios, from vinyl specific original tape transfers designed to get the very best possibly sound from the format. Each album is pressed on heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl and includes a download card for HD digital redemption of the catalogue and includes a numbered certificate of authentication.

Cut at half speed, these are among the highest quality vinyl pressings that these classic Rolling Stones albums will have ever received. Half speed mastering and pressed to a very high standard ensures top notch sound quality for the listener.

Special care has been taken to create packaging to the same high standards, with detailed artwork reproduction for each album including ‘Some Girls’, which comes housed in the replica design including 20 cut-outs on the cover, while the sleeve of ‘Sticky Fingers’ is presented as Andy Warhol’s original design, complete with a working zip with a hidden image underneath and ‘Exile On Main Street’ comes with a set of 12 original postcard inserts.

ABOUT THE PROCESS

Abbey Road Studios’ engineers have been cutting grooves into discs since the studios first opened in 1931. In 2013, engineer Miles Showell joined their existing mastering team, bringing a wealth of disc-cutting experience with him.

One of the artisan techniques offered by Abbey Road Studios that results in the very highest quality sound reproduction is Half Speed Cutting. This process involves the master source being played back at precisely half its recorded speed while the cutting lathe is similarly turned at half the desired playback speed. This allows the cutting head twice the time to cut the intricate groove, allowing considerably more accuracy with important matters such as frequency extremes and micro-dynamic contrasts. The resulting cuts have excellent high frequency response (treble) and very solid and stable stereo images.

It’s not quite as simple as running everything at half rate. There is an EQ curve applied to all vinyl records and by running the lathe at half speed, all the frequencies are wrong. However, the technical staff at Abbey Road Studios have had new custom-built filters installed which allow Miles to practise half speed cutting to the full on a modified Neumann VMS-80 lathe.

Description

Product Description

"Having defined rock’n’roll in the 60s, The Rolling Stones entered their imperial phase in 1971, with Sticky Fingers. What followed is a run of albums that couldn’t have happened at any other time, by any other band: the decadent excess of Exile On Main St, the Jamaican voodoo swamp of Goats Head Soup, the disco- and punk-infused prowl of Some Girls. With each new decade, the Stones evolved while staying true to their roots, coming full circle in 2016 with Blue & Lonesome, a love letter to their first inspiration: the blues. ‘The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971 – 2016’ presents this monumental era in Rock N’ Roll history in a highly bespoke, lenticular mounted, limited edition box-set housing the 15 x Studio Albums from Sticky Fingers through Blue & Lonesome in faithful & intricate original packaging replications. Every album has been lovingly remastered & cut at revelatory Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios from vinyl specific original tape transfers designed to get the very best possible sound from the format. Each album is pressed on heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl, includes a download card for HD digital redemption of the catalogue & includes a numbered certificate of authentication. "

Track listing & details

Track Listings

Disc: 1

Brown Sugar

Sway

Wild Horses

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

You Gotta Move

Bitch

I Got The Blues

Sister Morphine

Dead Flowers

Moonlight

Disc: 2

Rocks Off

Rip This Joint

Shake Your Hips

Casino Boogie

Tumbling Dice

Sweet Virginia

Torn And Frayed

Sweet Black Angel

Loving Cup

Happy

Turd On The Run

Ventilator Blues

I Just Want To See His Face

Let It Loose

All Down The Line

Stop Breaking Down

Shine A Light

Soul Survivor

Disc: 3

Dancing With Mr. D.

100 Years Ago

Coming Down Again

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)

Angie

Silver Train

Hide Your Love

Winter

Can You Hear The Music

Star Star

Disc: 4

If You Can't Rock Me

Ain't Too Proud To Beg

It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)

Till The Next Goodbye

Time Waits For No One

Luxury

Dance Little Sister

If You Really Want To Be My Friend

Short And Curlies

Fingerprint File

Disc: 5

Hot Stuff

Hand Of Fate

Cherry Oh Baby

Memory Motel

Hey Negrita

Melody

Fool To Cry

Crazy Mama

Disc: 6

Miss You

When The Whip Comes Down

Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)

Some Girls

Lies

Far Away Eyes

Respectable

Before They Make Me Run

Beast Of Burden

Shattered

Disc: 7

Dance

Summer Romance

Send It To Me

Let Me Go

Indian Girl

Where The Boys Go

Down In The Hole

Emotional Rescue

She's So Cold

All About You

Disc: 8

Start Me Up

Hang Fire

Slave

Little T & A

Black Limousine

Neighbours

Worried About You

Tops

Heaven

No Use In Crying

Waiting On A Friend

Disc: 9

Undercover Of The Night

She Was Hot

Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)

Wanna Hold You

Feel On Baby

Too Much Blood

Pretty Beat Up

Too Tough

All The Way Down

It Must Be Hell

Disc: 10

One Hit (To The Body)

Fight

Harlem Shuffle

Hold Back

Too Rude

Winning Ugly

Back To Zero

Dirty Work

Had It With You

Sleep Tonight

Key To The Highway

Disc: 11

Sad Sad Sad

Mixed Emotions

Terrifying

Hold On To Your Hat

Hearts For Sale

Blinded By Love

Rock And A Hard Place

Can't Be Seen

Almost Hear You Sigh

Continental Drift

Break The Spell

Slipping Away

Disc: 12

Love Is Strong

You Got Me Rocking

Sparks Will Fly

The Worst

New Faces

Moon Is Up

Out Of Tears

I Go Wild

Brand New Car

Sweethearts Together

Suck On The Jugular

Blinded By Rainbows

Baby Break It Down

Thru And Thru

Disc: 13

Flip The Switch

Anybody Seen My Baby?

Low Down

Already Over Me

Gunface

You Don't Have To Mean It

Out Of Control

Saint Of Me

Might As Well Get Juiced

Always Suffering

Too Tight

Thief In The Night

How Can I Stop

Disc: 14

Rough Justice

Let Me Down Slow

It Won't Take Long

Rain Fall Down

Streets Of Love

Back Of My Hand

She Saw Me Coming

Biggest Mistake

This Place Is Empty

Oh No Not You Again

Dangerous Beauty

Laugh, I Nearly Died

Sweet Neo Con

Look What The Cat Dragged In

Driving Too Fast

Infamy

Disc: 15

Just Your Fool 2:19

Commit A Crime 3:41

Blue And Lonesome 3:10

All Of Your Love 4:49

I Gotta Go 3:28

Everybody Knows About My Good Thing 4:31

Ride 'Em On Down 2:52

Hate To See You Go 3:23

Hoo Doo Blues 2:38

Little Rain 3:33

Just Like I Treat You 3:26

I Can't Quit You Baby 5:13