Singles Collection: The London Years by The Rolling Stones

Album cover for Singles Collection: The London Years - The Rolling Stones
1. Come On
1:51
2. I Want to Be Loved
1:51
3. I Wanna Be Your Man
1:43
4. Stoned
2:08
5. Not Fade Away
1:48
6. Little by Little
2:38
7. It's All Over Now
3:27
8. Good Times, Bad Times
2:33
9. Tell Me
2:46
10. I Just Want to Make Love to You
2:16
11. Time Is on My Side
2:59
12. Congratulations
2:28
13. Little Red Rooster
3:04
14. Off the Hook
2:34
15. Heart of Stone
2:43
16. What a Shame
3:03
17. The Last Time
3:40
18. Play With Fire
2:12
19. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3:47
20. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
3:20
21. The Spider and the Fly
3:38
22. Get Off of My Cloud
2:55
23. I'm Free
2:25
24. The Singer Not the Song
2:27
25. As Tears Go By
2:43
1. Gotta Get Away
2:10
2. 19th Nervous Breakdown
3:57
3. Sad Day
3:01
4. Paint It Black
3:45
5. Stupid Girl
2:55
6. Long Long While
3:00
7. Mother's Little Helper
2:46
8. Lady Jane
3:10
9. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
2:34
10. Who's Driving Your Plane?
3:13
11. Let's Spend the Night Together
3:28
12. Ruby Tuesday
3:12
13. We Love You
4:36
14. Dandelion
3:48
15. She's a Rainbow
4:09
16. 2000 Light Years From Home
4:42
17. In Another Land
2:54
18. The Lantern
4:24
19. Jumpin' Jack Flash
3:41
20. Child of the Moon (rmk)
3:10
1. Street Fighting Man
3:19
2. No Expectations
4:01
3. Surprise, Surprise
2:30
4. Honky Tonk Women
3:02
5. You Can't Always Get What You Want
4:53
6. Memo From Turner
4:06
7. Brown Sugar
3:48
8. Wild Horses
5:40
9. I Don't Know Why aka Don't Know Why I Love You
3:02
10. Try a Little Harder
2:17
11. Out of Time
3:22
12. Jiving Sister Fanny
3:20
13. Sympathy for the Devil
6:25

Singles Collection: The London Years is a compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1989. It was released as a 3-CD and a 4-LP set.

Part of loving 1976’s <i>Black and Blue</i>—and there’s a lot to love—is letting go of what you expect from The Rolling Stones. They were still a rock band, if rock was what you wanted: “Hand of Fate” could’ve been on <i>Beggars Banquet</i> and “Crazy Mama” on <i>Exile on Main St.</i> But where <i>Goats Head Soup</i> and <i>It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll</i> worked to keep continuity with the sound they developed in the late ’60s, <i>Black and Blue</i> didn’t bother trying.<br /> Jagger had moved to New York and fallen in love with funk and disco (“Hot Stuff”, “Hey Negrita”); Keith Richards with reggae (“Cherry Oh Baby”). Mick Taylor left the band and Ron Wood joined, stripping out the guitar solos and moving back towards pure rhythm. The songs were short, the grooves were long, and the performances—Jaggers’s, especially—combined sex and humour in ways they never had before. That “Hot Stuff” was the band’s first song to make the R&B charts since “19th Nervous Breakdown” 10 years earlier made sense: Not since their early albums had they sounded so connected to Black music, or so joyfully indebted to it.<br /> The critic Lester Bangs called it the “first meaningless Rolling Stones album”. An insult, of course—but it could’ve just as well been a compliment. After the relentless significance of the band’s late-’60s and early-’70s run—the politics, the violence, the cultural referenda—<i>Black and Blue</i> felt like a liberation, like fresh air. They sounded funny, weird and alive. And when they downshifted for the ballads (“Memory Motel” and the classic “Fool to Cry”), they did so with a softness that penetrated deeper than any heavy-handed approach might.