Avis sur le produitVery Best of Mick Jagger by Jagger, Mick (CD, 2007)

Jagger Shows Off the Best of His Very Cool Solo Work

The original Bad Boy of rock n' roll is 64 this year. Agile, full of energy and still oddly attractive in a weird sort of way, Mick Jagger shows no signs of slowing down. In addition to a plethora of records with the Rolling Stones, Jagger has also recorded 4 solo albums with some of the biggest names in Rock Biz (not surprisingly.) Enter stage left Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, and Dave Stewart (of the Eurthymics). This month Jagger released a `Best of' the four solo albums.

The Four Albums that these songs are culminated from are: "She's the Boss" (1985); Primitive Cool (1987); Wandering Spirit (1993); Goddess In the Doorway (2003). "She's the Boss" got extensive airplay from MTV propelling the single: "Just Another Night" to #12 on the charts. Other singles were released from various other albums, but amazingly none of them charted better than 30 in the United States. It just shows the sorry state of music in America when boy-rock singles and crap-rap can totally dominate the charts while omitting the singles from famous stars such as Jagger. Surely ANY of the songs on ANY of these albums deserve to be on the charts if those weepy teen schlock-songs can make it.

Several songs from the 1993 masterpiece of the four: Wandering Spirit are on this Very Best of CD. His voice was resonant, assured and bold on this album, which makes this Very Best collection that much better. Here are some great Stones-like songs (Mick can't help himself) that aren't all that well known, but will haunt your music memory for years to come. It's like finding a long lost Stones classic album: you can learn the songs, appreciate the voice and NOT be grogged out by them being overplayed on the radio.

There's 17 tracks on this cd, keeping it in a single disc format. There is a long lost version of John Lennon's produced: "Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup0" which is worth the price of admission just for its rarity. He avoids the temptation to remix a minor Stone or unreleased Stone songs on the compilation to his credit. You'll remember the single: "Lucky In Love" from FM radio days, and then reggae rock to Don't Look Back with the late guitarist Peter Tosh of Bob Marley's Wailers. This is just a super solid effort by the true current King of Rock. Nobody has the cred that Jaggers posseses, and it shares himself liberally in several directions on this carefully crafted grouping of songs. Highly Recommended

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I have been a Stones fan (and the parts of the Stones) from the beginning. Although I have a couple of Mick's solo albums I decided to buy this CD as it was inexpensively offered on good old eBay and - I just wanted it. That's fair enough. Firstly, the CD comes with an excellent insert. Of course, it too is a top quality production. It has a few brilliant photos of old Mick looking brilliant and six pages of top flight liner notes by Robin Eggar. The songs are all detailed very well too, making the insert a great read while listening to the music.

The music. Well, we all know by now exactly what Mick's voice is like - and he doesn't let us down on any of these numbers. And as another reviewer remarks, Mick doesn't dig into the Stones back catalogue to flesh out this collection. In my opinion there are two or three duff tracks on this collection that should have been replaced by more tracks from his superb first solo release 'She's The Boss'. Apart from that, there are 14 or 15 really excellent numbers to enjoy again and again. Although I was familiar with most of these songs, one really made me sit up and take notice. Track 15, "Checkin' Up On My Baby" performed with the Red Devils (and I don't mean Manchester United Football Club), recorded in 1992. This is a previously unissued number written by Sonny Boy Williamson and Mick and his band are simply at the top of their craft. Brilliant.

If you like Mick Jagger and/or the Rolling Stones, this CD is an absolute "must" for your collection. Mick wrote, or co-wrote, all but four of the songs here. His lyrics are great, the musicianship is excellent and everything that can be said about Mick Jagger has already been written. He is as good today as he ever was and it's unlikely there will ever be a better Mick Jagger collection than this "very best of' compilation. Just get it.Lire l'avis complet...

Awesome!!!

I always loved mick...great cd!!

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Good value - Excellent music

Great shipper - as described!

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Great Solo Mick Jagger!

Great compilation of Mick Jagger’s solo music.

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Perfect- thanks

Perfect- thanks

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BEST FROM THE BEST

Awesome variety with special guests like Dave Stewart and Lenny Kravitz contributing.

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