So, there I was hunkered down for the afternoon shuffling through my piles of CD's, searching for that one shining disc which would send me some melodic euphoria when...tada...ah, lookie here, a compilation of Stones from the 60's caught my eye. Holy Crap! Old, old Rolling Stones. Before the twins became glitter. Two back to back albums in '65. Who has time like that today?? No one. Out of our Heads hit the streets in July...'I can't get no Satisfaction,' and 'The last Time' were chart busters, but the absolute genius of that album were the covers the boyz did. 'Mercy, Mercy,' Hitch Hike,' and 'Good Times' by Sam Cooke for crisake. That was good stuff. It couldn't get much better could it? Yes it did. In the late fall of '65, December's Children crossed the Atlantic. Track 5, 'The Singer not the Song,' and track 9, 'As tears go By,' are seminal early Stones. You know, sometimes an unexpected visit from old friends can work a bit of magic back into the day.
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