tumbling_dice raze mornings when i should have still been buried under blankets but had to rise before i was ready to leave the last of my dreams so i'd make it to school on time for an extra-curricular drama class, i would listen to a compilation that covered a little less than twenty years worth of stones songs. this was the only cut from what would later become the album of theirs i loved the most. i hadn't heard it yet. all i owned was this selective greatest hits collection. something about the song seemed sad to me. or if not sad, weary. i always heard mick singing "can't sleep" when the chorus kicked in. i know now it was "can't stay". it still sounds true to me either way. 241013 ... warmthofrelease Not to trample over nor diminish the poignancy of your memories and sentiments but it does beg the question. How in the fuck does one make a stones comp with only 1 exile song? What in the fuck were they compiling? 241014 ... raze i don't even know! the comp was called "jump back", but i'm not sure what its makers thought they were jumping *to*. i mean, you've got the expected hits like "angie" and "start me up" and "brown sugar". but surely they could have kicked "undercover of the night" and "rock and a hard place" out of bed and slid, i don't know, "loving cup" or "sweet virginia" or "torn and frayed" into the empty space. the silver lining was when i got my hands on that album, almost all of it was completely new to me, and it blew my brain apart. 241014 ... warmthofrelease Starting the chronology range in 1971 was a bad enough idea to begin with. And then only 5 of those 18 tracks were from Sticky, Exile, and Goats Head. And not the best 5 either. To me, Wild Horses is really the only top tier Stones song on that tracklist of what they call a greatest hits. Didn't even bother to include When the Whip Comes Down. And it went platinum. Man. That is beyond tough. I suppose the gateway drug did it's job if you found your way to the heart of their discography eventually. I admit my great aunt bought me that infamous #1s Beatles comp when I was a preteen, and I managed to discover that there's more than 1 relevant song on Abbey Road. But still, with the benefit of hindsight, that is one pitiful collection. 241014 what's it to you? who go blather from