Never been a big Stones fan, but Jagger solo really Rocks, WOW!!! - Even when I consider myself a very selective Rock Music listener, I cannot say that I got specially seduced for the music of the Rolling Stones. Sure, they re also from England, appeared publcily as part of the massive Rock n Roll phenomenon almost at the same time the Beatles did, have been going around for more than forty years, have recorded a lot of albums (studio/live), appeared on lot of TV shows... Now, even the great movie director Martin Scorcese has released Shine A Light, a documentary based on their mega-tour A Bigger Bang.Okay, sure all that gives lumber enough to consider them as another Big Brit Music Creature. But certainly, I must admit that the Stones would have mean nothing in the R n R universe, without having such a real good Rock n Roll singer/frontman like Mick Jagger.Get this CD, and you ll discover why. Ah, but previously please clean up from your mind, the general idea that MJ s hits are limited to a funny cover of Dancing in the Street he performed with David Bowie. MJ is by himself, really, a GOOD Rock singer.After listening to this album, I regret myself for not having followed Mick s musical career more thoroughly.The sound quality is really good, as it happens with most of WEA recordings.
Too much filler, considering it s missing at least 2 hit singles - OK, maybe filler is too strong a word, as none of these tracks are really bad. But considering Jagger really hasn t had a whole albums worth of solo hits, it s inexcusable to leave off two of the best: Hard Woman is probably his best solo record, and it had that cool computer-animated video that probably helped make it a HIT. And 1987 s Throwaway didn t make quite such a splash, but it was a charting single and certainly doesn t deserve (sorry) to be thrown away.The title song to the film Ruthless People was never a single, but it was a great, funny song, and I would easily rank it higher than half the songs here. But apparently Jagger himself hand-picked the songs for this album. So I guess he doesn t really care for these songs that I really like (and I m sure I m not alone here).Just buy the solo albums...it s not like there s that many of them.
Pure pablum - Mick Jagger is a legend as lead singer of The Rolling Stones, but as a solo artist he is totally forgettable. The dreadful duet with David Bowie was probably the worst teaming of two singers ever. Nothing else on here amounts to much either. Buy a Rolling Stones album, any one from the 1960s, and you will be far more entertained. These tracks are lousy.
Missing so many good tracks...even though rarities are welcome - I burned my own copy of what I felt was the very best of Mick Jagger years ago and found that the actual collection leaves off a lot of stuff that s in some cases superior to what s on the album. Where s Use Me, Turn the Girl Loose, Lonely at the Top, Running Out of Luck, She s the Boss, Goddess in the Doorway, Radio Control, Shoot Off Your Mouth, Throwaway, Ruthless People or even I m Ringing (rare b-side unreleased to CD)?
No State of Shock or Hard Woman - Strange that the only compilation does not include two of the most relevant singles made by Mick Jagger: a) State of Shock, the duet with Michael Jackson which was a huge hit in the summer of 1984, b) Hard Woman, taken from his 1st solo album, the 7 single superior version was remixed and it s never released on CD, also had a beautiful promo video, one of the first using computer generated images!