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REVIEW
The Stones American debut is a solid piece of work for anytime
frame, not to mention that this was the early sixties and rock music was still being
defined. With this album the Stones showed everyone that they would join the ranks as new
trendsetters. Sure most of the material here is cover tunes, since they were still mainly
a covers band at this point, but it was the way the band covered these songs that made
them stand out. Just listen to "Route 66", it rocks and makes you wanna
take that trip!
This album is more the Mick Jagger & Brian Jones show than anything
else. Mick shows us he can vocally handle any type of song. Brian shows us that besides
guitar he could play a mean harmonica on tunes like "Note Fade Away",
"Honest I Do", and also on "I
Just Want To Make Love To You" (a great blues number turned into a solid rocker by
the Boys), plus his harmony vocals on "Walking The Dog" show us that he could sing some
good backup too, even though he would sing less and less on future albums.
Also on this album listen to the earliest of Keith Richards and
Brian Jones' guitar weaving, which Keith still does so well today with Ronnie Wood.
Keith's best guitar riff is on "Carol", and it is hot!
The best song on this
one: the Jagger/Richards penned "Tell Me". You could just tell with this number
that even more greatness was still to come in the songwriting partnership of the Glimmer
Twins.
- Keno, 1998
*Old Ratings vs. New Ratings
The oldest ratings that you see here were from
back in 1998 when I first rated the album for this site. Since time does change
one's point of view, I decided to listen to and rate the album again, doing so
in late 2005. In February, 2018, 20 years after the first ratings were made, I
rated all of the songs for a third time. Also note that I did not look at the
old ratings from 1998 until after I placed my new ratings here in both 2005 and
2018.
To listen to some sound clips from
ENGLAND'S NEWEST HIT MAKERS or to buy the CD click
on:
England's Newest Hit Makers (CD) or in import vinyl and or digital:
England's Newest Hit Makers (Dsd) [Vinyl]
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