The Rolling Stones - Made In The Shade (1975) [Virgin Remaster 2005]

Album Review:

Made In The Shade- Despite existing simply to add to the receipts from the Tour of the Americas, one must at least admit that the songs are good. Angie was compiled for the first time, but Brown Sugar had already been down this road with Hot Rocks. The set was far too weak to survive as a memorable Stones compilation, yet strong enough to reach platinum sales status. At this point however, there is no use for such a collection of tunes from 1971-74 unless you were someone that not only skipped on the great albums from which these songs were culled, but failed to consider the countless compilations on which most of these selections appear. Despite this title's seemingly unneeded existence, it appears nostalgia overcame Virgin, possessing them to re-issue this title on CD ... either that or trying to overcome the company's poor track record regarding Rolling Stones releases. -- by http://www.beatzenith.com/the_rolling_stones/intro.htm

Released in the summer of 1975, in the down period between Mick Taylor's departure and as the Stones were auditioning guitarists during the recording of 1976's Black and Blue (coincidentally, the '60s rarities comp Metamorphosis also came out in the summer of 1975), Made in the Shade offers a perfunctory summary of the Stones' records from the first half of the '70s. With the exception of their 1974 cover of the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (presumably left off the LP so Mick and Keith would have all the publishing here), all the U.S. hits from 1971 through 1974 are here -- "Brown Sugar," "Wild Horses," "Happy," "Tumbling Dice," "Angie," "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)," "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" -- and they're balanced out with some sharp, hard-driving album tracks like "Dance Little Sister," "Rip This Joint," and "Bitch," the latter of which was played enough on the radio and in concerts to seem like one of their genuine hits. So, it's not a bad collection, but it's not a necessary one either, since the albums it anthologizes are pretty great on their own terms -- 1971's Sticky Fingers and 1972's Exile on Main St. are two of the greatest albums of the 20th century -- and such latter-day anthologies as Jump Back and Forty Licks cover this half of the '70s, plus the second half of the '70s, in a more thorough fashion. Nevertheless, if you happen to have it lying around your house, or can pick it up for a couple of bucks, Made in the Shade is pretty much guaranteed to give you a good time if you play it -- it's just that there are better ways to hear this terrific music. [Virgin/EMI's 2005 reissue is a straight-up reissue of Made in the Shade, offering remastered sound but no bonus material or liner notes -- as a matter of a fact, the spine of the CD is patterned after Atlantic's red-on-white spines of the '80s, making this nearly a retro affair.] --by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com.


Album Details:

Artist: The Rolling Stones
Album: Made In The Shade [Virgin Remaster 2005]
Label: Virgin Records / EMI Music
Catalogue #: 724387334229
Matrix: 8733422 @ 1
UPC: 7 24387 33422 9
Format: CD
Type: Compilation, Original Recording Remastered
Country: Argentina (Made in Argentina)
CD Release Date: April 5, 2005
Original Release Date: June 6, 1975
Number of Discs: 1
Language: English
Time: 39:37
Rating: 3 stars (allmusic.com)
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Hard Rock, Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock, Album Rock


Tracklist:

01. Brown Sugar 3:51
02. Tumbling Dice 3:44
03. Happy 3:04
04. Dance Little Sister 4:11
05. Wild Horses 5:40
06. Angie 4:32
07. Bitch 3:37
08. It's Only Rock 'N Roll 5:08
09. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) 3:27
10. Rip This Joint 2:24

Total playtime: 39:37


Credits:

Adam Ayan: Engineer, Remastering
Jim Dickinso: Producer
Jim Dickinson: Producer
The Glimmer Twins: Producer
Mick Jagger: Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards, Vocals
Bob Ludwig: Remastering
Jimmy Miller: Producer
Keith Richards: Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Mick Taylor: Guitar
Charlie Watts: Drums
Bill Wyman: Synthesizer, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals


Lineage:

SilverCD -> EAC (Test & Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet > Uncompressed / Secure Mode / Offset Corrected / WAV 1411 Kbit/s / 44100 Hz / 16 Bits / 2 Channels) -> FLAC frontend -> FLAC (compression level 8) -> AvaxHome


Extra info:

- Cuesheet files included (WAV & FLAC).
- EAC extraction LOG file included.
- Codec used for lossless compression: libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
- Samplerate: 44100 Hz Stereo / Bitrate: 16 bits.
- MD5 checksum included.
- Full artwork, 300 dpi, jpg format in highest quality.
- No tracks could be verified as accurate. I have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database.