Rolling Stones "Grrr!" Nov.12

[That 70s Guy]

rollingstones.com

The Rolling Stones announce GRRR! - a greatest hits collection spanning five decades, including two new songs recorded in Paris last month.

GRRR! The Rolling Stones announce greatest hits album

The Rolling Stones, ABKCO Music & Records and Universal Music Group are pleased to announce the release of GRRR! by the Rolling Stones on the 12th November 2012 for the world, excluding North America, and on the 13th November 2012 in North America.

Available in five different formats, including a three-CD 50 track version including 50 tracks, and a four-CD super-deluxe version gathering a whopping 80 tracks, the collection tells the fascinating ongoing story of the Greatest Rock’n'Roll Band In The World, from their high octane version of Chuck Berry’s “Come On”, their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers “The Last Time”, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Get Off Of My Cloud”, “Jumping Jack Flash”, “Honky Tonk Women” and the perennial juke-box and concert favourites “Brown Sugar”, “Tumbling Dice”, “Miss You” and “Start Me Up”, all the way to the present day with the inclusion of “Gloom And Doom” and “One Last Shot”, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France in August 2012.

These brand new recordings constitute the first time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have all been together in the recording studio since completing the exalted A Bigger Bang album in 2005, and follow on from the critically-acclaimed expanded re-releases of the historic 40th Anniversary live Madison Square Garden concert Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out in November 2009, and of two of their seventies masterworks, Exile on Main St., in May 2010, and Some Girls, in November 2011.

All GRRR! formats will feature a striking painting by award-winning American artist Walton Ford, who has created the latest in a long line of iconic artwork that has always been part of the band’s DNA.

In celebration of the Rolling Stones’ incredible journey, an innovative campaign has been launched to reveal their GRRR! Greatest Hits album sleeve using 3D Augmented Reality.

During a three week teaser campaign fans were invited to download the free uView app in preparation for the announcement. From today, using the uView app fans can scan the GRRR! sleeve and watch the stunning imagery come to life in 3D animation right before their eyes. The campaign will have further exciting updates coming soon. The use of one of the most advanced forms of mobile technology currently around solidifies The Rolling Stones as one of the most innovative bands in the world and as relevant as they have always been. The technology has been developed in partnership with Aurasma, the leaders in image recognition and augmented reality technology.

GRRR! GREATEST HITS FORMATS:

50 Track 3CD album

3CD / 50 tracks in a digipack with 24 page booklet

50 Track 3CD Deluxe Edition

3CD / 50 tracks in a DVD size box with 36 page hardback book and 5 postcards

Super Deluxe Edition Box Set

4CD / 80 tracks plus Bonus CD, 7″ Vinyl, Hardback book, Poster, 5 postcards in a presentation box

12” Vinyl Box Set

5x 12″ Vinyl / 50 tracks in a casebound LP Box

 

[TheSound]

Yeah thanks 70'sGuy, I was actually reading about that earlier, a 50 track greatest hits collection, available in no fewer that 8 different relea$e format$ ($$$$$$)... and including 2 brand new songs as an incentive for us to buy it, despite the fact we all have the other 48 tracks about 10 times on a bunch of other Stones collections...so you buy 'Grrrrr', and then next year you find out that the 2 new tracks are also on the next Stones studio album, so you basically just shelled out on 'Grrrrr' for nothing! Probably a nice collection to have for the car though.

 

[That 70s Guy]

I'd like to get the 80 track deluxe version....wonder how much it's gonna cost.

 

[TheSound]

I'd like to get the 80 track deluxe version....wonder how much it's gonna cost.

Wow, I didn't even see that 70'sG !

I know they have been around almost since Thomas Edison invented the gramophone, but 80 tracks is a pretty huge chunk of the Stones entire back catalogue.

Will cost a lot, this could be the final push to bolster their retirement fund and nursing home fees.

 

[gcczep]

Appropriate title describing the reaction of those who have to shell out the money to buy yet another compilation. IF the two new tracks are on the three disc set then I will probably bite.

 

[Mr. Bob Dobolina]

I'm holding out for when their career spanning documentary comes out on Blu Ray.

 

[Lynch]

that cover art is awful!

 

[gcczep]

that cover art is awful!

I was about to say... Is it really what the band intends to use or is it just their label's headscratching marketing idea without consultation. I would think Jagger and co. would come up with something more imaginative. Certainly a WTF? move...

 

[LG]

Sure looks like a straight out money grab to me...

The vinyl set has possibilities but I would want it separate from the CD's, as already mentioned most of us have All those songs already.

And I agree with Snoopy about the cover...seriously that's the best you could come up with??

 

[coltrane2]

I'd have more respect if they'd released a 7"/ CD single/ download of the two new songs, backed up by a remastered versions of their debut UK and US albums.

Let's not kid ourselves that it's always record companies looking to cash in. Over those 50 years, Mick Jagger has seamlessly morphed from snotty, passionate blues obsessive to smooth and shrewd business man.

Still love 'em though.