Metamorphosis

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Hodgepodge collection (including some real gems) of outtakes/other versions/demos assembled by Allen Klein & unearthed for the first time covering a 5-year time span w/ no real unifying sound. An okay release that has its good moments but probably only of interest to hardcore Stones fan or completists who have most of the Stones' 60s output.

Recorded on 3 July 1969 (the night that news broke of Brian Jones's death) during the sessions for Let It Bleed

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. In August 2002, the full UK edition of Metamorphosis was issued in a new remastered CD, vinyl, and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.

Recorded on 23 April 1969 as a Let It Bleed outtake under the original title "Lisle Street Lucie". It features Ry Cooder on open G tuned guitar. Song written by Bill Wyman. The material on the second side eclipses that on the first. “I Don’t Know Why,” from the Let It Bleed era, meanders aimlessly. (As a further instance of the album’s sloppiness, the song is mistakenly credited to the Stones but was in fact written by Stevie Wonder and two others.) “If You Let Me” sounds like Between the Buttons and is stylistically related to all of Buttons’ tragicomic intensity. “Jiving Sister Fanny” is again little more than a riff and a couple of words that go nowhere, proving that even the Rolling Stones can be mediocre when they’re off or think nobody’s looking. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Austriancharts.at – The Rolling Stones – Metamorphosis" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 May 2023. Browne, David (20 September 2002). "Satisfaction?". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 30 November 2018.Metamorphosis is the third compilation album of the Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records (who usurped control of the band's Decca/ London material in 1970) after the band's departure from Decca and Klein. Released in 1975, Metamorphosis centres on outtakes and alternate versions of well-known songs recorded from 1964 to 1970. Christgau, Robert (16 June 1975). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York . Retrieved 27 May 2013.

The stones have always tended to resist these kind of releases themselves as they have always been the kind of group that when they are on form thats when the best stuff comes out. Credited to Jagger, Richards and Taylor on the first pressing of the album. The credits were changed to 'Jagger/Richards' with the second pressing and on the 2002 SACD version Incorrectly credited to Jagger, Richards and Taylor on the first pressing of the album. The credits were corrected with the second pressing and on the 2002 SACD version a b "Jon Tiven's American Beat..." Musicrepublicmagazine.com. 20 February 2018 . Retrieved 19 May 2021.I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys – The Rolling Stones | Song Info | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 19 May 2021. Godzi" and "Panama Powder Room" were instrumentals from the Between the Buttons sessions and have never been released. They were recorded at RCA Studios, Hollywood on August 4-12, 1966.