{"id":40103,"date":"2007-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-rolling-stones-now\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"the-rolling-stones-now","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-rolling-stones-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones, Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

1965 marked some major milestones for The Rolling Stones. The songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards scored their first hit (albeit not a blockbuster) with \u201cHeart Of Stone,\u201d and their third release in the <\/place><\/country-region>United States, The Rolling Stones, Now!<\/i>, featured the most Jagger\/Richards compositions, totaling four of the twelve tracks.<\/p>\n

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Overall, this third effort \u2013 another patch job given to the U.S., something very common with British Invasion groups at the time \u2013 still turns out to be the strongest effort from the Stones to this point, though one would still have been hard-pressed to have said that the lads would become one of the most popular bands in rock and roll history.<\/p>\n

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Listening to this disc 41 years after it was released opened my eyes to two things. First, it sure seems to me that John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd modeled the Blues Brothers\u2019 version of \u201cEverybody Needs Somebody To Love\u201d after the version that opens up this album. While I still would have liked to have heard some of the vocal sneer that Jagger would become notorious for, I\u2019ll concede that maybe this track wasn\u2019t the ideal place for it, so things indeed work well.<\/p>\n

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Second, when \u201cMona (I Need You Baby)\u201d first came on, I had to do a double-take \u2013 \u2018cause I honestly thought I had accidentally put on \u201cHow Soon Is Now?\u201d by The Smiths. The jangly guitar work on this one is absolutely stellar; in fact, if any one song from the early days of the Stones stands out in my mind as being a harbinger of things to come, it is this one. I\u2019ve listened to this disc incessantly for several days now, and I keep finding myself drawn to this one song.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t to say that every cover version on The Rolling Stones, Now!<\/i> is as exciting. \u201cDown Home Girl\u201d almost becomes trapped in its own lackadaisical meanderings, and is too laid back. Still, the selections for the most part are well-chosen and executed. Check out the guitar work on \u201cLittle Red Rooster,\u201d for example, and see what helped draw people\u2019s interest back to the work of the old Chess recording artists.<\/p>\n

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This brings us to the four Jagger\/Richards compilations. \u201cHeart Of Stone\u201d is deceptively addictive; while not on the level of the latter Sixties hits from the Stones, it\u2019s hardly an also-ran, and deserves much more attention than it presently gets. This, regrettably, is the best of the four; \u201cOff The Hook\u201d is far too cutesy for the boys whom you would fear your daughter would bring home, while both \u201cWhat A Shame\u201d and \u201cSurprise, Surprise\u201d fail to really impress the listener in the same manner as \u201cHeart Of Stone\u201d. (Looking back, though, one could argue that \u201cSurprise, Surprise\u201d did suggest the pattern of future hits to come.)<\/p>\n

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Of the three early Stones efforts that focused more on the blues than rock music, The Rolling Stones, Now!<\/i> is the most effective and most exciting release to this point in the Stones\u2019 career. It also marked the end of the innocence (if indeed there ever was any in the Stones camp), as their next release would blow the doors completely off of their world and launch them into the stratosphere\u2026 but that\u2019s another story for another review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5665],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-40103","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-rolling-stones","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40103"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}