Live Licks

Infobox Album | Name = Live Licks
Type = Live Album
Artist = The Rolling Stones


Released = 1 November 2004
Recorded = 4 November 2002-
24 August 2003
Genre = Rock
Length = 109:19
Label = Virgin
Producer = Don Was and
The Glimmer Twins
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:23420r3aq48p link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/6570193 link]
Last album = "Forty Licks"
(2002)
This album = "Live Licks"
(2004)
Next album = "A Bigger Bang"
(2005)

"Live Licks" is a double live album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 2004. Coming six years after "No Security", this seventh official Rolling Stones full-length live release captures performances from the band's year-long 2002-2003 Licks Tour in support of their career-spanning retrospective "Forty Licks".

History

As a double album - their first live release of the sort since 1977's "Love You Live", the band decided to split the two discs up into different categories: one of well-known classics, another of lesser known, but still worthy inclusions. Of the special guests taking part, Sheryl Crow appears on "Honky Tonk Women", while Solomon Burke sings on his own "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", which The Rolling Stones originally covered on "The Rolling Stones No. 2" in 1965.

Not afraid to court controversy in these autumnal years in their career, The Rolling Stones released two subtly different versions of cover art for "Live Licks". While both feature the Rolling Stones logo's tongue in a very suggestive context, one features the woman without her bikini top. The latter is the British version. Both appear to be anime-inspired.

"Live Licks" was released in November 2004 and received very good reviews, some calling it their best live release since 1970's "'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!'". Commercial reaction was slightly better overall than what had greeted "No Security" in 1998, with "Live Licks" peaking at #38 in the UK and #50 in the US, though it became a gold record.

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Disc one

#"Brown Sugar" – 3:50
#"Street Fighting Man" – 3:43
#"Paint It, Black" – 3:45
#"You Can't Always Get What You Want" – 6:46
#"Start Me Up" – 4:02
#"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" – 4:54
#"Angie" – 3:29
#"Honky Tonk Women" – 3:24
#* "Features Sheryl Crow on co-lead vocal"
#"Happy" – 3:38
#"Gimme Shelter" – 6:50
#"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 4:55

Disc two

#"Neighbours" – 3:41
#"Monkey Man" – 3:41
#"Rocks Off" – 3:42
#"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" – 10:02
#"That's How Strong My Love Is" (Roosevelt Jamison) – 4:45
#"The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington) – 4:34
#"Beast of Burden" – 4:09
#"When the Whip Comes Down" – 4:28
#"Rock Me Baby" (B.B. King/Joe Bihari) – 3:50
#"You Don't Have to Mean It" – 4:35
#"Worried About You" – 6:01
#"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (Solomon Burke/Jerry Wexler/Bert Russell) – 6:35
#* "Features Solomon Burke on co-lead vocal"
#"If You Can't Rock Me" (Japanese Bonus Track)

Charts

Album

Worldwide charts

External links

* [http://www.godgammeldags.nu/rolling/stones/live_licks/ Rolling Stones LIVE LICKS] LIVE LICKS Rolling Stones