Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

One of the most ridiculous album covers ever created housed one of the best live rock and roll recordings ever created. Other reviewers have more than done justice to the good and the not-so-good of this record/CD. Suffice to say that "Little Queenie" is, in my opinion, the greatest live recording of a rock-and-roll song ever, and alone is worth the cost of the CD.

Czpunjvyl says: "Pretentious and halfway incomprehensible prose." Thompson says: "I completely agree. What a waste of space." Hustis says: "yea, pretty terrible indeed." Hey guys, thanks for the extra content, plz feel free to add some more, I'll be sure to add it to my next rant. Ever wonder why Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians got that long-running New Year's gig? 'Cause back in the day, they were the biggest, rowdiest party band of all time. Fistfights, drinking and blasting tunes all at the same time, they were the #1 group who could handle a New York New Year's crowd. Kinda reminds me of another hard-livin' hits machine. OK, boys, let's hear some more crap!

"Get yer ya yas out " was such a significant live album but never recognised . It was a magificent collection of tracks that had all theelements you feel when you are there - LIVE. Matt Taylor's guitar was superb on Sympathy for the Devil and was a leap abovethe work of Brian Jones . I cannot getthis CD out of my car and my 12 year old son is as obsessive about this album as I am . Cannot help myself .Don't deny yourself- try it.

With this album The Rolling Stones demonstrate that there was never--and 40 years out--that there will be never another rock n roll band to match their intensity and primal force. The manic aggressive, thundering throb
of their rhythm, propelled by Keith and new guitarist Mick Taylor, are shown on songs like Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the Devil, and for those critics who view Keith as just a rhythm guitarist, listen to the 2nd solo of Sympathy: that's Keith blasting some well-chosen, simple notes into eternity.

This album is rock n roll perfected. From the melancholy Stray Cat Blues
to the sociological and revolutionary portrait, Street Fighting Man, it's all here, and Bob Dylan's supposed remark to Jagger "I could have written Satisfaction but you couldn't have written 4th Street" is gutted by lyrics
such as those of Sympathy (inspired by Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil) and Stray Cat: when would Dylan ever write about sex involving a 13 year
old groupie and her warrioress psyche, and detonate the neurotic
puffery of our puritan era? Jagger is as profound as he wants to be, and
as gleeful, as in the pure joy of Honky Tonk Women, performed for the 1st time on the 1969 tour. There's a philosophy of The Dance--just ask Bacchus--and Jagger HAS IT.

While there were some minor over-dubs, mainly for continuity, these performances from the 1969 American tour in NYC--of course in NYC--are simply unsurpassable. Bootlegs from the same tour show the Stones often
hit these levels of intensity, and that these performances were not as Rolling Stone magazine sneered, just a lucky night---actually THREE "lucky nights."

The only dispute I or anyone could have with this album is that it was not a triple LP. Perhaps some record executive at Decca will instead of acting like a blob, act like a curator and issue more of the hours of recordings taken from these and other 1969 concerts. Boys, the 2009 40th anniversary for this lengendary album is coming up, so why don't you for once do something noble for THE FANS--oh, I forgot, you don't care about anything but Brittany Spears, or is it The Strokes and all those timeless
talents destined for the Whatever Happened To ? section of the National Enquirer.

Were anyone trying to communicate to anthropologist in 200 years what Rock n Roll was about and how it exploded in the 1960s into one of the most expressive art-forms ever invented, this would be the album presented.

"You don't want my trousers to fall down now do ya?"

I had this recording years ago on cassette. Reading Keith Richards unauthorised biography recently reminded me of how great it was then so I needed to "upgrade" to CD. I always thought that Chuck Berry was "Rock n Roll" and his music played by Rolling Stones and others in better technological times was the epitome of great "Rock n Roll" . The version of Little Queenie on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out recorded live in 1969 is, in my opinion, everything that "Rock n Roll' music is and perhaps ever will be.
Russell Sutherland, Western Australia