Not only are there plenty of heavily bootlegged outtakes such as "Blood Red Wine," "Claudine," and "Brown Sugar" with Eric Clapton on guitar missing, but there are plenty of B-sides from these three decades missing. In other words, Rarities 1971-2003 isn't exactly the clearing-house of outtakes, rarities, and B-sides that fans have been waiting for. ![]() That leaves nine songs on Rarities, one of which is a Stripped-era live take on "Tumbling Dice," and then there are three extended mixes - a lengthy "Miss You" that rides out the same groove on the single/LP version, a 12" mix of "Mixed Emotions" that bears all the hallmarks of late-'80s remixes, right down to the insistent mechanical high hat, and the "New York" mix of "Harlem Shuffle," which isn't all that terribly different than the original, apart from a stilted synth breakdown that occurs halfway through the track - which brings you down to a whopping five non-LP songs available here and nowhere else on a Rolling Stones album. So, that's six songs out of 16 that are easily available on current Stones CDs, and that's not counting the live "Thru and Thru," which was lifted from Four Flicks DVD set, which could reasonably be counted as a rarity that's not so rare. This isn't the only time that Rarities 1971-2003 carries recycled songs from albums, either, since the live versions of "Live with Me" and "I Just Want to Make Love to You" were taken from the No Security album while the live "Wild Horses" here is the one that was on Stripped. 2)," a disco-rock workout that's a cult favorite, are on both collections. That's not the only track the two comps share, either: a live "Beast of Burden" from 1981 (originally released as a B-side to "Going to a Go-Go") and "If I Was a Dancer (Dance, Pt. ![]() There are just three '70s cuts here, actually - four if you count the live "Mannish Boy," which appeared on the 1977 double live album Love You Live and the 1981 odds-n-sods collection Sucking in the Seventies, which was reissued earlier in 2005, the same year Rarities 1971-2003 came out. The title of Rarities 1971-2003 is a little misleading, as is the cover photo of the Stones in prime late-'70s form: both suggest that this long-awaited trawl through the Rolling Stones vaults, released in conjunction with Starbucks' Hear Music label but available in all conventional retail outlets, will be heavy on '70s material.
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